Easter Nails

Hey Everyone!!! I hope everyone who celebrates had a nice Easter, Passover and whatever else you celebrated this past weekend. We didn't do much but it was a nice relaxing weekend with good food. I only managed to do one Easter mani this year. I have no idea why but I was just not feeling the festive Easter spirit and I was lazy. At least the one mani I did do was cute. 

I started the mani off with a 3 coat base of Wet N Wild in Wear Skinny Jeans. This is from their Silver Lake Collection. The collection is supposed to be Hipster cool but the display makes it look like a throwback to the 1990's 90210 cool era. I absolutely love these colors though and pretty much acquired all of them except the pink one. 

I used Sinful Flight to See which is more of an opalescent top coat to stamp the chevron pattern. I used Bundle Monster plate BM-423 from the 2013 Create Your Own set. The chevrons were nice and subtle which I liked.

For the bunny and carrot I used MoYou London Princess 09. I used various other polishes to color in and put some glitter on the images. 

I really liked this mani and kept it on for a couple of days but that is where the Easter stopped. I spent most of the weekend with naked nails which is just unheard of. I had a few breaks too which damned my spirits. I hate when my nails grow and bit then all break. It happens all the time so I am somewhat used to it but I still hate it.

That's all for now :)

St. Patrick's Day Tree Hugger

Hey Everyone!!! Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!! I am excited! I have my green hair, my green Guinness bead necklace the lovely manager at Flanigan's gave me last weekend and my nails are done. We got some shamrock cookies and Darby O'Gill and the Little People dvd ready to go for tonight. 

Since I have six manis left to show you I think we will try and do two posts today. I don't have the mani I am actually wearing today ready to post yet but I will try and get it ready for tomorrow.

For this mani I started with Wet N Wild Tree Hugger from the Silverlake Collection. It is a really pretty mint green creme.

I used three coats of Tree Hugger for the base.

I remembered I had some Lucky Star Style decals for St. Patrick's Day. I also just realized that they have a pretty cool new website and I think I need to order some new decals.

For the other two designs I created some stamper decals using the image from Bundle Monster Holiday plate BM-H04.

I colored in some of the shamrocks with Revlon Posh and Holographic Pearls.

I was a little impatient in waiting for them to dry so some of the nails have wrinkles but I really loved this mani! So green and fun.

That's all for now :)

Lots of Hearts

Hey Everyone!! I spent the weekend away from the computer so we are behind on the Valentine's Day manis. I guess this means we will be seeing a few more days of red and hearts and barfy valentines day stuff. Luckily I don't think I have too many more manis to post before we can move on to other things. 

I think the theme of my Valentine's manis this year is recycling holiday polishes and making them work for Valentine's Day. Today I have another Sally Girl polish from the holidays. This one was supposed to be scented however not once did I get a whiff of any scent other than your normal polish smell. The non scent didn't bother me in the least though. 

I used Sally Girl Peppermint for the base. All the junk on my fingers and cuticles is the remnants of hair glue which I tried to use to help with cleanup. My first experience with the hair glue was a bit of a fail as you can tell by the amount left on my skin after my mani.

I used three coats of Peppermint to get a nice opaque base. 

I decided to do some stamping but couldn't decide what color to use to stamp so I did black and red. At this point I was pretty much over the red and pinks of Valentine's Day so the black was a welcome change.

I used China Glaze Tip Your Hat and Wet N Wild black for the stamping.

I used Bundle Monster plate BM-H18 from their Holiday Collection for the heart image. 

That's all for now :)

I am Back! Lots of Pictures Included!

Hey Everyone!!! I AM BACK!!! It was a nice break but I am finally back. Things have settled down for the most part so I am confident I can devote my attention to the blog again. My nails, however, have decided to be complete jerks and not cooperate. I decided to go forward and blog anyway. All of that will be explained in the next post. I figure I will start out with 2-3 posts a week instead of trying to do daily posts. I even got a little calendar to keep track of my manis so I can stay organized. When I was going through pictures on my camera I had forgotten what mani of the polishes I had used were. I decided I must write down everything from now on to keep myself from staring at the computer for 20 minutes trying to remember what I used. The great thing about my memory is that I eventually did remember all but one of the polishes I used in the pictures below. I wish I could say the same for the stamping images though. 

Today I have some of the manis I have done over the past few months. My nails will be various lengths because some of the pictures are older than others. Shall we take a look?

