Thriller!

Darkness falls across the land; The midnight hour is close at hand; Creatures crawl in search of blood; To terrorize y’all’s neighborhood; And whosoever shall be found; Without the soul for getting down' Must stand and face the Hounds of Hell; And rot inside a corpse’s shell; The foulest stench is in the air; The funk of forty thousand years; And grizzly ghouls from every tomb; Are closing in to seal your doom; And though you fight to stay alive; Your body starts to shiver; For no mere mortal can resist; The evil of the thriller AH HA HA HA HA HA HA AH HA HA HA HA HA HA (FADE) A HA HA HA HA HA HA

Those famous words stated by Vincent Price as part of the song, Thriller, which are on my nails for #MusicManiMonday!  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of OPI Destined to be a Legend, no top coat.

Topped with Scofflaw Stork Raven Mad, no top coat.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Made a stamper decal on the thumb with Sugar Bubbles SB 076 and applied it.  I did a custom mix for the skintone using Painted Polish Stamped in Mocha and Stamped in Taupe.  The jacket is Moyra 906 Gel Polish and outline is Painted Polish Midnight Mischief.  Did lines on index and middle with image from Clear Jelly Stamper CjS H24 using Stamped in Stone, then did base using Painted Polish Stamped in Slate, then added zombies from same plate CjS H24 using Painted Polish Midnight Mischief.  The pinky is also from same CjS H24 but did shadow stamping using Painted Polish Stamped in Stone, then Painted Polish Midnight Mischief.  Ring Finger is MdU Thriller using Painted Polish Stamped in Stone, Painted Polish Midnight Mischief and Moyra 906 stamping gel polish.

Added bats on several nails from CjS H24 using Pained Polish Midnight Mischief.

SugarBubbles SB 076.  I shrunk the image for the thumb and it still barely fit!

MdU Thriller

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

I liked the shiny version but thought it may show details a bit more with matte, so added coat of Essie Matte About You.  Not sure what version I like best?

Michael Jackson in Thriller. 

Thanks for looking!

Topcoat Smear is So Annoying

There's not much more annoying than having your top coat smear your mani after spending all that time picking the colours, picking the plates, applying the polish, stamping, and then it to be wrecked with stamping smear.  I don't have that problem now, thanks to Apipilia Smudge-free top coat, but here is another mani that was wrecked because of it.  Actually, it's not so obvious in real life, but it's pretty obvious in the pictures.

Started with a base of Scofflaw Mercury Was in F*** Retrograde, with accent nails of Pretty Serious Granny Panties.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using UberChic Lovely Leaves 4 using MdU 73 and Painted Polish Blanc Slate.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Added dots using Painted Polish Blanc Slate and Pretty Serious Granny Panties.

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

 Thanks for looking!

Spring!

I miss doing nails like these.  It seems nowadays when I do my nails, I struggle to pick a polish and then take even longer to pick an image for my nails unless I have something in mind.  Sometimes too much choice is a bad thing.  So it was a nice change to see that I haven't posted these nails from last year and I think they make a really nice spring mani to share now.

Started with a base of Scofflaw Indifferent Cats in Amateur Porn (glitter polish), with accent nails of Picture Polish Pinkie and OPI Pear-Adice Cove, no top coat.

Topped with a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using Lina Feeling Shapely! 02 (dots) with accent nails of UberChic UC 7-01 using Painted Polish Blanc Slate.

Added a few dots using the creme base polishes for interest and filler.

Topped with a final coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

 It makes me want to do another mani like this soon!  Hopefully, I'll get those dots stamped straight next time!

Thanks for looking!

Super Bowl Nails!

Good afternoon!  I'm typing this post as I'm making a pot of chili for the game tonight!  Who else is watching??  I'm not a big football fan so not really rooting for either of the teams but will be watching for the half time show and any new cool commercials.  But I do like do to nails based on the game so here's what I came up with this year!  

Started with a base of Great Lakes Lacquer The Traveling Linguist (thumb), Masura Botanical Garden (middle), and OPI Dahlia Darling on the rest, but all but the ring finger were also topped with a coat of Scofflaw Are You A Veronica or A Betty?

