Fifth Anniversary Nails

Today's mani is themed for my anniversary, based on our wedding tattoos.  My husband & I usually celebrate (little celebrations) both our wedding & dating anniversaries, the wedding one is today (5 years) and our dating one is in October (8 years).

 On our wedding day

Mani & tattoos = after the jump :)

Pink Purple Galaxy

Hey y'all, today I have my first "galaxy" style mani.  This isn't the typical color scheme for a galaxy (blue, black, pink, green etc.) but rather one based on Zoya Payton (my base color).   The idea was more of a twilight colored galaxy scheme but it didn't quite turn out like I wanted.

I started with Zoya Payton as my base, then sponged China Glaze Gossip Over Gimlets.  Then LA Colors Light Pink Metalic, and Zoya Reva.  I then sponged a little of the base color to blend it all a bit.  I dabbed Wet N Wild Coloricon Speak When Spoken To on the very center and topped it all with crack (China Glaze Fairy Dust) and Sally Hansen InstaDri.

Halloween Skittle Mani

 Happy (almost) Halloween Y'all! Today I have my Halloween themed mani.  I consider this a skittle mani because each nail is different.  There's patchwork/stitches, spiderwebs, ruffles, and skeletons OHMY!

  Outdoor Flash

Breast Cancer Awareness Nails

Hi Y'all! Today I have my pink Friday nails because October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. 

This is one coat LA Colors Light Metallic Pink, 1-2 coats of China Glaze Material Girl. and the accent nail is China Glaze Holo Infra-Red, the ribbon is a mix of LA Colors Baby Pink and a little silver to get the color right, and then CG Material Girl for the outline. All are topped in 2 coats Gelous and one coat Sally Hansen Insta-Dri. 

Shade

Goldie Wulung & L.A. Colors Metallic Blue

Today is a mani I did for a wedding, and it did not come out like I wanted but I'm sharing it with y'all anyways.  This mani was my first attempt at a tutorial from Lucy's Stash.  This is Goldie Wulung (pink) from BBW and L.A. Colors Metallic Blue (although it has no official name, it was in the Color Craze Metallics Collection)

I had an apparent brain lapse on the basics of formulas & color shades because I should have done a pink base with navy on top.  The navy was more sheer so I thought it would be better on the bottom, and failed to think through that pink wasn't likely to cover navy. I like the "reversed" accent nail much better, it has nicer clean sharp lines, with the pink on base.

ALSO- PLEASE NOTE!  My camera has stopped working, I just got it at Christmas so I will be filing a warranty claim ASAP.  Until then unfortunately, I will be taking my pictures with my phone (unless I can get my other camera to a reasonable working status)  I apologize and hope to have better quality ASAP

Sunlight, before taping

 Left design is MUCH clearer than the right

Valentine's Nails- Dotticure

Happy Early Valentine's Day Y'all!

Here is my first of two Valentine's themed manicures this week, along with a fail nail.

First the fail, this is two coats Zoya Kimber with two coats Jindie Nails Be Someone Cute on the accent, no top coat.  I got this finished and just didn't like it :( BSC  is small pink, black, and white glitters, and it throws a purple iridescent flash.  Kimber is a hot pink glass fleck with gold shimmer. I love both colors, I just didn't like the warm toned Kimber with the cool toned BSC, so I changed it up...

With Flash, missed some glitter in clean up :/

Here is the second mani I did, a dotticure accent mani.  This is two coats of Zoya Kimber, and two coats China Glaze White on White on accent nail.  The polishes used on the accents, in order of dark to light, are: Orly Rock It!, Zoya Kimber, Pure Ice Strip Tease & LA Colors Bashful. One coat is Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Top Coat. 

Natural Light

 Natural Light, Accent Close Up

Natural Light

Later this week I will have my Valentine's Day Mani and my Sally's haul from their 50% off Red Tag sale this weekend. Hopefully I can also get a Glitzology post up soon, as soon as I receive my polishes! 

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China Glaze Water You Waiting For

Hi y'all! This is China Glaze Water You Waiting For. This was my favorite polish out of the Circle De Soleil collections. Its a beautiful blue, purple and turquoise glitter with a blue tinted sheer base. It has blue and turquoise micro glitter and purple small hexes. This polish has such incredible dimension, it looks like many, many layers. This is two coats and it looks like much more.

picture is blurry to show sparkle :)

Here is my mani this week, not exactly how I planned it but I like it none the less.

This is 2 coats China Glaze For Audrey (mine was very runny and kept flooding my cuticles and dragging) and the blue, teal and purple are from a LA Colors Modern Metallics set I got for Xmas but the colors aren't named.  Accent is one coat For Audrey and 2 coats China Glaze Water You Waiting For.  All nails have one coat Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Topcoat, accent nails have 2 coats.

