Hi Everyone!!! Happy Monday! I decided to look through the stash and haul out some untrieds and some favorites this week! I feel like I'm getting buried alive in the untrieds! I decided to start with my first problem color--Blue and do a week long of blue! Let's see how cool and interesting I can keep it!
First up I pulled out Sinful Colors Sugar Rush, OPI Swimsuit Nailed It! (my favorite blue) and Hard Candy Mr Right--pretty much the only Mr Right I'm ever going to see is on my fingertips LOL! I kept it simple with a way cool needle drag!
These types of mani's look complex but they are SO easy!
Start with your basecoat, add two coats of Sinful Color Sugar Rush then while everything is still nice a wet draw a line with Mr Right on the right leave a nice space of Sugar Rush in the middle and then do a nice line of Swimsuit Nailed It! on the left. Take a needle or a small dotting tool and simple drag in a zig zag motion across the nail!
The thumb turned out the best I think!
This is an easy way to get some cool nail art!
I've got a lot of different blues--creams, shimmers, holo, neon, frankened, glitter, suede--you name it I got it!!!
I think this will be a fun week!
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
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
Hi Readers! Do any of you have the "bad picker" gene? Not the gene about being bad and picking your nose, but rather the gene where when it comes to a choice of mate--boyfriend, girlfriend--spouse you're just a flat out bad picker. I have the gene. It's not discovered yet but I surely do have it. One day when they do discover it I believe they will call it the Laurie Effect, or laurieism--but believe you me that gene is as real as the smart gene--or the can't lose any weight gene.
Last year when I did the 31 Day Challenge I thought it would be cute to toss together Hard Candy's Mr Right and Mr Wrong and I decided I want to use them again in this year's 31 Day Challenge and YES another successful pairing of the two!
Mr Right is a gorgeous dark blue shimmer--he reminds me a bit of Phallic. Mr Wrong is a super cool glass flecky purpley goldy bronze lol!
I really love them both!
Ii thought for a minute about stamping over this mani but I just love the blue in Mr Right so much I didn't want to cover him!
Which one do you like better Readers--Mr Right or Mr Wrong? And I wonder what our choice says about us????
Wow more than half way through the challenge!!! What's up for tomorrow
Galaxy nails--hmmm I'm not a huge fan of this look for some reason. Maybe because I suck at creating them??? You'll have to tune in tomorrow to see how they look!
Thanks for stopping by!! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
Hi Readers! Day 5 for the 31 Day Challenge and up today is blue! This is a design I've been wanting to do for awhile and I even asked the fab Sarah over at Chalkboard Nails if she could do one. Looks like I beat her to it! Behold my mosaic tile nails!
There's only one small problem with this mani--it looks so much better from afar lol! I stamped first using white over WetnWild Morbid and then filled in each shape with a few different blues. Man do I not know how to color within the lines Readers!
I had to go back over some of the fine lines and I just don't know how all my friends do it and I'm talking about you Sarah, Michelle and Amber! Holy crud teeny brushes and me just do not mix!
My fab friend Amber from The Polished Momma picked up a bottle of OPI DS Sapphire at her local CVS recently and I HAD to use it with this mani! I also used Hard Candy Sky and my fave blue OPI Swimsuit Nailed It. With some better practice I might be able to keep it in the lines next time!
To get my mosaic tiles look I did a basecoat of WetnWild Morbid and then stamped with White using BM208. Then I randomly filled in the shapes using either Hard Candy Sky, OPI DS Sapphire or OPI Swimsuit Nailed It.
I'd love to try this again using some green and turquoise colors. Here's a picture of the polishes I used
What's up for tomorrow in the challenge?
Ahhhh glorious violet aka purple aka my problem color woot!
Stay tuned to see what's up my sleeve lol!
Thanks for stopping by!! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
Hi Readers! Here we are on hump day of Animalistic Week--I wonder what's in store for us! Ok here it is--today is sssssssssssnake!
Hmmmm how do you feel about snakes? I think I have a love/hate relationship with them. They really get a bad rap I know BUT they are kind of creepy! They both fascinate and scare the bahjeebs out of me.
Here are some snake facts: unlike regular teeth a snake's teeth are hollow. If a snake did eat a human it wouldn't have to eat again for a year--YIKES! The Black Mamba is not only one of the deadliest of the poisonous snakes it's also really fast and can travel up to 12 miles an hour. A rattlesnake can still bite you AFTER it's dead!!! It's heat sensors remain active until rigor mortis sets in--WOW!
Okay onto the mani! I actually did 2 mani's for this design--why because it's just that awesome of a design!
First up the green temple snake
Here it is with flash
Here's a pic I found of a green viper snake--how'd I do in comparison with the mani???
Before doing this mani I asked a few of my nail polish friends which one would be better the green viper or a metallic look. It was sort of undecided so I thought why not just do both??
I didn't really have a snake in mind for this mani. I just liked the color combo
Here it is with flash (check out how my index finger flails out when I try to take pics of my right hand!)
It sort of looks like the bullsnake (I lived in Texas where these babies reside!)
I had the camera man around when both hands were done so I enlisted his help in getting a pic. It didn't go well! I guess men just do not understand the whole "nail" thing.
For those of you wanting to recreate these looks here are the polishes I used
For the green temple viper I used Revlon Emerald City matte suede and China Glaze Cha Cha Cha. Both of these polishes are gorgeous and like all matte's Emerald City really came to life with topcoat. Because I really needed the black to show up over the dark green I did use Konad Black to stamp with
For the metallic mani I used Hard Candy Mushroom and China Glaze, Adore, Harmony and Emotion.
Both of these mani's were done using BM215
While I might be afraid of snakes I don't mind wearing them on my nails at all! Some other fantastic snakeskin mani's I've seen have been by Once Bitten, my internet daughter Rebecca Likes Nails, Chalkboard Nails (Sarah used tulle to do hers and it ROCKED, and Nailasaurus
How about you readers? Are there any snakeskin mani's you've seen and really loved? If you didn't like snakes before how do you feel about them now?
Thanks for stopping by! I hope everyone has a fantastic day!
