Sabtu, 30 Oktober 2010

Craving Nail Art?


A week or so ago, BellaSugar.com asked me for a couple of my favorite Halloween manicures, and I did two designs especially for them!! They included them in their Halloween Manicure slide show- I'm number 8 & 9! :)



You can find them here (or click the picture above): Halloween Manicures at BellaSugar.com

Jumat, 29 Oktober 2010

In Defense of the Arts and Humanities: On Derek Jarman's Wittgenstein (1993)

In Defense of Philosophy: Derek Jarman's Wittgenstein (1993): A discussion at London's Tate Modern with the film’s producer Tariq Ali and Jonathan Derbyshire, culture editor of the New Statesman on October 22, 2010

A seminal thinker of the twentieth century, Wittgenstein’s revolutionary ideas have had an impact in disciplines beyond philosophy including psychology, the natural sciences, linguistics, mathematics, logic, art, religion, artificial intelligence and software design.

Like all right-thinking scholarly blogs, Film Studies For Free has been terribly alarmed by the increasing international attacks on, as well as actual cutbacks to academic Arts and Humanities subjects in the context of the global economic crisis.

So, today's posting of the latest film-studies related video published by the Tate Channel is a timely one indeed. In this video, film producer and writer Tariq Ali defends these disciplines at the same time as he celebrates the (more relevant than ever) film work of Derek Jarman, the marvellous British artist who created his best works against the backdrop of similar, short-sighted, anti-intellectual and anti-cultural attacks. 

If these developments are of concern to you, why not join in with the dialogue about them at a newly launched, campaigning Facebook group DEFEND the ARTS and HUMANITIES? FSFF's author will be most pleased to see you sounding off there.

In the meantime, below are a couple of highly worthwhile scholarly studies of Jarman's take on philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Senin, 25 Oktober 2010

The Daily Nail v2.0!!


I wanted to take a few minutes to thank you all for participating in all the giveaways, and to the winners that have yet to email me- please hurry, so I can get your prize sent to you!

The Daily Nail version 2.0 is coming soon, so bear with me for a few days while I get things redesigned! Thanks for being patient!! :)

XOXO

-M


Flamin' Hot Giveaway! WINNER!


And the winner of the Zoya COlor 'Wardrobe' is....

Liz!!


Liz- please email me your contact information to thedailynail@gmail.com!!

Minggu, 24 Oktober 2010

The Lap of Luxury - WINNER!


and the winner of the full set of Color Club Untamed Luxury polishes is....

Janna!


Janna, please email me you contact info at thedailynail@gmail.com

A 'Pendant' for Polish! - WINNER!!


and the winner of the beautiful pendant made by Tracey of Ginger Kitty Designs is... *drumroll*

~Elizabeth aka Lacquered Lizard!!!



Contact me with your info at thedailynail@gmail.com!!

Cognitive Film Studies

An empirical approach? Guy Pearce as Leonard Shelby in Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000)
Scholars often resist the cognitive approach to art because they're reluctant to mount causal or functional explanations. Instead of asking how films work or how spectators understand films, many scholars prefer to offer interpretive commentary on films. Even what's called film theory is largely a mixture of received doctrines, highly selective evidence, and more or less free association. Which is to say that many humanists treat doing film theory as a sort of abstract version of doing film criticism. They don't embrace the practices of rational inquiry, which includes assessing a wide body of evidence, seeking out counterexamples, and showing how a line of argument is more adequate than its rivals.  [David Bordwell, introducing a free download of his article 'A Case for Cognitivism: Further Reflections', Iris no. 11 (Summer 1990): 107–112.]
Film Studies For Free has previously only touched on the burgeoning field of cognitivist film studies in passing. Today, however, it has decided to gather together links to some excellent online resources, above all from two journals -- Film Studies and The Journal of Moving Image Studies -- in order to provide a good introduction to this field, as well as to the related field of analytic (film) philosophy, two increasingly influential sets of approaches to our discipline.

As one of the most eloquent and persuasive champions of cognitivism is film scholar extraordinaire David Bordwell, one of the very best places to begin such an introduction is with a selection of openly accessible writings on this topic by that author. For instance, here, Bordwell summarises the history of cognitive film studies and discusses some recent work as a prelude to the second annual meeting of The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (note: link now updated).  Scroll down for lots more great work...

