Create the Perfect Barielle Manicure

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Hello lovelies! Today I have a special post for you. Barielle was nice enough to let me pick out some things to create the perfect Barielle manicure! So I picked all the things I would use from start to finish.

 First I started off with Barielle's Extra Gentle Cuticle Minimizer. 

This is easy to apply and, as described, very gentile. You simply apply some to the cuticle area and let it sit for a few minutes then, using the included orange stick, gently push the cuticles back. Any dead skin will instantly come off as well. Once that is all done you just wash your hands with warm water. 

Born Pretty Studs and Straight Nail Vinyl Nail Art

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Hello again! Today I have a little bit of nail art for you all. I’m really quite happy with how this whole thing turned out. Vary rarely do I think of a particular design then have it actually translate the way I pictured it in my mind onto the nail. 

Kerry, Va Va Voom, Solange

Mish Mash Challenge: Book

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Hi loves! Today's Mish Mash Challenge post is going to be short, sweet and to the point. I'm super swamped and going off of only an hour and a half of sleep. Yes I'm still having troubles sleeping, boo to insomnia! For this day of the challenge I knew exactly want I wanted to do as soon as I received an awesome birthday gift from my polish sista! 

Mish Mash Challenge: Triangle

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Hey, hey, hey!! I know I haven't done a Mish Mash Challenge post in several weeks but I'm hoping to keep up with it on a more regular basis from here on out. 

This week we are supposed to do a "Triangle" mani and I actually had a couple things in mind, one of them I just couldn't shake. I have wanted to do a Harry Potter inspired mani since I started blogging but I never find the time or I feel discouraged at my lack of skill in the free hand art department so I give up before I even get started. Once this idea came to me I knew it was perfect and would be simple enough for me to pull off. I took my inspiration from the last book in the HP series; The Deathly Hallows. 

Rainbow Honey Fab Summer Set

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Today I have the Fab Summer Set by Rainbow Honey to show you! When I first saw these colors I felt kinda meh about them, then I wore them. WOW!! These are absolutely stunning shades and really need to be seen on the nail to be truly appreciated! Let's jump into the swatches, shall we? 

L is For Louboutin

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*nothing to disclose

It's Wednesday and you know what that means!! Another ABC Challenge post! Today is the letter L. When this challenge started, I had made out a list for what I wanted to do for each letter. Well I should say I TRIED to make a list, most of my letters have me at a loss, but L was one I knew right away! I have a slight obsession with shoes, not collecting them or wearing them, just looking at them! I use to be a big shoe freak, back in my club hopping days I could rock the highest heals in the worst conditions, rain, sleet, snow, thick sheets of ice, crazy mangled streets, you name it I could do it! (If any of you know what it's like to party on the Landing in Downtown St. Louis you know that even some of the most experienced heel wearing gals have trouble on those crazy cobblestone streets, but I was like a cat!) Then I started working longer hours at the hospital, wearing nothing but tennis shoes and flip flops and partying less. Eventually the deadened nerves in my well trained feet started to regenerate and heels quickly became a thing of the past. Now I just drool over all of the super sexy sky high beauties.Wishing I could manage to pull them off again without the period of torture it takes to grow accustom to them. So my inspiration for this weeks letter, as I'm sure you have guessed by now, is shoes. And not just any shoes but Christian Louboutin's! Über expensive and equally as amazing, known for having some super classy and also super blingie looks and always with the red soles. I only wish I had owned a pair in my crazy heel wearing days. Since I never did, I'll settle for making my stilettos into Louboutin's instead! 

My inspiration

ABC Challenge: D is for Dotticure

 It's week four of the ABC Challenge and I finally have a list made out of what I plan on doing for the rest of the challenge! Woohoo! Now I just hope I can execute them the way I see them in my head! :/ Today I decided on a look I had done a while back, when I was first starting to play with my polish and I hadn't even started my blog yet. I have a picture of it on my first post along with several other crazy looking manis,which you can find here. It's not much of a post really, but a gallery of photos that I had taken and just slapped on to the page, but it's funny to see then vs now! 

Sunday Stamping: Butterflies

As promised I am going to try and do a bit of weekend stamping every other weekend. This is my first attempt at stamping a several months, so I went a little easy. My hubby and I had plans to go to the butterfly house with my mom and niece today, so I decided on simple butterflies. Too bad we never actually made it to the butterfly house! But we did go bowling! ;)