Hi Everyone
Today is the 39th anniversary of Elvis' death. If you've been reading my blog for the past few years you know I am a HUGE Elvis fan. I have been since I was 7 years old. I never thought that at 14 years of age my only dream of seeing him in concert would be forever dimmed but my dream died on August 16, 1977
People I went to grade school and high school with will still come up to me and ask me if I still like Elvis--and of course I tell them yes. Once you become and Elvis fan you are a fan for life.
Here's my in memory mani for this August 16, 2016
I truly love Elvis. I could listen to him 24/7 until the day I die
The one and only King of Rock & Roll
Gone way too soon, but his music lives on!
Hi Everyone! Happy Saturday! I'm celebrating doing a whole lot of not much this weekend. Yesterday was my 53rd birthday and when you get to be my age a birthday isn't really much different than any other day of the week LOL. What was great about it is I had a wonderful day at work with my coworkers. They were incredibly thoughtful with Sally's and Ulta gift cards as well as a gift card to Olive Garden. Last night I went out with my family to Cheddars and as always we had a blast. Today my son is taking me to see Deadpool and then out for Chinese food. Don't anyone tell him I'm not really a comic book movie kind of person--I don't even know how the heck Deadpool is but it will be a great time to just get time with him so I'm all in.
A couple of weeks ago I asked my friend Pam from Paintbox Polish if she could do an Elvis inspired mani for me. I was trying to go for the iconic looks of his gold lame' suit as well as his black leather from his 69 comeback special. I asked Pam if she could do a black matte with micro gold glitter and she totally nailed it! When I got my bottle of it I was so freaking happy! It's just perfect and you know when it's right---it's right.
So for my birthday I decided to wear it when one of the images I just love from the new Girly Bits GBC 1-01 plate. I think it's the most unique image I've ever seen on a plate. It's a star made up of musical notes! Honestly this is the best birthday mani ever! Check it out!
Here's the polish you have to excuse the faded label I held this sucker in my hands so much and took it everywhere I went for a good 3 days before I put it on LOL!
It's named Edge Of Reality after my favorite Elvis song which just happens to be from my favorite Elvis movie Live A Litte, Love A Little
How cool is this mani???? It's matte but sparkly as hell!
Don't you use love this image from Girly Bits GBC 1-01 plate???
Not familiar with the suits of Elvis' I am talking about here there are
Oh yeah baby check out this all gold hunk!!!
And there is absolutely nothing wrong with this hunk o burnin' love in his black leather either!
I think the polish Pam made nailed these two looks perfectly!
100% rockstar mani today for sure!
I've put this little collage together and yep just what I wanted!
I'm not really feeling very Valentine's Day so I think I'm going to keep on my Edge Of Reality and put on shiny topcoat and then see what stamping I feel like over it. Nothing better than lazing around and doing an extend a mani!
What do you think? Do you think this is a perfect Elvis inspired polish?? I have 3 in my collection now--2 from Red Dog Designs and this one from Paintbox polish--honestly the possibilities are endless!
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you all have a great day!
Hi Everyone! Last Sunday was the 38th anniversary of Elvis' death. It seems almost unbelievable he has been gone that long but it is most certainly true. I was all prepared to do my way cool Elvis mani and 2 things happened. The first thing was a family picnic I had to go to and I ran out of time getting it done before the picnic. The second thing was the water decals I got did not show up over the mani I did LOL!
No worries! I was able to fix the decal situation and this is the mani I wore for several days last week while I remembered the music idol I've held dear to my heart for so many years
I'm wearing Nails Inc Baker St and did some stamping decals with FUN 17.
At first I tried to use a blue suited Elvis over this decal and you couldn't see him LOL!
The black was definitely the way to go!
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
Hi Everyone! Happy Monday! Welcome to this week's Digit-al Dozen! This week is fandom. Fandom?! What the french is that even a word?? Is that even a thing? I mean fandom--come on how geeky is that?!
Well it actually IS a thing and even though sometimes it's geeky it doesn't always have to be geeky!
My first thought for fandom week was "what the hell?! I'm not a Harry Potter person or a Twlight person. I've never seen Supernatural. I don't care for the Avengers at all or Thor for that matter so yes that goes double for Loki. And don't even get me started on the Sherlock stuff for piss sake" Then I sort of panicked because omg I am not any of those things so what's left????? What sort of fandom is left for me?
Then I said to myself "Are you freaking kidding me?! You are older than any of those baby fandom things you just named AND you have been a fan of this guy longer than most fandoms in the above mentioned group have been alive! SNAP OUT OF IT!"
Whewwwwwww I got this!
My fandom week starts off with Elvis, The King Of Rock-n-Roll. I've loved him for 45 years and the flame is not waning. I can listen to him non stop 24-7 and never tired of his voice. I could watch movie after movie after movie and never tire of seeing his handsome face. And I'm pretty sure how I feel about Elvis is how the Supernatural, Avenger's, Twilight, Harry Potter and Sherlock fans all feel about their respective shows/characters so I need to chill LOL!
My mani today is ode to Elvis and his gold lame' suit! Elvis--forever in my heart
This suit was going on back in the day! Here's my mani to match
Look at all that holoey goodness!
Needs a little bit more though don't you think?
Ahhhh there he is the King himself!
