Holicure #1 Candy Canes

Hello Lacquered Lovelies,

I am going to be doing a week full of Holiday Manicures.Each day will be a different design. I wanted to do 12 Days Of Christmas but obviously that didn't go as planned. One week, seven days! I can do this, if I did a whole month of Untrieds this should be easy peasy. 

Today is Candy Canes. Now I didn't do the typical Candy Canes, these are very different.

I started out with a dark base and then I out lined a crook for the cane and then colored it all white. Then I added red stripes all up and down. It kind of looked like a french tip design when I first started and then I went up one side more than the other.

I used Orly's Rock Solid from the Mineral FX collection which I might do a post on after the Holidays but then it will be a little behind on the collections, who cares though? Then I used white acrylic paint for the crook. For the red stripes I used LA Colors Art Deco in Red Glitters. 

Well that is it. Tomorrows post will be snowflake nails so look forward to that. 

Thank you all for following and commenting. 50 Follower Giveaway should be up before the end of this year. YAY 2012!!!!

Enjoy yourself

XOXO

Pam <3

Mix and Match: Nails, Makeup, and Hair #1

Hello Lacquered Lovelies, Makeup Junkies. and Hair Fanatics,

I am starting this new type of post when I want to show you more than just my hair or nails. 

Today I am going to see someone in an institute that doesn't allow jewelry or flashy clothing.I am sure they won't really allow a lot of makeup so I kept it very simple today. Kind of like a pin up style without being too bold. A very tiny amount of black eyeliner and mascara with some gloss and I am ready. 

I used Almay Nearly Naked Makeup in Buff, Wet N' Wild Liquid Eyeliner in Black, L'Oreal Voluminous Million Lashes in Black, and Revlon's Cherries In The Glow.

For my nails I did some classic red with the tiniest amount of bling to my ring finger. This makes me able to wear this without them being too harsh on what I am wearing. 

I used two coats of OPI's O'Hare and Nails Look Great. Then on my ring finger I added a coat of Northern Lights by INM. 

For my hair I just put it up in a small little poof from my bangs. I may or may not keep it like this since the thing holding it back is a bobby pin.

Anyway I hope you liked this post, I know I am going to. There will be another one up tomorrow since I am going out to lunch with my mom and nana.

Enjoy yourself

XOXO

Pam<3

31 Day Challenge Day 24

Hello Lacquered Lovelies,

The movie that I based my mani off of today is Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, which I could have copped out and did it for yesterday and today because it is both a book and a movie. 

Very different if I may say. There are a lot of vibrant colors in this movie because of the content of the movie. I used a neon orange and yellow along with a bright red.

Color Club Get Your Lem-On, OPI Atomic Orange, and Essie Forever Young.

That's really it for today. I don't really like how it turned out. A little messy if you ask me but I guess it just adds to the character of the movie.

Enjoy yourself

XOXO

Pam <3

31 Day Challenge Day 23

Hello Lacquered Lovelies,

I am such a nerd, today is inspired by a book. I have no creativity today. I went with Harry Potter. I am sure a lot of people have gone with Potter nails for today but I don't really care. 

I kind of went off each of the four houses, if you haven't read or watched the movies you should. I actually forgot what nail polishes I used. I know that you need a red, gold, blue, yellow, green, silver, and black. It is really simple just make boxes on each of your nails. 

Sorry for the lack of creativity, if you like it then we cool.

Enjoy yourself

XOXO

Pam <3

31 Day Challenge Day 9

Hello Lacquered Lovelies,

This is probably the worst thing I have ever seen... I just said screw it and I took the picture of the work that I did. I worked for over two hours on today's nails which I HATE! 

It is a good design but it looks like hell. I did two colors on each of my nails, in sort of a color blocking style. Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, and Purple (violet). 

All of the colors I used were LA Colors Art Deco, these things can be found at the dollar store. I would never spend more than $1 on them unless it was a color that I have never seen before, which there are colors that you can't get at the dollar store.

Now that I am a little bit frustrated with the design I am going to take this off and prep my nails for tomorrow. Ohh today is grooming day.

Enjoy yourself

XOXO

Pam <3

Halloween Challenge Sunday

Hello Lacquered Lovelies,

1 Day Left!!! Welcome to Superhero Sunday, full of fiver different superheros.

I used Essies Forever Young, Finger Paints Art Nouv-Yellow, and China Glaze Sexy In The City. Of course blue, black and white acrylic paint.

You have Spiderman, Batman, Superman, Captain America, and Fantastic 4.

I hope that you love this.

Enjoy yourself

XOXO

Pam <3

Halloween Challenge Tuesday

Hello Lacquered Lovelies,

Tricked Out Tuesday, since I previously did Treats Tuesday I figured I would do Tricks Tuesday. Basically card tricks though because I fail at everything else lol. 

I used Essie's Forever Young as the base and then I went in with White and Black Acrylic  Paint. A lot of my designs revolve around the acrylic paints.

Today was a really long day. Sorry I didn't post this sooner, I babysat all day today. Soon I will be doing this full time so all of my posts will be in the morning or at night and A LOT on the weekends and Monday's.

Enjoy yourself

XOXO

Pam <3

Halloween Challenge Tuseday- FAIL

Hello Lacquered Lovelies,

Treats Tuesday. Don't you hate when you have a GREAT idea in your mind but it comes out like crap on your nails. I do.

I had a design in mind that each nail would be full of different Halloween treats.

On my thumb orange and yellow Gobstoppers. 

On my index finger I decided to write TREATS with black.

My middle finger was supposed to look like Red Hots but it actually looks like red little blobs.

My ring finger is very obvious Candy Corn. 

My pinkie was supposed to be those creepy eye candies. 

I used OPI's Atomic Orange and Revlon's Minted, Colorful acrylic paints. 

