Hi Readers! I have a super cute mani today that Igor did awhile ago. She doesn't usually do nail art but when I saw her do this I loved it! It's cute AND it's easy--win win!! You can check out Igor's mani here. What I loved about doing this mani is I got to use OPI Yellin' For Watermelon. It's a color near and dear to me as it was one of my beautiful sister Lisa's favorite colors. I did a lot of mani's and pedi's for her with this color so it reminded me of her and I know if she was still with me today she would have loved this mani!
See how cute it is!
To do this mani I did a couple coats of Yellin' For Watermelon as the base coat and then I did a french tip using Zoya Veruschka. I painted the stripes using OPI Mermaid Tears and then did a coat of WetnWild Tangled In My Web just over the pink. Who knew you could use WetnWild Tangled In My Web in such a cute mani??
Here's a nice close up
Here's a pic of Igor's signature bottle shot lol!
Here's a side by side shot
I think this is a super fun mani especially for summer! I can't wait to do some toes like this too!
Well that's it readers! This winds down my Monkey See, Monkey Do series . . for now lol! I had a blast doing these. I love all the ladies who's mani's I copied were thrilled I picked theirs--I appreciate their kindness. I hope this inspires you to do some copying of your own!
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Hi Readers! Today I'm featuring one of the sweetest gals I know! Jacki from Adventures In Acetone is a real sweetie. She is fantastic at nail art and the queen bee of "cutesy" I really wanted to do one of Jacki's mani's and then I started panicking because really I can't do one of hers lol! THANKFULLY she also stamps! The other day she featured a gorgeous mani her hubby Wesley picked out for her to do you can see it here. That's something that Jacki and I have in common! We both have a Wesley in our lives! I really loved the look of her mani so I was so excited to recreate it!
Just like Jacki I started with 2 coats of Zoya Mimi but I didn't have Orly Sweet Peacock so I sponged OPI Swimsuit Nailed It instead and then stamped with Sally Hansen Chrome Pen is silver. I love this mani! Here's a nice close up!
And of course I took a shot like this
After looking at this mani for about 30 minutes I got a great idea!
I decided to make a ring
Then after starting at my matching ring and mani I decided to make a bracelet
Here I am "modeling" all three!
Man did these turn out great!
Here is the side by side comparison shot
Hahahaha! This is Jacki's hubby Wesley and my chinchilla Wesley! I told you we had something in common lol! Now tell the truth readers which Wesley is the cutest?????!!!
Here's the real comparison pics lol! Jacki is up first
I foolishly didn't get a shot like this (probably because I was too busy staring at my matching jewelry with it) so I turned a pic sideways lol!
All in all this was a fantastic mani and it could be the highlight of the sequel week--the matching jewelry really frosts the cake though!
What do you think about the jewelry to match the mani readers--too much or too cool?
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Hi Readers! Today I'm featuring another one of my fave bloggers and one who's given me tons and tons of ideas. She is a wonderful lady too! Today is Carolina from Colores de Carol. I love Carolina's creativity and she's a big stamper which I also love! It was really hard to nail down one mani of her's to copy BUT she does the best half moon mani designs and I'm always so jealous of how awesome hers turn out so I just HAD to do one one of those! Check out her mani here. I was really glad I did this one because I discovered how great Revlon Wind Fall and China Glaze Metallic Muse look together when I did mine! Check it out!
I used Revlon Wind Fall which is a gorgeous leaning towards green teal and then stamped using China Glaze Metallic Muse using BM20. The subtle stamping effect of these two colors together was beautiful! I was almost sad to cover them with the the black half moon lol!
Here's a close up
Black looks SO good with Wind Fall which in itself if gorgeous!
I decided to wear my Connect The Dots ring--it's CTD over For Audrey
Here are the comparison shots first up Carolina
Now mine
I really love how this mani turned out! It's so classy to me--just like Carolina!
Here's a picture of Revlon Wind Fall and China Glaze Metallic Muse
Don't you just love my crowded nail table readers? I always say I'm going to clean it up but then I never do lol!
