No roar in this leopard

Hi Everyone!  I hope everyone is safe and sound after the large storm front sweeping the US!  I'm posting something today I actually wore last week and did not like at all.  Here's the kicker though, everyone else who saw it loved it!  I had a lot of high hopes for this baby but it just fell short in my eyes.

I did a half moon mani with Zoya Farah and OPI What Wizardy Is This

Even with the leopard stamping it just really fell short in my eyes

I also had a lot of tip wear with this baby toward the end of the day!

I have decided though, the leopard image is my go to image.  I'm thinking about doing a week long of leopard--so be on the look out for it!

What do you think about this one--winner or not?

Thanks for stopping by!! I hope you all have a fantastic day!

Let's Get Ready To Rumble!!!!!! Zoya Skittle Smackdown!

Hi Everyone!!! Today's challenge theme for Adventures In Stamping is over a skittle base.  This is always challenging for me because it's SO hard for me to be random LOL!  I decided to haul out my Zoya's both old and new and see what I could do.  I yanked both the Stunning and Beach collection out and went to town.  Now mind you I did all 10 fingers so 10 different shades AND I had to try to take pics of the right hand with the left hand and it's not pretty lol!

In this corner the Left Hand!!

From thumb to pinkie--Josie, Micky, Thandie, Darcy and Rocky

And in this corner---the Right Hand!

From thumb to pinkie--Reagan, Lara, Tracie, and Wednesday

And here's a collage of all the smackdown goodness

So my thoughts are I love Reagan so much better one than in the bottle as she dries darker, and I do think I love these year's Stunning collection just a smidge more than last year's Beach.  Stunning has some nice fun bright colors!

Of course the theme is always about STAMPING so I stamped lol!

First up the Left Hand!!!

And now the Right Hand (pictures aren't that clear because when you're 50 you suddenly shake like a drunken sailor while trying to hold steady)

I wanted to keep the stamping simple since my nails were already so busy with skittles so I chose the DRK-B for the butterflies and DRK-C for the flowers

What do you think???  Way too much color on two hands or can you dig it???  Which Zoya collection do you like best?

Thanks for stopping by!!! I hope you all have a fantastic day!

From Bollywood to Transylvania!

Hi Everyone!  Happy Saturday!!!!  I'm really glad the weekend is here!  I have a few books to read, the sun is shining and it looks to be a pretty productive day today!

AND I finally had a chance to get out and try my color changing polishes from Ruby Wing!  I did a gradient using Crowd Surf and Summer Love and saw some really awesome color changes!  The only trouble I had is "thinking" I had cleaned up well until you see the polish change on your skin!

Here's the progression

Yikes look on that last pic!!!!  I had taken shots of it THEN had to go back in for clean up LOL!  but you can see how dramatic the change is!

Here are just pics of the gradient indoors and outdoors

The color is really fun and summery indoors

Outdoors it reminds me of Fall!

Now here's my stamping over it!!!!

When I went back out the sun was hiding so I was never able to get shots with the stamping over the super dark change darn it!

Sat in the car for this on LOL!  I put my hands outside of the sunroof and then took some shots!

I stamped using Konad M83 because I HAD to have that plate after I had seen some stamping Cris from Let Them Have Polish did.  I really love the plate but have only used this image so far--time to fix that LOL!

What do you think of this color changing polish???? Isn't it different??  I'm glad I have a few.  I even have a cool glitter one that changes but haven't tried it yet.  You'll definitely see pics when I do.

Thanks for stopping by!!! I hope you all have a great weekend!!!

A lotta dots

Hi Everyone and welcome to Friday! Woot!!!!  On our for the weekend is seeing the new Star Trek Movie--Into Darkness.  I'm an old school Star Trek gal--I've watched them all but still hold a special fondness for the original cast and crew.  Chris Pine is certainly no hardship to look at though!

I've been slacking in my Pinterest Recipe of the week meals so I'm also planning on rectifying that this weekend as well.  I might even tackle a meal AND a dessert!

I've got a mani today I feel like I got a little carried away with.  At first I just had some nice striping with Illamasqua Muse, white, and China Glaze He's Going In Circles but then I felt it needed some dots

It's still pretty cute but suddenly it seems so "busy" to me

I cannot get over how much I love Illamasqua Muse though, it had been on my wish list forever!

