Hi Everyone! Today I have a little happy accident to share with you all! I had wanted to do an orange to red gradient with some polishes I haven't done much and at first gradient them with a sponge was very hard as all three were jelly type finishes. I finally figure out how to get them on my nail and I think the look is striking! I had to make due with the best "light" I had
Here's a shot I took of this gorgeous gradient under the stove top. This is Elevation Aconcagua and Jade Uau and Vermelho Surreal
Here's a shot with flash
What's so awesome about it is the fact it almost doesn't look like a gradient!
I tried to sponge method this as I normally do and I was getting nothing but the holo pigment on my nails with no color left behind. I had to think outside the box. To get it to work I did 1 layer of Aconcagua then I painted the red Vermelho Surreal on the tips, where the two met together I did some short brush strokes with Uau then I went over the entire nail again with a very thin coat of Aconcagua--brilliant!
Here's some shots I took outside
It's really quite stunning
What I liked best about it and I honestly think it's the jelly type finish in all of them is even indoors this looked lovely as you could really see the color of the polish and not a flat silvery look you so often get with holos indoors.
I love this one a lot! I don't know if I'm going to be able to take this baby off!
Stay tuned tomorrow to see whether or not I do LOL!
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you all have a fabulous day!
Hi Everyone!!! Happy Friday! OMG I am SO glad it's Friday! We are in our busy season now so I'm working 6am to 4:30pm everyday and once November starts I'll be helping out at the bakery again and probably working til 9pm and 7 days a week! Can you say nuts??!! I do love it though, especially the bakery holiday season!
I'm a bit ticked about this post as I've had this lovely polish on for a couple of days but of course the day the sun was out I forgot to bring the camera! I had to make do today with some light from the bathroom at work of all places and then of course my mock light box aka my desk!
Today I'm showing off Darling Diva's Flash--it's a duochrome holographic polish of all sorts of goodness! I'm referring to Diva's holographic multichromes as the "mullet" of nail polish!!! All business in the shade and party in the sun!
So here she is Flash in she shade--pretty lovely goldy glow
And some duochrome or multichromatic goodness
Ooooooh
Ahhhhhhh
She's a beauty!
Now here's some "flash" added to Flash!
Oooooh
Ahhhh
How do you like the stamping????? It's one of my new MoYou's!!!
Time Traveller's Back to the 70's 02 plate!
Here's a shot that shows both the duochrome and the holo!!
The Darling Diva still has Flash for sale on her Big Cartel site!! If you love it you need to snag it, it won't be around for long!
Next week starts a week long of Fall/Autumn nails--Finally some darker colors!!!
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you all have a fantastic weekend. This Sunday we go to Mom's for pulled pork, coleslaw and chips (yeah I might eat a few
chips LOL) and the Packer game!!
Hi Everyone! Today's Crumpets Nail Tart's Challenge puts us to Day 8 aka Duochrome, Flakie or Holo. When I first saw this theme I said to myself well why not do all 3? I think we all know I love duochromes--I especially love Sally Hansen duochromes huge fan of flakies as well, but holo's not so much. While it's true I have a lot of holos I just HATE they look like crap indoors! I spend most of my time indoors working and I'm not out lazing around in the sun enjoying the prismatic effect of a holo for crying out loud!
BUT today I decided to do all three. I chose Sally Hansen Ruby Sapphire for my duochrome, three nice coats of it, but on my accent nail over 2 coats I did a layer of my favorite flakie--Cult Nails Clairvoyant.
I love a duochrome because it has so much to offer, one color one minute, another color the next
I move my hands all over the place when I wear a duochrome
I stamped another accent nail with Color Club Cloud Nine and Cheeky XL D
While the flash makes the holo come to life with a prismatic blaze, it hides the gorgeous flakie, and buries the 2nd color of the duochrome
I'm not sure why my skin is so golden here either lol!
Back into a shade pic and the duochrome and flakie shine but the holo is DED
Poor, poor holo, you only come out to play in the sun
I guess that's why when it comes to "finishes" I'm always going to want to go with a duochrome or flakie over a holo. I'm glad I got all three into this mani though, it shines in and out of the light for me!
What's up for tomorrow?
Saran Wrap! I haven't tried a Saran Wrap mani yet!!!!
