Hi Everyone! I have a fake mani on today! And by fake or faux I mean it's close to the real thing but is it the cigar? You might know I have several chinchillas as pets. And by several I mean 10! Yes 10 chinchillas as pets. No I don't believe in wearing the fur of an animal, no I don't appreciate it when someone asks me how many chinchillas make a coat. There are times when fake is much better than the real thing--pleather instead of leather and fake fur all the way!
Even though I have a lovely bottle of Clarins 230 I also have Max Factor Fantasy Fire AND BeYu 209. I also have a bottle of Cult Nails Clairvoyant aka Unicorn Puke why? Well for the first two because I wanted them lol and the second one because honestly I am not putting something named Unicorn Puke on my nails. Clairvoyant is the same exact thing, it's lovely and no puke anywhere near my nails! YAY!
I decided to play around with some colors I haven't worn yet so I hauled out my Zoya Savita, my Max Factor Fantasy Fire and my Cult Nails Clairvoyant. I've worn Clairvoyant before but not the other two. I'm into matte nails lately so I did a lovely mani with stamping and mattified it all!
First up here is Savita, Fantasy Fire and Clairvoyant as is
Here's a shot of it in the shade, it's blurry but you can really see the color flakies in Clairvoyant
I love this polish and love it even more it doesn't have puke in it's name!
Then I went at mattified it--really love this look!
Then I went and stamped on it using my good old mermaid tail stamp BM209!
I didn't matte the stamping but just left it as is--what do you think--should I have just left it without stamping over it? And how gorgeous is that Fantasy Fire matted? OMG it's pretty delicious!
Thanks for stopping!! I hope you all have a fabulous day!
Hi Everyone!! Happy Monday! I hope everyone had a great weekend. I got to spend some time with my doggie nephew Fuzzy and my mom and I went to see Skyfall, in my opinion it was the best Bond ever! There is a lot of talk about who's the best Bond and to me it's Daniel Craig. Don't get me wrong, I've seen every single Bond movie there is and I don't even mind Timothy Dalton as Bond, but Daniel Craig knows how to do him right. It's about time we have a kick ass Bond!
After getting home from the movie and settling down to watch Dexter and The Walking Dead I did some Pinterest searching and low and behold there was another fantastic design from Carolina from Colores de Carol. I was super happy to do this one too because I've decided I need to be wearing all this polish I have. I have ALOT of untried colors yet I'm getting more and more! That is just crazy! So this was my chance to try one of the Essence Vampire's Love colors I haven't worn yet, Into the Dark. It is SUPER lovely!
Here's the design I saw on Pinterest I have no idea how I missed this on Carolina's blog--I love her blog and because of her and Let Them Have Polish I fell in love with stamping!
You can check out Carolina's post for this beautiful mani here. I'm so glad I saw this and hauled out that Essence Into The Dark, it is SO lovely. For the stamping I used BM314 and BM321.
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
Hi Everyone! Today in the US we are celebrating Veteran's Day. This is a day we set aside to honor all those who have and who are currently serving in the Armed Forces. This is a big deal to me. We are only a free country because of these men and women. No matter your feelings on the current election the men and women who serve our country deserve our utmost respect and thanks. I have 2 uncles who were in the Army and served during Vietnam. It was my father's dream to be an embassy guard however he couldn't do the "duck walk" back in the day and he wasn't able to join any of the armed forces. It bothered him tremendously. Today you don't even have to do the duck walk to get in LOL!
Today I did a sort of non traditional water marble to celebrate this occasion.
Thumbie turned out a little wonky!!
So how exactly am I celebrating this day? I'm going to see Skyfall with my mom lol! Yes on our American Veteran's Day I'm going to be watching British James Bond kick some butt!
It is a fantastic day weather wise here though sunny and 63 so we will be cooking out later this afternoon!
A special thanks to any of my readers who have served--I like to believe our country is only as good as the people in it, Veterans are the cream of the crop!
Have a great day! Thanks for stopping!
