Good evening and happy Saturday!
Yes, it's been a ridiculously, stupidly long week that I am really glad is over. How long was it? So long that I went to work with naked nails Thursday ._. Don't judge lol; I had a mani planned and even had done it, but as soon as I finished clean up, I hated it. It looked terrible, so I took it off, and by then I had to get to bed. I do have manis from Friday and Wednesday to show you though!
I think I mentioned earlier this week that I was doing bright jellies. I managed to keep with that for these two. Friday's mani was another candy mani, this time in pinks. Both colors are from OPI, Do You Think I'm Tex-y? and You Glitter Be Good to Me!; very pink and sparkly.
Wednesday's mani featured a new to me jelly, China Glaze's Are You Jelly? from last year's summer collection. Are You Jelly? is kind of a cross between a jelly and a neon, but is absolutely better than Isle See You Later. Jelly only needed three coats for this mani. I stamped over it, using an image from my Apipila P.2 and OPI's Incognito in Sausalito.
This mani was brighter in person than my camera is showing >.<
Good afternoon and happy first day of April! Yes, I know, it's April Fool's, but I'm not a prankster so I really don't take part in this day of pranks :)
I do have a few bright, springy manis to show you, though. I'm kinda continuing in the same vein I was last week, bright colors, but this week I'm using bright jellies. Today's mani featured not only a jelly, but one of OPI's new Sheer Tints as well.
To start, my base was one coat of both China Glaze's Kinetic Candy and Isle See You Later, then a coat of Seche. I stamped over that, using CND's Vinylux in Black Pool and my Apipila P.2 plate, followed by another coat of Isle See You Later and Seche, then stamped again with the same things. I topped that with a coat of I Can Teal You Like (Sheer Tint), then Seche. Amazingly, I didn't have any chips with all that on my nails when I took it. Usually, with that much Seche, I get chipping lol.
I love how Monday's mani came out. It wasn't exactly anything new that I did, but the glitter I used for the candy mani was different. All OPI colors, all one coat each, topped with Seche. Base to top- Flit a Bit, Rose of Light, and Y'all Come Back, Ya Hear?. I think this is by far my favorite candy mani look I've done.
Sunday's Stamping Sunday mani I regard as something of a fail. The challenge called for stamping over another technique, which isn't actually that difficult for me to do. My problem came with the colors I used. See, I was inspired by an ad layout in Nails Mag. for CND's latest line of Vinylux and Shellac colors. They are gorgeous, and I absolutely had to have Tango Passion. It's a deep orchid shimmer that's just beautiful. The other colors, except for maybe the pink, I already very similar colors, but those are pretty much what I wanted to use.
Except for Tango Passion, the other colors are from Zoya: Josie, Yummy, and Pippa. Josie and Pippa were sponged over Yummy, and Tango Passion was stamped over that, the image is from Winstonia Nature Series W-04. All topped with Seche.
And for last Friday's Textured mani, this beautiful color is I'm Brazil Nuts About You from OPI. Two coats.
Good evening and happy Labor Day to those in the States!
I've got today's mani and yesterday's Stamping Sunday challenge to show you all :) Today's mani was very simple but absolutely beautiful. I just wish my pics show that, happens when the sun hides itself.
I had managed to get in on a preorder for Colors by Llarowe's Michael Jackson tribute collection, Smooth Criminal. That's the one that really called me, although all the colors are gorgeous. Smooth Criminal is just amazing, from application to wear to just the color. The first pic I have is a bit blurry but it's the only one shows some of the holo.
Stamping Sunday's challenge called for tone on tone. I was torn on this one; normally, I would have done blue on blue, but I decided instead to do purple on purple. I started with 3 coats of OPI's Rumple's Wrigglin' as my base and topped with Seche. My stamped images came from Winstonia W-04, Vivid Lacquer VL 009, Betina B-16, and Apipila P.2 plates, stamped in Chanel Vendetta. The striping tape I used on the pinky fingers is also from Winstonia.
Good evening!
I have for you tonight one of those manis that doesn't turn out quite the way I intended. It started with my base color, China Glaze's Isle See You Later. This color is part of their latest summer collection, which is half jellies and half cremes. Isle is one of the jellies.
