Back to School Time!!!

Today is the first day of school for kids in my area!  I know, all parents are singing, "It's the most wonderful time of the year!!!!"  I can't believe that it's the last year of school for my youngest child! How time has flied! Only 10 more months of having to get up early and then I've done my parental duty of seeing all three kids off to school for the last 18 or so years! Wahooo!!!!   This is what I came up with for back to school nails!

Started with a base of skittles; polishes used starting at thumb and going clockwise are Nars Ethno Run Left, Nicole by OPI Hit the Lights, OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, Zoya Tilda and Zoya Robyn.  All are two coats except the NOPI which was thin and streaky and needed a third for coverage and Zoya Tilda which was good for coverage but I nicked the tip and just filled it, then added another coat to level.  

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

I had made a bunch of stamper decals using images from plates and acrylic paints.  

Applied stamper decals.  Images are from Moyra-16 Memories16 (thumb), MJ JR-2 (index), Creative Shop 12 (middle), Cheeky Top of the Class Jumbo 4 (ring) and FAB UR NAILS FUN-WON (pinky).

Creative Shop 12

 Applied top coat.

Decided to add a few more images; added words on middle from Infinity Nails 76, then added 'learn' from MJ XL II on ring and 'play' from FAB UR NAILS FUN-WON on ring.  Added a few dots on the dress on the pinky.

Decided to add a few dots for filler using same colours of base.

 Top coated with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

I hope your morning was uneventful if it was your kids first day back!  Ours went well; got up on time, no hiccups and the bus even picked up DS2 on time....last year, the bus forgot him the first day of school so we are already ahead of the game!

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Back to School!

I know a lot of parents are singing, "It's the most wonderful time of the year!" today, but I'm not one of them! I only have one child in school now and he's pretty self sufficient all summer so going back to school today meant I couldn't sleep in like I have for all of July and August!  To top it off, DS2's bus never did show up this morning after waiting for over an hour so I had to drive him to school so not a good start to the school year! Hopefully there's no issue tomorrow!  

I did these back to school nails last night!

Started with a base of skittles; starting at thumb and going clockwise:  Zoya Arizona, Essie Vibrant Vibes, Essie Sittin' Pretty (when I seen the name of this polish, immediately to mind was the Big Bang Theory episode with Penny and her hemorrhoid commercial when she says, "Sittin' Pretty" lol!), OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls and Essie I'm Addicted.    

Made a few stamper decals for the theme using acrylic paints.

Applied the stamper decals and stamped ring; images are from:  Moyra Stamping Plate 16-Memories (thumb), MJ XVIII (apple on middle), MJ LV (teacher on ring), MJ L (pencil on pinky and student on index) and Cheeky Jumbo 4- Top of the Class (bus on middle).  

Moyra Stamping Plate 16 - Memories

MJ LV

The entire decal from Moyra 16-Memories didn't fit on my thumb so I cut a couple of the images that I didn't use and added to the ring finger; then topped everything off with Girly Bits What A Rush QD TC.

Added a few dots for filler and interest.

Then topped everything off with Girly Bits What A Rush QD TC to finish.

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Graduating Class of 2014!

Yes, you are at the right blog!  It's been 4 years that I started my blog (almost to the day; man, how time flies?) and I've had the same rose, basic background all this time.  To be honest, I'm not one of these people who had the need to update my format as my blog has always simply been a format to share my manis and help those find the plates, etc and it didn't really matter to me what it looked like.  But it was ticking me off that some of the pix I wanted to share had some of my fingers partially cut off (as I don't crop or edit pix or do much anything other than upload the pix to blogger) so I wanted to change formats so that my fingers weren't cut off in the pix; that is all!  If I could figure out easily how to expand the margin on the existing format, I would have just expanded them.  And may still do that but for now, this format will do!  (Side note:  I had a change of heart and wanted to change back to the old style and just change the margins but applied one and then couldn't change it back as I see the old format isn't an option and now I wanted the old format back but can't! Oh well!) Not sure how long this one will stay but it's the closest there is to the old format yet not cutting off the pix.  Who knows, now that I seen how easy it is to change, I might do some more, but for now, this is it!

Tonight is my son's graduation; these are the nails I did for the occasion!

I did these quickly before I went to work and didn't have a whole lot of time so only took the end pix versus the pix of as I go along as most posts have.  But here's what I did to create the mani:  Started with a base of two coats OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, top coated.  Stamped main images on fingers using black FUN stamping polish using images from Infinity 35 (thumb), MJ XIX (index), BM H23 (middle), and SdP 102 (pinky).   The middle finger was stamped using Cheeky Jumbo 4 Top of the Class using Mundo de Unas stamping polishes in 13 and 30.  Did a little fill in of open areas on thumb, ring and pinky using L'Oreal Jolly Lolly, Miss Pixie and OPI I'm Never Amberrassed.

Added random stars using yellow Konad and Mundo de Unas 13 from SdP 69.  Lastly, hand painted in 2014 on ring using red Konad special polish.  Top coated to finish.

SdP 102

Infinity 35

Congrats Class of 2014!

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Put On a Happy Face!

Here's a mani I did a couple weeks ago; these bright and fun nails were just the boost I needed at the time to get me through a rough patch...I hope it brings a smile to your face too!



Started with a base of two coats of Glam Polish We Go Together, no topcoat.



Stamped using black FUN stamping polish using BM304 (index and middle), FUN 4 (ring) and Cheeky Jumbo Plate 4; Top of the Class (thumb and pinky).



BM304


Top coated with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.



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