Giveaway!

Good afternoon Ladies!!! How is everyone's Saturday going? Mine is good!
I'll be having my giveaway soon. It will be a scavenger hunt give away. :) I'm only needing 8 more followers. So, tell your friends so we can get the ball on a roll. :)

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DS dupe alert

Good Morning beauties! How is everyone doing today? I'm wonderful! Yesterday I went on a shopping spree at Ulta, here's a photo of all of the goodies I purchased.




Lots of goodies. :) Most of them are for my giveaway, which I have decided to do it at 50 followers! I was originally going to have it at 100 but, its taking so long. Hehe.

In my finds at Ulta, I came across one of their polishes named material girl. In the bottle, it is an exact dupe of OPI DS Extravagance. The DS Extravagance is 12.50 +tax while you can get Ulta Material Girl for HALF of that price at 6.00 +tax.










And I totally forgot to lable which nail was which color but, my Index is Material Girl Middle is DS Extravagance Ring is Material Girl Pinky is DS Extravagance







Can you tell the difference?







Aside from the Ulta brand being less smooth and and having bumpy holo glitter, they are dead on. What do you think?

Thanks for reading.

Spanish word of the day:
Similar - Igual

Pronunciation:
E-gwa-l

Have a great day!

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NOTD: Taped Mani

Good afternoon ladies! How is everyone doing? I'm fine, just a little under the weather but, I'm sure it will pass..
Anyways, I did a taped mani for you all today. I cheated and used craft scissors. The polishes I used were:
*Sinful Colors- neon melon
*Icing- bamboozled
*China Glaze- Techno Teal
*Seche Vite - top coat
*Wet n Wild- Black creme (used for stamping)
*bundlemonster plate-221








Spanish word of the day:
Scissors - Tijeras
Pronounced - Tea-hair-duhs

Thank you for reading. :) Have a good day. :)

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Vote for my son, please. :)

Hello ladies! If you call could take a couple of minutes out of your day to vote for my son, I would appreciate it. :)
Thank you.
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Just search ID#: 243104 and ID#: 243122


If you do, let me know. :)

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NAOTH: bird feathers

Hello ladies. :)
I was going to post this on Monday, but I'm bored at work so, ill post it now. :)
I do not have everything that I used with me so, I'll try to post from memory. :)
I used:
*10 artificial feathers cut into nail shaped pieces (any color works, I purchased teal because it is my favorite color)
*Scissors
*Sally Hansen Xtreme wear in White on
*Seche Vite fast drying topcoat


I started by painting all of my nails with sally hansen white on. Then, I painted 1 nail with the topcoat and after that I applied the feather and sealed it all with 2 thick coats of Seche Vite.
I didn't use any glue, I used the topcoat as a adhesive.





With my peacock ring I purchased from DOTS for $5.



I also have feather earrings and I went and got feathers put in my hair. :)

Has the feather trend sucked you in yet? I just recently caught feather fever. :)
Have you tried this mani? I want to see yours. Post a link in Tue comment box to your feather mani. :)

Spanish daily word:
Feather - Pluma de pájaro
Pluma day pa-har-do

Thank you for reading. :)

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TGIF

Hello my Pretties! How is everyone today? Im good. :) Just super ready for the weekend, which ill be spending by working. :) More money, more polish!

Today I have a very simple mani. It is really good for those days you feel lazy but you still want your nails to look awesome!
I used:
OPI DS Signature
OPI Ink (used for accent finger stamp)
OPI Ink Suede
BN plate 221






Sorry, I took the photos with my phone camera, you can't really see the holoness of Signature.




It's so pretty. :)


Spanish word of the day:
Ice cream - Nieve
Knee-eh-vay
(It's only 11:44am and I've already ate a lot. Ha ha)


Have a wonderful weekend beautifuls. :)

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Mmm.Oreos!

Went to Walmart tonight and found these. Just thought I would share, virtually of course! Ha ha.


Mmmm.

Spanish word:
Cookies - Galletas
Ga-yet-tahs

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My first award. :)

Yay! My first blog award from 3 Bloggers at the same time! I feel special. :) Taylor@ http://nailedtothet.blogspot.com, Paola @ http://princesspoly430.blogspot.com/ and also Connie @ http://mimismanisandotherbeauty.blogspot.com all gave me this award. . Thank you all so much. I feel very special. :D



RULES: You must link back to the person who awarded this to you! Share 7 random facts! Award 15 blogs and Answer the questions listed above! And send the people awarded a comment letting them know!

