Hey Everyone! Back when I first started "collecting" nail polish I would always say my problem color was blue. The problem being I loved it and ALL blue nail polishes. Well I've been doing this nail art stuff for a couple of years now so I'm happy to say I've branched out and my green and purple drawer definitey rival my blue drawer now LOL! BUT blue is and will always be my first love. The first blue I ever got was 16 years ago believe it or not! I was working as a receptionist in the OB-Gyn department and there was a sweet girl I worked with, Olga. One day she came in with this blue nail polish--I think it was by Sinful back when they had the short sqround bottles like Seche Vite--the name of it was Disco Blue and it was gorgeous! All the girls knew how much I loved doing my nails and I was so touched when Olga said, "I saw this and thought of you!!" All these years later I'm still loving those blues!
I did this mani after I saw this way cool design on Pinterest. I love Pinterest! You get the best ideas there!! This is where I first saw the design. I tried to get back to a blog but it was wanting me to sign into some other social network lol! Um no thanks, Facebook obsessed is enough for me!
This is a gradient half moon mani and pardon me but this really kicks a$$!
I used a couple of my favorite blues for this--Cult Nails Time Traveler and China Glaze Sea Spray.
The application is really easy! I did two coats of Time Traveler and applied Seche Vite. Then I used my trusty price stickers to help with the half moon and I did my gradient technique with Sea Spray and Time Traveler and sponged it onto my nails over the sticker.
At first I was disappointed when I realized it gradiented the two colors instead of keeping them separate as the picture from pinterest appears. I think she sponged her darker color over her lighter instead of gradienting them together. But once I had them all done I loved the look!
This is definitely something I'll be doing again with some different colors! I'm thinking of a nice chocolate brown with For Audrey!
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you all have a good day!
Hi Everyone! Happy Monday! I really thought about doing a MSMD Mani today BUT I loved what I was wearing so much I just didn't want to take it off. Instead I decided to switch it up a bit and I'm pleased with how it turned out! The other day I got some new OPI Polishes two of them being Nein! Nein! Ok Fine! and Her Majesty's Secret Secret Service. I can't believe how much I love the color of Nein! Nein! It is so gorgeous and luxurious. Not to be outdone by Her Majesty's Secret Service which I've been told is a Zoya Fei Fei dupe or vice versa lol! As with all glass fleck type polishes they sponge so well so I did a simple sponged gradient with the two.
These two polishes really seem meant for each other!
And don't you just love the coloring on Nein! Nein! OK Fine!????
In order to still wear this same gradient I stamped over it with China Glaze Passion and BM210
It's a bit hard to capture with my camera but at the right angles you can see the gold stamping over the gradient on my tips
This might be a great idea for someone who's busy or doesn't want to change their polish everyday!
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
Hi Everyone! Happy weekend! I know I'm late with my post today BUT it's because I was working a long long time on it! Today's theme for the Crumpets Nail Tarts is
Influenced by a Scary Movie!
Well there's no way I'm putting The Ring on my nails and that's the movie I think has scared me the most through all my years. The girl is SO freaking creepy. Instead I decided to pay homage to good old Channel 18 and Creature Feature! I remember as young girls watching I Was A Teenage Werewolf, The Mummy, Dracula Meets Frankenstein and the Creature From the Black Lagoon so I decided to get them all into one mani!
A super big thanks to my friend Sarah of Chalkboard Nails for helping me come up with the Wolfman and Creature drawing last year!
I went with fine tip sharpies to do the designs because lets face it I'm not good and freehand!
I would SO love to link everyone else today BUT I had to do some major laptop fixing all because I couldn't hear any sound on You Tube video and YES I did need to hear Tartofraises when I'm checking out her marbling. So when I tried to get back into Facebook I couldn't! And now I have to wait 24 hours due to security reasons for flip sake! Don't you just love social networking?
It's just as well because today's a day spend relaxing and maybe watching some scary movies!
Have a great weekend!
YAY I have access to the lovely Facebook once again so I'm linking everyone's cool mani's!!
Hey Everyone!! It looks like I'm jumping from Crumpet's Nail Tarts Halloween Challenge to Crumpet's Nail Tarts Halloween Challenge lol! I've got a few hectic things going on right now and I've not been able to do my nails each day *GASP* I have a super cool mani today so this baby could stay on for a few days!!
Let's see what's up for today shall we?
Ooooh blood and gore!
Check out my very first successful splatter mani!!!!
As you can see I did a gradient first! I used Essence Vampire's Love Polishes for my gradient--The Dawn Is Broken and Hunt Me If You Can
And did you see that??!!!! Right hand pic even !!!!!!
My "blood" is Revlon Devil's Lure (which I love) and China Glaze Salsa
I tried to stamp a bat on this mani can you find it????
Not really LOL! It just looks like more of the blood and gore BUT I'm so please with how this turned out!!
You know this is going to be a good challenge today so make sure to check out everyone else!