You know these poor foils aren't going to last long--I still haven't found anything other than a UV/LED gel topcoat that doesn't ruin the holo effect in foils
Here's how the mani measures up to his pic--what do you think?
You can tell me but "Don't Be Cruel" ahahahah I crack myself up!
So this could be a really exciting week! Let's check out what everyone else did for their first day of Fandom
Hi Everyone!! Happy Friday!! Today I guess I saved the best for last with my childhood mani!
Most people who know me know without any doubt I am an Elvis fan. I have been one almost my entire life. As a young girl of seven I fell in love with him for the first time while watching him sing and dance his way into Shelley Fabares heart in the movie Girl Happy. When all my friends were into David Cassidy, Bobby Sherman, Donny Osmand, and Andy Gibb I was into Elvis. I have always been into Elvis and will be until the day I die.
I am lucky enough to have a super friend who happens to be the genius behind Red Dog Designs and when I asked Gina if she could do a couple of custom polishes for me that were Elvis related she said "sure!" and she did an awesome job! Last year I had her come up with a polish that looked like Elvis' famous eagle jumpsuit. I named it Elvis Has Left The Building.
I wanted to be try to recreate said famous eagle jumpsuit but my freehand skills are absolute crap so I reached out and asked the wonderful Sheila of The Pointless Cafe if she could a drawing up for me to recreate. Sheila is amazing, her free hand skills are awesome and even though she was super busy last night she took time out to do a drawing for me I could actually recreate!
IT PAYS TO HAVE FRIENDS PEOPLE!
So today I have the most awesome mani to show you for my final day of The Digital-al Dozen's childhood week
Here's the famous Elvis eagle jumpsuit I recreated
Oh my goodness be still my heart! I still heart Elvis after 47 years!!!!
This is the drawing Sheila made for me. I foolishly felt like I could get it all on one nail LOL! She told me nope no way and came up with this for me instead
That right there is an original piece by Sheila from The Pointless Cafe people, someday it will be worth millions!
Here's my custom polish from Red Dog Designs--Elvis Has Left The Building
It's an awesome white jelly with red, blue and gold various sized glitters with gold holo stars and micro gold glitters
I think Gina completely nailed it when she created this polish for me.
I will say this wasn't easy. I had to use a toothpick to dot with and had to redo the middle finger 4 times. And in the end my eagle's eye isn't where it should be BUT this is freaking awesome!
What do you all think?? Did I nail it or what?
Elvis, forever in my heart.
I'm heading over to check out the last day for everyone. I have to say I really enjoyed this theme a lot!
Hi Everyone! 80 years ago today Elvis Presley was born. Today I'm proudly rocking my Elvis mani to commemorate the day he was born. He has been my favorite entertainer since I was 7 years old. There will never be another Elvis!
Hi Everyone! Happy Friday! Today marks the end of our decades week. Very interesting how several of us picked the same decade more than once! I knew the second I saw decades I was doing an Elvis mani. I mean really I HAD to. Elvis is someone I've loved through many a decade. In fact I have been an Elvis fan for 5 decades! Woot! That's a long time, and it will continue because I will be a fan until I draw my last breath.
Today is all about The King! Since I've done a few Elvis mani's I really wasn't sure what I want to do this time. I did some Google searching and found a picture of him from Jailhouse Rock so I recreated it
Here's the picture I found
He was notorious for going up on his toes to dance! And of course had the extra hip swivel in there too!
Here's a pic of my mani with the inspiration
I think it turned out great!
I hope you all enjoyed seeing decades week. I had fun doing it and I think everyone did a great job!
Let's stop over and see what everyone else came up with for the last day of Decades!
Hi Everyone!! While it is, indeed, a happy Friday it is also the 36th anniversary of the death of Elvis. I've loved him for 43 years and that's no joke. First fell in love with him as a young girl of 7. He died when I was 14 and being the young teenage girl that I was DRAMA ensued! Yep it felt like my world ended. Of course I've gone on to suffer even greater tragedy in my life, but to have him die when I was 14 was the first experience I had with losing someone I loved so deeply.
I asked my friend Gina, the genius behind Red Dog Designs if she could create a couple of polishes for me for this day in particular. I told her what I thought would be cool and she created magic. MAGIC!
First up is Aloha From Hawaii--It's full of multi colored flower shaped glitter and aqua hexes and micro shimmer.
I layered it over a gradient of Sinful Colors Sugar Rush and Savage
I Gina if she could do something like the leis he gave out during his 1972 concert broadcast LIVE from Hawaii--what she made was spot on!
Next up is Elvis Has Left The Building--anyone who knows anything about Elvis knows this was said at the end of every concert!
It's an awesome white jelly full of red, blue and gold hexes in various sizes and teeny gold stars! OMG I DIE!!!
I simply said Gina I really want a polish named Elvis Has Left The Building--is there anyway you can do something like his famous white jumpsuit with the eagle on it?
Yep once again she NAILED it!
I got the Elvis nail decal from ebay!! IT'S JUST LIKE MY TATTOO!
So today my fashion is Elvis jumpsuit--
And I couldn't have had such a great manicure for the last day of this fashion week if not for the fabulous Red Dog Designs!
I wonder if my dad and Lisa have told him how I'm his number one fan???!!!
Make sure you check out what my fabulous group has come up with for their last day as well!
