Goodbye Summer Nail Art Contest - Winners!

First, thank you to everyone who entered this month's nail art contest. Lots of fabulous entries here, and it was hard choosing a winner! Without further ado, here are your contest winners!

Lisa from Nail Art World was my #1 pick for the first Grand Prize, with her "Sunset Heat" manicure. I think this really represented the "sunset" of summer, and the execution was very well done. Congratulations, Lisa!
Anna S. won the People's Choice vote and the second Grand Prize, as you can see by the poll to the right. She entered this stunning leaf manicure...and it was one of my personal "runners up" as well. Wonderful job - Congratulations, Anna!
Finally, I decided to award Thriszha of FAB UR NAILS an Honorable Mention, for her lovely "Highlighters" manicure that was a very clear second in the People's Choice vote (and another of my personal runners up). Thriszha, you'll get a set of Halloween Decals as your prize. Congratulations! Wonderful job, ladies, and great job to all who entered! I loved seeing all of your lovely artwork. Winners, please email me your mailing address, and I'll get your prizes sent out right away.

What do you say - anyone want to do this again?

Goodbye Summer: People's Choice Awards - Vote!

I've made my choice - now it's time for you to vote for the nail art design you like best! Each design is numbered, so you can vote for the design of your choice using the poll to the right. Voting closes at midnight on Tuesday, September 29th, and the winners will be announced on Wednesday. One vote per person, please.

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Voting is open now! Good luck, ladies!

Prize Photos

The rest of the prizes for the contest came today - hooray! Here's what the two lucky winners will receive:
Each package contains:

1 ea gold, silver & copper nuggeting (foils)
1 sheet laser lace
1 pack striping tapes
1 packet baby pearls
1 packet assorted rhinestones
1 packet square gems
1 tube Silver bouillon beads
1 packet Gold petals
1 packet shells
2 packets glitter
1 sheet Halloween decals
1 carousel to store nail art items in

I'm narrowing down my winners tonight - don't forget to vote in the People's Choice contest starting tomorrow!

Goodbye Summer Nail Art Contest - Now Closed!

Thanks to everyone who entered this month's nail art contest! We have 13 entrants, and it's going to be tough deciding which design I like best...that's tomorrow's job. I want to pick my grand prize winner before I post the photos on Sunday for everyone to vote on.

Interestingly, all of this month's entries were done on natural nails. Which means the 2nd "Grand Prize" package I ordered items for (and they did ship this time, thank goodness) that was to go to the winner of the artificial nails category is no longer needed. That just seems...wasteful.

Here's what I'm going to do. Instead of awarding just a set of Halloween decals to the People's Choice winning design, I'm going to award that person with the second Grand Prize package!

So thanks again for entering, and stop back on Sunday to vote for the design *you* think should win!

Contest News

I've got a tutorial to post today that I think at least some of you will like, but first, a quick update on the contest. I've gotten one entry - thank you! So there's still lots of room for people to get their photos in to me.

As for the prizes - I placed an order for lots of cool stuff, and spent the last few days trying to figure out what happened to it. Apparently, it just didn't go through the yahoo shopping cart system that the company uses or something (I never did actually find out what happened, but at least no money came out of my account either).

So that's my saga - I'm re-ordering today, and with any luck, should have all the goodies to show you by Friday (I have the decals/shells/glitters, just need the other various do-dads). Sometimes online ordering just doesn't work the way we want it to, unfortunately. But I'll get it figured out.

The contest deadline is this Friday at 5:00pm - happy polishing! :-)

"Goodbye Summer" - September Nail Art Contest

Calling all nail art enthusiasts! Get out your polishes, your paints, your glittery bits of bling! I want to see your “Goodbye Summer” themed nail art designs, from palm trees, sun and sandy beaches to school days and cooler nights. You have three weeks to design the perfect “Goodbye Summer” nails that could win you one of two nail art supply packages, or a set of Halloween nail decals!

Here are the rules:

- Anyone over 18 years old can enter.

- International entries welcome

- One entry per person.

- Natural and artificial nail designs both accepted. Please note which category you’re entering when you send your photo. Because you can do artistic things with artificial nails that are difficult or impossible with natural nails, the two will be judged separately. This is on the honor system – by entering, you are agreeing not to hold me liable if someone enters the wrong category, either intentionally or by mistake.

- Email your name and one or two photos of your design to nailarttues@gmail.com. Please crop your photos – no huge files. If you have a blog, please include the link.

- Entries are due by Friday, September 25, 2009 at 5pm Mountain time.

- You’re welcome to post your entry on your blog if you wish, but please send me the photo(s) as well.

I’ll choose one Natural Nail winner and one Artificial Nail winner, each will win one nail art supply package. The photos will be posted to the blog on Sunday, September 27th and readers will be able to vote for their favorite design. The winner of the popular vote will receive a set of Halloween-themed decals (or an extra set, if one of the prize winners gets the vote). All winners will be announced on Wednesday, September 30, 2009.

