tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24027279113291747222024-03-01T16:12:00.621-06:00Bella's BoxRandom ramblings of a polish addict, craft nerd, and all around nutjob.Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12977323841900612763noreply@blogger.comBlogger125125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402727911329174722.post-11150823186227655162011-11-05T18:54:00.000-06:002011-11-05T18:54:05.135-06:00Pure Ice Purple Reign<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Don't you just LOVE when you can find the best colors for the least amount of money?? High end companies should really take a cue from these store brands sometimes because in my opinion, they sometimes have the widest selection of colors. I've only seen Pure Ice at Walmart, and they have a pretty good selection of colors and shimmers....not to mention they're super cheap! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of their best colors is Purple Reign. It's a mauve-y smoky purple with coppery-gold shimmer. Indoors it looks like your typical purple mauve office shade, but in the sunlight you can really see the shimmer. This kind of makes me think of cooking Thanksgiving dinner as a "mom". You know..the kind of mom's that don't wear blue nail polish and cook in a dress and heels. Haha! Weird huh??</span><br />
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Thinking of turkeys...<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rockin' Rubies is a small red micro-glitter in a clear base with rainbow (not holo, I'm not sure what this is called) glitter. It is crazy sparkly!! Think....Dorothy's Shoes times 100!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since I didn't want to fuss with trying to get the clear base to be opaque, I applied one coat of Zoya Sarah as my base and 1 coat of Rockin' Rubies. Easy, right? WRONG! The ONLY bad side to this polish is that it is SUPER top coat hungry! This is 3 coats of SH-Insta Dri and it's STILL not completely smooth. I really don't like the way my nails look with thick polish, so this is a minus for me. It also doesn't help that I'm back to nubs since I had a chip at the pumpkin patch this past weekend. Hay rides are not a nail's best friend, make note of that! My nail kinda got caught on some wood and broke. :(</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ya'll ready for the pictures??</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My camera had a heart attack with these, it did not want to cooperate. These are the best ones I took...and they're not all that great either. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pick this up NOW if you don't have it. $1.99?? You CAN'T beat that!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Speaking of deals (good and bad)....if any of you have DL-Do Ya Think I'm Sexy? and have been able to actually say you LIKE it...please tell me how you wore it, I just can't get on board with this. That sucks! I wanted to love it so so bad!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">:(</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ok, let me stop rambling before I get too depressed...haha!! Thanks to everyone that entered in the giveaway. There were 11 of you ladies to enter. I used </span><a href="http://primaryschoolict.com/random-name-selector/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THIS</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> random name selector to draw names.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here are all your names:</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Congratulations to the <strong><em>nailaholic</em></strong> (</span><a href="http://thenailaholic.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">her blog</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">). Please contact me with your mailing address/info so your pretties can be on their merry way!! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks to everyone who entered, I will be posting info on the next giveaway soon so stay tuned.....</span></div><br />
<img align="center" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa305/15lauris/Sig.jpg" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" />Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12977323841900612763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402727911329174722.post-75955206292789228742011-11-01T06:50:00.000-06:002011-11-01T06:50:32.228-06:00You Don't Know Extra-Va-Vaganza<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hey everyone!! Today I'm going for a more subtle "Halloween" mani. Ok..this is more of a fall mani :) This is OPI You Don't Know Jacques. YDKJ is a taupe-y brown (not gray based like alot of other taupes) creme. This kind of reminds me of a mix between Essie Mink Muffs and Hard Candy Mushroom. It's not as red as MM, but not as brown as Mushroom; good combination. I actually hard to use 3 coats, I had alot of "bald spots" with 2 coats for some reason. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The accent nail is Extra-Va-Vanganza from the Burlesque collection. The whole glitter line from this is pure genious. I love them all!! It's mosly a silver and orange glitter in a clear base, but if you look really closely...there is pink and green glitter too. 3 coats of this (and a few more on TC...it ate it up like crazy!). This is a nice way to spice up a "mom mani" </span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlz1Y_QKqd24woDSGibdVWkOXMc6vmn-j0bMRFoEMr9anTzqt7pP4Jkos9cJGnePkCwGAblEek_5wInNCsAhcdf1nfa1NuhAeeo6JBar5tvU4hTFeyNAFYQTznHQfH5UrC0LbnjH74iOyS/s1600/DSC04760.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="219px" rda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlz1Y_QKqd24woDSGibdVWkOXMc6vmn-j0bMRFoEMr9anTzqt7pP4Jkos9cJGnePkCwGAblEek_5wInNCsAhcdf1nfa1NuhAeeo6JBar5tvU4hTFeyNAFYQTznHQfH5UrC0LbnjH74iOyS/s320/DSC04760.JPG" width="320px" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I don't know what to wear, a combination like this is alway my go-to choice. I feel like I can't go wrong with something like this. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What's your "safest" color combo??</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I decided to do an apple accent on my ring finger and a crown (to represent the Evil Queen) on my thumb.