Back to School Time!!!

Today is the first day of school for kids in my area!  I know, all parents are singing, "It's the most wonderful time of the year!!!!"  I can't believe that it's the last year of school for my youngest child! How time has flied! Only 10 more months of having to get up early and then I've done my parental duty of seeing all three kids off to school for the last 18 or so years! Wahooo!!!!   This is what I came up with for back to school nails!

Started with a base of skittles; polishes used starting at thumb and going clockwise are Nars Ethno Run Left, Nicole by OPI Hit the Lights, OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, Zoya Tilda and Zoya Robyn.  All are two coats except the NOPI which was thin and streaky and needed a third for coverage and Zoya Tilda which was good for coverage but I nicked the tip and just filled it, then added another coat to level.  

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

I had made a bunch of stamper decals using images from plates and acrylic paints.  

Applied stamper decals.  Images are from Moyra-16 Memories16 (thumb), MJ JR-2 (index), Creative Shop 12 (middle), Cheeky Top of the Class Jumbo 4 (ring) and FAB UR NAILS FUN-WON (pinky).

Creative Shop 12

 Applied top coat.

Decided to add a few more images; added words on middle from Infinity Nails 76, then added 'learn' from MJ XL II on ring and 'play' from FAB UR NAILS FUN-WON on ring.  Added a few dots on the dress on the pinky.

Decided to add a few dots for filler using same colours of base.

 Top coated with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

I hope your morning was uneventful if it was your kids first day back!  Ours went well; got up on time, no hiccups and the bus even picked up DS2 on time....last year, the bus forgot him the first day of school so we are already ahead of the game!

Thanks for looking!

Easter Nails

When I sat down to do my nails last night, I thought I hadn't done many Easter nails, so decided to do one; this is what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls; topped with two coats of KBShimmer on top (no pix).  Stamped using images from Infinity 54 (thumb) and Infinity 35 (middle), then top coated again in prep for lead lighting.



Used assortment of 10.1 Polish jellies for lead lighting, except the palette which is a Zoya.



Infinity 54




Added assortment of images from Messy Mansion MM08 (peep on ring), Nailways Spring Time Easter Bunny (bunny on index), MoYou Festive Collection-14 (ring), MoYou Festive Collection-09 (pinky) and Infinity 76 (Easter wording on ring).  Used assortment of Mundo de Unas stamping polishes.



Added dots, dots and more dots for filler and interest then top coated to finish with KBShimmer Clearly ton top.



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

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year's Eve!  All the best in 2015 to you!  I only did one mani for New Year's and these are what I'll be wearing as I ring in the New Year tonight!

For the base, I wanted something with just a slight holo and my first thought was the LA Girl 3D Effects; I settled upon 3D Silver...which has way more holo than I anticipated making it hard to capture the stamping well!  But a good choice for New Year's eve, I think!

This is 4 coats, no topcoat (as I'm not  fan of VNL on me).

See the holo here best!

Stamped using black Konad special polish using Infinity 76 (ring), Handy n.5 (all the fireworks) and Sugar Bubbles SBS 09 (middle and thumb).

Infinity 76

Sugar Bubbles SBS 09

This is my right hand; slightly different and only two cots of base which actually was enough I think!

Top coated.

After the mani was finished, coated with OPI matte which realllyyyy killed the holo but you can see the stamping better. 

 Not for me so top coated again.

Have a wonderful New Year's!  I hope you are doing something much more exciting than my night, which is typing this post while watching tv!  I'm sure midnight will hit as it always does; me watching the countdown with the hubs snoring on the couch!  Have a fabulous night....and all the best in 2015!

Thanks for looking!

P.S:  9:17 pm and hubs is already snoring lol!