Be Back Soon!

Well, its finally happened - my little baby arrived on Dec. 31st at 4:27pm!!! His name is Kai and was 8lbs 4oz and a whole lot of cute. Having a boy was such a total surprise since we didn't know what we were having. I've already started to discuss with Ben what type of masculine nail polish he can wear for his first time. I'm thinking a mattified version of Russian Navy? lol.

He's inherited my "I'm not impressed" look

So, that being said Polish On Digital Paper is going on a bit of a hiatus until my schedule can start to normalize a bit again since right now my life is finding moments between feeding and napping! Plus Kai loves to suck on my fingers so polishing them isn't quite the best thing right now! So don't quit on me since I'll be back soon and with a vengeance. But can you blame me? Look at that face! Who could resist spending every second with that little guy? In the meantime I'll be around with a post every now and again but in the most part I'll be off enjoying a bit of time with my new baby boy :) I hope everyone has an amazing winter and I'll see you all soon!!!

Niki*

Harry Potter Nails Did

Put ya nails up if you love Harry Potter!!

So good. See, I may hate Twilight but I LOVE me some Harry Potter movie franchise. This past weekend I saw the latest movie which is 1/2 of book 7 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It was seriously fantastic and was what I consider to be the closest adaptation to the books since the first and second movies. It was also a little sexy! But I won't ruin that part for a few of you who haven't seen it. GO SEE IT ALREADY!!

So I thought I'd do a little Harry Potter theme. For a base I simply used China Glaze Liquid Leather. On my thumb I did the HP logo in China Glaze 2030 and dusted on some glitter from a nail art pen in gold.

For the golden snitches I used 2030 for the ball part and then a silver nail art pen for the wings. You can't see it too well but I also swiped on some iridescence onto the wings with OPI Happy Anniversary.

I think they're super cute and I can't wait to see the part 2!! You can bring a baby to the movies right? *sigh*

Eyeko Polish Review and Giveaway!!

Contest is now closed. A winner will be announced shortly.

 So I was sent these lovely Eyeko polishes from the other side of the pond...that means London right? Well they were sent from London. I love getting contacted for this kind of thing so if you are reading me nail polish world - keep em coming! LOL.

Let me just start off by saying the packaging is SO CUTE. I really like the logo and they sent me these little sticker things with it. It is ultra feminine though which is so not my thing, however, the little tiny teeny-weeny girly girl in me loves it to death. It reminds me very much of most of the packaging around cosmetics that I saw in Japan when I was there. But, onto the polishes.

Now you've probably seen these on a few blogs already so I wont get into too much detail...

Eyeko Petite Polish for French Nails

This is a super sheer pale pink and like the bottle says its ideal for french manicures! Its actually a really great sheer on its own if you're into that kinda thing. The application is smooth and I can see it sitting really well under a white or even on top of a clear as the french itself.

Indoors

Outdoors

Eyeko Tea Rose Polish For Country Nails

This polish is a much more dusty pink. Its a thicker formula and goes on opaque in 2 coats easily.

Indoors

Outdoors

Eyeko Posh Polish for Ladylike Nails

This polish is a dark beige creme with pink undertones. It certainty is posh and definitely gives me that mannequin look. I can see you pairing this subtle polish with a black dress and big black celebrity sunglasses.

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Outdoors

Eyeko Coral Polish for Resort Nails

This is my favorite polish of the bunch. Its a nice red with a bit of an orange tone to it. And just as the name says its perfect for hitting the beach and getting noticed. Its opaque in 1 coat but I'm wearing 2 coats in the pics.

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Outdoors

Eyeko Vampira Polish for Gothic Nails

This polish is a simple black with red glitter. Its actually really shiny and glittery once its applied and the formula in the bottle doesnt do it justice. This would look really cool dotted over the Coral Polish I think!

Indoors

Outdoors

So lastly just an extra pic of the bottle and brush:

The bottle is extra cute and slim and the brush was suprisingly great considering how compact the bottle is. Its a SERIOUS travel/purse polish cause its so small and you can tote it anywhere!

You can buy these polishes from the Eyeko website for £3.50 or about $5.45USD each.

OR, you could take the chance to get two RIGHT NOW!

Eyeko Giveaway

Rules of Entry

1. You must be a follower of this blog and leave your email address in the comments :) Mandatory
2. Tell me which two Eyeko nail polishes out of the ones above that I reviewed that you would like to make your own. Mandatory
3. Post about this giveaway and review on your blog and post the link in your comment. 1 extra entry
4. Tweet about this giveaway and post a link to your tweet. 1 extra entry

That's it!

The giveaway will end on Friday August 6th at 7pm ET. I'll contact the winner through email.

