Steel Me French Tips!!!!

Last night I was over at my neighbors house, just hanging out with all the other neighbors, and while the guys built a 'Man Cave', AKA igloo outside, lol, the girls hung out and did manis. I am still so fascinated with Essence Magentic polishes, that I just had to use one. I then wanted to do a funky french, and for some reason, I didn't reach for a black!!! I know......instead I wanted a blue. While scanning my new polish case, this Brucci stood out. I really enjoy this combo!!

For this mani I used Essence Steel Me & Brucci Blue Sapphire

First Ever Giveaway!!

I'm finally having my FIRST EVER GIVEAWAY and I'm excited!! ^^ I'm on the broke side so I'm having this giveaway for multiple reasons. I've finally reached 100 followers and made over 100 posts. I've made it through 1 year of blogging. And because my birthday's coming up, hehe (9/25) ;)

One winner will receive:

• Brucci Nail Hardeners Heidi's Glow

• Essie Velvet Voyeur (Fall 2010 Collection)

• Essie In Stitches (Fall 2010 Collection)

• NYC Love Letters

• Revlon New Top Coat Galaxy

• Revlon New Top Coat Star

• Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure Midnight in NY

• Sinful Colors Nail Junkie

• Wet N Wild Blazed

[All nail polishes in this giveaway are brand new and purchased with my own money. A lot of these nail polishes are my personal favorites that I've collected and own myself. I'm sorry I wasn't able to get any OPI, China Glaze, Orly, Essie, or any other brands but I'll definitely include some of those on my next giveaway, which hopefully won't be too far away!]

Rules

1. This giveaway is open to everyone in the US & International.

2. The giveaway winner will be determined by random.org

3. You must be a public follower of my blog, you must comment below with the name you follow my blog with & your email address (1 entry).

4. If you are not a public follower of my blog, you will be disqualified from the giveaway. (I've started putting down a list of the entries and many contestants who say they are a follower, I do not see your name on the public followers list so I will have to disqualify you. Please make sure you're a follower because this giveaway will only work if you're a public follower of my blog).

additional entries:

5. Blog about my giveaway & provide link. You may use my picture if you'd like. (1 entry)

6. What do you like and don't like about my blog? (1 entry)
7. Any suggestions on my blog? (1 entry)

Giveaway ends: October 6th @ 11:59pm

* I originally wanted my giveaway to end on my birthday but since I reached 100 followers today 9/17 I will make this giveaway last 2.5 weeks.

Eastern time - NYC

Good luck! :)

Featured Nails

Today I will post about nails, obviously, but not mine! :P My cousin Pauline came in last week for a few days to celebrate with the rest of my family for my grandmother's birthday. And of course, knowing I love nail polish and seeing my personal Facebook nail album, she wanted me to do them. So today's nails and toes will be called "featured nails" where sometimes/rarely I will post nails not of my own nails but what I did for my family. I've only done nails for my family; my two cousins and my mom (but I only do her toes).

Pauline wanted rainbow toes ;P However, this process took very long to decide which colors! And luckily my mom helped her out. I added glitter stars on her big toes but some of them came off during the night. Can you guess which colors they are? (answers are at the bottom of this post if you give up!)

For Pauline's nails, she picked out Wet N Wild's Tickled Pink (2 coats) and then I used some nail stickers on her ring and thumb nails which has a bow, one rhinestone and one pearl. I also lined the ends of her nails with silver glitter for the other nails.

- Essie Dramatic Drachmas (2 coats)
- Wet N Wild Dream Poppy (2 coats)

- Wet N Wild Blazed (2 coats)

- Wet N Wild Sunny Side (2 coats)

- OPI Banana Bandanna (3 coats)

- Essie Pretty Edgy (2 coats)

- Brucci Gianna's Rockin Blue (2 coats)
- Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure Calypso Blue (2 coats)

- China Glaze Flying Dragon (2 coats)
- Confetti Belle of the Ball (2 coats)

1 more follower!!

hope you enjoyed,

<3katherine

Cloud 9

Here's a picture of one of my nails that I did a few weeks back but I didn't get a chance to post. The base is Brucci's Kathy's Baby Blues (2 coats). I used OPI Alpine Snow to create the clouds on my ring finger (if they look like them!) and I topped it off with Essie's Matte About You. I wanted to make more clouds but whenever I tried to add more on my other fingers, they didn't come out right, so I just kept the clouds on my ring fingers. This picture was taken before I cut my nails into stubby nails. :P

hope you enjoyed,

<3katherine

Rite Aid Mini Haul Again!

