Hi Everyone!!!! Hope you are all having a great weekend. It cooled down yesterday so last night we were able to open the windows and get some some fresh air!!! OMG fabulous! It's supposed to be in the high 70's today so so far no a/c has been turned out. Might make do all this week with some fresh air so let's keep our fingers crossed.
Today's Adventures In Stamping Facebook group theme is Your Favorite Color Combination. Truth be told I don't really have a favorite combo. I think we all know I love to gradient lol! So any combination is my favorite. A while back Zoya had a fabulous promo of two free Zoya's if you bought Zoya's Pixie Dust color in Liberty. Since I am in love with the textured polishes I was all over that and in addition to Liberty I picked up Solange and Chyna as well. Since I had this gorgeous yellow and red Pixie Dust in front of me I decided to add some oranges and hauled out Julie G Tangerine and Sugar Rush and a textured gradient was born!
I was really struggling with what to stamp over it--it is, after all, a stamping group, and I've already done a gradient similar to this with chilli peppers over it so I went with something completely different!!
Man that Zoya Solange is stunning!!
I'm not going to lie you know yellow is my favorite color and I can't really wear it--I mean look how pale my skin is SO I really bought this for the name!!! I have a girly chinchilla named Solange!
I chose the bubble look from Cheeky XL D because I was watching Doctor Who last night--yes I'm a new fan of the show--and it was the episode about the Fall of Pompeii. I thought the bubbles would make my gradient look like lava!
Thumbie looks great too! Sometimes he gets the short end of the stick LOL!
Doesn't look like I did the best clean up job though!! HA!! This is what happens when you do your nails AND watch Doctor Who at the same time
All in all I'm super pleased with this. I really love textured polishes but only the sparkly ones, and stamping over them looks fantastic!
Thanks for stopping by!!! I hope you all have a great day!
Hi Everyone!!! Happy Friday!!!! I stepped WAY outside my comfort level and ordered some studs from the Born Pretty Store a couple of weeks ago. It's always great to order from there because shipping is free and you just can't beat that.
I decided to pair some of my new black studs with some neon and I added a sugar spun twist to it. I've never done the sugar spun method before and i find I quite like it so more of that to come for sure!!
Placing the studs by hand wasn't too bad, although not as straight as they could be
I used China Glaze Flip Flop Fantasy one of the first neons I ever bought for this mani
Even thumbie is styling!
I'm definitely a HUGE fan of this mani! I wore it yesterday to work and everyone loved it--BUT it's very bright and you sort of get stuck looking at your hands alot while typing LOL!
Not sure what's going on for the weekend. I've worked a lot of overtime this week and have been pretty tired at the end of the day. Today I'm working 6am until 4:30pm so most likely I want to sleep alot this weekend!!
Hope everyone has a great day, enjoy the weekend and thanks for stopping by!!
Hi Everyone! Today I'm wearing one of the new polishes from SoflaJo's Wet Dreams collection. It's called Not 2Nite I've Got A Haddock and it is SO gorgeous! It's the perfect bronze! I paired it with a Kiko Sugar Mat and some some stamping and really love this look!
I finally used this imaged from Cheeky XL D too! I've been wanting to for a long time!
I'm wearing Not 2Nite I've Got A Haddock on my toes too and it's just such a great bronzey summer polish!
Jody really has done some great colors for this Wet Dreams Collection! I snagged a couple and am going back in for more!!! LOL!
If you're not familiar with SoFlaJo make sure you check out her Etsy store HERE
It's another super hot one here today! Sort of glad I'm inside working in the air conditioning!!
Hope you all have a great day!
Hi Everyone!! Happy Hump Day!!! Sorry I dropped off for a couple of days. Monday marked 4 years since my beautiful sister, Lisa, died of breast cancer. In all honesty I didn't feel like talking to anyone. People try to say stupid things to you like, oh she's in a better place now, or time heals all wounds, or even it's been 4 years you need to get on with your life. You NEVER get over the death of someone you love. There isn't enough time in the entire universe and all of existence to get over that wound--trust me. Instead all you can do is life your life in the gigantic void that's left behind. Sometimes you have good days, sometimes you have bad days.
My mother had to spend Monday without my father for the first time in four years. He was her support and her rock and on the "anniversary" of the day Lisa died, mom had to endure it without my dad at her side. All in all it's pretty craptastic. BUT yes we all just keep on living in this gigantic void. I have friends and family who messaged me that day and knowing they remember and having their support helped tremendously.
