Good evening!!
So, yeah, this week has been hectic. Between not working, because my Jeep broke down last week (>.<), then working and trying to get stuff done, and adjusting to my husband's new work schedule still, things are quite unsettled here. I've been pretty exhausted at night, so hadn't felt up to posting, even though I have four manis to share :) Tonight was the first evening all week that I'm still cognizant enough at this point to do so.
Let's jump right in!
Yesterday was Texture Friday, and for that I did an entire mani with Zoya Liberty. I'm not sure I have before; I know that I have used her as an accent, but I'm just too lazy to look and see if I had for an entire or not :P Let it be known, I am nicknaming Liberty the Great Blue Stainer, because that's what she is. Holy hell! I love this color, but wow, the staining I had around and on my nails was horrible. I love my blues, and this is price I pay for the more green toned blues.
My mani was two coats over bare nails.
For Thursday's mani, I wanted something dark and vampy, but still a little fun. I actually had to redo this mani, because the first time, not only did it just not look right, but my SV was giving me fits. I'm guessing it didn't like my filed back length much, since it kept shrinking up on the free edge. Perfect opportunity for me to try out a different topcoat.
My final mani was Zoya Raven with accents of Zoya Suri on my thumbs and ring fingers, each at two coats. With my last Zoya order, I received a free bottle of the Qtica Extending Topcoat. It's nowhere near as thick as SV, but it is nice and shiny, and I didn't have any chips at the end of the day. I do recommend you use some kind of drying drops, because it takes a long time to dry, even with a rapid dry spray.
Wednesday's mani was none too complicated either. Two coats of OPI's Eurso Euro, one coat of Finger Paints Motley, one coat of Seche.
And Tuesday's mani. This was when I first noticed SV giving me fits, although this one wasn't as bad as Wed. and Thurs's manis. Thank goodness for photo editting, since I didn't have time to change Wednesday's!
This mani started with a base of 2 coats of Zoya Blaze followed by Seche. Dry, dry, dry, then time to stamp. I got some plates in last week from Nailways. They have some amazing plates; I picked up the Darker Period set, and used NW00013 for this mani, stamped in Pure Ice Silver Mercedes. Topped it off with Seche and done.
Can you tell I've been really feeling the darker, fall colors this week? :)
/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 :)
Good evening! The last days have been rather busy for me, but I finally have some time to post today's mani as well as two others. So sit back and enjoy!
I'm gonna start with the manis I had on Thursday and Friday. For Thursday, I did an orange jelly mani. In this order, I did one coat each of Zoya Myrta, China Glaze Mango Madness, and Zoya Coraline, topped with SV. I think this by far my favorite jelly mani that I've attemped.
For Friday, I chose Zoya Tallulah and Song, two coats each topped with Poshe, with Song on my accent finger.
Please excuse the crappy indoor pics. I had absolutely no time to take them until after the sun went down Friday lol.
Last, but not least, is today's Stamping Sunday challenge. The theme called for using gold, silver, or bronze as either the base or stamping color. One of my favorite color combos is black and silver; I just needed to what to stamp and how.
I have only a few blacks I like, so that choice was easy: Zoya Raven. I think everyone needs this black because it's just not a plain black. Raven has a subtle silver shimmer that adds depth. I applied two smooth coats and topped with SV before I stamped. For the silver stamping, I used China Glaze Millennium and my new Vivid Lacquer plate 002. Topped it all off with SV.
So, there you have it! I hope you all had a great weekend!
Good evening! Happy humpday and Pink Wednesday!
I bring to you tonight a trend that's been pretty popular in the nail world for several months now: accent nails. Accent nails are a fun way to add some zip to your mani, and the great thing about them is there are no limits on what you can do! Usually, ring fingers and thumbs are used as accents, but it's really up to you which you chose as your accent.
For my accent mani, I picked my ring fingers and thumbs, and kept it simple. I painted my accents with Zoya Arizona, and the other three fingers were done in Zoya Shelby. I applied 3 coats of each and topped with Poshe. That's it!
I seriously thought that this mani would trigger an OCD fit in me, but it didn't bother me as much as I thought it would lol. I really love this color combo, it's so pretty :)
Good evening! I hope y'all had a great weekend; if not, tomorrow's a new day and can only be better :)
Ok, so today's Stamping Sunday theme was called "inspired by something you love". This was really a no brainer for me lol. I took three of my favorite things and put them into one mani.
I started with two coats of Blue My Mind from OPI. This is one of my first ever OPIs and one of my favorite blues (out of allllllll the blues I own, and I own a lot :P). I then layered 1 coat of Me + Blue from Nicole by OPI. It's my understanding that Me + Blue and the Ulta exclusive The Flowers are Blue-ming! are the same thing, so you don't need both. I can't take credit for coming up with this combo; a good friend of mine on FaceBook did it first and I loved it so much I wanted to copy it. Blue and holo, what's not to love?
I topped that all with SV and waited for my ring fingers to dry enough to stamp on. I didn't really feel up to stamping the entire mani, so I only did accents. I used Red Angel plate 102 and Konad special white for the accents. I absolutely love butterflies and this is one of my favorite images. I only wish it was bigger. One last coat of SV on the accents and done!
Oh, and this is another image where my squishy stamper came in handy. I really only used part of this particular image this time.