Hi Everyone!!! Happy Weekend! You don't have to cue the Guns n Roses music if you don't want too BUT today I have a gradient with a couple of the new Pure Ice Velvets and I did an animal print stamp over them. I LOVE how it turned out! First of all let me just tell you how much I love suede polishes. I LOVE THEM! When I heard Pure Ice had suedes aka velvets I was so stoked. Alas the Walmarts here do not have the LE Holiday display. Coming to my rescue is the fab Ashley from Ashley is Polish Addicted. She got me the ones I wanted and my "wifey" Lori is looking for some I didn't think I needed but then discovered yes I do need them after all lol! Anyway thanks to some awesome friends I'm going to wind up with all of the ones I wanted!
Today I did a gradient with Black Velour and Femme Fatale and then I stamped over it with Sally Hansen Chrome Pen in green using BM221
I really love this matte look to it!
My image didn't transfer so hot on the pinkie
I'm so thankful for Fall and Winter months because I'm not a pastel lover at all!
I love dark colors and green and black together rock!
I added a shiny topcoat to it, but I think I like the matte look better!
How about you? Matte or shiny?
I can't wait to do more mani's with these Pure Ice's!!! Hopefully they'll find their way here I might want to check out the glitters lol!
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
Hi Everyone! Happy Friday! I got a package from my sweet friend Rhoni of Ninja Polish. In it were both of their Breast Cancer Awareness polishes--Lisa and Paula. Rhonni named Lisa after my very own beautiful sister, Lisa. Rhonni knows how hard the month of October is for me and the plethora of pink being passed around and worn. It's difficult, it's a month long reminder my sister did not survive this cancer. But even though it's hard, I'm glad to see so many people supporting Breast Cancer Awareness.
This is not October but I will always be aware of breast cancer and the horrific disease it is. I will never forget what it did to my sister, or how hard she fought right up until the very end.
Today I've done a mani using Zoya Laurie and Ninja Polish Lisa. I also used my Joby Nail Stickers from Overall Beauty.
I added a dash of OPI Servin' Up Sparkle to the tips as well
Ninja Polish Lisa is a beautiful pink glitter. I am so honored and touched the Ninja's named a bottle of their polish after my sister!
So nice to see these two names together!
This is a nice bright and blingy mani to have on during this pretty bleary and dreary weather! You can shop Ninja Polish at Ninjapolish.com And Overall Beauty at Overallbeauty.com Don't blame me if your wallet takes a beating though!!!
Thanks for stopping by! Have a great weekend!!! I'm dogger sitting for my doggie nephew Fuzzie AND working on a couple of great nail designs I've thought up based on a someone's dress at work lol!
Hi Everyone! Last night in the United States we had our big election to vote for the President. It was a rather busy day but I wanted to do my nails so I opted for the good old K.I.S.S. rule Keep It Simple, Stupid! I decided I would wear my teal top today so I did the ever gorgeous OPI Ski Teal We Drop and then stamped over it with one of my favorite Bundle Monster designs!
I used my Sally Hansen Turquoise Chrome Pen BUT I'm sure China Glaze Adore is a dupe, and I used BM201
I really love the tone on tone stamping, it's very "me". This seems so elegant and intricate, yet it was so easy to do!
I can't speculate who won our election--I'm writing this up at 7pm and the election is long from over lol!
I hope you all have a great day! Thanks for stopping by!
Hi Everyone!! Happy Monday! Okay probably not great for everyone to be back to work after a weekend, but Monday's also bring Monkey See Monkey Do Mani's and today I have a really pretty one!! I first saw this mani on Pinterest and immediately went to the source, the fab Chit Chat Nails. I had to do some improvising because I didn't have the polishes she used BUT the result is still gorgeous!
This is the lovely China Glaze For Audry with OPI Her Majesty's Secret Service sponged over it.
I stamped with Milani Black Swift using BM309--I just love this mani! For Audrey is one of my all time favorite colors!
You can see Chit Chat Nails post here and please do look at it because her's is quite lovely!!!
Thanks for stopping by!!! I hope you all have a great day!
