Barry M Blueberry with watermarble and holo skittlette

I'm back with another manicure from the vault! I wore this about a year ago, when I started going through all my Barry M polishes and swatching those. Just to warn you, you will be seeing a lot of Barry M polishes in the next several weeks. 

This manicure features Barry M Blueberry, a gorgeous effortless sky blue color that took three coats for opacity. I probably could have been fine with two but for a very stark nail line. 

The silvery holo on my middle finger is Orly Mirrorball. I did a watermarble accent on my ring finger with Barry M Blueberry, Plum and Prickly Pear. 

I have a bunch in this variation of blue. It's a favorite of mine.

L'Oreal Rainy Piccadilly watermarble skittlette

Alright! Good morning, everyone!! It's Jan 7th and for the first time I feel like I can take a deep breath after the end of the year/beginning of the next year rush! 

It's also my son's 5 month anniversary today so here's the obligatory statement about oh my gosh, how time flies!! It's been flying so fast I've had barely any time to do my nails. At least not in a blog worth sense. The last mani was so shoddy I hated having it on my nails. The one before that was awesome but I didn't have time to take pictures!! I'll have to redo that one. So, lucky for us, we have a few manis in the files waiting for their time to be shown. Here is one of them!

I did these a long time ago and posted a not so great picture on Instagram, promising that I would show better pictures soon. Well, here it is weeks later. The main color for this is a wonderful teal by L'Oreal called Rainy Piccadilly. I had used it in the past in a different skittlette here.

My favorite parts about this mani are actually the accent nails of watermarble and the texture polish. This is the first time I did a horizontal stripey watermarble and I loved it! I have to credit My Simple Little Pleasures on YouTube for the first time I saw this method of creating a water marble design. She has so many different ways to create watermarble designs that I haven't even touched on yet! The colors I used for this one are L'Oreal Rainy Piccadilly and Club Prive.

Finally, the textured polish is one of the Gumdrops by Nicole by OPI. It was a teal color that I only found at Target. This one is called Emerald Green. I wore it without a topcoat as intended but the shimmer in there is so amazing that I have to wear it with topcoat at some point.

Adventures in Stamping Sunday Stamping: Thanksgiving nails

Hey guys!
I managed to pull together another Sunday Stamping challenge mani. This is for Thanksgiving nails. I was doing a Thanksgiving mani anyway with marbling and I decided to add some cut out leaf decals from the image plate Cheeky CH33.

The polishes I used are all from the old Vintage Vixen collection:
    China Glaze Foxy
    China Glaze Emerald Fitzgerald
    China Glaze Goin' My Way?
    China Glaze Classic Camel

Tomorrow, I'll show you guys a tutorial for how I did those stamped leaves!

Pink Watermarble with Sinful Colors Polishes

Hi peeps!

Today, I am happy to show you my first embellished watermarble design. Ever since the first time I saw this, I have wanted to try it out. I like the results of my middle finger way more than my ring but I was in a bit of a rush when I did this. 

I used all Sinful Colors polishes for this watermarble. I find that all the Sinful Colors creme polishes work fairly well for watermarbling. I absolutely loved the color and consistency of the bright pink color. What isn't consistent is the spelling of the name. I swear that's how it's spelled on my bottle!

Have a good day everyone!!

Sinful Colors Envy St. Paddy's Watermarble

So...I don't have a drop of Irish in me (I don't think). I am not even going to drink this weekend (it would be criminal if I did). So I am celebrating the way I can, with a manicure :-)

I used Sinful Colors Envy for the first time in this mani. It's a great green was an almost one coater for me. The other polishes used are Sinful Colors Innocent, Sinful Colors Olympia and China Glaze White Cap. On the ring fingers the base was painted with SC Innocent and and on the middle finger the base was SC Envy. you can see that White Cap is over different colors on each finger.

With this particular watermarble I was so proud of my right hand results that I had to show that too. So here the debut of my right hand on this blog. Ta da!!!!

The gold shamrock on my left index finger was done with these large glitters I got from a random dollar store near here last summer. I have yet to use the other colors!

One last look, this is under softer lighting.

