Good afternoon!!
In honor of Independence Day on Friday, I decided to a week of different patriotic manis. For today, I created a mani using stripe tape. All colors used were Zoya- Trixie (base coat, 2 coats), Song, and Elisa. Topped with Seche. I know the third pic is a bit off, but it shows off the glow of the colors.
Yesterday's was rather simple. Just 2 coats of Sally Hansen's Pacific Blue and a coat of Hard Candy's Soda Pop (don't understand the name of that at all O.o It is one of the new colors, though). I briefly thought about matting it, but the glitter itself is matte, and that was enough for me :) It could have used a second coat of Seche, though, as it wasn't completely smooth.
Alrighty, now the Stamping Sunday theme was Fourth of July/Canada Day nails. Of course, I picked Fourth of July :) Base colors were Zoya Sooki and Ibiza, stamped with Bundle Monster BM-H25 and Mundo de Unas white, and topped with Seche.
I freakin' herp a derp!
Good afternoon! For those that celebrated yesterday, I hope you had a great Memorial Day! I spent the afternoon with friends and family, and got waaaaay too drunk :P
I completely meant to post half these manis last Friday, but when I leave my camera at home, that can't happen lol. So this is gonna be a big catching up post! Let's get the show on the road, shall we?
Starting with today's mani, which featured two new colors. Mani started with a base of 1 coat of OPI's Put a Coat on! base coat, followed by 2 coats of OPI's You're So Outta Lime. This one color impressed me more than last year's Neon Revolution neons (which I threw out, I was so disgusted with them >.<). If I hadn't added a coat of glitter, I might have considered a third coat, but honestly, I thought 2 was pretty good. The glitter I added is a new one from Hard Candy, Pop Star. Pop Star is a little thick, but packed with glitter; however, I definitely I should have sponged it on instead brushing it on. Two coats of Seche and done.
Yesterday I did up a patriotic mani featuring holos. I applied two coats of each color- KB Shimmer Whole Lava Lovin' and OPI's DS Glamour and Coronation. Stamped images came from Winstonia W107 and Vivid Lacquer VL 002, in Milani's White on the Spot. Topped with Seche.
Stamping Sunday's challenge was butterflies, fireflies, and ladybugs. Now, you could any one, combo, or all three in your mani. I opted for ladybugs, since it's something I hadn't done before. I started first with my ring fingers as the accents, and water marbled them with OPI's Red Hot Rio and China Glaze's Liquid Leather over a coat of Put a Coat on!. Boy, was that a bitch to do, but it came out nice. Dots are White on the Spot, topped with Seche.
The other fingers were 2 coats of Red Hot Rio, a coat of Seche, then stamped with Milani Black Swift and Winstonia W 112, and another coat of Seche.
For Textured Friday, I mixed my textures :) I did 2 coats each of OPI's Emotions and 4 in the Morning.
Thursday's mani is a copy of a mani I saw, I think, in a Face Book group I'm in. I don't remember exactly who posted it, but I had wanted to do ever since I saw. This is what I came up :)
I first did a Saran Wrap mani with OPI's Skull and Glossbones and French Quarter for Your Thoughts. Then I stamped over it first with OPI's Road House Blues and one image, then Road House Blues and OPI's Eurso Euro and another image. Image plate use was Messy Mansion MM 24. Topped with Seche.
Wednesday's mani was something simpler. Two coats of OPI's Be a Dahlia Won't You? and a coat of I Lily Love You. This needed two coats of Seche, because the flakie isn't as smooth as others.
Good evening!
I have for you tonight more swatches from my recent purchases. As you may ore may know, the Walmart brand, Hard Candy, revamped quite a bit of their line in the last few months, including the nail polish line. My Walmart finally had the entire collection available instore for me to look at early last month.
I must say, all the colors and glitters were pretty :) I could have taken alot of them home but settled on two of them, Bity Blue and Mermaid Magic.
Bity Blue is a gorgeous, electric blue base loaded with what I think are glass flecks. I reminds me a little of OPI's Be a Dahlia Won't You?, with as sparkly as it is. I know it's not glitter, or a foil, or a shimmer. I love it, whatever it is lol.
There is no hint of another color in this polish; it is blue!! This swatch was done with 3 coats, no topcoat.
The other I bought, Mermaid Magic, is a glitter. It's packed with small, teal green glitters and larger purple glitter, both hex in shape. It covers very well in two coats on its own.
Mermaid Magic also looks nice layered over 2 coats of Bity Blue :)
All in all, I don't have any complaints about Hard Candy. They're cruelty free, which is a plus in my book, and they're relatively inexpensive, another plus :)
Good morning!
Sorry I haven't posted all week. I had full intentions of posting at least 2 or 3 times before today, but that just didn't happen. This week has kept me busy working and preparing for Thanksgiving, leaving me tired and not enough time to put up new posts.
So today's post is gonna be a big one. I have three manis to show you and more swatches :) Let's begin!
The first mani is the one I did up for Thanksgiving. I am extremely proud how this one turned out. It's a watercolor mani with stamping over it. My base color was 2 coats of OPI's San Tan-tonio, my watercolor colors were OPI's Flit a Bit and The "It" Color, Color Club's Rebel Spirit, and China Glaze's Winter Berry and Glittering Garland. For the stamping, I used Bundle Monster plate 05 and Red Angel plates 118 and 121 stamped in Pure Ice's Magic. I sandwiched SV between the base color and the watercolor, then topped it all off with SV.
Alrighty, next is the mani I wore on Wednesday. This is another one that I saw a friend on Face Book do. Last week, I traded for a matte polish that I've been wanting, not to just do for this mani. It went wonderfully, and I got OPI's Russian Navy Matte (now I just need the others lol!). So, I started with two coats of that and let it dry, not that it took very long. I then did flakie tips in Finger Paints Motely, and re-matte it all with Hard Candy's Matte-ly in Love.
Lastly, is Tuesday's mani, which is a quick swatch of Chanel Vendetta. This is just two easy coats topped with SV. I know it's hard to tell, but it has a subtle shimmer to it.
Now for the swatches! These are from China Glaze.
Electra Magenta- 2 coats
Sweet Hook- 3 coats
Winter Berry- 2 coats
Deviantly Daring- 2 coats
Unpredictable- 2 coats
None of these really gave me any problems, although Winter Berry was a bitch to clean up. It's red, so meh, it's gonna happen lol. Sweet Hook was the only one that needed 3 coats, but I expected that with being a light creme. Surprisingly, it wasn't horribly streaky.
That's it! I'll post more info on the swatches when I add them to proper swatch page. Laters!
