Hi Everyone!!! Happy Saturday! What a super fabulous weekend it looks to be. I get to spend today doing nuthin'! Woot! Actually I'm going to be reading. I've got a couple of books by Cherise Sinclair's Doms of Dark Haven's series to read and couple books from Alexa Grace's profile series to read. Plus this is the month of June so the kringle of the month is rhubarb from my bakery. Having some delish iced coffee, eating rhubarb kringle and reading what's not to love?!
Last week I was over at Emily's hanging and I did a cute little mani over there. A nice neon gradient with some stamping. I liked it but the pinky got smeared so the next day I decided to take off a few of the stamped nails and add a Kiko Cupcake to it! Winner! Winner! Chicken Dinner!
Here's the mani I wore home from Emily's
I'm not really sure what happened but the pinky got so smeared AND I used Seche which usually never smears
I'd like to say the smear didn't bother me but it really did! That's why I just had to take it off LOL. I kept a couple of the stamped images and then put on Kiko Cupcake 650
So much cuteness!
I wish I could tell you the names of the polishes but I can't! They are from China Glaze neon collection from last year though!
I definitely think skittling and extending a mani is the way to go these days! That way you get almost everything you own onto your fingertips!
Tomorrow we are celebrating my grandnephew's birthday. It should be a bunch of fun. Let's hope I can come up with something cute to wear on my nails!
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
Hi Everyone!! Happy Hump Day! I hope everyone is having a great week so far. We're definitely into the Spring/Summer mode here in Wisconsin and I'm enjoying the warm but not hot weather so far. We'll be celebrating my grand-nephew's birthday this weekend so hopefully this gorgeous weather continues. No worries if it doesn't--Sean will just make us play the Wii with him all afternoon if the weather is crummy LOL! That kid does not play around when it comes to the Wii!
My fab friend Jen from My Nail Polish Obsession is celebrating her blog anniversary in a big way! For the special occasion Red Dog Designs created a gorgeous limited edition polish and I was lucky enough to purchase 1 of 30 polishes made for the event and let me tell you it's a beauty!
La Vie en rose is a gorgeous red holographic polish with hot fuchsia glitters in it! Super love how beautiful this is!
I was almost right in the middle with my bottle! Lucky 17 woot!
If you missed out on getting one of these gorgeous limited edition bottles IT'S NOT TOO LATE!!! Jen is having a giveaway for a bottle of this beauty right HERE The good news is Jen is running this give away until June 27th so there's still time for you to enter and still a chance for you to win!
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
Hi Everyone!!! Happy Monday!! I got to spend some time with my friend Emily yesterday and we had a blast! We really wanted to try some new techniques to the stamping world and were able to do a couple quite successfully! The other day my friend Beaching Nails showed a sneak peek mani she had done with the new icing polishes from 10.1 polish. I was blown away! I mean omg it was gorgeous. I decided to try to recreate it.
First of all I made up some sheer tints using some old China Glaze neons I had
Next up I painted my nails with 2 coats of OPI My Vampire Is Buff. Then I applied the sheers randoming "splodging" them all over my nails. I stamped in black using the BuNa B plate from Bunny Nails and look at it!
Oooooooh Ahhhhhhhhh! This is so pretty!
Ha check out Emily's porch! I tried to get some sunny shots but it was behind a cloud LOL!
As you can see I did matte it because I felt like it really added to the look
It turned out just beautiful. But not as beautiful as Beach's! Trust me!!! Here's a pic of her's
Beached used the new Icing collex from 10.1 Polish and look how lovely it turned out! I'm definitely going to snag that collection and guess what it's available now right HERE
Here's a side by side shot of mine and Beach's
What a pretty look and honestly not hard to achieve at all!
You may have seen Beaching Nails as she's all over the place but if you haven't seen her on Facebook check out her blog HEREhttp://beachingnails.blogspot.com/
Have you tried any of the sheer polishes out there? Have you made any of your own? What about this technique have you tried it yet?
