February Mini Haul

Hey everyone! Here's a mini haul that I did for this month on a few items I purchased myself or received as a gift! I'm off to Walmart tomorrow so I should have a few other goodies to show you guys.

I'm also going to try and do more videos, they seem to make life simpler for me haha, aside from always figuring out what to say! Let me know what you guys think!

NOTW - Nails of the Week

Hey everyone! So I've gotten back into the swing of painting my nails. Here's what I did this week for a quick mani for at the office. Just switched things up by painting my ring finger a different color.

Here are the products I used:
Essie - All in One Base
Essie - Chinchilly
OPI - Feelin' Hot-Hot-Hot!
Seche Vite - Dry Fast Top Coat

NOTW

Okay so last weeks nails didn't stay on too long. I got stressed out and ended up peeling them off :/ Another bad habit of mine when I'm either bored or stressed out!

Don't forget to enter my giveaway! There's still 5 more spots remaining before I hold the draw!

This week I received my order from Amazon which contained the full set of China Glaze crackle polishes. Aside from trying to contain my excitement at the office and paint my nails then and there, I had to wait until I got home from a dinner to try them haha. In the end it was well worth the wait! I ended up taking a really bold blue (OPI's Ogre-The-Top from the Shrek collection) and paired it with the black crackle polish (Black Mesh).

I really love the effect the crackle polishes give and I can't wait to try out the other five colors!

The five colors consist of Lightning Bolt (white), Crackled Concrete (grey), Black Mesh (black), Crushed Candy (blue teal), Broken Hearted (hot pink) and Fault Line (purple).

The combinations with these polishes are endless and you'll never get the same design twice! How it crackles depends on the thickness and amount of polish you apply to your nails. It's really fun to apply it and watch it dry. The crackle effect looks like shrinking plastic. Really neat stuff!

What I really like about these polishes is that you can take your boldest colors like neon yellow or a really hot pink and it won't be so overwhelming with the crackled effect on top of it. It's still a wow factor without your nails making someones eyes bleed by being too bright haha! I have a really bright neon yellow polish that I've been worried about wearing to the office. It's not exactly an every day shade. But paired with one of the crackled polishes and I've got a cool new look that I can pull off!

Giveaway - OPI Shattered Nail Polish!!!

Hey everyone! So I'm going to do a giveaway when I reach 25 subscribers. But to do that I need your help!

I'll be giving away the new OPI Shattered nail polish which is part of the new Katy Perry collection! It's an amazing polish that pretty much crackles on top of the color you apply to your nails. It gives a really cool look and it's the latest trend too haha!

Please note that I will be purchasing the giveaway prize myself, so it's coming out of my own pocket for you guys! It's not sponsored in any way shape or form.

Giveaway rules are pretty simple, you just need to do the following:

1. Subscribe to my blog
2. Leave me a comment (It can be anything, like a product to review or just to say hi!)
3. Must be at least 13 years old to enter. If you are under 18 years old, please make sure you have your parent's permission to enter and to provide your mailing address if you win. I will need your address to ship you your prize. I will be shipping internationally so this giveaway is open to EVERYONE!

I'll post and tweet the winner's name. The giveaway will start when I reach 10 subscribers and I will pick the winner 7 days afterwards. I will contact the winner by messaging them so please be sure to check your messages!

If I message the winner and they don't reply within 72 hours then I will randomly choose another winner so please check your messages or Twitter for updates!

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NOTW

Hey everyone! So I'm trying to get better at doing my nails, trying different designs and patterns, colors etc so I figured I might as well do a Nail of the Week (NOTW) with photos of what I've done for the week.

I recently went into Pharmaprix and they had a whole bunch of nail polishes on sale and on liquidation. Of course, for the price I had to pick up a few haha! I'm obsessed with OPI, whether it's the Nicole, Sephora or regular brand.

During my hunt, I found a cute mini set of reds, I'm guessing it's a holiday set or something because it was originally 12.99$ and I bought it for 4$. That's cheap for 3 Nicole by OPI minis! As well, I also found this weird kind of grey that's supposed to be matte with small glitter. Which for this I don't understand, what's the point of a matte polish if it has glitter in it, doesn't that defeat the purpose? Anyways, the color was cute and it was on liquidation for 5$ instead of 11.99$ so I swiped that too!

Lastly, they weren't on liquidation but my mom had asked me to find her cute neutral colors that were on sale, and low and behold, Rimmel was on sale for like 3$ off. I paid 3.99$ for each of the polishes, but can't remember how much they originally cost. It was a good deal none the less!

So I bought 3 Rimmel polishes, a neutral white/pink (From their manicure collection and can't remember the name), a reddish brown one called Hot Cocoa and a purple/brown color called Steel Grey. I thought they were all super cute and in the end my mom only wanted the pink one so I kept the other two.

Right now I have a mix of Essie's Turquoise and Caicos and Sephora by OPI's Only Gold For Me. It's cute and glittery and festive enough for me to celebrate my birthday this weekend up north! Sorry that the picture is a bit blurry :/ My camera decided it didn't want to be nice tonight!

What are you guys wearing on your nails now? And any good tips on how I can go about stopping biting my nails? It's mostly derived from boredom or when I'm nervous. And I know I shouldn't do it...but I still do and my fingers pay the price for it....ouch!