Happy Birthday Nails!

What I've been wearing today!  I've had such a hectic day, its the last hour of the day until my birthday is over but hopefully this post will be up before the day is over! 

Started with a base of two coats of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls then top coated with Girly Bits What A Rush QD TC.

Did a saran wrap smoosh for accents using American Apparel Lazuli, Crescent Heights and American Denim.

Topped with Girly Bits What A Rush QD TC.

I made a few stamper decals using MoYou Happy Birthday Collection-02, filling in with acrylic paints.

MoYou Happy Birthday Collection-02

Applied four of the decals.

Then stamped the thumb with the confetti from MoYou Christmas Collection-05 using MdU polishes in what I hoped was close to the acrylics that I used for the stamper decals.

MoYou Christmas Collection-05

Stamped in Happy Birthday on the thumb using an image from MoYou Happy Birthday-01 after shrinking the image.  But I had to do it sideways to get Birthday to fit as my nails aren't wide enough for the image even when shrunk.  Had I realized I was going to do have to stamp sideways, I would have placed the words separately to at least even out the words and not cut out half of the H.  Added 'me' using Nailways Back to Basics 123 ABC.

Added a coat of Girly Bits What A Rush QD TC.

It was looking a little bare so added a few random dots for filler and to make it more me!

Added a coat of Girly Bits What A Rush QD TC to finish.

Thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes via texts, messages, FB posts and IG comments!

Thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen Does Whimsy; Day 5

I'm a few days late for Day 5 of Digit-al Dozen whimsy challenge but took a long weekend as it was a PA day and DS2 had no school on Friday, so headed to cottage country a little early.  While I had my nails done, didn't have time to post them before I went so here they are now!  This mani is also doing double duty for the 40 Great Nail Art Ideas Does Neon challenge; I had added prompt of saran wrap.

Started with a base of neon skittles; starting at the thumb and going clockwise:  Girly Bits Hip Hip Hurray, Girly Bits You're My Hooper Hero, Girly Bits Get Indie Flow, LA Girl Disco Brites Deejay, and China Glaze Shocking Pink (Neon); all are shown with two coats, no top coat.

Topped with Girly Bits What A Rush QD TC.

Did saran wrap smooshing finger by finger to make sure they were wet for the saran smoosh.  Starting at the thumb and going clockwise:  SBP 05.11.1 over Girly Bits Hip Hip Hurray; It's Hoop To Be Square over Girly Bits You're My Hooper Hero; Girly Bits Thumb Your Melons over Girly Bits Get Indie Flow; Girly Bits Hoop! There It is over LA Girl Disco Brites Deejay; and China Glaze Celtic Sun over China Glaze Shocking Pink (Neon)

Added a coat of Girly Bits What A Rush QD TC before stamping.

Stamped using Marianne Nails n.103 using FunkyFingers Dark Knight with accent of FunkyFingers Gesso.  I did the accent in white as I didn't think the black stamping would show up very well on the darker colours but in hindsight, I think they might have been OK.

Marianne Nails n.103

Topped with Girly Bits What A Rush QD TC.

I thought they might look a little bit more whimsy looking with some added dot accents so added random dots to the flower centers using same stamping polishes and topped with Girly Bits What A Rush QD TC to finish (first pix).

Here's the other ladies Day 5 whimsy manis ....and officially this challenge has ended!

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Here's the other 40 Great Nail Art Ideas neon mani's too!

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Enjoy the last few hours of the weekend; thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen Does NEW & Improved; Day 2

I thought I'd do tribute nails to David Bowie as a result of the sad news of his passing.  To make it Digit-al Dozen appropriate for this weeks challenge, I did a new to me technique which is using the saran wrap method for the base.


Started with a base of skittles; CND Green Scene, Nicole by OPI Hit the Lights and Misslyn Head Over Heels. The green is one coat, the rest are two, shown with no top coat.  I let the base dry for some time as the tutorial I watched for the saran wrap method indicated you need a very dry base.  So I waited around half an hour before proceeding to the next step.  I used this time to work on decals I was making for the mani.

Once the base polish is dry, you apply another coat fully on top of the base. 

While the polish is still wet, bunching a wad of saran wrap, you press down on the polish to create this abstract smushed looking design.  Well, this is what I got anyway.  Maybe my technique is wrong lol.  I did each finger individually just mixing up the three colours.

Here's the saran used.  I think this is the most saran I've used in the last year!  I'm not a regular user of it but keep it on hand for the odd time I need it. 

Added coat of Girly Bits What A Rush QD TC to before stamping.

Stamper decal from an image on MoYou Roxy Collection-09.  Outline is Funky Fingers Dark Knight and acrylic paints to fill.  

Applied stamper decal to thumb.  Used assortment of images from same MoYou Roxy-09 plate for rest of the fingers.  Stamping polish is Funky Fingers Dark Knight and MdU 11 on pinky.  Lower lettering on ring finger is Handy 57 using the clean jelly stamper for placement.

Added a coat of Girly Bits What A Rush QD TC to finish.  It's times like this that I wish I had a light box so that the glare would be less but this will have to do for now!

I pretty much sang Major Tom to myself the whole time I was doing these nails and have caught myself either singing it or humming it many time over the last 30 hours or so since I heard the news.  I'm saddened that we have lost a music legend and it saddens me to think that more of this will happen over the next few years as more and more icons and legends reach their upper years.  Man, makes me feel old too which is sad.

RIP, Mr. Bowie.

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

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Thanks for looking!