Nail of the Week: China Glaze Get Carried Away

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Hey guys!

For this week's nails I am wearing a polish from China Glaze's Cirque Du Soleil Collection, Get Carried Away over a Sally Hansen's Black Out polish. Get Carried Away is a sheer black with small black and silver glitter, black and orange hex glitter, and black bar glitter. I put a layer of Sally Hansen polish in Black Out to achieve opacity of the base and see the glitters more clearly. 

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What do you have on your nails this week?

Nail of the Week: Sally Hansen Brisk Blue

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For this week's nails I am wearing Sally Hansen's Insta-Dri Polish in Brisk Blue with a simple nail art by stamping. This polish shade caught my eye when I was at the drugstore with how vibrant and bright this sky blue colour is in the bottle. This is one of my first polishes from the Insta-Dri line and would most likely not be my last as I'm really liking this formula. I only painted one coat for these swatches with the use of their wide brush and it dried quickly.

What do you have on your nails for this week?

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Nail Of The Week: Festive Gingerbread Man

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For this week's nails, I decided to create a gingerbread man nail art to express my love for gingerbread! One of the things I enjoy during the holidays is anything gingerbread flavoured from donuts to hot drinks. I used Essie Mink Muffs for the base of the design and for the gingerbread man himself, then used Sally Hansen Cherry Charisma for the buttons and Sally Hansen White for the gingerbread man's clothing pattern. I really like the design I did but I made a little mistake of giving him a frown instead of a smile! I only noticed it now while writing this post. Oh well, I guess he's not as excited as I am with christmas. Lol

What do you have on your nails for this week?

Nail of the Week: Snowflakes!

For this week's nails I wanted to celebrate winter by doing a snowflake design as I am one of those people who truly enjoy the cold weather and snow. We have been having dreary and gloomy weather here in Ontario so I have been wishing for snow but sadly having no such luck. So to help uplift my spirits a little I decided to create a snowflake nail art using Wet n Wild's 'I Need a Refreshmint' as a base then put a layer of Wet n Wild's 'Hallucinate' and Sally Hansen 'White' for the snowflakes.  

How is the weather in your neck of the woods?

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Nail of the Week: Christmas Tree Nail Nart

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How's your week going so far?

I can't believe it's December already! I'm getting excited for the Christmas Season because it means snow, holiday shopping, Christmas parties, and just some good 'ol quality time with the loved ones! For this week's nails I did an easy christmas tree nail art design to kick off the Holiday Season. The shades I used for this nail art were; OPI Don't Pretzel My Buttons as a base, Essie Mojito Madness for the tree, China Glaze I'm Not Lion for the glitters, Essie Bikini so Teeny, Kleancolor Neon Yellow, Sally Hansen Cherry Charisma for the dot ornaments and Kleancolor Aurora for the star.

What do you have on your nails this week?

Nail of the Week: Pink Nails for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

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How was your thanksgiving?

As you may know, October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month so I thought to do a simple pink french tip in commemoration of the campaign. I am fortunate enough not to have anyone in my immediate family battle the disease but I think its still important to know about the campaign to help spread awareness. To learn more about Canada's breast cancer campaign called the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation's 'Run for the Cure', click here. 

For this week's nails I used Essie's Off the Shoulder from the Summer 2012 Collection and Sally Hansen White polish for the tips. 

Here is a swatch of the base polish alone with 2 coats under natural lighting

When I was painting my nails, my little cousins arrived early for thanksgiving dinner and wanted to play dress up so here is what they did on my nails. Totally blinged out nails.

What do you have on your nails for this week?