Good afternoon!
Sorry for being MIA; I tots blew off blogging last week because the lazy days of summer so caught up with me :P Because of that, I have a lot to show y'all today, so let's get to it, shall we?
First up is today's mani. It's for the 52 Week Pick N Mix Challenge. I chose to do only one of the prompts because, to be honest, I didn't want to do the other lol. So here is my aqua mani. Three coats of Zoya Rayne with Mundo lime and Uber Chic UC 1-01 stamped over.
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Yesterday's mani was for the 30 Days of Colour Challenge, metallic and/or gradient. My colors were China Glaze Dandy Lyin' Around and Meet me in the Mirage.
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Stamping Sunday's challegne was using a plate that ended in A-M. I don't own hardly any plates that end in letters, so I just went with the first letters :) The base is a gradient of China Glaze New Birth, Kinetic Candy, and Aquadelic over White on White. Double and triple stamped with Vivid Lacquer VL019 and Mundo black.
So very proud of that one!
The Fourth of July was Saturday, and I chose to do Friday's 30DoCC that day instead. The prompts were glitter and/or patriotic. I'm not really happy with how it turned out, but it's what I came up with on short time. Base colors are Zoya Dream and Blaze, stamped over with Mundo white and Vivid Lacquer VL002 and VL-02 from aliexpress.
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I didn't work Friday, but I did go shopping and catch some great sales, so of course my nails were done :) I did a splatter with all China Glaze colors: Liquid Leather, Wait 'N Sea, Treble Maker, That's Shore Bright, and Let the Beat Drop.
I'm not really sure where I was going with Thursday's mani, but I like what I came up. I used OPI's The Berry Thought of You and I Sea You Wear OPI. The glitter is TNT from Formula X for Sephora. I did use a white undie with Berry, it was Put a Coat On! from OPI.
Last Wednesday, I took part in a water marble challenge that's going around Instagram. The prompt was patriotic. Wasn't happy with how half of my mani came out but I wasn't redoing it lol. Colors used were Zoya Purity, Sooki, Ling, and Trixie.
Last Tuesday's mani fulfilled prompts for both the 30DoCC and the 52WPNMC: Skittles, stamping, and pastels. The base colors were most of the Color Club Poptastic Pastel Neons:
Feathered Hair Out to There
'Til the Record Stops
Meet me at the Rink
Diggin' the Dancing Queen
Disco's Not Dead
Stamped over them was Mundo navy and Emily de Molly EDM03, then matted with Wet 'n Wild's matte topcoat.
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I don't remember entirely what last Monday's PAA Mani Monday prompt, but I do know patriotic was in there. I did up a patriotic splatter for it, using OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, Red Hot Rio, and Road House Blues. The stars were picked out from Pure Ice Freedom.
Stamping Sunday was....... something I don't remember, because I didn't do it. Instead, I did a mani that was inspiration by another. I honestly don't remember the person's name, but I wanted to be clear mine was inspired by hers. Base colors were China Glaze Liquid Leather and White on White, over which I added Point me to the Party. Over the white nails, I stamped images from UC 1-01 and 1-02 in Mundo black. This was also for the glitter prompt for the 30DoCC.
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Took a break that Saturday, so nothing for that, but I do have a Textured Friday mani. These are China Glaze In the Rough and OPI Wharf! Wharf! Wharf!.
Almost done! Two manis to go! This next one was the navy prompt for the 52WPNMC. The navy was OPI Light my Sapphire, paired with OPI You're So Outta Lime! over Put a Coat On!. Mundo nabu and UC 1-03 stamped over the accents. I actually really like how this one turned. Another that I wasn't sure where I was going with.
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And lastly, the shimmer/silhouette prompt for the 30DoCC. I used my most precious child, OPI Santiago Sangria, as the base. Stamped images came from Messy Mansion MM50 and Handy 47, stamped in Mundo black.
Whew! All done!!
Good afternoon!
I have a few more patriotic manis to share with you, and I wanted to get them up since I won't able to tomorrow :) They're both rather simple, so enjoy!
Today's was really easy to do. All it is, is 3 coats each of Zoya Dream and Blaze. I kinda wish they would make colors in this formula, like a white. That would be so pretty!
For yesterday, I used a glitter I picked up last year, Pure Ice Freedom. It's a fairly dense glitter, full of really fine red hexes, larger red and blue hexes, and silver stars. I layered a coat of that over 2 coats of Zoya Purity, then smoothed it out with 2 coats of Seche.