The plan was to use the metallic teal like on my thumb but when layered over the metallic blue it turned too green and didn't match the accent as well as I would've liked. So I subbed the purple and like it better :)

*sorry the pictures aren't great, i had a hard time photographing this one.  im also learning a new camera still and sick all weekend so i kept forgetting to take some in natural light*

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China Glaze- It's A Trap-Eze!

Today I have for y'all a gorgeous mani that photographed horribly!  The color is more of a dark fuchsia than the red the pictures play it to be, so I'll try to photograph the bottle outside for more accurate lighting.  I got a new camera (Sony Cybershot) and it's a great camera, and my macros are looking a lot better.  But I can't figure out how to keep the coloring right, it seems to come out too high contrast.  Any hints? 

This is as true to color as I could get

Anyway, onto the nails! This is 2 very thin coats of LA Colors Modern Metallics Fuchsia (it's a no name polish from a set, I named it), and accent nail is one coat with 2 thin coats China Glaze It's A Trap-Eze.

I love both of these colors!  The LA Colors set I got had a few one coaters, including this one, had my husband not given me like 10 minutes to get ready including nails :)  These are great colors and not streaky or frosty despite being metallics.  It's A Trap-Eze is also a great polish that I've wanted since it was released.  It is packed with a ton of colors in small and medium hexes.  One coat would be sufficient but I wanted to even out the milky layer a bit.  The only issue I had with it was the formula was a bit chunky due to all the glitter but the payoff is worth it!

Left: Flash shows colors, Right: Shade shows the depth better)

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Rudolph & Santa Mani

Good morning y'all :)
Here is this week's christmas mani,  Rudolph & Santa nails. I love how they came out, my dominant hand Rudolph is a little wonky but all in all not that bad! 

One coat Pure Ice Creme Siren, one coat China Glaze Ruby Pumps, one coat Sally Hansen Insta-dri Topcoat.

Santa's Belt (middle finger)

Black belt is Zoya Storm, buckle is Pure Ice Silver Mercedes and L.A. Colors Art Deco Silver Glitter.

Rudolph (index finger)
Two coats China Glaze White on White, Rudolph's head is a no name Color Workshop brown, antlers are Ulta Chocolate Kiss, eyes are China Glaze White on White and Wet N Wild Ebony Hates Chris.

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Candy Cane Nails

This is my first of (at least) 3 Christmas themed manis :)

This week is candy canes :)

I started out with one coat Pure Ice Creme Siren, over basecoat. Then 2 coats China Glaze Ruby Pumps, one coat was fine but i wanted to build some depth. White stripes were done with L.A. Colors Art Deco. Sally Hansen Insta-dri Topcoat.

Sorry for the picture overload, but i had a lot of matching props :)

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Week 5 of October manis- monster mash

This weeks mani is to match my Halloween costume for trick or treating with my son :)


Here is a picture of his costume...

And here is a picture of my hat,  and im also wearing matching legwarmers and fingerless gloves with a black sweater and jeans...

I went through 3-4 design concepts before i decided on this one so i hope y'all like it!

2 coats Pure Ice Splash, 1 coat Sally Hansen Instadry Spring Green, stripes are L.A. Colors Art Deco White, stitches are Wet N Wild Fastdry Ebony Hates Chris. One coat Sally Hansen Insta-Dri top coat.


The Splash was a bit sheer but workable, the Spring Green was thick but most the Instadry polishes ive tried are. Very little smudging with this new top coat. I was using Sally Hansen Instadry Clearly Quick which i think was just a clear polish.


Not sure what is up for next week so it will have to be a surprise!



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Nail Wheels :)

1.  Wet n Wild- fastdry- ebony hates chris
2.  Sally Hansen- xtreme wear- black out 24
3.  Ulta- little black dress 3403
4.  China Glaze- stone cold 1125 (matte)
5.  China Glaze- lubu heels 601
6.  China Glaze- some like it haute 1052
7.  Max Factor- Diamond Hard- midnight silver
8.  Ulta - smoke screen 3423
9.  Ulta- chic peek 3409
10.  Wet n Wild- Megalast- wet cement
11.  The color workshop- chocolate brown
12.  Pure Ice- iced penny 827cp
13.  Finger paints- fall of surprises 806611
14.  Sally Hansen- teflon tuff- rhinestone frost 22
15.  Afterthoughts- attitudes- soiled silver 233
16.  Pure Ice- silver mercedes 988cp
17.  Maybeline Express Finish-Silver Aluminum
18.  Sally Hansen- crackle overcoat- fractured foil 03 (over black)

