More Blue Nails!

Here's a mani I've had in archives for a long time; I did these back on June 23, 2015!  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of one coat of Elevation Polish Bohai Sea.  Such a pretty colour!

Stamped using an image from UberChic UC1-03 using FunkyFingers Gesso.

Added a couple of accent studs for interest.

Finished with a coat of topcoat to finish.

Thanks for looking!

World Autism Awareness Day

April 2nd is World Autism Awareness Day; I did these nails to support autism awareness!

I've been experimenting with making my own spot it; this is one of my fails that I made over the weekend.  Pretty for a drip marble/decal to use on your nails but a fail for DIY spotted polish.

After choosing the areas of the decal that I wanted to use, cut them down to nail size, then applied after putting a thin coat of blue polish and sticky base.  The polishes are Essie Shelter Island, Orly Witch's Blue, Color Club Throwing Spade and Color Club Chelsea Girl.  While I love blue, unfortunately, cleaning up blue is hit and miss.

Applied a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

 
(Note to self; do not use HTF polish in the future making decals!)

Stamped using images from Dashica 020 using FunkyFingers Gesso with accent nail of BM-321.

Dashica 020

Topped with a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

I plan on sharing mainly blue mani's all month in support of Autism Awareness month.  For those who aren't blue lovers, I will have some mani's sprinkled in that aren't blue for Digit-al Dozen week and Easter so hopefully you still check back!

Thanks for looking!

Last Blue Mani for April Autism Awareness Month

Today is the last blue mani that I'll be sharing in April for Autism Awareness month.  Hopefully you haven't been bored with the blue mani's all month and I thank you if you have stuck around all month to check them out!  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls and Girly Bits A Piece Of The Puzzle - for Ipads for Autism-Windsor, which was a custom designed charity polish for Human Puzzle Piece For Autism Awareness event in April 2016.  Unfortunately, this shade has been retired by Girly Bits.

Topped with a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Applied stamper decals that I had made using images from Creative Shop 105.

Did a stamped gradient using a couple metallic polishes and applied to ring finger using image from Lesley LS-09.

Stamped index finger using same image from LS-09 and pinky using Dixie Plates Awareness using FunkyFingers Gesso.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Thanks for looking!

Autism Awareness Day!

April 2nd is Autism Awareness Day; here is the mani I did for it!  

Started with a base of two coats of FingerPaints Blissfully Blue, no top coat.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

I made stamper decals using images from Dixie Plates Awareness plate.  Unfortunately, the Autism Awareness ribbon was too large for my nails; I first stamped using the UberChic Luxe stamper, then immediately transferred the image to a clear stamper head.  This took a few tries as some of the lines are so fine and they dried pretty quickly even when I used MdU stamping polish.  All images on this mani are from the Dixie Plates Awareness plate; I isolated and stamped images for the ring and pinky.  I used MdU 2 and 73, Moyra Sp 02, 05 and 22, MoYou Deep Ocean and CND Bicycle Yellow.  

Dixie Plates Awareness

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

April is Autism Awareness Month; I'm going to try to do my part and do a few blue mani's throughout the month in support of the cause which is near and dear to me....just in case you start seeing a lot of blue posted in the future!

Thanks for looking!

World Autism Awaress Day Mani!

April 2nd is World Autism Awareness Day; these are the nails I did for it!

Started with a base of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls on all fingers except accent, which is one coat of p2 Gigantic topped with one coat of Different Dimension Da Ba Dee (blue) topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using assortment of images from MoYou Games Collection-05 using Mundo de Unas polishes.

MoYou Games Collection-05

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

I did my right hand slightly different; same images but basic white stamping.

I will be posting a lot of blue mani's during the month of April in support of Autism Awareness month.  But it won't all be blue because there's still Digit-al Dozen challenge week and Earth Day mani's to post too!

**April 6, 2015: This is a repost because unfortuantely, I somehow deleted my original post; thankfully, I still had all my pix saved on computer! 

Blue Awareness Ribbons

Here's the last of the wear blue in support of Autism Awareness mani's for the month of April.   I've been saving this one for the very last as it was one of my favourites.

Started with a base of one coat of American Apparel American Denim, no top coat (index has two coats only because I nicked it). 

For the gradient at the tips, added a coat of Icing Starlight.  Starlight is lightly tinted which was a bonus as it added nicely to the gradient.

Added a layer of Icing All Night Long at the tips.

Stamped using white Konad special polish using BM321 with an accent of BM324.  I'll be very honest; I had wanted to do the image on the accent on all the fingers, but I didn't think I'd be able to line them up well as french tipped images are my nemesis!  When I did the accent first and it turned out OK, I thought I had better not press my luck so decided on the larger full size ribbon for the majority of the fingers or risk wrecking them all! 

I usually don't do my mani's facing towards me, but had to do it because of the way the accent stamped.  So I took a few pix so they weren't upside down!

I was really surprised that no Autism Awareness puzzle ribbon exists; I made a note of it in my ongoing list of image wants and hopefully one of the plate makers will add an puzzle ribbon image in the future. 

Topped with SV to finish.

I hope that there wasn't too much blue for the month; I tried to vary the blues up a bit...and even though I thought I shared a fair number of blues during the course of the month.....there are oh, so many more blue polishes in my stash that I never used ...I didn't even get all the finished blue mani's posted that I wore .....another time for sure!

Thanks for looking!

Blue Matte Autism Awareness Mani

I hope you're not tired of  blue mani's yet!  After wearing a few lighter shades of blues, I decided upon a darker shade to mix it up a bit; this is what I came up with!

Started with a base of one coat of Lioele M04, which is a matte polish.

Stamped using Nicole by OPI Positive Energy using Dash 20 (ring and pinky), SdP C-11 (thumb), Big SdP F (middle), and Apipila P.01 (index). 

Topped with SV.

When I was sizing my pix while drafting this post, I hit X-Large by mistake and after looking at it for a bit, didn't mind how it looked as the larger size made it a little easier for the stamping to be seen; I'm not sure if this trend in posting larger pix will continue (I'd say it will depend on how well the cleanup is and how many hang nails I have!) but for now, I'm going to keep at this size; hopefully they aren't too offensive!

Hope you're having a great week; thanks for looking!