100 Facts about Me......maybe ;-)

I saw this on YouTube by one of my favorite vloggers/bloggers Teresa and her YouTube channel is http://www.youtube.com/user/ChaChaCakes

So here is my attempt at what she did
Let's see how far I can go:-)

1. My name is Mystie
2. I'm from Georgia
3. But I now live in North Carolina
4. I spell my name different than most people named Misty.
5. The reason is there was this actress named Misty Rowe on tv who was a ditz(she makes/made Paris Hilton look like a Rhodes Scholar let's put it that way) around the time i was born(yeah figure it out lol) and mom didn't want anyone to think I was named after her so she changed the spelling.
6. I hate the spelling!! Lol
7. My favorite color is purple( if you can't tell already)
8. I have one dog who will come after you if you try to hurt me or my mother, but is normally a laid back go with the flow kind of dog lol.
9. I hated math in school.
10. I love computer games
11. Love The Sims 2 the sims 3 is too complicated for me right now
12. I've never been out of the country, but I've always wanted to go to Spain.
13. That's one of the reasons why I'm trying to learn Spanish just in case thanks to Rosetta Stone :-)
14. My favorite genres of music are country and pop. Although these days it's hard to tell the difference.
15. My favorite music artist of all time are Wynonna Judd, New Kids In The Block, George Strait, George Jones, Tiffany, Martina McBride and Backstreet Boys
15. Didn't go to my first concert til I was 14 years old
16. My favorite "can't miss a single episode" tv shows are Mike and Molly, 2 Broke Girls and Dancing with The Stars.
17. My favorite holiday is Christmas
18. My favorite nail polishes are Nicole by OPI, OPI, China Glaze, and Julep
19. I love Food Network
20. My favorite on Food Network is Paula Deen.
21. I've met her and her boys...yes her boys are even better lookin' in person LOL especially Bobby:-)
22. She was really nice too!;-)
23. I collect cookbooks but I'm not a good cook.....yet but I'm going to try.
24. I also collect thimbles.
25. I don't know how many cookbooks I have exactly but I do have at least 40 thimbles
26. I used to collect mini tea sets but I think that stopped when I moved up here.
27. The most unique tea set I have is a 1950's soda shop motif, the shop itself is the tea pot, the cups are sodas(I think) and the ketchup bottle is the creamer. It's really cute.
28. I also collect Beanie Babies although that has slowed since I moved cause I don't have much room here for it.
29. My first Beanie was Wise the Owl I got for my high school graduation from one of my aunts. -----I totally just gave away my age if anyone is a Beanie aficionado like myself.
30. The first one I bought was Princess the one named for Princess Diana. The proceeds going to Elton John's AIDS Foundation.
31. I have a probably unhealthy obsession with the Royal family. LOL
32. The only Royals I don't care for are Prince Charles and Duchess of Cornwall(the Rotweiller as Princess Diana called her LOL)
33. I can't wait for The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's new baby next year! I just wish Diana was around to see it too:-(
34. I loved the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics. I have some of the songs downloaded on my IPhone.
35. My favorite was the Spice Girls performance.

I can't think of anymore. So I couldn't quiet get to 100 but you get what I'm about I think.

See ya in the New Year guys!! Thanks so much for reading and I hope I entertain you/ give you ideas in the new year!

SnowFlake Mani

I thought I'd do one more Christmas mani before the new year. I'll be doing a New Years mani later.

Here is the colors I used are Julep's Sharon and LA Color's White

I know you can't see that it's a snowflake but I tried lol I was a little heavy handed with the white. I need to get better with that. LOL Maybe I'll make that my New Years Resolution LOL:-D

 

 

Happy New Year!!

Lacquerhead Polish Review 1/Christmas nails

I thought with this Christmas nail art I'd kill two birds with one stone and do a review too!

The polish is from

 

The polish I'm reviewing today is called "Just be Claus" from the etsy shop owner's collection Christmas 2012 collection.

 

The owner's name is Alischia Taylor and here is the link to her shop. I have bought several of her polishes(and will review them all at a later time) Lacquerhead Polish shop on Etsy

 

I was having a Christmas party and was stuck on what nail art I wanted to do. I remembered I bought this polish a few weeks ago. So I tried it. To get a complete coverage I had to apply atleast 2 coats. It could serve as a cover over a solid color because of the glitters she has in it. But it is white based but I think any color can show through the white if you just put a thin coat of this on.

