Reader Appreciation Contest!

Hey all! So far, it's been a crazy month! I've gone from 6 people following me on here to 745 in the course of a MONTH! SO... to thank you, I'm going to have a contest!! To be eligible, all you have to do is be a follower, reply to this post, and your name will be entered into the random drawing for one of three prizes!!!

Prize 1:
Essie Coral Reef, Essie Body Language, and Nic's Sticks by OPI in Baby Go Bye-Bye


Prize 2:
L.A. Colors ART DECO nail art polishes in Silver, Bright Orange, Baby Pink, Bright Green, and Yellow.


Prize 3:
BB Couture Polish in Poison Ivy, and Nic's Stick by OPI in Call my Cell.



So hurry, get entered- the deadline is Friday at 5 p.m. Pacific Time, and I'll post the winners Saturday!! :)

212 comments

  1. What a great giveaway! I would like to enter. :)
    gildedangel@gmail.com

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  2. 8D These would be a cool present for a friend of mine!

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  3. Oooh, pick me. I love contests. :)

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  4. Thank you for having this giveaway! :)

    I am following as capmorlovesmac though I changed the google connect to the-swatchaholic but it won't replace the name. :(

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  5. Oooh, count me in! brokennails@gmail.com

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  6. Yay! Great giveaway!
    mindermutsig at hotmail dot com

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  7. Thanks for doing this! I've heard buzz on twitter about you and I just had to check it out! Amazing creations!

    irina.sagarbarria at gmail dot com

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  8. Fingers crossed! Also, I loved your post with the LEDs. Awesome.

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  9. Hooray! P.S. ninja nails is my favorite so far. too cute!!

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  11. I love your blog! I check it every morning with my email :D
    freedomfromplaid@gmail.com

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  12. oooo I would love to win some new nail art tools! My skills are no where near yours, but Im quite handy with stripes and dots lol

    nadia.isobel@gmail.com
    nadiaisobel.tumblr.com

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  13. i'd like to enter
    lauraebier at gmail dot com

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  14. Yay! How nice of you to thank the fans. :)

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  15. Sweet!
    Apryl_marykay1@yahoo.com

    (been following you a while)

    You crack me up

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  16. Oh man this is my first blog contest!! Woo hoo. Love the blog!
    Can't wait for Saturday!

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  17. What a wonderful giveaway!

    jrb60@students.uwf.edu

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  18. I don't have a blog, but I'm following you on Twitter, and I would love some new polish (I'm also an addict!)

    decemberstar822001@yahoo.com

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  19. I just found the site - but it's always good to find others who are as crazy-insane as I am, with my "use all 900+ of my eyeshadows once in a year" idea.

    I'm having fun catching up with your past looks! I'm also hoping to try some myself, as soon as my nails grow to a decent length...

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  20. Thank you so much for this opportunity!

    monikaelise at yahoo dot com

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  21. I am a follow and I am replying. :) Enter me please. I admire your daily painting ambition. When I get my toes painted I leave it on until something drastic happens and it HAS to be removed. I can't imagine every doing them so I am living vicariously through you. <

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  22. Yay so cool! I'm glad I'm a follower! And I LOOVE this blog!

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  23. Duh - forgot my email address...sorry...

    sparklecrackcentral at gmail dot com

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  24. Gotta love a contest!!]

    -leenda dela luna (leendadll@yahoo.com)

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  25. Awesome! I love your blog! It is quite inspirational. =)

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  26. ooh, I hope I win ;) Lovin' the blog and the nails. Keep up the good work!!

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  27. Great giveaway! Thank you.

    christopherobn@Hotmail.com

    Keep up the great designs, I've gotten emails from a few coworkers showing me your site and its cute cause I'm already following you!

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  28. Since I can win having you do my nails for me...I would love to win some of the tools you use!!!

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  29. I love this. I think it is so creative! Hope to see more soon!

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  30. Can I enter even if I am in Australia? (I'm a follower too :) ) I love your blog although couldn't even get close to recreating your nail designs if I tried :)

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  31. WOW- what a response!! :-P

    Jen- yes, everyone is welcome to enter- no matter WHERE you live!! :-P

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  32. Wow what a cool giveaway :) I'm following you and I'd love to be entered! x

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  33. i have to visit you everyday - hence you post a new creative manicure every day... :P
    i would also like to enter the contest, thanks!