300+ Followers SPECIAL GIVEAWAY!

Contest is now closed. A winner will be announced shortly.

I just want to take the opportunity to thank you again for stopping by and following my blog! And so, I'm holding a very special giveaway!

Lately Ben and I have been thinking about doing some remodeling around the house. And with a little one on the way we pretty much want to take the opportunity to do it sooner than later. The one part of our house that is the most painful right now is the downstairs bathroom. I mean, its okay, just not very functional. It's located underneath the stairs to the second floor and the toilet itself is RIGHT under the slope, so lets just say Ben doesn't use it, because to do so would mean he'd literally have to stand at a right angle!



So, we really want to redo the whole thing and we were looking at a few websites to help us along. One of them called JustVanities.com has some awesome vanity selections. I'm really into this one called the Ronbow Orient Yuki because of its Asian/modern flair!

The site itself is pretty great too because it offers FREE SHIPPING!! Who can beat that?


And thinking about more stuff I can buy I was looking at another website called AllModern.com. They have some great looking modern and contemporary furniture that I'm scoping out for my future nursery. They have a great baby and kids section with everything from strollers to bedding to wall decor.
I'm totally in love with these items since I'm doing a "modern flair" type of nursery (I'm so not a girly pink or Winny the Pooh girl!).

The dresser/change table is particularly neat because it can be converted down into two night stands or a headboard for a big kid bed. LOVE IT.

So the lovely people who run both of these websites have given me the unique opportunity to hold a giveaway for all of my readers!

The winner will receive a $60 gift certificate to use on any of the following websites:

JustVanities.com
AllModern.com
LuxeByCSN.com
AccentFurnitureDirect.com

Rules of Entry

All of the following are Mandatory

1. You must be a follower of this blog. New or current it doesn't matter :)
2. In the comments section leave your email address and the name that you follow with
3. Post this giveaway somewhere else (Twitter, your own blog, wherever!) and leave a link where I can find the post.

That's it!

The giveaway will end on Saturday July 24th at 7pm ET. I'll contact the winner through email and hook you up with your gift certificate!! Giveaway is open to everyone!

Good luck everyone - this is an awesome giveaway I hope you all enter!!

Niki*


**Disclaimer - I was directly contacted about this unique and generous giveaway. I am not receiving any compensation for it other than the satisfaction that a reader is gonna get a cool item out of it!**

Award Time!

I feel like I'm in the nail art Oscars and you like me you really like me ;)

I was tagged for this lovely award from Jan at Hue and Me. Thank you lovely! If you haven't stopped by her blog please do so cause she has some great designs!

Rules of this award are:

1. Thank the person who gave this award to you.
Thanks again Jan at Hue and Me!!

2. Copy the award and put it on your blog.
There it be!

3. List 3 things which you love about your self.
1) My hair. As much as I hate the 45 minutes it takes me to wash it, having curls is pretty rad
2) My being overall awesome. Seriously...I'm awesome
3) My modesty.

4. Post a picture you love.

There is nothing, NOTHING to not love about this picture. The Framing...the circumstance...all brilliant beyond belief.

5. Tag 5 people you wish to pass this award on to.
The Girl Who Nailed it
Getcha Nails Did
Black Polish and Lip Gloss
Deez Nails
Emerald Sparkled


Yay awards!
Niki*

Quick interlude for some Glee Love

Glee returns April 13th!!! Where will I be? In school. Yep...I suck.

But check this out: GleeFM is hitting the airwaves at ProudFM 103.9 in Toronto on April 12th just in time for the premiere of season 2. Here is a little making of featuring my sexxxy friend Amanda who is the project manager on this awesome little endeavor!

Gifts from Alisa!

WHOOPS! I meant to post this forever ago but I guess I just left it in drafts :S

Man, when I got into this I don't think I ever truly realized how much of a community we really are here in the art world. Well the lovely Alisa sent me these goodies (actually dropped them off to my mailbox) today and they're SO great!

Funnily enough I was in Winners today looking at this exact CHI colour! LOL.

Thank you so much Alisa, you're so awesome!

Niki*

Thank God for this I was so confused!

Usually it takes me a good 3 minutes of staring at a new term before it dawns on me what it might mean. But why when The Polish Addict put together this lovely list!!

I'm of course learning as I go...and sometimes I pretend that I know what everyone is talking about (shhh don't tell) but I'm all for cheat sheets!

NOTD – Nail of the Day (basically, whatever nail polish one is currently wearing.)

HTF/VHTF – Hard to Find or Very Hard to Find. Definition varies based on place of usage. Example: On MUA HTF is Clarins 230 or NARS Zulu. On Ebay VHTF is Essie Mademoiselle or OPI Bubble Bath.

