Halloween Nail Art Challenge: Day 1- Pumpkin

Hello Lovelies! Can you believe it's October already? I am so excited, this is when it finally starts to cool down in Arizona. I decided to enter into two different nail art challenges this month, also showcasing pink manis every Wednesday for Breast Cancer awareness! You'll also see my blog went pink for October, this will be a busy month for glitznglammer and I can't WAIT!

I have pumpkin tips instead of the typical Jack O'Lantern! I took this idea from Rebecca likes nail's with her apple tips, I loved it so much, I turned it into pumpkins instead!
For this I used an unnamed Bonita in orange, I got this as a set at Ross for only $4.99 so it was totally worth it! I used different nail art brushes from my mash brush set to get into detail. I used another unnamed Bonita in yellow, China Glaze- Holly Day, and OPI Gargantuan green grape for the vine, I can't think of the brown off of the top of my head I used to make the "stem"

I'm so excited to be in these challenges, it will really give me a chance to get creative! Are you joined in any challenges this month?

I hope you enjoy! Until Next Time!
-Sammi

We Stamp on Sundays- French tip design!

Hello and Happy Sunday! I'm so excited to show you the mani I created for todays Stamping Challenge. I'm in a group called Adventures in Stamping and the girls in the group are so wonderful and have so many great ideas. Today's challenge is a french tip design. I went searching and searching for the plate I wanted to use, I finally decided to use one of the new cheeky plates I got in the mail. I found the plate I wanted, but now I needed to pick my color scheme. Since we are going into October, and it's pink october, what else could I choose? So I instantly grabbed my favorite pale pink in my stash. Essie- Raise Awareness. And what more fitting then a polish created for Breast Cancer Awareness.

Now for stamping colors, I chose such a delicate pink so I didn't want to go too overboard, but what I ended up doing next, was overboard. And guess what? I loved it! I used Sally Hansen- Insta-dri in presto pink and Sinful colors Snow me White to do a gradient over Raise Awareness. I did this using the sponge method that my friend Jennifer over at Little J's Nail Corner gave me the run down on. If you haven't checked her blog out, it's a must! This was the first time for me doing a gradient and I thought it came out pretty good!
On my ring finger I used Cheeky plate CH24 to do a french tip design, but I didn't want to do this on every nail. So I added polka dots with my dotting tools in the same color I stamped with, Sally Hansen- Insta-Dri in Silver Sweep, and did this on my remaining nails. But of course, I couldn't stop there. I used my XL cheeky plate b to add bows in white to the polka dotted fingers, and to finish I added rhinestones from bornprettystore into the center of the bows!

I hope you've enjoyed today's Sunday Stamping!

Don't forget to enter my 50 follower giveaway here!

Until Next Time!
-Sammi

Nail Mail Part 2!

Hello everyone! And hello new faces to glitznglammer:) I have some good stuff for you today. Now I wasn't necessarily planning to do a part 2 of my nail mail, but when I got home today I found some pretty awesome things awaiting me in my mail box that I thought you all would appreciate;) Let's take a look shall we?

First up is, yup, the best of them all, I received my order from Sunny, the creator of 365 Days of Color This bit of mail included my mini collection, but one of you lucky readers mini collection also arrived with it, safe and sound.

The second package that was in my box was my order from Head2Toe Beauty this contained some China Glazes- Fast Track (I LOVE Essence- Irreplacable and since it is discontinued, I thought I'de pick up its somewhat twin) Sweet Hook, and the two crackles, Cracked Medallion, and Tarnished Gold are for a swap with gin:) She knew I was getting these for her, since they were number one on her list, the others are a secret;) I can't wait to send her her package of GOODIES!

Lastly, is not exactly nail mail. But I wanted to add something in for getting to 100 followers within 2 days of posting my 50 follower giveaway! So to spoil a second person, I picked up 2 polishes from the Fantasy Makers Halloween collection, Once Upon A Time, and Nails in the Coffin.

I hope you've enjoyed part 2 of my nail mail. Until Next Time!
-Sammi

Nail Mail!

Happy Friday loves! I have a quick post for tonight, I'll be spending time with the family tonight! I received cheeky nail plates and mash brush set from Amazon yesterday and I wanted to post it for yáll! I opted out of getting the new cheeky summer set, I didn't like a lot of them so I ordered the original 2012 set instead and right out of the package I loved them! I will be using them in my post for We stamp on Sunday for Sunday so stay tuned for that!

I had seen Sarah from Chalkboard Nails do a review on the mash 15 piece nail brush set, and I've been in desperate need of a good cleanup brush, and for $9.99 on amazon, how could I pass that up?

I hope you enjoyed my nail mail! Do you have either of these? What do you think about them?