Questions:

1. Fave Color - Orange
2. Fave Song - Umm...just one? Evanescence- bring me to life
3. Fave Dessert - Peach Cobbler
4. What is pissing you off - My "baby daddy" Lol
5. When you're upset you - Eat
6. Fave Pet - Fish
7. Black or White - White
8. Biggest Fear -Being Alone
9. Best Feature - My lips
10. Everyday Attitude - I joke constantly, I love to see people smile.
11. What is perfection - Being happy with yourself.
12. Guilty Pleasure - Eating my sons potty candy. Ha ha.

7 Random Facts about me:

1. My sister and I have the same birthday, different years.
2. I'm addicted to nail polish. Ha ha. 3. I was raises apostolic
4. I am African American, I learned Spanish practically on my own.
5. I've had my email address for 5 years and I have 36471 unread emails.
6. I love Ramen Noodles.
7. My son and my best friend share the same birthday.

Winners of this award are:
I'm not going to tag anyone because just about everyone I follow has had this award. Sorry.

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Storage

Hi ladies, hope everyone is doing good! I'm awesome. I went dusty hunting today and found a couple of gems. :)
I found (OPI DS signature, OPI congentiality is my middle name, crown me already, OPI ink suede,CG visit me in prism, CG spin me around, OPI at your Quebec and call, CG its my turn, CG grape crush, OPI smitten with mittens, CG kaleidoscope him out, CG he's going in circles, CG let's do it in 3d, CG crystal ball.
Pretty good day huh? I'd say so. Anyways, I just wanted to share something quick. I know a lot of girls use helmers for storage but, this is what I use.


It's a shoe container....or whatever. Ha ha. It was like $12 at Walmart.


How do you store your polishes?

Spanish word of the day:
Have a good day. - Que tengas muy buen dia.
Pronunciation- Kay tain-gus muy bwen di-ah.

Thanks for reading! :)

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Snake skin,my way

Hello beautiful ladies of the world. :) How is everyone doing today? I'm in a pretty good mood because, I found out that I'm going to the shooting range this weekend! Yay! I know....real country huh? Ha ha. This will be my first time shooting my gun since the mister purchased it for me. Which was in March I believe. Anywho..... I don't know if anyone has noticed but, I have acrylic fake nails. Well, I had acrylic fake nails, I took them off last night so I could use my new nail envy that I received from Jen Miller who is in the fb group face and friends with me.


See, they look gross. I has acrylic nails because my nails always peel, split and bend. I have very very weak nails. I have been taking Biotin (3tablets daily) for about a week and I hope these, along with nail envy strengthen them. My natural nails were as long as my acrylic nails and I had to cut them down. So, here are my naked nubbins. :(

On to nail art, I've been seeing the snake skin mani a lot lately and I received my bundlemonster image plates over the weekend and just had to try this mani for myself. :)
Here is my version; I used ;
China Glaze- Digital dawn (tronica)
China Glaze- Mega Bite (tronica)
OPI- You don't know Jacques (base coat)
Seche Vite Dry fast top coat
Image plate- Bm215







I tried to do kind of like mixture of color for the diamond shape.











You can kind of see the color difference but not a lot. It looks pretty cool in person and it was so easy to do! Have you tried this mani yet?

Spanish word of the day:
Snake - Culebra
Pronounced- coo-leh-brah

Thanks for reading. :)

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Against my window (Franken)

Hi ladies! Good morning, after noon, night(depending on where you are). I am in kentucky its a very rainy day. Which has made me feel kind of blah.... So, what do I resort to? Frankening. I had my heart set on making a jelly glitter bomb franken ever since I could remember but never made it.... I don't know why because I have like 15 frankens that I've made since then. Ha ha. So, I was bored listening to the rain..and decided to put this rainy day to use. And I give you," Against my window" (taken from the missy elliot song).


She's made up of 9 different polishes, 6 of those are straight glitter which of going to be a straight PITA to take off. Ha ha.

I used:
Sally girl mini- 812029
Hot topic - holographic glitter
Ulta- Piñata-yada-yada
Nyc - Starry silver glitter
Sally Hansen Xtreme wear- Rockstar pink
Wet'n'Wild- Party of 5 glitters
Orly- Love each other
Essie- Turquoise and caicos
Sally Hansen Xtreme wear- Blue me away











What do you think of it?
I love it. I wish it was either a lighter blue or a royal blue but, I'm going to leave it alone for now.

Spanish word of the day:
Lluvia - Rain
Pronounced you-vi-ah


Have an awesome day. :)

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Enamorandome de ti.

