a-england Briarwood Skittlette

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Hello all. No challenges today, just a fabulous polish. This was my first true autumn manicure of the season.

Skittles! Marbled and Stamped

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Hi all. I've done a couple of skittlette manicures, but I've never shared a true skittles manicure on here. Today I remedy that. It has been very cold and grey around here and a colorful manicure was in order.

A Few of My Favorite Things Giveaway!

Pin It Apparently my husband thinks I sound like Oprah with this giveaway title . . . I don't remember; is that what she called her giveaways? I am certainly not Oprah, or else I would be giving this to all of my followers. I can only give out two prizes packages this time. Maybe when I win the lotto . . . I probably have to start playing the lotto though. Moving on.

Since I began blogging, I have collected some of my favorite manicure products. I have talked about some of these on here, but I wanted to really share them with you. This is two giveaways in one. Only US residents are eligible for Prize A or US residents could select Prize B, which is opened internationally. You must be a GFC follower of this blog, you must choose a prize and you must provide an email address to be eligible to win.

Entries will be accepted until Monday, July 23.

Prize A:

New bottles (L-R):  Nfu Oh 51, Sonia Kashuk Fairy Princess,  Aili's Violet Dream (a franken by me), China Glaze  Surfin' For Boys, and Sinful Colors Green Ocean

New containers of Badger Cuticle Care and JASON Natural E.F.A. Hand & Body Lotion

Prize B:

A set containing 12 floral water decals, 2 packages of nail stickers (14  stickers in each)

3 new stamping plates

A set containing 16 gold nail foils

a Rafflecopter giveaway

All products are new and were bought by me. The winners will be selected within a week following the end of the giveaway and notified by e-mail. Winners must respond to e-mail within 48 hours or a new winner will be selected.

Good luck!
~Alexis

A Wine-Tasting Fairy Princess

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Hello. I hope that you all are doing well today. I have lots of pictures for you today. I was wearing this really fun manicure for a really fun wine-tasting bachelorette party. I love the little grapes on the shimmery background of Sonia Kashuk Fairy Princess. Fairy Princess was a very thick and hard to apply. I actually got frustrated and added three drops of nail polish thinner to the bottle and that fixed the application problems completely, but you can see my middle finger in the picture above is not as smooth as I would have liked. The middle finger was painted before thinning the polish and the ring finger was painted after thinning the polish. I added a coat of Melissa to my ring fingers which just gave a bit of a frosty, shimmery green finish to those nails.

I stamped all nails with bornprettystore plate m71, a floral pattern in Revlon Minted and stamped over that with the grape pattern from bornprettystore plate M71 using Revlon ColorStay Amethyst and Sally Hansen Emerald City. I have been very pleased with the performance of ColorStay polishes for stamping lately.

With my nails ready to face a day full of wineries, I hit the road with a bunch of my favorite girls. I loved the view from this winery, the grape vines and then the lake in the background. It was an absolutely beautiful day in every way!

Noble Winery, Westfield, NY

I removed the polish after five days of wearing it, one day after the wine tour. You can see that there is one big chip on the middle finger and some chipping on my index finger, but the manicure quickly deteriorated after taking this picture. I spent the day at the beach, finding sea glass in the sand with my daughter.

Day 5

Sunset at Lake Erie

I am wearing a very traditional, pretty manicure right now, Julep Kelly. It is pretty beat, so I'll post about it in a day or two.

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What do you think of coordinating your manicure with a special event or holiday? If you've done it, what was the event and what did your manicure look like?

~Alexis