So here I am back in the swing of things! It's hot here--yep 90 degree hot here so I guess summer has officially arrived!
I got a set of suedes from my super sweet friend Kim the other day so I just HAD to try a few of them out! The are the W7 brand and they are all fabulous! I got a total of 6--brown, black, silver, pink, blue and purple and I also got a no name light green one from Invogue. I decided on a skittles using the blue, purple and green and then added a couple of Zoyas with a matte topcoat!!
Pinkie is W7 Aqua, ring is Invogue, swear is Zoya Amy, ring is Zoya Sarah and thumb is W7 Mauve
How gorgeous is this purple suede?????!!!!!!!
Did some fun stamping over it too!
This is from BM301
It totally reminds me of a circus!
I found you can matte almost all of the Zoya shimmers and get a cool suede effect. The Irresistible collection looks amazing with a matte top coat!!
Thanks for stopping by!!! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
Hi Everyone!!! Happy Sunday!!! I've got a fun Sunday Challenge mani for today! I was really happy to see the theme of double stamping or shadow stamping for today. I have a coworker who had a top on awhile ago that I took some pictures of. I really loved her top and thought it would make an amazing manicure. My coworkers are used to me taking pictures of them or their coffee mugs LOL!
I did some random sponging with Zoya Darcy, Thandie, Micky and Josie. I am so pleased that I've used my summer Zoya's alot so far! Last year I didn't use my Zoya summer collections near enough! After sponging on my colors I used white with PUEEN10 over the entire nail, then I went back over it with random placement of PUEEN10 in black
I'm really happy how this turned out!
Maybe not as snake-ish as I'd hoped but still a really cool manicure!
This is the shot I took of my coworkers top--her name is Jodi
How'd I do with matching it?
Today is my nephew's graduation party and it's a gorgeous sunny day! I believe we're only in the low 80's so definitely not hot enough to get me in the pool, but I'll get a bit of sun today!
Hope everyone enjoys their day!!! See you tomorrow!
Hi Everyone!!!! Happy Saturday!!!! It is a GLORIOUS day out today!!!! The past two days we've had sun and it's been in the high seventies or low 80's so we haven't had to have the air conditioning on non stop which is awesome!! Today we have more of the same Woot! Woot! It's the company picnic today so I'll be heading out there to meet up with my coworkers who are also my friends (the best kind of coworkers) for a fun time. Some of them want to drive the big tractors today but I'm pretty sure I'll just be a observer for that one LOL!
My biggest temptation will be there today though--grilled sweet corn! UG! Let's hope I can keep it together and just have one ear of corn!
So all week last week I lamented the tape mani challenge in The Digit-al Dozen. I spent over 2 hours working on the mani for today ONLY TO DISCOVER the challenge only runs Monday thru Friday LOL! This is by far my best attempt to date so it couldn't go to waste!
2 hours!!! It took 2 hours to do just these 2 nails. But it their defense I wrecked the ring finger so had to redo it
My coworkers loved this one!
As you can see I carried through with the blue and coral as a skittle on the rest of the fingers
I used white, black, China Glaze For Audrey and Sally Hansen Insta Dri Snappy Sorbet for this mani
In the end it was totally worth it BUT for someone who changes their polish every day 2 hours is too long to spend LOL!
I must admit toward the end of the challenge I was liking some of the ideas i came up with. I need to step out of my comfort zone more often and do things I don't normally do--I think it will keep me on my toes.
I hope everyone has a great weekend!!! Thanks for stopping by!
Hi Everyone!! Happy Friday!!!! Now that the tape mani week is coming to an end I have one I do like--LOL! I've been enjoying the whole skittle look and haven't done much at all with my Zoya's in the Irresistible collection so I hauled them out and decided to pair them with their Stunning counterparts for today's mani
Index to pinkie is Zoya Thandie & Amy, Darcy & Kerry, Josie & Rikki, Rocky & Hazel
My favorite combo is on my thumb Yana & Bobbi
I'm usually a day behind posting so this is what I wore yesterday and got a lot of compliments!
I enjoyed it immensely and loved how it sparkled in the sun. I snapped this pic while at a stop light in car on the way home LOL!
I should have tried for a closeup of the ring I made with Butter London Wallis and my franken Ragnell it's super lovely!
So here we are at the end of the tape mani rope and finally one I like!
