Blue Sweater Nails!

I did these quick and easy sweater nails one morning before work this past winter.  While they may not seem too appropriate to be posting in April as spring like nails are more appropriate, they are blue and as I'm trying to post only blue mani's in April, they are getting shared now!  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of Cupcake Polish Bat-chelor Pad, no top coat.  I have to add that I am just in love with Cupcake Polish!  I own maybe 10-15 of them but for the most part, they have sat untried.  I love the formula, brush, clean up and removal was a breeze plus lots of holo!  It made me want to buy up all the Cupcakes!  It seems I must love this colour as when I was looking to see what Cupcakes I own, I realized I have two bottles of this!  Good thing though, I've wore it a few times!

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped with images from Powder Perfect Christmas 1 using FunkyFingers Gesso.

Top coated with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Thanks for looking!

More Blue Nails!

Here's a mani I've had in archives for a long time; I did these back on June 23, 2015!  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of one coat of Elevation Polish Bohai Sea.  Such a pretty colour!

Stamped using an image from UberChic UC1-03 using FunkyFingers Gesso.

Added a couple of accent studs for interest.

Finished with a coat of topcoat to finish.

Thanks for looking!

World Autism Awareness Day

April 2nd is World Autism Awareness Day; I did these nails to support autism awareness!

I've been experimenting with making my own spot it; this is one of my fails that I made over the weekend.  Pretty for a drip marble/decal to use on your nails but a fail for DIY spotted polish.

After choosing the areas of the decal that I wanted to use, cut them down to nail size, then applied after putting a thin coat of blue polish and sticky base.  The polishes are Essie Shelter Island, Orly Witch's Blue, Color Club Throwing Spade and Color Club Chelsea Girl.  While I love blue, unfortunately, cleaning up blue is hit and miss.

Applied a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

 
(Note to self; do not use HTF polish in the future making decals!)

Stamped using images from Dashica 020 using FunkyFingers Gesso with accent nail of BM-321.

Dashica 020

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

I plan on sharing mainly blue mani's all month in support of Autism Awareness month.  For those who aren't blue lovers, I will have some mani's sprinkled in that aren't blue for Digit-al Dozen week and Easter so hopefully you still check back!

Thanks for looking!

Blue Nails for April Autism Awareness Month!

April is Autism Awareness Month and I think I should have enough to post only blue mani's during April.  And that's no joke!  I'm going to try anyway so hopefully you won't get bored with blue nails for a while! 

I've been going through archived posts and looking through old picture files to see if I have any post worthy nails that haven't shared yet (which is why there have been so many regular posts lately and older mani's being shared).  I've had this mani in archives for a long time (this mani was done November 1, 2015!)  and it's time they seen the light of day!  I'm not quite sure why I haven't posted them earlier - probably just a matter of too many other nails to share or not enough time to do the blog post!  Another pretty simple mani but I do like how it turned out!  Here's what I came up with!



Started with a base of two coats of Glam Polish Nalu, no top coat.

Topped with Girly Bits What A Rush.

Stamped with an image from Nail Matinee NM 03 using FunkyFingers Gesso.

Nail Matinee NM 03

(Not sure what happened here!  Sorry, it's not very clear!)

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

I'm still doing my nails on a regular basis but want to get some of these older mani's posted!  I happen to have some free time on the weekends with the hubs working so much and before I leave for cottage country on the weekends in the spring/summer/fall so want to see if I can clear some of these manis out of archived files!  Not sure how long this will last or how many posts I'll get through but I'm even a few is a help! This is the problem when you do your nails 4-5-7 times a week but only do blog posts 1-3 times (or less) a week!

Thanks for looking!

Is It Spring Yet??

Still anxiously awaiting the arrival of spring here!  While it has been sunny, it is still bone chilling cold with lots of wind and no sight of flowers or robins or the normal indicators of spring yet, sadly.  Hopefully it's not too long before the nicer weather arrives!  At least we haven't had snow...knock on wood!  

Here's some bright nails to go along with the bright sun we've been having; even if it hasn't been overly warm. 

Started with a base of two coats of Zoya Arizona, no top coat.

Topped with a coat of Pepper Pot Polish Queen of the Galaxy (April 2018 PPU).

I had an oops moment when I realized that I had a stamper decal made so changed out the accent with OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls.  In hindsight, the orange base would have been OK but it wasn't what I had in mind when I did my nails.

Stamped using an image from Lina Make Your Mark 04 using MdU 1, 9 and 106.  Accent is a stamper decal from Creative Shop 91 using Pepper Pot Polish Queen of the Galaxy in the center and MdU 106 for the petals.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Hope you're having a great day and thanks for looking!

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!

Skittle Sweater Nails

I'm trying to get my backlog of winter-ish mani's posted while they are still relevant. Relevant-ish anyway! lol.  I did these nails in the middle of our extremely cold winter.  Even though we haven't hit warm temperatures yet, I guess I have to be thankful it isn't as cold as the temperatures we had over the winter.  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of Noodles Polish Whimsical Winter Woods (December 2018 PPU).  

Bottle shot of Noodles Nail Polish Whimsical Winter Woods.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using MdU 106, 112, 9, 37 and 13 (starting at thumb and going clockwise) using image from Marianne Nails n.53.

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

Thanks for looking!