My Ultimate Warrior is Bad Ass!

Hi Everyone!  Happy Sunday to you! I put on another one of the polishes in the 12 Collection from Paint Box Collection and wore it to work sans any stamping.  I loved it so much I decided to keep it on another day and add some accent nails for a cool Halloween look!

First up here are pics of the polish.  It's a gorgeous red brown with tons of gold and red shimmer in it.  It's truly a vamp red which makes it perfect for Halloween and Fall and Winter

I love colors like this!

So that gold and red micro shimmer in there?

A classic vampy red is always a must have in your polish arsenal

I decided to try a couple of accent nails for a Halloween look and I like how bad ass they turned out!  I ran the gamut of what I wanted to do, shiny, some shiny and some matte or all matte

Here it is when I first  did it.  I stamped using 3 plates from Messy Mansion MM54, MM56 and MM58

All Shiny which I liked but then I decided to go just matte on the accent nails

Yep still like it but what does the Ultimate Warrior look like matted??? So you know I had to try it!

oooooh totally awesome!!!

Another stand out polish from the 12 Collection by Paint Box Polish!

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

Who Are You?

Hi Everyone!  I recently snagged the newest collection from Paint  Box Polish. The 12 Collection is based off of the 12th Doctor in  Doctor Who.   This collection is stunning!! Seriously EVERY SINGLE POLISH IN THIS COLLECTION IS AMAZING!  There are a couple of multichromes, a matte, a to die for shimmer and the most glorious chunky holo flakies with red shimmer polish.  I am so glad I snagged this entire collection!

I started off with Who Are You? because it's a multichrome and let's face it I adore multichromes. So the good news is I have lots of great pics! The bad news is I didn't get any bottle shots LOL!

Who Are You? is a multichrome that shifts from deep teal to bright violet and it also has micro silver flakes in it which makes it super gorgeous! I snagged a copy of the bottle shot from the website

I wore it and about died so you know the next day I  HAD to stamp  over it.  Lucky for me the conference room where I walk every day helped to create an amazing shift!

Isn't this amazing?!

Some of my coworkers could not believe this was just one polish!

Some people thought my gradient was wicked cool

Some said it looked like the Northern Lights but I do believe the little silver flakies in here had a lot to do with that

Here's the vibrant violet shift

Really amazing!

Here's the deep teal again just gorgeous!

I stamped using one of my favorite plates from Born Pretty Store BPS BP-L011.  A few of my friends said they thought my mani was very HP.  I wouldn't know about that I simply wanted to do a mani which reminded me of UP NORTH in Wisconsin

The 12 Collection is still available over at Paint Box Polish 5 really fabulous polishes in this collection all unique and very different from each other

I've worn almost every one and have done some amazing nail art with them too. If you haven't tried Paint Box Polish yet you should definitely check them out!

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

The Digit-al Dozen Does Whimsy--Owls!

Hi Everyone!  Oh thank goodness we are halfway through this Whimsy week!  It's really a struggle for me I tell ya.  I had a couple of good friends looking out for me when the Vivid Lacquer plate I need for 1 mani was available for sale in a FB group and even though I was far from home my sweet friends Arlene and Tara were all over that post so I wouldn't miss it.  Arlene snagged it for me and had them ship it to me.  I wanted it for an entirely different reason but the more I looked at it the more  this idea came to me.  Instead of some cherry blossoms on tree branches I thought about how it would look to put a bunch of cute owls in the tree and this is what I came up with

I used the cooky tree branches from VL019 and then I did a whole lotta owl decals from BP54 

I think it's pretty cute, hopefully it's also Whimsical

My base is my fave blue ever Paint Box Polish's Won't The Muggles See Us? and I stamped with a lot of various Mundo colors

What do you think???? 

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The Digit-al Dozen Does Gradient--Matchy Matchy Spikes!

Hi Everyone!  I really wanted to think outside the box for this week's Gradient theme.  I mean everyone knows what a gradient is, these days I'm pretty sure everyone has done a gradient for a mani and I think we all know I have done a ton of gradients on my nails.  So for today I really wanted to do something different.  I got an idea to try to do a spiked gradient as I was inspired by a purse I have. I'm happy to report that YES you can do a spiked gradient!

For this mani I used a basecoat of the very lovely What 'Choo Fell Over For by Paintbox Polish.  I stamped with Born Pretty Store BPL-006 and also Mash 29 with my trust Mundo Black

How fierce is this?????

I used a few different size and color spikes for my gradient accent nail

This is the cute purse I have I tried to match

If it wasn't super late at night I'd have my son snap a picture of me modeling it but it's WAY late

I'm pretty happy with how this turned out.  Right now I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to go to bed with this on and wake up with it still on LOL!

All I can say is no one better hack me off tomorrow or they will be sorry ahahaha!

What do you think?  Is this something you could wear??

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Must be Leap Year!

Hi Everyone!  Happy Monday!  I'm not sure about you but today at work we just had nothing but weird stuff happening today!  First of all the office was invaded by stink bugs.  Now by invaded I mean 2 but still people were freaking out all over the place. It's a bug, it was on the ceiling it wasn't near anyone's desk yet the freak out still occurred.

