Hello, and good afternoon! I hope your Monday is going well :)
So, it's time for me to catch up again. Things just got hectic around here last week; then, when I wanted to post, my USB cable for my phone wouldn't connect -_- Had to wait until today, but here it is!
Today's PAA Mani Monday prompt was water marble/waterfall. Of course, I chose water marble. This also knocks out the same prompt for the 52WPNMC, yay! This water marble was directly inspired by another member of PAA, so credit goes to Lo Figuero :)
Colors used were Zoya Willa, Prim, and Haven, and OPI Nail Envy. Zoya's matte topcoat to matte it.
Inlinkz for the 52SPNMC:
Sunday I didn't have anything on my nails, because I didn't go anywhere :P But Saturday was my nephew's birthday. My thumbs, index, and rings were done with KBShimmer's Funky Cold Patina. The water marble accents were Zoya Serenity and Cecelia over Tiffany.
Friday was Michael Jackson's birthday, so I had to do a mani for that. Both colors used were from Colors by Llarowe's MJ Tribute collections. They're the only two I own, Thriller and Smooth Criminal. I created a gradient with them, my first holo gradient, I might add lol. The stamped images came from the Chez Delaney MJ plate, stamped in MdU white.
I did a little TBT last week, breaking out my black Shatter. I layered it over OPI's Get Cherried Away. I think I'm finally ready for some fall colors, because it certainly reminded me of fall.
#watermarblepracticewed's prompt last week was fishtail braid. I think mine was more of a fail, but I had to try. The colors I used were Zoya Sia (OMG I love this blue!), Nana, and Neely over Purity.
Last Tuesday was a dotticure. All colors were OPI-
My Boyfriend Scales Walls
Suzi has a Swede Tooth
My Dogsled is a Hybrid
Get Cherried Away
OPI's matte topcoat for the matteness.
For last Monday's PAA Mani Monday, the prompt was August birthday symbols. I chose to do a peridot colored mani, using Zoya Jace and Stassi.
The previous Saturday, I had a memorial service to attend for a dear friend. I didn't want anything too flashy, but not completely boring either. My base color for this mani was KBShimmer Pt Young Thing, which is a goregous silver holo. I stamped over that with roses from BBF19 in MdU black.
That Friday's mani, I'm not sure where I was going with it lol. Looking back at it, it feels kinda unfinished, but I wasn't sure what else to do with it. It was a Saran Wrap mani with Zoya Kristen and Skylar. I like the look, I just think it needed something else....
And, lastly, that Thursday's main. It was a MATTE ALL THE FLAKIEZ!! day. The base was OPI Keeping Suzi at Bay with ILNP Kaleidoscope layered over it. OPI matte topcoat to finish it.
Good afternoon!
I've got some new pretties to show off today! I'm just loving all the bright colors that everyone seems to be coming out with this spring and summer; I think they know what a sucker I am for them lol.
Today's mani was rather simple, but I love the color. Yellow itself is not unique to my collection, but a yellow with a turquoise shimmer is. Zoya Daisy is just that. I found the formula a little tricky to work with, I needed 4 coats for it to be even. Three might have been enough, but it's hard to tell with the lighting in my bedroom sometimes.
Yesterday was water marble day :) It came out more subtle than I intended, but it was still pretty. The colors are from China Glaze's Electric Nights collection, which I totally recommend getting as many as you can. They're gorgeous, and I love the glitters, too! I used Treble Maker and UV Meant to Be over White on White, then topped with Seche.
I actually did up this week's Stamping Sunday challenge, which was "roses aren't red.... flowers in unusual colors". I've never seen flowers in neon colors, unless they're dyed, so my base was a neon. This is Morgan Taylor's Pink Flame-ingo. It was a little streaky, but needed no white undies, so three coats was good for it. I stamped over with MdU sky blue, from her new Candy collection, and Winstonia W315. Seche to finish it.
I officially have no more new textured polishes :( Instead of a true textured polish, I went with a textured look, meaning I used a Crackle! Yes, I still love them, and wish I could some neon ones for summer. For this mani, I started with a base of Color Club's Disco's not Dead, which a pretty, light yellow creme. For all it's pastel-ness, it has a decent formula, and only needed 3 coats. Seche over that, then a coat of China Glaze's Crushed Candy, another coat of Seche, and a coat of Matte Magic.
Thursday was a purple-y kind of day. Zoya Leslie was my base at three coats. Leslie is such a pretty color. Seche went over that, then it got stamped with MdU violet and FUN 14. Another coat of Seche to finish it.
This next mani is my absolute favorite in quite a while, and that's saying a lot. I only used three colors, and a glitter, three of them from the Electric Nights collection. The white base is White on White. The others are Glow With the Flow, Home Sweet House Music, and Point me to the Party. This was such a fun mani to create, and I loved it.
Good evening!!
I hope everyone had a great weekend. It did nothing but rain and be miserable here alllll weekend. I did make a trip to Cosmo Prof Saturday and Publix on Sunday, but that was about it. The weather was just too yucky to be out in.
I did manage to do a mani for yesterday and for Stamping Sunday, so let's get to them! The one group I'm in that does week long challenges, the theme for this week was dotticures, stamped or not. Mine was done with a dotting tool but I don't like how it came out; my original colors were too dark.
The base color was 2 coats of Zoya Mira. The first set of dots were Zoya Kelly, which didn't show up very well, so I added dots in Zoya Dove. These were only on my thumbs and ring finger. Those fingers only got matted with Morgan Taylor's Matte's a Wrap.
