Color Club Date With Destiny

Hello hello! I'm back with another polish for you and this time it's a mainstream! I'm sure it's still available in various places online. This is Color Club Date With Destiny. It's a holographic polish but the holographic-ness of it is not as strong as a lot of the indie holos I've seen lately. It's still a delicately pretty polish with a light lavender base. I thought it would be a perfect canvas for a little stamping, which I had the time for and hadn't done in a long time. The image is from the Bundle Monster plate BM 310. The polish used to stamp was China Glaze Harmony, which is from the Romantique collection. All of them make good stamping polishes.

The picture below is in the shade and the one below that was back in sunlight. 

Thanks for looking! See you next time. 

My last snowflake mani

Hi everyone!

So, I think, I hope, last week was the last of the snow we are going to see around these parts. Spring is stumbling in and summer is around the corner and I can't wait!! I figured I better put up my last snowflake mani for this year. This has been sitting around for a while. Obviously, I haven't really been keeping up with this blog much lately. I hope to keep it going enough that when I finally get time in my life to get back to it, I still can.

The base for this mani is a sparkly grey concoction that I came up with a long long time ago. I'm not even sure of all the polishes that are in there but off the top of my head I can think of Revlon Carbonite, Wet n Wild The Gold and the Beautiful, Milani Silver Dazzle and Sinful Colors Queen of Beauty. It's sparkly!

I stamped it with snowflakes from Bundle Monster BM 323 plate again, just like I did with Orly Stone Cold. Basically, I had that stamp sitting out, I was feeling to rushed to find another design and I went for it.

I tried to do some sort of double stamp initially. I started with the ring finger. Then I decided I didn't have time for all that, so I left it as an accent nail. It sort of works....maybe. 

Orly Stone Cold with snowflakes

Hi folks!

Wow, so I finally, finally, finished what I hope is the last big exam of my career this weekend. And what a nerve wracking process it was! So glad it's over. I feel like I have my life back! I still don't know if I'll be able to post at pre-baby level but I shouldn't completely disappear again!

Today's post is Orly Stone Cold. It's an old one but an untried for me. The shade of this blue is stunning! The micro flecks in the polish are so reflective! I really couldn't capture the depth of it on camera.

It's still snowing here so the snowflakes are totally appropriate still. I tried to do a mix of white and holo when stamping but I'm not sure the holo really comes across. The plate used here is BM 323.

Here it is by itself. Alright, that is all!

Sunday Stamping: Halloween Stamping, Black and White Halloween mani with Hard Candy Black Tie Optional

Hi folks!

This post is going up late, seeing how Sunday is more than halfway over. This is my mani for the Sunday Stamping challenge, Halloween themed stamping. I really, really wanted to do a black and white gradient so I finally did it for this mani. Then I took Hard Candy Black Tie Optional out of my untrieds and used it with a few randomly yet strategically placed matte glitter in orange, purple and lime green. I added glowing orange eyes to the skull while the image was still on the stamper, stamping decal style. If anyone is curious about what I'm talking about, I can elaborate if you ask me.

I really love how this looks. Love the randomly hand placed glitter mixed with the black and white glitter. I placed a few glitters down first, then painted a coat of BTO, then placed a few more glitters over it. A lot less time consuming than you would think because it was random placement. I will have to do this technique more often. Gives the impression of having an entirely new form of glitter polish.

Here's all the polishes used in this mani. The plate is Bundle Monster BM 225.

Wet n Wild Ebony Hates Chris

Sinful Colors Snow me White

Sally Hansen Wet Cement

Hard Candy Black Tie Optional 

Sinful Colors Courtney Orange

Adventures in Stamping Sunday Stamping: Jade Uau! with Halloween stamping

Hello lovelies!

Today I'm presenting another Adventures in Stamping Sunday Stamping mani. The prompt this time was over a holo base. Since I had just received a shipment from Ninja Polish with a few Jade holographic polishes, I had to try out one of them. This is Jade Uau! and wow, what a color! I think I'm falling in love with orange!

