Hi Readers! Day 5 for the 31 Day Challenge and up today is blue! This is a design I've been wanting to do for awhile and I even asked the fab Sarah over at Chalkboard Nails if she could do one. Looks like I beat her to it! Behold my mosaic tile nails!
There's only one small problem with this mani--it looks so much better from afar lol! I stamped first using white over WetnWild Morbid and then filled in each shape with a few different blues. Man do I not know how to color within the lines Readers!
I had to go back over some of the fine lines and I just don't know how all my friends do it and I'm talking about you Sarah, Michelle and Amber! Holy crud teeny brushes and me just do not mix!
My fab friend Amber from The Polished Momma picked up a bottle of OPI DS Sapphire at her local CVS recently and I HAD to use it with this mani! I also used Hard Candy Sky and my fave blue OPI Swimsuit Nailed It. With some better practice I might be able to keep it in the lines next time!
To get my mosaic tiles look I did a basecoat of WetnWild Morbid and then stamped with White using BM208. Then I randomly filled in the shapes using either Hard Candy Sky, OPI DS Sapphire or OPI Swimsuit Nailed It.
I'd love to try this again using some green and turquoise colors. Here's a picture of the polishes I used
What's up for tomorrow in the challenge?
Ahhhh glorious violet aka purple aka my problem color woot!
Stay tuned to see what's up my sleeve lol!
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! How was your week???! Mine was really great! I got my first ever OPI Suede polish! I know I'm getting on this matte/suede bandwagon WAY late but lucky for me my friend Chelsea from Pretty And Polished could help me out. Chelsea is AHmazing!! She finds some great things dusty hunting AND has a etsy store for her own frankens. Please check her out!!!
Here's my haul from her, China Glaze Sexagon and Tickle My Triangle and then the lovely OPI Ink Suede
I also got a surprise package from my friend Sarah of Chalkboard Nails. Sarah is the one who got me to get this blog going actually! She kept calling me a jerk when I showed my nail friends my mani's because I didn't have a blog lol! So thanks go to her for that!
Here's my haul from Sarah, she knows me only too well because I love, love, LOVE Sally Hansen! She made these earrings too and they are GORGEOUS!
In addition to these great nail mails I did a fantastic mani this week! I had seen this look awhile ago when my friend Amber did a black and white mani featuring various different black and white designs on her nails. I saw it and thought WOW I love that one and want to do a full mani of it. Finally all these months later I did it and it's a stunner!
I was lucky enough to hire a camera man for the blog for free lol! My son didn't complain too much when I asked if he could take a picture of both my hands. Please excuse clean up as I had to grab him on his way out the door!
Here's another shot with flash
And under the bright kitchen light (it's too cold in Wisconsin to trek outside lol!)
To get this look I used OPI Alpine White and WetnWild Black Creme. I painted a base of Alpine White then used LA Colors Art Deco striper in black to draw the diagonal line then filled it in with the WetnWild Black. I used Sally Hansen Whirl Wind White to do the dots (it's more opaque imo). You want to get as close to the black slant as possible. Then using the black, slightly overlap the white dot as you dot onto the white. It's super easy really and I love the dramatic effect of it.
Do you have dotting tools but haven't used them? Is yes don't be afraid to try them! This is a really easy mani to recreate!
