Hi Everyone! Happy Sunday to you! I put on another one of the polishes in the 12 Collection from Paint Box Collection and wore it to work sans any stamping. I loved it so much I decided to keep it on another day and add some accent nails for a cool Halloween look!
First up here are pics of the polish. It's a gorgeous red brown with tons of gold and red shimmer in it. It's truly a vamp red which makes it perfect for Halloween and Fall and Winter
I love colors like this!
So that gold and red micro shimmer in there?
A classic vampy red is always a must have in your polish arsenal
I decided to try a couple of accent nails for a Halloween look and I like how bad ass they turned out! I ran the gamut of what I wanted to do, shiny, some shiny and some matte or all matte
Here it is when I first did it. I stamped using 3 plates from Messy Mansion MM54, MM56 and MM58
All Shiny which I liked but then I decided to go just matte on the accent nails
Yep still like it but what does the Ultimate Warrior look like matted??? So you know I had to try it!
oooooh totally awesome!!!
Another stand out polish from the 12 Collection by Paint Box Polish!
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
Hi Everyone! Happy Sunday!! It's a very cloudy and rainy day here today so I'm staying in. We've got some Packer football coming up this afternoon and I'm thinking of either making some tacos or chili. I can make the tacos lowcarb by not eating the tortillas the chili is a different matter. I love beans in my chili dark red kidney beans and black beans so it wouldn't be carb friendly but it seems like such a great day for chili! Decisions! Decisions!
Something that was not so hard to decide on was this creepy mani I did. I usually like the more cute Halloween mani's but every once in a while I like to get in a creepy or scary one. I might try another one again before Halloween but for now this is my scary/creepy mani of this Halloween season
I sort of kept adding to this one and it turned out better than I thought it would!
I used a few differnt plates for this Winstonia, EDM, Bundle Monster Messy Mansion and I did free hand the fence
I could have had a teeny mouse the owl was hunting for but I don't "do" the circle of life so mushrooms it is!
As I like to do I did find a picture I used for inspiration and here it is
If I could have had smaller images or longer nails I might have tried to add the pumpkins
Group photo with nails and plate what do you think? Did I nail it?
What kind of Halloween mani person are you? Do you like sweet and cutesy or do you like scary and gory?
Thanks for stopping by! Hope you all have a fantastic day!
Hi Everyone long time no see! Yep you are not seeing double it's just me posting twice in one day. Honestly I'm not a fan of blogs doing this but I hate being behind. If you know me you know that I really really really really love reverse images on stamping plates. I just love the look and I was able to pour through my plates to find something I really loved
This is another neon gradient for me this week using China Glaze Electric Nights from last year because I was too lazy to get up and go through polish and they were sitting out
I stamped with FUN and Messy Mansion plates
I adore how my thumb turned out! I think it's gorgeous
I wasn't sure if I should matte it so I asked my friend Ashley from Ashley Is PolishAddicted and naturally she said yes. She ALWAYS says yes
But seriously folks that girl knows what she's talking about! This looks great matte!
I found a really cute pic online the other day and I'm attempting to recreate it for tomorrow's mani--wish me luck!
My thoughts are always somber on Memorial Day. Men and women who I did not know and who did not know me gave up their lives so that I might continue to live in a free country. We say we celebrate this day but do you really celebrate a day dedicated to the men and women who died in active duty during war? Should you celebrate a day such as this? I am honored and humbled and grateful. Today I show my appreciation in a way I know I can expressing it through my nail art
My red is not true in this picture as I always have trouble capturing red with my camera. My non accent nails are painted with Louboutin Rouge. My accent nails are done with sharpies and black Mundo for the stamping
I used mostly MM38 for the stamping but also pulled pieces of tips off of trees on BP-L011 as well as MM38. It was a labor of love LOL
I found a picture online and that's what inspired me to do this mani. I love the unconventional look to this very patriotic mani.
To those of you who lost a loved one while serving for the United States of America my heart is with you today. I am sorry for your loss, I am grateful for the sacrifice and I will never forget.
Hi Everyone!!!! Happy St Patrick's Day!!!!!! I don't even feel bad about posting a St Patrick's Day mani in the middle of a Digit-al Dozen week because St Patrick's Day is ALWAYS March 17th and March is definitely Spring woot!
I'm just going to be short and sweet. My base is the mega gorgeous Pahlish Emerald Cedars. I stamped with BM411, GoGo Only St Happy and MM04
Stamping with Mundo Avocado but my Celtic shamrock is Avocado, Lime and White gradiented on the plate
No one can pinch me at all today as I'll be wearing this AND my green lipstick!
Look at those hidden flakies in Emerald Cedars!!
OH OH PHOTO BOMB!!!!
I'm going to try to snag him and get his gold!
