Video: Haul & First Give Away (Closed)

Howdy everyone,

Good news, I did a video of a mini haul and announced my give away. It is my first give away and very excited.

It is open to USA ONLY, sorry international people. Well correction, if you have a USA address for me to mail the prize to feel free to enter. Its starts May 10, 2012 and ends May 31, 2012. There will be only one winner in this give away. You must follow me via GFC (Google Friend Connect) ONLY and you must leave the name you follow as, because I will be checking. Once the winner is chosen I will email the winner, the winner will then have 48 hours to respond, otherwise I choose a different winner.

The prizes are:

1. Color Club: All About Color collection (7 polishes)
2. A set of 4 Emery boards
3. A set of 8 tubes of glitters.

The following are closeup pictures of the prize, 2 pictures of each, one with flash and one without. (Sorry for the crappy quality pics...I got lazy and couldn't bother taking out all my equipment.)

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Spring Challenge 4: Bugs! (Yucky!)

Hello peoples,

UGH! i'm like an hour late. But anyway here it is. It is not what I wanted it to be. :-( It was extremely messy and it was my first time working with this glue and glitter, first attempt=FAIL! The color scheme I chose was blue and purple.

Tools:

• Simple Pleasures: purple
• Color Club: Trippie Hippie
• Recollections glitter: Peacock
• MASH fan brush
• Best Glue Ever
• Bundle Monster: Gems

For the base colour I used the Simple Pleasures purple polish. It is a very nice and smooth polish but the brush that it comes with is the worst thing ever, so if you do buy this set or brand, I would advise to buy a brush to use with it or borrow one from an old bottle, just avoid using the brush it came with, however I did work with it, took some patience but it worked.

I used the Color Club's Trippie Hippie to sponge on to create a gradient (attempted to make a gradient). Then I used the Best Glue Ever to try and draw on my creepy crawlies, and then sprinkle the glitter on and lightly use the fan brush to brush away the excess. I do think I went a little too heavy on the glue because I ended up brushing the glue and glitter and scrambling it up. (Pictures of the creepy crawlies are below saying what they were supposed to be.)

I added some gems by Bundle Monster.

This is the finished product with the flash.

I attempted to make a spider and smushed all the glue, when I mashed it up I had to use a little of the Trippie Hippie to outline it.

This was an ant..a very pretty ant...hehe. this one came out a little better, but not how I wanted it,, you get the idea.

I want to try this again eventually but with my mistakes in mind I will do better.

Don't forget to check out the others particpating in the challenge as well:

• Purple Glitters
• Taya 
• I love pretty colours
• Creative Nail Design by Sue
• Hooked on polish
• Pinky to Thumb
• Posh Nail Art
• Welcome To Brianna's World!
• World of Happy Nails
• Mateji ustvarjata
• Nail buff
• Moonchild
• Anna
• Colorful bottle's blog
• Glazed Talons
• Rainbow Nails
• Nailpocalypse
• Lady-flover123
• Nail Crazy
• Mimi's vanity box

See you later,

Kelly-Ann.

Spring Challenge 2: Flowers and Stripes

HI everybody!

So excited about today's submission for the Spring Challenge by Purple Glitters. This challenge was stripes and flowers and the colour combination I chose was pink and green.

I really hope you like what I came up with.

Tools:

• NYC: High Line Green
• Kleancolor: Popping Green
• Milani Jewel FX: Fuchsia
• Wet n' Wild: Dreamy Poppy
• MASH dotting tool

HEre is the base colour which is the NYC High Line Green. And please excuse the smudge on my thumb that you will see throughout. :-D

Next I used the Kleancolor Popping green on 2 fingers.

Added the Milani Fuchsia... not too sure if I had liked it at first but in the final product I fell in love with it.

HEre is the finished product, which you can see I added the tiny flowers using my MASH dotting tool witht he colour Dreamy Poppy by Wet n' Wild.

HEre is the final product with the flash (which makes me look extra white...ugh)

I am soooo happy with the way this turned out. I hope you enjoyed this as much I did.

Don't forget to check out the others particpating in the challenge as well:

• Purple Glitters
• Taya 
• I love pretty colours
• Creative Nail Design by Sue
• Hooked on polish
• Pinky to Thumb
• Posh Nail Art
• Welcome To Brianna's World!
• World of Happy Nails
• Mateji ustvarjata
• Nail buff
• Moonchild
• Anna
• Colorful bottle's blog
• Glazed Talons
• Rainbow Nails
• Nailpocalypse
• Lady-flover123
• Nail Crazy
• Mimi's vanity box

Feeling Patriotic

Hello lovelies,

I really like my nails today, when I did this I was feeling very patriotic. As many of you would know I am Jamaican and you already know what colours this is going to involve. I was inspired by Nail Polish War's 'For Your En-Zoya-Ment'. Great nail artist to follow.