Today, my total is "Enamorandome de ti" which translates to "falling in love with you". Why? Because I'm falling in love with these polishes, I used:
Zoya- Valerie
OPI- You don't know Jacques(accent nail)
China glaze - sex on the beach (layered over you don't know Jacques)
Hard Candy- Matte-ly in love. (Accent nail)



Inside



Outside.



Outside.

First of all, I would have never purchased either the Zoya or the OPI if I had seen them in person.. I purchased Valerie from a blog sale, it was buy 2 get one for free and I chose this Zoya as the free one. I didn't like it but, I thought ehh...I can always sell it. You don't know Jacques was purchased from evilbay, I accidentaly placed an order for it then emailed the seller and told him that I wanted to cancel my order....he sent it anyway. I received it yesterday and I despised it. I thought, who would want this ugly brown and now, what am I going to do with it? So, I emailed the seller, again and told him that I did not want it and what I should do with it... He hasn't wrote me back so, I decided to do an accent nail with it. I thought it would look different out if the bottle. NO! I still hated it. So, I went through all of my polishes to see what I could paint over it because I felt too lazy to remove it. That's when I remembered that I had found this China glaze when I found while I was dusty hunting. It is a very old bottle. I googled its name apparently, there are 2 sex on the beaches that China glaze has made. The other one is a pinkish color. Mine is this color and has this label.

Mine.


Here is the pink Sex on the beach.
Photo courtesy of nailstah.com
Do you see a difference or am I just crazy?

Anyways, if you know anything about this polish, I would like to know more about it. What year it was released? Any information would be helpful. Thank you in advance. :)


Spanish word(s) of the day:
HTF (hard to find)
DPE (difícil para encontrar)

Have you ever ordered a polish that you didn't really like and when you swatch it or layer it, you fall in love with it like I did?

Alsooo,
It's Friday (woohoo!) , what are your plans?
As always, I gave to work, and I think I will go dusty hunting later.

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Sponging

Hello ladies, sorry I've been MIA,but, I'm back. :)
And I have an awesome, well, I think its awesome sponging gradient for you all today. :)
For this, I used:
Nubar- Prize (reddish)
OPI- DS radiance (silver)
China glaze- techno teal(tronica)
Color club- covered in diamonds (can't really see)
Nyc- French White Tip (stamping on accent nail)



I tried to catch the holo-ness but, I couldn't.

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Omg! 1000 followers

Traci has reached (past) 1000 followers, follow her blog.
http://the-trace-face-philes.blogspot.com/2011/07/trace-face-philes-1000-followers.html?m=1

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TraceFace giveaway

Traci is having her 900 follower giveaway.
http://the-trace-face-philes.blogspot.com/2011/07/trace-face-philes-900-followers.html?m=1

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Polish Fixation (Giveaway)

It's her first giveaway. :) 25 follower giveaway, go enter.
http://polishfixation.blogspot.com/?m=0

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Splatter Mani Weekly Challenge (comparison)

Good afternoon! It's Monday and I'm feeling lazy, heck, who am I kidding, I always feel lazy. Ha ha.
Anyways, As some know, I'm in the Facebook group (face and friends) and we have a weekly mani challenge, we have a whole week to come up with a mani. 6 weekly manis are chosen by Jennifer and Ashley and posted in their blog, The Exotic Lacquer. ( http://theexoticlacquer.blogspot.com/2011/07/weekly-challenge.html?showComment=1312233588289#c1210477383620915269) I was lucky enough to win honorable mentions. :) Thank you ladies.
This weeks challenge is SPLATTER! Yay!!! Not. I tried doing the Splatter mani and it was very very unsuccessful. :( But, I sat down lastnight, determined that I would accept it anyway it came out. I've heard different things about straw size and things like that so, I decided to not only do a Splatter mani, but to do a comparison mani, using different straw sizes and different polishes.
*Supplies you will need:
-1 to 100 polishes, it depends on what look you want.
-1 drinking straw. Or coffee stir.
- News Paper.
- Old shirt. (I did somehow manage to get Splatter on my shirt).
- A pair of scissors. (To cut down the straw after every color)

Okay, so, for my manis, I used 3 different straws,
A coffee stir (small), a "margarita" straw (medium), and a large straw (restaurant size).



For my small straw mani, I used:
*OPI- Shorts Story (pink)
*Sally Hansen HD- Cyber (purple)
*Sinful Colors- Rise and Shine (teal)
*Sally Hansen HD- Hue (yellow)




For my medium straw mani, I used:
*Funky Fingers- Kingston (Orange)
*Orly- Purple Crush (pink)
*Nyc- Empire state blue (blue)

milani,



For my larger straw mani, I used:
*Orly- Iron Butterfly (matte,base)
*Milani- Hi-tech (green)
*Milani- Cyberspace ( light blue)
*China Glaze- 3D fantasy (red)
*China Glaze- High Def (darker blue)


Matte, no topcoat.




