Digit-al Dozen Does Recreate Your First Blog Posts; Day 2

Here's an updated version of a mani I did back here on June 21, 2010; my fourth ever blog post.   The base was a hot pink Konad regular polish but I wanted to mix it up a little with a hot pink flakies and then some other neon flakies; this is what I came up with this!  

This is the picture I used as inspiration.  I love that hot pink!  It's Konad regular polish Neon Pink.  I don't think I've ever wore it again sadly.  Too many polishes, not enough time!

One a base of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, I did a squishy stamper base used four Anchor & Heart Lacquer neon flakies:  Fine-Apple, Partners In Lime, Very A-Peeling and One In a Melon.  The brightness of the neons diminished a bit when applied like this but they are certainly bright when applied on their own.  Maybe a few more smooshies, they might have been brighter like the ring finger.  I still think these look tutti-fruity; perfect for the return of summer weather we are having today!

Stamped using Konad m.78 using FunkyFingers Gesso.

Top coated with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Here's the other ladies day 2 mani's!

An InLinkz Link-up

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Digit-al Dozen Does Tropical; Day 2

This is my day 2 mani for Digit-al Dozen tropical challenge.  I have to admit, these are a little unusual for tropical nails but I was striving for something different/thinking outside of the box so these were done intentionally to be different.  And my best shadow stamping to date if I don't say so myself; I was really pleased how the shadow stamping turned out even though I had to do 3 fingers twice hahaha.  Anyway, hopefully you enjoy Day 2 of the tropical theme!  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of Fair Maiden Polish You Got It Dude! from May 2018 Polish Pick Up. The brights and flaky lover in me absolutely adores this polish and I was really happy to add it to my stash!

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly On Top.

Did these tropical hibiscus nails with colours that I thought would compliment the base polish as I see light purple shimmer flash in the base.  First stamped the image using MdU 60, then double stamped using MdU 73 using an image from BM-318.  I didn't take pix of just the lilac polish as I double stamped each nail as I went versus doing all then them the one colour then the second stamping because these MdU polishes can be skin stainers and I didn't want to have any issue.  Plus because I did double stamping of all nails using different parts of the image, wanted to immediately double stamp so the placement was fresh in my mind. Ha...sign of old age that is lol (middle age anyway!)!

BundleMonster BM-318

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

Here's the other ladies day 2 tropical nails!

An InLinkz Link-up

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Digit-al Dozen Does In My Garden; Day 2

I must apologize again for running late with the daily Digit-al Dozen challenges; I have all the pictures uploaded but have been having a hard time finding the time to put the post together.  I will work on getting them posted as soon as I can!

This is my day 2 mani inspired by in my garden!

Started with a base of two coats of American Apparel Neon Orange.

Did a sponged gradient using American Apparel Neon Orange, Neon Coral and Neon Poppy.  I really wanted more intense colour if that makes sense but these polishes weren't that opaque and I had sponged a lot so left it like this.

Added a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using an image from MoYou Flower Power Collection-20 using FunkyFingers Dark Knight.  

MoYou London Flower Collection-20

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

This is another floral taken directly from my garden.  My husband bought and planted this flower early this spring and to be honest, I'm not 100% what it is, but I believe it is a Gaillardia.  I will have to check the tag when I get a chance lol!

Here's the other ladies Day 2 mani's!

An InLinkz Link-up

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Digit-al Dozen Does Stamping; Day 2

I wore these a couple weekends ago; a bright pick me up to a dreary day!  A radial gradient for day 2 of Digit-al Dozen stamping week.

I initially was going to water marble so picked out some Pipe Dream polishes to use.  THEN I remembered I have absolutely no water marble skills so decided on a radial gradient base instead.  Used Pipe Dream Polish Light of Day, Happy Hour and All In.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using an image from Infinity 015 using FunkyFingers Gesso.

Infinity 015.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Here's the other ladies day 2 mani's!

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen Does Stamping; Day 1

It's Digit-al Dozen week!  This month's theme is stamping!  I do stamping all the time so that's not too much of a challenge for me; finally a theme I can do with ease!  But because it's Digit-al Dozen challenge week and I know the other ladies stamping mani's will be off the charts, I tried to pick some of my better mani's and those that are a little bit more challenging; to me anyway!  Here's what I did for day 1!

