The Digit-al Dozen Does Winter Wonderland--Snowflakes

Hi Everyone!  My last day is late--I've put in 85 hours this week so I'm dragging my rump just a bit  BUT I still have a smile on my face!


For my last day I just went simple with China Glaze Sexagon and LA Girls 3D in  Brilliant Blue and some snowflake stamping from BM H20 and MoYou Festive 02 & 03.  I stamped with Mundo de Unas white and navy--and perfection!

This is so simple yet just gorgeous!

I don't know about the rest of you but I just loved this week!  I think it was one of the best themes we've had!

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Butterflies are free and . . . blue

Hi Everyone!! Hope everyone is having a great day.  I threw together this lovely holo butterfly mani and by threw together I mean it took me HOURS!  That is no lie.  I had no issues whatsoever with my gradient  the lovely China Glaze He's Going In Circles and LA Girls 3D Effect in Brilliant Blue, my issue was the analness that is me when it comes to stamping lol!  I got my Nail Craze NC01 butterfly wing plate FINALLY--I've been wanting it forever and I was finally able to order it!  I just had a lot of issues with placing it on my nail.  I didn't like it if too much black showed up, I didn't like it if not enough black showed up and don't get me started on how much dotting needed to go on the wing tips--it wasn't pretty people LOL!

Finally after nearly 3 hours I had 10 fingers I was happy with!

This really is quite a lovely mani

I can't wait to get my Jades in from Ninja Polish so I can do an orange and red  holo gradient with this image plate!!

All in all it was a dirty job but someone had to do it!!!

Thanks for stopping by!! I hope you all have a fantastic day!

Stars In My Eyes!

Hi Everyone!  I've got another one of the new LA Girls 3D Effects on today!  Man it is gorgeous.  I've been told these are dupes of some of Zoya's and this one is a dupe of Zoya Storm.  I don't own Storm.  I have Blaze and Aurora but Storm but didn't get Storm back then.  I'm glad I was able to get this gorgeous scattered black holo though!!  I just did some simple stamping with this one because it's so pretty and shouldn't be covered up

I know all the world loves a linear holo, but I think the linears are lacking.  They really only come out to play in the sun

A scattered holo is visible even without full sun

This LA Girls Black Illusion is like galaxy nails with the fuss!

When the light does catch it, it's gorgey town!

I know these are available at Rite Aid.  Thankfully for me I have some great friends who picked them up for me as Wisconsin doesn't have any!

I used Cheeky CH26 and BM21 for the stamping and used my tried and true silver, Sally Hansen Silver Sweep.

What are feelings on the whole linear vs scattered holo thing?  Which do you prefer?

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you all have a fantastic day!!

Orange You Glad I Didn't Say Lion???!!!

Hi Everyone!  Today's theme for the Adventures In Stamping Challenge is over an orange base.  Orange is one of those colors I love but really does not love me back.  Like yellow it's a color I don't have very many of.  But I did get some of the new LA Girl 3D Effects and in particular Electric Coral which in my book is really orange so I went with it for today's challenge.  The LA Girl 3D Effects are super gorgeous.  They are a jelly I can love because they are a nice thick scattered holo!  I love a scattered holo--they still look great even in the shade!

As you can see I went with a Tiger!

I followed the brilliance of Ashley from Ashley is PolishAddicted using the BM16 image sideways to fit my long nails!

She did a post using China Glaze Riveting that I found quite riveting so I just had to copy her!  Check it out HERE

I took a couple of pics under the lamp to see if it made much a difference from my normal kitchen lighting--it was cold and rainy here today so I couldn't use the sun lol!

It really looks about the same to me except for my super vampire skin under the light

Electric Coral is really pretty though don't you think?

And using the imaged sideways means even thumbie can enjoy some full coverage!

To get this look it's really it quite easy. I did a couple of coats of LA Girls Electric Coral and then did a few side to side stripes of white before stamping in black over it

I have to say this is by far the best tiger mani i've done!

Last year I did a a couple and this is just much better!  You might remember this one which even a cool ring just could not save LOL!

UG this one just did not cut it for me!

I rather see some white within the design instead of the gradient.  How about you?  Which do you prefer?

And check this out, I tried to do a way cool "Sheila" pose like my friend Sheila from the Pointless Cafe does from time to time.  It's so lame I didn't even watermark that baby lol!

I had a lot of fun with today's Sunday Challenge mani!! I've got the whole day off today so I'm going to working on some mani ideas.  I recently snagged a polish I'd been lemming--China Glaze's Cowgirl Up so I want to see what I can do with her!

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you all have a fantastic day!