(Note: David Bordwell is probably the most generous of scholars in relation to making his invaluable work freely available online. As always, FSFF thanks him very sincerely for helping to make online film studies such a rewarding focus. This entry is dedicated to his work).

Introductions to Cognitivist Film Studies:
Film Studies
Volume 8, Summer 2006


The Journal of Moving Image Studies -
Note: Apologies but there's currently a problem with the links set out below, which FSFF will fix as soon as it can. But in the meantime, all the below articles can be accessed via this page.

Vol. 1, 2002
Vol. 2, 203

Vol. 3, 2004

Vol. 4, 2005

Vol. 5, 2006


Vol. 6, 2007

Flamin' Hot Giveaway!


The last giveaway prize is awesome...it's a...




AND a


Zoya Color Lock System!!

How awesome is that!?!


To be eligible, here's what you gotta do:

NUMBER 1- Be a follower of the Daily Nail - and I'm curious - tell me how long! :) (be honest, if you're a brand new follower- I don't care- that's awesome TOO!!)

NUMBER 2- What's your favorite color of Zoya Nail Polish?

That's it! Just leave it in the comments, and I'll select the winner randomly!! :)


Entries must be received by 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time, Oct 23.




"I follow The Daily Nail on both twitter AND on blogspot! I've been following for 374 days! My favorite Zoya color would have to be Yummy or Trixie!"


Products up for giveaway were provided by the manufacturer, and can be purchased online at Zoya.com.

Sabtu, 23 Oktober 2010

A 'Pendant' for Polish!


Today's giveaway prize is from one of the nail polish community's own, it's a handmade creation from Tracey, creator of Ginger Kitty Designs!




If you're not aware of Tracey and her gorgeous creations, now is a great time to go check out her Etsy Store! There are some incredible pieces of jewelry there- bracelets, rings, earrings, and pendants- ALL MADE WITH NAIL POLISH!! How awesome is that?! The best part is while her products are gorgeous, they are ALSO inexpensive, and with the holidays are coming up, they'd be wonderful for those nail polish fanatics in your life! (OR YOURSELF!!! :))

The pendant that she made for this giveaway was all made with CND Colors and Effects!! I'm drooling over it, and I'm so jealous of the winner... though she made me a gorgeous ring with Nfu Oh 51!!

Click picture for larger view!!


To be eligible, here's what you gotta do:

NUMBER 1- Be a follower of the Daily Nail - and I'm curious - tell me how long! :) (be honest, if you're a brand new follower- I don't care- that's awesome TOO!!)

NUMBER 2- If you had any colors of nail polishes in the world to work with, what combination would YOU put together if you could make a pendant??

That's it! Just leave it in the comments, and I'll select the winner randomly!! :)


Entries must be received by 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time, Oct 23.




"I follow The Daily Nail on both twitter AND on blogspot! I've been following for 374 days! If I could combine ANY colors of nail polish to make a pendant, I think I would like to see Zoya Shawn, L.A. Girl Army Green, my franken of American Apparel California Trooper and American Apparel Manila, with just a tiny bit of Essie Alligator purse to set off the greens, and a sparkly gold to add some ribbons of shimmer!!"


Products up for giveaway were provided by Tracey, creator of Ginger Kitty Designs, which can be purchased from her Etsy Store!

Jumat, 22 Oktober 2010

you Set My Hemp A-Flutter! - WINNERS!!


The winner of the LUSH Lemony Flutter is... *DRUMROLL*

zeldamac!!


and...

The winner of The Body Shop Hemp Moisturizing High Balm is

Brittan!!

Both of you please email me your contact information to thedailynail@gmail.com

Thanks!!



Kamis, 21 Oktober 2010

The Lap of Luxury


Giveaway Day 8- and they just keep coming!! lol

The awesome prize I have for you today is...

Photo courtesy of Color Club

The ENTIRE Color Club Untamed Luxury Collection!!
(seriously awesome stuff!)

To be eligible, here's what you gotta do:

NUMBER 1- Be a follower of the Daily Nail - and I'm curious - tell me how long! :) (be honest, if you're a brand new follower- I don't care- that's awesome TOO!!)

NUMBER 2- What's your most luxurious habit?

That's it! Just leave it in the comments, and I'll select the winner randomly!! :)


Entries must be received by 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time, Oct 22.



"I follow The Daily Nail on both twitter AND on blogspot! I've been following for 373 days! My most luxurious habit would be either painting my nails daily, or indulging in delicious, rich foods and desserts!"


