Hi Everyone! Hope everyone is having a great week so far. I realize we aren't far into it but for me so far so good. I actually am laughing a bit today because I realized I have now done ANOTHER mani in much the same color scheme as my last mani. But what can I say??? I'm a sucker for this pinky magenta polishes with a hint of blue!
I was lucky enough to snag a bottle of We're All Mad Here from Red Dog Designs awhile back. It's a Limited Edition color made for Jen over at My Nail Polish Obsession. Her blog turned 3 so just like years before Red Dog designed a signature limited edition color for her. This one is a super pretty pinky magenta with white and turquoise micro flakies in it. It's just so lovely and quite honestly perfect for summer!
How perfect is this color for summer???!!!!
Totally 100% perfect!
I did some stamping with the new Messy Mansion MM57 plate as well. This plate is just wonderful! Lots of nice leaf images on this one plus all these little birds!
I thought these images with this polish were just the perfect pairing. I stamped with one of my fave Mundo de Unas colors--Blue Grey
Here's a closer look at the Messy Mansion plate
I can't wait to use this in the Fall!
It looks like there are still some We're All Mad Here over at Red Dog Designs snag one HERE before it's too late!
Messy Mansion released a few more MM plates too--check them out HERE
I've got a few Nails Inc on their way to me--let's hope I can come up with a different color scheme once I get them LOL!
Hi Everyone!! Happy Friday!! Today I guess I saved the best for last with my childhood mani!
Most people who know me know without any doubt I am an Elvis fan. I have been one almost my entire life. As a young girl of seven I fell in love with him for the first time while watching him sing and dance his way into Shelley Fabares heart in the movie Girl Happy. When all my friends were into David Cassidy, Bobby Sherman, Donny Osmand, and Andy Gibb I was into Elvis. I have always been into Elvis and will be until the day I die.
I am lucky enough to have a super friend who happens to be the genius behind Red Dog Designs and when I asked Gina if she could do a couple of custom polishes for me that were Elvis related she said "sure!" and she did an awesome job! Last year I had her come up with a polish that looked like Elvis' famous eagle jumpsuit. I named it Elvis Has Left The Building.
I wanted to be try to recreate said famous eagle jumpsuit but my freehand skills are absolute crap so I reached out and asked the wonderful Sheila of The Pointless Cafe if she could a drawing up for me to recreate. Sheila is amazing, her free hand skills are awesome and even though she was super busy last night she took time out to do a drawing for me I could actually recreate!
IT PAYS TO HAVE FRIENDS PEOPLE!
So today I have the most awesome mani to show you for my final day of The Digital-al Dozen's childhood week
Here's the famous Elvis eagle jumpsuit I recreated
Oh my goodness be still my heart! I still heart Elvis after 47 years!!!!
This is the drawing Sheila made for me. I foolishly felt like I could get it all on one nail LOL! She told me nope no way and came up with this for me instead
That right there is an original piece by Sheila from The Pointless Cafe people, someday it will be worth millions!
Here's my custom polish from Red Dog Designs--Elvis Has Left The Building
It's an awesome white jelly with red, blue and gold various sized glitters with gold holo stars and micro gold glitters
I think Gina completely nailed it when she created this polish for me.
I will say this wasn't easy. I had to use a toothpick to dot with and had to redo the middle finger 4 times. And in the end my eagle's eye isn't where it should be BUT this is freaking awesome!
What do you all think?? Did I nail it or what?
Elvis, forever in my heart.
I'm heading over to check out the last day for everyone. I have to say I really enjoyed this theme a lot!
Hi Everyone!! Happy Saturday! Oh my goodness I have some really pretty mani's to show you all today. I worked 3 more of the new plates I was given for quality check and just had to review these as well. I also got to use them with some of my favorite indie makers too!
First up I had a base on of Red Dog's Raspberry Tart which is a light purple with purple glitters and some nice micro white and green bar glitters. I stamped with what I like to call the reverse image plate from Messy Mansion plate MM49. I went straight for the starburst flower image with some Mundo de Unas Purple and ooooh it's so pretty!
I'm not going to lie this image covers up a lot of the pretty basecoat but up close you can see the hints of the glitter in the base
I really love this look!!
I think images like this are some of my very favorite
Can you see the glitters in there???
Here's the plate can you see what I mean by reverse images??
Can't wait to try something with the ladies face!!
Next up I had to really reach for something because I wanted to show off the Steampunk plate but honestly when it comes to steampunk I don't get. I just do not get it at all. But this did give me a chance to use my gorgeous Bat Crap Crazy polish from 6 Harts
She is a gorgeous brown beauty with some teeny micro holo glitters in her
Stamping is with MM43 and believe it or not I used a copper metallic from Avon to stamp with but to me it looks gold!
There's a lot of cool stuff on this plate so if you are into the whole Steampunk thing then trust me when I say this is up your alley!
I love the keys on this plate and I'm sure I will do more things with this baby
Last manicure to show you today is my favorite! And it surprises me because just like Steampunk I'm not really a paisley person either. I mean it's okay it's not great or fantastic and I don't know that I'd ever wear anything paisley at all but again I wanted to showcase this plate because it is pretty in paisley LOL! Check out MM48!
I chose one of my favorite Elevation's for the base--Definition: The Vivid Unknown. Then I pulled out my Mundo de Unas and stamped with Turquoise, Avocado and Mustard . . . drops mic!
Can I get a what? what?! Did you see this?!!!! OH MY GAHHHHHH!
This dark blue/teal base is the perfect backdrop for this nail art!
I mean where has paisley been all my life??? Right???!!!!!
I retract my I wouldn't wear paisley statement. I'm sure if I had this in a scarf I would wear the hell out of it!
