Plumage Remixed

Hey Everyone!! I have been thinking it was Friday ALL DAY LONG! It wasn't too bad a day other than I was disappointed every time I realized it was only Thursday and I had to go back to work tomorrow. Then there is some stuff going on with df and work which is crazy and on top of that he may have caught something from work that though it is totally treatable without health insurance doctor visits are costly. Plus I am a super freak and I worry about everything so I am quite highly stressed out right now. I am trying to relax and do some crochet while watching football but it isn't helping much. At least tomorrow is FRIDAY!!!!

Today I have more pictures of the gorgeous Candeo Colors Plumage only I shook up the original mani a bit. 

It is hard to tell but I mattified it. I love the pictures of glitter manis that have been mattified so I HAD to try it. It looks really cool in person BUT it is not overly noticeable. This could be because I have the Hard Candy Matte top coat and to me it doesn't seem to mattify things as well as pictures I have seen of people using other brands. 

I love the matte look though. It made it kinda cool looking.

THEN I stamped!

Now I let my son pick out the design I was going to stamp from the Cheeky XL-A. He decided I needed to do a different image on each finger and since I couldn't figure out a reason NOT to I went with it.

I used Wet N Wild Ebony Hates Chris to stamp with and did not use a top coat so it stayed matte.

I was using the XL stamper and the plastic scrapers and it wasn't going well so not all of the patterns came out really well.

I do love the pinky image and the middle finger image the most. I wasn't really thrilled with the way the image on my index finger came out. It was funny how on one hand the image would come out better than the other hand. I think I eventually gave up and went back to my metal scraper because the plastic one was giving me fits.

It was a fun mani but two of my nails ended up breaking so the fun ended early. I am dying for them to grow back so I can start doing fun manis again. They are making me nuts being so short and my middle nail is peeling again. I need to find a miracle cure for these nails!

That's all for now :)

Candeo Plumage

Hey Everyone!! IT IS WEDNESDAY!!! That means much closer to the weekend so I am excited. Still tired and wishing it was Friday but at least it is closer.

Today I have for you a polish from one of the first Indie brands I discovered. Candeo Colors has a huge selection of glitter polishes that are both tinted and clear base top coats. I bought my first two Candeo Colors polishes and was hooked. You can buy them from their website (when it is stocked) or the lovely Leah Ann over at Llarowe I absolutely LOVE Candeo Colors and can not rave enough about the gorgeous polish or the customer service. STELLAR customer service! I love their website and watching the pretty polishes change on the banner. When I went to the website this morning to link to it for this post I noticed there are four new colors that I will be NEEDING to get my paws on.

Today I have for you Plumage.

Plumage is right up my alley packed with tons of green and blue glitter in different shades.

I used my Saran wrap mani of Essie Navigate Her and China Glaze Kalahari Kiss as a base. I used just one coat of Plumage because I am hoarding it. It was jam packed with glitter.

This polish sparkles like you would not believe. I loved this mani oh so much.

I tried to catch it in the sun but we were having overcast days that were uncooperative but boy this polish is distracting!

Gorgeous polish. Alot of Indie glitter polishes are really thick and need to be thinned. I didn't have a problem with Plumage and right now I don't need to thin it. The coat I used was on the thicker side but it wasn't so thick I couldn't deal with it.

I took a ton of pictures of this one lol. I am using a bunch of them because it is that pretty. I know they all look the same but I can't help it.

See that sparkle?! I wore this mani for a couple days before touching it because I loved it that much.

I haven't shown you any of my crochet projects in a bit so I have one for you today. Since Plumage was inspired by the plumage on the pretty birds of the world I figured I would show you something bird related. This is an owl mug cozy. I made it for a lovely girl I did a swap with since I recall her mentioning she drinks tea. I hope I didn't make that up and she really does drink tea or coffee lol.

It is super cute and now I need to make myself one because I love it.

I modeled it on my coffee cup. This is actually made for a mug with a handle and has a button and wraps around the handle but you can't tell from this picture.

That's all for now :)