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  34. This is my favorite blog. When my kid goes down for a nap I read it and get all of these ideas about what I'll do with my nails, then he wakes up and the cycle repeats the next day. =)

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  35. this site is constantly an inspiration for me to spice up my life

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  36. Thanks for the comp. Your nail designs have turned my three year old from a nail biter into a trying reall hard not to bite her nails so mumm can put pretty pictures on her nails :D:D

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  37. You are an inspiration to beauty geeks everywhere! :D

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  38. Yay! Thanks for the contest. Your blog is so enjoyable and been great motivation for my manicuring fun.

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  39. I'd like to enter! And I really love those burger nails you did the other day, I wish I was even half that good!

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  40. although I highly doubt I have even the remotest possibility of winning...

    candlelightchaos666@hotmail.co.uk

    loving the blog! Keep it up! Your ideas are inspiring me so much, if only I was any good with nail polish x(

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  41. Sweet!! I started following because of your bacon nails :) Geekologie is awesome!!

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  42. Fun! I love seeing all of your beautiful creations! I used to paint my nails much more often, but that's gone by the wayside now. I'd love to get back into it. :)

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  43. Seriously jealous of your gorgie nails and your artistic skills. :D

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  44. This is so nice! Your nails are a big inspiration for me, Thanks! :D

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  45. That's fabulous, darling! Prize two is perfect for me... but maybe that's just because I adore my bright colors!

    Love,
    JP
    http://nailsoftheday.blogspot.com

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  46. Ooo fingers crossed!

    I've never seen anyone so talented at freehand nail art, awesome stuff!!!

    email: jessicaliddell@netspace.net.au

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  47. Thank you for your blog... it is fun to see what I *could* do if I have better nails.

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  48. This would be great for my girlfriend she is always showing me the blog. Crazy nails !!

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  49. would love to enter :) Love your stuff!!!!

    mae_trinity@hotmail.com

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  50. Awesome! I've been checking your site every day since I discovered it a week or so ago and read all your posts. I love your designs, I paint my nails once or twice a week. I don't like having them just one color, so I'm always looking for ideas. You have really great ones!

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  51. I love all of your nails and I LOVE CONTESTS!!! The sad thing is I'v never won one. please let me win!!!!!
    -Robyn
    p.s. I'm a big fan of you!

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  52. i hope i win! i LOVE doing nail art also :]

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  53. what an awesome giveaway!

    i would love to enter <3

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  54. I think your nails are so cool! I would love to try and recreate something you have done with those prizes... :)

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  55. Aww this is a cute idea.

    www.simmsie.blogspot.com

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  56. Awwww, I wish I could enter, but I'm not technically a follower. I don't have an account that I can follow you on. I've got you bookmarked at the top of my firefox bar though, and I check it every day.

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  57. One of my favorite blogs! Loving the Gingerbread men!
    I'd love to have any of the items you're giving away...but the art deco stuff rawks!

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  58. love your blog, love the idea! it has become part of my daily rotation!!! so excited for you and your success.

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  59. I'm following. Nice giveaway.
    :)
    Susie

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  60. This is awesome! Ever since I saw your nails on Glamour.com, I've been coming back every day. I'm a die hard follower :)

    My name is Kasey, by the way :)

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  61. I would like to enter too. I didn't even think of ginger cookies. WOW! what a idea you have. If you ever have a Chocolate contest. :-)))) Hope your website can handle all the responds. lolol.. I'll enter that too. yum.:-) looking forward to the rest of your "Christmas week" nails. Keep it up. From your viewer from Oregon. catfish3480@yahoo.com

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  62. ! katie.edgerton AT hotmail DOT com

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  63. <3!!
    how do you get all your ideas?!

    kdmartin16@hotmail.com

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  64. Hi i would love to enter. Mraya22@gmail.com

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  65. I absolutely LOVE this blog- and your creativeness! I'm crossing my fingers for ANY of those great prizes! :D

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  66. I would love love love to win the second prize. Those colours are to die for!

    jennywren1990@yahoo.com

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  67. Yay! I L<3ve your blog and read it daily! You are soo talented and creative. My students have also started to read your blog and follow you. We loved your skull-themed nails; they went along with Hamlet as we were reading it! Thanks for sharing your creativity.

