Good evening!
I have for you tonight a swatch of one of my new favorites. You've probably see that one of the hot trends this year is matte glitter, ie. OPI's Liquid Sand and Zoya's Pixie Dust. So far, I've only gotten one of each, mainly because the rest of the colors don't appeal to me =\
Tonight, I'm going to show you OPI's Got Your Number from the Mariah Carey collection. When this particular textured polish was announced, I was really on the fence about. Don't get me wrong, I love the matte polishes I have, but matte glitter is different. I wanted to give it a try anyways.
I'm pretty sure OPI recommends not using a basecoat with the Liquid Sands, but I couldn't just put all that glitter on my nails, so I opted for the glue method. Unfortunately, it didn't make it any easier to take off, since it didn't want to peel off, but it didn't stain.
For my mani, I applied 2 coats of Got Your Number over the glue once it was dry. When Got Your Number was dry, it reminded me of a gumdrop. The texture is slightly rough (Pixie Dusts are smoother, in my opinion), but it doesn't catch on your clothing. What was a pleasant surprise to me was the wear time; I did this mani Monday night and took it off tonight. I had very little tip wear and no chips! I can't say that about any of my polishes, except for one (and for the life of me I can remember what it is right now! :P)
So here is Got Your Number. Enjoy!
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Good evening!
I hope everyone's weekend went well. Mine was kinda sucktastic, starting with an eye doctor appointment yesterday, where I was dialate and all kinds of jacked, to today with a migraine x.x
Yeah, one of those weekends.
I at least managed to get my Stamping Sunday mani done, and I also have my stamped mani from Friday to show also, so let's get started! Today's challenge was "stamping and dot dot dot". I was kind of at a loss for this one; I had several ideas but discarded them because I didn't think they would come out very nice. What I did come up may very well be stretching it, but I had to try.
Most people that know me in real life know that I do not like animal print on me. At all. Well, today I broke that with this mani. My base color was two coats of Zoya Purity, stamped image is from my Sugar Bubbles 002 stamped with Wet 'N Wild Black Creme, and the "dots" are China Glaze's Fuschia Fanatic. All topped with Seche, of course. To be fair, I did use my dotting tools to create the "dots" lol, so maybe it still counts :P
Friday's mani was much simpler. The base was 2 coats of Zoya Julie, which, by the way, is a lovely lavender, stamped with Winstonia 111 in Sinful Colors Ardoise, and topped with Seche.
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I can't believe it's already the end of February, it just doesn't seem possible. I can say it's been an interesting 8 weeks; not great, not terrible, but somewhere in between. I'm looking forward to doing some green manis for St. Patrick's day over the next two week. Tomorrow's won't be green, but it will feature a new polish :)
I have for you today, yesterday's and Tuesday's manis. Both feature a new polish, and one a new stamping plate. Let's get started!
Y'all may be starting to realize how much I'm loving Messy Mansion's stamping plates. They're just so amazing to work with and make stamping a breeze. I picked up two of her latest plates, the St. Patrick's themed plate and the dragon plate. My husband just loves dragons, so it was pretty much a given that I get that one. I finally had the opportunity to use for yesterday's mani.
I started with a base of OPI's French Quarter for Your Thoughts at 2 coats and topped with Seche. For my dragon, I stamped it in Color Club's Beyond from the new Halo Hues collection. O.M.G. I really think I'm gonna have to get the other colors, the two I have are just so full of awesome. Take a look at the final mani!
Little black, rainbow draggies! Love it!
Ok, so, one of my biggest lemmings is Deborah Lippmann's Across the Universe. I fell in love with it when I saw featured on another blog, but I couldn't justify the price tag. I had read in the last few months that Milani's Jewel FX in Teal was something of a dupe. Sold! I got a bottle and waited for a chance to use it. I hadn't done glitter in a while, because I got glittered out over the holidays :P What I ended up doing was a nice change from the more spring like I've been gravitating to.
I started with 2 coats of OPI's Road House Blues as my base; I don't think I topped before doing my gradient, but I'm not positive about that lol. Then I just sponged on Teal to the tips, which was a bitch to do clean up for, and topped with Seche. I only did one pass for the gradient, anything more would have made it bumpy as hell, I think.