 This really looks great on nails and I don't know how great this will look picture wise on my nails

I really think this looks better in person. The glitters really are cute.

When taking it off I've been advised to use the foil method(cotton ball soaked in remover and cover in foil and wait a few minutes and take it off and it should all come off).


I really hope you give her polishes a try and she is a really sweet lady to do business with.

I will be doing another Christmas nail art blog tomorrow. So see ya tomorrow!!

 

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A Christmas break from the normal

I thought I,d take a little break and post something Christmasy but not nail art related.

I had a party today and I'd like to share a recipe or two with you. Don't worry I will get back to nail art(I even have a couple Christmas ones lined up already) within the next day or so.


Pretzel Rolo Bites

A bag of Rolos( either the regular ones or the minis work. Although personally I,d get the minis cause they don't have the wrappers on em and it's sync tedious work to get those wrappers off)

As many pretzels as there are Rolos the square kind.

Pecans ---same as pretzels

What you do is take a square pretzel and put a Rolo in top of each one. Once you get them all done put it in the oven @ 300 degrees for 3 minutes or until Rolos are slightly melted. Then take them out and put the pecans on top. Then you go it! I barely have any of these left so they might be a hit at your next gathering too!!


Garbage Bag Candy

I swear this is better than it sounds haha:-)

Ingredients

Chex cereal(doesn't matter what kind but I end up useing corn)

16 oz jar of peanuts

Box of raisins(not the pack of little one otherwise you'd be there all day getting enough to make a batch)

Milk chocolate chips

Powdered sugar

1/2 cup peanut butter

1 stick of butter

2 garbage bags( you do NOT want to use just one.....trust me)

* optional: pretzels, marshmallows personally I prefer marshmallows but you can put in really anything you think would be good with Chex, powdered sugar, chocolate, peanuts, and raisins.

You take the chocolate chips , butter and peanut butter and melt it over medium heat. After that's done you take the garbage bags one inside the other and pour in the cereal, raisins, peanuts and any optional ingredient. Then close and hold it with one hand and shake it with the other to get everything mixed together. Then pour the chocolate mixture. Then shake it til it's coated as much as possible. Then pour in atleast half a bag of powdered sugar, maybe more, maybe less. It's up to you. Once they are coated with that they are ready to eat or bag up to give as gifts. If you taste this you may end up making a second batch like I do. LOL, one for me and one for others.

I hope you all enjoy these as much as I do. If you have any questions comment below or hit me up on Facebook @ http://www.facebook.com/nailingitbymystie

Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays!!

Galatic Lacquer 1,000 Facebook Follower Giveaway

I've entered a nail art facebook page giveaway. These prizes look really neat. Plus the page is really cool. Feel free to enter this giveaway too.
1st

The first place winner will receive a brand new 18k gold topcoat from Sephora by OPI along with a mini nail file. The polish is new in the box


2nd

The second prize is a set of four minis from 365 Days of Color. These are some of her neons, and they are super bright. The colors are Chemical Romance, Dangerously Beautiful, Killer Kiss, and Deadly Attraction. The winner will also receive one Sunny's Miracle Balm in tuberose scent (it smells like flowers!) along with a mini nail file


3rd

The third prize is a bunch of nail art goodies. The winner will receive four nail art polishes in Frosty Pink, Urban Legend, Purple Shimmer, and Midnight Glitter. They will also get two striping tapes in pink and blue, a bunch of glitter and micro beads, and a mini nail file




Good luck!!

http://www.galacticlacquer.com/2012/11/1000-facebook-follower-giveaway.html

Brunch nails

This past weekend I hosted a Pampered Chef party(if you don't know what that is I'll link it at the bottom of this post). Anyway it was a brunch and I had all these breakfast type foods fixed to eat. So I wanted to look a little "festive" so I thought what better way to look festive at a brunch was to paint my nails with different foods, breakfast foods to be specific LOL.

Now I almost didn't do this post cause I'm not thrilled with how they turned out, but like I said about this blog, none of these nail art post will be perfect yet so I would be going against the idea of this blog if I didn't post these pictures.

