Oopsie Daisies Nail Polish Hocus Pocus Halloween Giveaway Winner!

I realize I'm terrible with making post announcements but the winner's package was sent out last week already. Thought I'd make the announcement anyways to keep it consistent!

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Congrats Aisha Q.!

Thanks to everyone who entered for your interest and support. I have a new collection in the works, find the latest updates at the Oopsie Daisies Nail Polish Facebook page by clicking HERE!

American Apparel Mouse and Water Decals

I love neutrals and I love these nail decals so this mani was a match made for me! Take a look!

I think these colors looked great together! I put a decal on each ring and thumb nail. Click HERE to go to my post explaining the process. For this mani I used 3 coats of American Apparel's Mouse over Orly Bonder and sealed with Out the Door.  The decals were added the next day. 

I did a similar manicure this week (the mani I'm posting now is a few weeks old) and I tried not putting topcoat over the decals.  They remained tacky (the clear borders did at least) and picked up fuzz and dust. So lesson learned: always topcoat the water decals!

OPI Berlin There Done That with Layered Stamping

I decided to spice up a day-old mani with some stamping.  The base of this manicure is two coats of OPI Berlin There Done That, which is a taupey, slightly greyed out creme polish that I absolutely adore. Pardon the tip wear!

This is definitely one of those uh, "looks better from a distance" manicures.  A continual and absolute frustration I've had since I've been polishing is the streakiness of black polishes when doing any sort of nail art. I've waited hours before applying top coat before, I've floated the brush across - but I still get streaks. I usually will just photoshop them out but this was too busy to do that.

I used plates BM206 and BM221 for the stamping designs. I used Wet n Wild Black Creme for the black flowers and L.A. Colors Live for the silver accents. I did do the stamping super quickly because I wasn't planning on wearing it for long. It does look much nicer from a few foot distance, sort of like a tapestry.  The silver stamping was done first, then the black flowers and finally sealed with a coat of OTD.

GIVEAWAY! Oopsie Daisies Nail Polish Sanderson Sisters Halloween Trio

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1. OPEN INTERNATIONALLY* 
2. The winner has 48 hours to reply; in the event they do not, a new winner will be chosen.
3. You can tweet the giveaway once per day to earn extra entries!

*Excludes Saudi Arabia - I've had multiple packages that never made it to their destination.  In order to continue to do giveaways on an international basis, there needs to be this little caveat.

Good luck all!

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NOW AVAILABLE! Oopsie Daisies Nail Polish Sanderson Sisters Halloween Trio

This collection was actually released a couple days prior but this is the first mention of it here.  For more consistent updates check out the Oopsie Daisies Nail Polish Facebook Page.

This is one of my favorite collections to date! I am obsessed with the movie Hocus Pocus and watch it regardless of what time of the year it is, so it was an obvious decision for the Halloween collection to be based on the wicked witches themselves!

I'll Take Thee Away - Witchcraft - For Thy Sisters

The trio consists of three jelly based polishes inspired by the witches costumes.  First up is I'll Take Thee Away -I'll Take Thee Away is inspired by the delightfully dense Sarah Sanderson. The color scheme in this polish is derived from her spectacular costume. I'll Take Thee Away consists of lilac, pink, purple, violet and pink holo dot glitter in various finishes and sizes all put together in squishy dark berry base. Shown below is three coats on its own with one coat of top coat.

Next is Witchcraft.  Witchcraft is inspired by the hauntingly evil Winifred Sanderson. The color scheme in this polish is derived from her wicked costume. Witchcraft consists of green holo, turquoise, green, silver and large turquoise holo dot glitter in various finishes and sizes all put together in squishy black jelly base. Shown is 3 coats on its own with one coat of topcoat.  This polish can also easily be worn over a black creme for a less squishy final effect.

Closing out the trio is For Thy Sisters. For Thy Sisters is inspired by the pleasantly plump Mary Sandersons. The color scheme in this polish is derived from her fabulous costume. For They Sisters consists of silver holo squares, silver and red glitter in various sizes and finishes in a squishy darkened red jelly base. Shown is 2 coats on its own with one coat of topcoat.

 The Sanderson Sisters Trio is now on sale at the Oopsie Daisies Nail Polish store for $8.50 a piece. Thanks for looking!

Zoya Bevin with Accent Nails

Doesn't this manicure remind you of mint chocolate chip ice cream? Maybe it's just me? I loved how this one came together!

For the light mint nails, I used three thin coats of Zoya Bevin (two thick coats would have worked as well), the accent nail is 2 coats of Zoya Dea and the index glitter nail is Sephora by OPI in Only Gold for Me Topcoat, one thin coat.  I did this over a base of NailTek II Foundation and sealed with one coat of OTD.  Excuse the tip wear as this mani was a day old at time of photographing!

 

The Zoya cremes applied wonderfully and the glitter was easy to use as well. I like the sparsity of it as it still lets the base color shine through. Loved this mani!