Contrary Polish Looking Up

One of my must have polishes from the September 2017 Polish Pickup was Contrary Polish Looking Up. Even though I'm just sharing this mani now, I wore it soon after I receiving it.  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of Contrary Polish Looking Up.  

Topped with a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped with images from Apipila p.01 (dots) and Apipila p.02 (waves) using FunkyFingers Gesso.  My intent here was some simple yet effective stamping but with enough voids that you could see the shimmer and flakes in Looking Up. 

Finished with a final coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

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Halloween Bloody Hands!

With Halloween right around the corner, I thought it might be time to share a Halloween mani or two....and nothing says Halloween like a little blood and gore, right?

Started with an assortment of blood splatters.  For some reason, I was surprised there are quite a few splatter images; and these are just a sampling, I'm sure.  Images are from Apipla P.02 and P.12 using red Konad special polish.

Using same stamping polish, added drip on thumb from Apipila P.01 and hands from hehe057.**  Really liking the realistic looks of the stamping polish with a little texture before top coating; makes it a little gorier and realistic! 

Please note that this plate was received for review** from LadyQueen Beauty; here is the link to this hehe plate:  hehe057, NA0589 Nail Art Stamp Template.  Hehe057 has an assortment of images perfect for Halloween manis; I had no issues with transferring it using it the clear jelly stamper but my regular go to Fab Ur Nails semi-squishy.  No problems to report with the etching either.

Added both hand prints to the thumb.  Even though I used the clear jelly stamper, still had to run it into the drip a bit which I didn't want to do but can live with it.

Top coated with Girly Bits What A Rush QD TC to finish.

Hehe057 and and others products are currently available as part of their Flash Sale for $0.99!  LadyQueen Beauty has a wide assortment of nail art products and other beauty supplies; for further savings, use code NYLC15 for a 15% discount!

Thanks for looking!

**Please note that this plate was offered for review from LadyQueen Beauty.  See disclosure policy for details.

Lest We Forget

Today is a Canadian Nail Fanatic first.....first time ever for two posts in one day (please don't get used to it as I doubt it will happen that often! lol).  I already posted the Digit-al Dozen Day 1 mani, which is a mani I did a few days ago in preparation of the weekly challenge.  But it's also Remembrance Day here in Canada; Veteran's Day in US.  This is the mani I'm wearing today.



Started with a base of one coat of Duri Taming of the Shrew, with an accent of Sally Hansen CSM Greige, no topcoat (or cleanup).  For the red nails, I was adding stamper decals but wanted a base coat of polish in case my stamper decal wasn't that opaque as I didn't want to see bare nail underneath.



Added a layer of Hare Swanky Soiree on accent, topped with SV.



I had made a series of stamper decals earlier in the week in preparation of doing the mani using red and black Konad special polishes.



Applied the stamper decals.  The full size decal is made from an image on Apipila P.01 and the individual ones are from Big SdP E.  The Konad double ended stamper also has a small poppy on it.



After I got all the stamper decals applied, I had a d'uh! moment.  The full size image on Apipila P.01 is clear underneath...which means I could have just stamped it onto a red polish base!  All this work (and terrible cleanup!) for nothinggggg!  Grrrr!  I had a plausible reason for making the stamper decal at the time but now for the life of me, I cannot remember why.  Practise, I guess???!!



Added one of the small decals from Big SdP E to accent.  I know one thing for sure is that I much prefer applying the smaller decals versus the full size ones which are a pain to size, clean up, etc.



I had a few of the small decals left so added them to my right hand, which I did a little different.



Please honour and remember those who died so that we have the freedom we have today.

Thanks for looking (for the second time today!)

Digit-al Dozen, Books; Day 2

Day 2 mani!

My mani is based upon the book I read entirely this past weekend, Live to Tell.  This was the first time I read any of the D.D. Warren stories and I must say, I'm going to hunt down a few more as it was one exciting...but gruesome....read!   In fact, there were a couple times early on that I thought I couldn't continue reading the book...not because of the killings but some of the graphic description of the actions of one of the characters harming others.  I'm not usually fan of these suspense type of books but was glad I stuck with it. 

Started with a base of two coats of OPI Bride's Bouquet; topped with SV.

Stamped using VL009 (thumb), Apipila P.2 (index), Apipila P.01 (middle), MJ XI (ring) and Chez Halloween 001 (pinky) using red Konad special polish.

Added body from MJ XVIII on index, gun from VL007 and knife from Cheeky Jumbo 7, Home Sweet Home plate using black Konad special polish.  (The first time I stamped the knife, it only transferred a bit so I had to restamp it and try to align it...did so so job but that is why there are two top lines.)

Topped with SV to finish.

I have to say that I generally never would have did a mani like this without the challenge...but glad that the challenge took me out of my stamping comfort zone...this is so often the case with the Digit-al Dozen challenges; I do a lot more mani's that I wouldn't have done otherwise!!

Here's the other ladies Day 2 mani's....they are utterly fantastic!  So much talent!

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Neon Mani

This weeks FB Adventure's in Stamping challenge was doing a mani using neon polish(es); this is what I came up with!

I decided I wanted to go with the most neon polish in my stash; I'm not 100% this is it but it certainly looked on the bright side! Started with a base of two coats of Orly Glowstick over one coat of OPI Bride's Bouquet, topped with SV.

Stamped using an assortment of images from Apipila P.01 and P.02 using black Konad special polish.

Topped with SV.

These are images of the two plates.

I haven't been terribly happy how the last few posts pix have turned out as they look all distorted on the blog even when they seem OK on PB; I've been uploading using photo bucket since blogger wouldn't let me upload anymore as I had reached my maximum capacity, so low and behold, I tried using blogger upload today and now its working!  I don't understand why or when it got fixed, so I guess I'll see how long this goes or back to distorted PB or look for something different!

Thanks for looking!