Hi Everyone!!! Happy Friday!!! Today I am showcasing something I've learned from the lovely and fabulous Sheila of Pointless Cafe. She often does extend a mani's and I always think "wow that is such a great idea!" Most of you I don't really wear just nail polish as I love to stamp over my nails, but sometimes when I don't have time I'll just toss on a glitter topper over a gradient or color and go merrily on my way. Two nights ago was one of those nights. I did and orange and pink gradient and topped it with the lovely Plumeria from Elevation Polish. This is how it looked all day yesterday
I thought it was cute and I got a lot of compliments on it. Many of my coworkers thought I put a bunch of dots on my nails! AS IF! That's what the awesome Elevation Plumeria is for LOL!
Jump ahead to the next night when I got home even later than the night before and cringed at the thought of removing glitter no matter how lovely.
Instead of taking it off I decided to try to stamp over it. I knew I was going to need a reverse image of some sort so I poured through my plates aka looked at the ones closest to me on the table and it was my Messy Mansions and BAM! A star was born!
I love how this turned out! Stamping over the Plumeria was a great idea
And as you can see Plumeria looks a lot like little dots!
To be honest at first I thought the black would over power this mani, but I don't think it did at all! This is the fantastic MM20
It's still quite colorful!
In fact after I had done this it really reminded me of a kick ass mani I had seen the fab Wacky Laki do with a Messy Mansion plate awhile ago. Check hers out HERE and let me know what you think?! Different but sort of the same!
I actually love reverse image stamping and wish there were more plates with reverse images. I would actually love to have an entire plate full of just reverse images!
I'm really excited to wear this to work today and see what everyone thinks. I wonder if they'll realize it's the same polish just with stamping over it? What do you think do you like the before or after better?
Anyone got any great plans for the weekend? I'm hoping to finish up season 3 of Game Of Thrones and possibly get to the new Spiderman movie. Saturday it's suppose to rain and be cruddy but not on Sunday.
Thanks for stopping by!! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
Hi Everyone! Happy Hump Day! I had to think long and hard on how I was going to top my awesome dragon scales mani, but really in the end it was that hard at all! I recently got a few polishes from my friend Jin who is the fabulous blogger Superficially Colorful . In addition to be a fabulous nail artist she's now making polish and doing a fabulous job at it! She makes the absolute best thermal polishes hands down! I have several of her thermals and one of the funnest ones is Giggly. Giggly is a bright hot pink to dark purple polish with loads and loads of shimmer. I decided to put it on and do some stamping over it. And something super fun came out of it!
I love thermals because you get amazing natural gradients from them!
You don't even have to do any work to get them to do it if you have long enough nails!
I decided to haul out the big a$$ Pueen Buffet set and use it. You all know I am not thrilled with this set as the images are so huge when they don't need to be. But I do think this stamping doesn't look to bad. This is from Pueen 65
This is what Giggly looks like when you're warm
And when you're cold you get this really pretty deep purple
This is the look I got putting my nails against the hot crockpot that was cooking our yummy dinner last night!
All in all thermals are just loads of fun.
If you haven't checked out Jin's store yet please do so! She has some great polishes!! Thermals, glitters and deep rich jewel tone polishes that are guaranteed to make your nails look AHmazing! You can find them all HERE
Next week's Digit-al Dozen theme is another great one! I've been thinking up some ideas and trying to nail a couple of looks. I had to haul out the neons last night and then wished it was Summer!!
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you all have a fabulous day!
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!
Hi Everyone!! Happy Friday! After last week's short week this one seemed to last forever! I'm looking forward to some down time and hoping to get some much needed Spring cleaning down around the house this weekend.
I decided to haul out one of my A Englands for a manicure because every one of them I have is just so lovely. I love the glowing effect you get with a scattered holo. A Englands never take away from the gorgeousness of their color with a strong linear holo which is why I tend to love the scattered holos a bit more.
For this one I grabbed my fave--Briarwood and paired it with OPI Honey Rider and some simple stamping
Briarwood is such a gorgeous chocolate cherry type color
I think those might be my favorite type of brown colors the ones with the hint of red in them.
Honey Rider is a lovely gold textured and these two looked great together
And I found another use for the ginormous Pueen Buffet set too, I may get some use with these plates after all.
So I've got Spring cleaning for some plans this weekend how about you all? Anyone doing anything exciting?
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you all have a fabulous day!
Hi Everyone!
Hope everyone had a great weekend and great start to the week. We have been having some sunny days finally--not super warm but it definitely looks like Spring is on the way. I wanted to do something with the little flowers I got from Amazon so I went with this little flower pastel look. I don't know I'm not really feeling it, I think I just don't/can't do cute.
I think the purple flower is too big for my pinkie LOL!
It's kind of hard to tell from the lighting but each flower also has white in it so it gives it a more "real" look I think
And they are rubber! So they apply nicely to rounded finger tips, just make sure you use glue or they'll pop right off LOL!
I think pastels might be starting to grow on me, sort of how neons grew on me. I'm not going to go crazy though, I'm still a fan of darker colors or nice bright colors.
What do you think of this one? Do you like the cute look or are you more of a leopard/zebra/spikes/drama queen person like myself???
Thanks for stopping by!! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
Good Morning! A very Happy Easter to everyone this morning! I hope your day is spent with family and loved ones. May you feel and receive the many blessings from our Lord on this day and everyday!
Happy Easter to you all! I'll be celebrating this day looking at a beautiful sun shinning day seeing Spring start to spread, and spending time with my loved ones and friends.
Hi Everyone--a blessed Good Friday to you all. For those of us who are Christian today is Good Friday, the day when our Savior took upon the sins of the world and died in order to give us everlasting life. When I was a young girl growing up I knew nothing about making sacrifices. You get to live a pretty carefree life when you're young. As you grow older you start to understand choices and sacrifices and how in life sometimes we don't have a choice and sacrifices have to be made.
Most of us don't have huge life altering choices and sacrifices to make. Sometimes it's simply I don't have enough money for the this expensive Dior polish so instead I'll buy this similar color in a cheaper brand. Sometimes it's well we have to eat this month so no nail polish for me. It could even be do I want to stay up and watch every episode of Doctor Who with David Tennant or do I want to get some sleep?
The sacrifice Jesus made on Good Friday was to die for all of us, so that we would have eternal life--something I never feel quite worthy of, but something I am so grateful for. The sacrifice he made for me means one day I will be reunited with my sister and my dad--this sacrifice means so much more to me now that I have lost part of my family.
So today, on this last day of Texture week for the Digit-al Dozen I am able to express in my heart and on my fingers this joyous day
He was the one true King and they mocked him by putting a crown of thorns upon his head, yet still he died to save them. Still he died to save us all.
I hope you all enjoyed Textured Week and seeing our new faces to the Digit-al Dozen group. I think it's been one of our best weeks ever!