Don't forget to enter my giveaway here if you haven't already! I'll be adding a new surprise in the next couple of days for hitting 100;)
Until next time!
-Sammi

Hearts & Daggers- Solar Powered!

Hello Lovelies and Happy Thursday! WOW. Again, Wow! 100 followers, I think I'm gonna need to add a surprise to the giveaway for this;) You all have shown me so much love in just the few days it has been up! Thank you so much! It tickles my heart strings:)

Enough sappy talk, on to the post! Today I have, what I think is my favorite combo thus far. (I say this a lot as I try new things if you haven't noticed;)) I used two coats of China Glaze- Solar Power, which had quit excellent formula especially for a yellow, I had streaking when I wasn't careful but other than that it was a dream! I then used two coats of Pretty&Polish Hearts & Daggers, which is a clear base mixture of black and white bar and hex glitters,black diamond glitters, red hearts (YES I SAID RED HEARTS<3) and sparse holo glitters. I think I'm a little obsessed with heart and star glitters in my polishes. Followed by one coat of Seche Vite. I did get a tad bit of bubbling on my middle finger, I think I was being super impatient!

I loved this so much, it reminded me of Alice in Wonderland, Queen of hearts. It was so perfect. I had seen a combo similar to this on Tracie, The TraceFace Philes a few months ago, so of course when I got my grubby hands on a similar glitter, I had to try it!

What do you think of this color combo? Until next time!
-Sammi

Fantasy Makers Halloween Collection 2012

Picture this: Your walking down the aisle at CVS, and you run into a girl, who looks about 7 month pregnant with a 3 year old in a cart. Trying her hardest, jumping up and down to get the last polish in the nail polish display, which just so happens to be on the top shelf (mind you this girl is about 4'9) You see her struggle, she grabs it, and has the biggest damned smile on her face like she has just accomplished the friggin' olympics. Yup, that's right. You pictured me. I was on a mission. I had gone to three different CVS's with no luck, all of them sold it. I went to my last stop and frantically scowered the aisles. And there it was, staring me in the face, the two polishes to the front were Once Upon A Time, and Nails in a Coffin. I stood on my tip toes and there it was, laying on it's side was Rest in Pieces. I jumped up and down till I finally grabbed it. I felt so accomplished. To be honest, never in my life have I ever wanted a collection this badly. For $2 a bottle, who couldn't?! (I opted out of the glow in the dark, because I have two other glow in the dark polishes which I have never touched) I went to the checkout and practically skipped to the car with my son. This was the best day of my life.

Enough about my adventure, let's see some polishes! First up I have is Rest in Pieces. A black jelly base with purple shimmer throughout. My pictures are a little blurry but I was trying my hardest to get the shimmer to be shown in pictures.

This polish surprisingly had GREAT formula, 2 coats was perfect with a coat of Orly Sec N Dry to top it off.

Next in the line up is Nails in the Coffin. A black jelly base with bronze and silver shimmer throughout, this one was really hard to photograph. You'll see half of the pictures are unfocused and the others are not, I was trying to get the shimmer to show thouroghly. I tried so I apologize if you can't really see it. This is two coats with a coat of Orly Sec N Dry.

I saved my favorite for last, Rest in Pieces. A black jelly base packed full of red hexes and small red glitters. I loved this and wore it as a full mani after I got my swatches done. This is 3 coats with a coat of Orly Sec N Dry.

Will you be grabbing any of these polishes this year? They were a joy to work with and so glad they were added to my collection.

Don't forget to enter my 50 follower giveaway here!

Until next time!
-Sammi

Kbshimmer- Midsummer's Night

WOW. All I can say is wow, and thank you all so much. I have had an over whelming response to the giveaway. I am more than excited for the next few weeks to come, I have some exciting things planned for the future!

Today I have KBshimmer- Midsummer's Night. This was part of her neon collection, which was released at the beginning of the summer. As soon as I found kbshimmer I knew I would instantly love them, and that I have. I now own 6 with a few more on the way. Midsummer's Night is a almost magenta colored base with white, blue and pink hex with a few holographic glitters, and the best part, STAR GLITTERS. yup, that's right, STAR glitters:) could it get any better than that? For my swatch you will see that it's a little rough around the edges, meaning it was a little thick, but very manageable.

Shown is two coats of Midsummer's Night, followed by one coat of gelous, and two coats of Seche Vite. I wore this about a month ago, my nails were the perfect length:( I am slowly getting them back to this lenth, digging into boxes all day will surely kill your nails!

You can find KBshimmer on her website here or on her etsy page here. I highly recommend them!

Also, don't forget to enter my 50 follower giveaway to win the entire mini Hocus Pocus collection by 365 days of color here!

Until next time!
-Sammi