NOTD: OPI Sand in My Suit

Okie Dokie!  So I decided since I am not able to go to the beach (due to all this oil spill nonsense) I would bring the beach to me.  Through my nails haha.  So I went with a polish I recently received for my birthday, OPI Sand in My Suit.  I love it!!  It was a gorgeous color that made my hands and nails look amazing.  

So here it is!

I used three coats of Sand in My Suit for this manicure.  Along with NailTek Foundation II as a base and the Sally Hansen Insta Dry Top Coat.

So there ya go!  As I said this color was absolutely gorgeous and I recommended it to quite a few of my friends.  I hope you all enjoyed my NOTD and are having a wonderful day!

With Love,

        nail newby

Birthday Haul (pic heavy... beware!!)

So onto all of the polishy goodness I received for my birthday!!!

Okay so these first couple of pics were gifts to myself hehe

From Left to Right-  Mary Kay Signature Polish in Golden Ruby

Mary Kay Signature Polish in Whipped Pink

Icing Nail Polish in Hello Yellow

Icing Nail Polish in Lilly

More gifts to myself

Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure in Calypso Blue

Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure in Pedal to the Metal

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Nail Color in Blue Me Away!

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Nail Color in Celeb City

These were actually gifted to me by my older sister

China Glaze in V

China Glaze in Chiaroscuro

China Glaze in Camisole

Also gifted to me by older sister

China Glaze in Something Sweet

China Glaze in Pink Voltage (Neon)

China Glaze in Avalanche 

China Glaze in Black Diamond

Early gifts from my mom

Sephora by OPI in Metro Chic

Sephora by OPI in What's A Tire Jack?

Sephora by OPI in Read My Palm

Gifts from my parents and grandparents

OPI in Absolutely Alice

OPI in What's With the Cattitude?

OPI in Birthday Babe

More gifts from my parents

OPI in Sand In My Suit

OPI in Bling Dynasty

OPI in A Grape Fit

OPI in My Private Jet

So I apologize for this post being so pic heavy, but you were warned.  Also I received a gift card to ebay, for polishes purposes of course!  If anyone has any suggestions on colors to consider purchasing or maybe reliable ebay polish sellers please feel free to comment and let me know.  I hope you all enjoyed my first haul post and I can't wait to hear from you!

With Love,

        nail newby

Birthday Nails

Okay, so I am quite the girly girl.  And while I was pondering on what colors to use for my birthday nails, I asked myself what would Barbie wear for her birthday?  hahaha.  And this is what I came up with!

So, as you can all see, there is a fair amount of tip wear.  These pictures were actually taken today after a whole day of shopping and opening gifts and then a whole day at work.  Where I work, my hands are constantly wet and let's just say polishes do not stand a chance. 

 So for this manicure I used two coats of OPI Elephantastic Pink and two coats of NYC Shimmer polish.  I hope you all enjoy my Barbie Birthday Nails and please comment and let me know what you think.

Oh and sorry the picture quality is so poor all of my pictures are being taken on my iPhone until I can get a decent new digital camera.

With Love,

       nail newby

Thanks So Muchness!

I want to give the biggest shout out to Jackie S. over at CANDY COATED TIPS  Please please please go check out her blog.  For she has awarded me with the sweet blog award!

Sorry this post is so late, considering the award was given in late May.  But as I said in my last post I've been quite busy, but anywho.   I just want to say thank you so muchness to CANDY COATED TIPS for thinking of my blog for this award.  I'm so shocked and grateful and well so many emotions I just cannot put it into words!!

With Love,

        nail newby

My Birthday!!!

Go shawty it's my birthday, We gonna party like it's my birthday!  Today i turned 17 yayyyy!  I received tons of amazing gifts and duhhh there are nail polishes involved so i will be posting pictures of a birthday haul a.s.a.p.  I also want to apologize for lacking on the blog front lately.  I have just been swamped with work and all this oil spill junk ( I live in south Louisiana...so yeah)  It's been quite hectic, but I promise to be more committed to this blog and my followers, so my apologies.

With Love,

        nail newby

Contests!!!

Laura at Sawan-Heaven is having a wonderful giveaway ending on May 31st 2010

This giveaway has tons of great items including:

-OPI Shrek Mini Set
-OPI Mad As A Hatter
-OPI Damone Roberts 1968

-Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure

-and a bunch of other awesome stuff!

So go check it out!!

Evil Angel is having an amazing 666 follower giveaway including 8 fauxnad plates!! Ohhh I'm so excited! hurry up and go check her out.  Contests ends May 30th.




How doth the little crocodile is having an awesome giveaway.  It ends on June 1st 2010, so hurry up and check it out.


It is for the Vapur reusable water bottle

The Curse of Nail Biting

As of early April 2010, I quit a life time addiction with biting my nails.  Like really, it was bad, if they would have had a 12 step program I would have to sign up.  But anyways, I have always thoughts long, healthy, beautiful nails were just so classy, but could attain them myself.  So I began treating my nails the way they should be treated.  I have come up with my own simple nail care routine (which will be posted later).  So I hope everyone enjoys my blog and future posts. Please give as much feedback as possible,  I'd love to hear from all of you!