Enjoying Summer!

Good morning!  It's another beautiful day; the weather has been so nice this week and it seems that summer has finally arrived!  I did these nails back in May when the weather wasn't quite as nice but was hoping for summer anyway!  Here's what I came up with!

I love these flaky type of polishes and while this shade might remind me more of spring than summer, it's still a nice bright colour that I personally would wear all year round.  This is Different Dimension There Is No One Alive Who Is More You-er Than You, which was the March 2019 polish of the month.  Shown with no top coat.

Applied a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using an image from Moyra 118-Dream on with Painted Polish Deux 2.0.

Moyra 118 Dream On.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.  I really like the simplicity of these nails but I also like to dot everything so.....

....added dots using MdU 51 for a pop of colour.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Thanks for looking!

Experimenting With Layering Again!

I'm still experimenting with layering polishes; one of my favourite things to do is to top a base polish with an interesting topper or a sheerer polish anyway and see how it turns out.  And to finish it with some stamping, of course!  I did these back in March and while the colour combination is a little interesting, I think it works!  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of Misa Dirty Sexy Money, no top coat.  This was one of those sought after polishes back in the day and I'm glad I was able to snag it!  Formula is a little thin but personally, as long as it builds to opaque in two coats, I prefer thin as I find it easier to clean up!

Can we talk about that shine?  No top coat and so bright you need sunglasses!

Topped with a coat of Glam Polish Part of Your World.

Little darker lighting but you can see the beauty of the polish a little bit better.  Lots of interest here and it is a great polish for a topper but dense enough to layer to opaque. 

Bottle shot of Glam Polish Part of Your World.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Shown again in different lighting to see polish topper a little bit better.

Stamped with image from Apipila Super Placa H using Painted Polish Autumn Twilight 2.0.

Lots of interest there!

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Loving this shift in the Glam Polish, just adds so much more interest to the nails!

I love experimenting with layering; I only wish I had more time to do more of it!  I know it isn't time consuming to do the actual nails; it is the time to search through my stash to come up with polishes (and plates!) to use!

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

Happy 4th of July!

Happy Independence Day to all my American friends!  I thought I'd do these nails quickly last night, but quickly turned into almost 2 hours from start to finish but I think they were worth it!  Here's what I came up with!

Started out with a base of Painted Polish Seeing Stripes, Painted Polish Seeing Stars and accent nail of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls.  The Painted Polish were three thin coats; the OPI, two.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

I had made stamper decals for the thumb and index finger using Konad Square 09 (thumb) and UC mini: Fourth of July for the index.  The base for the thumb is the blue microglitter (Seeing Stars) and I filled in some of the stars with the red microglitter (See Stripes); the base for the index is the red microglitter and I filled in the lines using the blue.  Unfortunately, I had cracks in the white lines of the decal for the index so I did some hand painting to try to correct.  After the decals were dry and applied, stamped middle using Wistonia American Pride, ring finger with Chez Delaney Fete 001 and CjS LC10 and pinky using MoYou Festive Collection-44.  Stamping polishes used were Konad red special polish, Moyra SP. 05 and FunkyFingers Gesso.  Added random stars on middle and ring finger using image from Wistonia American Freedom and Konad red special polish.

UberChic UC mini: Fourth of July





Clear Jelly Stamper CjS LC-10



Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

 Thanks for looking!

Happy Canada Day!!

Happy Canada Day to all my fellow Canadians!  I had a really hectic week and just did these yesterday but they'll be on my nails all weekend!

Started with a base of two coats each of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, OPI My Wish List Is You with an accent of Different Dimension Kiss Me Under The Light of a Thousand Stars.

Added a light coat of Funky Fingers Olaf on thumb for some interest and topped all with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

 Stamped all fingers using Clear Jelly Stamper CjS LC-08 using Konad red special polish and MdU 1.  Accent is CNF 001 with Fig Tree Stamps.

 Topped all with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.  It was a little hot and humid yesterday so even though I waited a bit to top coat, I still had a little smear.  I had to use the Konad and MdU stamping polishes as everything else dried too quickly!  Normally I would have done a bit of touch up with the stamps that didn't stamp that well but I did these in cottage country and only had a minimum amount of supplies with me.  But still was happy how they turned out!

Whatever you are doing this long weekend (and hopefully it is a long weekend for you!), please be safe regardless if you are on the water, driving, make sure you wear a hat and sunscreen and overall, enjoy your day and think of  what a great country we live in!

Thanks for looking!

Orange and Peach Circles

I don't usually do these type of abstract kind of nails but I did like how this turn out!  Too bad my pictures seem really dark but hopefully you can see how they look anyway!  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of China Glaze More To Explore with accent of OPI Tempura-ture Is Rising.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped with image from MoYou Holy Shapes 08 using Hit the Bottle A Flock of Seagulls with accednt of MdU 31.

Double stamped using image from MoYou London Holy Shapes 12 using MdU 108 with accent of Hit the Bottle A Flock of Seagulls.

MoYou Holy Shapes Collection-12

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

I love when I can get a pretty good match with a stamping polish and a regular polish to create a matchy-matchy look and think everything matched pretty good in this one!

Thanks for looking!

I Might Need To Use Negative Space Images More Often!

I'm doing a scheduled post for a few weeks away as I type this; I hope the day I pick is a bright sunny day to go along with these bright sunny nails!

The nails didn't start too bright and sunny; this is two coats of SuperChic Awkward Turtle, no top coat.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped with an image from Marianne Nails XXL 6 using MdU 46.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

I don't use these negative space images that often, mainly because I don't think that the base shows that well most of the time but I think I need to start using them more often!  

Thanks for looking!

Going Through the Archives

I have a pretty good number of archived mani's and while I'm still sharing newer ones, I would like to get these older ones posted.  I've been posting some here and there for a little while now.  Typically these are manis that might be a little simpler to do because I did them just because I like to change my nails so often yet don't have too much time but hopefully they might be of interest to someone.  I like to see sometimes just how an image looks on the nails from a plate that I haven't used so if nothing else, this may help someone.  Or maybe create a new polish lemming for someone, who knows! Here's one from last May last year!

Started with a base of Glam Polish Chamber of Secrets, no top coat.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped with an image from Marianne Nails n.23 using FunkyFingers Gesso.

Marianne Nails n.23.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Thanks for looking!