Hi Readers! It's March!!! Yay! I don't know about you readers but I'm German, Scottish and Irish!!!! The triple threat--woot! I love March because it means I can wear ALOT of green. I have a ZILLION green polishes too I swear. This mani is just a nice reverse glitter gradient. I've been seeming them pop up all over on blogs and Pinterest and wanted to try my hand at one. At first I was not hugely successful. I tried just painting the glitter polish on and that just wasn't working so I decided to sponge it and success!
Here's the reverse gradient effect
I'm trying to take more pics of my right hand but that wonky pointer finger drives me nuts lol!
Here's nice close up
I found by sponging I was able to get a better glitter coverage.
This mani is SUPER easy! I did 3 coats of Sally Hansen Hard As Nail Punk Rock. At the cuticle I sponged on LA Girl Rock Star in Live On Stage and then Icing Happy Go Lucky over that just at the cuticle and about midway up on the nail.
Here's a pic of the polishes I used
Icing Happy Go Lucky is a lovely holo hex and emerald green hex glitter! PERFECT for St Patrick's Day!.
I hope you like green readers because I've got a lot to use until St Patrick's Day lol!
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Hi Readers! Oh poor lemming Here Today Aragorn Tomorrow BUT I've been wanting her forever or I guess i should say him since Aragorn is totally a manly man! I don't really know why I've never had him before now. I wanted him but just didn't ever get around to getting him. Here's where Igor comes into play. She knows I love the dark colors--I mean come on we share a love of Vampire State Building. So I was so happy when she got this for me and sent it to me! In case you forgot Igor is really Destany from Confessions of a Sarcastic Mom.
Here's a nice shot of the deep dark Aragorn on his own
Just a gorgeous lovely darker than dark green! I love it! But you know me I can't have just plain nails! Plain is almost as bad as naked! I stamped using RA 102 and China Glaze Cherish--so lovely!
Here's a close up, you can still see the lovely dark green beneath the stamping I just love that!
I love using China Glaze metallics to stamp with--they work great!
Here's a picture of the two polishes I used. 2 polishes to make a really simple yet pretty mani!
What do you think readers, are you fan of these super dark colors like I am, or are you a pastel person?
Here's a lovely parting gift for you readers!! The REAL Aragorn!
OMG! Why can't guys like this be real??????!!!!!!!
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Hi Readers! Today I have some exciting frankens to show you! I made my first ever from pigment franken the other day! One of the last times I was at Sally Beauty Supply I picked up a really pretty greeny bluey eyeshadow. I crushed it up into a fine dust and then added it to a SUPER old NYC way too sheer polish I had. I NEVER throw away polishes because you never know when you could use them! It was a bit too light for me so I added just a few drops of Essie Midnight Cami and then a dash or two of Nfu-Oh 61 to give it some extra sparkle and BAM my Naked Edge was born. Some of you might know I love to name my frankens after my favorite books. Naked Edge is part of the I Team Series written by Pamela Clare--LOVE her stuff!
Here's collage I put together of Naked Edge
Admittedly it's gorgeous on it's own BUT I recently got a wonderful franken from my friend Caroline called Ariel's Tail. It's a lovely diamond shaped glitters or green and blue with some stars in it as well. It looks AHmazing over black so I decided to do some black tips topped with Ariel's Tail and voila!
I love, love, LOVE this!!!
Look how pretty Ariel's Tail is with my Naked Edge!!!
It's so pretty I had to make a ring out of it!!
What do you think of my first pigmented franken? I love it (yep breaking my arm patting myself on the back lol). And you just can't go wrong with two gorgeous frankens making on one mani! So simple yet so pretty!
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Hi Readers! My Wonder Twin, Crystal, and I felt the need for another mani. She recently starte d stamping and of course is massively in love with it!! I told her to pick the image and the color and BAM did she ever pick a hard one! SERIOUSLY readers. We both recently got OPI Ink Suede from our friend Heather--she's like a sniper when it comes to getting some OPI suedes lol! When Crystal suggested Ink suede I was totally down with it. Then she suggested the zipper image from the 2nd Bundle Monster set and I was down with it until I actually tried to do the mani!! Holy cow it was not easy to get the flat metallic silver onto a matte polish.
