Happy Easter!!!

Easter Sunday at my house starts with an Easter egg hunt so this was the inspiration for today's mani.  This is my Easter egg hunt mani!

Started with a base of two coats of NCLA AM: Beauty Sleep, PM: Shopping Spree from the Spring 2013 Life's A Beach collection, another polish sent for review by Nail Polish Canada.  This is two coats topped with SV.  NCLA AM: Beauty Sleep, PM: Shopping Spree is a smidgen darker in real life and is a very light mint green which isn't so obvious in these pix.  I don't have another polish this shade in my stash and it was a great creme base to highlight stamping.

I didn't take too many pix as I went along but this is two stamper decals (basket, plate T21 and kids, B.1) using assortment of Konad special polishes.  Other plates used were A35 (eggs on ring and index), Nailways Easter plate (eggs under basket on middle and bunny on pinky), HD-A (Happy Easter on thumb as well as all the grass) and Big SdP 0 (little bird on middle above basket).

Added a few dots (of course!) on the eggs on the middle and ring finger eggs for decoration.

Topped with SV.

Hopefully you had a fantastic Easter weekend; I just got home from having Easter dinner with my family and I'm still stuffed as I type this a few hours later!  And the kids had another Easter egg hunt this afternoon with all their cousins which was a lot of fun for them!

Thanks for looking!!

NCLA As If!

Last night when it came time to do my nails, I thought, well, tomorrow is the first day of spring; I have these NCLA polishes sent to me to review from Nail Polish Canada that I haven't worn yet and they look like spring colours, so I'll do a mani with one of them.  Here's what I came up with.

Started with a base of two coats of NCLA As If!  The pix below has no topcoat.

Decided to do a glittery funky french so added a light layer of Cover Girl Boundless Color Amethyst Mist on tips.  I didn't realize it when I was picking out the polish, but there was a faint tint to the base, which created a slight gradient, which was an unexpected bonus!

Added a layer of Essence Nail Art Twins Troy on top.  

Stamped funky french tips with Konad white special polish using Big SdP C, topped with SV.  The index finger is how the image looks when used as a full length image, but I only polished and scraped half of it to create french tips on the other fingers. 

When I got up this morning, I seen that Mother Nature must have forgot today was the first day of spring.  Instead of warm temperatures and sunny skies, this is what greeted me from my kitchen window and on my drive to work.  Had I known, I think maybe my stamping would have included some snow flakes!

NCLA As If! is part of NCLA's Life's a Beach Collex and is available now at Nail Polish Canada**; they are also carrying an assortment of NCLA's polishes here.

Thanks for looking!

**polishes were sent for review; please refer to disclosure policy