It's pretty much the best teal in the entire universe!

I still haven't mastered the larger to smaller dots thing yet though.  It's just too hard to keep up an easy flow with my movement.  I'll have to keep working on it!

I hope everyone has a great weekend!  It's Prom here and my nephew and his lovely girlfriend are going.  We do have some rain in the forecast so let's just hope it doesn't ruin picture day OR all those well coiffed girls going to prom!

How about a sweet treat?

Hi Everyone!   got a super cute mani to show you today!  I picked up a couple of the Berry Friends from Red Dog Designs awhile back.  This is a collection based on the Strawberry Shortcake cartoon.  I'm pretty old so my glory days definitely did not have Strawberry Shortcake and Friends in it that I can recall, but holy cow are these some pretty polishes!

I'm not a fan of glitters in a colored base--which is why the whole "indie" craze has eluded me or rather I've managed to elude it BUT these two I snagged are simply AHdorable!  I chose Lemon Meringue and Raspberry Tart from the collection and I have to tell you, I will definitely get all of these as they are just fantastic!  

I started with a lovely gradient of Sinful Colors Unicorn, Zoya Pippa and Sinful Pull Over--same gradient I used for my accent nail on my Beauty And The Beast mani.  As far as yellow gradients go, it's my go to favorite now.  I did some cute stamping over it and then did a couple of accent nails of Lemon Meringue!

What makes me so happy about this mani is usually yellow looks awful on me because I am so pale, but I think this looks great on me!

Red Dog's Lemon Meringue is a fun polish with bright yellow base with an iridescent gold shimmer and then glitter of white and green hex, gold circle glitter and small dark gold glitter.  It's just super fun!

I stamped a few citrus images on my accent gradient and topped em off with a rhinestone!

And since we had an 80 degree weather here yesterday I think it's safe to say we're on on our way to summer so this mani makes it all the more fun!!!

The Berry Friends collection is available on Red Dog Designs Big Cartel.  You can find them HERE.  As I said earlier I'm definitely going to be snagging up some more of these!

Thanks for stopping by!! I hope you all have a fantastic day!

I like it so much, but I didn't put a ring on it!

Hi Everyone!  I was loving my Zoya Irresistibles matted SO MUCH I decided to keep em!!  I stamped over them using my GALS set I got for my birthday in February lol!  My son bought them for me and I could never wear them because my nails were so long.  I guess that's the good thing about getting an occasional break!

I really love the look of these polishes matted!  The are gorgeous!

Usually yellow doesn't look good on me, but Kerry is just stunning even on me!!

Even in the dark shade these are "hot" colors!

I'm definitely going to take the time to go back and mattefy all my Zoya metallics and foil finish polishes!!!

I stamped over this gorgeous skittles mani with Gals35 and I think the result is pretty schnazzy!

I've decided to set up a mini storage for all the newer colors I've gotten so I can actually use them!  This means we should finally see something with the China Glaze Hologlam's, Ruby Wing, and Kiko Sugar Mat's not to mention the new Zoya's!!

Thanks for stopping by!! I hope you all have a fantastic day!

Monkey See, Monkey Do Monday--Pointless Cafe!!

Hi Everyone!!! Happy Monday!  I'm wearing a skittles mani today with the lovely Zoya Irresistible Collection.  When I first got these babies I said to myself, ooooh I bet these are going to look fabulous matte.  Wellllllll someone beat me to it!  The lovely Sheila from Pointless Cafe did this awhile back and of course I was in love with them!

Ooooh they are so stunning with a matte polish over them!  Hazel and Rikki almost remind me of a suede finish when they are matted!

Here is Rikki, Amy, Hazel and Bobbi--index to pinkie

And here's the lovely Kerry on thumbie!

Zoya does an OUTSTANDING job with their foil finish polishes!!

Sheila did a fabulous post with them all with shiny topcoat and it's also where I saw her do them matte!  Check it out HERE

My collage isn't anywhere near as good as her's since I don't have a fancy camera but I had to copy it none the less!

Zoya keeps putting out super gorgeous polishes for the summer that's for sure!

You should always try to matte a foil or metallic finish!!! You won't be sorry!

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you all have a fantastic day!