One Year Blogiversary Giveaway! -CLOSED-

In honor of my 1 year Blogiversary coming up on the 31st of December, I have created a giveaway! This giveaway is a thank you for sticking around with me through the year! It's for 495 followers (almost 500!) on my blog and 91 followers on my Facebook page! Thank you so much! You have been with me through thick and thin polish, through horrid manis and some wonderful manis! You are my Owlets! :)

So let's take a look at the giveaway shall we?

This giveaway is a few of my favorite things! 5 awesome polishes (all brand new)! l-r: Orly Nite Owl (my favorite polish!), China Glaze Trendsetter (favorite ugly color), OPI Stranger Tides (favorite zombie color!), OPI Skull & Glossbones (favorite neutral!), and Essence Grey-T To Be Here (favorite hard to capture on camera grey!).

I'm so excited to give you these polishes! I know these aren't hard to find for many people but that's alright, they are my favs and that's what makes them special! :)

Terms and Conditions:

1. Giveaway starts today and will run until 12:00am Monday December 31, 2012
2. Must be a public follower of Geeky Owl
3. Must be 18 years or older
4. Open internationally (except for Turkey, sorry!)
5. If the winner does not respond within 48 hours a new winner will be picked

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A White Mani to Remember.

Today, some of the bloggers in the nail world are doing a white themed mani in remembrance of the children who lost their lives in the tragedy yesterday in Sandy Hook, Connecticut. And so I have decided to join them with a simple one. I am still in shock how someone could take the lives of so many innocent children. My prayers are with those who have been affected by this tragedy. I hope those who have lost a loved one can find the peace they are searching for. I hope one day that we can all live in peace and love and respect.

I used Milani White On The Spot and Orly Halo. White is for the purity and innocence of the lives lost and for peace and nonviolence. And I thought Orly Halo was appropriate.

The Digit-al Dozen Does Festiveness Round-up!

Here is the The Digit-al Dozen Does Festiveness Round-Up! We had some new faces here this week and everyone seemed to step up the game with the terrific manis!

The Digit-al Dozen Does Festiveness & TGIF: Formerly Frosty by Pop Culture Polish

This is the final day of The Digit-al Dozen Does Festiveness. But it is also TGIF: Thank Goodness, Indy Indie Friday! And today we have Formerly Frosty by Pop Culture Polish. I bought this polish knowing the exact mani that I wanted to do! And I am so happy how it turned out!

This mani is based on a song I learned when I was little called "Once There Was A Snowman".

Once there was a snowman, snowman snowman.
Once there was a snowman, tall, tall, tall.
In the snow he melted, melted, melted.
In the snow he melted, small, small, small.

 See, my snowman is melting! :)

Here is Pop Culture Formerly Frosty, as always: (l-r) 4 coats, 3 coats, 2 coats, and 1 coat. This polish is a "beautiful clear coat filled with several sizes of white glitters and accenting orange and black glitters". Some of the smaller glitters are iridescent and so catch the light causing a gorgeous glow and sparkle, just like snow! :)

Here it is in more direct light. Love it! I'm assuming you all get the inspiration here. A melted snowman! Black glitters=eyes and orange bars=nose! As you can see, the black glitter and orange bars didn't like to come out of the bottle so much. But other than that I had no issues with this polish. There are many orange and black glitters but I didn't fish them out because I wanted to show you how it really went on.

Here is Formerly Frosty (one coat) over: (l-r) Essence Lime Up!, Orly Nite Owl, Essence Let's Get Lost, and Essence Break Through.

So for my melting snowman I used Essence Romeo as my base color. I made my snowman out of Milani White On The Spot with Pop Culture Polish Formerly Frosty over top. With hat and eyes out of Finger Paints Black Expressionism. His arms are Finger Paints Sketchy Character. And his nose is Nails Inc Hans Place. Expect for my pinky where the eyes and nose are Formerly Frosty.

