Another Spring Mani!

Another spring mani that I did not too long ago!  

Started with some nice spring colours; OPI My Boyfriend Scales Wall, Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Wet My Thistle and OPI Another Ramen-tic Evening; all two coats, no top coat.

Topped a few fingers with FingerPaints Shower With Flowers, then added a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top on all nails.

Macro of FingerPaints Shower With Flowers.  Even bar glitter which generally I'm not a fan of!  I haven't worn glitter in quite some time; I had used a peel off base to remove some glitter in the past and while I can't say for sure, I think scraping it off damaged my nails so I've been very hesitant using it again so have shied away from glitter.  Even when I used it here, I did the long soak method.  

I had made stamper decals using image from SugarBubbles SB039 and a few OPI's; applied them after applying sticky base and waited a bit for it to dry to the touch.  Unfortunately, my base polish wasn't 100% dried on the middle and I really messed up the middle finger decal.  I kinda smooshed it back in place, filled in and drew some lines and tried to salvage it as best as I could and all in all, it didn't turn out that bad.  Nothing that a coat of TC couldn't fix lol!

Top coat helped quite a bit; topped decals with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

I had planned on leaving the nails like this but they didn't seem balanced as in no black on the ones that didn't have stamper decals on them, so stamped pinky and index with image from Moyra 117 Carved in Sand and shadow stamped thumb with EYNails N1 using 15 and 2.  I also used the image shrinking method with a clear stamper head to help with placement which was the first time I had attempted this with a clear stamper head and while not perfect, the line up wasn't that bad!  But the image needed to be shrunk to fit my small nails!

Moyra 117 Carved in Sand.

Finished with a final coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

I'm sure there's going to be a sprinkling of snow in the next few weeks but with any luck, the warmer temperatures of spring will be upon us in no time!

Have a great weekend and thanks for looking!

An Unposted Valentine Mani

This was another Valentine mani that I didn't get around to posting.  I could have squeezed it in but when I looked at it, I thought that it's one of those manis that could be posted anytime.  And that time is now!  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of Picture Polish Muse.  Please excuse my shorties and all the boo-boos.  But I still do my nails!

Muse had lots of shine even without topcoat, but I always add quick dry as it speeds up the process for stamping; added a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using images from Moyra No. 104 My Little Universe using MdU 1.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

I really liked how this turned out; just goes to prove too that you can do some really cool nail art on short nails!

Hopefully you are having a good weekend; thanks for looking!

Still Sharing Fall Mani's!

Sorry for the brief hiatus but life has gotten in the way of doing blog posts!  Unfortunately, I didn't get many Halloween mani's posted but man, did I do a lot of fall mani's!  This is another fall themed one and I have a few more to post; it's a good thing winter hasn't arrived here yet which still gives me time to still post fall nails!  Here's one I recently came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of Moon Shine Mani Southern Belle, no top coat.

Topped with a coat of Native War Paints Special Effects Gold Coast, Polish Con 2016.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using an image from Moyra 55-Fall using MdU 9, 13, 106 and Painted Polish Stamped in Moss.

These are the polishes used along with the image.

Moyra 55-Fall

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Decided to add a matte top coat so added one coat of My Indie Polish My Perfect Matte.

Thanks for looking!

Lemons!

Here's the nail art portion of the lemon mani I shared with the Cuter Cuticles IEC 2018 Exclusive trio! I don't think there are too many items that you can't find in an image on a stamping plate so it was fantastic to find so many lemon images on stamping plates....and I even found more after I did these!

Started with a base of Moyra Vivid Sand 717 Sunshine over a coat of Nicole by OPI Hit the Lights with an accent of OPI Black Onyx.  I went with the sand look to try to mimic the texture of a lemon.

Stamped using images from Delaney Fruits 001 (middle and thumb), MoYou Tropical Collection-08 (index), Wistonia W118 (pinky) and Lina 4 Seasons-Summer 02 (ring) using Funky Fingers Dark Knight; MdU 11 was used on accent.

MoYou Tropical Collection-08

MoYou Tropical Collection-09  (I didn't use this plate as the images were too large for my nails but took pictures of it as I thought I was going to.)

Wistonia W118

Delaney Fruits 001

Top coated just the accent finger to finish.

I think these could also be super cute summer nails and can see myself doing something like this in the future!  Thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen Does White; Day 4

Another archived mani, this is another one that I didn't share because the purples didn't match close enough. But if you can look past that, it isn't too bad of a mani, I suppose.  Hey, they can't all be stunners!  Anyway, I'm sharing now; this is my day 4 mani for Digit-al Dozen white challenge.

Started with a base of two coats of Zoya Mira, Painted Polish From Booklyn With Love, and OPI My Boyfriend Scales Wall, no top coat.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped with Moyra 104 My Little Universe using FunkyFingers Gesso and EdK Tuco.

Moyra 104 My Little Universe

Added a couple studs for interest.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Here's the other ladies day 4 white mani's!

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks for looking!

Earth Day Nails!

I'm a little late for Earth Day, sorry!  For some reason, I really thought it was April 24th and had set aside some plates that have the Earth Day words and the world and other appropriate images but didn't realize until the actual day (April 22nd) when I seen people posting on IG, etc.  that it wasn't the 24th after all.  So I'm going to use these oceanic nails for my late Earth Day nails!  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a gradient using Zoya Pixie Dust NYX, Liberty and Waverly.  I think this is just one or two presses down with the sponge; coverage was great!  Probably the fastest gradient I've ever done! Now I want to do more gradients using these Zoya Pixie Dust polishes!

Stamped using images from Moyra Plate 29 - Waterworld.

I hope you had a great Earth Day on this amazing planet we live on!  Hopefully, it will be around for millions and millions of more years for future generations to enjoy!

Thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen Does Indie Love; Day 5

Happy Friday the 13th!!!  Hopefully a black cat will not cross your path today, you don't step on a crack, walk under a ladder or break any mirrors!  

This is my final indie love challenge mani for Digit-al Dozen featuring black cats for Friday the 13th on a blue indie polish base as again, only sharing blue mani's for April in support of Autism Awareness. Here's what I came up with!

Started with a smooshy stamper base using assortment of indie polishes:  Girly Bits Denim & Diamonds, Girly Bits Blue Christmas, KBShimmer Sky Jinks, KBShimmer In Yacht Water, KBShimmer My Life's Porpoise and Moyra SP. 22.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using Moyra Stamping Plate 51 - Friends using FunkyFingers Dark Knight.

Moyra Stamping Plate 51 - Friends.  If you have a fondness for cats, this is the plate for you!

Stamped accent using Fig Tree Stamps with CNF 002, another image from Moyra Stamping Plate 51-Friends and Delaney Chats & Chiens 001 using Funky Fingers Dark Knight.

Delaney Chats & Chiens 001.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

The next morning, I decided to topcoat the mani with OPI Matte as there was so much shine on the pictures that they didn't show that well to me.  If that makes sense lol.  I liked how they turned out matte too, especially the distressed base look.

Hopefully you've enjoyed all the indie love mani's this week!  Here's the other ladies day 5 mani's!

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks for looking!