A Girl Obsessed: Nail Polish Giveaway!
Update! We have a randomly selected winner! Thank you to the many many many of you who are as obsessed with nail polish as I am. I’m glad you’re here. I have a feeling we’ll be playing around with more nail polish giveaways in the future! Love to you!
I am a girl obsessed.
I’m a girl obsessed with butter and sugar. I’m a girl obsessed with my cat, and the cats of others. I’m mildly obsessed with doughnuts. I’m becoming obsessed with beer making. I’m totally obsessed with my bike. I’m newly obsessed with wearing a bike helmet.
And I’m bonkers obsessed with pretty nail polish and wacko nail design. I’m. So. Into it!
I want to share my obsession with you…. that’s why today’s giveaway is four pretty NAIL POLISHES! Let’s get those finger nails lookin’ right! We’re pretty and we know it (but we’re totally not snobby… just happen to be pretty, right?)(Pfffftt).
Click on in here, there’s lots of nail inspiration to be had.
To enter this giveaway, please leave a comment below detailing your favorite nail color combination this season. I’m into glitter. It’s major. Comments close Sunday August 14th at midnight. Winner will be announced next week. Win pretty colors!
Gradual glitter. So easy to do! A little on the thumb, a bit on the index finger….more and more, and pile it on the pinky.
Bling!
Grey and bright pink with a silver stripe!
I had a nice manicure lady do this for me. I don’t have that steady a hand.
Goth. No biggie.
I’m getting closer and closer to having DMV employee nails. I’m so excited!!
Inspired Inspiration!
Cindy’s Half Moon Mani.
Hey, Nice Nails! Crazytown nail art. Go big.
Fashion inspire Tye-die nails!
4 on 1 nails. ps. Love this blog.
How about some Sophisticated Bling?
Straight Foxy!
Get your obsession going! It’s time.
Have a wonderful weekend, friends!
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Love them all! I especially love Essie shades ~ hope I win :)
I am OMG obsessed with “bling on the ring”. Solid colors on all but a glittery ring finger. Love it!
pretty boring, but nude is rocking my boat this season. Also newspaper nails. :)
Newspaper nails? Details, please!
After listening to your podcast, I’ve become reobsessed with painting my nails! I’m loving lavender with gradual glitter tips. So fun!
I work with kids all day, and they always notice my nails, so I like to change it up often to keep things fun and interesting! Lately, I’ve been switching between bright jewel tones like corals, turquoises, and muted purples and pinks. My kiddos never notice a new pair of shoes or top, but they always notice a new shade of nail polish!
Love your nails! My birthday is this week and you’ve inspired me to try something fun and different. I’ve been a pinup starlet vintage red pedi kinda girl with natural fingernails for the longest. Though I did go through a SERIOUS metallic silver phase a couple years ago, which included a couple bottles of glitter polish like your fave tazmanian devil above. Reminds me of stardust! Last summer I was struggling to find my groove in lap swimming, and the day I went from my typical red toes to a sleek gunmetally dolphin grey, everything clicked! Of course, it HAD to be the polish. As an aside, coming up with the names for nail polish (and other cosmetics) would be the Best. Job. Ever. You’re a doll to share your obsession through a giveaway! XOxO!
hot hot hot hot pink on my toes, tiffany blue on my fingers!
Hi… I’ve been thinking about turquoise and a bit of glitter scattered around. For some odd reason I went & bought two shades of purple. A really dark dark one and a light shiny glittery one. Have no idea whether purple is in even.. :)
Love Essie! That’s my favorite brand of nail polish. I’m really into purple latley with a shimmery layer over the top.
I love the new Sally Hanson stick on nail polish… its like an instant manicure without any mess!!
That looks like a ton of fun. My nails are currently really short (it’s all of the dishwashing and what not while I’m canning), but I’d totally do fun things with my nails the rest of the year.
I am loving white nail polish with different colored dots on each finger. Right now I have dots in different shades of pink!
I’m loving lilac for summer….I plan on transitioning to deeper purples (plums and eggplants) for fall!
I know it’s not original but for me it’s ALL about GLITTER! Chunky glitter, fine glitter…glitter of all colors. My thirteen year old is obsessed with changing her nail color every couple days so we have little pow-wows on the living room floor with about fifty bottles of polish scattered everywhere. AH, I love the smell of remover in the morning!! :)
I love classic colors, reds, pinks, but they have to be bold. I’m not into pastels.
I used to think that my fingernails looked weird painted. And then I turned 30 and came into myself and now I’m L.O.V.I.N.G it. Right now I’m totally into really dark blue, like a midnight or navy, and dark purple, like a plumb or eggplant. I have yet to find the perfect purple, but the blue I found is on point! Now if I could just find time to paint my nails between single-mommyhood, work, a new serious (and amazing) relationship, and cleaning the house! OH… and making a pie. xxoo.
