Good afternoon! I hope the day finds you well :) Yay for the week being almost over! It seems like it's been a long one, or it's just me lol. Maybe I need a vacation!
Anyways. Here's my offering of manis to you, starting with today's 52WPNMC prompt, tie dye. I didn't do tie dye, per se, more a tie dye look. I created a vertical gradient using crellies I have from the China Glaze Electric Nights collection. This was done over a white base, of course, and topped with Seche Vite. Colors used are as follows:
White on White
Glow With the Flow
Home Sweet House Music
Daisy Know my Name?
Treble Maker
DJ Blue my Mind
Plur-ple
Inlinkz to the other participants:
For yesterday's #watermarblepracticewed, the prompt was over a glitter base. I had recently repurchased OPI DS Titanium, mainly because I felt I gave it an unfair boot. I layered a coat of it over OPI Incognito in Sausalito. For the water marble, I used Nail Envy and My Dogsled is a Hybrid.
I actually really like how this looked :) Topped with Seche Vite.
Tuesday, I tried a new to me Zoya, Ginger. Okay, this not the color I envision with a name like Ginger, but Zoya has a habit of doing that. Ginger is what I would call tiger lily orange, and is similar in finish to Zoya Lianne. Ginger was surprisingly opaque in 2 coats, where Lianne takes 3. I stamped over Ginger with Mundo brown and UberChic UC 1-01. Looks kinda fallish, but I liked it.
Monday was just a stamping over of Sunday's mani, which was ILNP Float On. Omg, I just love this color, it's so gorgeous, and it was opaque in two coats! I haven't tried to stamp with it yet, but I bet it would. Stamped over it is Messy Mansion MM42 in Mundo mint.
I apologize now for the less than sharp-ness of the stamped pic XD
I had a new textured polish to try out last Friday, yay!! It was Marine for Formula X for Sephora, from the Sea Glass collection. Love the color, it's so pretty. Marine is an oddly smooth textured polish; the longer I wore it, the more I thought it should have been topcoated, but I don't topcoat textures. They usually eat topcoat. Marine was opaque in two coats, and was easy to apply.
Last Thursday was the last prompt of the month, and for a month or two, of the 30DoCC. One of the prompts was grey, which is what I picked to do. For that, I used Zoya Temperance, which I hadn't used yet. This is a pretty grey with a pinkish shimmer to it. Reminded me a bit of an OPI, but I can't think of it. Temperance did fine with just two coats.
And Inlinkz to the last prompt:
Good morning!
How is your weekend going? Mine is just great :) Busy, but not crazy busy.
So, last weekend I decided to take a part in a 31 day challenge. I hadn't done one for quite some time, so I figured what the heck. This is the one the organizer found:
We're on day 9 today, but I don't have that mani ready to show you yet, and I don't polish my nails for Saturdays, so we're going back to day 7, black and white nails. That was Friday, so that also means I wore textured polish that day :) I picked Zoya Dahlia and OPI Solitaire. Two coats each for my mani.
Day 6 was violet nails. My base colors was 2 coats of Zoya Lotus, then a coat of Seche. I stamped over that, using Mundo de Unas Violet and MJ XXIX from myonlineshop, then another coat of Seche.
Early, early last year, I had posted about my experience with OPI's DS Lapis and Pewter. I had promptly sold them after my bad experience with them, but it had nevr occurred to me to topcoat them then rematt them so they wouldn't chip. I found Lapis on clearance at Salon Centric recently, and I had to give it a second chance.
My mani was two coats of Lapis followed by a coat of Seche. While it was pretty by itself, I wanted to use a new stamping plate I got, Marianne 84, which is, of course, butterflies. The images used were stamped in MdU silver, topped again with Seche, then matted with OPI's matte topcoat.
I'm happy to report that I had no chips with Lapis this time. I may need to try this with my Suedes, because they're chippers, too. This mani was Day 5 blue nails.
Day 4 was green nails, and I used a polish that I had just swapped for, Literary Lacquers Lake of Shining Waters. Honestly, I can't believe my camera actually made my pics look like the bottle color, which is a teal green, because on me, it was more green than teal. Not that that was a bad thing, I like anyways, it's very pretty.
The stamped images are from Mo You London Back to the 20's 01 and Cheeky Jumbo 5, all stamped in Essie Penny Talk, then topped with Seche. The base color was three coats, with a coat of Seche under the stamping.
Monday's nails were a redo of Stamping Sunday's fail, which I'll get to. It was also Day 3 yellow nails. The base color is 3 coats of OPI's I Just Can't Cope-cabana, then a coat of Seche on my index, middle, and pinky fingers. On the accents went two coats of Sally Hansen Crochet from their Luxe Lace collection.
The Luxe Lace collection are matte glitter toppers. It makes me happy to see more mainstream companies picking on this trend. Even though these look thick in the bottle, like last summer's failed glitter toppers from SH, these apply very nicely, or at least Crochet. I picked up Eyelet (white glitter) yesterday and plan on using it today in my pedi.
On the other fingers, I stamped the houndstooth image in MdU pastel blue from Jr. 20 (Stamping Sunday theme was using a plate ending in 0). Everything was topped with Seche after that.
