Spirit Indestructible

Hello everyone!!  Hope you had a wonderful weekend.  This is a day late for my regular Monday, Wednesday, Friday posting, but I promise it's worth it!!

I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to Nelly Furtado's first concert for her Spirit Indestructible tour last week and of course I had to come up with an amazing mani to wear while I attended!!  I wanted to recreate my S*@t on the Radio mani, but I just wasn't feeling it and I've been so inspired by the talented ladies of Instagram, I decided to try out one of my favorites.  Have you heard of Lucy from Lucy's Stash?  Ya, she's pretty amazing, she's done some of the most beautiful half moon mani's that inspired this look, one in the prettiest green (yes, I just admitted a green was pretty) and one with the brightest pink.  I ended up doing things a little different, but those two mani's are definitely the inspiration behind this look!

Here's my first vision, but I was having the hardest time getting straight lines and I'm SO anal, it had to go!!

I took a couple of really crappy photos, if you're interested in seeing the view from my seats, keep scrolling!!

I would totally recommend purchasing this album, click here to get it from iTunes - my fave song is Big Hoops or Parking Lot or Spirit Indestructible or Be OK or or or or - ya, she's that good!!

Holla, N

Mooned Review

Hello everyone!!  So glad it's a short week this week - Thanksgiving weekend was great, we had two turkey dinners - yum!!  I swear, I'm still full!  Warning - text heavy and picture heavy post - click the x at the top right of your screen if you're already bored :)

Today I have two things to share with you:  one - my half moon mani for the 31 Day Challenge and two my review of the 3 Star/Round/Heart Rhinestones Acrylic UV Nail Glue Clamp Kit I got from the Born Pretty Store!  I'm actually doing both in one to be honest.  I got an email from Daisy at the Born Pretty Store asking me to review my choice of products - which I was pretty stoked about.  This may seem like an easy task, but really, it was extremely difficult - they have SOOOO much stuff, the choices were endless!  It took me a while to figure out what I wanted and I gave Daisy some choices of what she wanted me to review and she sent the rhinestones set.

I honestly thought there were going to be a few rhinestones a cheap tool to pick them up and some glue - boy was I wrong.  You get a ton of rhinestones and the choice of colors is fab!  And I didn't realize there were different shapes - circles, stars and hearts - how cool!  Also, the tool they include is heavy duty and two bottles of glue - perf ma gerf!  Now for the deets:  for a set of three packages of multi-colored  rhinestones (in a really cool holder by the way),  one set of circles, one of stars and one of hearts, with a picker upper tool (I have no idea what the real name is) and two bottles of glue, it costs $8.58 - that's a pretty sweet deal if you ask me.  I'm having some issues with the site, but I think that is in USD and the shipping is free - well it was when I ordered stuff from them I purchased myself - before I was contacted to review something by the way (and I used my personal account, not my nearlynailed account).  I got the package within a week, which is pretty quick considering the product is coming from China.  And, it was the same time frame when I ordered the stuff I paid for - that's pretty good if you ask me!  If you're interested in picking this up for yourself, click here, the product number is 3116 AND until Jan 31, 2013 you can use the special code found in the banner below to get a 10% discount!!  That's not a huge discount, but any discount is SUPER!

Onto the good stuff, what I did with these products!!

Here's some photos of what I got and the code to get your 10% discount!

   

For the half moon mani I used:

Base Coat:  Orly Bonder

Moons:  Revlon - Raspberry Rapture - this stuff is scented, it wasn't too offensive, but a little much when you have a headache!

Main Color:  Wet n Wild - Black Creme

Black Rhinestone from the Born Pretty Store

Top Coat:  Seche Vite

For the blue mani, I used:

Base Coat:  Orly Bonder

Main Color:  Maybelline - Sapphire Siren

Top Coat:  Pro FX Quick Dry Top Coat

Please show my nail buddies some love by clicking on the links below and check out what they did for their half mooned mani's!!

Also, have I already asked you if you've entered my giveaway?  I have?  No, not me!!  Well if you haven't yet, please enter my giveaway - lots of awesome stuff - just click here!

Holla, N

-Kimber at Kimber's Lacquer Korner
-Kat at Hooked On Polish
-Diana at Nails By Diana
-Aly at Wonderland Beauty
-Meredith at Perfectly Polished
-Nicole at The Color Republic
-Kate at The Painted Pony Nails
-Cee at Absolutely Cee
-Sam at Polished Art
-Nail Narcotics
-Nicole at Nicole Gets Nailed
-Shelby at Shelby's Swatches
-Stephanie Louise at All Things Beautiful 
-Mixed Mama
-Joanna @ Sweet Polish of Mine
-Patty Greenberg
-Liz and Lisa @ Lozlosa 
-Mari at Nailista
 -Greta at How Was Your Day?
-Miss L at Beauty by Miss L 
-Gini at Sassy Paints
-Chameleon Stampede 
-Pam at Nail-E-Glance
-Me, Myself, and Polish
-Robin Sparkles 

Disclaimer:  Rhinestones used for these mani's were provided by the Born Pretty Store for my review.  The opinions expressed were mine and mine alone and were not influenced by the Born Pretty Store.

Brain Block

This nail addiction is never ending, I just can't help myself from buying nail polish.  I swear, I spend so much money on nail polish.  I'm not as bad as some of the folks out there, spending $100 on a bottle of "indie" nail polish, but I do buy a lot.  I usually look for the polishes on sale, I just can't bring myself to spend $10 on a bottle of polish, cheap I know.

This weekend, it became a mission to go to the local Zellers because they are going out of business and everything is 20-50% off.  I managed to get a couple of bottles, but the selection was crap and they had pulled all the polish off the racks and shoved them in plastic storage containers, so it made it difficult to find things.

Anyhoodle, the reason for the long story, is that I've had a huge nail polisher block tonight and have changed my mani THREE times!!  At Zellers I bought this great reddy black polish that is sooo cute and I wanted so bad to do something cool with it tonight.  It didn't turn out how I had hoped it would, so off it went.  This is actually my third mani, the second one was so bad it's not even worth mentioning!!

Base Coat:  Orly - Bonder

Pink:  NYC - Times Square

Purple - NYC - MoMa

Top Coat:  Seche Vite

Holla, N