Hi Everyone!! Happy Friday!!! For those of you who might know me you know that my current heart throb is the gorgeous Jason Momoa. My friend Emily challenged me the other day to do a nail design like the tribal tattoo Jason has on his arm. Naturally I had to accept the challenge! First up a couple of pics of the beautiful Jason and has arm tattoo
Nice tattoo!
Even nice incredibly hot guy!!!
Because Jason is Hawaiian I wanted to do something with an Island feel to go along with my tattoo
I started with an easy gradient of yellow and blue to give me my 3 colors of yellow, green and blue. Next I enlisted Dashica SdP A for the thumb, index and pinkie and used CiCi & SiSi 10 for the middle finger. To recreated exactly Jason's tattoo I used my black sheer and stamped with BM423 and then matted it for a "skin" look.
The results are amazing! I love it and think it's perfect!! Here's a little collage to show everyone all together!
Challenge accepted Emily!!!! This mani turned out so great this is definitely one I'll be wearing for more than a day!
What do you think? Do you think this mani is perfect or can you hardly see it sitting next to such an incredibly hot gorgeous man??!
Thanks for stopping by!! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
Hi Everyone! Today in the states we are celebrating our independence day. A very Happy 4th of July to all who celebrate!!!
It's a beautiful sunny day here and I'll be spending time with my son today. I think we might actually to to the zoo!
Happy 4th of July! God Bless America! Hope you all have a great day!
Hi Everyone!! The challenge theme for this week in one of my facebook groups is caviar beads. Really?! Those things are the devil. They get everywhere not all of them actually stay stuck on and they bleed like no one's business. But here I am trudging forward. When I did this mani I had the idea it would look like the waves in a turbulent sea. I think it's a major fail yet everyone who's seen it tells me I'm crazy and that it's a fantastic mani. I really only have one picture of it because you just can not look at this close up as it will drive you crazy.
Here's my stamped caviar bead mani--what do you think? Can you see any waves in here? Do you like this look or do you think this is just flat out ugly like I do?
A couple of my friends say it looks like rope work, and I guess I can see that, but since I wanted it to look like waves, rope work doesn't quite cut it for me!
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
Hi Everyone!! Oh my word sorry I just sort of fell of the planet there for a bit. I really have no excuse other than I got caught up reading some great books and felt more like reading than blogging LOL! Just before the Digit-al Dozen's last theme I did a beautiful mani using the lovely Serene Superficially Colorful but I get a chance to post it. Then I sort of forgot about it which is just a crying shame because it is SO pretty. So today I'm doing justice for this pretty polish and showing you what I did with it.
I love the thermals from Superficially Colorful. Jin does an AHmazing job with her polishes and especially her thermals. I have several and just love them. So "mani" things can be done with them too! One of my favorite things is to stamp over them of course!
First up the lovely Serene which is a thermal that changes from an almost white ice blue to a deeper icy blue color
I love the natural gradient look you get with thermal polishes!
One of my favorite things to do with thermal is to stamp over it!
It's so much fun and you still get that gradient look!
I used LilyAnna 03 for this design and really think it's adorable!
In addition to thermals Superficially Colorful also has some great glitters that just like her thermals are great for stamping over. If you have not yet visited her store you can find all her cool stuff HERE
Today I'm going to be helping my mom do some decorating but after that I think I'm going to check out this alcohol ink and clear nail polish thing to make up some some sheers for leadlighting. I'll definitely get back to you with any of my successful results! I think I'm trying some water marbling this weekend too--FINGERS CROSSED!
Thanks for stopping by!!! I hope you all have a fantastic day!!
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 Saturday! Some fun things going on for me today. I got new recliners and put those in so I could get rid of the super uncomfortable leather recliner couch we had. No one ever laid on that couch because it was so uncomfortable so out with the old and in with the new! And I finally got a new nail station set up too! We had an old desk that I got all set up so now I have a place to store my plates and an area do to my nails. No more nail stuff on the kitchen table! Next up for today is all new wooden ledges for the chinchillas and they are all getting new cage set ups as well. I'm going to be sewing new hammocks and tube covers for everyone. Well no hammock for Leonard and Herman they prefer to be hammock free LOL!
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Today I have a cute mani on inspired by my friend Kim. The other day she put her Ninja Yeti on over a yellow and I thought it looked really cool. I decided to honeycomb it up and then do a little bee decal. It's adorable!
Ninja Yeti was a special surprise from Elevation when I ordered several bottles at once
It's a cool black matte glitter with some purple shimmers added!!
I don't do cute too often but this just called for it!
I put Ninja Yeti over Elevation Streetside NYC and then stamped with MJ VI
I made the little bee decal to go over it!
Hope everyone is having a great weekend! Thanks for stopping by!
Hi Everyone! Happy and wet Thursday! Definitely more like a balmy fall day here than Summer. Mother Nature is just toying with us these days!
I've been seeing a few of these sheer black polish looks popping up on Pinterest and I really fell in love with the look the first time I saw it. I decided to make up a sheer black of mine and do somewhat of a negligee look. I was really easy to do even though it looks as if it wasn't!
I only used coat of my black sheer as you don't want it too dark.
I stamped using DRK A and LilyAnna 03. Then I framed it all with a classic rim job and then matted it
Next time I do this look I think I'll frame it first then stamp it. I think it will be much easier and less messy that way
What do you think of this look? Have you seen it popping up around on blogs and Pinterest? I really love it and will definitely be doing more mani's with this look!
Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
