Matte about Summer: a Two Birds preview

Hello all!! Just to let you all know, I have a summer line coming out today on the Etsy shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/TwoBirdsOneStore at 3 pm EST. I'm going to throw a bunch of pictures at you now hahaha

American Beauty [a limited edition polish for the 4th of July]

Fly-ceratops [I love the name of this hahaha]

Just Keep Swimming [my muse was Dori]

Luck be a Lady(bug)

Pocket Full of Posies

Sour Gummy Worms

Spun Sugar

Strawberry Limeade

Those Summer Nights..

Summertime Girls

Vel-awesome-raptor [also love this name!]

What do you all think?! Special thanks to Emily, Vianna, Laura, and Sandy for the helping with the names! <3

Twinsie Tuesday: Half Moon with Pastel & Neon

This week seriously flew by so fast for me, I can't believe it's Tuesday already! Anyway, the Twinsies were supposed to do a half moon mani using pastel and neon polishes. Now considering I don't really have neon polishes and I also don't have circley stickers, I think this came out well! I cut out the half moon shape using mailing labels and used this neon glitter I have in the works:]

Not the world's prettiest mani, but I like it enough:] The base I have going on underneath this is a jelly sandwich of OPI Care to Danse? and The Hungry Asian's Mumbling.

This is seriously so much better IRL. There's these teeny holographic glitters that look so pretty in the jelly sandwich. and the silver glitters look white, which I also love a lot.

I can't wait to see all the manis my Twinsies came up with!

Amanda at Amandalandish
Anna at Going to the Showing
Anne at Grape Fizz Nails
Ashley at Art Evolve
Brandi at The Collegiate Nail
Chelsea at Nailed Blog
ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi
Cordia at Srsly Swatched
Jenn at All That is Gorgeous...
Jenna at I'm Still Thinking...
Katherine at Haul of Fame
Marisa at Polish Obsession
Meredith at Polish and Charms
Nory at Fierce Makeup and Nails
Rachel at Top Coat It
Tara at Polishy of Truth

My Take on Warrior Ethos

Hi all! Today I have a franken that I made for myself, though it won't be for sale. I'm sure everyone's heard about Nerd Lacquer and all that drama, but I since I really wanted Warrior Ethos and now can't get it, I decided to franken my own version! This one doesn't have a name yet, but I think I've worn it 3 times already! Love this glitter.

How'd I do? Close enough? Ehh, I love it either way haha

2 Greens

Hello all! I have 2 greens to show you today, the famous Nars Zulu being the first! Okay, I've been lusting after this polish for a loooong time, but never bit the bullet and just got it because I was afraid it wouldn't measure up, you know? But while I'm still in the market for my perfect dark [but not too dark] green jelly, I really do love this one for what it is: non-red, vampy, squishiness. I had wanted to do 2 coats but it was still streaky, so here it is at 2:

My second green is a polish that will be in the etsy shop as soon as I get my bottles! Mock Turtle at 3 coats:

Paint the Roses Red

Hi! Another quick post today, but I also have another franken for you! It's called Paint the Roses Red, a reference to Alice in Wonderland. It's my favorite book, I think. I wrote my senior paper in high school about it, actually haha. It just makes me happy:] Anyway, this is another franken that'll be for sale later in the week:]

2 coats of Paint the Roses Red.

Pardon my broken thumb nail, I liked the glitter here the best though.

There's tiny neon pink glitter, small black, red and purple holo, medium red hexes, and big white hexes in a deep pink jelly base:] 

Leviathan!

It's Friiiiiiiiiiiiidayyyyyyyyyyyy! I couldn't be happier, I'm so glad it's the weekend haha. It's been a long, long week. To celebrate, I have lots of new frankens to show you:] I think for the ones that after these next few days, I'll do an order form type thing of the polishes that need suspension base, so I know how much to get [and also how much glitter] and then the second I get the base, I can ship them out to you! Sound good? Also, order form may not be the phrase I'm looking for... Interest form? I don't know, we'll figure it out haha.

This one is called Leviathan, it just looks like a deep sea creature to me. There's huge holo green hexes and black hexes and smaller green squares and hexes and emerald hex glitter and tiny black ones and also some small holo glitter and to top it all off, small neon green glitter. All in a shimmery blue base. It's a busy polish! I think it looks a little more blue overall than the pictures, they picked up the green a bit too much. How do you like it?? [3 thin coats shown here]

Strawberry Limade!: a Franken

Hi hi hi. I have a GIANT paper due tomorrow about Arabic grammar aka I want to sleep forever and never ever hear about the three gender forms of Arabic. I'm gonna throw a franken at you instead: Strawberry Limade! [now I'm thirsty].

3 coats. There's neon pink, neon green, and black glitter in a really lightly tinted pink base:]

I'll be selling this [and others like it] as soon as I can get more base! Which is looking to be around the beginning of May :D

Giveaway Winners!!

Hi everyone!!! Sorry it's taken me a while to post the winners of the giveaway and the contest I had going on, but I had to go through all the entries [dang there was a lot more than I had expected!!] and make sure everything checked out. Full disclosure, I had to delete some people's entries because they didn't put anything down, just hit enter. So if you were one of those people, the entries you left blank were deleted. Sorry, but it's the only fair way. Anyway, for the franken naming contest, after much deliberation, the winner is [drumroll please....]

Enjeliqua Collier !!

with the name "Always Kiss Me Hello (makes me think of the black and white picture of the US Sailor kissing the Nurse captured I believe during WWII)

Honorable Mentions: Sharon with Paint the Town Redneck and Camila with Poisoned Apple.

Thank you all for your wonderful answers!! It was a really hard decision.

Now for the Spring has Sprung giveaway.. So I loved all your ideas a LOT. Aaaaaaand I ended up choosing 3 winners!! Eeee! Haha, so if the first winner doesn't answer my email in 48 hours, the second place winner will become the first, and the third will become the second, and I'll pick a new third place winner. The 2nd and 3rd place winners have already answered me, just waiting on the 1st place:]

First Place:

Amanda from Nox Nails !

Amanda says that her favorite polish of the last 6 months has been Models Own Golden Green [which I am lemming so hard haha. And she loves my Bourbon St. at Midnight and Zombie Prom frankens [thanks, girl!!<3] 

Second Place:

Diana from Nails by Diana !

Diana's favorite polish is Essie's Turquoise and Caicos and her dream polish would consist of peacock color tinsel glitters mixed in with awesome hex and square glitters :]

Third Place:

Hannah from Polished Prisms !

Hannah couldn't pick her favorite polish [understandable haha] and her custom franken would be "Something that I could wear to prom! A light blue/turquoise base with navy blue, silver, and various blue glitters mixed in"

Thank you all for entering, and I can't wait to show you guys the frankens imagined by these lovely ladies!!

MOAR SPAM.

Yes, more franken spam. These already sold out [you ladies are faaaast!] on the Etsy shop, but I'm hoping to restock the more popular ones this week:]

Bourbon St. at Midnight

Damask

Once Upon a Time...

& this is currently nameless, sooo anyone have ideas?? :D

 2 coats each! and I just realized these are all very similar color schemes haha. Oops!