Olympic Nails!

I've had the plates set aside to do an Olympic mani since the beginning of February but here it is, the games are almost over before I finally got around to doing a mani as I just did these Thursday night.  Here's what I came up with.

Started off with a base of skittles in the Olympic colours; Essie Avenue Maintain, China Glaze Happy Go Lucky, Sally Hansen Black Out, Orly Raging Vine and Duri Taming of the Shrew, all two coats except the Essie which is one.  Topped with SV.

Stamped using assortment of images from following plates; MJ XI (snowboarder on thumb), MJ XVIII (hockey skates on thumbs), WB08-04 (figure skater on thumb), SdP 101 (speed skater on thumb), MJ XXIV test (images on ring finger), MoYou N10 (rings on index), MM13 (buildings on index), W219 (pinky)and MJ VII (flame on middle).  Polishes used were black Konad special polish and assortment of Mundo de Unas polishes.

The flames on the Olympic torch weren't as bright as I hoped, so hand stripped in some flames.  Added a few dots on the thumb in the same colours.

Wistonia W219

Messy Mansion MM13

MoYou N10

MJ XXIV Test plate

Nail Art Diva WB08-04

SdP 101

Topped with SV to finish.

I'm hoping to do a couple more Olympic mani's before the games end including a "GO Team Canada" for the men's hockey game in the morning!  

Thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen Does Vintage; Day 5

I'm late again with getting my post up...but better than never as the saying goes!  I did the vintage video game Pacman for the last day of the Digit-al Dozen Vintage challenge.

I couldn't find my regular go-to black base polish, FingerPaints Black Expressionism (that may have to do with the fact the DD's go-to mani colour lately is black and I have a sneaky suspicion it's up in her bedroom), so did a coat of Wet n Wild Ebony Hates Chris which was a horrible mess of a polish.  Found another black polish, KleanColor Black and added it on top, topped with SV to finish.

Added images from Handy 31 (middle and words on pinky) and Handy 32 (thumb, ring and pinky). Used Mundo de Unas stamping polishes; no. 4 (light blue), 30 (darker blue), 11 (yellow), 15 (pink) and 13 (orange).



Handy  31


Handy 32


Hand painted the orange ghost on the index finger using Mundo de Unas no. 13.


I've had these cool googly eyes for a while and finally had a chance to use them.  For applying them, my first instinct was to topcoat them like a rhinestone but thought that wouldn't work, so top coated the ring finger and set the eyes in the topcoat to hold them there.  Added random dots using same stamping colours and topped with SV as well.



Ms. Pacman and Pacman barely fit on my nails and the cute bow I added isn't that visible so I took a pix so it can be seen a little better.



I'm not sure how long these googly eyes will stay on my nails; my bet with the hubs is at least one of them will be gone by morning lol!


Here's the other ladies Day 5 fabulous vintage mani's.  This week, there has been a wide variety of vintage mani's...always so interesting to see everyone's interpretation of the theme and the ladies always nail it!

An InLinkz Link-up

Hope you're having a fantastic weekend; thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen Does Vintage; Day 4

I'm a little behind of the Digit-al Dozen Does Vintage mani's; this is Day 4...not sure yet if a Day 5 mani will be coming or not!

Started with a base of OPI My Vampire is Buff; one coat.  One coat wasn't the best coverage; I only did one because I knew I was sponging on top so it would cover the thin spots.  But in fairness to the polish, didn't take a pix lol.  After the base dried, sponged on top using CND Gold Chrome as I was going for a vintage vibe.  Holy smokes...love the look of this!  

Added assortment of flappers images using black Konad special polish.  All the images are from MoYou Back to the 20's-01 except the ring finger which is Handy 50.





MoYou Back to the 20's-01




Handy 50


The mani at this point is probably the most on theme to vintage but it was screaming boring to me....so decided to add a few rhinestones to jazz it up.





Topped with SV to finish.



Here's the other ladies Day 4 mani's!

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks for looking!

Valentine's Day Proposal

I was contacted by Brilliant Earth and was asked if I'd be interesting in doing a mani using the them of love for an upcoming Create a Little Love feature; thought it would be fun idea so agreed!  When sitting down to do the mani, I thought would be more appropriate for the theme than a romantic Valentine's Day proposal?  Here's what I came up with!



