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.

Deconstructed Christmas Tree

Hello folks! So, I used to love watching cooking shows, especially the ones that are a competition and all these brand new chefs are trying to outdo each with the trendiness and uniqueness of their dishes. Invariably, some classic dish or another got "deconstructed". I loved that part. An apple pie would get broken down into it's individual components and strewn about a plate, altered into a new texture or shape, until the whole thing looked like a piece of modern art with minimal resemblance to it's origin. Somehow, apparently when you put the pieces together in your mouth, voila, apple pie!

Today's mani reminded me of something deconstructed. This may be a stretch but I'm calling this my deconstructed Christmas tree.

There's the green for the tree, the white for the fake snow, the gold glitter for tinsel and the multicolored ornaments!  The polishes used in this mani are Orly Meet Me Under the Mistletoe, again, Wet n Wild Break the Ice and a Love and Beauty gold glitter. For the ornaments, the blue and red were Nanacoco polishes, the green is China Glaze Emerald Fitzgerald. The stamp is from the Bundle Monster plate, BM 206.

Fun, huh? Well, Christmas is almost here. I probably will have a couple more Christmas oriented manis to show you and then back to regularly scheduled programming!!