Products up for giveaway were provided by the manufacturer, and can be purchased online at transdesign.com, 8ty8beauty.com, and a plethora of other online retailers.

A Glaze-ing Seche-ion - WINNER!!!


YAY!! The winner of the set of China Glaze Vintage Vixen nail polishes, and the Seche treatment line is.... *drumroll*

ReaderRita!!


Email me at thedailynail@gmail.com with your contact information!!

Rabu, 20 Oktober 2010

You Set My Hemp A-Flutter!


Giveaway, Day 7!!

Today's giveaway has two smaller prizes for two different winners. This giveaway was intended to be the last one, but since I'm waiting on some info for the other ones, I moved it up in the rotation!

The two prizes are:



A tub of Lush Lemony Flutter 
(which saved my cuticles!!)




A tin of The Body Shop's Hemp Moisture High Balm
(which is new, and I LOVE it!)

To be eligible, here's what you gotta do:

NUMBER 1- Be a follower of the Daily Nail - and I'm curious - tell me how long! :) (be honest, if you're a brand new follower- I don't care- that's awesome TOO!!)

NUMBER 2- Tell me which balm/cream you think you'd like better, and why!

That's it! Just leave it in the comments, and I'll select the winners randomly (one from the people who want to try Lemony Flutter, and one from the people who want to try The Body Shop's Hemp Moisture High Beam!!) :)


Entries must be received by 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time, Oct 21.

I'll start!


"I follow The Daily Nail on both twitter AND on blogspot! I've been following for 372 days! I love the LUSH Lemony Flutter because it totally conditions and moisturizes my cuticles, and helps protect them from the damaging chemicals in all the polish remover I have to use!"


You Continuously Deserve Royal Treatment! - WINNER!


The randomly selected winner of the Sally Hansen Continuous Treatment line of products is...*drumroll*

Toesthattwinkle!!



Please send me your contact info to thedailynail@gmail.com!!!

Finger Paints Winter Dreams Holiday Collection! (Preview)


Hey everyone, just to break the monotony of giveaways, I posted a preview of the upcoming Finger Paints Winter Dreams Holiday Collection on the Daily Nail: Reviews blog! :)

Black Narcissus: the Colours of Desire

Updated October 28, 2010
Image from Black Narcissus (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1947)
[Black Narcissus]’s trauma-tale is inseparable from the doomed project [of Imperialism]: it is predicated on the vertiginous nature of culture shock. The lofty palace-convent perched on the edge of a mountain precipice [...] seems a visual metonym. Sister Clodagh may want to heal and enlighten “a primitive people”, but, when she looks up and then looks down from the bell tower, she is completely lost. Powell and Pressburger have transposed the ‘edge of the world’ from Foula at the tip of the Shetlands in Powell’s 1937 Scottish picture (The Edge of the World) to India’s border with the high Himalayas; from the edge of the Roman Empire to the edge of the British Empire. The former, of course, was long gone; the latter was about to expire. The end of empire is literally vertiginous, its trauma doubly embedded, or embodied, in the figures of Clodagh and sickly Sister Ruth (Kathleen Byron). Ruth cannot hack the chasm of culture that confronts her and wants out; Clodagh, disillusioned after a romance in Ireland has ended when her boyfriend leaves for America without her, seeks solace in the Order. Flashback shows us the rural idyll of Irish sweethearts fishing and riding amidst fields and hills of emerald Technicolor, the flame-haired Clodagh slim, free-spirited and ravishing, like a figure from a Pre-Raphaelite painting. The long auburn hair now concealed under the all-embracing convent habit is never to reappear. As the fragile Order starts to crumble after the unfortunate death of a local child, the febrile Sister Ruth sheds her habit to reappear in scarlet lipstick and a lush crimson dress; for the shocked Clodagh, perhaps a melodramatic return of the repressed – the erotic red of the painted lips matched by the sensual velvet that highlights the shape of the female figure rather than burying it under a mountain of white cloth. [John Orr, 'The Trauma Film and British Romantic Cinema 1940-1960', Senses of Cinema, Issue 51, 2009]
Filled with the joys of Open Access Week 2010, Film Studies For Free brings you a small but perfectly formed 'study of a single film' resource: a little list of openly accessible online articles on Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's 1947 film Black Narcissus.