See? You can't hardly tell the dots in Kelly -_-
The Stamping Sunday challenge this week was using single images only, no full nail images. I wasn't really feelin' this challenge, but I half assed it anyways. I had a new Colors by Llarowe that I wanted to try :P
The base was 2 coats of The Way You Make Me Feel, from the Michael Jackson Tribute collection Colors by Llarowe. She had launched the original collection last year, and relaunched with new colors last month. This was one of the colors that caught my eye. My stamped images came from Nailways A-NW00013 and Winstonia W217, stamped in Mundo de Unas Lilac. Topped with Seche to finish it.
Now, it was really craptastic on Sunday when I took the outdoor pics, even with the flash. There are two sets, outside with the flash and inside with the flash.
Yes, that last pic is a bit blurry, but is shows the holo-ness and the sparkly-ness of the base really well.
Good afternoon!!
I hope y'all had a good weekend :) Mine was so-so, nothing really exciting to report here, unless you count a new pair of sandals and new purse as exciting lol.
Alrighty, as the title implies, I'm gonna be showing y'all a few of my favorite things, mani style, starting with today's mani. For anyone that knows me, one of my absolute favorite things in the world is mint, barely surpassing my love chocolate, and, as you prolly guessed, it's only better when it's mint and chocolate. I'm talking not just candy and food, but scents, too. So it's really no wonder that I'm been wanting to do some sort of mint chocolate mani for quite some time.
I'll be honest, I own more than one or two mint colored polishes, because they really aren't the same. The latest I picked up was Morgan Taylor's Mint Chocolate Chip, and I just knew this was the base for this mani. Application was a little better than my other mints, but still needed three coats. I added "chocolate" dots in the form of Color Club Rebel Spirit (literally the only brown I own....) and topped with Seche. Simple, yet fun and cool :) MCC isn't as blue leaning as my pics show it; the first one is actually pretty close to what it looks like.
Yesterday's mani featured three of my favorite things- Zoya, matte, and Mundo de Unas stamping polish. The base was 2 coats of Rooney from Zoya's Tickled collection, the stamping color was fiusca from MdU, and stamped image from Sugar Bubbles SB 022. Topped with Seche, matted with Morgan Taylor's Mattes a Wrap.
For Stamping Sunday, the theme was tiger nails for Global Tiger Day, which, incidentally, is today. This also featured Zoya and MdU. Base colors were Sharon and Purity, three coats each. Plates used were Sugar Bubbles SB 002, Winstonia W-03, and 63 from aliexpress (I honestly don't know what else to call this plate. Also I'm so happy to use it finally, all thanks to MdU stamping polishes!), and the stamping polish was MdU black. Topped with Seche.
This was obviously my left hand. I used the same images and colors on my right hand, I just switched the base colors around, so that Purity was the accent, and Sharon was on the rest :)
Good afternoon!! Happy Friday!!
I'm gonna try to keep this short, because I have limited time today, so here we go!
For Textured Friday, I've got one the latest Magical Pixies from Zoya, Ginni. Two coats for this mani, even though I kept thinking I should have done a third. I know it looks like I've got tip wear on a few fingers, but I don't; it's just where the base itself only covered and not any of the glitter. I hesitate to do three coats for the Magical Pixies, only because they can look "heavy" like that.
Yesterday was a simple dotticure. Base color was 2 coats of Morgan Taylor's One Cool Cat, the dots were also Morgan Taylor, Varsity Jacket Blues. Topped with Seche.
Wednesday, I did up a 50's themed mani. The base colors were both Zoya, 3 coats of Kitridge and 2 coats of Black Swan, then a coat of Seche. Stamped images were from Mo You London plates, Rebel 2 and 3, and Back to the Future 01, stamping colors were Mundo de Unas black and white. Final coat of Seche.
Good afternoon! I hope everyone had a great weekend, regardless of celebrating Independence Day or not :D I had a rather uneventful one myself. Independence Day is also my grandma's birthday, so the family got together to celebrate it. It was nice :)
I've got several manis to show you, so let's get started! Today's mani was inspired by a compact I picked up a month or so ago, which happened to be vintage inspired. I love it, here's a pick of it:
I knew when I got it that I wanted to create a dotticure with these colors, and it finally happened. I used 3 coats of Zoya Purity for the base and Zoya Rooney and Morgan Taylor Going Native for the dots, and finished it off with a coat of Seche.
I almost went matte on this, but decided to keep it shiny. Seems I've had a matte fetish lately, and want to MATTE ALL THE MANIS!!! :P
Yesterday I wore one of my favorite reds, OPI's Peru-B-Ruby. I had forgotten how much I love this color, I hadn't worn it in so long. Two perfectly easy coats then Seche. I stamped over it with, what looks like a Spiderman pattern but I promise it isn't, Winstonia W-202 and Mundo de Unas Black, then another coat of Seche.
Stamping Sunday's theme for this week was lacy. I had a hard time finding a lacy pattern; I think I only have a handful of them. I settled on Bundle Monster BM-H23, stamped in Mundo de Unas White, over 3 coats of Morgan Taylor's Take me to Your Tribe. I can not say how much I love this periwinkle blue; I've been searching for a color this for I don't know how long, and I finally found it!!! I added dots in Morgan Taylor Varsity Jacket Blues, then topped with Seche followed by Mattes a Wrap. When I took the pics, I didn't realize the dots were a little hard to see, but they are there, I swear lol.
And, lastly, my Independence Day mani. I kept it kinda simple, because my manis tend to get trashed on holidays for some reason. I kept with my Textured Friday theme, and used Zoya Chyna and Liberty, and OPI Solitaire. Chyna and Solitaire were two coats each and Liberty was 3. I wasn't able to get pics before the festivities, but amazingly, I had no chips or tipwear when I got these. Yay textures!