RAOK – (verb form ROAKing, ROAK’d) Random Act of Kindness (giving someone else free nail polish for altruistic reasons.)

No-Buy – (1)The status of realizing that one is ridiculous, and spends entirely way too much money on nail polish. One consequently over-compensates by vowing to not buy any nail polish indefinitely, followed shortly by a major failure, see related words: Binge. (2) A mythical impossible task like Sisyphus rolling the rock up the mountain.

Stash – One’s nail polish collection, usually hidden from loved ones.

Binge – Uncontrollable desire to buy a seriously ridiculous amount of nail polish, followed by actually making the ridiculous purchase, followed by feelings of guilt and worthlessness, followed by the No-Buy vow.

Lemming - Having an uncontrollable desire for a particular polish after seeing a picture of someone else wearing that color.

Shrinkage - A coat of nail polish that shrinks on one’s nail to create a visible white space with no polish on the tip of the nail. It’s generally a very undesriable side effect of using fast drying top coat over very thickly applied polish. No relation to cold water.

Tip Pull - Looks the same as shrinkage except Tip Pull occurs after a few days of wear. It’s the most common kind of nail polish wear and tear (generally associated with typing) other than regular chipping; An excuse to change one’s nail polish.

Cuticle Drag/Cuticle Pull – The polish-less splotch centered close to the cuticle that comes from using a crappy nail polish that basically removes itself when one applies additional coats; One of life’s most frustrating occurrences.

MUAer - A member of makeupalley.com.

NBer – A member of the makeupalley.com nail board.

“The Place that Cannot be Mentioned”/”The Place that Shall Not be Named” – Ebay.

Frankenpolish/Franken - Mixing a new color from various different polishes.

Dupe – Short for ‘duplicate’. A nail polish that looks exactly like another polish. This is a rare occurrence, especially to someone plagued with the nail board eye.

The Nail Board Eye - A disease that causes the sufferer to be able to distinguish even the slightest difference of color between polishes that are seemingly the same, forcing the sufferer to decide they must own both polishes even though no one else will know that the colors are actually different.


VPL/VNL - ‘Visible Polish Line’/ ‘Visible Nail Line’ – referring to the nail white that is visible under some sheer or jelly polishes.

WHAAAA 103 Followers!?

It seemed like this happened in a blink of an eye! WICKED! Thanks so much to everyone that follows my blog, it seems now almost a shame that I'm about to take a week hiaatus!!

But I'll be back and hopeuflly equipped with some goodies for a new giveaway to celebrate!

Thanks again, I appreciate you!!

<3 <3

Niki*

TWEET! Birds! Nails Did

Birds are kinda freaky, especially when they all line up on a telephone wire and stare at you like they're about to attack. I actually was chased around for 5 minutes by a Canada goose once....so now I'm pretty wary of them. Despite the fact that Canadians are supposed to be all polite and friendly - let me tell you these geese are the antithesis of that. SO NASTY, and they bite! Seriously...I remember once they joked about opening a hunting season on the goose cause there was so many. I'd throw a rock, I SO WOULD!

Anyway, I fell in love with this mani from the lovely Babbling Brooke so that was my inspiration. For the base I used L.A. Colors in Sea Green which I actually found at the dollar store! Then to highlight it I used China Glaze for Audrey and White on White.

Then with Konad special polish in black I used Konad plate M66's cherry blossom design but made sure to take off any blossoms from the stamper. Then I mixed CG Liquid Leather and White on White to get a nice grey (I'm still waiting to buy Recycle...don't ask me why...I don't know, I want it now!! :'(  ).  Its all sealed with Seche Vite

I really like this mani and I was surprised at the end result because when I did the background it looked at first like I painted my nails blue and then a bird pooped on them :S . But it all came together with the branches and the birds :D

MOAR Giveaways!!

Tis the season for giveaway's it seems! Check out these awesome blogs:

 Perrypie is having her 100 followers giveaway. Before she knows it she'll be at 200!! Check out her awesome giveaway here. 

Jellynat is having her 50 folllwers giveaway! She's already hit 100 though by now. Her blog is awesome and her writing style superb! Check it out here.

You've Got Nail is having her February Giveaway! Check it out here.

Help Polish or Perish with some research and get the chance to win some Orly Sweet Polishes! Check out the full giveaway with rules here.









Kolor Me Krazy is having her first giveaway. Check out all of the rad prizes here. 

Daily Polish is having a Go Big or Go Home giveaway! There are so many awesome prizes to be won! Check them out here.






