Hi Everyone!!!! Happy Saturday! I have a fab day planned today! I'm meeting up with some nail polish friends and we're having lunch and probably doing a little shopping. Nothing is more fun than meeting up with some friends who you don't get to see all the time!
I'm really MEGA excited and super pleased to show you my fashion mani for today. It turned out exactly how I wanted with the exception of a missing "O" ring. I thought I had some little spacers laying around here and turns out I must have tossed them out. No matter, this mani rocks and I'm pleased as punch this is the last entry for our 2 week long reboot!
BEHOLD THE SPIKED BLACK LEATHER CHOKER!!!!!!!
I wanted to use my spikes again so I was thrilled when this turned out the way it did!
I got up at the crack of dawn on a day off to to work on it!
I'm not really sure how I'm going to manage this mani today--last time I had the spikes on Angelika had to tie my shoes for me so I could go walking at work LOL! I also had a heck of a time pulling up my pants after each trip to the bathroom!
I got up at the crack of dawn to work on this mani on my day off! I used the laptop as my table. Here's what it looked like when I started.
I used both Sinful Colors Black On Black and Soflajo Black Dagger because I needed the matte not to try too fast as I was adding a lot of art pieces.
I snapped some pics in natural light aka the kitchen as I'm still in my pajamas!
I'm ticked black with this one!
I never in a million years thought I would love these spikes as much as I do!!!!
I even hauled out the cage ring for the occasion!!!
This is picture I used for my inspiration!!!
That's it for the Digit-al Dozen Does It Again reboot!!! I hope you've enjoyed seeing everyone's take on the themes throughout the year. Please make sure you check out everyone's Fashion mani today
Tomorrow is the last chance to enter The Spectacular September Giveaway!!!!
You can find out all about it HERE
Ah the dreaded tape mani, I'm sure by now you all know I'm not a fan of the tape mani. They are not easy, they are hard--HARD HARD HARD! I was really dreading doing another one when words from wise Victoria spoke out and said "don't stress about it! do something simple" And so I did! I did do a simple and easy tape mani and not only did it turn out fan-freaking-tastic it matches my work blouse!!!!
This is just a simple half moon mani using label stickers!
I used Sinful Colors Savage a lovely teal blue matte along with OPI You Don't Know Jacques suede!
I stamped using my favorite leopard print image of all time BM221
No stress! Super simple and easy!!!! AND it matches my blouse!
Lesson learned today when the Manicurator talks to you--you listen!!!
Now let's check out the fantastic tape mani's (because you know they're going to be) from my friends!
Our Spectacular September Giveaway is almost here! Have you entered yet???
Hi Everyone! Oh I had the not so great feeling the other night when I remembered books came before fashion in the re-do! Here I was all prepared for fashion when I needed to be getting a book mani done! OIY! You would think this would be an incredibly easy task for someone who reads every single day.
So what happened? Well what happened is I did a super cool mani and then had to go out and find a book! Thankfully I had the perfect choice in my arsenal of books!!
The book I chose is Space In His Heart by Roxanne St Claire. It's the story of Commander Deke Stockard--a mega hunky astronaut (and seriously how perfect is that name for an astronaunt hero??) and Jessica Marlowe the PR gal tasked with making all things Space spun just the right way.
Deke doesn't want to babysit the PR gal but at the same time he can't seem to get away from the totally sexy spell she has over him. This is a romantic suspense and is there ever suspense in this one. Watching Deke and Jessica fall in love was a fantastic read.
So here's my Space In His Heart mani for today!
I haven't used my foils in a long time! They look darn good!
I used the gold star burst one as stars go great with my space theme!
I also need black in here so I added that and then stamped with Maybelline Bold Gold and PUEEN05--I'm not sure why I felt the little triangle images were spacey but I did LOL!
And I ended up totally loving this mani!!
Here are some shots with the flash, it's harder to see the foil design but look how blingy it is!
So much fun!!
This book has two different covers! You know they try to suck all of us romance readers in with a guys naked chest most of the time--here's the first cover
Then they decided to entice with eye candy!
naked chest and a little face stubble will suck you in EVERY TIME!
What's everyone else reading in my group???!!
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Hi Everyone!!! Happy Hump Day!!! Today is "bling" day and what better day then the dead middle of the work week to bring on some bling???!!! When I first got into stamping I bought a TON of glitter polish but then found I didn't really like! You can't stamp with it, sometimes it's hard to stamp over so honestly I have an entire drawer full of glitters I never even use! Funky Fingers Sand & Stilettos is one of them! Well I used that baby today along with China Glaze Glistening Snow (thanks Danielle!!)