What do you guys think? My husband thought the glequin shamrock was too abstract. I kinda like it :-) Better than attempting freehand nail art.

Sinful Colors Boom Boom Birthday Mani

Hi Everyone! It was my birthday this last Friday and I hadn't necessarily planned anything specific for my birthday mani. It just so happened that this is what I was wearing on my birthday so here it is, my birthday mani!

For this mani, the colors I used are Sinful Colors Boom Boom on the index, Sinful Colors Secret Admirer on the pinky and Sally Hansen X-treme Wear Black Out with Boom Boom for the marble on the middle two fingers. More and more, I have been really happy with the way some of the Sinful Colors marble. Boom Boom is a great bright pink that doesn't lean into the neon range. It applied with a consistency that was a cross between creme and jelly. There is great pigmentation so two coats was all I needed to get full coverage. As with many of the SC polishes, there was a great shine without even using top coat. Here, I have already applied Seche Vite. 

For my actual birthday, the day started off with a gift and hot breakfast from my sweet husband. Then a long, long day at work, followed by dinner and tons of fun at Dave and Busters. For those of you who don't know what it is, it is basically an arcade where you spend money to get tokens that you then use to play various arcade and carnival style games. I always have a ton of fun there. It had been a long time since my last trip so it was a blast!

Pacific Blue Watermarble with Revlon Stunning

Yay, I'm very happy with this post because I got back to watermarbling! I love this technique when it works right. It is such a stunning look and for me somewhat unpredictable. Even when I've made the design I want on the water and aim for it, I still don't know what it's going to look like until my finger is out of the water. This look was insprired by the first snow of the season! I didn't feel like stamping for the literal snowflake pattern so I just thought I'd go for the overall feel of the snowy winter season.

For this mani, I used Sally Hansen Pacific Blue and Sally Hansen White On. Those X-treme Wear polishes do seem to marble quite nicely. The white did like to spread out a bit more than the blue but I still like the effect. For the glittery snow like effect, I layered one coat of Revlon Stunning over it. It's a mix of smaller glitter with larger holographic hexagons. I think it was a good choice for this mani. 

I wore it plain for about a day before putting the glitter on. I just love how blue this blue is! It kind of changes character in different lighting but no matter what, it stands out. I've had so many nice comments on this mani because people just have to take a second look at this color. 

Movember Monday Moustache Mani: Moustache and Marble

I love me a good alliteration. I had this post up yesterday but then I was struck by the idea of having it be a Monday mani series so of course I had to take it down. Welcome to the first installation. I still don't know what I'll do for the others but you can find out with me :-)

Last Friday, for the first time in my oh so young practice, I had the humbling experience of telling one of my first patients that he has prostate cancer. He took the news incredibly well and even thanked me for calling him early and letting him know before our next appointment. He had always been such a sweet man that I wished I could have reached through the phone and given him a quick hug. I mention this story not only to share a bit but also to highlight the fact that on the tails of October and Breast Cancer Awareness Month comes Novemeber (or Movemeber), Men's Health Awareness Month, including awareness of prostate and testicular cancer. Here is a funny blurb from the us.movember.com website describing the activities of the month.

        Once registered at www.movember.com, men start Movember 1st clean shaven. For the rest of the month, these selfless and generous men, known as Mo Bros, groom, trim and wax their way into the annals of fine moustachery. Supported by the women in their lives, Mo Sistas, Movember Mo Bros raise funds by seeking out sponsorship for their Mo-growing efforts.Mo Bros effectively become walking, talking billboards for the 30 days of November. Through their actions and words they raise awareness by prompting private and public conversation around the often ignored issue of men’s health.

In residency, I was the only girl in my program and every November, most of the guys in the program would grow (or attempt to grow) some spectacular 'staches. I'm sure their wives were always glad once December rolled around :-)

Sinful Colors Folly Watermarble

With all the pink manicures floating around for breast cancer awareness month, I wanted to get in on the action too. So I pulled out another one of my untrieds for this one, Sinful Colors Folly. Of course, I could have featured an actual breast cancer ribbon but then my mind started wandering and I went from ribbons to ribbons of pink to watermarble! I hadn't done one in a while so I thought it was perfect!