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Owl Always Love You

[custom_buttons_shortcode] I was in the mood for playful nails so I dug into my stash of nail decals for something cutesy. A while ago I had a giveaway that went bad because the company that sponsored it (moon sugar decals) never mailed my winner their prize. But since then, the company got a new guy running the show and he made it right by sending the winner her goodies months after the fact. He…

I’m still an AVON lady which means I’m stocked to the brim with AVON nail polishes! I seriously love AVON Nailwear, I almost have to make myself wear other brands because I’m always reaching for my AVON stash.  I think it’s because I really like their brush and formulas. They also last me about 5 days without chipping, which is pretty good. My nails are bendy so they usually chip pretty fast with…

Sugar Sweet Incoco and my ring

[custom_buttons_shortcode] When Valentines Day is around the corner don’t you feel impelled to wear little hearts on your nails? Well, the SWEET ROMANCE collection from Incoco fits that bill perfectly. I love the teeny tiny multicolor heart pattern on this design called Sugar Sweet… If you haven’t tried nail strips because you’re intimidated you really should check out Incocos. Once you put them…

OMG- it’s really me!

Hey blogosphere! Did you forget who Craftynail was? Did you shun me and write me off your list forever? Well, I’m still here.  And I miss adding nail pics to my little corner of the web. But you should know that I’m still reading everyone elses’ blogs! I just haven’t had much time to write in my own.  I was blogging consistently for 3 straight years, but somehow it has taken a backseat in my…

Halo Geo Stamped Nails

[custom_buttons_shortcode] My last post was a review of Dermelect’s new fall collection and I said my favorite of the bunch was a rose gold chrome polish called Halo.  I really wanted to wear Halo again after I did my swatches, and this is the nail design I came up with. I wore this for at least a week straight I liked it so much! Unfortunately I had a dramatic event with a naughty stray dog over…

Dermelect ‘ME’ Inner Wild Fall 2015 Collection

[custom_buttons_shortcode] Today I’d like to show you a new 4 piece Fall 2015 collection from Dermelect called Inner Wild. Inner Wild is the newest edition to the Dermelect ME Lacquer Collection which touts a unique anti-aging peptide-infused formulation… The first coat instantly bonds to the nail, while the second fuses with the base coat to create a flexible web of color that resists chipping…

New Metallic Fringe from AVON

AVON recently released a new special top coat called Metallic Fringe.  There’s 5 different ones to choose from, and they’re all clear coats with bar glitter in them. I picked up FRINGED & FRAYED which has white and gold glitters. In these pics I’m wearing Fringed & Frayed over a green Nailwear Pro+ called Noir Emerald.  To be honest, I wasn’t quite sure if I like bar glitter or not.  I haven’t…

Made in America by Incoco

These are the nails I wore to the county fair this past summer.  This Incoco design is called Made In America. I never get tired of Incoco nail appliques.  They always look awesome!  Also, I love how the largest nail strip in each pack fits my big toe perfectly, so when I do an Incoco manicure I can do a semi-pedi to match…. What do I mean by a semi-pedi?  Well, Incoco gives you 8 different sizes…

OPI Just Lanai-ing Around

Yup, I know…I haven’t posted in a bit. But I’m here and I’m still kickin! Reason is, I got a little burnt out from our big July nail challenge! But I’m still painting my nails and I want to show you a color I was wearing last week. It’s OPI Just Lanai-ing Around from the Hawaii collection.  When I got the collection I wasn’t really feeling this color at all. The dusty pink shade just didn’t seem…

Ruby Wing Sweet Rose

I love novelty nail polishes! So when the bookstore (I work at a University) had a 40% off sale I snatched up two Ruby Wing polishes which change color in the sun.  I grabbed a purple for my mom and a pink for me.  My mom LURVED the purple one, and I was impressed with my pink too! Mine’s called Sweet Rose . Let’s see what it looks like! It needed three coats to get good coverage which made it…

I don’t wear french manis often enough. And my favorite kinds are funky frenchies. Like dis- I went for a yellow and blue polka dotted frenchie this time! That’s all for today, I’m still recovering from our July Nail Challenge so I don’t feel like typing a lot.  But I have a guest post coming up soon over at Roaring Nails… and I have some product reviews to do. So I’ll be back in the swing before…

Winners of the #omd3nails challenge!

  Thank you so much for all of the wonderful entries, the time you took participating, sharing, creating and enjoying the Oh Mon Dieu challenge! Can you believe it – we had almost 2000 verified raffle entries!  And now to wrap things up, the prize winners have been drawn! Also, If you’ve been following along with our challenge make sure to read through to the end where we list some fun stats on…

#mynailsandmybag for #omd3nails Day 30

This is my last catchup post for the Oh Mon Dieu Part Three Challenge! Phew I had quite a month, but I did it! All 31 days! The bag I’ve been using recently is a ‘Red by Marc Ecko’ bag in teal. I really wanted a teal bag for some reason. So I turned to ebay and won this cute little number! The nails I did to match it are Incoco nail strips in Summer Dream. And I did an accent nail with silver…

LOVE PINK NAILS for #omd3nails Day 18

Quickie post to catch up another prompt I missed for #omd3nails. This one is LOVE and I kept thinking ‘love pink’,  that Victoria’s Secret motto. I’m not even sure what that even means, but their marketing ploys have worked because it stuck with me! lol Since my theme of today’s nails wound up being LOVE PINK I figured I’d do a skittles mani using a few pink polishes that I’ve been oogling…

SHOE INSPIRED NAILS for #omd3nails Day 17

CaTcH uP pOsT! I missed day 17 SHOES of OMD3 but I didn’t wanna skip it! I’ve been wearing these shoes all summer and I really wanted to do nails to match them.  This brand is called VIONIC. Have you ever heard of them?  Their shoes are sold on QVC and in the Footsmart catalog- that’s where I first saw them anyway.  All their shoes have what they call ‘orthaheel’ technology.  Which basically…