Thursday Nail Mail

I have a little OPI/Essie Nail Mail for you today with the things I got from Traci's (The TraceFace Philes) blog sale.
I bought these from her at the beginning of December, thinking they would take a week or so to get here, turned out to be almost a month. I started to think they'd been lost in all the Christmas rush mail or stuck at customs, so you can imagine my relief when the post man knocked on the door (waking me up) this morning and handed me a little box, I instantly got excited, so excited I broke some of my nail off ripping the box open!
The polishes I got were Essie - Licorice (my first EVER Essie <3) OPI - 20 Candles On My Cake, Blue My Mind, The Colour To Watch, Just Groovy, Wocka Wocka & Houston, We Have A Purple. They're all so pretty and it brings my OPI total to a nice 13 (baby collection) now I just have to wait for the other OPI's I got from Sarah's (See Sarah Swatch) blog sale!
Do you have any of these polishes? What are your favourite OPI polishes? Recommend me!

52 Week Challenge: 'Make It Sparkle' Mani!

Happy 2012 everyone! I hope you all had a good night celebrating in the New Year. My Boyfriend, his friends and I went down to our local city for a night out on the town, which was eventful to say the least! Especially having to treck up an almost vertical hill to get to where we were being picked up from!

I thought I would show you a quick look at my NYE nails I did before leaving. I wanted to do something amazing, but as I didn't have time to do that, I thought I would just do something simple yet effective. For the base I used 2 coats of Ciate - Superficial with China Glaze - Atlantis over the top. I then used a small nail art brush and BarryM - Silver Foil to write the numbers. I was pretty impressed with how the '20' turned out as I did it using my left hand (non-dominant).

What did you do for NYE? And did you do any special mani's for the occasion? Let me know!

EDIT; If you've read the below post, you'll know I'm now partaking in the Year Challenge. So instead of redoing a glitter mani, I thought I would recycle this mani, as it is now no longer on my nails!

Make sure to check out the other challengers posts too!

Nicel
Jenna
Charlotte
Kevan
Lissa
Liz
Cindy

52 Week Challenge! Are you game?

I saw this challenge on Jenna from I'm Still Thinking's blog and thought it sounds like a good idea and also one that's easier to stick to than the Day Challenges, as it gives me time in the week to post other things too, as I'm currently planning on doing the 30 Days of Untried, so it's a way to combine the two and give you lovely readers more content on my blog! This challenge was originally thought up by LizMarie from I'm Simply Complex and like I said, it's awesome!