My first blog giveaway!

Hey y'all! Today I have a fun blog post to share with you - I'm having a giveaway! I've done several giveaways on Instagram before but this time I decided to host it on my blog! This giveaway is to celebrate hitting 5k followers on Instagram - so I picked out a handful of my favorite things to giveaway to the people who have decided to join me on this super fun nail blogging journey I've been on. There will be multiple ways to enter - and some will gain you extra points. Before we get into the prizes, here are the rules:

- You MUST be 18 years of age or older. No exceptions.
- You MUST be in the United States or Canada. A U.S. address is okay for international entries but I cannot be held responsible once its left me.
- No giveaway accounts.
- Don't follow to unfollow!
- And lastly - NO drama of any type will be tolerated. Keep it fun!

So what do you win?!

3 rectangular stamping plates from bornprettystore.com

M Polish Polish of My People collection and 1 To Have and To Holo (minis)

M Polish Pekin and Cayuga (full size)

2 cuticle oils - Peony and Sun Kissed scents, and 3 Jasmine scented Nail Bombs

A mini GRAFFITI COLLECTION from Glam Glaze! 

Doesn't that sound like a deliciously awesome load of nail mail! I am so excited to give away my favorite things. A special thank you to M Polish for graciously providing the mini set of Polish Of My People and To Have and To Holo. All other prizes were purchased by myself.

Click on the link below to start rounding up your entries - the giveaway will run through 9/15/15!

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Thanks for reading!

July Favorites!

Hey y'all! Today on the blog I am going to share all of my favorite nail things from the month of July! Ready? Me too! Lets get started. 

I'll start off with my four favorite manis from the month of July - in order my top favorite is definitely my Harry Potter inspired mani. I did a collab with some nail friends for Harry Potter's birthday. I have a separate post coming about the collab we did so make sure to check back! The other 3 are tied for second place. Haha, yeah, definitely can't chose my second third or fourth faves out of them. I feel like July was a good month for me, I pumped out a lot of manis and felt like my work was definitely getting cleaner and better overall! 

July Mani Faves 

My next favorite thing was favorite technique. July was the month of stamping for me! UberChic Beauty stamping plates and my Creative Shop Stamper have proven themselves incredibly addicting for this aggressive polisher. I couldn't stop this month - many of my manis were stamped and the majority of stamping I did came from images on the UberChic Beauty plates.

The next favorite sort of ties into the last and that's my favorite polish of the month. It relates because its a stamping polish! This month's go to polish that made it into multiple manis was M Polish Berry Best Friends. BBF is a group custom berry pink holo stamping polish that was available only to the members of the M Polish Lovers group on Facebook.  Not a member? No worries - you can find it HERE and request to join. My understanding is that there may be more customs in the future! 

Final favorite this month is my favorite cuticle oil. To be fair, this brand has been my favorite since I started using it BUT the scent is a new one to me in the last couple of months. The brand is Morning Star Nails and the scent is Calm. I really love the earthiness of this scent and love that the scent lingers just a bit on my skin even long after the oil has soaked in. If you haven't tried Morning Star Nails, I highly recommend it! 

That's it for July's favorites! One more month of super intense late summer here and then we can *hopefully* start looking forward to fall! What were your favorite nail items for the month of July? 

Thanks for reading! 

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Morning Star Nails nail and hand care product review!

Hey y'all!

Today on the blog, I have a review of some of the Morning Star Nails nail and hand care products to share with you. I won these items as a giveaway prize on Instagram recently and just received them today. 

I'm going to be honest and say that I was a little skeptical about trying to cuticle and nail bomb product because I've yet to find that "holy grail" cuticle oil or hand care product yet. I love the concept of an indie store that exclusively sells handmade hand care products but I wasn't sold on the idea. 

I. Am. Hooked. 

Let me show you what I received!

My goodies from the @morning.star.nails Instagram giveaway

I received some rose scented soap, sugar scrub, and nail bombs, some lilac cuticle oil, some rose cuticle oil, and some chamomile cuticle balm. I needed to give myself a manicure today anyway so I set out to use a handful of these products. I started with the nail bomb (like a mani bomb without the trademark ;)  ) - holy wow! It was so fizzy and smelled so good - like real roses. All of the Morning Star Nails products are all natural and made with essential oils so they smell exactly like the real thing. After relaxing my hands, nails, and skin with my nail bomb, I used the rose sugar scrub to exfoliate my hands. It felt so good and left my hands very moisturized. My hands were a tad itchy afterwards but I don't think that was the fault of this particular sugar scrub as all scrubs and exfoliators do that to my skin. Once my hands were dry, I moved on to what I'm going to call the star of the show, and my favorite Morning Star Nails product - the cuticle oil. After my mani, I painted as normal and then applied the rose scent. I was so pleasantly surprised that the scent was present but not overpowering or fake. I felt like I was putting real roses on my hands. Haha. It went on smoothly and in a thick layer but absorbed quickly and left my cuticles feeling very moisturized. Typically when I put balms and oils on my hands, I have to wait for what feels like forever for it to soak in so I can photograph my mani for Instagram but this particular oil soaked in so quickly! I am very pleased. 

Today's mani with my Morning Star Nails cuticle oil 

I am surprised to say that I may have very well found my holy grail of nail and hand care products. I never thought I would see the day! I am so glad I entered this giveaway and won these fabulous products.

What is your holy grail cuticle oil? Do you have a favorite scent?

Thanks for reading!
Love,
Pish xoxo

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**I won these products in a giveaway by @morning.star.nails on Instagram. I am not affiliated nor was I compensated for my review. All opinions expressed are my own.**