Perfect Summer Colours!

Pink and green is one of my favourite colour combinations and there's no better time than summer to wear them!  I know it's not quite summer yet but with the warm weather we've been having, it might as well be summer!  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats each of Cupcake Polish One Shell of a Time and Instant Re-leaf, no top coat.  These two polishes were meant to be worn together!

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using Marianne Nails n.81 using FunkyFingers Gesso.

Added dots using the same polishes but on the other colour!

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Thanks for looking!

Blue Swirls!

I've been shopping my stash lately and have been trying to wear untrieds (aka 'new' to me polishes!) as much as possible.  Not always the case as sometimes I don't 'feel' certain polishes and it's much easier to use a favourite than keep on searching for one that speaks to me as it can be painfully time consuming sometimes to decide on what polish to use!  Does that make sense?  Am I the only one that does this?  Well, that's what I do most days - search my stash until one 'speaks' to me and then try to find a stamping image to go along with it.  I've been trying to use all my untried plates too to change things up a bit and here was another time when I used untried polishes and plate!  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of OPI Suzi-San Climbs Fiji-San with accent nails of Painted Polish Seaside Soiree, three coats.

Another one just because!

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped with image from Marianne Nails Professional n.33 using Painted Polish Blanc Slate.

Marianne Nails Professional n.33.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

While I really liked how this turned out, I wish the beauty of the Painted Polish was a little bit more visible.  What I also really liked about this mani was that I could batch both hands!  That doesn't happen too often lol!

Thanks for looking!

More Snow Means I Can Share Another Snowflake Mani!

We got an inch or so of snow yesterday that will probably be melted by the time this gets posted but it at least gives me a reason to share yet another snowflake mani that I did this winter!  I still didn't get them all shared but I'm sure they'll make an appearance at some point.  Maybe the hottest day of the summer when we wish for cooler temperatures, who knows!  Anyway, this was my very favourite snowflake mani that I did this year so wanted to at least get it shared!  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of Pahlish Notorious RBG, no top coat.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using an image from Marianne Nails Professional n.31 using Painted Polish Deux 2.0.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Double stamped using images from B. Loves B.05 Let It Snow, Konad Square 29 and Lina 4 Seasons-Winter 02 using Painted Polish Blanc Slate.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Thanks for looking!

Dots!

You'll have to take my word that this mani looked cooler IRL than in person!  In fact, I wore it for a few days, I liked it so much!  Don't get me wrong, the mani pix look nice enough, it's just when I look at the pictures, the colours don't seem to go that well together but they seemed more coherent IRL than these pictures portray.  What do you think?

Started with a base of two coats of Pahlish Clockwork Castle (Black Friday 2019), no topcoat. 

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.   Love this colour; love this polish!  But if I'm being honest, it's one of those shades that is hard to stamp on as there's not a whole lot of colours go with it.  Well, other than the obvious white.  But I feel I stamp so much in white, I do try to stamp with a colour or colours if I can.  To stamp with a purple, it has to be just the right shade or its off.  Hopefully you know what I mean.  Like a light lavender won't work.  But just look at this polish!  Love!!  Sometimes I shake my head and wonder, what took you so long to wear it!

Finally decided on a a gradient of colours; MdU 1, 5 and 8 using an image from Marianne Nails n.02.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Thanks for looking!

Distressed Nails!

Happy New Year!  I hope you had a great one and all the best to you throughout the entire year!  How about we start the new year with a stunner!

I'm hard pressed to pick if I like the shiny or matte version of these nails but when I look at them, I don't think you can go wrong with either choice!  

Shiny.....

.....or matte?

Started with a base of two coats of Poetry Cowgirl Nail Polish Sing 'em Good (March 2019 PPU), no top coat.  This could be a one coater I think, but I did two.  I have to say, this is the first time using a Poetry Cowgirl polish even though I have a few and OMG, am loving it!  Loved the formula, application was easy, no brush issues, no staining, easy clean up, almost a one coater and awesome looking polish....what's not to love???!!

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

I do have to say, I was hesitant to stamp over this beautiful polish!  But I did and think the stamping goes well with the base.  I used an image from  Marianne Nails n.120 using Mdu stamping polishes 68, 102 and FunkyFingers Gesso.