And again I'll just say when it comes to stamping polish Mundo de Unas has no equal.
NO EQUAL!!!!
Here's the MM48 plate, it's all about the paisley!
As expected I had zero issues stamping with this plates. I have yet to find a Messy Mansion plate that does not stamp well every single time. These news plates are amazing and I applaud Julia and LilyAnna on their creativity!
Which one of my mani's is your favorite??? For me it is definitely the paisley print!
Thanks for stopping by!! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
Hi Everyone! OIY I am way late in getting my Thursday post up! So late it's not even Thursday anymore! My excuse???? Yesterday was my birthday! I went out with my family and was so tired and had such a full belly when I got home that I went to bed ASAP. Well that and I was reading a really fantastic book. So yes on my birthday I was in bed before 9pm! Talk about getting old!
I really wanted to wear my new Wine Time polish from Red Dog Designs for my birthday and tried to come up with something cool for it. I ended up going with some double stamping and then a cute added cupcake because it was my birthday after all
I did was going for a chocolate strawberry type look but I"m afraid my brown isn't dark enough. I guess I need a dark chocolate brown instead of just a milk chocolate LOL!
No matter how old you get you always love cupcakes!
Here's what Wine Time looks like on it's own. It's a gorgeous marsala holo glitter polish. I LOVE IT. I know I will wear this one a zillion times this year!
I didn't get a chance to see what everyone did yesterday either so I'm heading there now I think I've been sort of sucking with this challenge while everyone else is just blowing it out of the water!
Hi Everyone!
I did a gorgeous decal today and am SO happy with how it turned out.
I did a base of Dandy Nails Chilled Down and then topped with Red Dog Designs The Snowmen. I had to work hard to keep the snowmen out though LOL!
I stamped using Bundle Monster BMH02 another great winter time plate.
This one is simple but really looks awesome!
I'm heading over to check out everyone else's Day 2!
Hi Everyone!! Woot it's the weekend!!! I don't have much going on today at all. I'm doing some cleaning, going through my melmer drawers and weeding out what doesn't get used. I'm trying to think of some good things to make for dinner every day this week before heading to the grocery store and I'm coming up lacking. I'm also thinking of challenging myself to do a week of orange nail polish. I have a lot of really pretty oranges that quite honestly do not get much wear time!
Today I'm showing off another one of the penguin mani's I did for my ANS group. I had this idea in my head and had to work with the images I have of penguins, which I found out due to this challenge, I don't really have enough of LOL. I started with a base of white topped with Red Dog Designs Pop Art Mickey, only I made sure to leave out any of the Mickey glitters, and then I stamped my little penguin parade.
I love Pop Art Mickey because it's like a party on your nails
Here are my little penguins on their parade
I thought about redoing this mani because I didn't like the look of the colored in bellies on the penguins but honestly this mani took me FOREVER so nope it stayed as is
Another cute one from me but it's sort of hard not to do cute when penguins are involved!
Thanks for stopping by!!! I hope you all have a fantastic weekend!!!
Hi Everyone! Happy Monday! I was going through my Picasa album last night getting rid of pictures I just don't need to keep and I ran across my first ever glitter nail decal and I cannot believe I did share this mani with you! It turned out SO great!
I'm not really big on decals because A they are just way too time consuming and B no matter what I always seem to get air bubbles when I do them. But I had just gotten a bottle of Red Dog's Floral Flourish and I loved it and thought maybe it would be the gorgeous backdrop for some decaling.
I was totally right!
This is a really spectacular glitter topper. It is full of colors, 17 different glitters in all! My favorite thing about is the the rose copper colored glitters. It just gives it a real Victorian feel to me. It is stunning.
Here's the decal I made using CiCi & SiSi 07 and Floral Flourish
I decided to put this over a base of OPI's My Vampire Is Buff
My reverse accent nails are OPI's Taupe-less Beach
I think pairing this gorgeous multi colored glitter with the nude family was a brilliant idea!
I want to point out that I really let this decal dry before removing it. I wanted my glitter coat to be dry so I wouldn't have any issues trying to peel it off. I also was pretty generous with a few coats of top coat to make sure I had a nice firm but pliable decal.
Floral Flourish is from the Butterfly Garden collection over at Red Dog. You can buy it HERE In addition to this great polish there are several different finishes in the collection! A yellow suede!!! And some gorgeous shimmers and a lovely holo. Check em out!
I don't know that I'll be a decaling fool but this one made me quite happy.
Thanks for stopping by!! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
Hi Everyone!! Happy Hump Day! I hope everyone is having a great week so far. We're definitely into the Spring/Summer mode here in Wisconsin and I'm enjoying the warm but not hot weather so far. We'll be celebrating my grand-nephew's birthday this weekend so hopefully this gorgeous weather continues. No worries if it doesn't--Sean will just make us play the Wii with him all afternoon if the weather is crummy LOL! That kid does not play around when it comes to the Wii!
My fab friend Jen from My Nail Polish Obsession is celebrating her blog anniversary in a big way! For the special occasion Red Dog Designs created a gorgeous limited edition polish and I was lucky enough to purchase 1 of 30 polishes made for the event and let me tell you it's a beauty!
La Vie en rose is a gorgeous red holographic polish with hot fuchsia glitters in it! Super love how beautiful this is!
I was almost right in the middle with my bottle! Lucky 17 woot!
If you missed out on getting one of these gorgeous limited edition bottles IT'S NOT TOO LATE!!! Jen is having a giveaway for a bottle of this beauty right HERE The good news is Jen is running this give away until June 27th so there's still time for you to enter and still a chance for you to win!
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