Another Rite Aid mini haul, but I'm really liking the drug store brands! They're cheap and they're good! This time, I was able to spend less than $10 at Rite Aid, the other few times recently, I've been buying Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure. :P

Wet N Wild Dream Poppy

medium coral pink. The swatch is 2 coats and no top coat. Amazing and beautiful. Easy application and good formula. I'm definitely getting more Wet N Wild's! :)

Wet N Wild Red Red

it's a medium red. Cosmo Girl's Kiss of Approval Beauty Award Winner. It's a bit darker irl compared to the swatch pictures but my camera and I did the best we could to get close to it! The first swatch picture shows 1 coat and no top coat - very little sign of vnl. The second swatch picture shows 2 coats and no top coat - just to be sure of no sign of vnl. I love the formula and it was very easy to work with and apply. I can definitely see why it got the approval from Cosmo Girl. But isn't Cosmo Girl no longer creating any magazines? I used to subscribe to them and my subscription wasn't finished and they sent me something saying that they aren't producing any more so that the rest of my subscription would be moved over to Seventeen Magazine. Huh.

Brucci Kathy's Baby Blues

light baby blue creme. The swatch is 2 coats and no top coat. I love this color and it was VERY easy to apply. I'm really liking Brucci. And they restocked on Heidi's Glow in case anyone wanted to pick it up if you're near my neighborhood, but I picked one up for my 100 followers and belated 1 year blogaversary.

A reader said that Brucci isn't B3F. I looked at the ingredients and I only saw Formaldehyde which is found in nail hardeners. But I didn't see DBP or Toluene, so I'm not really sure but I checked MUA and someone said they aren't B3F either. But I emailed Brucci asking them to clarify for me, HOPEFULLY they'll get back to me and not ignore me. (update: One person responded to me and said she'll "transfer" me to their Brucci NY for a reply. Nothing yet though)

83 FOLLOWERS?! I'm really happy I've gotten this far because honestly, I didn't think many people would read my nail blog. :x I thought I'd be the only one rambling to myself lol! But with all your support, I continued to blog more and it's been more than a year and it's hitting almost 14 months since I've started. Share my blog if you'd like and hopefully when I hit 100 followers, everyone is welcomed to enter into my very first 100 followers + 1 year blogaversary giveaway! (which means I have to start buying the giveaway stuff :P)

hope you enjoyed
<3katherine

Rockin' Blue

I'm really starting to like Brucci! $2.79 a bottle, isn't that bad. The color range is alright, although it's mostly pinks and reds. But there are new bottles that come in!

Brucci Gianna's "Rockin" Blue

it's similar to a teal/turquoise but since I'm not good with variations of the basic colors I looked it up! :) Gianna's "Rockin" Blue is close to a misty turquoise. My camera is stupid and can't pick up a lot of the colors. But once I put it on, I loved it! And the application? EXCELLENT! Seriously I think I'm going to get more Brucci's! The swatch is 2 coats and no top coat!

Any interested or curious bloggers that would like to try out Brucci? Send me an email and maybe we can arrange a swap or something! I'll try to get a picture of the colors on their shelves for you so it might be easier to see what I can get. :)

hope you enjoyed,

<3katherine

Quick Mini Haul: Rite Aid

Along with my mini haul from Walgreens, I decided to hit up Rite Aid for some nail polishes too! :) I picked up 3 brands that I haven't used or tried yet so I was excited to see the outcome.

Group photo:

Swatches!

Petites Color Fever Electric Indigo

a shimmery frosty blue. The swatch is 2 coats and no top coat. Easy to apply and came out really nice. I love the shade and the shimmer!

Petites Color Fever Candy Green

a shimmery frost green. The swatch is 2 coats and no top coat. Easy to apply and the color is amazing.

CQ Tahitian Green

a shimmer kelly green. The swatch is 2 coats and no top coat. My first CQ and the formula wasn't that bad. It was great to apply and the color was so pretty.

Brucci Heidi's Glow

lavender purple with gold shimmer. The swatch is 3 coats and no top coat. The color is beautiful and I like it a lot. I had a hard time debating whether I wanted it or not but I'm glad I picked it.

Brucci Jaded

shimmery jade green. The swatch is 3 coats and no top coat. I kind of rushed after each coat. But I really like the color.