Let's see what the other Tart's have come up with for today
Hi Readers! Happy Wednesday or aka Happy Hump Day! My friends and I have gotten together once again with a group mani and this time we chose Holo Hump Day. Because blue is my "problem" color I had no issues whatsoever hauling out China Glaze 2Nite and my holo franken Safe Word ( ad dupe to DS Glamour) to make a gorgeous mani!
First my gradient sans stamping!
Super lovely gradient in the sun!
BUT that's the downside to a holo. They really only shine, sparkle and come to live outside during the day in the sun. If you are like me and cooped up inside during the day a holo is sort of wasted. That's why I always stamp on my holos!
This is still a great gradient but when you're inside it looks great too!
I think the white rectangles and squares give this a hip funky look!
When I asked my son what I should stamp over my gradient he basically gave me the look that said "who gives a rip" but at the last minute he came up with "why don't you use the plate I bought you for Mother's Day you haven't used yet???!" Yikes! He was right so I hauled out my Cheeky XL A plate and stamped using Milani White On. I love how it looks!
Make sure you check out everyone else's mani for Holo Hump Day!!
Hi Readers! The challenge in Adventures In Stamping this Sunday is Hot! Hot! Hot! I'm featuring a mani with hot colors but also one with a special place in my heart. Relay For Life has hit my town this weekend. And this is the first year my family attended since the death of my beautiful sister Lisa. She died from triple negative breast cancer just shy of her 45th birthday. She was one of the best parts of my life and I miss her terribly. I honestly did not want to attend this year but my mom wanted to go and asked if I would go with her. My wonderful sister Lynelle and best brother in law in the world, Chris, said they would go too so I felt good knowing I would be surrounded by family. Losing someone to cancer is hard. It changes your life forever. It's nchanged our family dynamic. I have a lot of anger still and didn't really want to go because I was angry and bitter others have survived but not my sister. After talking to some friends about this--wonderfully supportive friends, who didn't make me feel like crap for feeling this way--I realized that while my sister did not survive someone else's sister did. And for that I should go and celebrate the event. This is the mani I chose to wear for those women who's sisters did survive
I did a lovely gradient using 3 holos, Sally Hansen Mandarin Garnet, DS Ruby and or course my beloved Ozotic 621--I love 621 it's the best red holo EVAH!
I stamped with Milani White On using Mash-38 and RA110.
Checked it out in the sun the day of the event!
Lisa loved red I think she would have liked this
I think it turned out pretty good!
Here's a small world Readers. Every year we went to this Relay with my sister to support her and walk the survivor lap (as she did survive 8 years after her diagnosis) I would run into a guy I went to Junior High School with and who I also worked with at one of the many banks I worked at in my life. His name is Bob and even though we had't seen each other for years he recognized me right away as I did him that first time. Every year after that we would run into each other on the track and talk and catch up. I saw both him and his wife again this year and he mentioned he hadn't seen me in awhile so I shared with him Lisa had succumbed to her cancer and died in 2009 which is why we hadn't come for awhile. We talked about how hard it was but that it was good for me to be there and I noticed my mom was talking to his wife, who I knew was a nurse but I didn't know she had actually been one of Lisa's nurses for her chemotherapy care. So what a very small world.
I truly hope cancer has not touched your life Readers--to those of it whom it has my heart goes out to you.
I hope you all have a fantastic day!
Hi Readers! Now that the weather is starting to warm up a bit at least here in Wisconsin I decided to get in with some of my other nail polish friends to do a holo day group blog! A year ago I made a ton of holo's with spectraflair and have not worn many of them! I know Readers it's a darn shame but truth be told I'm not holo crazy the way I am duochrome crazy lol! Anyway I decided I really needed to haul out some of the homemade holos then felt guilty I bought DV8 months ago and hadn't worn that so the quest was on to find something to wear with DV8. We all know I have an addiction to gradients so I'm not even going to try to pretend I hadn't planned on a holo gradient because we all know I did. And here it is!
I did this at night so we have to settle for the lamp lighting on some of these. Basically my gradient is using 2 of my home made holos with DV8 sandwiched in the middle.
This one I named True Confessions, it's just a smidge lighter and bluer than DV8 I think
This isn't the best pic but it's the only one I have holding the dark blue I made named Hotter After Midnight
And of course the lovely DV8
And of course I stamped over it!
I thought about peacock feathers and mermaid tail tail stamping for this but my lovely internet daughter Rebecca mentioned everyone seems to be peacocky these days so I went with the waves. I'm glad I did! The sun was out today so I went out in my jammies to get some pics! No one came by to arrest me so I figure my neighbors are used to seeing people either in their pajamas or acting a little nuts taking pics of their fingers LOL!