Marianne Nails n.120.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

I thought the distressed look of the stamping would look cool matte, so topped with a coat of Glisten  Glow matte and wasn't disappointed!

Hope you are enjoying the first few days of the New Year....thanks for looking!

Fluid Art Friday!

I haven't done fluid art in a while.  I've been wanting to participate in the Friday colour collage challenges for #FluidFridayFriends but just haven't had time due to other commitments, mainly work getting home late, then trying to do laundry, grocery shopping, etc. (aka, every chore I do on the weekends usually) as I'm away most weekends from May to October. Hopefully, I'll get back to it in the fall and over the winter!  I did this fluid back in April and thought I'd share it now!  

This is the fluid decal that I had made with DYI fluid polish.  Unfortunately, I didn't keep track of the polishes used.

Applied the portions of the decal on my nails.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

I wanted an interesting image but not so much coverage that it covered the base fluid cells so stamped using an image from Marianne Nails n.46 using FunkyFingers Gesso.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Thanks for looking!

Going Through the Archives

I have a pretty good number of archived mani's and while I'm still sharing newer ones, I would like to get these older ones posted.  I've been posting some here and there for a little while now.  Typically these are manis that might be a little simpler to do because I did them just because I like to change my nails so often yet don't have too much time but hopefully they might be of interest to someone.  I like to see sometimes just how an image looks on the nails from a plate that I haven't used so if nothing else, this may help someone.  Or maybe create a new polish lemming for someone, who knows! Here's one from last May last year!

Started with a base of Glam Polish Chamber of Secrets, no top coat.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped with an image from Marianne Nails n.23 using FunkyFingers Gesso.

Marianne Nails n.23.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Thanks for looking!

#FluidArtFriday/#FluidFridayFriends

It's fluidartfriday and I did these nails based upon the colour palette that was chosen for the #fluidartfriends group this week over on IG.  Here's what I came up with!

This is the colour pallette this week!

These were the polishes used.  I added a light pink shimmer as I like the shimmer look in my decals.They are Sally Hansen Miracle GelSugar Fix, Savvy Fairy Twinkle, OPI Another Ramen-tic Evening, Sally Hansen CSM Mardi Grape and Zoya Jana.

Even though I had a bottle of clear DYI fluid polish and used it successfully in the past, it just didn't seem to create as many cells this time round so I had to do a few different decals to get enough cell images that I was happy with.  

I cut out the parts of the decals that I was going to use. 

Applied them to my nail.  I made these decals Wednesday night and applied last night (Thursday); they were the easiest decals I have ever worked with for removal and pliability (is that even a word??!!).  I guess because they were fresh they moved nicely on the nail and were bendable; I had been making decals and using them weeks later so they were much more brittle and the cleanup was terrible!  I am really sorry about my nasty cuticles right now; I'm going through a bad spell lately and have been to doctor about them; I'm on the verge of eczema on my hands and nothing seems to be working and they are particularly poor right now; colour wise as well as all nasty looking from dry skin and me trying to remove it, etc etc.  The paper cut on my ring finger doesn't help lol.  And you can't see it, but I also scraped my knuckle on my index finger last weekend opening a gate.  Hopefully you can overlook the skin for the nail art design!  It's not going to stop me from doing my nails; I have been dealing with it for a while now and I guess if it is so offensive, please don't look at my medias out there.  If I knew how to photo shop, I would, but I don't, so I can't!  I can't do anything about it as no creams, etc. seem to be working, medicated or otherwise, but I do hope it clears eventually!  And yes, they are as sore as they look!  I've been trying not to do my nails as often but the nail fanatic in me still wants to do my nails!  So I've been doing them but haven't really been sharing them when they are at their worst, except today which is pretty much as bad as they have been.  It doesn't help using all the acetone to remove the decal parts but can't be helped.  What we suffer for our art!

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Of course I stamped them; double stamped using Painted Polish Stamped in Rose and MdU 2 using images from Marianne Nails XXL 6.  I wanted to do all nails with the floral design but it seemed to block the base too much so used another image on the rest of the nails.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Please check out #fluidfridayfriends on IG and see all the different fluid arts in the theme palette!

Thanks for looking!