Hi Everyone! Coming to you all on a super stormy morning! Thunderstorms this morning and it's still dark out at 6 am. This might officially be the start of Fall around here.
Last year my super cool friend Kim got me some W7 suede polishes. I absolutely love a suede finish--it's matte, it's shimmery and it's just gorgeous. I wonder why no one feels the need to bring back some more suedes???!!
I threw together this lovely little mani last night and stamped with my new VL 2 plate
I love these colors together don't you?!
The funny thing about this mani is I was trying to recreate something I had seen on Pinterest and fell in love with but could not find the image to recreate it. After giving up and just doing this I found out from a couple friends the image I was looking for was on a CiCi & SiSi plate and I had it all along LOL!
Looks like I'm back to rocking the 2 accent nails again LOL! Creature of habit what can I say??
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Hi Everyone!! Happy Hump Day!!! Sorry I dropped off for a couple of days. Monday marked 4 years since my beautiful sister, Lisa, died of breast cancer. In all honesty I didn't feel like talking to anyone. People try to say stupid things to you like, oh she's in a better place now, or time heals all wounds, or even it's been 4 years you need to get on with your life. You NEVER get over the death of someone you love. There isn't enough time in the entire universe and all of existence to get over that wound--trust me. Instead all you can do is life your life in the gigantic void that's left behind. Sometimes you have good days, sometimes you have bad days.
My mother had to spend Monday without my father for the first time in four years. He was her support and her rock and on the "anniversary" of the day Lisa died, mom had to endure it without my dad at her side. All in all it's pretty craptastic. BUT yes we all just keep on living in this gigantic void. I have friends and family who messaged me that day and knowing they remember and having their support helped tremendously.
So here I am back in the swing of things! It's hot here--yep 90 degree hot here so I guess summer has officially arrived!
I got a set of suedes from my super sweet friend Kim the other day so I just HAD to try a few of them out! The are the W7 brand and they are all fabulous! I got a total of 6--brown, black, silver, pink, blue and purple and I also got a no name light green one from Invogue. I decided on a skittles using the blue, purple and green and then added a couple of Zoyas with a matte topcoat!!
Pinkie is W7 Aqua, ring is Invogue, swear is Zoya Amy, ring is Zoya Sarah and thumb is W7 Mauve
How gorgeous is this purple suede?????!!!!!!!
Did some fun stamping over it too!
This is from BM301
It totally reminds me of a circus!
I found you can matte almost all of the Zoya shimmers and get a cool suede effect. The Irresistible collection looks amazing with a matte top coat!!
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Hi Everyone! Happy Saturday!!! Oh I am so looking forward to a great day today! My friend Angelika is having a surprise party for her husband today!!! It's official and he's finally got his green card so we're having a Green Party for him! I'm making my famous guacamole, we're also having key lime cupcakes, spinach dip and some cucumber sandwiches. If it's green we're having it LOL. I just know it's going to be a fun time and hopefully we've managed to surprise him and no one spilled the green beans!
I had the tragedy of a nail breaking awhile back and filed my nails down. I've really been digging my shorter nails and thinking I might like them better but then I was going through my nail album and seeing some pics I hadn't posted yet of my longer nails and now I miss them LOL! I try to always be current with my mani's to the blog but sometimes I do get ahead especially if I don't post everyday. I found one in here that is simply stunning that I did back in the beginning of April! What in the world!?! Why I didn't show this to you then I don't know, but here it is!
I did a gorgeous gradient with Zoya Harlow--that I got from my sweet friend Jin of Superficially Colorful and Soflajo's Black Dagger.
If this is not the most gorgeous mani ever then I simply do not know what is!!!
I'm told by many people my gradients are amazing but honestly when you have 2 colors this gorgeous it's all them and not a lick of me!
I stamped with one of my favorite images from the 3rd Bundle Monster set, BM314
This might just be one of my favorite mani's ever! Man I miss those long nails!!
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Hi Everyone!!! Today's challenge in the Adventures In Stamping group is something matte. Recently I've gotten a few of the new Pure Ice velvets which I also refer to as suedes AND I love them! They are super delicious and apply like a dream and look like a dream AND for under $2! Today I decided to gradient Ruffled Sheet (the silver) and Black Velour (yes you guessed it, the black)
Here's how the look together
Pretty yummy!!! I was really happy with this gradient and let me tell you it's not easy to gradient with mattes!
I had a hard time thinking about what to stamp over this--red, black, silver? I actually tried Zoya Posh and it was a no go. I settled for white using my DRK-A plate
Looks pretty good from a distance but you can see how unforgiving matte is! I had to restamp a section of the white on my ring finger and it didn't line up well AND my pink smeared!
All in all this is a pretty cool mani I think.
What do you think????
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Hi Readers!! Lately I've been been obsessed with the OPI suedes. I'm not sure what it is about a matte polish but they are rather fascinating. The look weird and feel weird sort of like an octopus I guess. I was working on some gradienting the other day--because I seem to have an addiction to them--and wondered if it was possible to gradient a suede or matte with a creme. Turns out it is very possible. Here's a pic before deciding whether to do matte topcoat or glossy over this
I decided to try matte and then glossy over it and after my first glossy finger I knew it was glossy all the way! Pinkie is the only one matte here lol!
Right under the light--look at all that buried shimmer a suede has in it!!!!
I decided to glossy up the pinkie too and then of course stamp on it!
Isn't this pretty? I stamped using a Christmas Ivy design on BM318 LOL! It is totally a Christmas themed plate but I didn't care! It looks great!
And last but not least here's my latest ebay ring!!!
I love it! And it was $4 free shipping, can't beat that!
So how did I do this?? I gradiented using OPI Honk If You Love OPI and We'll Always Have Paris suede. By putting the glossy topcoat over it the suedes buried shimmer really came to life! I think it looks like a scattered holo. I stamped with my favorite Milani White On and used the trellis/ivy image on BM318. I love this mani and of course it matched a work top lol!
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