With shiny topcoat.



Do you see a difference in the splatter effect 3 manis?


Personally, I like the middle mani because of the colors, as far as actually looking like splatted paint, I'll have to go with the first one.
Which do you like best?


Spanish daily word:
Splatter = Salpicar



Thank you. :)

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Blog sale, prices changed.

Hey ladies, I have repriced my blog sale. I'm Sorry that I reposted this, I had to copy and paste this because my phone will not let me edit the original. I will not be posting photos on here. I will, however be more than happy to email you a photo is the polish if you are interested.


Rules:
*I accept paypal only. Using the gift option. No echecks please. Payment will have to be made in 48 hrs or your item will go back on sale
*All polishes are a first come, first serve basis.
*All polishes are sold AS IS and no returns or refunds will be issued.
*If you are still interested by this point, please email me at britniyvaleps(at)yahoo.com. Please make the subject line "blog sale for (your name)"
*Shipping: First item is 2.00 and every additional item will be .50. Insurance can be added, but the purchaser will be responsible for that.
* My prices are flexible, if you feel that something is too high, email me or leave a comment below.
* All polishes are BN unless stated otherwise.

OPI: 6.00
- Glitzerland
- My private jet (3 brown version)
- I'm not really a waitress
- Your royal shine-ness
- Shatter: Turquoise
- Glow up already
- Teenage dream (2)
- Fee fi fo plum ($4.50)

OPI HTF: 9.50
- Down to my last penny (2)
- Glacier bay blues (2)
- Bubble bath

OPI DS: 8.50
- Mystery (2)
- Jewel (2)
- Reflection (2)
- Reserve
- Radiance
- Illuminate

Zoya: 5.25
- Haley
- Starla
- Whitney

China Glaze: 4.50
- Rose among thorns (90%)
- Metropolitan
- Digital dawn

ORLY: 3.50
- Love each other (90%)
- Star Spangled (95%)
- Wandering vine
- Red carpet (95%)

Essie: 4.50
- Dive bar
- Midnight Cami

Color Club: - Wicked sweet collection (scented) 18.00

Wnw: 1.25 - Party of 5 glitters (2)

Happy shopping. :)

Daily Spanish word: Vender = to sell (verb)

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I love your franken mani! (Blueberry clouds) Pic heavy

Hello ladies!
Today I will be putting my spin on the ever popular Franken Friday, mine will be called, "I love your franken mani!"
I will be making a franken and doing a mani with it.
How exciting huh? I know! :)
This will be my longest post about frankening because it is my first post and I want to explain everything I did.
For those who don't know what Frankening is, its a mixture of pigments (even eyeshadow), glitters,and different polishes that you mix yourself. Like DIY with polish. It is very fun and very addictive!

My supplies today were:
*Nyc- skin tight denim creme (15 drops)
*Sally hansen Xtreme wear - Blue me away (1teaspoon)
*Love my nails Chrome - Silver bullet (1/4 teaspoon)
*Love my nails- Milky way (1/4 teaspoon)
*Daisy BBs (2)
* Empty polish bottle (I had to pour an old polish out)
* Jar to pour unwanted polish into,I use an old acetone bottle
(Never pour polish down the drain)
* Napkin, paper towel, old shirt. To protect the table you are working at and to protect your clothes.



Polishes that I used



This is what I use to pour out the polish I am not going to use.



While I was getting the rest of my supplies ready.



After adding a little bit of acetone to the bottle and shaking it up. Always remember to clean the brush and neck of the bottle. Mine was clean with only one time. You might have to clean a bottle more, or less depending in how light or lark the original polish was.


All of the polishes poured into the empty polish bottle.
This is where I add my BBs aka ballz. Then, I shake roll shake! And here is the end result.




Blueberry clouds.




Blueberry clouds swatched. I really like how it turned out.

Now, on to the mani.
Supplies:
*Born pretty plate m02
*Finger Paints- Black expressionism
*China Glaze- High def (Tronica)
*Nicole by OPI- Give me the last dance
* My franken- Blueberry clouds

I did a simple taped mani with a stamp going down the seam.
Be sure to press your tape against your skin to make it less sticky. Using the tape without using this method could rip off your polish.




Then, I removed the tape and stamped the flower design on it from image plate m02 using Nicole by OPI give me the last dance.



What do you think?
Thank you for reading!

Spanish daily word:
Viernes = Friday
TGIF!

Now, I'm off to work.
What do you usually do on fridays?

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