Thanks for stopping by!! I hope you all have a wonderful day!
Hi Everyone!!! Happy Sunday! Another glorious day here in sunny and pleasantly warm Wisconsin! I survived my 4k walk, my feet don't even hurt AND I get to spend some time with my friend Emily today making up some sheer polishes and leadlighting our guts out! But before I do that I want to show you how I extended my neon gradient mani from yesterday. I simply stamped over it!
My friend Sheila from the Pointless Cafe blog is who taught me all about extending a mani. I'm really glad I decided to do that with this mani because I think it only added to it and now it's so gorgeous!
I love how you can still see all the colors of the gradient with this stamping!
It's still so colorful!
It drives my niece, Alex, crazy when I stamp over my neon gradients LOL! I just think it makes them look better
How about you--do you like stamping over a gradient or just leaving it plain?
Here's a collage of the mani sans stamping
And then here's a collage with the stamping which do you like better?
It's a tough decision!
I'm excited to hang out with Emily today and even more excited to share the results of my leadlighting attempts!
Thanks for stopping by!! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
Hi Everyone!!! Happy Weekend!! Today I did the annual Movin' For Mental Health 4k walk to help benefit The Racine Friendship Clubhouse. It's a wonderful organization helping though individuals who struggle daily with mental health diagnoses.
The weather was great! Nice and sunny and not too hot so I felt I need to haul out the neons! I did a really love gradient which is one I've done before but always looks stunning.
I took some pics in the car before getting out because the sun was hitting me just right!
I mean how gorgeous is this??!!!
Just 3 neons over white gave me a rainbow effect!
The 3 colors I used were Nina Ultra Pro Blue Blaze and Solar Flare and then I also used one of my fave neons ever, China Glaze Purple Panic.
I REALLY wanted to stamp over this but my niece Alex told me not too, so today I'm leaving it as is. Tune in tomorrow to see if I stamp on it or not!
Hi Everyone! Happy Hump Day to you all! It's a short week this week with Monday being a holiday, let's just hope it doesn't start dragging on Friday. I'm doing a 4k walk on Saturday and then enjoying some nice brats on the grill afterwards and so far it looks like it's going to be a perfect day for it!
I hope everyone is having a good week so far, the Summer season is coming up on us, for some of you it's already in full blast and others are probably heading into Winter. No matter the season this polish I have on is perfect!
I finally got one of the Magical Pixie Dusts from Zoya for their fabulous Earth Day special and oh my word this one is STUNNING! The is the super gorgeous and very sparkly Zoya Lux
People are asking all the time in The Adventures In Stamping group on facebook if you can stamp over a textured polish--the answer is hell yes you can stamp over them and you should stamp over them!
Some people say the Magical Pixie's are too chunky for them but I love this one! I plan on getting them all because why break up a family???!!!
I stamped over this beauty with plates Cici & SiSi 02 and 05
You have to be careful with this polish though because all you do is stare at it on your fingers which makes driving dangerous!
What a lovely rose gold--I really love this polish. I don't find the Pixie Dusts hard to remove at all either so this is just a win/win all the way around!
Thanks for stopping by!! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
Hi Everyone!! Happy Memorial Day! If you are in the states most of you are probably at home today enjoying a day off of work and hopefully spending time with family and friends. Today we celebrate Memorial Day, a way to honor and give tribute to our veteran's both past and present.
We are a free country only because of their selfless sacrifice. Thank you to those who have served and who are currently serving now--without you we would not be the people we are today.
I didn't have a lot of time to get in depth today with it being some nice weather finally so I pulled out my Red Dog Designs Let Freedom Bling and worked around it!
Simple and easy, but still really cute!
My red is the gorgeous Butter London Knee's Up. My blue is the super gorgeous Zoya Song
Happy Memorial Day everyone!!! Thanks for stopping by! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