Started with a smooshy stamper base using Misslyn Lemon Green, Misslyn Head Over Heels, Butter London Keks, Nicole by OPI Hit the Lights and Orly Neon Heat.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using Creative Shop 16 using MdU 2.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Here's the other ladies day 1 mani's!

An InLinkz Link-up

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Digit-al Dozen Does All That Glitters; Day 5

It's day 5 of the Digit-al Dozen all that glitters challenge!  I hope you've seen some of the other ladies mani's during the week; there has been some fabulous and creative nails posted!  This is my day 5 mani; it was sheer accident how it came to be.  I was going through a box of polishes looking for another polish that I had ordered in the fall, and as I was wading through them, these two were sitting side by side like just an inspiration that they were meant to go together!  The funny thing is the polish that I used for a stamping polish isn't even a stamping polish but when I seen them together I thought, hmmm, I'm going to try to use it as the colours go so well together!  And it worked pretty good, there's even itty bitty glitter in it which is how these nails came to be for day 5!  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of three coats of Salon Perfect Icy Haute, no top coat.

Added a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using an image from FUN 21 using Missha Crystal Polish HBR01.  This is a regular polish, holographic packed with fine glitter in clear base but so packed, it would be opaque in a couple coats.  I sampled this with other images; the lines have to be fairly thick to pick up well due to the fine glitter in the polish.  This image from FUN 21 worked out well!

FUN 21

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

When I was searching for some loose glitter for this weeks challenge, I rediscovered these coil copper studs and think they go perfect with these nails!

I blew up a couple of the nails to show that yes, there is glitter in these nails to make them challenge appropriate! Hopefully you can see some peeks of holo too in the stamped image; in real life, it was obvious!

It's not often these type of polishes stamp well due to that fine glitter but the stamping turned out great!

Love this picture!

Here's the other ladies day 5 mani's!

An InLinkz Link-up

Hopefully you have enjoyed this month's mani's....thanks again for looking!

Pahlish Little Bread and Butterflies

Everyone's been sharing their fall and Halloween mani's recently....we've been having some of the very best weather of this summer this last couple of weeks and I'm still into the summer brights and colours here!  At this rate, I'm not sure when I'll be sharing fall mani's!  Anyway, one of my recent mani's is this highlighter yellow base in Pahlish Little Bread and Butterflies!  I can't believe this hasn't sold out at Pahlish yet!  I get it; I initially passed on adding this to my cart on past order but my good nail friend, Julie, wasn't so obtuse and had picked it up and was loving it!  She told me how much she loved it so I decided to pull the trigger with my last order and have to say, I'm loving it too!   Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of Pahlish Little Bread and Butterflies.  The formula was stellar; no issues at all, not even on the first coat as yellows can sometimes be!  My love of flakies hasn't stopped and love the use of them here as haven't seen flakies in a yellow base yet!

Topped with a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

For stamping, decided to use a polish that (I hoped) matched the flakies and wanted an image that didn't cover too much of the base.  Went with an image from St. Happy by Gogo Only using Mdu 73, which was a pretty good match.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.



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Beyond The Nail Galaxy 2.0 Collection

As we are finally getting some beautiful, sunny weather here, I thought a bright and fun mani is in order! One of my purchases at Indie Expo Canada last month was Beyond The Nail Galaxy 2.0 collection; I picked up the very last full complete set as they were flying off the shelf!  I used all six polishes....and this is my very first vertical gradient (hopefully, that's what it's called!) which isn't perfect, but didn't turn out too badly! Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of one coat of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, then did vertical gradient using the entire Galaxy 2.0 collection;  Astral, Celestial, Stellar, Cosmic, Intergalactic, and Astronomical.  As an fyi, this gradient took a lot of sponging as the polishes are pretty sheer but worth the effort!

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using Lina Make Your Mark 03 using FunkyFingers Dark Knight.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

A final pix just cause I like how it looks!

Thanks for looking!