Sinful Colors I Love You

Sinful Colors I Love You is a fine purple glitter in a purple jelly base. Much prettier in real life. It's a bit too sheer so I had to put on 3 coats. It kinda reminds me of Halloween. I know it's over and I must wear something more Xmas type of thing. But I wanted to try this one. It sure does different on your nail than how it looks in the bottle. You know, those type of polishes lololo But I bet that if you are a purple girl you are gonna love this one for sure :)

Talk Tuesday

Hope you all had a great and safe Halloween time. Today is November 1st and I can't believe how fast the year went by. But I can't complain at all cause that means birthday time is coming!!! In 3 days I'll become an older and happier girl. I love birthdays!!!

I posted this last week on my facebook page but I'll be posting this here to in case you don't do facebook.

If you want to mail me a birthday card you guys can send it to:

BOMA - E.Queiroz (Julia)

315 Central NW Suite K

Albuquerque, NM 87102

When sending, mail the card straight to my box since that box works as a P O Box. Don't send anything that will require my signature. Also just send me a bday card if you feel like. I might play a surprise whit those cards. I'll wait until the end of the month of November.

Ok, now just for you t enjoy something really cute today here a have a fun video.When I first saw little fingers sporting nail polish in a run way was this past July in Sao Paulo at the Fashion Week HERE. I thought it was so so so fun!!

Now Chanel put some nails to dance like in a cabaret. Check this out! I love it. I just think that this time they could have dressed the fingers lololo

Hope you guys had fun watching that.Have a lovely Tuesday!!

Monday Mani - Happy Halloween - Color Club Wham!Pow! + Nicole by OPI Black Texture

Welcome Monday and Happy Halloween!!

This is gonna be super quick. Sorry, I couldn't be more creative with a mani for the Halloween day. I was wearing  some cool mani the past days though. If you want to them them out go HERE

For the mani of today I had like 10 min only to do this and I knew I couldn't do a more elaborated mani. I grabbed a pumpkin neon color from Color Club Wham!Pow! and used a black shatter polish from Nicole by OPI Black Texture.

Sorry for the picture above. I had such a hard time photographing that color Color Club Wham!Pow!.The real color is more like a traffic neon orange cone. My camera usually has a hard time getting corals, oranges.
And hey, I have to go :) I hope you had a great weekend. Did you get to go to any fun Halloween party?

Halloween Series - Dripping Blood Mani

Wowww Friday goodness!!! Are you guys going to any Halloween party out there?

For my Halloween Series I have here a Dripping Blood Nail Art. I can not take credit for it. But I also do not know who to credit to cause I have seen this design all over the net. And here is my take. I think this is a super awesome mani for Halloween. Don't you? My husband hates blood and he always wants to see what I did on my nails. Guess his reaction on this one? lololo He paled out (does that expression exist?). He didn't like. But " yeah, it's cute". Ohhhh, evil laugh right now!

For this mani I used a dotting tool but you can use a tooth pick or any pointed object. A white polish and a vampy red polish. This is a video I found on youtube that shows how I did my nails. Except that you really need to be fast on doing the drips cause the polish will form blobs on the point of your dotting tool. Click HERE to see the video. It's really easy do do it!!

And if you are wondering what I used for my white here you have it. This is OPI Alpine Snow my second favorite white polish for painting my nails (I have favorites for stamping so that's why the difference). But anyways my favorite white polish for painting nails is Jordana White. But for this OPI I had a good experience too. I recommend.

BC: OPI

Base Color: OPI Alpine Snow

Dripping Blood: Essie Bordeaux

TC: SV

What do you think of my dripping blood nail art? I hope you like it as much as I do :)

And remember the Lacquered Me Halloween Contest ends this coming Sunday Oct. 30th. Remember to LIKE your favorite manicure to cast your vote HERE

Doing my friend's nails

My best friend from Arizona came to visit me the beginning of this month and we had a blast together. I was looking for this picture to share with you guys. Couldn't find anywhere but here it is. I did her nails! She loved it. It was so funny cause she said it was hard to choose a color cause I have so many polishes lololo than her son picked this color and said "Here, you paint my mommy's nails with this color". And OMG it couldn't be a better color to do a Halloween themed manicure. Too bad we were having so much fun that I forgot to take a picture of the purple itself. But, I'll do here some day. But enjoy the picture!! I just love it very much I wanna do the same mani on myself. And I jsut feel so proud of myself I did someone's nails. I'm still getting used to it. lololo And if you are wondering how I did this mani ... I did some sponging with two different shades of purple and then stamped over it.

