Hi Everyone!
Ok, so not the most clever of titles, but that's alright.
I'm excited! I ordered my VERY FIRST Indie polish, Sonnetarium's "Samurai Princess" from Beauty Pop Shop , and it arrived in the mail yesterday, nicely packaged. When I opened the box, here's what I found:
Wrapped up like a Christmas present! YAY! I wasted no time in unwrapping it. Here's the bottle shot!
My word, look at all that glitter! Black and white micro, small and medium hex, and black and white bars make up this polish, in a clear base! Horray!
Application was really smooth, didn't really have to do any fishing to get the glitters I wanted. The brush is black so I was never sure with each dip how many black glitters I was getting, or what kind, but that's alright!
So I polished my fingers with WnW's On A Trip (you all know purple is my favorite) and did a ring finger accent with WnW's I Need A Refresh-Mint.
Then I did one coat of SP on each nail. I am kindof digging the randomness of the glitters on each nail. I probably could have done two coats of SP, but I didn't want to overdo it. I like the way this looks! What do you think?
Peace.
Hi Everyone!
I know it's been a loooong time since I made a nail art post, and all I can say in my defense is that I have been so busy with work that I haven't had the time to play with my polishes. That changed today, tho, since I finally have a day off! So, I decided to revisit some nail art I've done once before - Galaxy (or Nebula) Nails! While I was at Walmart yesterday trying to find a nail nourisher/strengthener, I wandered over to the Pure Ice display and say a funky looking polish I hadn't seen before called "Electric!" - It's a black polish with a super-fine silvery shimmer. I thought "Hey, that would make a nice base for a galaxy mani!", so I brought it home with me. Of course, with all the other stuff going on with this mani, plus the strategic application of CG's Fairy Dust, you can't really make out the base color. For the "galaxies", I used Finger Paints Paper Mache, CG's Lemon Fizz, WnW's Tickled Pink, and some unnamed dark blue. I don't think it looks too bad (aside from my super nubby nails, that is...). What do you think?
Peace.
Hi everyone -
So, the month of October is breast cancer awareness month, and this is something close to my heart, due to the fact that several years ago, my mom called me on the phone and told me that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. It took my breath away. My main outlet for my feelings at the time were sculpting things using fimo and also making things using paper. I sculpted a lapel pin for my mom using fimo in support of her fight with breast cancer and sent it to her. Luckily, for four years now, she has been cancer free. My manicure today, while simple, reflects the love for my mother and her fight that she won while battling breast cancer. I love you, mom :)
Hi everyone!
I am so happy that Autumn has finally arrived! It's my favorite time of year - the turning of the leaves, the wonderful scents in the air and around the house, the wonderful dark polish colors.....ahhhhh!
On my nails today is one of those polishes...a wonderful deep plummy color by WnW called "Disturbia". This is one of my favorites. I love dark colors, and I love the color purple. Please excuse my terrible short nubs, work is forever taking it's toll on them, the poor things. On my ring fingers and thumbs I have put a thin coat of "Cheatin' " from Pure Ice. The subtle purple and teal sparkle isn't in your face, but it definitely catches your eye.
Are you as excited as I am now that Autumn is here? Do you have any favorite polishes you plan on wearing during the season?
Peace.
Hi everyone!!
I am SO excited over today's post because I got a wonderful, wonderful box filled with goodies from a friend of mine on FB. In the cute little cupcake card she sent with everything she said "...since you were sick on your birthday, we can pretend this is a do over." I'm all for that!! (for those who didn't know, I had a massive tooth/lower jaw infection on my birthday and I had to go to the doctor and get antibiotics and was absolutely miserable. Everything's ok now, tho!)
Look, just LOOK at all the awesome stuff she sent me!!!
First, the list of polishes:
Megan Miller - Lemon Ice (I know, right?? Megan Miller!! :O ) I love the peacock feather on the bottle, and the bottle and cap are so cool looking.
WnW Magnetic - A Force To Be Reckoned With (my first magnetic!)
WnW Wild Shine - Sparked (pink glittery goodness!)
Sinful Colors - Snow Me White (SO glad I didn't buy this a couple days ago like I was planning on - finally a decent white!!)
Sinful Colors - Rich In Heart
OPI - Pepes Purple Passion
Nicole by OPI - Just Busta Mauve
Pure Ice - Busted
Also 2 little boxes of minis, 8 that are color polishes and 8 that are glitter polishes.
And if all those awesome polishes weren't enough, she also sent me:
All seasons and all episodes of True Blood!! (you know what I will be doing tonight!)
