Midnight-Manicures

Today I received some of my items that I earned through the Julep Maven Referral Program.  Not only can you sign up for the Maven Program, there's a Facebook Code of $15.00 the first months charge of $19.99 (use the code FB).  So $5 for the first month, you can't beat that!  Once you sign up and refer others people through their program you receive a $15 Julep credit for each person who becomes a Julep Maven.  To read more about it, click here Julep Maven Program .  Wanted to share with you what I've received so far. From Left to Right:  Vera, Selena, Kim, Michelle, Zoe, Boris & Nicole, Olivia and Diana and at the bottom is their fruity smelling Essential Cuticle Oil which I love.  I see a lot of beautiful fall manicures coming up with the colors here! Look for a giveaway in the future that I'm going to use my referral credits for!  Let me know if you have any questions, I'll be glad to help or get you to the right person at Julep to help you!...

My *1000* Give- Away ! Hey Guys! I started this blog on the 15.01.2011.  I really didn't expect anybody to be interested in what , I decided to  do on my nails.    I cant explain how grateful and over the moon i am -  that over 1000 of you are following me! =). Ive loved every second of blogging and have no intentions of  stopping yet!. I cant ignore this milestone and have been organising a give-away  to show my appreciation! Anyway without further a-do - Here is a small appreciation  for following my blog,  or stopping by in the past!. ************************************ My give away consists of the following items for  1 lucky winner: - Beauty UK Nail Sets - Midnight Minx , Urban Girl & Wild  Child ( that's 18 polishes!) - A set of the New Fab Ur Nail plates. - 4 metallic Stamping polishes. - HB Plates 21-40. - Image plates SdP C02, SdP C07, SdP D07 & SdP D18. - A pack of...

Hello all....Today I have Tao from the Mirrors collection. It's a light smoke gray with some shimmer. It applied very well with 2 coats. I picked this up at Ulta, I am so glad they have them there now cause I really need to see Zoya polish in person to make sure I love it. I also wanted to do a Fall theme design, so I used plate BM-04 and Sephora by OPI I'm with Brad, This polish is brown with red undertones. I really like how the 2 colors came together. Hope you likey =) Thank you Jeanie for asking me to guest blog for you while you are busy with those cute little puppies =) Thanks so much to Karin at Rin's Nail Files for Guest Blogging for me while the puppies are keeping me busy.  Please show her some love by leaving a comment and visiting her on her blog!

Tonight I am bringing you another one of my favorite polishes from Barielle.  This is Polished Princess...I know the name screams pink or purple, but it's actually green!  Barielle describes this polish as a safari green with a copper shimmer.  All I know is...I love it :)  I used a base coat, 2 coats of color and a top coat and it went on very smooth. You can find Barielle polishes at www.Barielle.com   and follow them on Facebook at Barielle  where they are having a 50% off special (good through Sept 30, 2011) and another 15% off when you sign up for their newsletter.  I can't think of a better time to try them!  Do you have a favorite Barielle polish?

I wanted to start off showing you some of the China Glaze Metro Collection.  The first 3 will be the Glitters. The first is CG In The City, it is a Multi-color Glitter in a Clear Base, I used 3 coats for coverage.  It is beautiful!  Went on very smooth and was not a real bumpy glitter. The next Glitter from the Metro Collection is Sky Scraper.  It is a Silver and Blue Glitter in a Jelly Base.  I again used 3 coats.  Application was great. The last Glitter from The China Glaze Metro Collection is Midtown Magic.  It is a dark blackened burgandy with gold flakes in it.  This also went on very smooth and I used 3 coats. I do have the rest of the Metro Collection, I will be bringing them to you a few at a time.  Hope you enjoyed seeing them as much as I did trying them out!  Let me know what you think!

Many thanks to Jeanie for letting me share my nails with all of you! I'm KayJay from Refined and Polished and I have for you two polishes that look amazing layered together. I received these in an awesome swap with Erika over at Polish Fixation . Up first is Maybelline Cool Couture. This limited edition polish is a slate gray that's packed with blue and green shimmer. I've been looking for Cool Couture for awhile, so I was excited to get it in a swap. The formula was good, but the brush was a little wonky. Luckily, the polish self-leveled very nicely. Two coats were needed for full opacity. shade sunlight Everything about Cool Couture was gorgeous!!! I almost didn't want to layer it, but I figured I should amp things up a bit for the guest post. KleanColor Chunky Holo Bluebell is my first polish from this brand. Bluebell is a multichrome glitter that flashes orange, green, gold, and blue and is suspended in a light blue base. No complaints with this polish other than t...

The winner of my $25 Apothica Card Giveaway is  Parul of Precious Pearl Makeup.  She has already responded and Apothica will be sending her an email with her gift card code by the end of the week.  Thanks to everyone who participated!!! You can follower her at Precious Pearl Makeup and on Facebook at Precious Pearl Makeup .  I can't wait to see what you order with your Gift Card!

