Dreamcatcher Decals

Today I’m wearing some more Moon Sugar Decals!  These are a cute dreamcatcher design that come 33 to a sheet as shown here.  BTW, did you see that I’m having an international GIVEAWAY where one lucky winner will get a $20 gift certificate for moonsugardecals.com ? Get on it!

Here’s how to enter my giveaway: a Rafflecopter giveaway

For this look I painted my nails with OPI My Vampire is Buff and I did a wood grain accent nail using my MoYou London nail stamping plate.  Then I put dream catcher water slide decals on the other nails.  Don’t know how to use water slide decals?  Here’s a step-by-step that I put together: DECAL TUTORIAL.  I followed the same application process for these dream catcher nails, except I also applied a very light layer of clear nail polish before sticking the decals on.  You don’t need to do that though.  They stick well enough from the clearcoat that you put on afterwards, but I just felt like trying it a different way.

I also used a dotting tool and some Wet n Wild I Need a Refresh-Mint to make some simple turquoise dots.  It only took a minute to place the dots, but they really transformed the manicure.  It gives a Native American feel I think.

I hope you like my nails and good luck in the giveaway! With a $20 gift certificate you could probably buy about 5 full sheets of decals!  If you win…. which designs would you pick from their catalog???  I really like their sugar skulls, but I also have some of their lotus flowers that I haven’t tried yet.  I got the lotus flowers from Julie at Short & Sweet in Texas.  We purchase different decals online and then mail each other little samples.  Julie and I are like an after-school-commercial… COLLECT THEM ALL, TRADE THEM WITH YOUR FRIENDS!  LOL

♥ If you place an order on moonsugardecals.com make sure to use my crafty coupon code 20OFFCN to save 20% off your order!!!  Code 20OFFCN is good til Feb 21, 2014. 

Moon Sugar Decals Giveaway!

GIVEAWAY ENDED ON Feb 9 2014.  Congrats to the winner- Reina!

My blog just recently hit 100,000 page views so I’d like to do something fun for my readers!  How would you like to win a $20 gift certificate at moonsugardecals.com?  Yay for waterslide decals!  Yay for giveaways!  My giveaway is open internationally until Feb 9th, 2014 and the lucky winner will get an online gift cert to spend on some awesome new waterslide decals, courtesy of Moon Sugar Decals!!

Here’s the link to enter: a Rafflecopter giveaway

Make sure to enter at the link above (you can tweet daily for extra chances to win), but don’t stop reading here!  Keep scrolling to see me wearing some moon sugar decals!

Moon Sugar recently added some new decals to their repertoire.  They’ve got new sheets of sugar skulls, stars, gems and even some hearts & cupids for valentines day.  Their new sheets have an assortment of decals on them so you won’t end up with too many of any one design.  Check out the new sheets here: moon sugar home.  They recently sent me some of their Star Nail Decals Assortment as a sample so let’s see what they look like in action!

Aren’t they cute??  I especially love how my thumb came out!

Good luck in my giveaway!  The winner will get an online coupon code that they can use to purchase their pick of decals from the online shop here.  MAY THE ODDS BE EVER IN YOUR FAVOR!!  I’d love for you to win so you can try out these sweet decals too!

Stay tuned, since tomorrow I will post another manicure using a different style decal from Moon Sugar.  See you then!

♥ UPDATE!  ♥ If you place an order on moonsugardecals.com make sure to use my crafty coupon code 20OFFCN to save 20% off your order!  Code 20OFFCN is good til Feb 21, 2014. 

Butler Please

I was recently at Sephora hovering around the nail polish display and I discovered the most beautiful blue I’ve ever seen- Illamasqua Cameo.  I tested it out and I fell in love with it, but I could not justify spending $14.00 on one bottle of polish!  Craftynail is way too thrifty for that!  So I hit up the nearest beauty supply store to find myself a cheaper dupe.  I came across Essie Butler Please and I think I paid less than $4.00 for it with my coupon!  After getting home and applying it I realized it’s not at all a dupe for the pricey Illamasqua!  The Essie is much darker and dried to a blotchy semi-matte finish.  The two coats did dry quick though (which is always a bonus)… so then I taped my tips off with painters tape and added some Sephora by OPI topcoat called Only Gold For Me.  Even though the Essie formula was not my fave, there’s nothing that some sparkles and a healthy topcoat of Seche Vite can’t fix!   I really love the regal look of this gold and royal blue together!   Apparently so does my mom- she came over tonight and asked me to paint her nails this color too… so now we are nail twinny twins!