 On my pinky is a cup of coffee(the white is steam) ring finger is eggs(the only one that came out "perfect"), middle finger is cereal(fruit loops to be specific lol) index finger pancakes(the yellow is a pat of butter LOL and I got a little heavy handed on the black to represent a stack of pancakes), thumb is toast(again the yellow is butter----a little too much butter although Paula Deen would approve :-D). I didn't exactly had the absolute right colors for the toast and pancakes(who would guess I didn't have the right brown as many polishes as I have! haha!!!!!) but I thought two shades of beige might cover it. Oh well I may redo this art again one day when I have the right browns and get better at nail art.

 

So feel free to tell me what you think. What browns would you suggest for all you nail polish addicts out there?

 

By the way look for my Halloween nail art soon. I just thought I'd catch up with these first. Hopefully my Halloween nails will be a little better than these:-D

Nail Polish Organizer

I've been dieing to share this with ya'll since I discovered it a while back.If you are like me you must have tons and tons of nail polish right?? Well if you are also like me you keep getting more right? Sometimes duplicates? Well If you have an IPhone you can solve your organizing problem with the Nail Polish Book.
                        
                            Here is what it looks like

All you have to do is type in info about the polish, name, brand,shade,and collection name. Obviously you can take pictures of it as well.

Then say you are out somewhere getting more polish(what else would you be getting right?? lol) and you come across a polish you think you may have but you aren't sure all you have to do is a search and if it comes up then you have it. Also it helps if you don't want more of the same shade.

 

 

On Itunes it's free Here is the link to it https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nail-polish-book/id536885449?mt=8

I hope it's as useful to you as it has been for me.

Fall Nails Poll

To generate some interest I thought I'd ask a question to see what responses I get.

I'm thinking of doing a Fall inspired Nail art design next month(I have too many ideas for this month already) but I don't know what colors I want to use. The top 2 votes/colors I will use.

• Brown
• Yellow
• Red
• Green
• Orange

So you can either comment below or if you are reading this cause you are a facebook friend feel free to post on my wall:-) Also I take request so if you've seen a design or nail color or product you want me to try just drop me a line.

Thanks for reading!!

Breast Cancer Awareness month

Everyone knows that October is Breast Cancer Awareness month,

I've been meaning to do my nails in honor of this month but I hadn't had the chance  til today. I still need to get better at a couple of things like getting all the way to the opposite side of where I can fully see on the nail(you'll see what I mean on the thumb) and also getting rid of access polish off my skin around the nail. I'm scared to go anywhere near it cause I'm scared it's going to take off the polish on my nail that I just did! But it's a work in progress. I think I did pretty good if I say so myself! LOL

Here are pictures of the polishes I used in case you want to do this yourselves

                                  Sally Hansen Insta Dri-
                                           Flashy Fuchsia
                                                     &
                                  Sally Hansen Xtreme wear-                                           BubbleGum Pink                

                                            Here are my nails
 
I may do some more Breast Cancer Awareness nail art. I also want to do some Halloween art too. Keep an eye out for it.

See ya later!!

Howdy!!

As my first blog post I suppose I should tell you why I'm doing this and how I got the idea and name for the blog.

One day as I was purchasing my what seemed like my 1000th nail polish online I was wondering what I was going to do with this obsession. I know I'm going to use these polishes eventually. But they may just sit here for weeks, months or in a couple of polishes cases...years. I mostly just go to a professional and get my nails done and sometimes since I have so many I take my own polish, but most times I don't.
I buy these polishes with the intent of doing my own nails but I hardly ever get motivated to do it.
So I've been looking at different nail design blogs(I'll post my favorites later) trying to get some inspiration. I got the idea to do some designs. So I don't lose the motivation to do my own nails I thought I'd do a blog documenting the different designs from time to time. Also I may take pictures of any purchases I make. Maybe post a link or two pertaining to nails. Basically this will be and all nails blog!
I also want to thank my friend Amy for the name idea. I love it because it's about nails and it makes it sound like I'm getting the hang of doing my own nails which is my goal. So thanks Amy!!

So I hope you all have fun reading my blog and maybe get an idea or two. Feel free to leave a comment(good and bad although I'd prefer good;-)).