Read details of the colors and stamping plates down below.

BC: SH
Base Color:
Stamping: WnW Blacke Creme
Designs: BM 224, BM 209, BM 223, BM 222
Sponging: RIMMEL Violet Metal and OPI Russian Navy
TC: 0-60

Monday Mani PaA - Monsters

Sorry I'm sooo late to post this. I'm having a hard time blogging. I promise I'll do better and try to post these things on time for you guys. I have so much going on right now.

But, forgetting how bad I'm being ... Monday's challenge was MONSTERS. Immediately the Frankstein mani that we can see all over the internet popped in my mind. Free hand nail art for me is a big challenge so I decided to do the Mr. Frankstein as an accent and stamping on my other nails to make it quicker.

 Do you guys like this mani? Have you guys tried this design before?

And below is a swatch of Sinful Colors Innocent. I was laughing so hard I couldn't stop when I read the name. It's so not that polishes. This colors is not quite a neon but reading that its name is Innocence it c\kinda screams at your face. Love it!

BC: OPI

Base Color: Sinful Color Innocent

Stamping: WnW Black Creme

Design:

TC: NYC

And next Monday is Halloween!!! Are you guys partying any where? Have you decided on your costume? Planned your mani? Or you don't really care for Halloween?

Halloween Series - Priti Polish - Gatsby Dahlia

I'm not a big Halloween person but I'm sure enjoying halloween mani requests I'm receiving. It's been fun. Also whatever I go I get lots of compliments on my nails. People ask "Where did you get your nails done?" and when I say "I do myself" , people are like "How?" I love that surprise face.

But here I have other Halloween mani for you guys. 

For the designs I used several nail plates, just so you know. The girl that thought my nail were so cool thought I draw these things myself. Oh, I wish i had that coordination!

Below you can see a swatch of my very first Priti Polish - Gatsby Dahlia. A very bright pumpkin jelly polish. I got this in a swap I did with Jodi. I got 3 Priti polishes.  I'll do a swatch of the 3 others latter. My opnion on this new brand is that I love the bottle (easy to hold for pictures and storage), the brush is flat which makes the application really easy. The formula is jelly and with 2 coat I could reach full coverage. I think I just don't like the color. It's sooo in your face bright. Besides that, I love my first experience with Priti polish. Also I have a hard time photographing some reds, corals and oranges. The tone of my skin changes incredibly on images. But here it is. How do you like this? Have you used or own any Priti Polish? What's your favorite color?

BC: SH

Base Color: Priti Polish - Gatsby Dahlia

The I used were from thumb to pinky finger: BM 225, M28/BM 13, BM 13, Wet n' Wild Tangled in My Web (black glitter), BM 04

Stamping: Wet n' Wild Black Cream

TC: SV

Halloween Series 2011

Halloween spirit is here. Love it but I don't know why I don't really participate going to parties, dressing up and all that. But I guess I'll have to dress up my nails with some kinda of nail art, stamping or just colors.

I know I won't be able to come up with a bunch of ideas of Halloweeen scared manis for you guys due to time and also lack of creativity. But check it out HERE on the contest we are having on my fb page. There are 19 great entries there that you might feel inspired by for sure.

Until Halloween I'll be posting a few manicures I can come up with here.

This is is super simple and totally gives me the Halloween feel. The colors and also the texture. I didn't think crackle polishes would become such a hit but I gues they came to stay. I still see I bunch of people wear thos polishes and posting swatchings of them and all. I, myself, am not a big fan of crackles. But I was glad I had this black one from Sally Hansen - Ink Splatter to use on this mani. I don't really like the crackles from Sally Hansen cause of their brushes. It's to thin and that makes evene harder the application because crackles themselves are so hard to apply. This is just my opnion. Maybe you can master that way better than myself.

And if you ae wondering what green is that here is a picture for you. This is one of my favorite green from MILANI - Original. Love it!

Hope you guys liked this simple Halloween Manicure look. It's simple and quick. Do you like it? Is that Halloweenish to you?

Essie Fall 2011 Collection Giveaway

I'm so happy I get to have another giveaway here on my blog just for you guys!! It's been a pleasure to have all of you following me via this blog and/or my facebook page. I know we have the Halloween Mani Contest going on right now. However my birthday is approaching soon and I love birthdays. And because that is my favorite day of the year that I really look forward to it (even though I know I get older on those days lololo) I will be sharing that excitement giving away 4 brand new shades of the Essie Fall 2011 Collection.