Sunday's great big fail...... Not because of anything that I actually did. Sunday was Day 2 orange nails and Stamping Sunday. What I pictured in my head translated nicely to the nail...... until topcoat was added -_-
The base was 3 coats of Zoya Cole, then a coat of Seche. My stamped image came from the same Jr. 20 plate ^^^^, and my stamping color was MdU mexican pink. I knew that color was a stainer for skin and stampers, but I also found it it's a bleeder and it changes colors. After I topcoated, mexican pink bled and turned into an almost neon pink from a pretty, medium pink. I pushed on and matted it, and that made it worse. I ended up taking it off less then 12 hours later and only took one pic to show you.
Good evening!
I've got today's Stamping Sunday mani to show you :) Today's theme was, literally, anything goes. Now, I've seen quite a few manis in Adventures in Stamping that are, just, wow, and then there were a few naked nails pics lol. I think mine falls somewhere in between.
My base was 3 coats of OPI's DS Coronation. It had been quite a while since I lasted used it, and I can't image why I hadn't. It's a beautiful, silver scattered holo. You don't need a special base for balding or streaking. I topped with Seche and let that dry as I cleaned up around the nails.
For the stamped images, I used Messy Mansion plate MM05. I bought this plate specifically because my husband loves dragons :) I used Color Club's Beyond to stamp the images with. Yep, holo on holo. The black wasn't quite as bold as I wouldn't liked, but I think that's more user error than anything else.
Good evening!
Very quickly, I wanted to get this posted, since it's late and I'm tired :) Today's mani was inspired by a blog I subscribe, Southern Sister Polish. She did this amazing, blue holo gradient with freehand butterfly wings over it yesterday, and I wanted to give it a shot.
My blue holo gradient consisted of OPI's DS Sapphire and Glamour, topped with Seche, and allowed to dry before stamping. The wing images I used were from my Nails Craze plate NC01 stamped in Sinful Colors Black on Black, white dots were Wet 'N Wild French White. All topped with Seche :)
Good evening and Happy April Fool's! Have you fallen for any pranks/jokes today? Or were you the mastermind behind one (or a few!)? I didn't pull any, but I certainly fell for one xD Needless to say, I was little embarrassed and annoyed about it, but oh, well. It was harmless lol.
Tonight's dupe post is no joke though. Up for comparison are OPI's DS Coronation and Milani's HD. Here's the bottle pic:
Just by that alone, you can tell that they are very close. Once I got them on the nails, I couldn't really tell the difference, to be honest, except for the formula. Coronation took 3 while HD needed 4 (note, this may be user error, not the fault of the polish). See for yourself. Index and ring fingers are Coronation, middle and pinky are HD, no topcoat at all. I know the third pic is blurry, but even in that one you can't see any difference between the two.
Final thought: if you can't find Coronation in your area, or you just don't want to pay the price for the DS line, I recommend getting the Milani. In addition to the silver holo, they have 3 or 4 other colors available in the 3D holo line that are very pretty. They're scattered holo, but holo nonetheless. So, at about a quarter of the price and readily available, I'd say it's a win win :)
Good evening!
I have a few more sparkly, cheery, holiday manis to show you. I'll start with today's mani, which is a gorgeous purple gradient. For this look, I started with 2 coats of OPI's Funky Dunkey and topped with Seche and let that dry completely.
Taking my slightly damp sponge, I then sponged on OPI's DS Temptation. I only needed one pass of it for this mani. I did, though, need two coats of Gelous to smooth it out; Temptation is a topcoat eater, as beautiful as it is. I applied another coat of Seche to finish it off.
Yesterday's mani was rather simple. Using Zoya Noel and Fei Fei, in that order, I applied two coats of each and topped with Poshe. Fei Fei reminds me very much of Zoya Belle from the Birchbox set.
Now the swatches! The first is Orly's Velvet Rope, the other is Essence Blue Ray, two coats each.
Hello and good afternoon!
I hope today finds you well and full of weekend plans. This morning, I pulled out my fall decorations and did up my house. Now, if only the weather would cooperate and get cooler -.- Most of the rest of the country is cooler right now, except us. Oh, the torture.
Anyways! As the title says, I have some holo goodness for you in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness. I really only own one pink holo, and that is OPI's DS Signature. So, without further ado, here are the pics!
For this mani, I did 3 coats of the precious and Poshe base and topcoats. That's it, I kept it pretty simple for this one.
Check back tomorrow for the Stamping Sunday challenge, Metallic Madness!
Good morning.
It is with a heavy heart that I write this morning's post. By now, most of you have prolly heard about the movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado very early this morning. My heart and prayers go out to all those whose lives' were affected by this tragic event. You can find quite a bit of info on just about every news and social media outlet if you don't know what happened.
Reluctantly moving on, I bring you one of my untried, only swatched colors. I've had this color for several months but just hadn't had the opportunity to really wear it, mostly because the weather was just so crappy when I got it. This is the kind of color you want to wear when it's bright and sunny out, because it's a holo :)
I kept this mani pretty simple, so as not to drown out the holoness. All I did were 3 coats of OPI's DS Sapphire topped with Poshe and that was it. Contrary to the name, DS Sapphire is not sapphire colored; it's more of a sky blue than anything. Personally, I think OPI should have switched DS Sapphire and DS Glamour name wise :P