Selasa, 19 Oktober 2010

A Glaze-ing Seche-ion


Day #6 of giveaways!!! AWESOME!!

Today's prize is one of my favorite brands, and a line of products that make this blog possible!!

It is:







A FULL SET of China Glaze Vintage Vixen nail polishes, PLUS the Seche Treatment line (Retain, Rebuild, Recondition) AND Seche Vite!!! 

How kickass is that?!

To be eligible, here's what you gotta do:

NUMBER 1- Be a follower of the Daily Nail - and I'm curious - tell me how long! :) (be honest, if you're a brand new follower- I don't care- that's awesome TOO!!)

NUMBER 2- Tell me your secret to feeling like a vixen!

That's it! Just leave it in the comments, and I'll select the winner randomly!! :)


Entries must be received by 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time, Oct 20.




"I follow The Daily Nail on both twitter AND on blogspot! I've been following for 371 days! My secret to feeling like a vixen is to wear something that makes ME feel pretty, whether it's a conventionally sexy item or not- it could be a soft t-shirt and worn-in jeans or a sassy little black dress!!"


Products up for giveaway were provided by the manufacturer, and can be purchased at Sally Beauty Supply, sallybeauty.com, ULTA, ULTA.com, transdesign.com, 8ty8beauty.com, and a plethora of other online retailers.

You're Xtreme-ly Awesome! WINNER!


YAYYY!!! The randomly selected winner of the set of 10 Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear polishes is....



Kristyne!

Please send me your contact info to thedailynail@gmail.com!

Senin, 18 Oktober 2010

You Continuously Deserve Royal Treatment!


Giveaway Day #5!!

Today is the last day of Sally Hansen giveaways, but stay tuned, there are still giveaways from Zoya, China Glaze, Color Club, Ginger Kitty Designs, and one other giveaway left!! :)





Today's giveaway is a set of 4
Sally Hansen Continuous Treatment products!!




To be eligible, here's what you gotta do:

NUMBER 1- Be a follower of the Daily Nail - and I'm curious - tell me how long! :)

NUMBER 2- Tell me what continuous treatment you think you need the most and why!

That's it! Just leave it in the comments, and I'll select the winner randomly!! :)


Entries must be received by 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time, Oct 19.

"I follow The Daily Nail on both twitter AND on blogspot! I've been following for 370 days! I think that the Sally Hansen Continuous Treatment product that I need the most is the Base & Top Coat, since I am bad, and use my nails as tools, so my nail polish tends to chip!"


From Sally Hansen:

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chips, tears, breakage or brittleness, there’ s a Sally Hansen Continuous Treatment for you. Each fortifying
formula works overtime to promote nail strength, growth, durability, shine or wear, ensuring perfectly
healthy nails for the perfect manicure. The Time-Released formulas continue to treat nails for up to ten
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You Have: Soft, thin nails that tear and peel.
You Want: Strong, durable nails.
How I t Works: Patented Vita-Release Technology Formula includes a targeted, time-released Vitamin-Mineral
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Continuous Treatment Time-Released Strength Formula
You Have: Fragile nails that break and split.
You Want: Strong, resilient nails.
How I t Works: The Vitamin-Mineral Complex in Sally Hansen’ s patented Vita-Release Technology
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Continuous Treatment Time-Released Growth Formula
You Have: Dry, brittle nails that won’ t grow.
You Want: Long, healthy-looking nails.
How I t Works: Patented Vita-Release Technology with a time-released Vitamin-Mineral Complex continuously
fortifies and revitalizes nails as an exclusive Blue Algae formula locks in nourishment to protect for ten
continuous days and promote growth in brittle nails.
You’ll Get: Visibly longer, healthier-looking nails."

Products up for giveaway were provided by the manufacturer, and can be purchase at CVS, Walgreens, Wal-Mart, ULTA, K-Mart, Target, and a million other locations, both brick-and-mortar and online!

Thank You, Chrome Again! - WINNER!


The randomly selected winner of Giveaway, Day 3 is...

Callie!!





Callie- email me with your contact info at thedailynail@gmail.com!

Lots more links to film studies journals to celebrate Open Access Week!

Open Access Week, a global event now entering its fourth year, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.

“Open Access” to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need – has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted. It has direct and widespread implications for academia, medicine, science, industry, and for society as a whole.

