Oopsie Daisies With A Cherry On Top

 This is Oopsie Daisies With A Cherry on Top; another polish from the Sweet Treat collex from Oopsie Daisies Etsy shop.

Started with a base of two coats of Sally Hansen Hearts on Fire.  I found this old beauty a couple weeks ago at one of my local discount supply places...they randomly stock the old square bottle Sally Hansen's and I keep on going back in the hopes of stumbling across Project Runway.  This is two coats with no topcoat and while you can see just a hint of VNL, I didn't add a third as I knew I'd be layering and stamping on top of it.

Added a coat of Oopsie Daisies With A Cherry on Top,** which is an assortment of red glitters in a slightly tinted base.

Bottle shot of With a Cherry on Top, which can be layered on its own but can also be applied over your favourite red base.

I don't think I've shown the bottom of the Oopsie Daisies polishes in other posts, but I adore how they are labeled on the bottom like the large retail brands.  I thought this was a great idea! 

Because I chose to layer With a Cherry on Top on a solid base, I thought there may be some interest in seeing how the polish layers.  Starting at the left, the first swatch is one coat, the middle is two and the end right one is three. 

For stamping, I wanted a stamp that the base layering could be seen, and wanted to do do something stylish and sophisticated, versus a themed or cutesy mani.  Chose A44, stamped with black Konad special polish. 



Added a coat of SV to finish. 



I can't wait to use this same combination of red base, layered With A Cherry on Top with holiday appropriate images at Christmas and Valentine's. But because its fall now, on the other hand, and just to show you how versatile With a Cherry on Top is, I layered it with Oopsie Daisies Apple Picking.  I loved this combination too!  My apologies for such poor clean up and cuticles on my right hand, but I couldn't help but share!  

Have I mentioned that Apple Pickings is one of my favourite fall polishes? I just think its an interesting combination of glitter colours and sizes in the clear base that just goes perfectly with so many different polishes as shown here, that if I wasn't such a nail fanatic and have an inner need to change my polishes and stamped images so often, that I'm sure it would be on my nails straight through September to November! I think I've worn it at least four times since I got it over the last few weeks which I think is some type of record for me as I simply don't wear a polish that often.

Hope you're having a great weekend....and thanks for looking!

**This polish was sent for review. Please refer to my disclosure policy for further information.

Giveaway Results!!! Plus the Reason why Konad was Created...

Saturday morning, I had a few minutes to put together everything for my recent 300+ follower giveaway. Before I announce the winners, a huge "thank you" again for everyone who has ever checked out my little blog! A little over a year ago, I started this blog to just keep track of the stamping I've done. I was pleasantly surprised when I got my very first follower, Susie1955, and it has grown by follower by follower. I never would have thought over 500 people would be interested to see whats on my nails....so thank you so much!!!

Now onto the results! In total, there were 304 entries. The first name drawn was Zsofc who will receive OPI Serena Glam Slam in Spark de Triomphe and White Shatter, with the four OPI polishes What's Dune?, Merry Midnight, Coral Reef and Glacier Bay Blues.*

The second name drawn drawn was Elizabeth at Life & Polish, who will receive the second shatter set, OPI Serena Glam Slam in Rally Pretty Pink and Red Shatter and the same four OPI polishes.

And lastly, ct1980 over at I Colour Outside the Line (who I'm guessing is a fellow Canuck by the way 'colour' is spelled!! What's the chances of THAT!!), who will receive prize 3 being the four OPI polishes.

Congrats everyone!!! Emails have already been sent out and they have 48 hours to reply or another name will be drawn for the appropriate prize.

I'm really bummed that Canada Post is on strike (as far as I know, unless its resolved now) so unfortunately, there will be a delay in getting these out to as there's no mail service in Canada right now, so I'm sorry about this but its beyond my control! But they will be mailed out as soon as I can!

I recently was at the mall and peeked into Forever 21 to see whats new and picked up a few polishes. This Love & Beauty polish was marked Light Gray and as I was really liking the gold shimmer, thought I'd use it for my next mani.



Whoa...nail fail! I was not liking this at all..frosty...streaky...blah!! All I could think of was, this is why Konad was developed! To cover up polish fails! LOL! I wanted to use a stamp that covered up A LOT of the polish....decided upon fauxnad A44 using Konad black special polish. For some reason, I was strangely fascinated by how it looked before cleanup so decided to take a pix....



And after cleanup...urggh...while I really like the results of using black special polish, the cleanup is terrible and this was the best I could get despite taking (that I felt was a) long time to clean up.



And then, decided to add a couple swatches of multicolour glitter. This pix isn't the best, but the end result was pretty cool...a good way to cover up the polish nail fail if nothing else. I really wasn't feeling this many at all, so this mani only stayed on for around 24 hours. That's the great thing about nail fail...just an excuse to change your mani the next day!



Here's my highly sophisticated method of choosing the winners....






Congrats to everyone and thanks for looking!

Update: August 30, 2011: The last giveaway winner just emailed saying that she has received the package; all three packages confirmed delivered!

*OOPS! I noted wrong polish in the post but it is Glacier Bay Blues as outlined in the giveaway details!