Next were the strange requests, "Can I do this?"  "Can I do that?" "I want to do do this but I don't have any information you need in order to process this request for me"  OMG it was definitely a topsy turvy day!  Thankfully I have some fabulous coworkers so we just laughed and trudged along.

Since it seemed such a wavy crazy day I decided to do some stamping that looks how this day felt today. I started with a base of Paintbox Polish Pygmy Puff a really neat medium coral color with gold flakies that dries matte.  I stamped with Mundo Aqua and Black again leaving it matte without topcoat.  I used my geometric EDM-09 and FUN 15 plates

I thought about adding some white to this somehow 

I just haven't decided how I could pull it off

I'm still not happy with my camera set up either.  I bought 2 desk lamps thinking they would work great but NOPE totally yellow looking so I'm still climbing in the bath tub taking pictures

Maybe I can toss a few white circles on here tomorrow--we'll see.

Maybe tomorrow will be a perfectly normal day and I wont feel the need to keeps this wavy mani on LOL!

How was your leap year day???

When it's right!

Hi Everyone!  Happy Saturday!  I'm celebrating doing a whole lot of not much this weekend.  Yesterday was my 53rd birthday and when you get to be my age a birthday isn't really much different than any other day of the week LOL.  What was great about it is I had a wonderful day at work with my coworkers.  They were incredibly thoughtful with Sally's and Ulta gift cards as well as a gift card to Olive Garden. Last night I went out with my family to Cheddars and as always we had a blast.  Today my son is taking me to see Deadpool and then out for Chinese food.  Don't anyone tell him I'm not really a comic book movie kind of person--I don't even know how the heck Deadpool is but it will be a great time to just get time with him so I'm all in.

A couple of weeks ago I asked my friend Pam from Paintbox Polish if she could do an Elvis inspired mani for me.  I was trying to go for the iconic looks of his gold lame' suit as well as his black leather from his 69 comeback special.  I asked Pam if she could do a black matte with micro gold glitter and she totally nailed it!  When I got my bottle of it I was so freaking happy!  It's just perfect and you know when it's right---it's right.

So for my birthday I decided to wear it when one of the images I just love from the new Girly Bits GBC 1-01 plate.  I think it's the most unique image I've ever seen on a plate.  It's a star made up of musical notes!  Honestly this is the best birthday mani ever!  Check it out!

Here's the polish you have to excuse the faded label I held this sucker in my hands so much and took it everywhere I went for a good 3 days before I put it on LOL!

It's named Edge Of Reality after my favorite Elvis song which just happens to be from my favorite Elvis movie Live A Litte, Love A Little

How cool is this mani???? It's matte but sparkly as hell!

Don't you use love this image from Girly Bits GBC 1-01 plate???

Not familiar with the suits of Elvis' I am talking about here there are

Oh yeah baby check out this all gold hunk!!!

And there is absolutely nothing wrong with this hunk o burnin' love in his black leather either!

I think the polish Pam made nailed these two looks perfectly!

100% rockstar mani today for sure!

I've put this little collage together and yep just what I wanted!

I'm not really feeling very Valentine's Day so I think I'm going to keep on my  Edge Of Reality and put on shiny topcoat and then see what stamping I feel like over it.  Nothing better than lazing around and doing an extend a mani!

What do you think?  Do you think this is a perfect Elvis inspired polish??  I have 3 in my collection now--2 from Red Dog Designs and this one from Paintbox polish--honestly the possibilities are endless!

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

Who says black cats have to be spooky???

Hi Everyone!  I've had a few days off which means more time to paint me nails and I had to get caught up with the Advanced Nail Stamping Bingo game!  Ruth already won our game but a lot of us are still doing mani's for a theme picked.  Black cat was picked and I'm sort of glad the game ended because I don't have one on my card but I still really wanted to use my Messy Mansion MM50 plate.  I adore this plate!  As a cat owner it's totally a must have!

I started with a base of Paint Box Polish Polar Bear Club which is a lovely holo blue with holo blue glitters making it extra sparkly!  Then I just added some black cats for this super simply yet adorable Halloween mani!

I dotted in some yellow eyes for these guys and was terrified while doing so because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to keep my hand steady!

I'm also trying to get used to the new lightbulbs I bought for under the stove.  Being an adult and trying to be more energy efficient could reek havoc on my mani pics!

It's a beautiful sunny day here and about 55 degrees.  I hope to get out and enjoy some of this pretty weather soon!

Hope you all have a fabulous day!

The Digit-al Dozen Does Food--Citrus!

Hi Everyone!  Happy Monday!  This week the Digit-al Dozen is showcasing food.  Recently I got some really fabulous polishes from Painbox Polish and one of them is just SO sparkly and pretty and when you look at it it's just citrus in a bottle!  So I hauled out one of my MoYou Tropical plates and went to town! 

I don't know what it is but I just love a citrus or fruit mani!

The real star of the show is the gorgeous Waimea Waters.  Check out this beauty!

I used a couple of my Mundos for the stamping, Military Green and Fig Tree

All of these colors together are just a match made in Heaven!

What a fun mani for the nearing to the end of Summer!

I'm popping over to see what everyone else is eating!

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