Good morning and happy Friday the 13th! :P
So, I told y'all it was gonna be a long week for me; I wasn't exactly exaggerating about that lol. I've had to be up early this entire week, which means in bed early, which in turns means next to time for manis :( BUT!!! I managed to keep two different manis on my nails for more than 1 day! Yay me! I did stamp them both for the second day, because I just had to.
Let's start with Tuesday. That mani began as just 3 coats of China Glaze's Sunshine Pop. Surprisingly, I had next to no chips at the end of the day, but I had no time to completely change it out. Here's what it looked like first:
I added some stamping to it to change it up a little bit for Wednesday. The image came from Winstonia W216, stamped in Milani's White on the Spot. Now, the basic mani was topped with Seche, and so was the stamping. You can't see it in these next pics, but it later looked like Sunshine Pop bled through to the white O.o Either that, or it wasn't as opaque as it appears in the pics.
Needless to say, that mani came off as soon as I got home that day. What replaced it was OPI's The One That Got Away, perfectly opaque in 2 coats. I had forgotten how much I love this color; I hadn't worn in so long. I'd like to find a lippy in this color......
That mani progressed into this:
This is what's on my nails right now :) It got stamped with an image from my Betina B-15 plate and Pure Ice Silver Mercedes.
Good afternoon!
Right to the point, I've got a few manis to show you, starting with my Mother's Day/Stamping Sunday challenge. The theme for that was pretty broad, simply calling for spring nails.
My base colors were Zoya Rebel, 2 coats, and OPI's Petal Faster Suzy!, 3 coats, then a coat of Seche. The nails done with Petal were stamped with Bundle Monster BM-314 and Pure Ice Silver Mercedes, the other Betina B-16 and Silver Mercedes. All topped again with Seche.
Yesterday, I was in the mood for pink and white, something I don't do very often. The base color was 2 coats of my all time favorite white, OPI's My Boyfriend Scales Walls followed by a coat of Seche. I wanted to create a water spotted effect, and since I fail at the actual technique, I stamped it. Mine came from Vivid Lacquer VL009, using OPI's 50 is the New Fabulous for the "spotted" pink. Topped with Seche, then matted with OPI's Matte Topcoat.
For today, I went with two of Zoya's fabulous jelly holos, Aurora and Dream. Two coats of each with a coat of Seche :)
Good evening and happy Friday! Woot woot!
I've got a few manis to show off tonight :) Let's start with today's Texture Friday.
I wore a new Pixie Dust today, Zoya's Lux from their Spring Magical Pixies. These pixies are rougher than the pixies they released last year. Lux doesn't see quite as rough as Cosmo and Vega, which I wore last month I believe. I applied two coats and let them dry a while before stamping. The plate was Vivid Lacquer VL 019, the colors OPI's Every Month is Oktoberfest and Pure Ice Silver Mercedes.
Thursday featured a new glitter from Candy Lacquer, Candy Confetti. I knew this glitter contained round and square glitters, but it also has heart shapes and diamonds too. Not a lot, at least not that I got onto my nails. I sponged it over 2 coats of Nails, Inc Baker Street with a coat of Seche sandwiched inbetween. I put a coat of Gelous over the glitter, then Seche.
And Wednesday....... Originally, I was going to do a bright yellow, but I got talked into doing a black and glitter mani. Rather than use two seperate polishes, I pulled out butter LONDON's The Black Knight. Yeah....... I have a seriously love/hate relationship with the polish. I love love love the color of the glitters and how it's kinda jelly like. However, I hate how it pulls away from my free edges, making it look shitty when I topcoat. It's not the topcoat doing it, it's TBK. I think the next time I wear it, it's going to be with undies -_-
I fully admit I retouched the pics just so the free edges looked decent. This is two coats, a coat of Gelous, and a coat of Seche.
Good evening and happy St. Patrick's Day!! Did y'all wear green, or did you risk getting pinched? :P I did, and not just on my nails lol. My dad thought he had me, but I'm too smart for that! Lol
So here's what I did for my nails. I actually really love how they turned out. On my thumbs and ring fingers, I painted two coats of Zoya Josie, then a coat of Zoya Opal, then Seche. On the other fingers, on went two coats of Zoya Neely, then Seche. I then used Saran Wrap and "sponged" on Josie. I stamped over all nails using Messy Mansion plate MM 04 and Pure Ice Silver Mercedes, and topped everything with Seche.
