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! 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 Pink Wednesday to everyone! As a bit of warning, as the title of this post says, I have some pedi spam to show you but I will save that for last :) First, though, is today's mani.
So, a few days ago, I got some new glitters in the mail, Sour Apple and Mango Madness from an older China Glaze collection. These two glitters are very like Teedage and Last Friday Night from OPI, with their thicker, colored bases and small holo glitter. From what I can tell, the two China Glaze's aren't quite as thick as the later OPIs and are more manageable. They are quite sheer even after a few coats.
Normally when I do a candy mani, I use a matching or complementary creme base. Another method is useing your jelly polish as the base, which is what I tried today. I started with 2 coats of Zoya Kate. Once dry, I layered one coat of Mango Madness, the Zoya Belle, all topped with SV. This came out more orange than I intended, but it's a pretty orange-pink color.
Ok, now for pedi spam! If you don't like looking at pedis, I suggest you stop reading!
On my last trip to Ulta, I picked my third butter LONDON, The Black Knight. I love this polish! It's a black base with multi colored glitter that's just stunning. It is, unfortunately, a topcoat eater. To cure that, I used Gelous, which I picked up at Sally's, over two coats of TBK. After that, I used SV so it would dry faster.
And good evening!
As promised, here is today's Pink Wednesday post!
It seems I'm on a bit of a jelly kick, because I used one for today's feature. This time, though, I chose to do a candy mani as opposed to just the jelly. There are a few ways to do a candy mani-
1. One coat base color, 1-2 coats glitter, 1 coat jelly.
2. Two coats glitter, 1 coat jelly.
3. One coat jelly, 1-2 coats glitter, 1 coat jelly.
There may be others, but those are the ones that I'm familiar with. Normally, I do the first method, but it's entirely up to you. It's really a matter of the look you're trying to achieve. Today, I decided to give the second method a whirl, so I started with one of my chosen jelly, OPI's Do You Think I'm Tex-y?, with 2 coats of Wet 'N Wild's Bow in my Presence (Coloricon line), with a second coat of DYTIT. Since it was a little rough and I wanted to stamp, I topped with SV.
Now, since it was a candy mani, I had the cute idea of stamping candy on top. I flipped though my plates until I found the closest image possible, bornpretty plate m37. I stamped the lollipop image with China Glaze's Millennium and finished it all with another coat of SV.
I gotta say, I'm a little iffy about this one. It's not quite as cute as I pictured it in my head, but it could be the color combo. Or, I could just be overly critical xD Anyways, you can judge for yourself.
Good evening!
As promised, here is today's pink mani! Today, I'm featuring a polish that I truly did buy just for the name; Orly's Butterflies. Why, you may ask. Well, I absolutely love butterflies. They represent the transformation that we, as women, go through. There's nothing more graceful than watching a butterfly in flight. So, when I saw a fellow blogger featuring this polish, I knew I had to have, even if I never wore it.
For today's mani, I decided to create a candy mani, since Butterflies is a jelly polish. I started with one coat of OPI's DC Cherry Blossom, then layered two coats of Sally Hansen's Strobelight over DCCB. Strobelight it, by the way, a dead on dupe for OPI's Teenage Dream. The glitter may be a teeny bit smaller, but that's it. On top of all that, I layered a single coat of Butterflies and topped it all with SV. I am not looking forward to taking this off, lol.
Good morning! I hope it's nice and sunny wherever you're at today. Doesn't look like that will happening here much at all in "Sunshine" State, lol, at least not this weekend!
Ok, so have you ever had a mani idea that just didn't turn out how you thought it would? That maybe you should have used something other than what you did? Yeah, that's this mani here. I've been wanting to do a green candy mani for ages, but just never got to it. I finally, finally did for Friday. I started with 2 coats of Gaga for Green from China Glaze and let that dry. For the glitter, I used 2 coats of Servin' Up Sparkle from OPI. My jelly was one coat of Go on Green!, the green version. I definitely think I should have used a different glitter, because this didn't turn out well......
I may have to give this another shot in the future with, say, Simmer and Shimmer. Also, I've been slowing working my way through my swatch pics and getting those editted and posted. I still have more to swatch, but I'm working my way through that too.