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  68. Hi! I love your site :)

    Pinkginger31@gmail.com

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  69. Ok... I never win anything, but that doesn't stop me from trying!! :) I'd love to enter this super cool giveaway... jen424@earthlink.net :)

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  70. Awesome prizes!! I'm so glad to hear your site is doing so well - I've been following since the Bacon Nails post!

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  71. Oooooh, I want to win!!! Thanks for the great blog!

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  72. I would like to enter! Some people have put their emails, I will put mine too. christinapagels@aol.com

    Thanks!!!

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  73. I believe you've got more than 773 readers, some just a) don't have blogspot accounts or b) have you bookmarked or haven't added you yet (like me :P).

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  74. awesommmmmmmmmmmmmeeee!!! I wish I had that many followers, I think I only have one, lol.

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  75. Great giveaway!
    I adore your blog and your creativity!! :)

    Kate
    blue_distinction@yahoo.com

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  76. I've been reading your blog since you got started! Your minted argyle nails inspired me to ask for some disks in my Giftmas stocking this year to try out on my own. :)

    I'm definitely coveting the second prize the most, the colors are amazing!

    I'm Meredith, at animeredith@gmail.com

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  77. Yay...thank you!! Great to see how you have grown in readers- it's certainly crazy. I will say my kids love your blog too (two girls 5,4 and boy 2.5) The girls are sportin M&M nails at the moment thank to you!!

    Danon

    insatiablehost@yahoo.ca
    insatiablehost.blogspot.com
    pantypyramid.blogspot.com

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  78. I love reading your blog, your nail ideas are always super awesome!
    My email is danielleholso_09@hotmail.com

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  79. Congrats on all the new followers! I found you from the cross post on Geekologie when you did the bacon nails. :)
    I'd love some gear for my nails! :)

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  80. i read this blog EVERY SINGLE DAY and i love it!

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  81. Your blog is one of my favorites, I love all your creative nail designs! Great idea for a giveaway, I'd like to enter, too -

    beck.reel (at) gmail (dot) com.

    Thanks!

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  82. This blog is so much fun!
    absitively (at) gmail (dot)com

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  83. -- just entering the contest :)
    & thanks for commenting my post!

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  84. I love you and your nails!! haha (cross my fingers!)
    luleenay@gmail.com

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  85. I want to enter!! I love your blog! :)

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  86. Awesome! 745 -- you need to get some advertisers!! Get some money for all your hard work on awesome nails!!!! At least get some good schwag so you can do more contests like this!! xoxoxoxo!

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  87. I stumbled upon this site a while back, and I am hooked- I check it everyday! Great giveaway!
    amberski75@yahoo.com

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  88. Ooh this is an awesome prize, I really love your blog and how creative you've gotten with some of your designs!

    stefani_ly@hotmail.com

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  89. Whata sweet gesture - thanks for thinking of your fans!

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  90. Lovin' the gingerbread people you're weaing today! I love your 365 nails idea, if I had your sweet ambidextrosity I'd try it, but c'est la vie.
    Nic's Sticks are so rad. I used up my "baby go bye bye" a few months back ;-)
    ladyseveen23@gmail.com

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  91. You always have amazing ideas for your nails!!! Keep up the fantastic work! You're inspirational!
    Thank you for giving back to your fans! You're very generous!

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  92. Yes please! You should thank geekologie.com for some of those followers, that's how I found you.

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  93. Your blog has eaten my comments 6x. One last try here...

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  94. I juste LOVE what you can do with your nails! & what you do in chocolate class looks so delicious, I'm so jealous :P

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  95. I'm following you right now! And wowww,I love LOVE your blog!!!!

    I just found it and I'm in huge love now <3 Keep those nails up <3

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  96. Omg! such a fantastic contest, i simply adore your blog, i check it everyday! your so creative, im totally envious!

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  97. ooh great contest. thank you and congrats on all the followers!

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  98. YAYAYAYAYAY ! this is great : )

    my email's erikapl0x@gmail.com
    n______n

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  99. Pretty colors!

    musicloveypeace@yahoo.com ^_^

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  100. :-) I could use some of your amazing tools on my needy toenails! jessy.irwin at gmail.com

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  101. I would like to be entered in the giveaway. Thanks!

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  102. I just realized I forgot about my e-mail earlier. Oops!

    hey.purplerain@rocketmail.com

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  103. I've been a follower, and I would LOVE to win!! You're blog is awesome :) congrats on the phenomenal amount of followers! My email is blogbabblingbrooke@gmail.com. Thanks!