Essie has 2 more shades for that collection but I just couldn't find it. Although the ones I have for grabs are the ones I like it. So, if you want to celebrate my birthday with me keep on reading and the fill out the form for the giveaway. I'm gonna be drawing 4 winners!!

Also, because I love being the birthday girl and getting as much attention as I can, would you send me a card on my birthday?

Ohhh, I was thinking about having a Lacquered Me Blogger Birthdays Group where we have a group of 12 people. A birthday for each month and we would be sending little packages throughout the year for each other. For example, if we have 12 people having their birthday on each month, "Mary is the birthday girl of the month of October. So she doesn't need to send out any packages on that month because it's her birthday month. And because it's her month she gets to get 11 little envelopes that can contain a birthday card, goodies or any nail related thing. It doesn't need to be expensive. Just a little thing to make Mary feel special on her day."  I just thought that idea would be so wonderful. If you are interested let me know if you want to be part of this group. I must let you know that the spot for the month of November is already filled with myself  :) And just remember that if you want to be part of it you really need to be commited to it. We don't want to make "Mary" disappointed on her birthday. Leave me comments about it or better send me an email to contact.lacqueredme@gmail.com with the subject being Blogger Birthdays Group telling me your name, where you live ( sorry this is only for people in USA - it will be easier and cheaper to ship), your blog, your birthday month and other suggestions. Can't wait to hear from you guys!

NOW GO CHECK IT OUT THIS GIVEAWAY!!!!!

I have swatches of these colors to share with you here soon.

Details for this giveaway:

* If you are under 18 please advise with your parents.

* It's starting right now and ends on Nov 4th, 2011 at midnight (Denver time) - ON MY BIRTHDAY!!!


* MANDATORY - you need to be a Follower and a Facebook Fan of my Lacquered Me page

* If you want extra entries read this : ask your friends to follow me here on blog + LIKE facebook page and leave me a comment on this post and a comment on my fb page say " YOUR NAME sent me here, and we wish you a HAPPY BIRTHDAY on Nov 4th". I'll be counting that as extra entries.

* There will be 4 winners.
* This giveaway is open internationally.

* The winner will be announced on November 6th, 2011 here on this blog and on facebook( the person will first be contacted by email and will have 24hrs to write me back otherwise I'll pick another winner)

* Winner will be picked ramdomly using random.org

* I am not responsible for any problems with mailing as far as lost package, items being damaged or in case if the winner is outside of the USA, fee payment to pick up package is not included. With that being said, I want to say there will be no replacement in that case. Thanks for understanding!

Now go ahead and fill out this little form.

Good Morning at 1:04 AM

Yeah, I'm still up. And guess doing what? Put all the pictures submmited for the Halloween Contest up on Lacquered Me facebook page.
I'm super super tired right now, and tomorrow a long super long day waits for me. I'll probably be yawning all day long.
All I want to say is that the Halloweeen themed manicures are up

HERE

You can go over there and start linking your favorite picture. Votes will be the sum of LIKEs on the pictures plus the votes of 3 guests nail bloggers.

I'll come with details soon.

Thank you!!!

Monday Mani PaA - Breast Cancer Awareness

This week I decided to get this mani for the challenge a little earlier last week so I could post early in the morning on my blog for you guys :)

The theme was in honor of the Breast Cancer Awareness month.

Those challenges always put me to think what I am gonna use and how I am gonna show my creative side. First thing came to my mind was the pink ribbon. And as I've told you guys before here. I am not good at free hand nail art. Don't even have those tiny brushes for it and all that.

I then went through my stamping plates to see if they had any ribbons there and I came across konad plate M63 that was a full design and I could kinda see ribbons getting untangled there.

I used Color Club Hot Like Lava from the collection Foiled. And oh boy is that something really top noche for stamping!!! Such a great polish to do your designs.

 Forgot to take a picture of my thumb but just cause some of you asked me. When I do any nail art where I put some accent on my ring finger you bet I have the same one om my thumb. Always!

 And if you are wondering what's my base color. Here you have the bottle. It's Essie Neo Whimsical. Super pretty cream baby pink but .... I have to tell you those are 3 coats of that baby. I usually love Essie's nail polishes. But for me they are either super good to apply or a disaster. I had a lot of trouble applying that polish. So thin, so streaky and dragging. I got frustrated and disappointed big time cause it's such a pretty pink. However, despite all of that I made it to work. And here is a picture of it by itself. Sorry for the dry cuticles.