Happy St Patrick's Day!!! I hope you all find some gold at the end of the rainbow
Hi Everyone! Happy Monday! I decided to try my hand at a plaid stamped mani for the first time. It didn't turn out as I had planned but I don't think it's too bad for my first time at bat. The plus in this whole thing is I used NYX Hunter Green for the first time and I've owned it for 5 years LOL!
So here's my Irish Plaid mani kicking off some nice Celtic mani's leading up to St Patrick's Day
I had a pattern I was trying to follow and I didn't quite nail it so it disappointed me.
I used Marianne's n114 for my plaid and had some issues with what I felt should have been placed first so I had to wing it
I feel like the Celtic design shamrock on Messy Mansion MM04 saved the day!
I used Mundo Mustard, Black and White for my stamping--as always nice and crisp and easy to work with
No matter how much I try and no matter how much I love a squishy stamper I can't get straight lines when using it. Luckily no one ever looks that closely at my nails to see they aren't exactly straight lines
So what do you think? Does it look Irish enough???
Hi Everyone! Happy Monday to you. This week The Digit-al Dozen is giving props to their nail heroes. I think this week is going to be really exciting as we are all so different and have different styles, it's going to be awesome to see who has really inspired us.
Today The Digit-al Dozen is playing homage to our fearless leader. She started The Digit-al Dozen with a vision for many different talents to come together and represent a common theme. It has been so much fun. It's not always fun picking the themes but in the end it makes you reach and grow as a nail artist.
Debbie isn't just a part of my life because of Digit-al Dozen, she also formed the Facebook group Adventures In Stamping many many many moons ago and that's where we first me. While we live far apart--she's British! Facebook allows us to have a friendship. We share many of the same likes--Doctor Who, cats and of course nail art we also have some differences. I know she will tell you I am a strong woman, but she is an incredibly brave strong woman with a huge heart.
We both fell in love with Messy Mansion's MM20 plate when it first came out so today I recreated a mani she did with it.
Debbie did something I like to do, she extended a mani by stamping over an existing
She did a Northern Lights mani for The Digit-al Dozen Does Countries and then stamped over it. Seriously MM20 makes any single mani you've done look better
I didn't have any of the colors Debbie used so I had to search my drawers and surprisingly the holos were frankens I made way back when LOL
I wish mine was a vibrant as Debbie's but it isn't. Here's a picture of hers
And then here's mine trying her hand pose which is not easy for me
Debbie as the Crumpet is a well known and respected woman in the blogging community. In my heart she is my friend and today she is my nail hero
Hi Everyone! I've had a few days off which means more time to paint me nails and I had to get caught up with the Advanced Nail Stamping Bingo game! Ruth already won our game but a lot of us are still doing mani's for a theme picked. Black cat was picked and I'm sort of glad the game ended because I don't have one on my card but I still really wanted to use my Messy Mansion MM50 plate. I adore this plate! As a cat owner it's totally a must have!
I started with a base of Paint Box Polish Polar Bear Club which is a lovely holo blue with holo blue glitters making it extra sparkly! Then I just added some black cats for this super simply yet adorable Halloween mani!
I dotted in some yellow eyes for these guys and was terrified while doing so because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to keep my hand steady!
I'm also trying to get used to the new lightbulbs I bought for under the stove. Being an adult and trying to be more energy efficient could reek havoc on my mani pics!
It's a beautiful sunny day here and about 55 degrees. I hope to get out and enjoy some of this pretty weather soon!
Hope you all have a fabulous day!
Hi Everyone!! Happy Wednesday! I think you all know I don't do cute too often but we had a challenge going on in the Advanced Nail Stamping Group and we had to do mummies. It's hard to be original when it comes to a Mummy mani. I mean come on we've all seen them and they are all pretty much the same with some eyes peeking out of some criss crosses. So I wasn't feeling too excited about this challenge and really wanted to try to do something different. That's how I came up with the Mummy Date Night!
I did some stamping with FUN and Messy Mansion for this one!
And I actually free handed the eyes lips and moustache!!!!
I think this one turned out pretty cute--what do you think????
Hi Everyone! I really had to step up my A game because Serene of Copycat Claws is really nailing it this week. Man I love to hate her sometimes! She's like that girl in high school who was SO pretty and SO smart and SO friendly so no matter how much you wanted to not be friends with her you were because she was SO pretty and SO smart and SO friendly.
So today I put on my thinking cap and hauled out one of my favorite images OF ALL TIME and did a really pretty Fall forest mani
My forest base is a gradient of Zoya Cynthia and Nails Inc Hampstead Gardens. I went back and sponged a bit of China Glaze Blk Bila Bong at the very top of the sky.
I stamped with BM407 an image I will never get tired of! And I added the owl from Messy Mansion's MM38
I love the eerie feel to it. I accidentally pulled up a piece of stamping on thumbie so now the tree trunk looks like a mutant LOL!
I matted it after I had a shiny topcoat on it. Here's what it looks like shiny
I sure hope this mani has Serene shaking in her boots!!!!!
I'm hopping over to check out what everyone else did today!