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  104. Yay! Totally stoked. i love all your nail designs :D

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  105. i read your posts everyday :)
    alisonwong0@gmail.com

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  106. Fantastic! Love all of the cool things you do with your nails. I wish I could get mine to stop chipping so polish would stay on for more than half a day, but maybe someday I'll get there. :)

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  107. Thanks to your inspiration, I just started my own nail blog!
    yougotnail.blogspot.com

    for the contest -
    maryjessickelly@gmail.com

    Thanks!

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  108. Great giveaway! I love all your posts. I really enjoying seeing what nail ideas you come up with. they are great! Thanks!

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  109. I check your blog every day to see what amazing new idea you've come up with!!

    Please enter me in the contest- tembowblog AT gmail DOT come

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  110. I started following u at the right time : )

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  111. This is awesome! Love the blog!

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  112. Keep up the good work. I started marbling because of this site...

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  113. Very cool work. It makes me want to let mine grow out a bit and be creative!

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  114. My name is Sophia D., and I would love to enter!

    I found out about your blog from Neatorama and have been visiting ever since. It's so refreshing and fun, I love it! :D

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  115. Oooh some very pretty prizes! x

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  116. Great colors there!

    I love your blog~

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  117. Super awesome giveaway! I've been following you on twitter for a week or two already :D And your blog helps remind me to paint my nails, which I've kept lookin' pretty good. I mean not as fantastic as yours, but they manage atleast a coat of paint or two! Nail filing tho gives me shivers I don't know how or if I'll ever get over that!
    -Chrissy D.

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  118. such a great giveaway. love your blog!

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  120. Love the blog, and this contest is awesome.

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  121. ooh yes please

    dgembadgemba@gmail.com

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  122. contest entered. American cultures.wangwang

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  123. You've been an insperation! I haven't painted my nails this much in a long time! Thanks!

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  124. Congratulations on your many followers! You deserve it - your designs are awesome!!

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  125. I enjoy your post everyday!! Its how I start my morning, hopefully Santa will be bringing me the stamping plates for Christmas :)

    Kisha W
    Dimpled1_80@yahoo.com

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  126. .. would luvv to winn the colors you chose are just fetch!!!
    ommmgg i hope i win .. i could use these colors well...

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  127. thanks for the giveaway and every nail design you made, they're wonderful¡¡

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  128. Ohhh, I love contests!!! xDD I want to participate, but I'm from Spain, can i??

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  129. i love your blog!! you are so talented!

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  130. me me me me me please please please please please!

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  131. great giveaway!
    I'd love to be entered

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  132. Jackie S- Wow! your nails are the most advneturous and imaginative ones Ive seen on the web...keep it up!

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  133. Oh yay! I love all of your posts, I'm so jealous of your nail painting skills...and your chocolate building skills!

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  134. Enter me please. Great contest from a great blog!

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  135. Oh giveaway! Enter me please and thank you!

    Your blog is insanely cute :)

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  136. I am, in general, not a fan of painting my nails, but you make it look so fun and surprisingly non-juvenile. All of my prior experience with painted nails were at junior-high slumber parties, so this is quite a change for me. :D

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  137. Love your blog it is sooo awesome! you have inspired me to get creative! : )

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  139. I hope its me! You've been an inspiration, today i've painted snowflakes onto my thumbnails, all the girls at work, RAVED. Last week I make little holly berries, and it was cute! Next I'm going for candy cane stripes! Thanks for all your great fun nails!

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  140. a very kind giveaway! i'd like to be entered too.
    crestfallensoul9[at]gmail[dot]com

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  141. I'd love to be entered...
    csallysmile[at]hotmail[dot]com

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  142. wow.... i <3 these designs... thats amazing u got so many followers!! NE way, there is a site u should visit, www.random.org it can pick random names.

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  143. Congratulations on getting so many followers. It's amazing the things that spark imagination in others. You are super talented. Okay enough grovelling lol. Please enter me in the draw. xx

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  144. First off, that you guys so much!! I'm incredibly lucky to have such sweet readers!!

    Now on to specific responses:

    LiAnn- Thanks!! nails don't have to be long for fun art!! Why wait?!?!

    Jellea- email me pictures- I'd love to see that!!

    Amberleighkoch- I'll let it slide this time.

    Mrs. DeRaps- that is TOO awesome. I'm so glad that you could relate them to learning!! :-P

    The Insatiable Host- email me pictures- that sounds too cute!

