Landing on the 9th Place

Hello fellow bloggers!

I hope that you're all okay. :) I would like to share with you the prizes that I received from Fab Ur Nail Fantasy Contest. She had an anniversary contest last year which I joined. Yeah, I know this is a late post ha ha ha.

Mermaid's Lagoon Nail Art

I created this design at the last minute. I only used what i have for this design. I don't have acrylic paints for nails. That's why I was so happy when I learned that I landed a place on this contest.

I landed on the 9th Place

My hubby was teasing me. He said that I'm a loser because I'm in the 9th Place and that can't be considered as "winning". Haha! I told him that there were 20+ entries and I was lucky to be included at the top 10.

My prizes!!! :-)

I like the gold stamping polish.. It's really thick. I haven't tried the blue stamping polish yet. The stamping set are awesome too! I super love them!

BK Crackle Polish Set Swatches

I love this gold BK Nail Polish. It looks nice at it is. I mean, I don't need to put a design on it because it's pretty by itself.

BK Crackle Polish sucks. It's not pretty. I will throw it and keep the gold and clear BK Polish.

I hope you liked my today's post.

Please let me know what you think by leaving a comment.. 

:-)

The first 3 pictures came from Fab Ur Nails Blog

I Won A Contest!

Mabuhay!
:-) I found out that I won the Halloween Nail Art Contest on November 1. It's a good news for the first day of Novenber that's why I'm feeling lucky everyday.

I was really excited that time. It was a mixed emotions. I wanna know the winners but I don't wanna know, then I want to know again... Waaaaaaah! I was literally jumping on the couch when I saw this post. At least I won a Nail Art Contest hee hee. Now, I have something to be proud of.

My Prizes:

Swatches:

I'm sorry I don't have a swatch for the triple holo top coat and the OPI Rapid dry.

But I still hope that you like my post.

I'm really happy that I won this contest. I hope I'll won again next time. :-)

Please let me know what you think by leaving a comment..


Thank you!

History of Halloween Nail Illustration

This post is my entry for the Halloween Nail Art Contest on NailNation by Maria Cheo Shen.

The History
From communion with the dead, the pumpkins and pranks. Halloween is a patchwork holiday stitch together with cultural religious and occult traditions that span centuries.


 It all began with the Celts, a people whose culture had spread across Europe more than two thousand years ago.
October thirty-first was the date they celebrated the end of the harvest season in a festival called Samhain. That night also mark the Celtic new year and was considered the time between years, a magical time when the ghost of the dead walked the earth. 


"It was the time when the veil between death and life was supposed to be at its finish.

On Samhain the villagers gathered in a huge bone fire to drive the dead back to the spirit world and keep them away from the living." 


But as the catholic church influence grew in Europe, it frown on the pagan rituals like Samhain.

In the seventh century, the Vatican began merged in with the church sanctioned holiday. So, November 1st was designated All Saints' day to honor martyrs and the deceased faithful.
"Both of these holidays had to deal with the afterlife and about survival after death. It was a calculated move on the part of the church to bring more people into their own."


All saints' day was known then as Hallowmas
Hallow means holy or saintly.
So the translation was roughly, mass of the saints.


The night before, October thirty-first was All Hallows Eve.
Which gradually morphed into Halloween.

The holiday came to America with the wave of Irish emigrants, during the Potato Famine of the 1840's. They brought several of their holiday customs with them, including bobbing for apples and playing tricks on neighbors, like removing gates from the front of houses.
The young pranksters wore mask so they wouldn't be recognized.


Over the years, the traditions of harmless tricks grew into outright vandalism.

Back on the 1930's it became a dangerous holiday and there was such hooliganism and vandalism. Trick or treat was originally an extortion deal. "Give us candies or I will trash your house."

Store keepers and neighbors began giving treats or bribes to stop the tricks. The children ran from door to door for treat as an alternative to trouble making.

By the late thirty, TRICK OR TREAT became a holiday greeting.


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A very special thanks to NatGeo and David Skal (Author of Halloween History).


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