Photos and descriptions of the prize packages will be posted on Monday, the 21st. I’ve started assembling them, and I’m just waiting for some things that I ordered to arrive. They’ll include nail art items like rhinestones, shells, foils, design papers, striping tape – enough to keep you busy for a month, at least! No polish, sorry – I want to make sure I can ship the prizes anywhere without losing them to customs.

Now that we’ve gone through all that – I can’t wait to see what you all come up with!

Ready…Set…Go! Happy Polishing!

Nails on Twitter

Don't panic! I'll have my weekly nail art post up this afternoon, plus a bonus pedicure post for Thursday this week, both featuring new Zoya fall colors. In the meantime though, a few administrative things:

1. Thanks to all my great followers for following my blog! I've had a busy summer, and haven't had time to get around to all of your blogs yet, but I'm working on catching up with that now. I've designated Tuesdays as my "nail blog" day, so hopefully I'll be commenting again tonight.

2. I've been trying to come up with a new contest that doesn't involve polish for a prize, but rather nail art supplies (so that international readers will be assured of getting packages should they win). I don't want to leave anyone out. So look for that in the next month or so.

3. I'm considering setting up a twitter account solely for Nail Art Tuesday updates and other occasional nail/manicure/pedicure related tidbits. So I'm curious, how many of you have twitter accounts that focus mainly on nail polish/nail art tweets? Or do you work them into your personal twitter account? There's a poll to the right - and if you do have a nail-related twitter account, leave me a comment with your username. Whether I set up a separate account or not, I'm interested in following some nail tweets!

That's all for now - more nail art this afternoon!

Spring Fling Contest Entry Photos

Good morning all - I hope everyone had a happy Easter! Here are the entries I received for the contest. I'm so glad the winners were chosen by drawing, because there's no way I could have chosen which manicure was best!

Brooke's Entry - shiny holo eggs:
Catherine's Entry - freehand flowers, very nice:
Pixie's Entry holo-Konad cute bunnies & flowers:
Laura's Entry - colorful eggs:
Kae's Entry - clay canes...and great freehanding:
Liza's Entry - adorable bunnies:They are all wonderful - great job ladies!

Spring Fling Contest Winners - Congratulations!

And the Winners are.....

1st Prize: Brooke, from Getcha Nails Did
2nd Prize: Catherine N. (sorry, I didn't catch your blog?)
3rd Prize: Polish Pixie

Congratulations, ladies! Email me your addresses, and I'll send your prizes out soon!

Thanks to all six entrants - I'll post pictures on Monday (if not before).

Spring Fling Contest Prizes

I apologize for not getting these up sooner - I've been fighting a cold all week, and just not very organized. But here are pictures of the contest prizes, to be awarded by drawing this evening. Good luck everyone!
3rd prize: 1 Bottle Nubar Moodies "Turquoise to Blue" nail polish, 1 pack emery boards, 2 nail art items (gold glitter and dried flowers)2nd prize: 2 Bottles Avon Color - "Fuschia" (new Big 3 free formula) and "Fusion", 1 pack emery boards, 2 nail art items (green glitter and flower cutouts)1st prize: Honeybee Gardens Odorless Nail polish remover, 2 water-based nail polish colors (for a french manicure), 1 water based top coat, 2 nail art items (red glitter and dried flowers).

We have 6 entries now - contest is open until noon my Mountain time!

Spring Fling Contest

Show me your nails! Or more specifically, your nail art…

Easter is just around the corner, and I want to see your holiday inspired nail art. To enter, simply email me a picture of your own original Easter/Spring-themed nail art. Everyone who sends in a picture will be entered into the drawing, and I’ll choose a few of the best to feature here next Friday, so don’t forget to include your first name and if you have a blog, your blog address for the link. Three winners will be announced next Friday – April 10th.

I’ll accept entries until next Thursday (4/9) at noon (Mountain Time), so get painting!

Contest rules:

1. One entry per person, emailed to jdebree8@gmail.com.
2. Nail art must be done by you, on natural nails (this is a natural nail blog, after all).
3. Art may be done on finger or toe nails.
4. Pictures must be sized no larger than 500 x 500 pixels.
5. Must be 18 to enter.
6. Contest is open to all – international readers included.

I suppose you want to know about the prizes, right? Of course you do! I’ll post more details & pictures next week, but here’s a basic run down of the drawing prizes:

1st Prize: Easter basket with two bottles Honeybee Gardens Water-based polish, 1 bottle clear coat, 1 bottle eco-friendly polish remover, and 2 nail art items.

2nd Prize: 2 bottles Avon polish, 1 pack emery boards, 2 nail art items

3rd Prize: 1 bottle Nubar Moodies polish, 1 pack emery boards, 2 nail art items

Good luck, everyone...I can’t wait to see your artwork!