Going Green!

I'm going green for March, but not in the ecological sense, sorry.  For the first half of March, I'll be  sharing St. Patrick's Day mani's starting with this one.

Started with a base of Pahlish Four Leaf Clover, Pahlish Honeydew and Stella Chroma Forever Twinkle (October 2019 PPU) which is on a white soft focus base.  Love these polishes all together!

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped shamrocks using UberChic mini:  St. Patrick's Day using MdU 39, MoYou Festive 75 on the other nails, adding rainbows from Clear Jelly Stamper CjS H14 on the thumb using assortment of MdU and Painted Polish stamping polishes (with a few brush touchups on any stamping imperfections!).  The gold on the thumb is a Pure Ice St. Patrick's Day themed polish that I brushed on but I didn't take note of it sorry, but it was perfect for the pot-o-gold!

Topped using KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

I think that Pahlish Four Leaf Clover is my most favourite St. Patrick's Day polish in my collex and I love the combination of the clovers using the MdU 39 as the stamping polish.  So if you think you have seen this combo before on the blog, you're not mistaken!  Also (and not that it matters), I had a crack on my index nail about halfway down the nail; I used acrylic strengthener on it until it reached the free edge, then cut down to nubs so you will see a bunch of mani's in the mix with these short nails.  Nubs don't mean I don't do my nails; I still do mani's as 1) love to do my nails regardless how short they are or how many hangnails I have or whatever the issue is and 2) still share them as someone out there, with short nails or not, might get some inspiration from them in their own mani's.  There is no shaming on nail length/condition, etc. here!  Please move on if it bothers you!

Thanks for looking!

 

Kiss Me, I'm Irish!

If this mani looks familiar, it's because it was a mani that evolved over several days, with some parts staying constant, that I shared the finished look here!  That and the fact that I loved Pahlish Four Leaf Clover so much, I didn't want to take it off!  But I did wear it in different phases for a few days before how it ended up and this post will share a couple of those looks including this one!

Started with a base of Pahlish Four Leaf Clover on the index, middle and pinky.  The ring is a sponged gradient of KBShimmer In Yacht Water and Girly Bits It's Near Leaf Fall.  Thumb is a fluid art decal that was applied, polishes unknown.

Stamped all the Pahlish nails with Lina All Mixed Up! 01 using MdU 30, thumb is UberChic mini:  St. Patrick's Day with the shamrocks from the same Lina plate; the middle nail is a stamper decal made from Messy Mansion MM04.  Ring finger is MM04 with the rainbow being CjS H-14 using Mdu 39, 68, 11, 107, 9 and 60.

However, when I went to top coat the middle nail, the stamper decal pretty much disintegrated so as not to abandon the entire mani, I did a fresh coat of the Palish and stamped it with the clovers on the rest of the nails, then topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.  I wore this for a couple days.

But after a couple days, I thought the thumb nail didn't seem to go that well with the rest of the nails, so removed the fluid art decal and put on Pahlish Four Leaf Clover on it as well, then stamped it with the same shamrock images and again, wore it for a couple days.  I didn't mind how it looks here but just preferred it with the Pahlish base on all four nails with the pot of gold accent nail!

Thanks for looking and hope you're having a great weekend!  And wash your hands often!

Digit-al Dozen Does Books; Day 4

I know.  This does look like a St. Patrick's Day mani (and I guess it is doing double duty as I do want to get my St. Pat's mani's posted before the 17th!) so I'm using it today for the Digit-al Dozen book challenge.  Thankfully we have a lot of liberty how we interpret the theme so this Irish looking mani is based upon a book that I read from one of my favourite authors, Nora Roberts.  The book is called Irish Thoroughbred and is the first book in the Irish Legacy trilogy.  I've also read Irish Rose which is also part of the trilogy but not the last book, Irish Rebel.  Anyway, here's my final nails for the Digit-al Dozen book challenge!

Started with a base of two coats of Daily Hues What Band Is Next?, no top coat.  This is a perfect base of a St. Patrick's Day (or Irish!) mani.

Topped with a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on top.

Stamped using images from MoYou Festive-21 (all fingers except pinky) and CJS H-14 (pinky only as the other image is too big to fit!) using MdU 37.  Added a few smaller shamrocks using different image on same MoYou Festive-21.

Clear Jelly Stamper CJS H-14

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

Here's the other ladies day 5 mani's!

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Hopefully you have enjoyed the book themed mani's and had time to check out all the other fantastic mani's done by the group this month!

Thanks for looking!