ManGlaze Hot Mess

This is 3 coats of ManGlaze Hot Mess with no top coat. Super cool matte silver! It's supposed to be a topcoat but I think it looks pretty amazing all by itself!

I won all of the ManGlaze polishes from Sara of Daily Polish. Thanks again Sara!

And thank you for reading!
April

Sally Hansen Celeb City

I got Sally Hansen Celeb City hoping it would be a dupe for Zoya Trixie. This is 2 coats with lots of cuticle drag. Celeb City stinks! It smelled very strongly of sharpies, even on my nails for a few hours. Blech. I'm not the only one who has had problems with this Sally Hansen Line. Here's Rebecca of Nails Etc's post about her experience. I really can't stand the smell but it sure does look great!

Today's World Cup Hottie pick is Gonzalo Higuain playing for Argentina. He scored a hat trick in today's game!

Thanks for reading!
April

Queens Metal Jewelry Giveaway! (Closed)

I won this necklace from the Queens Metal blog. I gave it to Ashley as a late Christmas present and she did her nails to match. She used Maybelline Gold Aluminum & China Glaze Millennium for this awesome french manicure.

This is a great simple piece that works well alone or layered with other necklaces, something Ashley is good at doing. Queens Metal has an amazing collection of unique pieces available on her Etsy shop. This Chrysler Ring is my favorite!

I asked the lovely Krista of Queens Metal if she would like to sponsor a giveaway for my readers and she said yes! Woohoo! it's open to EVERYONE WORLDWIDE and you can pick ANY item in her shop $40 and under!!!!
RULES:
PLEASE READ ALL OF THE RULES BEFORE ENTERING.

• This giveaway is open to everyone worldwide! Yay!
  
• This giveaway starts today, March 14th, and will end Sunday, March 21st, 2010 at 11:59PM Central Time.
• We'll select the winner with random.org's random number generator and notify the winner by email on Monday, March 22nd.
• The winner will have 24 hours to respond. If the winner doesn't reply within 24 hours, that winner will forfeit the prize and an alternate winner will be selected via random.org.

HOW TO ENTER:
I'm going to keep this one super simple. One entry per person.

• Go to the Queens Metal Etsy shop and tell us which item you want to win. Think carefully and explore all options because this will be your prize if you are the winner! Use the form below to enter. This works MUCH better than comments, so I've turned them off for this post to avoid confusion.
  

I did not receive any compensation for this giveaway in the form of product or payment of any kind. I won my necklace fair and square .

Thanks for reading!
April & Ashley

China Glaze Millennium & A Giveaway Roundup

Pure love! That's what I feel for China Glaze Millennium. The formula took a little getting used to, so I used 2 coats this time but I think I'll be able to get away with just one coat next time. I love metal robot nails!!!! Enter my giveaway!! You can win 250 custom stickers for promoting your band, event, business, yourself or whatever. You get 250 stickers with whatever you want on them! Brooke you could get 250 Dinky stickers!!!!

I used Konad plate M63 for this one. This is one of my all time favorites!! I still can't believe that I can make a houndstooth pattern on my own nails!

Giveaway Roundup

1. Win 4 candles from Aunt Sadie's & Simply Stacie. Hurry ends tonight!
2. Win Cowgirl Chocolates from Penny-Pinching Mama. Hurry ends tonight!
3. Win a $75 gift certificate from L'Occitane & the Alternative Consumer. Hurry ends tonight!
4. Win 2 KOH nail polishes from Witoxicity. Ends 2/13.
5. Win Cowgirl Chocolates from TicTacDough. Ends 2/13.
6. Win the jewelry of your choice from LuShae & Leslie Loves Veggies. Ends 2/14.
7. Win a Clean Rest Bedding Set from Mommy2TwoGirls. Ends 2/14.
8. The Vintage Wren is giving away a prize from each of her three lovely Etsy shops! Help her celebrate the launch of her new blog by entering her awesome giveaway! Ends 2/14.

Thanks for reading!
April

Zoya Dea, Envy, & Trixie

These are the 3 free polishes I got from Zoya when they did the Twitter give away.

From left to right they are Dea, Envy and Trixie. I didn't have any application issues, and they were all opaque in two coats.

This is Dea. When applying it I thought it was going to be more of a caramel brown color but with the second coat it darkened to a nice chocolate brown color. I think it will be a color I wear a lot this fall.

This is Envy. It's a nice deep dark green creme. It does look almost black in some lights. I think this will be another color I wear a lot this fall.
Now that I have a dark green I want a little lighter one like Orly's Enchanted Forest or even Nubar's Forest. I don't think i'll ever have enough greens!

I thought Envy would be my favorite color but I think I like Trixie the most.
It's such a fun and shiny color. I love the finish. I can't wait to wear it out.
I just hate removing glitters though, they get everywhere!

Thanks for looking!
-Ashley

China Glaze OMG

My boyfriend and I decided that we will call this one Baby Unicorn Blood!

If I could only have one nail polish this would be it.
This is two coats. It looks like a pale grey shimmer in low light and then you go in bright light or sunshine and it's MAGIC! I thought I was gonna have a wreck the first time I wore it while driving, because I kept staring at my hands. Embarrassingly I actually said OMG when I started applying it.
-April