Are you getting sleepy????!!!!
Look into my eyes!!! LOL! This is one of the funnest mani's ever!!
I stamped with PUEEN37 from the Love Elements set
This is definitely one of those times that stamping over a glitter works!
Wonder how blinged out everyone else is getting!!
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Hi Everyone!! Today we're doing animal for our theme. Who doesn't love a good animal print mani??!!! I think it's probably one of my go to images when I want something quick. I was able to get OPI Peace, Love & OPI and Alcatraz Rocks the other day and they look absolutely perfect together--so I chose them for my animal mani today.
First up some shots indoors sitting at my desk
You can see the purple to green shift here
Peace, Love & OPI is a really rocking duochrome!
Look at this great bottle shot I got!
Then I went outside to get some cool shoots
Look at that sparkling green!!!!
Talk about gorgey town!
Thankfully my friends were with me so I didn't look like a complete wacko standing outside taking pictures while on break at work!
Got some nice shade pics outdoor as well
I used my favorite leopard print image for this mani BM221
I just think you can't go wrong with an animal print and pairing these two great polishes together along with it is a win, win!
How wild did all my friends get???!
And I'm sure you're getting sick of hearing all about it BUT there is still time to get in on the Spectacular September Giveaway!!
HERE'S your chance to win $200 to the etailer of your choice
Hi Everyone!!! Happy Monday! I survived the 3k hike yesterday. But man oh man oh man am I sore today! I guess when you're used to walking around in a giant circle with no hills you get used to that. Suddenly when you're taking a trek through forest, a flock of geese on the ground and hill after hill you just aren't used to that! I'm glad I went though. 33lbs ago I'm pretty sure I would have made it!
What a nail biter of a Packer game yesterday! OMG! Thankfully mind are all still intact but I really could have chewed them all off it was such an intense game. We lost but since it was a tough game by both sides I'm sort of okay with it! LOL!
Today's theme for the Digit-al Dozen Does It Again is Geeks. I had a hard time with this one at first because honestly what really is a geek? Is it just someone smart? Is it the person in school who had broken glasses and taped them together? I had to do that once and I'm pretty far from a geek.
When I went down to Illinois last weekend I had the chance to get my geek on! I was just out the Cheeky Happy Nails plate and saw an image that I loved and BAM geek mani in a snap!
No idea what the names are of any of these polishes :( It it helps you they were all Funky Fingers Neons
I added the yellow dots thinking I'd ruined the mani at first but then after looking at them awhile I decided it really adds to it!
Thumbie is a pretty cool orange color!
This was a super fun and surprisingly easy skittle mani to put together!
Now let's see how geeky everyone else turned out to be!!
This week is the last week for the Spectacular September Giveaway!!
Enter it HERE if you haven't already!!
Hi Everyone! Wow sorry I am SO late in posting today but I spent the day hanging with my son. I got my hair cut today--trying to rock a Sharon Stone pixie/wispy look and then we went to go see Riddick. I must say I was happy to see this Riddick a lot more like Pitch Black than the Chronicles of Riddick. Both of us enjoyed it a great deal and I'm lucky he doesn't mind hanging with his mom from time to time
Today's post is love & heartbreak--WOW who doesn't know something about both of these things????!!! Yesterday would have been my parents 51st wedding anniversary and today would have been my beautiful sister, Lisa's, 50th birthday. We are a family who is well versed in both love and heartache.
Today I did a little something fun though and tried to look to those better days and better times. I paired Zoya Dove with Hard Candy Mr Right and also OPI Alcatraz Rocks (which I am in TOTAL love with) for a mani about rock solid love!!
Just a pretty simple mani today but isn't that what love is??? The simplest of things?
I cut out heart shapes from some masking tape and found it's a lot harder to do than I remembered LOL!
Isn't OPI Alcatraz Rocks gorgeous???!!!! I love it!
Here's a pic without flash too, just as lovely!
My son is building a light box for me!! I think it will be a lot better to take pics in and colors truer for sure
Make sure you check out what my friends have come up with for their love & heartbreak day!!
And don't forget about the Spectacular September Giveway!!! Have you entered yet????!!!!!!!!!!!
You can find it HERE