I had been really wanting an orange holo and this fulfills all my wishes :-) The house stamp comes from BM 305 and the Jack-o-Lantern stamp comes from BM 224. The black I used is Wet n Wild Black Creme. And, some hand placed black hexes on pointer and index fingers to round it out.

There is still slight holo action in the shade!

Sparkly Sinful Colors Endless Blue with "Giraffe" Stamping

Hi everyone!

How is your weekend going so far? Mine's been good. Yesterday was one of the best days we've had this spring so far weather wise and my husband and I went for a long walk yesterday afternoon. We held hands, ate ice cream, watched a surprise free acapella concert at the local university where they had free bags of kettle corn. We ate that too :-) We joked around, talked about the future...it was fun! Now it's Sunday and we're both trying to catch up on some work. Well, he is. I will after this post :-P.

Speaking of which.....

This is the second of the blue manis I wore the week after we found out that our baby is a boy. This is Sinful Colors Endless Blue with one coat of Wet n Wild Blue Wants to be a Millionaire over it. A day later, it was begging to be stamped (I heard it) and so I went for the pattern that's been used as a giraffe pattern in other manis I've seen. To me, in this mani, it looks like wide spaced netting. The actual pattern is from the Bundle Monster plate BM 313.

I love Blue Wants to be a Millionaire. This is my first time using it and I'm kicking myself for not using it more before. It's got such a lovely fine holographic shimmer and one coat applies so evenly without changing the actual color of the base polish. I have its sister polish in pink as well, Hannah Pinktana or something. I need to use it too.

Here are a couple of pictures showing the mani before the stamping.

Pretty, huh?

Sally Hansen Wet Cement Stamped with flowers

Good Saturday, everybody! I just love weekends. Most of my weekends these days have consisted of sleeping in (which for me is like 8am), slow breakfast, TV or movies, doing my nails and catching up on some work from the week. The cold weather and snow has kept us both indoors for the most part all winter. We're just not winter people. I don't see any benefit to snow after the first pretty quiet peaceful snowfall of the year. All that follows afterwards is grey, grey, grey and I can do without that!

That's not to say that I can't work with grey on my nails :-) This is an update to my last post with Sally Hansen Wet Cement. This grey was begging to be stamped and I really wanted to try some tone on tone stamping. I had come across China Glaze Awaken at Ulta and bought it that day because I saw some great stamping potential in this charcoal grey chrome polish. I was right! It was perfect for this job!

The plate I used was BM 211. To add a little punch of color, I added dots with China Glaze Harvest Moon that I had also picked up on sale at Sally's.

I just love how the tone on tone stamping behaves in different light. From one angle, you can hardly tell anything is there. Then you just angle your hand a little bit......

And Bam! An intricate design. I love it! I know people get tired of nail fads like crackle, magnetics, etc but will people ever get tired of stamping? I don't think so. I know I won't. Along with gradients and watermarble, this is one of my favorite nail art tricks! What do you guys think? Will stamping ever go out of style?

Ornaments Skittlette

I'm Back! Hi everyone! I am so sorry for going so MIA on you. Trust me, you will get a good explanation for what happened and where I went but for now, let's just say life got it the way. I'm back now with the third and last of the Skittlette contest entry candidates.

To get that amazing purple color on the first two fingers, I first painted them with Sinful Colors Mesmerize. It was what I thought I wanted in the bottle but on the nail, it looked too blue. I saw my bottle of Verity Deep Violet sitting on the table, fresh from being taken out of its shipping package, and I layered a coat of that over Mesmerize. That did it! Such a smooth purple jelly!

On the pinky, it is L'Oreal The Queen's Ambition and on my ring finger, I am wearing my now favorite white,  Wet n' Wild Break the Ice. The stamp is from the Bundle Monster plate BM 206. I think of it as the ornaments stamp now.

Savina Sparkling Water Vines

This is going to be a brief one. I decided I liked the Savina polish I used yesterday enough to keep it on and try something else with it. I took the 'staches off and added some vines from the Bundle Monster plate 225 and Wet n Wild black. I do like this look. The color of the blue is really nice and the holographic sparkle is pretty. Maybe I'm just in a better mood...?