I'm baaaaack!!

Good morning everyone!!

I'm finally feeling better, not 100% back to normal but close enough that I worked this week and did my nails :) I have several manis I want to share with you, so let's get started! I'll with today's.

Today is my nephew's 4th bday party, and I wanted something fun and cute. My base is something that I just knew I was gonna to use for this particular mani, even though I wasn't totally sure it would arrive in time. Over 1 coat of Milani's White on the Spot, I layered two coats of Jindie Nails' Betty's Fetti Milkshake. BFM is a white crelly base just packed with matte glitters of many colors. I did find that I needed to use a coat of Gelous before the Seche to smooth it out (which I'm finding typical of my indie glitters....). 

For the stamped images, the plates I used were Messy Mansion MM02, Winstonia  W117, and Red Angel RA103, stamped with Maybelline Color Show in Flash of Purple and Navy Narcissist, Sally Hansen Insta-Dri on Jumpin' Jade, and Confetti Purple Reigns. All topped with another coat of Seche.

Now, the next mani I so meant to post yesterday, because I want to feature textured polishes on Fridays. I was just a little too tired, and was trying to get the above mani done to post it =\ But here it is!

Friday's Textured Mani featured Zoya Tomoko. Tomoko is from the Fall 2013 Pixie Dust collection that I bought and received on Monday. Even though I had read the description, I was a little disappointed that Tomoko wasn't more silver. I think this is the first time I was disappointed in a Zoya color. Don't get me wrong, I like it and will be keeping it, I just wish it was more silver than champagne. I applied 3 coats of Tomoko to my bare nail, and had hardly any wear by the time I took it of yesterday.

Wednesday's mani was a tribute to the beautiful, late Marilyn Monroe. I absolutely adore her, and think she's one of the most beautiful women to grace the silver screen :)

My base was 3 coats of Zoya Shelby followed by a coat of Seche. The images I used were from Rica GLAM-01, Mundo de Unas Handy 39 (I may have just butchered that >.<), and Sugar Bubbles 002, all stamped in OPI's Every Month is Oktoberfest. I'll be the first one to admit, I have bought plates for just the Marilyn images on them :) But I don't have duplicates yet lol.

And, lastly, is Tuesday's mani, which was rather simple. Just two of Zoya Yummy with a coat of Zoya Maisie, followed by a coat of Seche.

Stamping Sunday and a few others.....

Good evening!

Sorry I haven't been around much this last week. We had a tropical storm pass through my area on Thursday, which pretty much scragged up the week. It also stressed me out enough to put me on trigger edge for panic attacks x.x Having lived through Hurricane Charley in 2004, it's not something I ever want to go through again. I know a tropical storm doesn't even compare to the tragedy in Oklahoma, but it's not easy for me. I do have some pretty manis to show to you.

I'll start off with today's Stamping Sunday. The theme was complementary colors off a color wheel. The first set of colors I picked weren't complementary, so I had to pick again. I settled on Zoya Josie and OPI's Pamploma Purple. Let me just say, I do not like how these two colors ended up looking together. I was really hoping PP would look more red toned, but it didn't. My stamping plate was Rica Glam-01, which I bought off Etsy. I thought making it matte would make the mani look better, but I think it just looks like zombie lips. I hate it, but maybe someone else will like it lol.

Now, I liked Friday's mani much better, even though Zoya Charisma was being difficult. I layered three coats of that over 1 coat of Zoya Purity to make pop. And it did! It just didn't want to go on even =\ So, I stamped over, using my jumbo Cheeky plate, Musical Notes, in Wet 'N Wild French White. Topped with Seche, of course.

Wednesday's mani was more simple, but just as cheery. Two coats of Zoya Darcy, one coat of Nubar 2010, one coat of OPI Matte Coat.