Back at the beginning of football season I did this mani combining C's NY Giants and my Buffalo Bills. It didn't quite come out as well as I had wanted it to.

I wasn't thrilled with the gold stamping. It looked much nicer in my imagination. 

Back when I was taking ds to the doctor all the time I saw this NYC Fashion Queen collection at one of my CVS stops. Since I was stressed and they were cheap I did a little retail therapy and bought the glitter polishes called Crystal Couture. I, of course, did not buy them all at once which tells you how many doctor trips we actually made. 

The Blue one is called Blue Majesty and the purple is named My Princess.

I don't usually do gold but I actually really liked this one a lot. It is called Fashion Queen.

I decided that it reminded me of gold coins and pirates plus I just really wanted to use a skull image so I stamped one on as an accent. 

I used Sugar Bubbles stamping plate 008 for this cute skull.

Queen's Jewels is the green color for this collection and I love it! 

I decided to do an accent nail with another recently acquired polish Sinful Colors Cauldron Couture.

This was the only bottle shot I took for some reason. I have no idea why I do the things I do.

The red from the Fashion Queen Collection also caught my attention despite it not being my favorite color.

The red one is pretty pink but I still loved the vibrant juicy color. It is called Ruby Queen.

I had done a few gel manis as well to help my nails grow a bit. I figured the protection of the gel mani would help keep them going.

For this gel mani I used Gelish Race you to the Bottom.

My nails were pretty damaged so the gel manis didn't wear quite as good as I would have liked. I hate when one or two nails ruin it for the whole mani!

This mani was the one that I could not remember at all. I finally remembered that the base color was one of the Fall Limited Edition Wet N Wild Megalast Matte polishes but I still am not positive what the glitter accent is.

The Wet N Wild is called Distressed to Impress. I love the color of this one oh so much! I believe the glitter is a Sinful Colors glitter but I am not 100% positive on that one. 

That's all for now :) 

Wet N Wild See Ya' Soon?

Hey Everyone!! Oh what a week. I have been having stomach issues all week and I am not the least bit thrilled that it hasn't gone away. Luckily I got in with the doctor tomorrow so hopefully we can make this stop sooner rather than later. 

Today I have a Wet N Wild Megalast color for your viewing pleasure. I would have shown you the bottle shot but it angers me. In the bottle See Ya' Soon is a gorgeous duochrome shimmer beauty. On the nail the duochrome is completely non existent. I took pictures from every angle and position and nothing wanted to show up. It didn't flash in person either. It is still a very pretty shimmer but it lies. 

This is three coats of See Ya' Soon. It had a nice formula and application.

It is a very pretty blackened teal green shimmer. It did spend a lot of time looking like a plain dark polish though.

It does look pretty in the sun.

In the shade though most of the pictures don't show off the shimmer at all.

Still pretty but not anything to write home about in the shade.

Looks like your everyday dark black or maybe navy polish.

When you catch the shimmer it is definitely pretty and non boring.

I tried really really hard to get the purple flash that the bottle shows to come out and play but it just wasn't going to happen. We were lied to. No duochrome we will NOT see ya soon.

That's all for now :)

Contact High and Copa-Banana Flowers

Hey Everyone!! Happy Hump Day, WOOO WOOO! I have been looking online for some sort of rolling case to store all of my nail art stuff in. I figure if it is big enough I can put my gel polish in it too. Thus far I have found a lot of expensive options that may or may not work. I need to be more decisive because not being able to decide what I want is making things crazy. I need to get stuff organized fairly soon so I can clear out the mess I have made in the dining room. This has been my current project. I love how when I am actually searching for something specific on craigslist I can't find it anywhere near me. 

Today I have some nail art I did over the green mani from yesterday.

I started with a base of Wet N Wild Contact High and Sally Hansen Copa-banana.

I used Konad black stamping polish and plate M22. I used the two flowers on the left for this mani.

It looked really cute and then I used top coat. Why does my stamping insist on smearing when I touch a bottle of top coat? It drives me crazy.

The smearing was not very cute and drove me nuts. I do love the image though.

I am on a quest to stop the smearing. Even if I float the top coat and still get smearing. I just killed off the last of my bottle of Seche Vite so maybe a new less goopy bottle will help. I know I have since tried another top coat that was a free with purchase deal at Sallys and it smeared pretty bad too.

One day I will find the perfect, non smearing, top coat. One day.

That's all for now :)