ROLOS!!!!!
A little box of Russell Stover assorted chocolates
Hello Kitty boxes of candy!!
A cool palette of 12 different eyeshadows!! Gorgeous colors!
A small spiral notebook with cupcakes on the front and back cover. So cute!
A Memory card game that has cupcakes on the cards
A 5 pack of mini gel pens
two sheets of little rainbow stickers, one with hearts and one with holographic-y stars!
I love, love, love everything in my birthday do-over box, thank you SO much!!
Can't wait to wear these polishes! ~pops a Hello Kitty candy in her mouth and smiles~
Peace.
Hi everyone!
Tonight I decided to break out a polish that a FB friend of mine gave to me, that I have yet to try. It is WnW's Wet Cement. Looking at it in the bottle, I was all "meh"...was not very impressed with it. But once I got it on my tips I loved it! It's a very lovely medium taupe, sortof a brownish taupe with a purplish undertone to it.
Looks great on my nails!! I did two coats of it to reach opaque. Then I decided i'd look thru my decals, since I have tons of decals that I hardly ever use. I found these white floral decals that looked lovely on it, so here it is:
I probably could have done with more decals on the thumb, but I love how the decal on the ring finger looks with this polish. I am glad I finally decided to try out this polish, I am loving it!
Peace.
Hi everyone! If you're following me on Facebook then you may already know that last night I decided to make my own nail polish color, due to the fact that I don't have a light grey in my stash. I thought I did, but it's a silver. Bah. So anyway, I cleaned out a little 1/8 oz. bon-bons bottle with some acetone, then filled it back up most of the way with Revlon's White on white, then added about 3 drops of WnW Black creme and shook to mix it up. It turned out great! Just the right sort of light grey that I was wanting.
Now I know that some of you out there might think "that's not making a REAL franken..." and you may be right...but every franken maker had to start somewhere, right? :)
Here are the pics - sorry if the grey has a sort of blue-ish tint in the pics, blame it on my icky camera. It doesn't look blue in real life.
My only dilemma now is what to name it. So far I've come up with "Mourning Dove", "Steam", or "Greyscale". Do you have any suggestions?
Peace.
Hi everyone!
A day or so ago I was doing my regular blog browsing (and also re-following blogs I'd been following before the icky blog deletion catastrophe of mine), and I happened to get back onto a wonderful British blog I had been following, The Nail Newbie . Several days ago she did a post that had a very simple but oh so lovely nail art design that made my wee nubs go "SQUEE!", and I knew I had to do it myself. You can see the inspiration for this new nail art right here!
At first I was going to go with a light pinkish base color like she did, but nothing I had in my stash cried out to me. Then I saw it....an untried, unnamed Hello Kitty polish in a purplish taupe that made me smile. You know I love HK. A Facebook friend of mine sent me this polish a while back, along with a PLETHORA of other yummy polishes. So, I made that the base coat.
Then, since I am still really clumsy when it comes to using my new nail art brushes, I instead reached for a fine-tip black sharpie, and very (sortof) carefully did each letter of the word "love" on my nails. (I have fairly shaky hands so the lines were a tad wobbly..)
After I got the letters on my nails, I thought they needed a little "something-something", so I broke out my MASH plates. On plates 16 and 17 I found little heart images, so I used #16 on my thumb with WnW's Disturbia, and #17 (cleaning one or two hearts off with a q-tip) to stamp on my other fingers. Then, at the suggestion of a couple ladies on my FB page, I added little gold dots to each nail in various places.
Pay no mind to the center of the "o" on my middle finger - I overstamped and tried to clean it up, but just ended up smudging things around. D'oh!
So ladies, what do you think? Win or Fail? Do you think you'd ever do this on your own nails?
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Until next time,
Peace.
Even though my blog was deleted a week ago, I continued to play with my polish and take pictures, so I will share a couple of them with you so you can see what I've been up to this past week. The first one was done using Wet n Wild's Tickled Pink and a black sharpie to do the swirls and dots. I accented my thumb and ring finger with little pink rhinestones. I did this one for a friend of mine because she likes the black and pink combo, and I used a sharpie to freehand the swirls because I couldn't get my stamper and plates to work right for me hah hah!
A couple days later, I did this one, using Sinful Colors Nirvana as the base color, Wet n Wild's Tickled Pink for the design on the accent finger, and Finger Paints Paper Mache for the dotted lines.
Which one do you like better?
Peace.