Open Access (OA) has the potential to maximize research investments, increase the exposure and use of published research, facilitate the ability to conduct research across available literature, and enhance the overall advancement of scholarship. Research funding agencies, academic institutions, researchers and scientists, teachers, students, and members of the general public are supporting a move towards Open Access in increasing numbers every year. Open Access Week is a key opportunity for all members of the community to take action to keep this momentum moving forward.
 
It's International Open Access Week this week, and while every week is Open Access Week at Film Studies For Free, this website decided to celebrate this special week of events by flagging up the work of an individual who can rightfully claim to be one of the most hard-working supporters of this important cause: Jan Szczepanski.

FSFF was recently contacted by Jan, a librarian from Sweden who has been a collector of freely accessible scholarly e-journals since the end of the 1990's. He has been responsible for gathering the longest ever lists of links to (multilingual) Open Access scholarly journals titles, mostly in humanities and the social sciences, many of which you can access through the embedded document below (also see here).

FSFF hasn't yet fully cross-checked Jan's list with its own list of English-language online Film and Media Studies Journals (permanently accessible from the table of contents in the right-hand sidebar), but will do so as soon as possible in order to add notable items it hasn't yet come across.

FSFF has set up the document below so that you can immediately scroll down through the Film titles, from page 107. But you can also perform a search for 'Masskommunikation' to scroll automatically to page 491 for lots of Media Studies titles.

Thanks so much to Jan for getting in touch and especially for all his hard work in assembling this monumental list.

Smashbox Cosmetics Sale on Hautelook!



Hey all! There is a Smashbox Cosmetics sale on Hautelook today!!

There are cosmetics kits, sets of lipglosses, palettes, brushes, bronzer, cheek colors, you name it! :)

Check it out! Smashbox Cosmetics Sale at Hautelook!

PhD Theses on Hal Hartley, John Wayne and Clint Eastwood, and Spanish cinema studies

Javier Bardem as Raúl and Penélope Cruz as Silvia in Jamón Jamón (Bigas Luna, 1992) as discussed in Rebecca Naughten's work Spain Made Flesh: Reflections and projections of the national in contemporary Spanish stardom, 1992-2007
Film Studies For Free was delighted when Spanish cinema scholar Rebecca Naughten responded to its request for information about online PhD theses. Not only did Rebecca let FSFF know that her own really excellent thesis has recently been made available online, but she also did the hard work of trawling through the online repository at the University of Newcastle, where her work is stored, to find four other very good theses archived there. ¡Muchísimas gracias, Rebecca!

These works have just been added to FSFF's permanent list of Online Film and Moving Image Studies PhD Theses (see the link in the table of contents in the right-hand sidebar for future reference) which now makes more than 130 theses accessible to you at the click of your mouse.

Do please let FSFF know if your online PhD thesis, or others you know of, is not yet in this list.

Minggu, 17 Oktober 2010

You're Xtreme-ly Awesome!


WOO!! If you're reading this, you've made it to day #4 of giveaways!!



Today's giveaway is a set of 
10 Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Nail Colors!

To be eligible, here's what you gotta do:

NUMBER 1- Be a follower of the Daily Nail - and I'm curious - tell me how long! :)

NUMBER 2- Tell me what YOUR favorite color of Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear polish is, and WHY!

That's it! Just leave it in the comments, and I'll select the winner randomly!! :)


Entries must be received by 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time, Oct 18.




"I follow The Daily Nail on both twitter AND on blogspot! I've been following for 369 days! My favorite Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear color is Sun Kissed, because I LOVE the color orange, and Sun Kissed is a great orange!"


Products up for giveaway were provided by the manufacturer, and can be purchase at CVS, Walgreens, Wal-Mart, ULTA, K-Mart, Target, and a million other locations, both brick-and-mortar and online!

The Pen is Mightier Than the Sword! - WINNER!!


Hey all!!

The randomly drawn winner of the set of Sally Hansen Nail Art Pens is mylynne!!


Please send me an email with your contact info at thedailynail@gmail.com!

Sabtu, 16 Oktober 2010

Thank You, Chrome Again!


Today is Giveaway Day #3!!

I'm SO thrilled with the response that these giveaways are getting- you guys are awesome!

Today's giveaway prize is:


A set of Sally Hansen Color Quick Chrome Nail Color Pens!

To be eligible, here's what you gotta do:

NUMBER 1- Be a follower of the Daily Nail - and I'm curious - tell me how long! :)

NUMBER 2- Tell me why you like, or why you think you'd like Sally Hansen Quick Chrome Nail Color Pens!

