M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E

Hiya!  Do you have that song in your head now??

On our camping trip earlier this week the boys were drinking Mickeys beer and if you've never seen or heard of Mickeys beer, you are missing out!  Now, I'm not a fan of beer, but I am a fan of Mickeys - seems odd I know.  BUT, the coolest thing about this beer is that they have rebus puzzles on the inside of the caps. Brain puzzles when you've been drinking - awesome!  We had a good time trying to figure out the puzzles, some were really difficult and required google!

These aren't exactly beer nails, but that is where some of the inspiration came from, if by name only!  Also, my little cousin is staying with my grandparents for the week and I wanted to do something cute that he would recognize when I spent time with him.  He's the cutest thing ever, I just want to squish him!!

Base Coat:  Orly Bonder

Main Color:  Essie - Russian Roulette

Polka Dots and White Accents:  NYC - French White Tip, Sally Hansen Insta-Dri  - Quick Canary

Mouse Ears and Bows:  Essie - Licorice

Top Coat:  Seche Vite

Holla, N

10 Minute Mani

No, this did not take me 10 minutes to create, sorry for the misleading title!  It actually refers to the fact that I wore this mani  for a total of 10 minutes!  I usually last at least a day, but this was just so thick and I didn't trust the top coat I used, so off it went!  I still like it and if I could figure out how to do scalloped nails properly I might try this again.

Awhile back, I bought a bunch of Essence polish and loved how they looked together, so I used them all!  Here's my take on a scalloped/framed mani!

Base Coat;  Orly Bonder

Main Color:  Essence - Lime Up!

Scalloped Edges:  White Acrylic Paint, Essence - You Belong to Me (Blue), A Lovely Secret (Lilac), Choose Me (Blue Glitter)

Top Coat:  Pro FX

Holla, N

Black as Night

Hiya!  I'm back after a couple of days camping.  It's so good to be home!!  I love camping and we had a great time, I just really love my bed, internet and tv.  There was the craziest storm yesterday, the thunder and lightening and the 10 minute down pour.  It was so LOUD and the rain was intense.  It was a little scary and I'm surprised the 3 year old that was with us didn't freak out!!  Tough little bugger :)

Here's the mani I wore camping.  I love the gold glitter over bright colors I used for Olympic Fever - Part Deux, so I decided to do both hands all one color.  If I was to do this again, I would only use one coat of the glitter, I think two coats made it less sky like and more glitter like, if that makes any sense....

Base Coat:  Orly Bonder

Main Color:  Essie - Licorice

Top Coat:  No Name Gold Glitter from Sally's and Seche Vite

Holla, N

Polish Olympics

I'm super excited for today's post, it's my first post participating in Polish Days!

A while back on twitter, I was seeing all these #polishdays hashtags and countdowns to polish days and I was curious and somewhat jealous I wasn't in on the in!  Doing a little research (it wasn't that hard, everyone was talking about it), I found what I was looking for.  Hannah at Polly Polish has set up Polish Days, a monthly event for nail bloggers to produce a themed manicure and share it with the world!  I was super excited it was so easy to sign up and couldn't wait until the next month's theme was announced.  And what a theme it is, OLYMPICS!  I know you can't be sick of the Olympics yet, so what if all your favorite shows aren't aired for two weeks and all you can find on tv is unending coverage of speed walking and beach volleyball - the Summer Olympics ROCK!

My mani is inspired by the bathing suits Canadians, Meaghan Benfeito and Roseline Fillion, wore to win a bronze medal for Canada last Tuesday for synchronized diving (10 metre).  I actually managed to catch this on tv and it was pretty amazing!  I also caught a globe and mail video on them that was aired during the event, which gave a brief history of their career and friendship.  These two are the absolute cutest, they are best friends and make me super proud to be Canadian!

I won't post the inspiration pictures directly on my page, but if your curious, click here and here to see the suits they were wearing!  How did I do?

Base Coat:  Orly Bonder

Main Color:  Wet n Wild - Black Creme and Wet n Wild - Private Viewing (nude color)

I used acrylic paint for the white lines and Sinful Colors Nail Art  - Me First

Top Coat - Seche Vite

Check out the other fabulous bloggers who have participated in Polish Olympics!!

