Birthday Nails!

I had a birthday not too long ago (OK...it was yesterday!) so these were the nails I was sporting for the weekend!  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a sponged gradient of Fancy Gloss Neon Yellow Sunshine Pop and Painted Polish Blanc Slate.  (I did post it was neon yellow but just checked my notes and its not.  Sorry.)

Applied KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

After making stamper decals with images from MoYou London Happy Birthday 01 and 02 using Fancy Gloss Neon Orange, Neon Yellow, Neon Green, Imperial and Azure.  The thumb and pinky are double stamped; first with a few of the Fancy Gloss Neons using HB 01 and then, the thumb is double stamped the thumb using an image from BundleMonster BM-H19, the word to is from MoYou London Happy Birthday 01 and me is from UC Love and Marriage 01.  The pinky has another decal from the index finger that didn't fit!  I also added random stars, dots, etc. for filler in various images from these same plates.

BundleMonster BM-H19

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Thanks for all the birthday wishes on my various social media accounts as I did post these on FB and IG yesterday but didn't have time to do a blog post!  Hopefully you get some ideas from this mani when it's your birthday!!

Thanks for looking!

Bright Hibiscus Nails

These were the nails I was sporting last weekend at Indie Expo Canada 2019!  I did them on Friday night and ended up wearing them until Monday night because I either had no time to change them or was too tired!  I love how bright and vibrant they were!  It was too bad we had so much rain last weekend but at least my nails were bright!  Here's what I came up with!

I didn't start these nails until around 1 am so while I initially wanted to do a gradient, I decided to do something quick so went with a stamper smooshy base of Fancy Gloss Neon Yellow, Neon Pink, Neon Orange and Neon Orange-Yellow.  The great thing about these neons is that no base polish is needed so I stamp these directly on my clear base coat.  And this is one stamper smoosh and it did all the nails (probably because I use too much polish) but because the polish is so opaque, I don't have to layer and layer to cover thin spots.  This method is quick for me so I use it when I want an interesting base but no time.  

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top. 

Stamped using an image from UberChic UC 7-01 using Painted Polish Midnight Mischief.

 Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

If you attended Indie Expo Canada 2019, I hope you had a fantastic time!  It was wonderful to see polish friends from past events and meet new ones!  And shop.  Like, weren't we all there for that?  Let's just say from the crowds and haul pix that it's pretty clear that indie polish is still thriving in Canada!  

If you weren't able to attend and want to live vicariously through me, my IEC 2019 posts will be shared over the next couple weeks!  

Have a great weekend and thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen Does Patterns; Day 4

This is a pretty simple mani that throws a pretty good punch when it's done if I don't say so myself!  Unfortunately, life is so busy that I don't have much time to do really detailed, time consuming mani's but I still like to change my nails daily or close to it so simple is the order of the day most of the time!  It has a pretty cool pattern though and it's my Day 4 mani for Digit-al Dozen pattern week!

Started with a base of two coats of Pretty Serious Comfy Y-Fronts.  This is a pretty colour but I don't get the name at all.  Maybe someone can enlighten me? 

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using FunkyFingers Gesso using image from MJ XLVI.

MJ XLVI

 Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

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

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I'm going to be busy all weekend at Indie Expo Canada 2019 so please check out my Instagram for updates.  This also means I probablyyyy won't get my day 5 mani posted until Monday.

Thanks for looking and have a great weekend!

Digit-al Dozen Does Patterns; Day 3

It's day 3 of Digit-al Dozen pattern challenge  (I'm late, I'm sorry but life is just so busy!)!  I just did these nails a couple days ago; I thought I had done the mani's for the challenge (and I have!) but I liked these nails just a little better than another so decided to share now instead of another one!  The other Digit-al Dozen ladies are so talented; I have to try to bring my best mani's to try to keep up lol!  Anyway, here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of Essie All Over The Wave, no top coat.

Topped with a coat of Different Dimension Envy, part of the newly released 7 Deadly Sins collection.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using image from Apipila Super Placa A using Painted Polish Blanc Slate.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Decided to add a few dots for colour and interest, added them using Painted Polish Stamped in Starfruit.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Here's the other ladies day3 mani's!

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Thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen Does Patterns; Day 2

It's day 2 of Digit-al Dozen pattern week and I did these pattern on pattern nails which are a little different but I try to think outside of the box sometimes for challenges and holidays and this is one of those times!  Yes, the dots are a pattern and so is the water marble design!  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of three coats of Ruby Kisses Barbie Purple, no top coat.  Perfectly named lol!

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped image from Moyra 103 Birds Always Sing using Painted Polish Stamped in Rose, Stamped in Taro and Thirty and Flirty.

Moyra 103 Birds Always Sing

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Unfortunately, the gradient stamping wasn't giving me the punch I wanted for my nails, so decided to double stamp using an image from Kelly Negri KN 17 using Painted Polish Deux 2.0.  This is more my style!

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Here's the other ladies day 2 pattern mani's!

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Thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen Does Patterns: Day 1

It's Digit-al Dozen week; our prompt this week is patterns!  For Day 1, I decided to use a bunch of images that were all in a pattern; hopefully you can still see it on my short nails but it is more evident on the stamping plate!  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a smooshy stamper base using Fancy Gloss Ocean Breeze, Blue Skies, Neon Blue and Striking Blue.

  

These were the polishes used!

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using Lina Born to Sail 01 and Lina Born to Sail 02 using FunkyFingers Gesso.

Lina Born to Sail 02.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Here's the other ladies day 1 mani's!

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Thanks for looking!

Weekend Brights!

Good morning....it still is morning, I believe!  Hopefully you've been enjoying your weekend!  These have been on my nails since Thursday night and I did the base polish on Wednesday.  Loving the brightness of the base which is perfect for summer!  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of Picture Polish Pinkie which I absolutely love!  I love everything about this polish; the colour with just a hint of the added holographic which is one of my favourite types of bases and I don't know what it is but I can pretty much apply these polishes with no clean up...I'm guessing its the combination of the formula and the brush.  I was thinking I wish I could buy like 1000 of the brushes with a few caps and just use it every time I polish my nails.  I wonder if that's a thing.  Or just me thinking it should be!  I loved this base so much that I even wore it without stamping for 24 hours which doesn't happen very often!  FYI, I got this at Harlow and Co. as she just did a Picture Polish restock about a week ago and I jumped on it!

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Eventually I did stamp on it!  Used an image from UberChic Chevron 02 using Painted Polish Midnight Mischief.

UberChic Chevron 2.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Added double stamped floral images using UberChic 28-01 using Painted Polish Midnight Mischief and Blanc Slate (and a good clear stamper lol).  I haven't had very good luck with stamping these types of designs and while not perfect, they turned out better than I thought they would. Overall, I was happy how they looked.  Even better, I was also able to stamp Ms. Cindy with the same designs.

UberChic 28-01

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

This design has so many possibilities; I can see myself doing it over and over again in a whole bunch of different colours!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend; thanks for looking!