Glossy vs. Matte

not just regular paint, nail polish of course.

I've always, always, always been a glossy girl. A pretty polished shiny top coat has always done it for me. But there's a new trend in town and until recently I have not been a big fan of it at all. But i finally broke down and decided to try it after I saw a gorgeous picture on Pinterest of OPI Russian Navy in a beautiful matte finish top coat and i just knew I had to try it.

When it comes to nail polish, I like any girl, has her favorite brands. I've always been an OPI and or Essie girl. That is until I became a broke college student trying to get by. Every once in a while I can splurge on OPI or Essie but for as much as I love and like to change my nail polish color, a more affordable brand was in store for me. The fact that I have discovered NYC and Wet and Wild nail polish just makes me so happy. From .99 cents to $1.99, I can find almost exactly the same nail polish color for almost ten dollars less. Today I was looking for a matte top coat.

The overall favorite matte top coat and the obvious choice would be Essie's Matte About You, but at $8.99 at least, I just couldn't bring myself to test it. So I set out on a mission.

and here are the results!! I found at Walmart for $1.99 NYC's Matte Me Crazy. The reviews were even better than Essie's and the price was unbelievable! After trying it out on top of my simple red polish, I fell in love. Tomorrow, Russian Navy will be tested, but for now here a preview of the difference i found online. 

This picture is Essie's Matte about you over Russian Navy.

Next, This is NYC's Matte Me Crazy over Russian Navy.

I even like the bottom one better!! I cannot wait to try it out tomorrow!!

Stay tuned for Thursdays post. I get to make my Lilly Pulitzer Gingerbread house with the family!!!

x0x0 Princess Lacey

NEW BLOG DESIGN

channeled a little bit of my crafty side and decided to make my blog a bit prettier.
shoutout to Shabbyblogs.com for the graphics!

x0x0 Princess Lacey

Kardashian Red

Ever since i tried out for the Titans cheerleading squad back in May, I have been getting my nails done. For 20 years i bit my nails down to the smallest most painful nub. I tried to stop a few times but just kept going back to my awful nervous habit, until i discovered acrylics!

Bein the poor college student that i am, sometimes I cannot afford to get my nails done every two weeks on the dot, so this week i decided to file them down a bit and repaint them myself.

Anyone that knows me knows that I am not exactly the "classic red" nail color type girl, but i decided to give it a trial run anyways. Incorporating my love of the Kardashians, Kourtney being my favorite, i figured why not try Kardashian Kollection color by the name of

                         KOURT is RED-Y for a PEDI RED ?

Then i saw the price tag and my bank account just couldn't seem to let me buy a red nail polish that i was still unsure about even if it did in fact have my favorite Kardashian's name on it for $8. So I hunted through the beauty isles at Rite Aid. The color i came up with that the swatch was almost identical is called

                                    Everybody Loves Redmond

Also, I don't wear nail polishes that don't have a good name or even a name at all. So with a clever name like this, i had to have it. Especially since it was only $1.99 And might i say i'm in love!!

On an even better note, I tried a new nail polish remover that BoobsOnBlonde has recommended forever and i will never be buying another again. Its a sponge you just twirl your finger in and the polish is gone!! 

Might i add, it was only $1.39 =)

Also theres my red nails that i'm extremely happy with!

Kourtney Kardash ain't got nothin on me!

Definitely going to do another post like this soon, but for now i'll leave you with my current favorite video. "Can ya'll monogram these??"

Sh*t Southern Women Say.

x0x0 Princess Lacey

Monograms

I severely apologize form the bottom of my heart that i stopped posting like I was doing for a while. Lately I've been so busy, this has been the last thing on my mind. Maybe i'll start this all back up.

For now, I have actually started a monogram business!! 

I've had 43 orders in 19 days and over 9,000 page views!!

GetLowLacey.etsy.com

Check out my page! I can pretty much make anything you want! Here's some photos!

pocket monogram tshirts

Lilly Pulitzer canvas

Lilly Pulitzer letters

Lilly Pulitzer monogramed bag

Lilly Pulitzer monogrammed pocket tshirts

Lilly Pulitzer pillowcases

Gameday monogramed shirts!

More Lilly Letters.

Lilly sorority letters

Lilly moogrammed vnecks

This is just my favorite tank i monogrammed for merica.

Lilly Pulitzer monogrammed sweatshirts, hoodies, and zip ups

Lilly Pulitzer monogrammed long sleeves

Packages ready for delivery!

