Hi Everyone!!! Ooooh it's getting closer to turkey day!! I have a lot of mixed feelings about Thanksgiving this year. I'm actually having a really tough time right now dealing with and thinking about the death of my father. He was the biggest male influence in my life, and being a woman disappointed in the relationships I've had, he became the only man I really ever trusted, believed in and loved. Sad but true. I am a VERY bad picker when it comes to men. In fact I'm waiting for them to discover the "bad picker" gene and then name it after me.
For years I stood beside my dad while he carved the turkey and then I moved the carved meat onto the platter. I stole pieces of skin and we both tested the turkey for poison. I also remember my beautiful sister, Lisa, during Thanksgiving and how she just could not walk away from the carcass! We would be cleaning the kitchen and putting away the leftovers and she would still be picking off the bones but complaining about how full she was lol!
So while this is a time of great sadness for me, I have not forgotten what Thanksgiving is all about--being thankful for those you do have in your life and all of what you do have. I have a wonderful family, I have a wonderful group of friends in both the chinchilla world and the nail polish world. I have two really cute cats--well one is a pain in the butt BUT he's still cute. I have a roof over my head and food to eat. I am SO thankful for all of these.
I will think of my father and my sister this week and I will cry, and I will remember the years past, but I only cry because of how much I miss them, and I only miss them because of how much I love them--to me that's not so bad.
BUT onto the nails!!! Last night I pulled out my Sphere by Pretty & Polished and decided to pair it with a franken I made ages ago! I put some spectraflair into a bottle of Hard Candy Beetle and it had a really cool result. Sometimes holo sometimes purple glass flecky.
I named it Shadowdance. It's pretty cool, it just looks more holo in the bottle.
Sphere is one of the first polishes I bought from Pretty & Polished, it's a truly gorgeous blued!!! I don't know if Chelsea is still selling it, if not then I consider myself super lucky to have it!
This is also my first time using this design--so a couple of untrieds here--untried franken I made and untried plate design!!
The image is BM 201
I think this turned out pretty cool!!
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Hi Everyone! Happy Monday! I hope everyone had a great weekend. I got to spend some time with my cousins on Saturday and on Sunday I made a kick butt sweet and spicy chili and some of my famous cornbread! Okay my cornbread isn't that famous but it should be because it's darn good lol!! I've been looking at my stash lately rather disgusted with myself that I have so many untrieds! Here I am wanting more and more polish and I haven't even worn 3/4 of the stuff I do have! Therefore I've decided to get those untrieds out and start using them!
I was quite enamored of the Nabi magnetics awhile back and got quite a few of them. I haven't worn them though! So today I yanked one out--I thought it was black but turns out this is a deep green.
I decided to try my hand at stamping over it with Kleancolor Jazz Olive and my DRK-A plate--I'm loving this DRK-A design lol!
Kind of funky!
I wonder if this would have turned out more dramatic with a flat metallic for the stamping? I might try this again and see how it looks.
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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 Everyone!! Happy Friday! Today I'm wearing one of the new Pure Ice Velvet's called Blue Midnight. This is all I can really say about it - - - -
OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I simply could not staring at this mani and I didn't even do any nail art on it!
It's a gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous, and did I mention GORGEOUS shimmering suede! I added an accent nail of Icing's Let Me See Your Peacock simply because it's an untried and I vowed to wear more of my untrieds
I threw a matte topcoat over Let Me See Your Peacock and called it a day!
SHAZAM! I love these new Pure Ice Velvets! LOVE THEM!!!!!!! And for 2 bucks you can't go wrong!!!
I'm really glad I had such great friends be able to find and get these for me!!!
I've had a couple on and I feel what they say is true once you can matte you never go back LOLOLOLOL!
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Hi Everyone! I hauled out some of these matte's I have because A I love them and B I need to start using all this stash I have amassed. I mean seriously I have so much polish I haven't even used once for crying out loud. And it's getting rather ridiculous!
I've had Zoya Savita for ages and didn't even use it until the other day! I decided to yank it again and use it along with Veruschka and my new Pure Ice Blue Midnight. Check out what I came up with!
Wow! I really, really, REALLY love how this turned out! I wanted it to look like a peacock that's why I went with the gold in the half moon.
I stamped over it using BM212 but I wasn't madly in love with it
Not sure if it was the shiny top coat on it I didn't like
Or maybe it just covered up too much of the gorgeous gradient
I decided to matte it to see if I would like it better
Better but really it looked the best without stamping over it I think
What do you think--do you like without the stamping? Do you prefer the matte over the shiny look?
Thanks for stopping by!! I hope you have a fantastic day!
Hi Everyone! I have a fake mani on today! And by fake or faux I mean it's close to the real thing but is it the cigar? You might know I have several chinchillas as pets. And by several I mean 10! Yes 10 chinchillas as pets. No I don't believe in wearing the fur of an animal, no I don't appreciate it when someone asks me how many chinchillas make a coat. There are times when fake is much better than the real thing--pleather instead of leather and fake fur all the way!
Even though I have a lovely bottle of Clarins 230 I also have Max Factor Fantasy Fire AND BeYu 209. I also have a bottle of Cult Nails Clairvoyant aka Unicorn Puke why? Well for the first two because I wanted them lol and the second one because honestly I am not putting something named Unicorn Puke on my nails. Clairvoyant is the same exact thing, it's lovely and no puke anywhere near my nails! YAY!
I decided to play around with some colors I haven't worn yet so I hauled out my Zoya Savita, my Max Factor Fantasy Fire and my Cult Nails Clairvoyant. I've worn Clairvoyant before but not the other two. I'm into matte nails lately so I did a lovely mani with stamping and mattified it all!
First up here is Savita, Fantasy Fire and Clairvoyant as is
Here's a shot of it in the shade, it's blurry but you can really see the color flakies in Clairvoyant
I love this polish and love it even more it doesn't have puke in it's name!
Then I went at mattified it--really love this look!
Then I went and stamped on it using my good old mermaid tail stamp BM209!
I didn't matte the stamping but just left it as is--what do you think--should I have just left it without stamping over it? And how gorgeous is that Fantasy Fire matted? OMG it's pretty delicious!
Thanks for stopping!! I hope you all have a fabulous day!
Hi Everyone!! Happy Monday! I hope everyone had a great weekend. I got to spend some time with my doggie nephew Fuzzy and my mom and I went to see Skyfall, in my opinion it was the best Bond ever! There is a lot of talk about who's the best Bond and to me it's Daniel Craig. Don't get me wrong, I've seen every single Bond movie there is and I don't even mind Timothy Dalton as Bond, but Daniel Craig knows how to do him right. It's about time we have a kick ass Bond!
After getting home from the movie and settling down to watch Dexter and The Walking Dead I did some Pinterest searching and low and behold there was another fantastic design from Carolina from Colores de Carol. I was super happy to do this one too because I've decided I need to be wearing all this polish I have. I have ALOT of untried colors yet I'm getting more and more! That is just crazy! So this was my chance to try one of the Essence Vampire's Love colors I haven't worn yet, Into the Dark. It is SUPER lovely!
Here's the design I saw on Pinterest I have no idea how I missed this on Carolina's blog--I love her blog and because of her and Let Them Have Polish I fell in love with stamping!
You can check out Carolina's post for this beautiful mani here. I'm so glad I saw this and hauled out that Essence Into The Dark, it is SO lovely. For the stamping I used BM314 and BM321.
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