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here are the colors I used:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Thumb: 10 Pinky Promise w/OPI Glitzerland & ChG Medallion accent</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Index: Zoya Sooki (2 coats)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Middle: MAC Spirit of Truth (2 coats)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Ring: SH Red Carpet, OPI YDKJ & Green-wich Village</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Pinky: OPI The "It" Color (3 coats)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I did an apple accent on my right thumb and WnW Black Creme with a bow Konaded (is that even a word??) with BL Knees Up (I can't wait to do a full mani with this!!) to represent Snow White's hair/bow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bells loved this mani so I did her nails too!!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I LOVE these fat little fingers SOOO much!!!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was Bells last year. Hopefully I can get a good picture of her today :)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She even had a matching apple candy bag</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These little felt candy bags are super easy to make. I made her one for her costume this year. Check out my tutorial </span><a href="http://mysocalledun-life.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-to-bee-hive-candy-bag.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">HERE</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span>if you want to learn how to make these :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also picked up DL Today Was a Fairytale (which I won't go into great detail about because I want to try and do an ombre mani with this...so stay tuned!!) But the blue base in this complemented Gemma's blue shimmer pretty nicely</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For this mani I used: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Thumb: Revlon Tangerine and WnW Black Creme </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Middle: OPI Green-wich Village</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I did 3 coats of Tangerine and Green-wich Village and just 2 of FD. Tangering was a bit thin, so in order for me to get full coverage I went with 3 coats. For my thumb I started with orange first then just brushed the black on. For the ring finger, I did the opposite; started with black then added the purple. This was one of the easiest manis I've done in a while since the "hair" didn't have to be perfect. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Speaking of Bells...here she is a few weeks ago when I took her to the pumpkin patch. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ahhh...Black Emerald, you are beautiful. It's a black based green/brown duochrome shimmer. Wow! It's a whole lot of things rolled into one. The formula in this is great. 2 coats and it was completely opaque. These pics do not do it justice...AT ALL!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I tried this on and I really like it, but I'm afraid I'm the only one who does. My friends are usually the ones who can tell me if a color "works" for me, Wallis unfortunately got the boot....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's described as "A tarnished, metallic olive gold". I have the worst luck with BL...they're all so thick and goopy (well at least IMO). I had to apply a few drops of thinner before I even started because it was so thick. I think it just doesn't work too well on my skin tone. The color itself is gorgeous though!!! This is 2 coats. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. It was gonna be hard to work with</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. It was gonna be watery</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. I would need at least 3 coats</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well....yeah...that about summed it up. BUUUUT....I also forgot to mention that:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. It has so much depth</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. The work is totally worth it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is in fact 3 coats of Holiday Glow because it was really watery and streaky. It's a medium chocolaty brown with tiny silver and gold glitter. I tried my best to capture it properly, but thse pictures do not do it justice. (This explains the picture overload, sorry!!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">PS....Have you entered my giveaway?? The drawing will be held on November 1st, so HURRY!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've wanted to do a Frankenstein mani since last year, but I didn't have any greens that I really liked until earlier this year when I found Orly It's Not Rocket Science. I remember looking at every Sally's for Zombie Zest after last Halloween in the clearance bins, but I never found it. This past summer I found the whole Cosmic FX Collection at an Ulta about an hour away from my house, and this had been sitting in my untrieds since then. What a perfect color for Frankie's head. This is 3 coats on my index and thumb.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also got 2 glow in the dark polishes a RAOK a few months ago and I just had to try this out. The inspiration for my little ghost is the ghost from "</span><a href="http://i1130.photobucket.com/albums/m537/lxheras/img2.jpg"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ghostbusters</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">". I wanted it to glow in the dark, so after two coats of SH Whirlwind White, I applied 2 more coats of Dada Glow in the Dark and painted the little face (and Frankie's face) with WnW Black Creme.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I know I want to have a bumblebee (to match Bells' costume) mani for Halloween, but I'm not sure how to make it more Halloween'y, any ideas??