I had a great idea in mind when I think of zipper I think of unzipped more than zipped. When I think of unzipped zippers well let's just say it's not PG thoughts. Some of my favorite books include unzipped zippers and handcuffs--just sayin' . . .
Here's my idea brought to fruition
I cannot tell you how hard it was to A get the zipper image to transfer onto my nails for some reason and B to line up the dang zipper straight.
Here's a close up of the handcuffs and little key--for my first time ever free hand handcuffs I didn't do to bad
Here's the pic of my Wonder Twin Crystal's mani with mine--I love how her's turned out!
And of course the best picture of all--our Wonder Twins Pic!!
Crystal and I both used OPI Ink Suede and stamped with silver using zipper image on BM202. How do you feel about matte's readers? Do you have any of the OPI Suedes?
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Hi Readers! Did you read that right??? Illamasquatch instead of Illamasqua? Yep you sure did! My friend Kim admitted awhile ago she had trouble pronouncing Illamasqua and then she referred to it as Illamasquatch and ever since I just call it that because honestly it's hysterical! It seems in the world of nail polish there are a few of them people aren't sure how to pronounce. Seche Vite--my mom always calls is Skesh Ka Veet which cracks me and my sisters up. Nfu-Oh which I say New Fo but others say En Eff You Oh. NYX which I always call En Why Ex although I believe it's Nix as in Goddess of the Night. And of course Illamasqua which is Ill Ah Mah Squaw.
I have 4 Illamasqua's and they are are all truly gorgeous. My friend Rachel of Cherry Glam Girl got every one of them for me and whenever I wear them I think of her!
I saw this look somewhere but I just can't recall! I think it was a DIY site--I'd link it but again just can't remember where I saw it lol!
Basically I just made shapes on my nails not necessarily touching and then filled it in the space with gold.
The Illamasqua's are so rich and regal looking. I used Baptiste, Viridian and Scarab. To fill in I used Funky Fingers.
Here's a pic of the polishes I used
Do you have Illamasqua's if yes which one is your favorite? Any on your wishlist? I just have 2 on my wishlist Scorn and Muse. Hopefully someday I'll snag both of these.
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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!
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Hi Readers! Since it's winter here in Wisconsin it's too cold for ice cream so this wavy gravy will have to be something else! How about a delicious magnetic manicure?!!! I'm really loving all my magnetic polishes so far and this one is simply stunning! A gorgeous dark vampy wine!
For $5 a bottle these Nabi's are really nice. The only downside to them is they smell awful! Burt's Bee's Lemon Butter doesn't even help! Oh well the price of beauty is well worth the stink!
As you can see on my swear finger aka middle I touched the magnet to the polish and I used the magnet from one of my Icing's for this as the chevron design on the Nabi's doesn't wrap around enough on my curved nails.
Here's a nice close up though--so dark and vampy I just love it!
I tried to live with the mess up not bothering me but it was! SO I decided to haul out my Brett Favre franken and do some covering up
Brett Favre is a franken I made intending the old Mardi Gras look green, gold, purple. My first attempt at it I did not like and I said "ug this is so ugly only a Minnesota Viking's fan would like it" since if was a fail and since I'm a Packer fan and you don't screw with the Packers by signing with the Vikings and did I mention it was ugly and huge fail so I named it Brett Favre! Not accepting defeat I went in and revamped it and then loved it. I decided to stick with the name though lol!
Here's a bottle shot of Brett Favre
He's a mix of micro green, gold and purple glitters and then some large gold hexes.
I like this glitter tips look with the magnetic polish!
Here's a pic of the polishes I used--pretty straightforward lol!
How do you feel about these magnetic polishes readers?? Do you love them, hate them or are you over them--OR do you need them all like me and my friend Amy from I'm Feeling Nail Venterous?
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