Man vs Food Nails Did

 I LOVE the show Man Vs Food. I think its because I can just live vicariously through the host while he eats all of the delicious things that I could never think to put into my body! If you haven't seen the show its on the Travel Network and basically this guy goes around the US sampling really outrageous food and then every episode ends in a food challenge.

He's done things like try to eat a 12 patty hamburger, eat 5 extremely hot chicken wings, 180 oysters and so on. He did eat the most delicious looking hamburger ever though - the grilled cheese burger. And yea, this is the replica that I made, and ate, not gonna lie. IT WAS AMAZING.

So I did the show logo on my nails. For the base I used Nubar NV2 then brushed "x"'s with OPI's Curry Up Don't Be Late, My Big Break, and a purple nail art pen. For the (very badly done at least in the head) wrestler man, I used for his skin a mix of China Glaze White on White, Lemon Fizz and Colour Club Pardon My French. The "vs" is China Glaze Solar Power outlined with a black nail art pen. And lastly the burger bun is a mix of China Glaze Solar Power and Coconut Kiss with nail art pens for the toppings and Rimmel Torrid for the patties.

Yea I'm hungry again...

Palm-tastic Nails Did

One more day till I go to Cuba! Man, I'm beginning to think I should have spread out my vacations a bit more :S LOL.

So my friend Suzanne is getting married in August and this is her little hurrah before she's committed for life! I can't believe this girl has been to only Toronto, Niagara Falls, and Portugal. Deprived right? That's what I'm saying. Hopefully this trip will lay the travel bug in my girl and she'll push for the soon to be hubby to take her places more exciting than Niagara's Lundy's Lane!! Its gonna be Suzanne, my friend Jenn and myself for a whole week of Varadero-debauchery

To get more into the mood (I really don't get excited until I'm on the plane) I thought I'd give my nails a bit of island flavour!

I used Nubar LLC for the base, Orly Snowcone for the water, and China Glaze Lemon Fizz and Solar Power for the sand. Then for the palm trees I used Rimmel Torrid for the trunks, and two green nail art pens for the leaves.

Meanwhile - I've been watching this new show that I can't get enough of! Its called The United States of Tara. I think its on Showcase but I don't get that channel so I watch it all online. Its like Sybil, but on TV!

Check it out:

Hope you all have a fantastic week! I'll see you when I get back!!!

Delicious Cupcake Nails Did & 125 Followers Giveaway Winner!

And the winner is....(drumroll please)...

Rebecca!!

Congrats lady I just dropped you an email! If you haven't seen Rebecca's blog NailsEtc, its awesome! It's only been active since this year and it's already growing heaps!

And here is Rebecca's suggestion: Cupcake Nails!!

I used Claire's Mean Green for the base and since I used a lot of different polishes for the cakes, cups, icing and accents I'll just list them all:

China Glaze: Lemon Fizz, Re-fresh Mint, Light as Air, and Solar Power
Sally Hansen: Satin Slip Frost, Mocha Frost, and Elegance French White
Rimmel Shocker
Nail art pens in red, purple, blue, orange, pink

And I put my FAVORITE cupcake of all time on my thumb: behold the Maple Bacon Cupcake!!

See the wee slice of bacon at the top? God I want one so bad. You don't understand I was googling images for inspiration and my mouth literally started to water it was that bad. But I must lose 15lbs before I go on vacation!!! (lol yea right).

Anyway, if you've never had a maple bacon cupcake I suggest you find one right quick! Many specialty bakeries are starting to carry them because they are soooo gooooood!!

Thanks to everyone who entered - you all had some AWESOME ideas and I'm totally gonna try to do as many as I can :D. Thanks for stopping by and checking out my blog every once in a while, I really do appreciate it.

Till next giveaway!

Niki*

Spring Toes and a Touch of Neon Nails Did

Remind me again to try to not to anything so intricate on my toes for a bit. I've been having major problems with my back and neck and sitting hunched probably isn't a good thing LOL. Oh well, at least the sunflowers came out nice and pretty! They make me think of the first day of spring - which is TODAY! Yay. And its cold and rainy outside. Yesterday, it was 18C and I was running around in shorts. Go figure.

Anyway, apologies to those in advance who don't like toes - I'm right there with you! Feet...*shudder* so this is probably the first and last time you'll get to see a pedi from me!

The base is China Glaze Re-Fresh Mint, with Solar Power for the petals and Lemon Fizz for the highlight. The center is White on White and Rimmel Torrid.




Here is also my submission to Emerald Sparkled's 200+ giveaway! This is an interpretation of the mani that drew me to her blog and actually made me buy Konad plate M51. I had to do it from memory since a lot of her pics aren't working, but I think I got it :).

I used Color Club Volt of Light for the neon yellow, China Glaze Liquid Leather for the black and 2030 for the stamp. Seche vite tops off my mani and pedi (*gasp* I'M RUNNING OUT! NOOOOO).

Hope you all enjoy your first day of spring!!