The Chains!

Raise your hand if you have an Amazon playlist? ✋ I don't know how popular they are but I know for me, I really appreciate having it because there is nothing better than having all your favourite songs in one place, that you can play on repeat!  Love it!  It's on frequent play when I'm doing my nails.  And do you know what my number 1 spot song is?   Drumrolllll:  The Chains by Fleetwood Mac.  Love it!  So these nails for #MusicManiMonday are inspired by my #1 spot song on my playlist.  Here's what I came up with!

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

While stun-ning, one of my favourite things to do is layer polishes, so added a coat of Glam Polish Part of Your World, no top coat.  Stun-ning-er lol!

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped with image from Infinity 157 using Painted Polish Blanc Slate, no top coat.

Topped with another coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

The next day, added a coat of Essie Matte About You to show off the flakies.

Outdoor, overcast skies makes flakies POP, so here are a couple pix outside to show them off!

 Do you prefer glossy or matte?  Please let me know in the comments!

Thanks for looking!

Lovely Lilac Daisies!

I haven't had nails this long in so long; I look at them and they don't even look like my nails!  I find that I can't wear long nails anymore; they get in the way of doing too many things, even though longer nails give an awesome stamping art canvas!

Started with a base of two coats of Stella Chroma Recreational Chemistry, no top coat.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top. 

Stamped using image from Lina 4 Seasons-Spring 02 using Painted Polish Blanc Slate.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top. 

Added floral dots using Painted Polish Stamped in Taro.

Finished with a final coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

 Thanks for looking!

PSA

This is your public service announcement that if you aren't using a water based top coat after you stamp and before your final coat of of quick dry topcoat, that this is what happens to your stamping.  

I've been doing my nails forever....like I think I'm on my 12th year of nail stamping or so and no matter how I float my topcoat, I will still occasionally get get stamping smear, but it doesn't happen that often now as I always do a coat of Apipila No Smudge Top Coat after I stamp and before applying the quick dry top coat.  No, this isn't a sponsored post, it is just me helping you to avoid stamping smear in the future.  I also have Hit the Bottle Aqua Base and a few others, but my preferred one is Apipila.  I've bought it when it was available through Girly Bits, and with Polish Pickup, and Hella Handmade Creations and  Little Box of Horrors, although I think it might only be available now through LBOH, as I haven't bought it for a while as I already have a lifetime supply, I love it so.  Go get it and try it if you have stamping smear issues.  

Started with a base of Glam Polishes:  It's Now or Never, Remember the Monsters?, Someday My Prince Will Come, Crash! and It Sucks To Be Me, no top coat.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top. 

Stamped using Painted Polish Blanc Slate using image from Creative Shop 5S. 

Creative Shop 5S. 

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

This mani is from November 2020 and I bought my first bottle of Apipila No Smudge Top Coat from PPU on January 1, 2021 and haven't looked back.  I haven't bought it since 2024 and that was with LBOH when I bought 4 bottles, mainly because I had bought several bottles any time I was purchasing from a stocklist or PPU/LBOH, even if it was a couple bottles.  

 

Thanks for looking!

Happy Canada Day!

Happy Canada Day to my fellow Canadians!

Started with a base of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, and L'Oreal Rouge Amour, no top coat.

Topped index with Starrily Ruby and ring finger with Ninja Polish Candy Cane Floam, with the pinky and thumb topped with Painted Polish Seeing Stripes.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top. 

Stamped pinky with MdU Canada, ring, thumb and index with CjS H-113, middle with CNF Fig Tree Stamps 001 using Painted Polish Blanc Slate and Konad red.  Flag on the middle is CjS-257. 

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Thanks for looking!

Canada Day Inspiration

These were nails that I did in 2023 a couple days before Canada Day and thought they might be inspiration for some Canada Day nail art.

Started with a base of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, no top coat.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top. 

Stamped using images from CjS-257 using MdU 9, then topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top. 

I'm not sure as I can't remember, but it looks like I had some issues stamping and looks like I double stamped these images as I can see some line up issues.  Although it kind of looks like a shadow so cool!

Decided to top with Essie Matte About You and liked this version better.

CjS-257

These nails are doing double duty; it's #MusicManiMonday with the I AM CANADIAN by DAM Canada (IYKYK; great commercial!)

Thanks for looking!

Thermal Teal Flakies!

I have a few thermal polishes, although I don't wear them often because I find my nails are usually cold, therefore, there isn't much transition when I wear them.  In fact, for the few thermal polishes I have, I usually ensure that I like the cold version of them as I never expect to see the warm transition and I was shocked that it actually happened when I wore this one.

Started with a base of Models Own Hyper Gel Teal, two coats, no top coat.

Topped with Fancy Gloss The Toxic B*tch, 1 coat, from PPU June 2020.  To note, I did these nails in March 2022, so the polish was almost 2 years old, yet still transitioned.  Well done, Fancy Gloss!

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top. 

Stamped using image from Moyra 39-Eastern Mystic using Painted Polish Blanc Slate, no top coat.

Moyra 39-Eastern Mystic

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish. 

Here's a few pictures of the thermal transition.  I finally had a thermal gradient!  This was really the only nail that transitioned; the others I'm shared were forced with my nail dryer.  

Thanks for looking!