</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I remember sitting in my local nail salon waiting an hour to get my acrylics (ahhh!!) and seeing this in a magazine and thinking, "I NEED that color!!" I asked the lady doing my nails if she had it, which she did (a half used bottle) and I remember paying FULL price for it! I used it on my toes that whole fall/winter until my nails were all stained. LPAD was released in the Fall/Winter 2005 Chicago Collection. It is perfect! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The application is great, 2 coats and you're ready to go. No streaks!! I love this color for winter, it's edgy enough to look really chic without looking completely black and goth. The wear is great on this too, I can go a good 4-5 with no chips. Even without a TC, it's really shiny, reminds me of an oil spill. It's a plum-black. The cleanup is really easy as it doesn't "bleed" as much in cleanup like most blacks do. This is definitely a staple color for any nail polish lover and will always be my HG of vamps :D</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What's your HG of colors??</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fowl Play is a red-tinted purple jelly (it reminds me of the color of grape slushes) with red flakies and purple, red, green, and gold micro glitter. The formula seemed a bit thick so I put a few drops of thinner. It was completely opaque with 2 coats. Unfortunately, I think I applied them a bit too thick, so I had some shrinking....BOO SV!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last month, </span><a href="http://www.alllacqueredup.com/2011/09/fall-2011-nail-polish-trend-military-greens.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All Lacquered Up</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> posted that one of this fall's trends would be military greens...SCORE for me!! I love olive/military greens. They're so versatile that you can get away with wearing them with just about anything. From her post, the one that caught my attention the most was Cult Nails (</span><a href="http://www.cultnails.com/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">CultNails.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">) In a Trance. It's a brownish olive green with gold (and if you look very closely, pink and green) shimmer. I absolutely love EVERYTHING about this polish. The bottle is great, the brush was easy to work with. The formula was nice and creamy. The application was flawless, 2 coats and it was completely opaque. I am in LOVE! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What's your favorite fall color???</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I picked 2 WnW Fantasy Makers: Creepy Pumpkin and Black Magic. They also had Purple Potion, but I read that it looks alot like Night Prowl, so I passed on it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the first one I have tried so far and I LOVE it! It an orange jelly with tiny gold, orange, and irridescent glitter. It was a little thick when I first applied it, so I just added a few drops of thinner and it was good to go! In the first set of pics (with the candy corn), I'm wearing two coats of CP, so there is still a VNL. In the ones by itself, I added a third coat and it was completely opaque. It is a little gritty, but one coat of SV smooths it all out. This is a great deal for $2 and how cute are these little tombstones!?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I decided to try and do some candy corn inspired art. I used WnW French White Creme and OPI The "It" Color to complete it</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sorry, I went a little picture crazy.....</span><br />
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</div>Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12977323841900612763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402727911329174722.post-41987401962888199112011-10-13T06:31:00.000-05:002011-10-13T06:31:21.322-05:00Icing Blackout<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So when I posted the </span><a href="http://bellaslacquerbox.blogspot.com/2011/10/dia-de-los-muertos.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dia de Los Muertos</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> mani, my favorite nail was actually my ring finger. So simple, yet it made such a statement. I got this little beauty in a swap earlier this year and I hadn't tried it yet. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME!?!? It's sooo pretty!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Icing Blackout is a black jelly with tiny holo glitter. I wanted it completetely opaque, but read that you needed at least 3 coats to achieve that, so I just applied WnW Black Creme underneath instead. As you can see, it's really tricky to apply...cleanup was a bia!! (And it's still under my nails, ugh!!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Black nails are just so chic to me, and this is a great way to spice it up...and perfect for Halloween!! </span><br />
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</span>Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12977323841900612763noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402727911329174722.post-39535236266335944222011-10-12T08:51:00.003-05:002011-11-01T06:24:31.994-06:00:::CLOSED::: Halloween Giveaway...<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">:::EDIT::: Ok so this wasnt totally my fault as I wasn't very clear. I will use the comments posted on this post and combine them with the posts from post where I originally announced the giveaway <a href="http://bellaslacquerbox.blogspot.com/2011/10/with-all-holidays-coming-upi-sharing.html">HERE</a> and use those for the drawing that will be held on Nov 1st. Sorry about the confusion, I guess I was just so eager about it that I didn't think it through...GOOD luck!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Happy Wednesday everyone! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ok so here are the details of the first giveaway. I'm going to do the some of the Tronicas first....I'm thinking of giving 5 away for Halloween:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is what you can win:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Cyberspace (Taupe Holo)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Gamer Glam (Purple Holor)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Hologram (Silver Holo)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Laser Lime (Green Holo)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Electra Magenta (Magenta Holo)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So what do you ladies think?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm still kinda undecided on how I'm going to do the entries. Should I have the comments count on the actual giveaway posting (in case ya'll might not be interested in every one of them) or on yesterday's post?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Good luck!!</span><br />
