4th of July Nail Art

So, we went from 109 degrees to Hurricane Alex.  We're talking 5 inches of rain in a day.  What on earth.  I hate this weather.


Thinking back, it's rained EVERY 4th of July that I can think of.  I'm in South Texas!  It's not supposed to rain!  Blah.


I also broke a nail (after all my China Glaze Vintage Vixen swatches, so tomorrow it will look like my nails grew tons!) so I'm back to tiny nubbins again.


Very simple manicure here... Seche Natural for my base, 2 coats of China Glaze Ruby Pumps, some tiny rhinestones from eBay on my ring finger, and a top coat of Seche Vite.  On my ring finger, I used Winning Nails "Tough Coat" which is supposed to specifically seal nail art.  I feel like it makes the rhinestones look a tiny bit gummy.


Anywho, no real sun, but here's a few pictures.  Happy 4th of July to all my American readers!

Tee hee, I kinda screwed up the rhinestones.  Well, I tried.  Kinda looks like a rocket!

NovaLash Eyelash Extentions

*Photo located on NovaLash's website.

On July 12th delayed until spring 2011 :(, I'm getting a complementary set of NovaLash Eyelash Extentions [official website | Facebook Page | Twitter Page] put on from Bella Bella Salon [official website], where I got my purple hair.  Whew, that's a lot of links in a sentence.


Bella Bella is going to start offering NovaLash and were giving out 5 free applications, so I snagged a spot.  This procedure costs about $300 as they apply each lash by hand and it's lash by lash.  I was told that they will fall out with my natural eyelashes, in 2-4 weeks.  I could come back in 2 weeks for a reapplication which would run about $45, or just let them fall out.  I did fail to ask what color they are using, as I've seen on their website that they have green, purple, and blue.  I'd like to stick with just black, hah.


I have a huge love/hate with fake eyelashes... love the way they look - still haven't figured out how to put them ON myself, so this is going to be awesome.  While I'm not going to stop nail polish blogging (yeah right), I am branching out a teeny tiny bit.  Later this month, I will also be reviewing beauty products for Beauty Debutante [official website] and writing as a guest blogger.  Wee!


I'm pretty excited about the whole thing, so expect a post in the coming weeks about it!  ^_^

China Glaze Bogie

I'm a huge purple fan, so I figured that Bogie from the Vintage Vixen 2010 Fall Collection would be right up my alley.  It's not bad, honestly.  It reminds me of a few other colors though, but I'd have to do a comparison to be sure.  China Glaze lists this as "plum frost with shimmer"


I used a base coat of Seche Natural, one coat of Bogie, and a top coat of Seche Vite.

Polish consistency was good - I love only using one coat.  You can see the shimmer a bit and it is very "plum" like in shade.

I do really like how frosts look in the shade/indirect light - it's smooth like a shimmer but not brush strokey like a metallic.  Quite pretty overall.

China Glaze [official website] can be found online through several etailers, including my favorite Head2Toe Beauty [official website], Sally's Beauty Supply [official website] as well asTransDesign [official website].

Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration.  For more information, please read this post.

Claire's Glitz and Glam Franken

Remember this "gem"?

Yeah.


Well I poured some out, added a few ballz, put in 10 drops of CND Blackjack, poured a bit of Cover Girl City Lights and went to town shaking that bad boy.


End result?

Sorry y'all, it's still a hot mess.

The CND Blackjack helped tone down the neon pink and shaking the polish definitely made the polish more opaque.  However, all the silver hexagon glitter got kinda mucked up.

This is going in my "2011 Zoya Polish Exchange" pile, providing they have one again.  :)

400 Followers Giveaway [US & Canada]

As you may or may not have known, the past 3 weeks, I've been pretty insanely swamped with my house remodel.  We've been working on lighting, plumbing, wall repair, window repair, repainting... you name it.  I just recently broke a nail right before starting to stain 50' worth of cabinets, so I'm currently back to nubbins although my next few blog posts are with my long nails (pre-written, you know).


I've been given a unique opportunity from CSN Stores [official website] to host a giveaway to all my USA and Canadian readers, so what better time than during my 400 Followers Giveaway!  One winner will receive a $40 Gift Certificate that may be redeemed in any of CSN's 250 online stores.  They don't sell nail polish (boo!) but they literally have millions of products to which you can enjoy - just check out their website (above) and enter your desired product in the search box.  You do have to pay for your own shipping, the gift certificate is only for your actual product.  This giveaway runs from today, 1 July until 12 July at midnight:01 GMT (or 8 p.m. CST on 11 July for me).

1: You must be a follower through Google Connect.

2: You must fill out the form at the bottom of this post.  (For your convenience, I have turned off comments)

3: You must live in the USA or in Canada.


Let the form begin!  Please feel free to tell your friends, Tweet or Facebook this post.  I greatly appreciate it!

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