Savina Marine Life with loose glitter

Hi everyone!

Life is so so busy right now! I am still painting my nails but only about once a week. That's about as frequently as I can create a blog post as well. And that is with great effort! So, without much ado, here is Savina Marine Life. A very vibrant sea green color. In real life it is even more greenish that these pictures show it to be. 

For the "art" part of it, I did some glitter placement with some iridescent hex glitter from TJ Maxx. It was part of a set of various colored glitter by Martha Stewart. Believe it or not, it had both larger hexes and fine loose glitter in almost the exact shade of green as Marine Life. Of course, I had to use them :-) This was my first time using loose glitter. I just painted the color, then a coat of clear and sprinkled and patted the loose glitter on the nail while it was still wet. Then, once dry, I brushed off any glitter that didn't stick. Removal wasn't too much of a pain either! It was so sparkly!

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!

Zoya Dahlia and Confetti Dance Party Pink skittlette

Hi folks! I've got another skittlette for you today! This time I mixed textures and I really liked the end result. I have become addicted to the skittlette ever since I saw Marta from ChitChatNails coin the term. I love every single skittlette she comes up with, which I can't say the same for mine. I do love this one though!

The polishes I used here are Zoya Dahlia which is the black texture polish and Confetti Dance Party Pink. Isn't that just the most yummy pale pink ever? I believe that was three coats. Two coats for Dahlia. Then for accents, I did a hand placed glitter accent on the ring finger with black hexes and hot pink iridescent hexes. On the middle finger, I stamped using an image from Gals Fairy Set plate GA30 again. I added those hand placed glitters on the stamped image as well. One thing I didn't like about this image is that I couldn't get it to stamp on my full nail. Otherwise, I'd have been 100% happy with this mani. What do you guys think? I'm on a roll with these hand placed glitters here.

China Glaze Riveting Skittlette

Hey everybody! Another quick post for you guys today. I had this mani on a while ago, when the weather was still clearly summer. My nails are slightly rounded because it was soon after delivery and well... I felt like I had to have rounded nails. The first picture is in my lightbox indoors and the second picture is in full sunlight. Look at that amazing shimmer!! 

After wearing it plain for about a day, I did a simple skittlette by stamping the ring finger with an image from the Gals Fairy set plate GA30. On the other finger, I added some hand placed glitter. First matte black hexes in size 0.062 then metallic orange ones in .040 on top. These pictures are taken in the shade.

Thanks for looking!!

InstaFranken Friday: "Sparkle Merlot" holo glitter franken

Hi all! Time to show another one of my frankens. I should not be given a job naming polishes. It's really gorgeous though!! I recommend clicking on the pictures to really see the awesomeness.

Here are the polishes I used for this.
Pure Ice Iced Merlot
Sally Hansen Strobe Light
L.A. Girls 3D Sparkle Ruby
Love and Beauty Faded Rose/Multi
Spectraflair Franken but this didnt do much

I made it in the same fashion as the others. Single use batch in a little foil cup. I'm going to show you more pictures in different lights. The one above was in sunlight. The next one is in shade.

And in the lightbox...

Then inspired by Lisa from Polished Elegance by this post, I added a cut out stamped design with hand placed glitter borders. Design is from the Pueen plate 19. For that red base, I used a mix of WnW Everybody Loves Redmond and Urban Outfitters Blood.

Sinful Colors Neptune Baby Shower mani and I'm on Facebook!!!

Hi everyone! Another long week where the days just flew by! So much so that I am only now finding the time to post this mani. 

First and foremost, I'm on Facebook!! You can find the link to my page in the row of buttons on the right side of this page ----->. If you like to be on Facebook, please "like" my page and you can follow along with the posts through that as well.

As promised, I am showing you guys the mani I wore for my baby shower. The main colors used are Sinful Colors Neptune and Orly Powder Puff. I've used the Orly in other manis before when I just want a slightly off white base. It works well to wear in two to three coats. Dries in a decent time and with careful application, doesn't have any annoying bald spots. 

The accent nails are done with a combination of stamping, dots and glitter...oh my! After stamping, I added little colored dots with SC Neptune and Revlon Wind Fall. The glitters were hand placed after fishing them out of the different glitter polishes listed below. Sounds more time consuming than it actually was! The glitter pieces looked like little flat jewels on my nails.

A sunlight picture.

The colors I used for these are:

         Sinful Colors Neptune

         Orly Powder Puff

         Revlon Wind Fall

         WnW Black for stamping

         Glitters from:

                  Jordana Cosmic

                  Love & Beauty Crystal/Multi

                  Love & Beauty Dark Blue

Stamping Plate Cheeky XL B

My invitation was the inspiration for the mani.

Hubby rating: 10/10. He loved it :-)

Instafranken Fun Friday: Or, how I utterly failed at a Chanel Taboo Franken attempt

Hi all!

It's another franken fun Friday and today I am going to show you my attempt at recreating what I thought Chanel Taboo looked like from memory. Yeah....don't do that. Granted, it wasn't a very intense effort. As usual, I just took a few polishes that I thought would look interesting together, put a few drops of each in a tiny foil cup and painted my nails with it such I have demonstrated in this post. It came out nothing like Chanel Taboo but I thought it was pretty all the same!

These are the three polishes I mixed together. Sally Hansen Brilliant (which I also used as my first coat), Sally Hansen HD Laser and Revlon Spice It Up. I didn't have any specific proportions, just a couple of drops of each. 

Maybe if I were to attempt it again, I'd add more of a purple to it...like Revlon Grape or something. I did jazz it up with some hand placed holographic gold glitter. Here is a picture in the sun. 

I loved this so much! I made a video to really show off the sparkle of the holo glitter! I see more hand placed glitter in my life...