    Nancy Magoo- I already emailed him to thank him- I was sooo excited he posted the bacon nails!

    You Got Nail- Cute name! Ill have to check it out once you get stuff posted!!

    Blkprincess- you sure did!!

    Corinne- So glad that I could inspire you to try something new!

    Jessica- nail looks great on short nails too, no need to wait, get cracking! :-P

    Danica- I'm positively thrilled, I never thought in a million years I'd get over 10 followers, let alone 800. :-P

    epise001- Yay! That's my mission in life to make people smile and laugh!! And to answer your question- yes, there have been a few designs that have been heartbreaking to remove. :-P

    robin.christine- awesome!!! send pix!!

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  145. Congratulations on all of the followers... everyday I look forward to seeing what you've come up with :) Diana

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  146. OOhhh, awesome! Kudos on all of the followers! There's probably even more who won't admit it... I know whenever I check your blog, my husband mysteriously appears, and comes by to check it out! I know he thinks it's cool. Who wouldn't?
    zombydisarray[at]sbcglobal[dot]net

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  147. Hooray! I love your nails! Next up: I wish to see a manicure of different Disney princesses, pretty please with cherries on top.

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  148. Love all your designs...Keep it up

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  149. Me! :) Congrats on the followers!

    Sarah
    simplememories AT sbcglobal.net

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  150. I love this blog! Love all the awesome designs! keep it up!

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  151. Wish I was as creative and talented as you! i love the nail designs!

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  152. hullo! your blog has inspired me so much. thanks for taking the time out of your life to do this. i want all your dessert nom noms too! :)

    kirby.monk@gmail.com

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  153. Hi, your imagination and artisticness is a marvel! Enter me in your contest please, d0ntliet0me at hotmail dot com.

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  154. rocksta818@gmail.com
    =] =].

    You've given me something creative to do everyday!

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  155. annetten83@yahoo.com
    I check your blog everyday, your such and inspiration. I dont know how you keep coming up with new, cute designs.

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  156. Woo contest! Love the blog, but cannot IMAGINE how you keep up with it. I'm sitting here with wildly chipped single-color polish that I've had on for two weeks.

    Also I have a question (re tomorrow's post, since I read that one before I read this one): how do you do the cleaning up on your cuticles? Do you use one of those nail polish remover markers?

    Thanks!

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  157. Jessica- I used q-tips soaked in remover to remove the bulk of it, then a 'chisel' shaped art paint brush I got from Michaels to clean up the cuticles.

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  158. Thanks for the reminder to enter the contest ;)
    And yes, I MUCH enjoyed the candy cane inspired water marbling!
    Following you via Twitter :)

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  159. Thanks a bunch for the chance to win some prizes! I've been reading your blog since Geekologie posted your bacon nails (amazing haha) but I hadnt added you or set up anything to follow you until now :)I wonder how many other readers you dont even know about are out there and just havnt added you yet!

    Well, thanks again! Hope youre having happy holidays so far!

    izzymin91@yahoo dot com

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  160. Awesome! I'd love to enter. I don't have any nail pens and have always wanted to know if they work. If I can post pictures to your blog or something I'll try to show you some of what I have done. I love doing nails and have about 60+ colors.

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  161. How pretty! <3
    dot.zemene@gmail.com

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  162. Oh, yay :)
    Everyone else is throwing out email's so I'll throw mine out too: Amberleigh86@hotmail.com

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  163. I just found your blog through on of the other blogs I read. I'm a big nail design person and I love your designs(lovin the gingerbread man).

    Just became a follower!!

    Looking forward more nail designs!

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  164. I have been keeping up with your blog for a while but just became a "follower!" I love all of your designs and can't believe you change it everyday!! I look forward to seeing what you come up with each day!

    cilax@ymail.com is my email! Please enter me for the contest! :)

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  165. Okay, so I would like to throw my sparkly hat into the ring for the contest. The Daily Nail is one of the entries I look forward to on my Google Reader, well.. Daily! I have tried to replicate several looks, sometimes with good, and sometimes with very, very messy results. Being ambidextrous is a gift I unfortunately do not possess.

    But anyhow, beautiful job on your designs, much kudos for beginning to tackle having to come up with 365 different ways to paint your nails, and *fingers crossed* on winning the contest, because I'd love to have at least some gift to give my sister, even after Christmas.

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