Holiday Temporary Tattoos

Around Halloween one of the many blogs I read featured nails done with temporary tattoos. I sadly cannot remember who's blog to point you to where I got this idea from, but I knew when I saw it that I wanted to try it.

I have been enjoying walking thru Christmas isles and buying a few new decorations the last few weeks. During my window shopping I stumbled upon stocking stuffers at wal-mart. Ten small boxes with a sheet of temporary tattoos in each seemed good enough for me. Gives me five full Mani's seeing how each sheet has five designs on it. I just had to have them when I saw them. I might toss a set in each of my winners boxes before I ship them out as well... still debating on this.

For a base I used Milani 3D Holographic in Cyberspace. The only thing I hate about the tattoos is that the white is so translucent you can't really see it at all unless your nose is almost pressed against my hand looking at them. On my Right hand my middle finger is supposed to be a polar bear but you cant really tell what the heck it is.

Putting these on was simple. I just cut the temporary tattoos into smaller nail sized shapes of the part of each design that I wanted, applied like you would for the skin, let air dry and sealed with a clear top coat.

Happy Polishing!

Contest: Give the Gift of... Nail Polish! My Entry

I entered a nail art contest over at Tara's blog HERE. Had a ton of fun doing this. As well I wanted to post this mani to hopefully inspire some entries for my celebration mani contest. So far no one has entered. *sad face*

Btw these images are click able... (well all of them are on my blog), but I uploaded these one specifically large so you can see the detail work I put into this mani. I am so happy with how they turned out.

Thumb to pinkie: Typical house with lights along the roof line, polar bear with scarf multi light yard decoration, tree with lights and presents, snowman all dressed up, north pole sign. Each nail has snow on the ground and a night time sky.

Check out all of the polish I had out while doing this. Yeesh! And yes I used every one of those colors.

If you want to check out all of the designs head over to Taras blog and vote for me or whomever you think did an awesome job. One entry per person and you must be a follower to vote.

My entry is based on all of the trips my family makes every year between Thanksgiving and Christmas out in the car to look at the lights.

Happy Polishing... Have more fun stuff to post later today. (I am up entirely waaay too late... darn sick kids.)

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

So awhile back I won totally nailed it's first giveaway. I think I was one of her first readers, and was a bit tickled when I got an email from her letting me know I won. She is a sweetheart and going to school to be a nail tech. You guys should definitely check her out.

So what all I won:

• Sally Hansen Continuous Treatment - Strength
• Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure - Dianthus
• Sally Hansen HD Nail Color - Byte
• Sally Hansen HP Nail Color - LCD
• Sally Hansen Diamond Strength - Rose Petals
• Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear - Petite Pink
• NYC Liquid Lip Color -Looking Gloss
• Pink Gerber daisy hair clip made by her
• Pink button earrings made by her (I really wish I could wear these... sadly my ears are gaged)
• Kiss brand nail art stickers

And she sent with all of that a really sweet card with a nice message inside apologizing for taking a bit to mail the package to me. I didn't mind at all that it took some time. I was just giddy that I won. I seldom win anything. I think the last thing I won was at my Senior all niter after graduation from high school. I won a check for $100, and that was almost 10 years ago (geesh that makes me feel old.)

If you recall the little fingers from my last post, yup this would be the package that Ian wanted ALL of the colors used from. He is too funny. I have myself a fashionista in the making I tell you what. Kid knows his colors, steps and will call you a bitch if you don't do things his way (and no I do not let him get away with such language, he picked it up watching TV... thus why we no longer have cable or a converter box.)

Well Happy Polishing Lovelies... I have chipmunks, erm.. children to attend to.

Snapping Out of It

As promised here are some nail photos of nails from the past week when I was MIA. And even a little boy hands shot. Ian again begged for polish and was granted his snazzy pink/blue combo.

First image here is China Glaze- Peace on Earth with China Glaze- Frosty. I used my new embossing tools to make this fun look. I think last Tuesday or Wednesday was the first frost of the year and I actually had to use a scraper on my car windows. Totally inspired my nail art.

Here we have China Glaze- Ruby Pumps stamped over with Konad special polish- White. I used Bundle Monster plate BM01 for the Image. I as usual failed to bother to clean up my cuticles before snapping my pictures. I think I just give up on the whole idea. If for some reason it bothers someone that much they can find another blog to read.

I must say this polish is a pain in the ass to photograph. It looks to bright red no matter what lighting I tried to use. Seriously its soo much more dimensional with lots of glittery goodness. I honestly think its just my crap-era... I mean camera. I keep checking out new ones but have decided to hold off until after Christmas. My kids just come first.

And last this is my sons little fingers. He was excited about a giveaway package that arrived in the mail and wanted me to paint each of his nails a different color. He already had on light blue polish though so I just painted over the blue. I have a post for tomorrow about the fun box of goodies I received and from whom.

This is all for today.
Don't forget that I still have my first giveaway going and nail art contest to boot!
Happy Polishing. :)