Hi Everyone!! Wow Festiveness how do you judge that one??? I don't know it's a toughie! Festive means different things to different people. Here in Racine we have a lot of "fests" Polish Fest, Amenian Fest, Greek Fest, Harley Fest, Summerfest, Serbian Fest, Beer Fest--you name it, we got it!
I was thinking about something that always seems festive though and I thought about some fireworks! You just can't go wrong with those babies! I did some firework stamping over a silver and gold gradient today
It's nothing too spectacular but I got to use my favorite "spermy" plate from BM20 on my middle and ring fingers. I just LOVE this image for some reason! I added some lovely firework bursts with BM02.
I used a LA Colors silver and I never remember their names as it's on the packaging and not the bottle, and for the gold I used the gorgeous OPI Goldeneye.
Pretty simple today but I think it packs a punch!
Let's see what everyone else came up with for today!
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Hi Readers! I think it's no secret when it comes to mani's I love all things dragon scales and mermaid tails! I came up with this one after I was doing some blog searching. Check out the inspiration for today's mani here. In addition to some nice swatches and designs Nihrida rocks some AWESOME rings! When I first saw this post it reminded me of a merman and I loved the look so I pulled out some untrieds in my stash to see if I could recreate it.
As you can see I went a bit further than Nihrida and added a holo topcoat. What I did to get this look was 2 coats of L'oreal VIP Status (which I love btw). Then I sponged on a light purple LA Colors Craze--no idea what that name is since they aren't on the bottle! I also sponged on a purple flakie LA Colors Craze AGAIN with no name. After all that was dry I sponged on the lovely OPI Mermaid's Tears, stamped using M57 and L'oreal VIP Status. What was so cool about it is the fish net stamp doesn't show up over it's self but only the other colors! I liked the look but decided to get more "scaley" looking so I added my gLORIous holo topcoat over all. Pretty cool!
Here it is with flash! Pretty darn gorgeous!
Here's a pic of all the polishes I used--if you know the name of the LA Colors let me know!
While I didn't love this mani I did like it. I loved the look of VIP Status with gLORIous over it. I think one of these days I might have to do some side by sides of mermen with mermaids!
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
Hi Readers! I'm sure you've heard this one before--opposites attract. This is something people like to say when they are dating someone and none of their friends can understand why so they say "Oh well!! Opposites attract!" I'm not really sure about that in love BUT in this mani yes, opposites DO attract!
Remember my jeweled ruffian from couple weeks ago? I loved it so much I stamped on it??? Well I am still loving the Ruffian mani's so I did another one. This time I took really affordable polishes---LA Color Craze Live--a dollar store polish and WetnWild Craze Nocturnal--a $1.99 polish and turned them into a million bucks!!! Check this out readers!
As you can see after I did the Nocturnal I mattefied it! I know it looks black here but really Nocturnal is a super dark blue--one coat would have kept it blue I think but I wanted at least 2 coats! I love the contrast of the shiny metallic and the matte effect!
You can really see the "bling" of Live in the crescent here
I love looking at it like this!
Here it is with flash!
Here are the polishes I used for this mani--LA Colors Live, WetnWild Morbid and Essie's Matte About You
And one more!! Side by Side non flash and flash comparison!
I really love this mani readers! I'm not sure what I'll do next--will I stamp on it or just do something new???? Stay tuned!!!
Thanks for stopping by!! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
Hi Readers!
My mom has always had a great fashion sense. When we were kids growing up and even now she never has looked her age to me. She likes hip but also classy. I'm quite a bit bigger than my mom so I've never been able to wear her hand me downs BUT I do get the shoes she buys and wears once and her cast of purses! WOOT! I love going shoe and purse shopping with her because I can always tell the things I'm going to end up with eventually.
So naturally I was thrilled when this cool purse made it's way to me!
My friend Destany of Confessions of a Sarcastic Mom and I are BIG red lovers, especially Vampire State Building by OPI, so whenever we find a red we like we tell each other. She went one step further and sent me a LA Colors Craze called Hot Blooded. Instead of having a fever of a hundred and three I decided to use it in a mani! I went a step further and realized I could copy one of my favorite mani's from the beautiful and incredibly talented Kayla of Nails by Kayla Shevonne. You can check hers out there. But you can see mine here!
This is my first time trying a half moon mani using the reinforcement tabs you can find at the store. I think this mani is pretty chic if I do say so myself.
I laid it against the kitchen towel when I was done with the mani and like how it looks this way too
To get this look I did two coats of LA Colors Hot Blooded then topped it with a coat of Seche Vite. I applied the reinforcement tabs at the bottom then did one coat of Zoya Pasha. Another coat of Seche Vite and then I put the reinforcement tab back over the red and stamped with Sally Hansen Coco A Gogo using Konad M57. By covering the red with the tab I didn't have to worry about getting any of the stamping on it.
How about you readers--do you get any good hand me downs from your mom??
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
Hi Readers!!! Welcome to the weekend! Anyone have anything exciting going on this weekend? My mom and I are going to see War Horse today and it's the Packers vs The Giants on Sunday. I'm not an Eli Manning fan AT ALL so I will cry a zillion tears if we cannot crush him to the ground on Sunday. On the plus side I'll be at my little sister's enjoying the game and time with family is always a good time!
Okay so lets see what's today is in Animalistic Week . . . it's Zebra! Here are our zebra facts for the day: just like the tiger a zebra's stripes are unique and no two zebras have the same stripe pattern. Zebras are not solitary animals and live in herds. Zebras are loyal to their family and if a zebra is wounded by a lion or tiger the other zebras in the family will come to it's aid by circling it and trying to drive off the predator. Zebras live up to 25 years and are about as tall as a 6 foot man.
Now onto the mani. Instead of just a straight forward black and white zebra I wanted to change it up a bit and went for a gradient look. I did a base color of another cast off polish from the same gal casting off the Misslyn Black Petrol (WHICH I FOUND OUT IS NOW DISCONTINUED AND THEREFORE RARE AND HTF!) Woot!! One man's treasure truly is another man's trash! Okay ANYWAY I did a base color of Hema 42--no name on this polish. It's like a creamy silvery white to me though. Then I sponged on LA Colors Color Craze Live on a slant about 3/4 up on the nail. Live is a really pretty silver metallic and hey you can't go wrong spending a buck on this polish! Next up I sponged OPI Lucerntainly Look Marvelous about 1/4 up on the nail then finished it by stamping with Kleancolor Black using BM223.
Here it is with flash
I love this shot I took holding on to Lucerntainly Look Marvelous
I really wound up loving this mani. I like that it's not as stark as a black and white mani.
Here are the polishes I used to do it
So how'd I do?? Let's look at a side by side comparison
I got my zebra pic from my friend Marcy! I didn't notice until today he was definitely rated X instead of G lol!!! Some things are better left to the imagination trust me on this readers!!
Just for kicks here's a funny zebra pic!
Well that's it for Animalistic Week--zebra! I'll have to report back tomorrow on how hard I bawled my head off during War Horse!
