Press Sample Okay ladies and gents, awhile back I mentioned Nail Art Society was making a comeback and I'd be bringing you looks specifically using materials found in each months kit. Well folks, here are two looks using just three items from this months Gold Foil Kit.

With the first look, I wanted to try a gradient using Jessica Cinnamon Kiss. After I successfully did a single color gradient, I felt this was a pretty good place to add some gold foil to my thumb, index, and middle fingers.


For the second look, I was inspired by the royal themed decals that are also in the Gold Foil Kit and paired two crowns with Purple half moons. Why purple? Well For starters it is my second favorite color and finishers (not sure if finishers is a word) purple is associated with royalty.
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Okay. So it's officially fall. But it is never too cold for ice cream or neon nail polish so why not have your cake AND eat it too?


I wanted something simple and sweet. Get it? Sweet because I has ice cream on my nails. Okay, so my jokes are cheesy, but they'll never be as bad as my 11th grade social studies teacher. More on Mr Kelly later on.

I started with a base of Icing Candy Shop (swatch here) and paint some drips using a white nail art pen I bought in a set of five from urban Outfitters.



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Press Sample As some of you may know, me and water marbles have a hit or miss relationship. Sometimes they come out exactly the way I plan and others, well, just don't. While my intent for this mani was complete uniformity I ended up with a look that is, without a doubt, abstract.


I used four New York Colors for this mani. Three from the Long Wearing Nail Enamel line and one from the In a New York Color Minute Quick Dry line.

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What's new from the people over at Priti? The Dusk in Paris Collection for Fall 2013!

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Barielle released two 5 packs to complete their Fall collection, and you can win them both plus more!

Due to the great success of our other Sweepstakes, we have decided to hold another one in September.  The September Sweepstakes will start on September 12^th and end on September 26^th.   There will be 10 prizes given out and one Grand Prize of a Cole Haan Silver Satchel, RSP of $175.00. The Barielle kit will consist of:
 

                     Two of the Fall Collections 5 Packs (Sophisticated Lady and Nude & Naughty) - $50

                     One Nail Rebuilding Protein Base Coat - $17.50

                     One No Chip Speed Dry Top Coat - $12.50

                     One Nail Strengthener Cream - $17.00

The value of the total Grand Prize is more than $200.00

The Grand Prize will include the fashion accessory plus the Barielle Kit.

The ten prizes are the Barielle products only.

Want a little taste of what you can win? Well the Nude & Naughty 5pack makes a perfect ombre!


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Press Sample Okay, so this post wasn't technically posted on Wednesday but it's only 1am and I haven't been to bed yet. That has to count for something right? #LateNightBlogSesh!!

Anyway, all procrastinating aside, I recently got some interesting nail art stickers from Sticky Nails on Etsy and felt like nail artin' it up in this bitch. Here's the end result!


Sticky Nails has five different sticky nail art stencils to choose from, the particular pattern I used is the chevron design.

I didn't want to do the typical  chevron mani so decided to get creative with the different sizes on the sheet and then freehand some checker print and stripes.

And if you have long nails like me these will fit with no problem!



Iona advises that you let your base color dry completely before you place the stickers on your nail bed. To speed up the process I used Dazzle Dry Top Coat over my white base.

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Press SampleRecently butter LONDON came out with a pretty large cosmetic line complete with mascara, eye shadow, lipstick, lip gloss, and of course, nail polish!


The Rock Your Colour Collection consists of six lacquers, but these nails used only three.


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Nothing To Disclose Last week I swatched the new limited edition Sally Hansen X-treme Wear collection for Fall '13 on swatch sticks and then it happened. Rhonda from Nails Beautiqued asked me where I got my swatch sticks that say Sally Hansen on them. So why not answer her query? I'm sure plenty of you were wondering the same thing right? Right.


I bought my swatch sticks on eBay for less than $3 per 50 piece pack (with free shipping by the way) so if you have a pretty large collection like myself, you'll easily spend $50 or more if you want to swatch every single shade you own.
I recommend this as a weekend project. Sit around, have a snack, turn on any ridiculous Lifetime movie of your choice, and boom! There you go!


Most sellers have these available in two color options, "natural color" and clear. From what you can see here, I chose clear.

How did I get the names on each stick? A handy dandy label maker!


1. These aren't called swatch sticks on eBay. In fact, if you try to search "swatch sticks" you'll likely get quite a few hockey gear results.
2. Search "nail display fan board."
3. The swatch sticks come with a long metal screw and a nut to put on the end. If you want something a little less hardware store you can pick up a pack of book rings at Office Max like I did.
4. Because you read through this entire post here are some quick swatches of the new Splatter Effect Collection by Claire's

This isn't the only thing I keep in my polish arsenal. Follow me on Instagram (@DropOut_Nails) and/or search the tag #ThingsEveryPolishWhoreShouldHave

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