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My 4 Year anniversary with DH is next Monday, my birthday is next month...then Thanksgiving and Christmas. I have been extremely blessed this year. I saw my amazing daughter start school, one of my closest friends have her first baby, and one of my BFFs get pregnant...<br />
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This makes me want to share a little bit of "happiness" with you guys. Soooo....<br />
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I will be hosting 3 (maybe 4, depending on the response I get) giveaways, totaling 27 nail polishes I'm going to give away. 27....yes, that's right! <br />
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Here is a picture of what I will be giving away <br />
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It's 8 Tronicas, Shatters, Perplex, Black With Envy and a few more...<br />
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Rules are simple...you must be a follower and leave me a comment with your email so I can contact you. <br />
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I appreciate all of you guys so much!!!!<br />
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:::EDIT::: Ok so this wasnt totally my fault as I wasn't very clear. I will use the comments posted on this post and combine them with the posts from the actual giveaway post <a href="http://bellaslacquerbox.blogspot.com/2011/10/halloween-giveaway.html">HERE</a> and use those for the drawing that will be held on Nov 1st. Sorry about the confusion, I guess I was just so eager about it that I didn't think it through...GOOD luck!!!Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12977323841900612763noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402727911329174722.post-23279734157867723562011-10-11T09:01:00.000-05:002011-10-11T09:01:47.703-05:00OPI Russian Navy Suede<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Having an olive skin complexion can be kind of tricky when it comes to alot of colors....there are some you can't pull off AT ALL. Buuuut...there are others than you can absolutely wear and get away with, one of those is blue. Blues is my friend! Last year I was so into China Glaze Little Drummer Boy and had been looking for another blue in the same family to use as my go-to color this upcoming winter. I found it!! OPI Russian Navy Suede is just so pretty. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's a matte navy blue with silver and purple flecks. I saw it a while back and picked it up at Ulta a few months back. I'm in serious purging mode and after shaking it for a good 10 minutes it was good to go. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's sooo pretty....ahh I love those blues! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What's your favorite nail color family??</span><br />
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</div>Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12977323841900612763noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402727911329174722.post-81474716872914966532011-10-10T21:44:00.000-05:002011-10-10T21:44:01.318-05:00Dia De Los Muertos...<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Can you guys believe it's already October?!? So, I don't know if I mentioned this before, but I was raised in Mexico. One of my favorite times of the year (and one of the times I miss the most) is the fall, especially </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dead"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead).</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Kind of morbid, I know....but I miss it for the folklore and artistry of it. I have this strange little collection of Day of the Dead stuff (coasters, paper mache dolls, candles...you name it). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's technically not until November...but I wanted to practice it to make sure I know what I'm doing when I try to do this for real. </span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I originally was gonna do a pinata on my pinky, but after like 5 failed attempts...I gave up. Boo!!! October is my favorite month for nails, there are just so many different ideas I want to try and I can't wait to show you guys. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks for looking!!</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_dgJ1gcpnkp_mc-9NS7V6g9IEJSYFKlnrhAYAFiE3SzAzWOYkt6oC1xancmwTHoXWKcDTqJjlNBDV9CXAGgTXXlFt4SMaoksIoQlnzQcrcy37VENG8zX3I_6SH5d3JTnlRkqtuFnkJy_E/s1600/DSC04324.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a></div>Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12977323841900612763noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402727911329174722.post-62316192488970938772011-10-05T10:59:00.003-05:002011-10-06T08:04:28.730-05:00Purple Rain<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Happy Hump Day everyone! I'm home sick and just woke up from a 12 hour nap...I'm trying to sleep this cold off...so far so good :) I've been meaning to post this since Monday, but with this cold I haven't had the energy to do much. Remember a while back when I posted my franken, </span><a href="http://bellaslacquerbox.blogspot.com/2011/04/black-rainbow-my-first-franken.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Black Rainbow</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">? Well, if you remember the recipe, I used up 3/4 of a bottle of DS Sapphire. I had an unused fourth of Sapphire and it just sat there for a while. I was looking for my A-England Lady of the Lake one day and for the life of me, couldn't find it. I have literally looked EVERYWHERE for it...still NOTHING :( While I find it, I decided to make my own, so I used the 1/4 of Sapphire and mixed it with maybe about 1/3 of Zoya Pinta and I came up with Purple Rain (ha! Cheesy, I know)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">October marks the starts of Breast Cancer Awareness Month and I thought I would celebrate it (and the race) by tweaking </span><a href="http://www.emeraldsparkled.com/2011/08/pink-wednesday-neon-polka-dots.