Here are the tools I used:

Kleancolor: Black

Kiss Nail Art Paint: Gold Glitter

NYC: High Line Green

Milani: Yellow Whiz

Hard Candy: Matte-ly In Love top coat

Beauty Secrets: Base coat

MASH dotting tool

First of all I hate cleaning up black nail polish (Kleancolor: Black). The first picture is what it looks like before I clean up...or my attempt to clean up HA!

Then I add the yellow dots (Milani: Yellow Whiz) using both sides of the dotting tool just to get different sizes.

I then repeated the same thing except with the NYC : High Line Green.

Even though that completed the flag colours, it felt incomplete, so I decided to use some gold glitter to put some real gold in it (the colours are after all really black, green and gold). 

I decided to try my new Hard Candy: Matte-ly In Love matte top coat and I must say I do love how it came out. However I guess I didn't really wait long enough for the dots to dry and some of the dots dragged just a little bit but not noticeably that I had to rub it off. 

So I guess my one advice is to let it dry a little longer to ensure it is completely dry before applying the top coat.

I hope you enjoyed this entry... I did ;-)

Take care,

Kelly-Ann.

Luck of the Irish

Howdy yall!

 I know I'm late with posting this but I honestly haven't had the time. But now it's here and that's all that matters...right? :-D

Okay, so I did an Irish theme for St. Patrick's Day, and I thought it came out pretty good.

Tools:

• Sally Hansen: Hard as Nails Hardener Clear
• Shades of the Season: Clear
• Shades of the Season: Green Glitter
• Kleancolor Nail to Toe: Popping Green
• NYC: High Line Green
• Rimmel French Manicure Pro: French Lingerie 
• Bundle Monster Plate: BM03

I liked the way this looked on its own but I figured I'd continue with the original idea and do a little more. add some glitter and pizzazz! Hehe (NYC High Line Green for tips)

So I added the design from Bundle Monster Plate design (BM03) (Kleancolor Popping green for design). Wait for everything to dry well and applied the Green Glitter to all green areas.

I Hope you enjoyed this design as much as I did.

See you next time,

Kelly-Ann.

New Polish AGAIN!

Hellooooo,

Seriously, I think I have a problem now, I keep buying nail polish when I honestly don't need it. But as usual I just can't help myself. But anyway went to the supermarket and ended up buying nail polish. My reason for it is that I needed nail polish for St. Patrick's Day and Easter. LOL Best reasons ever.

In order from left to right: Milani Jewel FX: Fuchsia, Milani: Yellow Whiz, Revlon: Sassy, and NYC: High Line Green.

I cannot wait to try them out and do my St Patrick's Day and Easter experiments!

See you soon,

Kelly-Ann.

Princess Pink Nails

When I first did this I was soooooo proud of them. I just thought they were extremely pretty, after 1 day I began to get tired of them and rubbed them off. But they were still nice. I ended up going almost a week without doing my nails.

Tools:

• Sally Hansen: Tough Chick
• Shades of the Season: Silver Glitter
• Shades of the Season: Clear
• Sally Hansen: Hard As Nails Hardener

This is such a beautiful colour. Lovely pink. Only required 1-2 coats.

This picture was taken with a flash.

This one was taken in natural light, which looks a lot better than with the flash.

Small Haul

Hey my lovelies,

Today I went to the supermarket and could not stop myself from heading over to the beauty section and picking up a few nail polishes. UGH...I think I have an addiction to buying nail polish. Anyway here they are,  I hope to do some swatches or use them in some other way soon.

They are (left to right):

• NYC: Sidewalkers
• NYC: Starry Silver Glitter
• Pure Ice: Busted
• Pure Ice: Spit Fire
• Sally Hansen Crackle: Snow Blast

See you later!
Kelly-Ann.

New Polish!

Hey everyone,
I know it has been a while since I last posted but I have a good reason :-)
I've been sick so me being sick and smelling nail polish never a good mix. I am sooooo sorry. But to make it up to you I went out and bought some new polish and used 2 of them. This post will only be the new polish.

They are a brand called Spoiled, saw them in CVS for $2.99, thought that was a great price and decided I'd buy them and try them.

These are their names in order:

• Trust Fund Baby
• 2 Weeks Sober
• Pet My Peacock
• Jewelery Heist

See you later,

Kelly-Ann.