Lilly Pulitzer bulletin board. Can you tell this is my favorite print??

monograms ready to be cut out!

Lilly Pulitzer monogram pocket tshirt.

and here's a picture just for the fun of it...

ones drink in, ones smoking, ones takin pills.

two of those statements actually being true.

x0x0 Princess Lacey

GetLowLacey.etsy.com

Spring Break

Normal 20 year olds do something exciting on their spring break like going to the beach with all of their friends.
I however did not have that luxury this year. Two of my best friends/roommates were out of the country studying abroad while i was stuck in white house alone. So i decided to call up my best friend Shelby for a fun, week long, spring break craft. Since she was on Spring Break also but had to work it worked out just fine!! She works from 6am-8am and 1:30pm-6pm so basically every hour she was free, she was with me. she pretty much became a resident of the Denton household for a week.

before...

Day 1 didnt start out the way we wanted it to. Day 1 was actually extremely bad. My boy and i spray painted the coolers while Shelby was at work. Turns out, even when the spray paint can says yoou dont have to sand the plastic down before painting it, you still need to sand it...otherwise the paint chips right off. i was too horrified of this event to take a picture of it so here it is after we sanded and painted it again. Day one consisted of striping every chip of paint off. So heres day two, after we painted it...again.

side one, i wanted to be my monogram from the start. heres the border.

beauty in the simple things.

heres work in progress on side one. which i just adore. the stripes are for victorias secret cause i love that store and the bow because i love bows.

heres work in progress side number two. Also day 3. The southern belle secret is because im from and love the south. plus i always have a koozie on me. it says "Southern belle secret #42: always keep a koozie in your purse,car/truck, or kitchen. The middle is...Sound it out loud. Te-Bow. Tebow! My favorite player, obviously. Moving down to my favorite teams, NFL Tennessee Titans and NCAA Florida Gators.

heres work in progress side 3 or the back. This was day 4 of spring break and its finally starting to c ome along nicely. To the left we have the princess half. Need i explain? To the right theres Sex and the City and Cupcakes. Two of my favorite things.

Work in progress side number 4, the last side. This side is a random side of everything that needed to be on there and wasn't yet. it was hard to incorporate everything but fun like a puzzle at the same time. except for i hate puzzles...
Wanna see the final results???

side one!

side two!

side three!

and side four!
Wondering how we got everything to look so precise and perfect? I found a trasfer method using newspaper. You print off the image you want, cut it out, put a clip from a dark newspaper page underneath it on the cooler and trace hard with a pencil. When you remove them both, the image will be there for you to trace! Also, paint pens were a dreammmmmm.

this is shelby front and side!!

i was very very happy with the way both of ours turned out! she isnt very creative so it was totally out of her comfort zone. bless her heart she did so good!! We had so much fun. lots of much needed girl time. plus whats better than spending spring break with your best friend jammin, paintin, and attempting to win Luke Bryan tickets?

What did you guys do over spring break? bet you cant beat mine :)


xoxoPrincess Lacey

Best weekend of my life

I will begin this post by finally showing you the cupcake order i did a few weeks back with the new rose technique i learned. she wanted purple and her name started with an M, obviously. So here they are!!

heres the rose! start from the inside instead of the outside when icing the cupcake!

Okay now onto one of the best nights of my life...Friday!!

First of all, my cowboy boots say Andy on the bottom just like Woody on ToyStory which i think rocks.

Next My Aunt Faye, Aunt Sabin, Mom, and Nanny came to have lunch with me!!

Here's me in front of the awesome old movie theater, mom insisted i be in it.

here's where we ate, downtown.

and here's my awesome mom! hi mom!

isn't this floor just amazing?its super old and in an antique store downtown.

Here's the group!!!
Next on the agenda comes the part i've been waiting on for about a year now.
JASON ALDEAN AND LUKE BRYAN

we got all country girled up for it!!

seriously it was amazing, i stood up the whole time. This was jason and luke playing we rode in trucks, one of my favs.

heres me and sammy. she was my plus one and i'm now her absolute favorite best friend because of it.

kappa mcbadasses..sorry had to.

i figured id get more use out of koozies than a tshirt, if you dont know i have a pretty bad koozie obsession so these are what left the concert with me. Lukes is on the left and Jasons on the right.

these are lyrics to We Rode in Trucks which the boys sang together on the stage Friday. wanna see?

That was one of my favorites.

My two roommates and i are trying to win a scavenger hunt downstairs in the office that ends maarch 19th so look forward to seeing those pics next =)

x0PrincessLacey