1.  Love My Nails- Milky way 1584 (over black)
2.  Sally Hansen- diamond strength- diamonds 120 (over black)
3.  Sally Hansen- teflon tuff- rhinestone frost 22
4.  The color workshop- peach shimmer
5.  Pure Ice- twinkle 984cp
6.  China Glaze- thataway 093
7.  Pure Ice- strip tease 979cp
8.  Pure Ice- Splash 970cp
9.  Sally Hansen- diamond strength- ruby sequin 43
10.  Revlon- passion punch shimmer 196
11.  Pure Ice- flirt alert 617cp
12.  Claires- neon fire (matte)
13.  Pure Ice- creme siren 603
14.  markwins- deep red
15.  The color workshop- dark red
16.  Goldie- wulung
17.  China Glaze- ruby pumps 182
18.  The color workshop- dark mauve

1.  No Name- Metallic purple
2.  CoverGirl- NailSlicks- grape ice 110
3.  Revlon- scented- grape icy 330
4.  Claires- vegas (matte)
5.  The color workshop- eggplant
6.  Love My Nails Franken- deep violet 120
7.  Ulta - chocolate kiss 3405
8.  Ulta- femme fatale 3404
9.  Sally Hansen- diamond strength- save the date 28
10.  Finger paints- Skeych-y 806235
11.  Sally Hansen-xtreme wear- blue me away 130
12.  Revlon- top speed- first class
13.  China Glaze- shower together 650
14.  Sally Hansen-xtreme wear- marine scene 280
15.  Sally Hansen- instadry- mint sprint 440
16.  Finger paints- Tough art to follow 806172
17.  China Glaze- paper chase 720
18.  Nina Ultra Pro- lime light 709 510 (matte)

1.  Sally Hansen- instadry- spring green 03
2.  Ulta - limelight 3413
3.  N.Y.C- lime 110a
4.  Ulta - sun-sational 3414
5.  Naturalistics- Inspire
6.  Ulta - sun of a gun 4018
7. Zoya- Storm 645
8. NYC- Matte Me Crazy Top Coat 274 (over black)
9. Orly- Nite Owl 48725
10. Orly- Winter Wonderland 48623
11. Pure Ice- Pardon My French 655cp
12. Pure Ice- Viva Las Vegas 845cp
13. Zoya- Opal 583 (over black)
14. Revlon- Blue Lagoon 92
15. Revlon- Radiant 441
16. Deborah Lippmann- Across the Universe 2006B
17. Daring Digits- Blood diamonds
18. Wet N Wild- Speak When Spoken To 33825

1. GlitterDaze- QueenB
2. 365 Days of Color- Funfetti
3. Treasures by Tan- Always A Bridesmaid
4. Sinful Colors- Call You Later
5. Sinful Colors- Ice Dream
6. Zoya- Daul
7.  Zoya- Fei Fei
8. Zoya- Natty
9. Zoya- Song
10.  China Glaze- For Audrey
11.  China Glaze- Water You Waiting For
12.  Orly- Fowlplay
13.  China Glaze- Fairy Dust (over black)
14.  CoverGirl Outlast Stay Brilliant- Always Autumn
15.  Sinful Colors- All About You
16.  LA Colors-  Wired
17.  LA Colors- Bashful
18. LA Colors-Reckless

1. China Glaze- It's A Trap-Eze!
2. LA Colors Color Craze Metallics- Pink*
3. LA Colors Color Craze Metallics- Fuchsia*
4. LA Colors Color Craze Metallics- Purple*
5. LA Colors Color Craze Metallics- Blue*
6. LA Colors Color Craze Metallics- Green*
7. LA Colors Color Craze Metallics- Grey*
8. China Glaze- Red Satin 1111
9. China Glaze- Frostbite 634
10.  China Glaze- Winter Holly 1115
11.  China Glaze- Pizzazz 1120


*The Color Workshop polishes and LA Colors Metallics are not named, these are just what i have labeled them.

*This doesn't include white creams, clears, base or top coats. 
 

 
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Breast Cancer Awareness nails

Two coats of Pure Ice flirt alert with polka dot tips in sally hansen hard as nails black out, and L.A.  Colors art deco white, baby pink, and silver glitter. Accent nail is two coats of sally hansen hard as nails black out, L.A. Colors art deco silver glitter polka dots and intense pink for the ribbons. One coat sally hansen instadry clearly quick on all.  instead of my normal order i added a layer of mod-podge to  attempt a peel off base (i didn't have elmers glue) i plan to try a candy corn manicure wed or thurs so ill find out then how it worked.

 

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