BC: Essie
Base Color: Lady Like
Design: M63
Stamping: Color Club Hot Like Lava
TC: 0-60

Hope you guys like that mani as much as I do! I wore that for 4 straight days.
Thanks to those who submmited your Halloween themed manicure pictures for the contest. Submmisions are now CLOSED. But don't worry I might be having more fun coming up like .... a giveaway. Plus you guys will get to vote for the pictures submmited.
Happy Monday to you all!!

Last day to submmit your Halloween mani photo

Have you submmited you picture for the Halloween Manicure contest yet?
If not remember it's until tonight midnight. To read more details about it please CLICK HERE

Hope to get your picture :)

Lacquered Me Halloween Manicure Art Contest 2011

Hello you!
Last contest I held here during the month of August/September was a hit. It seemed everybody had fun. Even if all the contestes didn't get to you. But it was fun cause everyone was just happy to share their picture and put their blog/fb page word out there for others to see.
Even during the contest I got several emails askign me if I would consider to host another one soon. Then the contest was over and people still wanted me to do another one.
Ok, if you were one of those people ... here is what you were asking for.

We are gonna have a Manicure Contest Halloween Themed.

Want to be part of it this time? Read this:

---> If you want to submmit your Halloweeen Manicure photo just send me an email to contact.lacqueredme@gmail.com with your:
* Name
* Location where you're at ( just state/country)
* Follower name and FB fan name
* Your blog/fb link
* Your picture attached (ONLY ONE please). Don't give me the hard task to choose among 3 or 5. ONLY ONE picture. In case you send more than one I'll be posting on the contest board the first picture attached to your email.

---> I'll be responding back to your email so you know that I received it. In case you don't get an email back in 24hrs re-send your picture. That means I didn't get your email.

---> Only Halloweeen themed manicures will be accepted to this contest. Let's inspire other people who are looking for Halloween themed ideas for their nails.

---> To participate you have to be Lacquered Me follower here on this blog and a fan on Facebook. You also need to be over 18. If you are under age please consult your parents or tutor responsable for you.

---> You have until October 9th, 2011 (Sunday) to submmit your picture. After that date submissions will be closed and you won't be able to participate because it will be time to vote.

Hope to see you there!! Can't wait to get to share great manis done by you.
PS: I'll let you guys know the prize later in the road like I did for the other contest. This way everybody gets to participate more for fun than for the reward. Do you agree with me?

Sally Hansen Salon Effects Nail Polish Strips Halloween 2011

Sally Hansen has some surprise for us for Halloween 2011. The Sallon Effects Real Nail Polish Strips are coming in 5 fun Halloween patterns. They will be in the stores this month of September so just keep checking at your local Walgreens and/or Walmart for them. Don't you think they are super cute? Which one are you picking? What are your favorites?

Click on the picture to see it bigger. My favorite ones are Wishnets, Numbskull, Spun for You, Hot Wired and Ghoulie Girl :) I know, all of them lololo They are just too stinky cute to not want them all.

This what Sally Hansen sent to me:

INTRODUCING
SALON EFFECTS REAL NAIL POLISH STRIPS
IN HALLOWEEN PRINTS
FROM SALLY HANSEN

THINK: Spooky style at your fingertips—just peel, apply, file, and go.

WHAT IT IS: No dry-time, nail polish strips for instant Halloween hands. This fall, make a chic

seasonal statement with Sally Hansen Nail Polish Strips in new Halloween-inspired prints. Sally
Hansen Nail Polish Strips offer DBP, Toluene and Formaldehyde Free, no dry-time nail looks for
style that lasts up to ten days. This easy and affordable at-home nail technology takes your Halloween
costume to the next level.

Each Salon Effect Real Nail Polish Strips kit includes 16 nail polish strips, a cuticle stick, mini file/

buffer and instructions for easy at-home application. When you’re ready to change your nail strips, simply
swipe nails with your favorite Sally Hansen polish remover for an instantly clean slate. Choose from five
Halloween-inspired styles:

Numbskull: Spooky skull and crossbones print

Wishnets: Witchy black fishnet print over bright fuchsia
Ghoulie Girl: Google-eyed ghosts in orange and white
Spun For You: A scary black spider’s web
Hot Wired: Bad-girl barbed wire over lime green backdrop

WHERE TO FIND THEM: Sally Hansen products are available at chain drug stores, food stores and

mass merchandisers nationally.

 = Pictures sent to me by manufacturer and reorganized by me =