First off, it's not a true jelly. It's missing the high shine that all jellies have when they dry; in fact, the color is rather dull and flat before topcoating. Second, even at four coats, the visible nail line was still very evident. Maybe I'm spoiled with my other jellies achieving some kind of opacity even at 3 coats. Third, the bottle color is deceiving. When you first see it, it's a pretty bright blue. On the nail, it's a watery, sea green blueish color. Definitely not what I expected.
The other part of what I hadn't intended was my stamping color. I thought for sure I had seen just last week that it stamped very well over colors. I'm willing to admit I might have gotten the wrong color, but I'm not sure. The result was my stamped image being more subtle instead standing out. My stamping color was Pure Ice's Excuse Me and the plate was my Apipila P.2.
All in all, I like it, even if it turned out differently from I had tried to do :)
Good evening!
I have for you tonight, today's Stamping Sunday challenge. Today's theme was dragonflies or butterflies. Right off the bat, I was set to do butterflies :P But, if I had any dragonfly images, I honestly would have done that instead, as much as I looooooooove butterflies.
I wanted to try something I saw on another blog a week or so ago. This chick used a jelly polish and sandwiched stamped images in between. I figured I would give it a go.
I started with a single coat of Orly's Butterflies (of course :P) and let that dry completely before I stamped a lacey like image from Apipila P.2 plate. I should have stamped it in black instead of white, because you can barely see it in direct sunlight. I let that stamped image dry a bit before applying another coat of Butterflies. This time, I stamped one of the butterfly image from the same plate in Pure Ice's Silver Mercedes. Let that dry, and a last coat of Butterflies with a last stamped image from Winstonia 104. Topped it all with Seche.
Like I said, I think the first image should have been stamped in black, but oh, well. Always next time :)
Good evening! I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend :)
So, today is Stamping Sunday, and today's theme was called "inspired by your new summer dress, swimsuit, or shoes". It just happened that I bought a new dress a week and a half ago for my parents' 35th anniversary vow renewal next. Here's a pic of it:
Let me just say, I love this dress :) This isn't my photo, since my dress is at my grandmother's getting altered, this is the stock photo from where I ordered it.
I started with a base of 2 coats of OPI's My Boyfriend Scales Walls topped with Seche. MBSW is my fave white, since it's a "cold" white as opposed to a stark white. Then, I stamped, one at a time, with Sinful Colors Exotic Green, Maybelline Colorshow's Flash of Purple, Sally Hansen InstaDri's Co-Balt Blue, and Wet 'N Wild's Black Creme, using my Apipila P.2 plate. I topped it all off with another coat of Seche.
I know I didn't get the pattern exactly, but I think it looks close, and not too bad.
Good evening!
So, today is Stamping Sunday, and I actually did the challenge week. Today's theme was simply over a lilac base. It was a perfect opportunity to try out a new color I got, Zoya Malia.
I got Malia during Zoya's big Earth Day promo last month. Zoya does describe Malia as a lilac purple, so I ran with it, since I have nothing else that I could is lilac (surprisingly). Malia is very pigmented and is almost a one coater. For this mani, I did two and topped with Seche.
For the stamping, I used my new Apipila P.2 plate and Color Club's Beyond. Using this plate is going to take some practice, as it's more....... finicky than other plates I own. To avoid smearing, I cleaned up around my cuticles, then applied Seche again.
Well, at least in most of the US it finally has :P Someone told Summer to show up early here, the bitch lol.
But good evening! I have today's Stamping Sunday challenge to show you. The theme was, simply, spring colors. To me, spring colors are the first blush of colors before the rich and bold colors of summer blossom. I kept my mani pretty well with this idea.
I started with 2 coats of Zoya Purity, followed by Seche and let that dry. The next step was to create a watercolor mani using Zoya Lotus, Julie, and Zuza. By the time I was done adding the last color, my other hand was dry enough to stamp on. I used my Apipila P.2 plate stamped with Zoya Ibiza, and topped it all with Seche. I really love how this mani turned out :)
Good evening!
This has been a long, busy weekend here at my house. I ended up having to do today's mani challenge yesterday, since I wasn't going to be home last night to do it. My idea was a good one..... I just should have used a different stamping color =\
The theme for today's challenge was over an orange base. Ok, no problem, two coats of Zoya Myrta. I had my brand new Apipila plate I wanted to try out; there's an image on there that looks like a splatter. I wanted to use a grey to stamp with, so I pulled out Sinful Colors Ardroise........ Yeah >.< Myrta made Ardroise look like brown, so it didn't stand out much. I should have used either black or white or something else.