I definitely think waves were the way to go for this one!
Close your eyes Readers can you smell the ocean?????
Here's a picture of the polishes I used and how the sponge looked
Is it helpful for you to see the sponge Reachers or would you rather I just showed the polishes? From left to right are my homemade holo True Confessions, China Glaze DV8, my homemade holo Hotter After Midnight. For new readers joining me I like to name all my frankens after my favorite books. True Confessions is a fab book from Rachel Gibson and Hotter After Midnight is a HOT book from Cynthia Eden. To get my waves I used the swirl design from Shany SH19 and I stamped with my new fave white White On from Milani.
Please make sure you stop by and visit all my friends wearing holo today!
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you all have a fantastic day!!
Hi Readers! The stamping challenge for this Sunday was sooooooo close! The choices were A. Stamping Over a Gradient B. Multiple Images or Plates and C. Wild Animals. Because it was so close it was decided you go do either A or B but a few of us decided to do the triple threat--stamping multiple animal images over a gradient lol! I LoVE how mine turned out!
I've seen the animal print image on BM225 and never really new what it was. At first I thought it was a cheetah but when I did my difference between the leopard and cheetah mani a long time ago and discovered the cheetah's marking does not look like this at all. I'm talking about the image on my index finger. I asked some of my friends what they thought it might be and my friend Claude said hyena!!! Yep I'm going with that a hyena. So we have here the hyena, the "liger", the leopard and the giraffe!
I hauled out my Leopard foil ring to see how it would look with this mani
I don't like it! the colors don't match lol!
Check out the right hand, it looks as good as the left!
I used a ton of polishes to get this look readers. My gradient was done doing 2 coats of China Glaze FYI over my basecoat. Then I sponged China Glaze It's My Turn a little more than half way up the nail from the tips. On the tips I put my dark brown holo franken named SPUD. I used Konad black to stamp the hyena and leopard image. Over the giraffe I used an ancient Mary Kay polish I had called French Roast for the for the "liger" I used China Glaze Unplugged. Here's a pic of the polishes I used
The stamping images are as follows the giraffe is BM215, the hyena is BM225, the "liger is M78, and the leopard is BM221.
I made this really lovely collage in picnik
BUT since Picnik is closing I decided to mess around with the collage feature in Picasa and look at how nice it turned out!
What do you think readers? Was I successful with the triple threat of multiple wild animals over a gradient? I can't wait to see what everyone else comes up with!
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
Hi Readers! Today's mani turned out to be a huge surprise to me! Basically I was too lazy to take off the current mani I was wearing when I got nail mail from my lovely friend Ginger. Instead of taking off what I was wearing to try out this Icing Duo I got from Ginger I just decided to cover up my current mani. The Icing Duo I got was the Lippmann Across The Universe dupe Force Of Love and it's "B" side Magnetic Attraction. I know everyone and their mother is gaga in love with Across The Universe but to me it's just ok. Magnetic Attraction was really appealing to me though so I decided to try and wear that and see how I felt about it. I needed some dark to cover up my current mani so I went for my OPI Lucerne-tainly look Marvelous BUT I also might have went for it because it was right next to me too lol!
Magnetic Attraction is really intriguing to me. It's a grey jelly base with copper and blue micro glitter with medium size holo hex glitter--very unique to me. Sure there are lots of holo hex glitters out there but the combination of those with micro copper and green glitters sets it apart to me. Let's check out the surprise mani!
Wow! For something I just whipped together out of laziness this far surpassed my expectations for it! I honestly planned on not even doing my right hand to match lol! Nope right hand was done as well and this was something I knew I would wear for at least 3 days. 3 days to me is the right amount of time for a mani. As soon as I get tip wear or chipping my mani comes off--usually 3 days is as long as I'll go before tip wear.
Here's a close up of it!
I'm making do with a pretty old digital camera so I can't get that great of a close up but hopefully you can see some of that copper and blue in there with the holo hexes. I just found this to be so stunning!
And here it is with flash!!! GORGEOUS!
I just cannot be happier with this mani!
To recap I used OPI Lucerne-tainly Look Marvelous with one coat of Icing Magnetic Attraction over it and then stamped using Konad Special Black on RA108
Have you ever had something like this happen readers? You didn't have high expectations for a mani and it really knocked your socks off??
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