OMG Readers! I totally forgot to post Crumpet's Halloween Challenge picture today! I got all the way to work and said oh oh!!! No blog post for today! GLURG! I hope my fellow crumpet's will forgive me! Today's theme in the Crumpet's Nail Tarts Halloween Challenge is
Pumpkins!!! I'm featuring a franken I made last year with this mani. This is one of the first frankens I ever made. Basically it's an amped up Pumpkin Spice!
Because I really love dark colors, especially this time of year, I just did an accent nail of China Glaze Cross Iron 360 and an image from BM305. Man BM305 is sure getting a lot of use lately!!
I can't believe I made this Gypsy Bries franken over a year ago and just never wore it! It's really quite lovely!
Now let's check in with all the other gals and see what they came up with for today's challenge!
Hey everyone! Happy Monday? How was everyone's weekend? Mine was great! I got to babysitter my grandnephew Sean on Saturday. Normally this wouldn't be a big deal BUT he's not even 3 years old yet AND I don't really "do" them until they are at least 5 lol! I am not a baby or toddler person. They are small and can break easily. My little sister, Lynelle, gets Sean at least one day every weekend and I usually go over there to hang out with her and him--this time she needed to do some running around so I came over to watch him until she got back. She's got a nice kid friendly home. Aka no chinchilla cages and kittens with claws lol!
Sean and I HAD A BLAST! Little did I know he never played the drums before until I watched him though lol! He tipped over the ottoman, found some drumsticks of my nephew's and started hammering them on the ottoman. So of course I joined in with the guitar hero guitar and we were totally rocking out! We watched Cars, and Madagascar 3 too. I really had nothing to worry about lol! He is the cutest kid on the planet. I'm sorry my beautiful sister, Lisa, is not here to enjoy him--but I am grateful we get to spend time with him whenever we want. We tell him about his Grandma Lisa and I can't wait until he's old enough for us to tell him things about her.
But enough of that!! You are here for the nails! Okay you might be here because I'm pretty cool and witty LOL!
A couple of weeks ago Bundle Monster had their annual Halloween Contest. Last year I was the grand prize winner. AWESOME! I was really thrilled to win last year and didn't really think about entering again because geez there is no need to be a pig and I've won everyone Bundle Monster contest they've had. I'm sure you all know how much I LOVE BUNDLE MONSTER PLATES--that being said I feel a loyalty to them and entered the contest.
There were some fantastic designs this year! OMG my favorites were the orange and silver design by my friend Amy of I'm Feeling Nail-venturous, the cool vertical design from my friend Ashley of Smashley Sparkles and then one by my friend Joanne who's in the Crumpet's Nail Tarts group. I LOVED Joanne's!! She did Sugar Skulls! OMG I don't even like Sugar Skulls because they creep me out, but her's was fantastic.
So good news/bad news. Good news Amy and I made the top 13--bad news Ashley and Joanne didn't :( It more than bums me out. I didn't think my design was very elaborate but based on what many people have said about it, is it's a design that's very Halloween YET not too out there for wearing in an everyday setting.
I did a nice gradient using Orly Goth, Zoya Mira and Essie Lilacism. Then I went with Bundle Monster plates BM305 (haunted house) BM224 (gnarly tree branches), BM213 bats and BM13 (more bats) I added some yellow to the haunted house windows to give it that eery glow and I named my design Bats On The Bayou. You might have seen this mani and even voted for it if you followed the contest.
Here's a pic with more bats on my thumb
I got a lot of compliments on this mani and I get a lot of people saying how much they love my gradient and how seamless they always are. I don't really know why it's so easy for me to gradient, it just is.
In fact you can see how much better I am at gradienting when you compare this year's mani with last year's.
Not a very smooth gradient last year and now that I'm comparing the two I really do think this year's is a lot better!
Right now the judging phase is going on, so we'll see if I make it to the top 3. As I said before though, there were some fantastic entries! Best of luck to the top 13!
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
Good, Bad, Better! Hey Everyone! I've got another good, bad, better mani today. We've had some gorgeous Fall weather going on in Wisconsin and driving around just makes you appreciate where you live SO much. To see the goldenrods and deep reds scattered with orange, green and even burgundy is just AHmazing. I wanted to do some sort of Fall colors mani so I gradiented and really loved it!
This gradient is Sinful Colors Pull Over, a franken I made called Pumpkin Spice Latte, and Revlon Vixen. I really love it. Because I was stamping over it I didn't do a topcoat. I wish I had!
I decided to stamp over it using an image from my DRK-A plate. I did a mixture of China Glaze Cross Iron 360 and Kleancolor Metallic Red and I really did not like it!
I don't know why exactly but I feel almost as if this would have been better with a creme stamping instead of a metallic. Only problem is I didn't really feel I had a creme that would be opaque enough.
I --decided to cover up the stamping with the gradient again which wasn't easy as the yellow was a bit sheer so my cuticles looked like caca. And then I topped it with Sonoma Nail Art Deadly Zins and voila!
I just loved it a lot more!
What do you think? Which way do you like it best? Should I have just left that gradient alone and wear it *gasp* plain?
Happy weekend! Hope everyone enjoys some time off of work these next 2 days!
