Enter the Nail Files Giveaway
It’s giveaway time Fanatics!
To celebrate the premiere of Nail Files starring Katie Cazorla, owner of The Painted Nail salon, TV Guide Network is offering up five prize packs just for ALU readers. Each prize pack contains: A bottle of The Painted Nail nail polish, a manicure set and TV Guide Network items including a T-shirt, poster, and a hand-held fan with the Nail Files logo to keep you cool in the summer heat. To enter, leave a comment on this post telling me your favorite nail tip or trick. Remember to leave your email address in the comment form, not the body of the comment, for privacy reasons. If you are one of the eight winners your tip will be shared on ALU with a link back to your blog, if you have one. ***EDITED TO ADD – There will now be EIGHT winners.*** You will receive one additional entry if you tweet the following phrase, “I want to win @AllLacqueredUp’s #NailFiles giveaway featuring nail polish from @thepaintednail.” The Rules: Winners must be US residents or have a US mailing address (sorry International Fanatics) and can only enter via comment one time and via Twitter one time. Giveaway open until Sunday June 26th at 11:59pm EST. Winners will have 48 hours to respond before a new winner is chosen. Make sure you watch Nail Files, Tuesdays at 10pm EST on TV Guide Network. And here is a bonus video of Katie sharing her must-have colors for the summer. |
I use basecoat to prevent staining and wrap my tips most of the time so that I’ll have less chipping!
My favorite nail tip is prepping with nail polish remover before applying. I didn’t do that until recently, and it has made a huge difference in my polish application.
After my nail polish is dry, I take a hot shower and all of the nail polish I have mistakenly gotten on my skin rubs off easily. This makes for fast and easy clean up on your manicure without using more nail polish remover, q-tips or buying a angled brush!
Keep clean strong nails, and no biting!! I am a nurse but wanted to enter because I LOVE the show!!!
My super secret tip? *whisper* come closer….. When painting your nails after applying your last coat of nail polish wait till your nails are kind of dry (well enough to lightly apply a coat of top coat), then apply Seche Vite’s “Dry Fast Top Coat”. Wait 1-3 minutes and BAM they’re dry. But, just for precaution, don’t do anything to rough that’ll mess up your nails. Now take this secret to the grave.
To break the nail biting habit, use acrylic nails until you stop putting them in your mouth. Then grow them out and apply ‘the painted nail’ polish to strengthen. It might take a while to quit biting them, but stopping the habit of putting them in your mouth with acrylic nails was my solution and I have long nails now after years of this annoying unsightly and unhealthy habit!
Ok so I know alot of people think u need a fill in every 2 weeks with regular acrylic & seem to think u need to pay for the more expensive solar nail etc to make your nails last or look like they just left the shop (wrong) I have using this secret for 10yrs I use Dollar General l.a. colors nail hardener 1 a week I prefer fridays & I have made my fills last @ least a month or more doesnt matter if full set or overlays & It does wonderssss On Pedicure!:) I would truly be blessed to win this prize!!! I luvv 2 try different tricks & styles have even thought about going to school for it… It would b esoo AWESOME 3WIN!!!
I love decals, but don’t them sticking to my index finger instead of my nail, so I use tweezers to transfer them. Then I cover the decals with clear polish to make them stay longer. =)
First tip, don’t paint your nails on a canoe. Been there, done that. It was fun but my nails looked awful. If you swim a lot, take nail polish with you and re-apply when you see chipping. Once you want your nails to be a different color, then take nail polish remover to take off all of the polish and apply a new color!
I love to add crackle polish to a over due pedicure.. Fresh clear coat and crackle polish, dazzling doll after that.. In this economy I gotta stitch my me dollars very far
. I’ll paint my nails every color of the rainbow till I die.
after painting on my mani or pedi i jump in the shower and the hot water takes off all the polish on my skin, when i slightly rub on it with a wash cloth, but you have to wait until its completly dry or the polish will peel when you attempt to clean it up. believe me, its very upsetting when that happens.
I always use China Glaze nail polish! They have wild colors and their top coat shines like a new car – oh and it dries super fast!