And last but certainly not least On Beauty and Polish is having a giveaway after reaching 15 followers! Check it out here! Whoot fellow Canadian blogger! :)

50 Followers Giveaway!

EDIT: Thank you to everyone who entered! The contest closed on Feb 20th but I'll be having another giveaway soon so check back!

Wow 50 followers. I certaintly didn't think that I would ever have more than the 3 people I pressure to read my posts and now theres 50, actually 51, of you who stop by!! I really appreciate it. Truly I do! I love doing nail art and love reading your comments and reading all of your blogs in return.

So to celebrate this little milestone I have a modest giveaway :) The prize is some nail art pens from Claire's in Black, Silver and White and a really cool star glitter polish to inspire you to do some nail art of your own! I think that anyone, ANYONE can do nail art, and this is just to get you started ;)

The entry is simple:
1) You must be a follower - leave your email in the comments section of this post with your email address

For 2 bonus entries:
2) Blog about this giveaway with the above picture on your blog and a link back to this post.
3) Tweet about this giveaway on Twitter and let me know your status link.

You can post all of your entries in one comment or in separate comments for a total of 3 entries.

I'll pull a name exactly one week from now on February 20th! Contest is open to everyone including international readers :)

Happy entering and thanks again everyone! YAY!

Another Giveaway!

Nails Etc just hit 50 followers!!! Check out her giveaway here which includes some awesome duochromes! It ends Wednesday so go quick :D







And speaking of 50 followers I'm almost there myself!!! Perhaps I'll do a fabulous giveaway! Hmm :)

Quick find!!

Just found this Gosh colour at Shoppers called Golden Dragon. It looks exciting!! The pick doesn't do it justice but it's a green/gold duochrome. Perhaps I'll try it with some nail art later!!





- Posted using my iPhone

G-G-G-Giveaways! So many goodies!

There are a lot of giveaways going on! Check them out:

 Tuli is having a very special Valentines Day giveaway with some very pretty red polishes and other V-day themed goodies. Check out her giveaway here! Contest ends Feb 14th though so go quick!

Painted Lady Fingers is celebrating 400+ followers with this awesome Colour Club giveaway. I've never had any colour club polishes so I'm really excited about this one. Check out the contest here and its only open until Feb 13th!

Cucumpear is having a give away to celebrate the end of winter semester! Whooh, am I ever glad I didn't go back to school :P You can check out her giveaway here until Feb 18th!

Evil Angel is celebrating 300+ followers with a giveaway! I love Evil Angel's giveaways cause they're so unique and her prizes are always awesome! Check it out here until March 3rd

The Nail Nerd is celebrating 200 followers with a valentines day themed giveaway. Those are such cute OPI colours! Check out the giveaway here which is over on Feb 14th!

Daily Polish is having a 100 followers giveaway with so many lovely goodies! Check out her contest here until Feb 20th!

Gildedangel's awesome giveaway!

The lovely Gildedangel just hit 300 followers and to celebrate is having a rad giveaway. Check out her blog for more details and how you can enter.

I'd get on it. Those polishes are awesome, and its always fun to support a fellow blogger on a milestone!!

Don't Adjust Your TV Nails Did

As you may or may not know I work in the glamorous world of TV managing TV promotions for 7 Canadian stations including (but not limited to) W Network, YTV and CMT. And when I say glamorous I mean not actually glamorous at all. Actually radio was like 100x's more glamorous...but only because I got free swag like ALL the time: movie tickets, beer, clothes, video games. In TV I can't even steal decent office supplies! Oh well, at least my nails look snazzy!



Today my nails are inspired by the industry I know and love. And the screen we see at least once a week. Good old Rogers cable!  I used this picture as my template:

To start off and to make things a wee bit easier I drew lines on my nails as a sort of grid to where I was going to draw in the colours with a pen and then I set to work. I used a lot of colours so I'll just list all that I used:

• Frankened grey from China Glaze White on White and Liquid Leather
• CG Solar Power
• CG For Audrey
• Nail art pens in Red, Green, Purple and Blue
• CG Neon Purple Panic
• CG Liquid Leather and Sexy in the City for the dark blue
• CG White on White

Then I just filled in the boxes one by one with a small brush until they were all full.

I topped it off with Seche Vite to make everything stay in place. SO - this was a long mani I'm not going to lie. Between doing frankens, drawing grids and painting everything with a small brush  by hand I was running about 2.5 hours. BUT I did it watching House and Ultimate Cakes and Ben rewatching the Giants win the superbowl (for the 3rd time :S) so I had some time.

Phew...next time though I'll lean on the side of something a little simpler LOL. But they look pretty cool so I guess the time spent was worth it!!