Purple and green like pansies…
When I was younger, I used to use those little multi-color sparkles because it’s always been so super cool! However, those sparkles have run out. So, my current favorite is a soft lavender color and I sometimes use these light, almost clear sparkles over almost anything!
I’m currently sporting – and loving – gold polish underneath silver “shatter” polish.
My favorite nail look is “newsprint nails”.
As a voracious reader I pretty much always have my head in a bood – so words on my nails seemed the next step! Here is how:
- Apply two coats of your favorite nailpolish colour.
- Cut individual strips of newspaper to cover each nail
- Soak a nail in vodka for about 10 seconds (You can also use rubbing alcohol – but for some reason I always have more vodka? hrmmm)
- Remove nail from vodka and firmly press on newspaper. Make sure you don’t slide the newspaper around – the nailpolish underneath could smoosh! Press firmly – takes a couple of seconds for the print to transfer.
- Remove newspaper from nail.
- Repeat for remaining nails.
- Cover with topcoat (MOST IMPORTANT! Without topcoat all will be lost!)
Hope you try this! It’s so much fun… though inevitably people try to read your nails all day!
and by always have my head in a bood I clearly mean book!
Sheesh – apparently next time I try this on my nails I should use pages out of a dictionary!
I love Deborah Lippman’s Candy Shop layered over a Essie’s Ballet Slippers.
Kelly green and bright peach.
Love those colors! I have always been a fan of glitter, but I am just not as creative with my nails. I guess it might be because I do not have steady hands, oh well… love the colors!
Pale pink is my new fave. It’s neutral yet girly nail and I love it. I was into layering 2-3 coats of pure silver glitter or pink glitter on my nails, but it just chips so darn easily! Pale pink wins, especially looking so good with gray sweaters. Pale pink is my way of telling fall, you can come now, I am ready.
lavender on fingers and coral on toes – like dipping your feet into the sea and running your hands through a meadow :)
Hey Joy-
So I brought in one of your pics to my nail salon hoping they could re-create the french with the red, silver and pink swoop on the ring finger. After 3 failed attempts by the tech, she told me not to bring in pics that had clearly not been done by hand and that my nails were “too short” to work with. I tried to be understanding and didn’t feel like fighting with her so I just told her if she couldn’t do it like the pic, then just please remove it… she did.. she seemed pissed a little embarassed that she couldn’t do it like your pic. I’m a little sour about it but if I win the giveaway I can practice on myself :) cheers!
Please declare the winner soon. I keep coming back everyday to check, just in case i won. The suspense is killing me….
LOVE those striped grey-and-pink ones! I don’t think I could manage such an even line, but might get those at a professional nail salon.
i love the tasmanian glitter polish! where can i get some of that?
I love bright orange or hot pink polish. If you like glitter, you should try painting your nails with clear polish and then shaking a whole bunch of glitter on the still wet nails. The bling factor cannot be beat!
Wow, I’m 66 and never been into nail polish much – tried but working in my yard, etc. never went well with polish but I absolutely love that Tasmanian Glitter. I’ll check again to see where I can buy it. I’ll be checking back here more often.
Yaay, I love nail polish almost as much as baking, win win! My favourite polish is that of the holographic variety. It’s pretty much rainbows for your nails – check my last mani out here if you’re so inclined: http://i.imgur.com/iJeMz.jpg
Thanks for the giveaway Joy!
Periwinkle blue
I’m newly obsessed with glitter! While visiting family in Idaho, my sister introduced us to what she calls Glitter Nails. Some crazy lady up there claims to have a special technique for covering the entire nail in glitter & then charging you $30 just for glitter. :-/ Crazy!! So my sister (crazy like a fox!) drove herself down to the local craft store & bought a Martha Stewart glitter multi-pak & had the entire family decked out in glitter nails in only minutes. The possibilities are endless!!
All I have to say is: Newspaper Nails.
I love different shades of brown, especially in the fall!
loving sally hansen stick on prints. zebra especially!
Glitter, glitter, glitter – always the glitter!
Ah! YAY!! Thanks for notifying me via Twitter!!!!!
My fave colour combo is deep purple and torquise
I love doing the “jelly sandwich” manicure, or a glitterbomb!!! Great giveaway! Thanks! :)
I love doing a french tip with gold sparkly polish. It’s so easy to do, and no one can tell i its put on straight or not, so it only takes a couple of minutes! Adding a final clear coat makes it last longer and perfect for the summer!
These pcs of nail artt look good. Do you know some webs where is more sample? I ve found only: Nail Art designs
I am loving the glitter right now!!
Joy! I’m obsessed with Merino Cool from Essie. That’s by far my go-to-color in all seasons! Simple, elegant, yet making it presence known :)