Teal Tuesdays - Accent Nail

Hello everyone! In todays edition of Teal Tuesdays our challenge was for us to do an accent nail. I couldn't really come up with anything exciting and I know I've done this color combo before but I just love how these colors go together so well. I started with 2 coats of Sally Hansen The Real Teal and 2 coats of Sally Hansen Lickety-Split Lime for my base of my accent nail. I then taped off the tips and painted my nails with the oppsite color. I then used Sinful Colors Black on Black and Salon Express image plate to stamp the sea turtle on my accent nail. Yes it's very simple, but that's where my name comes from Simple-and -Beautiful.

And I wanted to share with you all one of my five tattoos. This is a tattoo of a sea turtle and 2 plumeria flowers. It's very special to me because I got it when I went on my trip to Hawaii with one of my good friends, it was actually last year. I decided on a sea turtle because a) we went snorkeling and actually got to see a sea turtle in the ocean and b) the sea turtle represents longevity because they live for so long. All of my tattoo's are in black and gray, I never have been a real fan of color tattoo's, I think they look great on some people, just not me. The tattoo artist actually had me tell my life story in order to create this, the circular thing is suppose to represent a compass to help guide me through life and the stripes have to do with family, it was suppose to represent some type of mat that you weave so the pieces are intertwined. The faded background is suppose to represent waves.

Check out the other talented ladies in the group:
http://gnarlygnails.blogspot.com/
http://nailsbeautiqued.blogspot.com/
http://geekyowl.blogspot.com/
http://mandyspolish.blogspot.com/
http://fancyphalanges.blogspot.com/
http://colorsplashnails.blogspot.com/
http://persistentglitter.blogspot.com/
http://noholos.blogspot.com/

My Homage to Wacky Laki

As you all know I posted last week that I will be participating in Homage Month for the month of April. You can find out what it is by clicking here. This is my homage to Wacky Laki, she was one of the first people I started following when I first got into blogging. Her designs and pictures are always perfect and I really enjoy reading her blogs. I decided to choose her mani Under the Sea because I loved the title and loved how it looked. Unfortunately I do not have a stamp plate with a image of a mermaid so I couldn't complete the mani. I did my best to recreate her wonderful mani and hope she will get to see this homage post for her. She is a real inspiration not to only me but to many others as well. Thank you Anutka for taking the time to write and share with us your great posts!

I started off with 2 coats of Sinful Colors Rise and Shine for my base.

I then sponged on Ulta Wild Night and Sally Hansen The Real Teal. After I stamped using Red Angel image plate RA-111 and Sally Hansen Silver Sweep. Added the black tips by taping my nail and using Wet N Wild Black Creme. Here was the outcome.

Can't wait to pay homage to more of the ladies who inspire me!

Adventures in Stamping - A Non Stamping Mani

So I didn't really know what I wanted to do for this mani, I just knew it had to be a non stamping mani but I didn't want to do anything boring. I started out with 2 coats of Sally Hansen Grey Area and 1 coat of Seche Vite.

Then I took a dotting tool and put some Sally Hansen Deep Purple and Sally Hansen The Real Teal and just used the dotting tool to rub the polish onto my nail. It didn't turn out how I wanted it to, but I'm content with it. I added another coat of Seche Vite for the final outcome.

It almost looks like frosting on my nails. So there you have it my frosted mani! If you would like to join Adventures in Stamping click on the picture below to get to the page.

Teal Tuesdays - Animal Print

The challenge in the Teal Tuesday group is Animal Print, so I decided I wanted to do zebra stripes. For this challenge I used Sally Hansen The Real Teal for my base and for the stamping I used Sinful Colors Innocent with Konad image plate m57. As for my ring finger I just reversed the colors. So here's my bright colored zebra!

Check out the other ladies in the group:
http://gnarlygnails.blogspot.com/
http://nailsbeautiqued.blogspot.com/
http://geekyowl.blogspot.com/
http://mandyspolish.blogspot.com/
http://fancyphalanges.blogspot.com/
http://colorsplashnails.blogspot.com/
http://persistentglitter.blogspot.com/
http://noholos.blogspot.com/


On a side note: Wow the day has only started and I have already had a huge surprise. I got to work pretty early so I was just browsing through the newspaper "The Seattle Times" and to my surprise there was a huge picture of two girls I knew. They were in the paper promoting their concerts. Now let me give you some background on how I know them, I used to live with a bunch of friends and one of them started up a band (Dax) and Cat was in the band as the main vocalist with Stas on occasion being backup vocalist. The band didn't stay together due to school work and other things but I am really happy to see Cat & Stas make it. Their group is called THEEsatisfaction, you should totally check them out if like that old school hip hop vibe. So congrats Cat & Stas!