Challenge Day 14 - Flowers

 My absolute favorite flower are Stargazer Lillies. In fact my birth month flower (May) are Lillies. I saw this tutorial from Chalkboard Nails and just knew I had to do it. The base is China Glaze White on White, the pink is sponged on Sinful Colors Boom Boom (don't you just love the name?), the dark pink dots are Petites Pink Crush using a dotting tool and the green is Sally Hansen Ivy League.

Challenge Day 11 - Polka Dots

First of all I want to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my son Julius, I can't believe it has already been 3 years, where does time go? Ok time for the mani, I tend to stray away from any pink or red polishes because I just feel like they are just too much of girly colors for me, but this challenge day I was in a pink mood, very shocking! So I opened my Pink & Red drawer to my Helmer and I just could not choose which pinks or reds I should choose, for someone who hates dislikes pinks I have a lot of pinks to choose from. For my base I used China Glaze White on White. For the polka dots I used OPI Kiss Me On My Tulips, OPI Red Lights Ahead...Where?, and OPI Sparrow Me the Drama and used my handy dandy dotting tool. I just knew I wanted the polka dots to cover my whole nail so I chose to do diagnal lines with the polka dots and VOILA there you have it my Polka Dot Mani.

Here is a swatch of China Glaze White on White:

Challenge Day 10 - Gradient

Instead of doing just a normal gradient like I am supposed to, I decided since I had already done a gradient for Day 6 Violet, I would just show you a Ombre Mani instead. This was my first attempt at ever doing an Ombre mani and I really like the end results and the fact that it was super easy to do!

For this mani I used: Base Coat: Revlon Base Coat. Base Color: Sinful Colors Nirvana. As the base color got lighter I just added 1-2 drops of China Glaze White on White, and as the base color got darker I just added 1-2 drops of  Sinful Colors Blaack on Black. Top Coat: Seche Vite.

Here is a swatch of Sinful Colors Nirvana.

And here's a little extra an actual Gradient Mani:

For this mani I used Sally Hansen Lightening for the base color and for the sponging I used Sinful Colors Cloud 9 mixed with Warpaint Acid Orange and Sephora by OPI What Aura Gonna Wear? mixed with Icing Neon Pink. This is what I call my Sunset Mani...fitting right? I was going to add palm trees but I couldn't find my image plate with the palm tree and I tried to free hand but it just isn't my forte so I left it alone.

I'm super excited today because I officially go on my mini vacation starting tomorrow, so I just need to get through work today then I have a 4 day weekend to hang with the Birthday Boy. Ahhh still can't believe my baby is turning 3 years old not so much my baby anymore. 

Teal Tuesdays - Marble

This didn't turn out the way I expected, but I really did not want to do it all over again. First off I completely forgot to use a base color and mistake number two was putting on the glitter for the final touch, oh well. I used China Glaze Agro, China Glaze White on White, China Glaze Custom Kicks, and LA Splash Sparkling Oceanspray for the glitter.

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http://gnarlygnails.blogspot.com/
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http://mandyspolish.blogspot.com/
http://fancyphalanges.blogspot.com/
http://colorsplashnails.blogspot.com/
http://persistentglitter.blogspot.com/
http://noholos.blogspot.com/

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Challenge Day 7 - Black and White

Good Morning and Happy Monday! The weekend felt way too short. We celebrated Mother's Day yesterday with my family, my brothers family and of course my mom and dad because my brother is out of town on the actual Mother's Day. It was fun we went to the casino and ate at the buffet, and after we ate we headed over to the outlets. I scored some new shoes at Nike Town so I was pretty happy and Julius got a ton of new clothes along with 2 new pairs of shoes. For my mani I used Sinful Colors Black on Black, China Glaze White on White, Konad Special White, Fauxnad MLS301 and Bundle Monster BM-208

What did you do over the weekend? How are you spending Mother's Day next weekend?

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Cinco de Mayo

Yesterday I said I would post my Cinco de Mayo so here it is folks. I just painted the colors of the Mexico flag, I would have put the eagle on but I am a horrible artist so I was frantically searching for an eagle image on one of my image plates and sadly found nothing, so instead of drawing a eagle free hand I just wrote out Mexico on my ring finger. I hope everyone had a Happy Cinco de Mayo, I had a good time watching the Mayweather VS Cotto fight.

Since it is Sunday Stamping I will post my mani later on today.



Challenge Day 1 - Red

So about a month ago a coworker and I set out to start the 31 day challenge only to quit so suddenly. I'm not quite sure why we fell out of it, but we did and now I want to get back into it. So these first posts were done last month when I still had my long nails. For starters here is what the challenge looks like:

Challenge Day 1 - Red
I wanted to create a lace type mani so this is what came to mind.
For the base I used Color Club Cadillac Red, For the lace part I used China Glaze White on White and a dotting tool, and for the thread I used Sinful Colors Black on Black, the dots on the lace are Sally Hansen Red Carpet, and of course I finished with Seche Vite.

Of course I will have to skip Tuesdays and Sundays for my other challenges but I'm really hoping to keep up with this challenge. And woohoo I'm excited for my birthday BBQ later today!

Adventures in Stamping - Easter

Happy Easter everyone! Today in Adventures in Stamping we are suppose to do a Easter mani. I didn't have much to choose from with my stamping plates so I did a mixture of stamping grass and those little flowers that you blow and are suppose to make a wish sorry I don't know what they are called. First I painted each base a different pastel color. Thumb - Color Club Coral Cascade, Index - Wet n Wild I Need A Refresh-Mint, Middle - Color Club She's So Glam, Ring - Ulta Tutu Cute, Pinky - Color Club Meet Me At My Chateau

I then stamped using Red Angel plate RA-105 with Sinful Colors Innocent for the grass and China Glaze White On White for the flowers. Afterwards I used my dotting tool and made Easter eggs using all the colors I used for my bases.

Hope you all have a Happy Easter! We will finally be taking out the grill and having a barbeque with family!

Spring Time!

To welcome the first day of Spring I decided to do a spring mani! I'm hoping no more snow is coming to Seattle and just rain and hopefully some sunshine soon. For this mani I used Wet n Wild - I Need a Refresh-Mint and Color Club - Pink

I then added some spring time flowers using Color Club - Light Blue and Bundle Monster Plate BM 16

Then with a dotting tool and China Glaze - White on White I added the center of the flowers.

Hope you enjoyed and have a lovely First Day of Spring!!!