/sarcasm x.x
So, yeah. I think I've been fighting an infection, not a cold, this last week, which is fine. I can deal with that. However, pain is something I have a hard time handling. Depending on what is actually hurting, depends on my threshold. I had twisted my back at work Friday, which kept me from doing a lot things. I much better tonight than I was even last night, so I thought I'd post this last week's manis, starting with today's stamped challenge.
Now, earlier in the week, there was some mixup with the choices and the two I liked got deleted. I didn't care for the others, so just didn't vote. The winning them turned out to be "something nerdy". I drew a complete blank on what to do, and ended up doing Betty Boop themed nails.
I had been dying to use my large plate with several Betty images....... So, I was rather disappointed when none of them would stamp. I believe they're engraved to shallow to stamp properly. I had one other plate with one Betty image, my Sugar Bubbles 002, so that's what I used instead. All the images are from that plate, stamped in OPI's Lincoln Park After Dark, over Kiss me on my Tulips and My Boyfriend Scales Walls, also from OPI. I only needed two coats of each, and everything was topped with Seche.
Friday's mani is, I think, one of manis. I am absolutely thrilled with how it turned, and it was rather simple. All the colors I used were OPI. My two base colors were You're Such a Budapest and Can't Find my Czechbook. Both colors are great for spring, but Budapest has my heart; it's the perfect periwinkle blue, much like one of my favorite gems, Tanazite.
I topped the base colors with Seche and let them dry before I taped them off and applied darker colors- Funky Dunkey and Fly. Then, over the purples, I added green dots, and added purple dots to the greens.
Wednesday's mani was very simple compared to those two. I had picked up one of Zoya's Pixiedust colors during their last promo. I bought Chyna, because it was the only real red that's been released between OPI's and Zoya's matte glitter collections. All I can say is, wow. I love Chyna! This mani was done with only two coats.
So, there you have it! I hope you enjoyed looking at these :)
Hi and good evening.
I hate feeling like I'm getting sick; either get sick or don't >.< I hate this in between crap. That's why I haven't been around this last week. I just haven't had the energy to post, even though I've been going to bed early (for me).
Enough of my whining. I have two manis to show you and a bonus of one of my kittehs :) The first mani is this yesterday's Stamping Sunday challenge, which was crazy neons. This is the first time I've used a white base under any of my neons, and I have to say, I don't really notice a difference in the neon-ness. My base was one coat of Milani White on the Spot. My neons were Zoya Charisma, China Glaze's Splish Splash and Turned Up Turquoise, and Color Club's Disco Dress and All that Razz. The stamped image is from Vivid Lacquer plate 002 stamped in Konad Special White. This was all matte-ified with NYC's Matte me Crazy.
The final mani isn't as neat as I would like, but then I wasn't feeling well all weekend, and it has pretty, bright colors :)
Ok, my other mani is from Friday. The pics just don't do it justice, even with the flash, the weather was that damn gloomy Friday. My base was 3 coats of Zoya Kotori. Obviously, at least to me, I should have capped my free edges each coat, because it really looks like I didn't =\ The stamped image is from Bundle Monster 317 stamoed in Zoya Trixie. The dots are Zoya Tallulah. All topped in Seche.
And now, a pic of my sweet little, vain Tinkerbell lol.
Good evening!
I suggest if you're sick of seeing Valentine's manis, you skip this post lol.
Even though I had no special plans (stupid tax return -.-), I decided to do a mani for it. Yes, it's a bit cliche, done in red and white, but I like how it looks. I started with two coats of China Glaze's Ruby Pumps. RP is a slightly darker version of OPI's Ali's Big Break- red jelly base with ultra fine red glitter. I topped with Seche before I moved on to stamping. The plates I used were Bundle Monster's 311 and 317; each finger was a different image. My thumbs didn't out too well, but then no one really notices thumbs xD Stamping color was Wet 'N Wild French White.
Good evening!
I know for many of you, spring is a far off thought, something to keep you warm through all the snow and nastiness of winter. Much to my (allergies) dismay, spring has definitely sprung early here, regardless of this weekend's chilly forecast. For this rather unseasonably, and unreasonably lol, warm weather, I wanted to do something spring like on my nails. Enter in one of my latest Zoyas, Ivanka.
Ivanka is a gorgeous, green foil that has a teeny bit of blue undertones and flashes of gold. I truly have nothing like it in my collection, and wish I hadn't held out so long getting it. For my mani, I did two coats of Ivanka; I really could have with a third because two looks a little sheer in bright sunlight. It is wonderfully sparkly, though :)
