Water Marble!

I have been wanting to do a water marble again for a while now. I would put on the white base, then get sleepy or distracted, and inevitably mess something up. Well, I finally got around to it! I think by NOT using a white base, I had better luck. That's what I'll tell myself anyway :) Here's what transpired in a round about way.I bought the Ciate set called "Colorfoil" which comes with a base polish, and then foil to put on the top. I did the base polish "Cream Soda" which is the grey color. (Cream soda is not grey, so I feel a bit let down by the naming of the color that Ciate did. Was someone on crack? Were they color blind?) Then I tried some of the foil. The foil effect is AWESOME, but once you put a top coat on, it gets horrid! It puckers and shrinks and wrinkles. I am going to try different top coats on top of it and see if there is any difference. It seems like if you are going to sell something in a kit, you should include a top coat that works for the finish you need. There is no top coat included at all. Anyway, I repainted the grey and thought, hmmm, I could marble on top of this, the color is light enough... so I did! For the marble, I used Ciate "Cream Soda", Finger Paints "Cerulean Escape" and Essence Colour & Go "Ultimate Pink". I like the layering the swirls did, the blue and pink to create a unique purple color. I will try the foil kit again, and hopefully have better results! Have a great Wednesday!

Nails Inc Leather Effect

Hi everyone! So this is Nails Inc Leather Effect in "Noho". It is a texture finish polish, which seems to be the trend right now...like the OPI Liquid Sand polishes. This is a black on black finish. Even though it comes in one bottle, it seems like a regular polish with a matte glitter finish. The "base" color is like a smooth and shiny black, and then the "top coat" is totally a matte black glitter. Of course you are not supposed to use a real top coat on this polish because it would remove the finish. The kit with this color also has lots of rhinestones and 4 awesome skulls that are metal and encrusted with rhinestones. The only drawback is that the skulls are a little large, and my nails are WAY too curved for them to lay flat on the nail. Seriously, it's like I had a two-by-four laying on the surface of my nail. I think you could very easily make a Franken like this. Take black polish and add black glitter until the finish is that of a super hungry glitter. The kit was $19.  They also have one in a beige/taupe color. I got mine online at Sephora. Have a great Thursday!

Cinderella nails

I bought this blue because it looked SO amazing in the bottle. It is Finger Paints "Cerulean Seascape". I'm glad it translated well on the nail. I almost didn't want to cover it up with the stamps! Cinderella is a water decal, because I do not have that good of painting skills like some folks do. It seemed too plain with just the white polish, so I added the light blue stones around her. Then I used one of the MJ plates, and Konad Special Polish in silver for the slipper motif. Hope you all enjoy your day!

Hello dear readers!
I have been away for what seems like forever. I have dealing with Seasonal Affective Disorder. SAD is when the weather changes and there is lack of sunshine and it wears on you mentally. Anyway, there was almost a week where I had no nail polish on. How gloomy was I? Now I have been lazy because this disorder makes you very unmotivated. I have been using my Sally Hansen strips, and those are not interesting enough to post for me. And, I couldn't get a good picture of them if I wanted to as it has rained here for weeks straight. When it's sunny, I try to get out of the house as to not feel like I will kill someone (I don't mean that literally, just the figure of speech) and feel a little more at one with the world instead of dark and alone. Being outdoors/not in the house is not condusive to nail polish. I know I know, how dare I say such things!?! In reality, we know this to be true :) I will be back with some sort of goodness soon. Hang in there with me :)

In the meantime, here is my snotty, stuck up cat. She was not impressed via the rabbit ears my husband was giving her.

Tweezers and patience

I was out bright and early this morning doing some last minute Christmas what-nots and found myself at Sally Beauty Supply. I found this cute little China Glaze Christmas set that I hadn't seen and well, Merry Christmas to me! This is China Glaze "Winter Holly". Then I used some gold caviar balls I had to make the "garland" and some square rhinestones for the ornaments. Viola! Christmas tree with ornaments and garland nails! Hope you all have a great holiday!

Candy Cane Nails!

I love the idea of candy cane designs! Let me just say, I tried this with reverse, red polish with white stamping stripes and it was a giant fail! Makes me wonder if zebras are white with black stripes! (I think so) Anyway, fun, festive little design...I used OPI "Kyoto Pearl" for the white base. It was 4 thin coats, but it dried really quickly and I wanted to make sure it was opaque. Also, it was like 1 in the morning, so I didn't have the best lighting, and thought, why not. Then in the morning, I did the stamping. This is the Konad (fauxnad) plate M65 and Konad special polish in red. I think it turned out pretty cute, and I like how the white is kind of silvery shimmer finish under it, kind of like some fancy candy canes. Hope you enjoy!

Christmas Stripe

Today's mani is not so good, but it's still festive. It's China Glaze "Ruby Pumps" and Konad plate S6 with Konad special polish in gold. I overslept today and am a little out of it, so this was the best I could do. Also, it looks better in person than here in this macro photo in the gloom and doom overcast that is the weather!