I'm back! Goodness me, it has been too long! Have some Cult Nails Annalicious with my apologies.

So I bet some of you thought you'd never see me again!  And I'm sure that in the time I've been gone, Kas has brought a bunch of new people to the blog, so for those who don't know me or have forgotten, I'm George, best friend and blog partner who has been away for far too long due to a myriad of terrible things including but not limited to:

1) MOVING.  Moved house with my family the day after I made me last post.
2) BROKEN COMPUTER.  My macbook decided that not only was the hinge going to snap, but the screen was going to come apart!  HORRORS.  Finally managed to have it repaired a week and a half ago, and now have access to my computer again.
3) BREAK ALL THE NAILS.  So I got a new job not long after I commenced my hiatus, and then, just as I was finally ready to return to the blog about 3.5 weeks ago, I shut my hand in a freezer door at work and broke three of my nails right to the quick.  In case you were wondering: Yes, it hurt like a bitch.  So obviously my nails were in no shape to be shown off, which bummed me the hell out.
4) CUTICLES FROM HELL.  As is evident in my photos, my cuticles and I have a love/hate relationship at best.  Dry skin and other issues tend to make them yucky looking which makes me afraid to swatch for fear of scaring some of you.  They've been extra unhappy after the freezer door incident.  But luckily I think this is getting better, and I will soon my posting MY hand and nail care regimen as well.

Hopefully from here on out my hands and swatches will be a lot prettier :)  I look forward to getting to know our new followers and catching up with the old ones!

So, for my first post back I thought I'd share one of my new pretties from Cult Nails.  Annalicious is from Maria's daughter Coco's collection(I also picked up I Got Distracted, which deserves its own post and will soon get it!) and is a bright cherry red packed with gold shimmer that really warms it up without looking garish.  It's glowy and absolutely amazing!  I can't stop staring at my nails!  This one reminds me of OPI Dear Santa.  All photos taken in natural light with no flash.

Slightly unrelated:  I need some ideas for new editing software/sites, because I am not happy with the one I've been using.  It really messes with the quality of my images and I don't like that. Any suggestions?

Guest Bloggers!

So we are going to be gone for just over 10 days or so.  And we didn't want to leave you guys without any post.  Because we knew you would all be really, really, really sad.  Logically we knew we couldn't post because we are on vacation.  And vacationing is a time to be lazy.  So we decided to get 5 other bloggers to blog in our place.

These are all bloggers we really like.  And we think you should all go check them out and give them some love.  They have super swatches, nail art, layouts, write ups that are interesting, and they are all nice people...well they all seem like nice people.  They could be horrific (but I'm sure they're not).

So check in tomorrow to see who the first guest blogger is!!!

It's Bon Jovi.

It's actually not... but wouldn't that be cool.

See you guys in a couple weeks!

Kas & George

Nausibranch Nails + Announcement

So over at Rebecca Likes Nails she's having a nail art contest where the theme is her favourite things. So create a manicure that you think I'd love, using my favorite nail art techniques or themes, which are: Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, gradients, animal print, bows, dots, and Hello Kitty.

I can honestly say I just wasn't in a dotting mood and all the dot manicures I had I just didn't feel like using.  I could have done gradients which I love doing but my favorite gradients involve a butt load of glitter which never look as good on camera. Which left me with animal print, bows, and Hello Kitty.  When I thought of animal prints, bows, and Hello Kitty I couldn't think of anything I wanted to do with them.  But I did know I had been wanting to do an animal print for a while.  I didn't know what print.  All I knew was I didn't want it to be an animal print you see all the time.

So I ended up with this bad boy. Nausibranch print nails! These animals come in all sorts of stellar colours. But these little guys caught my attention (And not just because they're having The Sex in the photo below ;) ).

For this manicure I used a mixture of Sally Hansen's Lacy Lilac and Miss Kiss Flippin' for the lavender, OPI's Miami Beet for the spots (I guess you could call these dots :P), and a combination of paint and some yellow Orly mini polish (Don't know where the box with the name is).

Hope everyone enjoys!

Sea Slug Sex (Try saying that 5 times fast)

And now for the announcement! 

We've finally hit 56 (and now 57) followers! Huzzah!!! Thank you everyone!!!  And in honor of that we will be having a giveaway VERY soon. (Think within the next week!) Now I can't tell you exactly what we're giving away because we're still not 100% sure what we're giving away  but we do know one thing.  Part of it is...