The Girls are Out and so are the Butterflies

Hey Everyone! It appears that my computer is going to cooperate today which is good news. Once again I wore a holo today only to walk outside and see dark clouds and rainy skies. Not cute, especially since I wore flip flops today. The fact that my mani was already chipped by the time I made it to work at 10am is less aggravating since I can't take pictures of it anyway. Stupid sun. I am keeping an eye on Tropical Storm Chantal right now since she seems to want to make a South Florida visit. I guess this means I should avoid the holos for the next week. 

Today I have one of the 2013 Summer Essie polishes. Essie confuses me. I don't know if the collection is called Naughty Nautical but that is what the display says. I had a great coupon from Walgreens and they didn't have Naughty Nautical so I picked this one instead. 

Essie The Girls are Out. This one is a very pretty bright fuchsia purple with a nice shimmer.

I dressed it up with some butterflies from my ebay fimo wheel. 

I used three coats of The Girls are Out. I love the pretty shimmer that gives this polish a subtle sparkle.

I used two butterflies as an accent nail and added some flight pattern dots. For some reason I thought the mani was too plain before the butterflies.

I love how bright and fun this color is, it definitely makes me think Summer.

The little fimo butterflies matched perfectly. I was impressed that they didn't stick up too much and cause me issues.

Now I want to use all the fimos! The great thing is that if you are careful you can peel them off and put them back in the wheel for future use.

I did manage to accidentally break one. 

I took a million pictures because I loved this mani. 

That's all for now :)

Lemon Nails

Hey Everyone!! Happy Monday to you! I can't believe we are already midway through June. Where does the time go? I had a pretty low key weekend. Pretty much the most I accomplished was a pendant for one of df's volunteers at the kennel and I started two pair of earrings. I will of course post pictures when I have them finished. I am trying to get a good amount of stuff ready to be glued so I can do all the glue work at one time. I had planned on doing a mani yesterday but got lazy and watched movies instead. I really hate when I am forced to watch a movie that has already begun. My brother had Trouble with the Curve on the tv and as much as I tried to ignore it I got sucked in. I missed the beginning which is quite annoying. Good movie but I have a hard time associating Justin Timberlake with a baseball player. We also watched Contagion last night and I told df I never want to leave the house or breathe air in public again now. Those movies always make me paranoid.

Today I have my first jump into the textured polishes. I have a few but haven't tried them yet. I woke up wanting to do lemon nails so I reached for this one.

Milani Yellow Mark from the Texture Creme Collection.

I attempted to stamp a citrus pattern on my nails with both white and a lime green color and it failed. You can see my middle finger is stamped in some of the pictures. It was very much less obvious in person. I decided to break out my ebay fimo wheel of fruit. I used a lemon on my ring finger and a grapefruit on my index finger.

I love the grapefruit and lemon slices. They were cut pretty thin so they didn't catch on everything like I expected them too. I didn't use a top coat and they managed to stay put the entire time I had the mani on so I was impressed. I was also able to take them off and save them for future use. I actually ripped one of the lemons in half by accident but it is still usable as a lemon wedge lol

Yellow Mark is a great bright yellow. I love how vibrant it is and I love the shade.

I can't remember if I did two or three coats for this mani. I think I did two coats.

It is a little strange to apply this polish because it is textured. It gets more textured as it dries but it is still not a smooth polish when you apply it. The application isn't difficult it is just different.

The texture wasn't overly annoying but I was bothered by the edges when I wrapped my tips. I ended up going back and wrapping my tips with clear so that they were smooth. I couldn't stand the ragged edge being scratchy and catching things.

You can see a little bit of the stamping in the picture above. I was hoping the stamping would be more visible in person. I didn't think to try using a bright pink to go with the grapefruit, I might have to try that another time.

I had gotten an email from Menchies Frozen Yogurt place about their new character Mookie the cow the other day. Their spoons all have characters on them and I have one in each one so when I saw the email I HAD to go get the new spoon. I love cows and honestly it was a great excuse to go have some frozen yogurt which I am not supposed to be eating lol I had to take a picture of the spoon lol Yes, I act like I am 5 sometimes.

I really love those fimo slices. It is a simple mani but I love how cute it looked.

I took far too many pictures of this mani.

Ever since a friend of mine showed me a mani with yellow glitter I have been wanting lemon nails. This texture polish is not only an awesome lemony yellow but the texture is reminiscent of the feel of a lemon so I have finally managed to have my lemon nails.

That's all for now :)

Arizona Ice Tea wannabe

Today I have my rehearsal dinner mani. Unfortunately not only did I not make it to the rehearsal but the mani didn't last that long anyway. Note to self: don't let the bf pack and since he isn't allowed to pack don't do mani before packing. I woke up early so I could do my nails before having to leave to the airport. I figured that while I was doing my nails he could pull out the clothes that needed packing. I didn't anticipate him totally freaking out because nothing would fit in the bag the way he wanted it to. I walked into a room with clothes everywhere and a bag overflowing with only his clothes lol. I thought I over packed! By the time I was done packing I already had a chip which was not cool at all!

I had a great plan for the mani using Jordana Mint Candy as the base. I was going to use Sephora Brownie for the branches and either Orly Spark or Loreal French Tip White for the flowers and those little fimo flowers.

I used the top left image on M66 for the design.

Luckily trying to take all these pictures actually distracted me from freaking out on the plane ride. I am sure I won't be posting many nail shots from a plane lol. I ended using the white for the flowers and then using Spark to put a yellow center in the flower. I used one fimo flower on each middle finger to give it a little extra kick.

Planes don't provide the best lighting for these pictures. Most of the pictures were either too bright or two dark.

I had put some Burt's cuticle cream on earlier so my fingers are shiny.

This mani reminds me of the Arizona Tea cans. I didn't get to take my pretty mani to the rehearsal dinner because we got incredibly lost on extremely dark roads in North Carolina. The girl that gave us directions didn't do a very good job and we ended up about 100 miles out of our way past our destination. It was a long night! I think by the time we made it to our destination I had only a couple fingers left with polish on them. It was nice while it lasted though. The fimo flowers didn't bother me as much as I thought they would. This means I must have more!

That's all for now :)