Blue Gradient

I did these nails a couple days after Valentine's; SDM had L'Oreal polishes on sale and I had picked up a couple as they are nice one coaters and I thought they would be good for stamping too!  And one coaters of course are good for gradients which is what I decided to do; here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of L'Oreal 670 Cobalt Indecent.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Did a gradient using L'Oreal 670 Cobalt Indencent, L'Oreal Bleu Royal and Kit Teal Tango.

Topped with a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using assortment of images from ZZ03.  I had initially pulled this plate to do something Valentine's related and with pinks, but got sick of doing Valentine's manis so never got around to doing it.  It was still sitting out when I did this gradient so I thought, why not?

ZZ03

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

Thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen Does Vampy; Day 5

I'm super late for Day 5 of the Digit-al Dozen vampy challenge; while I had my nails done in time as I did them last Thursday night to share on Friday, at first I was too busy on Friday to do a post.  Then when I had time, my internet was down and then when I finally had internet, couldn't narrow down the pix to post. (Exactly how many pictures are too many to share?)  As I type this post and then edit it, I guess I'll see how many I cut out but I took maybe 200 or so pictures of this mani as I love the holo web sooo much and how holo it looks but I know no one wants to see THAT many pictures so I'll try to keep it down to a reasonable level! Here's what I came up with!

Holoooooo!

Started with a base of two coats of Kit Holiday in Spain.  This is probably the vampiest my nails have ever been!  I see in the pix that there are some thin spots; they weren't visible IRL and I'm surmising that its from the lighting but I do wish I had have done three coats for darker coverage regardless because it irked me seeing the bald patches in my pictures!  This is probably the best I've every applied a dark, vampy colour like this!  Because I know that clean up can still show lots of red tinge, I was super careful with my application to try to keep it at a minimum and didn't do too badly!

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top before stamping.

Wanting a stamping polish to add some umph to the nails, stamped using Colors by llarowe Sparkling Diamonds Stamping Polish using an image from Handy 2 with accent of HK-11.  I couldn't get the strand to stamp well so added it with a brush.  

Love!

On the blurry side but you can see the holo so well!



Finished with a coat of KBShimmer Clearly to Top to finish.



This many was part of the duo I did last Thursday night as two challenges due on the same day!



Hopefully that was a tolerable number of pictures!  Here's the other ladies Day 5 vampy nails!

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen Does Vampy; Day 4

I finally got around to doing a Halloween mani; here's my vampy Halloween nails for day 4 of Digit-al Dozen vampy challenge!

Started with a base of two coats of Nicole by OPI Hit the Lights.  

Did a sponged gradient using the NOPI, as well as Misslyn Head Over Heals and Kit Holiday in Spain.

Added a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top before stamping.



Stamped using assortment of images; Delaney Halloween A001 (thumb and ring), Delaney Halloween A003 (index), SPH-006 (middle) and Handy H2 (pinky) using FunkyFingers Dark Knight.



Handy H2



Delaney Halloween A001







Delaney Halloween A003







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



Here's the other ladies Day 4 vampy mani's!

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen Does NEW & Improved; Day 5

This is what I came up with for Day 5 of Digit-al Dozen week with the theme of new and improved although I'm a couple days late in sharing.  I did another new to me technique; being the dental floss method; here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of OPI Boyfriend Scales Walls; two coats then top coated (no pix as have shared before).  For the dental floss method, you use these dental floss picks.

I brushed paint across the floss and then you place it horizontally on your nail.  

This is what I ended up which is a total fail for the method as it is suppose to be crisp, clean lines.  But what I got instead was blurs of lines.  Every time I put the dental floss down on the nail, it kinda skidded and did this blur thing.  I think it might have been because of the top coat making it too slick but not sure.  Also, my dental floss had some play and wasn't a tight string and I think that also stopped it from making crisp lines.

I didn't mind this end result though; it reminded me of an abstract water colour or something.  This was sky and trees for my airplane base.  Polishes used are Nicole by OPI Blue Baby, SpaRitual Circle of Life, Kit Teal Tango, piCture pOlish Sky, Essence The Green and the Grunge and Maybelline Go Go Green.

Top coated with Girly Bits What A Rush QD TC.

I made a stamper decal using Messy Mansion MM35.

I had this big stamper that I got from Messy Mansion; its really the only stamper that I have that is big enough to stamp this image but unfortunately, it doesn't work that well which is why Messy Mansion was including them free with orders.

This was the stamped image.  I attempted to make a stamper decal by topping with Sally Hansen Hard as Nails; however, I couldn't get the image off the stamper at all.

Then I made a decal on the UberChic mat.

I cut the decal into sections so it could fit on the nails, then applied them.

I also made a stamper decal using Chez Delaney Back to the 50'x 001 and applied it to the thumb.

Finished by adding a coat of OPI matte. (I just looked at this and realized the ring finger image is upside down; I couldn't figure out why the plan propellers don't match up then seen the wheel in the air!  On the pix above, it is upside down too and should have been flipped.  Doh!)

As challenging as this week has been, it has been interesting using all the new to me techniques; when I was commenting on the other ladies manis, I also realized there are oh, so many more techniques I have not yet tried.  Hopefully, I'll go out of my comfort zone and try even more of these techniques at some time.

Here's the other ladies Day 5 mani's.

An InLinkz Link-up

This mani is also doing double duty for the things that fly theme for 40 Great Nail Art ideas; here's the other ladies nails!

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen, Books; Day 5

****WARNING - SEXUALLY EXPLICIT IMAGES ON POST **** 

The Day 5 mani is based upon Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James.  I'm posting this warning at the top of the page because my mani is sexual in nature; therefore, if this type of mani/post offends you, or you are on your computer and there are minors present, you have warning before the post is clicked. 

This is what I came up with!

Started out with a base of assorted greys; all are two coats and topped with SV.  Starting at thumb and going clockwise, the polishes are Sinful Colors Cool Gray, Kit Grey Pearling, Barry M Grey, Dance Legend #1, and Ulta Concrete Evidence.

Stamped with black Konad special polish using MJ II (ring), LS-03 (index) and Handy 36 (thumb, middle and pinky).  MJ III was used for the chains on the index and thumb.

Added a few random dots using red Konad special polish throughout; the gray on the middle is Sinful Colors Cool Gray.

Topped with SV.

I'm glad that the book challenge gave me a *valid* reason to use the Handy 36 plate as these images are ones I'd usually put on my nails otherwise!  lol!

Here's the other ladies Day 5 mani's.....so much creativity!!!

Have a great weekend....and thanks for looking!