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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The Digit-al Dozen Does Metal--Mechagodzilla!

Hi Everyone!! Happy Hump Day!  OMG I am not even ashamed to say the other night I made the most god awful ugly mani in the universe!  No lie.  It was horrendous!  I had all these great intentions on a fabulous metal mani and then bam shit happened!  I thought I might try to wear it for a day but NOPE that baby was removed the next day and guess what?!  I went to work with naked nails!  NAKED NAILS PEOPLE!  Oh the horror!

I tried to do something cool last night too but again it just fell short.   I did a nail full of silver studs and hoped to stamp over it.  Wow first time stamping over studs who has done it before??!!! No one!  I'll be famous!  Except that it looked like crap so so much for the famous part.  I full intended on taking off the mani tonight and doing something else but I really felt like the studded nail was cool.  Then I got this idea.  Why not some spikes over my studded nail?!

First off here is the plain mani, just the nail covered in the silver studs

Pretty cool nail right?!  I really wanted to do something cool with it and for some reason Mechagodzilla popped into my head LOL!  So I give you some spikes over studs!

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!  Now this is more like it!

Not too hard to manage either!

I got to use one of my frankens too!  My black base is my franken Midnight Sins and I stamped over him with BM224 and Color Club Harp On It

I had to use A LOT of Seche Vite on this baby, it almost looks like glass over the studs!

I like the subtle look of the reptile "scales" too!

So glad this Metal challenge allowed me to play with my inner spike vixen!

I hope Mechagodzilla is proud LOL!

Let's pop over to see what everyone else has on their nails today!

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The Digit-al Dozen Does Metal--get your spike on!

Hi Everyone!  Happy Monday and welcome to Metal week for the Digit-al Dozen.  OMG At first when I heard metal I had all these cool ideas and then when it came time to sitting down and working them out they just did not happen!  I hate it when that happens too!  I mean metal how hard can it be?  Trust me when I say it can be very hard!  I pulled this sucker out at the list minute and whipped it together and if I do say so myself, it rocks!

Feast your eyes on SPIKE A LICIOUS!

I got a bunch of spikes and studs a while back on ebay so I decided to put as many to good use as I could!

I sort of felt like french tip spikes hadn't been done yet so that's the look I went with

This is a definitely a mani you can't wear pantyhose with!

This here is definitely metal!!!

I love thumbie the best!  He reminds me of a dinosaur!

So this baby is totally 100% impractical!  I love it though!  I had to do this on the weekend because there is no way I was getting through a day a work with these suckers on! LOL!

Let's head over and see if anyone else is as crazy as I am today with their nail art!

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Dragons Are Not Slaves

Hi Everyone!!! Happy Sunday!  Did I mention to you all that I am totally enthralled with Game Of Thrones?  I got on the bandwagon VERY late, much like Doctor Who LOL!  I just started watching the 3rd season, trying to get all caught up and current and man this show is a heart ripper!  I don't handle the animal deaths nearly as well as I handle the human deaths EXCEPT FOR KHAL DROGO!  I'm not sure what rock I've been living under but I suspect it was the Mick St John Moonlight rock but suddenly I've crawled out from under it and I'm all about Khal Drogo these days.  Man oh man oh man what a man!  I sure hope Lisa Bonet thanks God every second of the day for giving her such a fine, fine, fine man!

Today's theme for Adventures In Stamping is Bad Ass.  Bad ass means a lot of different things to a lot of us but for me what could possibly be more bad ass than dragons????!!!  Seriously people they fly AND breathe fire!  I'm pretty sure I came up with one seriously kick ass--bad ass mani today!

I know right?!  Totally Bad Ass!!!

How sparkly is this base????!!!!!!

I started my base with two coats of Zoya Seraphina, topped with two coats of OPI Servin' Up Sparkle and then topped all that with a Love & Beauty silver holo glitter topper! OH MY GOD!

I stamped with my favorite Messy Mansion plate MM21 and the rest is history!

I absolutely love how this turned out!  I think we all know how much I love my spikes too so this is just all kinds of winner, winner, chicken dinner for me!

Are any of you Game Of Thrones fans?  I have not read the books but I am enjoying the series on HBO very much.  I'm not really a book and movie person, it's usually one or the other for me.  I'm glad I'm just watching the show as now I don't have any preconceived notions as to how someone looks.

I am a bit shocked no one has tried to off George R R Martin!  I mean come on!  He kills off all the good people.  I have in my head how I think the series should go.  I can only hope for his sake that's the route he follows or he'll have a real rebellion on his hands LOL!

I hope you are all enjoying your weekend.  Thanks for stopping by!

Digital-Dozen Does It Again--Fashion

Hi Everyone!!!! Happy Saturday!  I have a fab day planned today!  I'm meeting up with some nail polish friends and we're having lunch and probably doing a little shopping.  Nothing is more fun than meeting up with some friends who you don't get to see all the time!

I'm really MEGA excited and super pleased to show you my fashion mani for today.  It turned out exactly how I wanted with the exception of a missing "O" ring.  I thought I had some little spacers laying around here and turns out I must have tossed them out.  No matter, this mani rocks and I'm pleased as punch this is the last entry for our 2 week long reboot!

BEHOLD THE SPIKED BLACK LEATHER CHOKER!!!!!!!

I wanted to use my spikes again so I was thrilled when this turned out the way it did!

 I got up at the crack of dawn on a day off to to work on it!

I'm not really sure how I'm going to manage this mani today--last time I had the spikes on Angelika had to tie my shoes for me so I could go walking at work LOL!  I also had a heck of a time pulling up my pants after each trip to the bathroom!

I got up at the crack of dawn to work on this mani on my day off!  I used the laptop as my table.  Here's what it looked like when I started.  

I used both Sinful Colors Black On Black and Soflajo Black Dagger because I needed the matte not to try too fast as I was adding a lot of art pieces.

I snapped some pics in natural light aka the kitchen as I'm still in my pajamas!

I'm ticked black with this one!

I never in a million years thought I would love these spikes as much as I do!!!!

 I even hauled out the cage ring for the occasion!!!

This is picture I used for my inspiration!!!

That's it for the Digit-al Dozen Does It Again reboot!!!  I hope you've enjoyed seeing everyone's take on the themes throughout the year.  Please make sure you check out everyone's Fashion mani today

Tomorrow is the last chance to enter The Spectacular September Giveaway!!!!

You can find out all about it HERE

The Digit-al Dozen Does Fashion---spikes, studs & stilettos!

Hi Everyone!!! Happy Hump Day!  I've got a kick ass mani for you all today!  Awhile back I saw this on Facebook--at least I think it was facebook, it might have been Pinterest but either way it was some kind of social media.  I thought it was pretty funny so I just HAD to put this on mah fingahs!

OOOOOH HOW HOT IS THIS????!!!!!

I am really getting my money's worth with these spikes!

Here's the picture I saw to inspire the look I recreated today

I don't really believe in Karma but really loved this!

I used the gorgeous Zoya Chyna as my base--she sure is a beauty!

I'm having a lot of fun with my spikes and studs, can't wait to do more with them!

Here's the look all tied together

This might just be the best kick ass mani I'll ever do!

Let's see what my friends have come up with!