Good evening!
Boy, it's been a busy week. Mostly, it was just work, but sometimes, that's enough lol. I have a few manis to show you, starting with today's Stamping Sunday.
The theme for today was, of course, Valentine's day. Not that anyone won't be doing one on Valentine's, right? Lol. The colors I used for mine, I haven't seen used by anyone else. I started with a base of Zoya Piaf with 3 coats. Piaf was surprisingly not horribly streaky, just a bit sheer. I love how it's more a golden yellow as opposed to a lemony yellow. I topped with Seche and let it dry.
For my stamped images, I used Red Angel plates 106 and 120, stamped in Color Club's Cosmic Fate. If you don't have any of the Halo Hues from Color Club, I urge you to get them! They are so incredibly holo and stamp so nicely. I plan on purchasing more as soon as the tax return comes in :P
Friday's mani, in my opinion, was very cute. It was stamped also. My base with 2 coats of Zoya Gie Gie. Can I just say how much I love this color?! Gie Gie is a gorgeous, cherry blossom pink, a true cherry blossom pink. It's very similar to OPI's Pedal Faster Suzi!, but is lighter. I then stamped some lips over that from Bundle Monster plate 303 in Zoya Sooki.
Alrighty then, Thursday's mani was relatively easy compared to those two, Wednesday's as well. Both were two coats of the base, Zoya Blu and Zuza respectively, and one of the layering color, Zoya Opal and Orly Twilight. I absolutely love how Blu/Twilight came out.
Good evening and happy Friday! Got any big plans for the weekend? I don't, other than chillaxing after some hellish customers this week.
Anyways! I have two pretty manis to show you, today's and Wednesday's. They're not especially fancy or complicated, but they are pretty and I like how they came out. I'll start with today's.
It seemed somwhat appropriate to start wearing some spring like colors, since we've had weather that's more like spring than winter here. Nothing says spring more than yellow, so I picked China Glaze's Sunshine Pop. It's not a bright yellow, but it's cheery and happy and warm :) I applied two, somewhat thicker coats (this is a little streaky, but no where near as bad as other yellows), then layered one coat of Nubar 2010 over it. Seche over top of that and done.
Wednesday's mani was a little more subdued but just as pretty. It started with two coats of Zoya Jo. I absolutely like this periwinkle blue, and my camera finally captured it. Then I layered one coat of Orly's Twilight (which I finally found this past weekend at Marshall's!) over that. Twilight gave it just the right amount of sparkle without looking like glitter :)
Good evening!
Right before Halloween, I had order this completely girly plate from a seller on Ebay. This was after seeing posted in the wonderful stamping group I'm a member of on Face Book. Well, it came yesterday and instead doing my blog post, I played around with my new plate, mostly just see to how well the images stamped :P
Needless to say, I did not get around to making yesterday's post lol. I will say that my time was wasted well, since most of the images I tried (which wasn't all of them, more like 75%) stamped nicely. Only one or two didn't. Tomorrow's stamped mani will feature a few images from my new plate.
Ok, moving forward! I missed the whole Teal Toes awareness, since I think I was in school at the time. I figured that I would kinda make up for it yesterday and do a sparkly teal mani for that purpose. All the polishes I used for it are from Zoya. Base color is two coats of Cynthia, then 2 coats of Fei Fei, and one of Frida, topped with Poshe.
I will say this: As pretty as this mani was, it stained my nails like a mofo when I took it off. Not the skin around my nails, like most others would, but the nails themselves. Good thing I'm painting them over tonight :)
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.
Good morning!!
Ok, so one of the big trends right now is fruity, citrusy colors, which you'll see in just about everything from polish to lip glosses to clothing. I adore colors like this for summer; they're just so fun and bright and happy. Nothing quite embodies this as much as the Birchbox trio of Zoyas. Over the weekend I showed you Coraline with Belle layered over top. Today, I bring you the third color, Kate.
In my opinion, Kate can be described as, when using 3 coats as I did for this mani, a beautiful, ruby red grapefruit. That is exactly what it reminds me off. Unlike Coraline, the color was very even in 2 coats, but I did a third to darken the color a bit more. And, omg, the shine. I almost decided not to layer Belle over it because it is so shiny, but I did, and used one coat of Belle. Belle is perfect complement to Kate; it's a pink grapefruit color also, packed with shimmery microglitter. Belle can be worn over many pinks and oranges to jazz them up. On to the pics! Oh, I topped it with Poshe.
When you're busy, busy, busy! Whew, where did the last four days go?! I swear I lost time somewhere x.x
Good evening! I hope everyone has had a great weekend. I spent most of yesterday running around doing errands in the wonderful, early summer heat we have going here in FL, then cleaning today. Fun fun!
I wanted to show the manis I was rocking Thursday, then Friday and Saturday. For Thursday, I did some nail art with my mani. I started out with two, very easy cots of Orly's Sweet Peacock. I can not say how much I love this color and how happy I am to finally have it. I topped it off with one coat of Out the Door's Northern Lights in silver, although with the crappy weather I had Thursday morning, you can't really see it >.>
I let that dry then pulled out a fine, round paintbrush and nail art lacquers, and went to town. I ended up doing something that I have just been dying to try since I first saw: monarch butterfliy wings! Anyone that knows me in real life knows how I absolutely love butterflies, my favorite being the Blue Morpho. So this was sort of my attempt at recreating that. Not too bad for my first try, I think.
I will say this for it: as pretty as it is, and can be, I don't think I'll be doing again anytime soon, as it's very time consuming. It took me a good hour or so, from start to finish, which I don't always have to devote to a mani.
On Thursday, I recieved my first Birchbox order, which was the Birchbox trio of Zoyas. I fell in love with these three colors when I saw swatches of them, and knew I had to had them. As soon as I opened the box, I knew that I would be wearing at least one of the colors the next day. Orange is a huge color right now, and one I can't get enough of, so I chose Coraline with Belle layered over. For this mani, I did 3 coats of Coraline with one of Belle. I know it looks like I didn't wrap my tips or have tip wear in my pics, but I did and I don't. It was the way the light was catching what I had for visible nail line, which really wasn't too horrible. I think I might have been better off with either 2 coats of each or just one more coat of Belle. Either way, it still came out very pretty.