That's it! Just leave it in the comments, and I'll select the winner randomly!! :)


Entries must be received by 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time, Oct 17.



"I follow The Daily Nail on both twitter AND on blogspot! I've been following for 368 days! Since I've never tried the Sally Hansen Quick Chrome Nail Color Pens, I think that I'd like them because it's a manicure in your pocket! I could keep it in my purse for touchups, or for a quick manicure on the fly!"


Products up for giveaway were provided by the manufacturer, and can be purchase at CVS, Walgreens, Wal-Mart, ULTA, K-Mart, Target, and a million other locations, both brick-and-mortar and online!

You COMPLETE Me -the WINNER is....


Lori!!! and since there were more than one Lori, THIS is the Lori that won!! :)


Please email me at thedailynail@gmail.com!!

Jumat, 15 Oktober 2010

The Pen is Mightier Than the Sword!


Giveaway Day Number TWO!!

Today's prize is another Sally Hansen treasure- and I debuted them on my blog on DAY 8!! That's right-


Prize #2 is a set of the Sally Hansen Nail Art pens!!

To be eligible, here's what you gotta do:

NUMBER 1- Be a follower of the Daily Nail - and I'm curious - tell me how long! :)

NUMBER 2- Tell me what you would draw with the nail art pens if you could draw anything on your nails! 

That's it! Just leave it in the comments, and I'll select the winner randomly!! :)


Entries must be received by 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time, Oct 16.

I'll start:


"I have been following The Daily Nail blog for 367 days, both through Google Friend Connect and Twitter!  I would draw the band members of KISS with my Sally Hansen nail art pens...oh wait.. I did. ;)"

Products up for giveaway were provided by the manufacturer, and can be purchase at CVS, Walgreens, Wal-Mart, ULTA, K-Mart, Target, and a million other locations, both brick-and-mortar and online!

Thoughts, Prayers, Positive Vibes Needed.


Hey all, I need a favor.

The daughter of one of my readers (and all-around great people I've had the pleasure of knowing...and mother-in-law to someone close to me) is in Intensive Care right now. I'm sure that any warm fuzzies, prayers, thoughts, positive vibes, and whatever else awesome you can karmically send her way would mean a lot. It's a super scary time right now!

Thanks!

-M


Kamis, 14 Oktober 2010

You COMPLETE Me.


Before I get into the actual giveaway part of this post, I want to explain how I chose what products to give away. I wanted to give away products from companies that I've used during most (if not all) of my blog project. In the coming days, you'll see ZOYA (because after all, ZOYA was the catalyst to this blog's beginning!), Sally Hansen, China Glaze, Seche, Color Club, Lush, and even a handmade nail polish necklace from the amazing GingerKitty Designs! (WHICH IS GORGEOUS!!!)

Today's Prize is:



10 (yes, TEN!)
randomly selected Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure polishes!

To be eligible, here's what you gotta do:

NUMBER 1- Be a follower of the Daily Nail - and I'm curious - tell me how long! :)

NUMBER 2- Tell me your FAVORITE Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure polish, and why you like it so much!

That's it! Just leave it in the comments, and I'll select the winner randomly!! :)


Entries must be received by 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time, Oct 15.

I'll start:



"I follow The Daily Nail on both twitter AND on blogspot! I've been following for 366 days! My favorite Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure is a four-way tie between Hidden Treasure (obviously), Fedora, Sequin Scandal, and of course, a mainstay in my nail art- Lavender Cloud! I love them all because they are unique, pigmented, and the brush shape provides FLAWLESS application!"


Products up for giveaway were provided by the manufacturer, and can be purchase at CVS, Walgreens, Wal-Mart, ULTA, K-Mart, Target, and a million other locations, both brick-and-mortar and online!

There's No 'I' in Blog.




Thank you all so much for being a part of my life this past year, all your emails, comments, etc. mean the world to me. (even if I suck at returning them- I'm working on it, I promise!!)

I am looking forward to starting year 2 with you!!!

Keep an eye out later today for the first giveaway post!!

Rabu, 13 Oktober 2010

The Ends.