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THIS</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> mani that Denize did. I fell in love with it immediately. Finding a bunch of pinks that complimented each other yet weren't too similar was a bit tricky. I finally ended up using these:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Sally Hansen Celeb City</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Hello Kitty Bubble Gum</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Milani Pink Rocks!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Sinful 24/7</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-OPI Ate Berries in the Canaries</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Zoya Lola</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had a great time at the race, there were sooo many people there. It always feels good to be a part of something so meaningful and to see so many people there dedicated to the same cause. Here is a pic of us after we crossed the finish line</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will be trying to go through alot of my pinks this month (along with a few other ideas I have cooking up). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope everyone's weekends are going great!!</span><br />
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<img align="center" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa305/15lauris/Sig.jpg" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" />Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12977323841900612763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402727911329174722.post-68130694971556553782011-09-25T00:51:00.000-05:002011-09-25T00:51:35.402-05:00China Glaze Heart of Africa<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Happy Saturday (Sunday) everyone! I hope your weekends are going good. Mine was pretty good, spent the day with Bells and DH then hung out with my parents and played Loteria (Mexican Bingo....if you haven't played it...you MUST; it's super fun!!). Earlier today I was watching Twilight; yes, I'm one of THOSE. It made me want to put on a vampy red; which surprisingly enough, I don't have too many of. A while back I went on a rampage looking for a vampy red and had no luck, everything I liked was OOS or DC >_< I finally found Heart of Africa...and boy do I love it! HoA is a berry red shimmer. I wore this alot last winter, it just seems to be one of those shades that makes the transition from fall to winter super easy (instead of having to wonder if it's "time" for certain colors yet).This is two coats, plus one of SV.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Who's with me???</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I first got into nail polish maybe about a year ago...there are just sooo many reasons to love nails and everything you can do with them. I remember when making my first "lemming" list and searching EVERYWHERE for certain colors. Somewhere at the top of my list was Sally Hansen Mystic Lilac. I must have gone to every drug store in my area looking for it and NOTHING! So heartbreaking!! Then...one rainy day I stopped at a random Walgreens and what do I see in the clearance jar.....MYSTIC LILAC! I remember thinking "SUCKERSSS...Ya'll don't know how precious this is!" I hoped to find a backup so I asked around, but no such luck. I guess I was meant to take just one bottle home. Unfortunately, for one reason or another, it ended up in my untrieds for a year. Yes, a whole year!! :(</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This past weekend I sat down for my weekly mani/pedi and wasn't feeling any color, so I decided to purge with a nude/taupe. A few choices later and still...nothing. Until ML caught my eye....how could I have forgotten you for so long???</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My nails are still pretty short (I have learned that I am a stress nail-biter)...but oh how I love the color!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From Sally Hansen's Fall 2010 collection, ML is a grayed-out lilac taupe with grayish almost-green micro shimmer. I applied it at night, so when I took pictures I was a little dissapointed at how un-lilac it pulled on me, since it looked nothing like the bottle color. I still loved the color, though...</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I missed you all so much!! It's great to be back. I have some really neat (wait, did I just use that word??) things planned out for all the upcoming events/holidays. I can't wait to share them with ya'll!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12977323841900612763noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402727911329174722.post-74938387945655168132011-08-08T13:15:00.000-05:002011-08-08T13:15:47.782-05:00Temporarily Taking a Backseat...<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hello all! Thanks so to those of you that take the time to read my blog, it means the world to me :) I still fully plan on posting here, and still doing my nails of course...I just have so much more to say lately that I don't want to bombard your feeds with non-nail related posts if that's not what you're interested in. Bella is starting school this week which has me seriously sentimental (is that normal??), I've finally taken a proactive approach to losing weight (which is long overdue), and I'm still working on home crafts and stuff as usual. I think that the best place for me to post all that other stuff would be in a separate blog. I would LOVE for everyone to stop by and take a look at it and get to know me a little better. Here is the link if ya'll wanna stop by:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you in advance for taking the time to read this, it means alot to me. If not, I'll see ya'll here!! :D</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Always,</span><br />
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