My sequel week is winding down--I sure hope I can come up with some good ideas on my own after this lol!
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Hi Readers! Today I'm featuring one of my fave bloggers BUT it's not her design! It's actually the winner of her Spring contest! This has never happened before in Monkey See, Monkey Do week LOL! When I saw this mani picked as the winner I totally agreed and said (in my best Guy Fieri voice) Winner! Winner! Chicken Dinner!! Here's the post where Kay announced the winners. And this is where you can find the winner, Neivys, post. This mani is SO lovely!
What I wish I had done differently though is this--I painted my nails with Zoya Pippa to have the yellow really pop but then I had to do an upside down and backwards gradient which resulted in cruddy looking cuticles! UG. Next time I used these color I'll paint half way down with orange and then yellow and then sponge lol! Here's a nice close up, would you be so kind as not to look at the crap a$$ cuticles???!!! Thanks!
And here's Thumby--as always he turned out great!
Here's a shot of the left hand! For some reason my index sunflowers decided to mate on this finger lol!
Isn't this a fun mani Readers??? No wonder she won--this is just picture perfect! I got a ZILLION compliments on this mani too. I just wish we were having some warm sunny weather instead of chilly cloudy weather here lol!
Here's a lovely side by side of Neivy's and mine
To get my look I used Zoya Pippa, OPI A Roll In The Hague, OPI Animalistic and I stamped using MASH M21 and Cheeky 11. Here's a pic of the polishes I used
What do you think of this one readers? I really love it and I'm so grateful to Enamel Girl for her contest because it lead me to another cool blogger and a fabulous mani!
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Hi Readers! Do you remember the girl in school who was so pretty and thin and you really wanted to dislike her for those reasons BUT she was so dang nice that you couldn't not like her???? Growing up and in school that girl for me was Kim Kruel--omg so pretty and perky and she was a cheerleader AND she was smart BUT she was so nice! In the nail polish world for me that person is Jodi from Captivating Claws. OMG she is beautiful and nice and does great water marbles you just want to smack her BUT you can't because she's so dang nice! ARG! Jodi does a weekly water marble and even though she will try and say this one is just so-so or "meh" they are all lovely. ALL OF THEM! Awhile ago the Southern Sister's posted their bad ass water marble and it was indeed just that--bad ass. You can find it here. When we saw it we were all amazed. We all said OMG how did they do that??? Yes there is a tutorial but still you look at it and go how do you do that??? Well Jodi did one that was super gorgeous. SUPER GORGEOUS! Check her's out here, I thought okay I'm good at water marbling now (bwhahahaha what I big head I have, I've done like maybe 4 good marbles now that does not mean I'm good at it lol!) so I'm going to feature Jodi's. Well little problem folks I didn't have any of the colors Jodi used lol! I had to come up with some of my own and here's the final result
Not bad BUT that's only because I marbled over a couple fingers lol! I redid the swear, ring and pinkie on this hand LOL!. Here's a nice close up maybe you can tell they ring has another design beneath it
Here's what it looked like before I redid them. Looking back on it now I don't know why I marbled over these lol! They look good!
Seriously what was wrong with these?
Here's how the right hand turned out--crappy! yes it turned out crappy! It looked SO good then I banged my hand on the table and messed up a couple fingers ARG!
If you look at the left hand like this you can't tell I wrecked them!
And as always the thumbs look great--how and why this continues to happen to me I don't know but I'm not looking a gift horse in the mouth!
Left thumb
Right thumb
Now while these do look cool they look nothing at all like the Southern Sister's!! Again I have to say how did they do that??? I did not get the whole cute little flower in my marble at all!
Here's Anne's design
See those super cute flowers???? I just could not get my pink to spread wide enough hence some of the nails not even having pink on them.
Here's the side by side of mine and Jodi's. I love how vibrant her pink is
Well there you have it Readers some really great and maybe not so great marbling lol! If it wasn't for Jodi I wouldn't keep pushing myself to marble. Maybe one day I'll figure out the elusive flowers Anne nailed so brilliantly too!