Holla, N

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  A Lacquered Affair
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  Alena - Why Hello Nails
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  Alexis - Glitter Tips
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  Ariane - The Frenzied Polisher
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  Chiro - Nail of this Week
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  Cuti-CLUE-les
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  Deborah - Love Varnish
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  Hannah - Polly Polish
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  Heidi - Pretty Painted Nails
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  Inky - Inky Polisholicious
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  Ishah - Ishah X Beauty
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  Jen - The Nail Polish Project
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  Jenny - Beauty by Jenny
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  Jessica H - Sparkles & Shine Nails
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  Joanna - The Treasure Chest
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  Joanne - Northern Nails
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  Karine - Karineaoa
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  Kat - Hooked on Polish
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  Kate - Polish CART
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  Keisha - Refined & Polished
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  Lani - Nail Photos by Lani
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  Maria - So Marvellous
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  Melissa - The Crimson Petal
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  Mihaela - Lacquer Buzz
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  My Nail Polish Online
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  Nail Tart
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  Nicole - Nearly Nailed
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  Polish Obsession
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  Pris - Pris Nails
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  Sabine - My Polish Stash
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  Samantha - Polished Art
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  Sammy - The Nailasaurus
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  Sophia - Unhas a Trois
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  Stephanie - Sincerely Stephanie
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  Wendy - Wendy's Delights

Olympic Fever - Part Deux

Hiya!  I'm officially on vacation for 10 days and because I don't need to see people every day, I don't normally do my nails.  But because I'm super paranoid they are going to break with no polish, I've done my nails as usual.  Today's mani is the second part to yesterday's mani, 2012 Summer Olympic Fever.

I've often wondered if nail artists that do super complex nail art on their non-dominant hand, skip their other hand.  I've done this a couple of times, especially my munchkin nail art, there is no way I would have been able to get that detail on my right hand! Or I end up doing something easier on my right hand, but that matches my left.  Yesterday's mani wasn't overly complex, but I'm a little anal and like things perfect and I know it would have been difficult to get yesterday's design on my right hand.  So here's what I came up with for my right hand, super simple, but I love this no name gold glitter I got from Sally's - the ones in those super tiny bottles.  I only picked this up because I thought I would use it for yesterday's mani, but ended up not using it, but I really love it over bright colors!

Base Coat:  Orly Bonder

Main Colors from Thumb to Pinky:  China Glaze - Man Hunt, Wet n Wild - Black Creme, Sally Hansen Extreme Wear - Cherry Red, Sally Hansen Extreme Wear - Mellow Yellow, China Glaze - Four Leaf 

Clover

Top Coat: Sally Girl Gold Glitters and Seche Vite

Holla, N

2012 Summer Olympic Fever

I love the summer Olympics!  My favorite thing to watch, which I've managed to miss all of, is gymnastics.  My favorite thing to say after they've completed a particularly amazing routine is "I can do that."  Obviously, I can't but I'm waiting for someone to say "You can?"  I love how proud the athletes are to represent their country, even if they lose.  It also warms my heart to see the parade of athletes in the opening ceremony, especially the countries that have only a handful of athletes.  Can you imagine how amazing that would be to have your whole country know who you are and be rooting for you!

I've done two Olympic themed mani's this week and will be sharing the other for Polish Days (August 7th).  My inspiration for these nails was the outfits worn by Great Britain at the opening ceremonies.  Despite the flack, I loved their outfits, they were so flashy and you can't go wrong with white and gold.

Base Coat:  Orly Bonder
Main Color:  Barielle - Going to the Chapel
Gold Accents:  Savvy Femme Couture - Gold
Olympic Rings:  China Glaze - Man Hunt, Wet n Wild - Black Creme, Sally Hansen Extreme Wear - Cherry Red, Sally Hansen Extreme Wear - Mellow Yellow, China Glaze - Four Leaf Clover

Holla, N

Orange you Glad I'm Posting Today?

Hello life, I have to polish my nails and post about them, could you kindly get out of the way?  Life has certainly been getting in the way of my posting lately, either I get home so late from life that I can't get good outside shots or it takes me forever to do my nails and can't get a decent outside shot - really doesn't life know I have people waiting with baited breath for my next post??

Today, I have two mani's to share with you, first is today's mani!   Have you heard I'm into neon's right now?  I've done two posts in the last week on them (Knee Yawn Pink and Skulltastic) - I'm smitten!  I'm also really digging the tone on tone (Pretty in White and Mellow Canary), here's today's version of a neon tone on tone!!

Here's my right hand outside, I don't normally post photos of my right hand unless I've done something really cool, but last night I fell asleep on the couch watching the Olympics and messed up my left hand!

Next is Thursday's mani, which I didn't really like, I thought I had gold square nail stickers, but didn't, so the whole look didn't come together.  Plus when I went to take the shot yesterday, my nails had already chipped - so enjoy the one shot I did manage to get!

Today's Mani:
Base Coat:  Orly Bonder and Berielle - Going to the Chapel
Main Color:  Vernis Classique by Cherimoya - Neon Orange
Polka Dots:  Barielle - Gotta Have Fate
Top Coat:  NYC - Matte me Crazy

Thursday's Mani:
Base Coat:  Orly Bonder
Light Pink:  Essence - Modern Romance
Dark Pink:  Nyx - Jillian
Top Coat:  Seche Vite

Holla, N