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I took and numbered the entries first from my blog, then facebook, then twitter.  There were a total of 162 entries and used random.org to pick one.  It picked entry number 2. So I don't think it would be fair if I didn't tell you about my happiest Birthday, it was my 29th.  My daughter that we worked so hard for and waited on for 10 years made an appearance 22 days before my Birthday on September 1st, 1993...which brings me to my 2nd happiest Birthday...my 47th...she turned 18 years old this year!  Whew what a hard but rewarding experience.  I'm sure she will bring me many more! Have you waited long enough???  :)  So excited....here we go, cross your fingers! The Winner of Deborah Lippmann's Happy Birthday Polish is: Red  said... My GFC is Red Stewart, and you know how much I love you and your blog - what a great giveaway!!! My most memorable birthday would have to be when I was a kid... maybe 8 years old. My Dad took me to his place of work (he ...

Shannon from  The Kracked Kat  here to share a short tutorial with you.  I wanted to do something interesting for you all.  So where did I turn?  My craft supply cabinet of course.  In there I found lots of super fine craft glitter, embossing powders and my  Pearl Ex  pigments.  Pearl Ex or  Perfect Pearls  pigment powders can be mixed into any media and applied to any surface so why shouldn't they be applied to finger nails? Here are the supplies you will need:  Pearl Ex pigment powder (can be found in rubber stamping section of Michael's) base coat/polish (I used Pure Ice Black Rage) a soft powder brush (I used the  Perfect Pearls  brushes but a eyeshadow or blush brush would work too) paint brush glue (I used  Martha Stewart transfer adhesive . This glue is specially designed to be used with the Martha Stewart brank foils.  I can't wait to try the MS foils on my nails ne...

It's my Birthday - September 23rd!  Most of you know one of my favorite polishes is Deborah Lippmann, so what better to give away on MY Birthday?  You got it, a brand new bottle of Deborah Lippmann Happy Birthday Polish!  As she describes it, it's a party in a bottle!  This giveaway is for my true blue readers/followers.   This polish retails for $18.  So Good Luck!  Winner will be announced on Sunday! Now for the details, this giveaway is open Internationally, and will run from September 23, 2011, 12:00am to MIDNIGHT (11:59pm)EST.  So you only have 24 hours to enter.  Just leave a comment below with your GFC name. On Facebook leave a comment under the post or Twitter me back about the Giveaway.  I also want you to leave a short paragraph of your most memorable Birthday and the Month & Day of  your Birthday!  That way if you follow me all 3 ways, you will have 3 entries.  Duplicates will be disqualified....

Hey y'all!  My name is Harri you can find my blog over at TrailerHood Chic.  Jeanie is popping my guest post cherry so to speak.  I am a make-up and polish addict.  I like to express myself with my nails and wear pretty colors, but that's about as girly as I get. I recently showed the Wet N Wild Fantasy Makers in Purple Potion ( http://trailerhoodchic. blogspot.com/2011/09/wet-n- wild-fantasy-makers-purple- potion.html ) on my blog and just couldn't leave it alone.  I decided to layer some other polishes over it to see what it looked like. So, below I decided to use 2 layers of Pure Ice Heart Breaker over top of Purple Potion.  Heart Breaker is an extremely sheer polish with blue/green shimmer.  It's better as a layering polish and wanted something that didn't hide the purple.  I think it's so pretty.  Green & Purple, who could resist? Then, just because I can't leave well enough alone, I threw a coat of WnW Fantasy Makers Night Glow (Glo...

Today I am bringing you a polish all the way from the UK!  I won this polish in a giveaway on A England's Facebook page.  The name of this polish is the Holy Grail from the Mythical's Collection.  It is a true gold color, it went on so smooth and was very opaque.  I used 2 coats in the pictures below. I would recommending checking out their website at A England .  They offer free world wide shipping, they do not test on animals.  The creator of this polish Adina is amazing, she sent a hand-written card with my polish.  Her website is magical :)  I can't stop reading it.  I'm going to order more and I they have a new collection coming out that I think you'll love too, but you'll have to check that out!  

Hi Everyone!  Our Guest Blog Post today comes all the way from Australia!  Sarah is from Shatter Me Clair.  G'day readers *waves* I've flown over from my corner of the globe to show you a simple design that I've been wearing a lot lately and seems to attract a lot of attention [plus it's pretty and it'll showcase to you some Australian polish which you probably haven't seen before in your travels] Introducing 2 polishes from the Face of Australia - Molten Metallics collection. On the left is "White Gold" and on the right is "Amethyst". As you would have guessed from the collection name they are metallics and gorgeous. I have had zero problems with any of the polishes in this range and they all consistently perform with perfect coverage, no streaks and are super easy to use in nail art. So I've paired these fantastic polishes with the BM205 stamping plate and voila. Fantastic metallic goodness. As I mentioned at the beginning of this post ...

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