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Sunday, January 13, 2013

Lovely


This is 3 coats of Dare to Wear Crew Neck  and accent nail with 3 coats of  Dare to Wear Promiscuous with Konad Pastel Blue stamping polish. I'm sorry I cant remember which plate was used. I'll try to look it up. I wasn't satisfied with the opacity of the solid heart so I filled it in some more with the stamping polish.



Left Hand

Crew Neck, Promiscuous and Pastel Blue
Right Hand

I really liked the Crew neck, you can't really see in the pics but it had a shimmery finish. I was pleasantly surprised it wasn't too sheer and went on really evenly. I was bit disappointed in Promiscuous its so pretty in the bottle but went on bit dark.





Thursday, January 10, 2013

Hematite Polish

Ok so it doesn't have a name, I bought it in an un-labeled set with other polishes. Why do manufacturers do that so annoying. I did not really care about the other 2 they were a sort of pastel purple and black I already had polishes like those. But this one so pretty it is like powdered hematite rock so sparkly. Almost a pewter polish but without bluish tint. This is 2 coats with some lovely fimo kitties and a topping of Seche Vite.



Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Just Gonna Whine About It Then


 The color of this polish is just perfect the absolutely perfect dark neon green ever. Problem Its fricken sheer which would be great if I wanted to layer or do a jelly sandwich but I do not.  In the pic that is 4 fricken coats of polish  I don't mean thin coats I mean 4 medium coats of polish and still a vnl. Now I do not really mind a vnl generally but I  am just gutted this polish isn't opaque. It a perfect green. I can layer it over white I know but it just makes me sad I had such High expectations for this pretty green.
Spoiled Permission to Proceed

Sunday, January 6, 2013

Chelsea Girl and Royal Arcade

This is 2 coats of Color Club Chelsea Girl, with 2coats Nails Inc Royal Arcade as accent on the ring finger and and Kleancolor Metallic Aqua stamped using Cheeky Jumbo B plate.Topped with Seche Vite.



















This is some really subtle stamping you can only see if the light hits just so, but it was really pretty and turned out well I liked it. The photos do not do real justice to the Royal arcade it is a really lovely glitter polish though I don't think its close to royal blue at all.

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Starting off the new year posting Late

I really am just too pleased with how these turned out I started with 2 coats Orly Vinyl as base and Color Club Cherubic for my thumbs and ring fingers. I stamped with Cherubic and MOS Black stamping polish  using Cheeky B plate and  Apipla 05. I added some dots of cherubic in the middle of the circles with dotting tool and topped it all off with Seche Vite.

Left Hand 

Right Hand

Cherubic stamped so well I was just so stoked this turned out so great I loved this so much .

Beach Blue Mousse with bows

This is 3 coats of Lime Crime Blue Mousse stamped with KleanColor Beach Blue 25 using the
Jumbo Knock Off of Konad Plate Row M56. I added small aqua round glitter in middle of each bow (it is a no name received as part of a franken kit).  Topped with Seche Vite.

Left Hand

Right Hand




















I like how well this turned out.There are a few mistakes where I didn't get the stamp all the way across and a few more where I tried to fix it :)

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Shooting Stars

For this mani I followed Arcadia Nail Art's Shooting Stars Tutorial. Ok so I didn't follow exactly, but closely enough.

For Base I used 2 coats of China Glaze Calypso Blue-673. I then used New York Hot Metallic Silver and a dotting tool to make a slightly curved line on my ring fingers and thumbs. I then added two more dotted lines on either side using Color Club Lumin-ICEcent-932. When I was done I thought it needed a bit of something else, so added Essie Shine of the Times over the dottings and on the tips of my fingers. I then added some star shape sequins I got from Nailways. I topped with 2 coats of Seche Vite mainly to hide the texture of the star it was really too large for may nail and wouldn't bend with my nail. Then Matted it with Butter Matte Topcoat.
Before Matting

After Matting I know it looks Black but its really Dark Blue
Calypso Blue, Hot Metallic Silver, LuminICEcent, Shine of the Times

Right Hand see blue  and bit smudged


Left Hand















I think if/when I do this again I'll do smaller stars and wear tighter pants. I almost lost my pants which is why my right hand thumb is smudged. The stars drove me absolutely nuts, I ran my fingers over them all day and had to seriously concentrate not to pick at them.  I can not stand for anything to stick out off my nails. I see those nails with all the really big 3-D bows, flowers, etc and I wonder how they make it. I can do really thinly sliced fimo and sequins that bend a bit, but I'd pick my nails apart with anything that stuck out too far from my nail.