Wow. I can't believe it. I finished. This is one of the only major projects in my entire life that I've seen through to fruition, and I'm SO glad that you all were here to be part of it. (THANK YOU!!) This end is a little bittersweet for me, because I really loved the challenge of that 11:59:59 p.m. deadline every day (I often joke that I'm the Cinderella of nail bloggers), but also because I'm going to be able to take a break, or have a weekend away without having to pack a million bottles of nail polish and nail paraphernalia. Don't worry though, I'm not going anywhere!! I found that I really enjoy doing this blog, and the interaction between me and all the wonderful people that read it. (that's you!!!) I plan to keep this project going, and while it might not be every day, my goal is to post every other day or so. (It'll be weird to have a manicure for more than a day! *GASP*)

Since today is the very last day of my 365-day journey, I really wanted to end it with a bang, and with the same humor and nerdiness with which it started, so today's nails...are 'The Ends'. (animal 'ends', that is!!) Yes, this is my weird and twisted sense of humor, but I think that, considering you've been reading the blog to this point, you must like it. I did animal butts because I'm not a sappy gal, and I like to make you giggle- and most of all, I love doing crazy stuff on my nails that other people might think is weird...or gross? :-D That's me, and that's pretty much what my blog is about, weird awesomeness.

On my left hand, I did a baby butt on the thumb, a deer butt (for my Uncle John & Aunt Kim and all the other Michiganders!) on my index finger, a zebra butt on my middle finger, a giraffe butt on my ring finger, and a cat butt on my pinky. (because how could I do this without a cat butt?!)

On my right hand, I have an elephant butt on my thumb, pig butt on my index finger, a horse butt on my middle finger, a sheep butt (hehehe) on my ring finger, and a duck butt on my pinky!




I used:


Left hand:

Thumb: baby butt

MAC Abalone Shell as a base, shaded with Color Club Best Dressed List and Barielle Unravelled Rust, with Zoya Yummy for the background.

Index: Deer butt

Color Club Best Dressed List as a base, with brushed on lightly over it, then MAC Rich, Dark, Delicious lightly brushed over that. For the white, I used Sally Hansen Professional Lavender Cloud.

Middle: Zebra Butt

Sally Hansen Professional Lavender Cloud as a base, shaded with Orly Mirror, Mirror, then American Apparel Hassid for the black stripes, and L.A. Girl Army Green for the green background between the legs.

Ring: Giraffe Butt

American Apparel California Trooper as a base, with OPI Ginger Bells for the tail stripe, butter LONDON Minger for the spots, MAC Rich, Dark, Delicious for the tail. For the green in the background, I used both L.A. Girl Army Green and Zoya Shawn.

Pinky: Cat Butt!!!

butter LONDON Minger as a base, with American Apparel Summer Peach lightly brushed over that in spots (like around the butthole lol), and OPI Ginger Bells for the stripes. Between the legs is Barielle Unravelled Rust.


Right hand:

Thumb: Elephant Butt

Essence Pointbreak as a base, with Orly Mirror, Mirror blotted on with a crumpled paper towel. To shade for the tail, I added American Apparel Hassid to both greys for the wrinkles and shading to create the tail.

Index: Pig Butt

H&M Summer Fresh as a base, shaded with Color Club Best Dressed List and Barielle Unravelled Rust, with a mix of American Apparel California Trooper and American Apparel Manila and Barielle Unravelled Rust for the straw between its legs.

Middle: Horse Butt

OPI Ginger Bells as a base, with Barielle Unravelled Rust over it, then removed partway with a brush soaked in acetone to give a 'sheen' to the coat. For the tail, I used a combination of American Apparel Hassid and MAC Rich, Dark, Delicious.

Ring: Sheep Butt (hehehe)

American Apparel California Trooper as a base, with a mixture of American Apparel California Trooper and MAC Rich, Dark, Delicious patted over it to give the wool texture, I then used MAC Rich, Dark, Delicious for the bottom half of the legs, shaded with American Apparel Hassid. For the grass, I used both L.A. Girl Army Green and Zoya Shawn.

Pinky: Duck Butt

Zoya Yummy as a base, with ULTA Moody Blue brushed on lightly over it to give the water texture. For the duck body, I used Sally Hansen Professional Lavender Cloud as a base, shaded with Orly Mirror, Mirror and Essence Pointbreak, American Apparel Hassid was used for the tail feathers, then butter LONDON Minger for the legs, shaded with OPI Ginger Bells.

Topped it all off with 2 coats of Seche Vite top coat.


Man, I sure feel like an ass.

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