Nubar Black and White Polka Dot Party!!!!

Happy Friday (almost Saturday) everyone!! I hope you all have a nice weekend planned! I have had an amazing day in my happy little blogging bubble. I am over 1200 GFC followers and I also topped 1000 Facebook likes on my Facebook page today!! Thank you all so much for your support, you are THE BEST!!

My January giveaway ends tonight (less than 3 hours!) and I thought to celebrate I would show you the polishes you can win! I have already used my Nubar Black and White Polka Dot polishes before (if you missed it you can see that post HERE) but I decided I wanted to wear them over alternating black and white and I LOVE it. I like it better this way than the way I originally wore it. 

The Black and White Polka Dot polishes consist of micro hex glitter as well as larger hex glitter. The small hex glitters in the White Polka Dot seem to have an iridescent quality but maybe they are just picking up the colors around them? I'm not sure. LOL Either way I love them!  The formula on the polka dot polishes is really nice. I had to work with it a bit to get the larger hex glitters in just the right spot but that is normal for large glitters. Add in the fact that I am anal about applying glitter, I have a very organized mind and don't like clutter, thus I don't want my nails to look disorganized. Does that make sense? LOL I hope so. 

I applied these over OPI Alpine Snow and OPI Black Onyx. I wish I had thought to get a pic of these before I added the polka dots. They are wonderful creams, fully opaque in two coats. The Nubar's were very smooth and shiny on their own. I did add 1 coat of Nubar Diamont Topcoat and my nails look soooo shiny, I love it!!

I hope you enjoyed this as much as I do! I am in love with my polka dots!!

Nubar sell for $8  can be purchased at Harlow & Co.  or bynubar.com. 

Wonky Penguins!!!

Hello again lovelies!!! As mentioned in my previous post for my base color, NOX Twilight Poseidon, I did some nail art last night and am fairly happy with it. I had a lot going on last night and accidentally used the wrong topcoat and it smeared 2 of my nails. Argh. 

Anyways, I had seen two really cute penguin manis lately. One was from my friend Jacki and Adventures in Acetone and the other from my friend Traci at The Trace Face Philes (you can see Jacki's HERE and Traci's HERE). Mine did not turn out as well as theirs but I am pretty happy with them. Some of them look cross-eyed, or drunk LOL, they're kind of wonky but I still love them.

I added a little bit of OPI Crown Me Already over Poseidon to resemble ice and snow and for the penguins I used OPI Black Onyx, OPI Alpine Snow and Revlon Tangerine. I topped it with Nubar Diamont Topcoat, which I love, but is apparently not the greatest for nail art. I meant to use Seche Vite but was distracted. LOL 

My thumb...

My pinky....he's the cross-eyed drunk one LOL

And my favorite, he turned out so well! My index finger....

What do you think about my penguins? Be gentle please!!! LOL

My First Christmas Mani of the Year!!

FINALLY a new mani post!!!! I apologize for not posting lately, I just haven't had the time. I just took off my Cult Nails Clairvoyant mani today and I put that on on Monday. Eek! LOL However, I must say the wear on it was amazing. I only had two small chips and they were from my nails breaking, other than that I only had minor tip wear. So hurray for that Cult Nails!

Since Christmas is getting so close (I still have so much to do to prepare!!!) I thought it would be awesome to start my Christmas manis. This is a design I did last year on my mom's nails. She got tons of compliments on it and I was very pleased with how hers turned out. I did this one a little differently but it's the same concept. 

Before I get to the pics I want to make sure you all vote in the poll I put up this morning. I would like to know if I have nail art posts (like this one) or layering combos if you prefer the base color is in the same post or if you prefer it to have its own separate post. I am doing this post with the base color here so you can see if you like it. Pretty much all of my other combos are in separate posts (the latest being theOPI Ink. post as my base for Cult Nails Clairvoyant).

I guess I'll start with a pic of the completed mani....

 Can you tell what they are supposed to be? I hope so!!! Christmas lights!!!

I started off using 2 coats of OPI Alpine Snow, I just got this color last weekend and it was my first time using it. Oh, by the way, I am late on my haul post too. LOL I was very impressed with Alpine Snow, as I always am with OPI!

 This is without a top coat since I was layering, it's very shiny on its own. :)

Then I added 1 coat of Orly Winter Wonderland for SPARKLE!!! I love this color, it reminds me of snow. I guess that's why they call it Winter Wonderland. LOL

Is that a hair on my middle fingernail?! Grrr I hate that. LOL That's what I get for having a little puffball dog. Haha

Now time for the string of Christmas lights!! I used Sinful Colors Nail Art Striper in black for the cord and nail art rhinestones in red and green for the lights. I have a really hard time capturing red with my camera for some reason so these look orange in some of the pics but they really are red. LOLI topped it off with 1 coat of Gelous and 1 coat of Color Club top coat.

I hope you enjoyed my first Christmas mani!! Also, don't forget to vote in my poll. :)