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Hi Readers! Moment of panic! I am not very computer savvy at all and with the new Blogger interface I could not see where to post my titles! OMG it was not a happy moment for me! Apparently I had a Google toolbar in the way. Thankfully while he sucks as a camera man my son IS computer savvy and fixed me right up WHEW! That being said I think this is the first time in history a sequel follows immediately after the main event lol!
Today I am featuring one of the very first nail guru's I found! She's not a blogger but she's an AHmazing nail artist and is famous on You Tube. That's right Readers you know her, you love her, Soguesswhat 11!! It was really hard to pick just one of Gina's fabulous works so I flat out asked her, "Gina which one of your designs is your favorite" I'm a huge fan of it myself! Follow Gina's step by step tutorial here. Here's mine how did I do??
This is just such a cool mani! Gina named it Cosmic Waves and that title says it all!
The micro fine holo glitters really give this mani sparkle!
I'm wearing my Cult Nails Toxic Seaweed ring with it what do you think??
Speaking of rings I made a few up this weekend and here are some that turned out AHmazing!
Above is Toxic Seaweed and Clairvoyant. I made these for friends of mine. Below is Ragnelle and Wallis stamped with black, Ragnelle and Gawain (my BL dupes of Tart With A Heart and Black Knight) and my latest dupe Ringo which I think of as an amped up Across The Universe
OOPS I almost forgot!! Here is a side by side of mine and Gina's mani's. I didn't have the plate she used so just like she recommended in her tutorial I improvised!
I really had a hard time picking all the bloggers I wanted to copy so I will definitely being doing Monkey See, Monkey Do posts in the future!
Thanks for stopping by!! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
Hi Readers! The week is almost up and today I'm featuring a cute mani by Sarah of Chalkboard Nails. As much as I love Sarah I hate she does so much free hand! ARG! I did find one I could actually do though! Awhile ago Sarah did this super cute mani--check it out here.
I think it's funny that I had 2 "cutesy" type mani's copied as I'm not really a "cutesy" type person!
Here is my sheep mani!
Poor thumby is upside down so I turned him around for you!
And of course I had to put my little take on the mani!!!
I'm the black sheep in the free hand nail art LOL!!!!
Here's the side by side of mine with Sarah's
What do you think readers? Can I "do" cutesy?????
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Hi Readers! In the nail world most people know what this means LTHP. It's sort of like NASA is the National Air and Space Association or BSA is Boy Scouts of America OR The Bank Secrecy Act for you bankers out there lol! Anyway LTHP to us is Let Them Have Polish and Cris' blog is one of the first blogs I followed. I copied tons and tons of ideas from her and am so thankful for her creativity as it's helped me find some of mine! Today's post is super cute and I don't really "do" cute lol! Here's the great thing about this Monkey See, Monkey Do--I'm copying Cris who was inspired by Sarah at Chalkboard nails lol! To see Cris' mani go here. To see Sarah's mani go here Sarah's in the spotlight tomorrow!
But let's look and see whooooooooooooo we have here
Here's a close up!
I wish I would have gotten more shots of my thumb! Poor guy's orange so his beak looks whack lol!
Here are the comparison shots first up Cris!
And now mine!
What do you think of this one readers??? Thank god I figured out how to do a successful half moon mani so I could do this cute mani. I know I say I don't "do" cute but I really nailed it here! Geez what a big head whooooooo do I think I am??
My Monkey See, Monkey Do week is almost at an end--I've had a lot of fun doing it and still have lots of WAY COOL bloggers I haven't featured yet so I'm sure you'll be seeing this week again I sure hope you don't mind!
By the way readers I asked some of my friends for some more abbreviations and here's some they came up with--BSB Backstreet Boys of course, USA United States of America--I forgot this one if you can believe it! One my favorites was IHOP International House of Pancakes lol! There are tons and tons of them readers lol!
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