FAIL FAIL FAIL. I absolutely hated this. So much so that I only did one hand and you can bet your ass I took it off within seconds after taking these pictures. ICK.

Talking about pictures, outside is really dim right now and it would look as if I was taking pictures inside anyways so I just decided that I would use my light box. 

Enjoy yourself

XOXO

Pam <3

Small Haul

Hello Lacquered Lovelies,

Yesterday when shopping for food, I ran across the On The Prowl collection from Wet N' Wild. I begged my boyfriend for $10, which it didn't even come to :P LOL. I got 6 nail polishes, 4 from the On The Prowl collection and 2 from the Wicked Sweet collection. 

I got

-Correction Tape

-Tangled in My Web

-Behind Closed Doors

-Cougar Attack

-Raspberry Rush

-Gimme a Grape Big Kiss

I love the new glitters from Wet N' Wild, they are great. Too bad they are limited edition, GET THEM WHILE YOU CAN!!! I picked mine up from Fred Meyers at 2 for $3. 

Correction Tape is similar to Party Of Five Glitters, only CT has pink, blue, silver and black hex, square, and circular glitters, whereas POFG is red, pink, green, and silver glitters. 

Tangled In My Web is a clear based polish with black hex glitters.

Behind Closed Doors is a black based polish with bright red glitter. Small round glitter and larger hex.

Cougar Attack is a brown based polish jam packed with orange glitter. 

The Wicked Sweet collection was released in the summer and since then my Fred Meyer's had decided to mark the prices down to $1.59 which is an amazing $7.41 mark down. I will surely be going back for more. I have a stash at Fred Meyers hidden with nail polish just for me LOL, no one will ever know well not unless you live near me... Shh. 

Raspberry Rush is a pink-y magenta. Cream finish of course. Scented like raspberries. 

Gimme a Grape Big Kiss is a purple, more of a neon. Cream again. Scented like you guessed it... grape.

I would like to get more Halloween nail colors especially from Sally's... That would make my day. I need a job to be able to do that first.

BE sure to check Fred Meyers for the On The Prowl collection they also have the cute little pumpkins and other Wet N' Wild limited edition products. Like I have said in the past, they mark the products down tremendously. 

Enjoy yourself

XOXO

Pam <3

Nail Mail

Hello Lacquered Lovelies,

I love Nail Mail I truly do. I was woken up to my boyfriends dog barking and surly enough there was something waiting for me on my porch. I had entered a contest a while back from Musings from Manhattan.
She was giving away the OPI Touring America Set, it was bunched in two sets of 6. I was lucky enough to win prize pack two.

-Honk If You Love OPI

-I Eat Mainly Lobster

-My Address Is Hollywood

-A-Taupe The Space Needle

-Uh-oh Roll Down The Window

-French Quarter For Your Thoughts.

I am so grateful for these new nail polishes. Making my OPI collection grow. These are great for the Fall and Winter. 

Again thank you Danielle for having such a wonderful giveaway.

The original post was here, The giveaway winners where here, and finally Musings From Manhattans website. I absolutely love all the posts she has. She is great at reviewing because she is short and to the point <3. 

Quote of the Day: "Hard work does pay off."

Enjoy yourself

XOXO

Pam <3

30 Untrieds Day 12

Hello Lacquered Lovelies,

I had bought a lot of polish back in December almost all of which were nameless, there was only 10 or so, I didn't know the state of the polish all I knew was it was very cheap. $10 for brands like Sally Hansen, Wet N' Wild, and others. 

This Sally Hansen polish was one of the ones without a name. It is a gorgeous red color with a slight golden shimmer to it. Perfectly opaque in two coats, dries within a few minutes. I believe this polish goes for $2.50 at a lot of drugstores. The shimmers really don't transfer to the nail at all which is really weird. 

I feel so drained today and I am sorry for that so not much to talk about with this polish today, I wish :(

Enjoy yourself

XOXO

Pam <3

Top 10 Picks For Fall.

Hello Lacquered Lovelies,

With my most worn summer nail polishes out the way I figured that I would predict what nail polishes that I would most reach for this fall. I will do an actual post about what ones I did chose the most when fall is coming to an end.

These are in no particular order, some I have tried and some I haven't.

Left

Pinkie- Eel Skin by Sally Hansen

Ring- GR8 by China Glaze

Middle- Savage by Sinful Colors

Index- Forever Young by Essie

Thumb- Don't Mess With OPI by OPI

Right

Thumb- Sexy in the City by China Glaze

Index- Skyscraper by China Glaze

Middle- Beetle by Hard Candy

Ring- Facets of Fuchsia by Revlon

Pinkie- Party of Five Glitters by Wet N' Wild

This is what I predict I could totally be wrong but that is why I am going to post at the end of fall and tell you what polishes where grabbed up the most. It may or may not be the same amount of polishes listed above or it may even be more.

Enjoy yourself

XOXO

Pam <3

Jelly Sandwich Thing

Hello Lacquered Lovelies,

I have seen many do what is called a Jelly Sandwich, this is where you take a very sheer nail polish and apply a coat of it and then add a coat of glitter and then put the sheer coat over it again. The glitter is actually sandwiched in the center of the sheer polish. I have seen this done several times with different colors and different polishes.

I decided to give it a go. It came out really well. I like that you can barely see the true colors of the glitter it is all tinted to this red color. 

What I did

I applied three coats of my sheer "jelly" polish to my fingers, Then I added one coat of the glitter. Finally I used one more coat of the "jelly" polish to my nails.

What I used

Beauty Secrets Base Coat

OPI Big Hair...Big Nails

Wet N' Wild Party Of Five Glitters

INM Northern Lights (not shaken)

Enjoy yourself

XOXO

Pam <3