Topped all except middle with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.  The middle (I thought) was a texture polish and I wanted the grass texture but it really wasn't much of a texture polish.  I didn't top coat it here but I did later.

  

Made stamper decals for the index and middle using MJ XXIV and AK Coleccion 35 for the ring finger and small football on pinky using MdU 3, 9 and 22; Moyra SP 02 and 05 and Painted Polish Blanc Slate and Midnight Mischief.  Also added images from UC Sports Fan-01 on middle and pinky.  Gold on index is CND Gold Chrome.

I can't recall which plate this is; I planned on using it but never in the end.

AK Coleccion 35.

Added dots using MdU 9 (the deeper red representing San Fransico) and Moyra Sp. 02 (the brighter red representing Kansas City).  Also added a few gold dots using CND Gold Chrome.  Oh and I did something new (to me) today!  See the NFL logo on the middle?  Well, I first stamped it in navy using Moyra SP 05 and then removed the NFL words.  Made a stamper decal and filled in with the white which was Painted Polish Blanc Slate.  Then I stamped it using a different stamper using the red Moyra SP 02 and then removed all but the words.  Then to put it on the nail, I first stamped the blue logo, then stamped the red words on top of the stamper decal.  Thank goodness for clear stampers!  So cool; it gives way more options for stamping doing this.  (I seen this on the MoYou London site; the gal who is their regular nail model had done it.)

   

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish. 

Thanks for looking!

Team Canada Jr's Win Gold!

If you follow hockey at all, you'll know that the gold medal game for the World Jr. Hockey Tournament was on Sunday, with Canada winning the gold medal in a come-from-behind win over Russia with a score of 4-3!  I decided to do a mani that night to celebrate the win; this is what I came up with!

Started with a base of skittles using Scofflaw Just Another Candy Cane Polish Christmas 2013 on top of a quick base coat of Sally Hansen CSM Greyfetti, Sally Hansen CSM Cherry Delight and OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls.  

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Used a whole bunch of stamping plates for this one!  BM-XL157 (hockey sticks on thumb, image on pinky and lower image on ring finger), CjS-91 (middle), UC mini:  Soccer Love (medal on thumb), Apipila Super Placa G (index), Canadian Nail Fanatic 002 with Fig Tree Stamps (upper image on ring finger), and CjS-LC 08 (Canada words on sweater on middle, Canada on thumb and small accent maple leafs added in next picture).  Mainly used Konad red, and MdU 1 and 2.  The gold on the thumb is Hit The Bottle To Have and To Gold.

Clear Jelly Stamper CjS-91.

UberChic mini:  Soccer Love





BM-XL157





Added small maple leafs as filler and accent on a few nails.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Way to go, Team Canada!  Hopefully even if Canada wasn't the team you were cheering for, at least you could use this mani for inspiration for your favourite team!

Thanks for looking!

Season's Greetings!

The holiday season is in full swing and before we know it, it will be December 26th and we'll be contemplating what we are going to be doing for New Year's!  I'm actually going to have a pretty low key Christmas; however, the weekend after will be quite busy as we have having family get togethers both days.  Anyway, I was looking through all the holiday nail art plates and came across the cutest gingerbread man plate on the thumb so decided to do nails based around gmen!  Here's what I came up with!

This was my test hand; the thumb turned out better placement wise so thought I'd share is too!

Started with a base of three coats of Scofflaw Ugly Renaissance Baby Paintings, no top coat.  This was part of April 2019 Polish Pickup.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using images from Wistonia Have a Merry X'mas!(thumb) and B. Loves B.10 on the rest using MdU 22.

Wistonia Have a Merry X'mas!

Added seasonal greetings on thumb using Maniology M036 and holly using Marianne Nails n.118 using Konad red and MdU 37.  Also added dots here, there and everywhere using same two stamping polishes.

Decided didn't have enough dots so added more using CND Bicycle Yellow.  That isn't really why I added more lol, it was to brighten up the nails a bit!  This pix isn't the best; I had a really hard time with glare on the stamping as you can see on the pix above so tried some different lighting.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.  Funny hand post to try to get the words on the thumb visible!

These almost made me want to make some gmen cookies.  Almost.  

Hope you're have a good weekend; thanks for looking!