Started with a base of OPI My Boyfriend Scales walls on three fingers; Duri Taming of the Shrew on pinky. (I can't recall the pink polish but I know it was a CND; will update later!).  After the white base had dried, did sponging on the same three fingers with the same red and pink accent colours.  Polish on the thumb wasn't the best but at this point, I wasn't worried; it worried as I had premade a stamper decal for it!



Added stamper decal on the thumb from an image on Infinity 07, and stamped using assortment of other image plates; MM03 (pinky), MoYou Landscape-01 (index and middle), Nailz Craze NC 04 (ring on ring) and Handy 57 (lettering on ring) using black and white Konad special polishes.



A closer look at MoYou Landscape Collection-01.





Nailz Craze NC04


Added random hearts using red and white Konad polishes using an image from SdP 78.



Topped with SV to finish.



Brilliant Earth will be doing a feature on the Create a Little Love highlighting various medias with a collage of various bloggers; I'll update the link here when I see it!

Thanks for looking!

Edited June 4 2014 to remove link to Brilliant Earth at their request!

Digit-al Dozen Does Vintage; Day 3

There's been a few of the Dozener's (as we were affectionately called by Bee Polished in her post here) do vintage roses for this weeks challenge, so I thought I would do my take on vintage roses too.  I have no freehand skill to speak of so of course turned to stamping to create the look; here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of one coat of American Apparel The Valley then topped with SV.  Unfortunately, this pix isn't the best for a few reasons; I was under some time restraints when I set down to do this mani and I allowed myself an hour start to finish before I left for work this morning.  One coat had pretty good coverage and I knew I'd be stamping quite a bit on top of it so left at once coat and topped with SV. I'm not entirely sure if it was because the polish was fairly thick, or the SV too thick, or not waiting enough time for the base to dry a little bit more before applying SV, but one way or another, my base kind of bunched up and slid down my nails a little creating thin spots in some areas and pools of polish at the sides.  You won't see a thumb in this pix because my attempt to remove a little random fibre resulted in nicking both the thumb on this hand and the middle on my right.  Because I was strapped for time, I just removed the area a bit with a brush, reapplied polish and SV again but it really isn't a good finger to show, especially for a polish swatch. Anyway, this polish is really so much nicer than my pix in my haste show!

I waited a few minutes, even putting my hands under a dryer, to get the polish and topcoat to dry before stamping.  Then added stripes using Apipila P.11 using white Konad special polish.



I did a very quick cleanup for this pix because I was keeping mind of the time; you can see my thumb isn't the best in this pix too. At this point, because the stripe didn't cover the misapplied polish on the thumb, I was hoping at least the next layer of stamping did!

Stamped using CICI & SISI 11 using Mundo de Unas stamping polishes in colours 20 and 37. I was glad to see that the roses covered the missed polish on the thumb! 

Here's a closer look at CICI & SISI 11.

Apipila P.11

 Topped with SV to finish.

Here's the other ladies Day 3 mani's!

An InLinkz Link-up

Hope you've enjoyed Vintage Week so far.......thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen Does Vintage; Day 2

I took inspiration of newly received plates for Day 2's mani...Mickey Mouse! Mickey has been around for many, many years making him vintage appropriate!

Eeep!  How cute is this?  I think this would be sooo cool on all my nails. There' enough images, and with my nails this length, I could have a something a little different of this strip on each nail so they all look different. Definitely would love to see more plates with images like this!

Started with a base of two coats of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, topped with SV (no pix as have shown many times before).  

Stamped using black FUN stamping polish using JR-5 and H34.

If I wasn't going for a more traditional look, I would have jazzed this up a bit with some colouring and dots but kept it more on the simple lines for the vintage look.  Topped with SV to finish. 

Here' a closer look at JR 5.  These are a new line of plates offered by My OnLine Shop.

While I didn't use this plate for this mani, this plate too has a lot of Mickey and Minnie images.  This is Vanity Nails Cartoon.

Here's the other ladies Day 2 Digit-al Dozen mani's!

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks for looking!