Please go check out Pop Culture Cosmetics and their Polish:
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Please enjoy some fun videos. The first is how this song is normally sung and then the other two are fun medleys of it! :)

 

Don't forget to check out Emma's TGIF post over at Manicurity, she is also in The Digit-al Dozen! :) 

Don't forget to check out the other ladies and their festive manis! Oh and we have some new members! :)

The Digit-al Dozen Does Festiveness: The Three Wise Men

Today's mani is one of my favorites I have ever done. This is not my original idea. I copied this mani from Messy Mansion (click link to be sent to stamping plate site which also shows the photo). I first saw this picture on Facebook and my jaw dropped. I then ordered the plate and knew I had to re-create this for this week! There was just something magical in the way she designed the mani and I knew I had to do this stamp justice!

I began with two coats of Flormar U08. Gorgeous duochrome.

Here's a bit more of the duochrome shown.

I then sponged on Layla Softouch 02 Golden Touch and applied China Glaze Techno for stars.

I then stamped using Konad Black and Messy Mansion MM01. I then applied HK Girl Top Coat. I just love how this turned out. I just wish that the star was a bit bigger. I had to stamp the land and then the star because my nail and gold was too short. But I still love it! It's super shiny and just lovely.

Please check out Messy Mansion at her store or Facebook (Facebook link is to her photo of this and what she used). It is such a great plate! I can't wait to create another mani using this image!

I love the Three Wise Men. Growing up we used to watch the Claymation Christmas Special and "We Three Kings" was always one of our favorites and to this day we still sing this song like this:

Also love this rendition of the song by Straight No Chaser:

Don't forget to check out the other ladies and their festive manis! :)

The Digit-al Dozen Does Festiveness: Lights!

 

Day 3 for The Digit-al Dozen Does Festiveness and today is lights! Sure, I have a new stamp I could have used but I wanted to try free-handing some lights and I love how they turned out! :)

I chose these colors for the lights because these were the colors of the lights we use to have on our house growing up. We would keep them up all year long because they were a pain to put up and take down! :) But we had a basketball hoop up by the garage and so all the lights around the hoop got broken and that always made my dad mad! :)

I used Essence Romeo as my base. Wanted a nice neutral so that the color of the lights would pop!

I then used a small brush and Finger Paints Black Expressionism and drew the wire. I kind of like how it looks just like this! :)

For the lights I used Zoya Sooki, Catrice Blue Cara Ciao, Nails Inc Hans Place, and China Glaze Starboard. And yes, this is the same photo as above. Having issues with my OttLite and the lighting on my manis. Sorry! >_<  Hahaha! :)

Don't forget to check out the other ladies and their Festive manis! :)

The Digit-al Dozen Does Festiveness: Rudolph Accent Nail

Today I decided to bring you an easy fun accent nail of Rudolph! I was really happy how these turned out!

I started with three coats of Layla Softouch Effects 02 Golden Touch. Can I just say again how much I love the Softouch collection! Great formula and great durability! I did three coats and you can still see a bit of visible nail line in some lights. But I thought this was a great base as it is very holiday and magical! :) Oh and I am not a big gold person either and I love this!

I then used Layla Softouch Effects 11 Mudhattan (yep I bought this one especially for this mani!) for Rudolph's face. I used OPI Warm & Fozzie for his antlers, China Glaze Ruby Slippers for his nose, Pure Ice Platinum Magic Base Coat and Finger Paints Black Expressionism for his eyes.

Here is a different angle to show the texture of Mudhattan for Rudolph's face. It's sort of leathery! Can't wait to try this polish as a full mani!

A macro of Rudolph. I love OPI Warm & Fozzie for the antlers. I wanted something magical for them and have this polish with the two colors is great! Very shimmery! I think he turned out so cute!

I got my inspiration and help from this great tutorial over at Polish and Pearls (please click the link to see the video!).

Don't forget to check out the other ladies and their festive manis! :)