Good evening!
I've got a quick little post tonight for today's Stamping Sunday theme, over a green base. This was fairly easy, since I'm still plowing through some untrieds, and bonus, the one I picked was a neon :)
Three coats of China Glaze's In The Lime Light over one White on White, then topped with Seche. Stamped using Winstonia W203 in Milani's White on the Spot (which is my new favorite white to stamp with!) and another coat of Seche.
Good evening and happy Friday!
*raises a glass* Here's to the end of another long week >.< I'm so glad that season is almost over. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad we've been busy, but man, the crazies and idiots have definitely been out lately.
Anyways, I've got two manis to show you tonight, featuring more neons from Color Club. Today's mani was done with All That Razz, three coats over one coat of China Glaze's White on White. Over top of that, I used a new (?) glitter topper from Salon Perfect called Loves Me Not Loves Me Not. It's a black and white matte hex glitter that's calling itself a topcoat. It dries a little rough for me to be worn without Seche, so I put a coat of that over it.
By the way, if you're not familiar with the brand, you can find it at Walmart for, like, 2 bucks.
Thursday's mani was done up with three coats of Chelsea Girl over White on White. I can honestly say this particular neon pissed me off. Even with 3 coats, a few of my nails were really uneven, colorwise. This prompted me to layer OPI's Black Shatter over it, instead the Glitter Crackle I wanted to use.
Okay, so wrap it up, the Color Club neons really kinda pissed me off. Unless I'm doing something wrong, I'm going to have to apply them a little thicker than I normally would. Just about all of them needed three coats, and most of them dried uneven.
Good evening and happy Hump Day!!
I've got a few bright, neon manis to show you :) Yesterday and Monday's manis both featured neons from Color Club, one new to me, the other I've had for a while.
Yesterday's mani was the one I've had a while, Disco Dress. I layered 3 coats of that over China Glaze's White on White. Topped with Seche, then stamped with Vivid Lacquer VL 010 and Milani's White on the Spot, then Seche again.
Monday was Edie, the new to me color. This was two coats over White on White, then topped with Seche. Stamped using MJ Jr-4 and OPI's OPI... Eurso Euro, topped off with Seche.
Good evening!
I've started this week off with what is the most obnoxious color I own to date. This came about in an effort to add to my small and somewhat limited collection of neons. It consists mostly of blues, but I added several new colors two weeks. One of those turned out be Color Club's Lava Lamp. Lava Lamp is a retina searing, obnoxious, orange cone orange.
I layered two coats of Lava Lamp over one coat of China Glaze's White on White. Because of Lava Lamp's obnoxiousness, I decided to stamp over it. The image came from my MJ Jr-4, using my rather thick Milani White on the Spot. Topped with Seche, then matted with Wet 'N Wild's matte topcoat.
My camera refused to capture the brightness of Lava Lamp. It's close, but it appears a bit darker than it really is.
Good evening! I hope everyone has had a great weekend :) Mine was mostly uneventful..... except for chopping my hair off yesterday! That was the most excitement I had lol.
Today's Stamping Sunday theme was quite simple: pastels. This mani was rather quick and easy in coming up with. I knew exactly what colors I wanted to use as soon as the theme was put up. I did a gradient as my base, using Zoya Dot, Cole, and Pippa, topped with Out the Doors Northern Lights in silver.
Let me just say, I LOVE how this gradient came out. I almost didn't stamp over it, it looked so amazing. I did get a pic of it before I stamped :)
But stamped I did, using one of my new Messy Mansion plates, MM21, in Maybelline's Bold Gold. I topped it with Seche.
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.
