Lest We Forget

Lest we forget.  

Today is Remembrance Day.  The time we honour those who have fought for our freedoms and those who continue to serve, so we can continue with the freedom we enjoy today.  

I did this quick mani last night and while I was doing my nails, thought about my grandfather who fought in WWII and really, cannot imagine living in the world as I've known it my whole life if not for him and others who sacrificed so much so we have the liberties we have today.  

Started with a base of two coats of Picture Polish Sharky, no top coat.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using images from CjS H-2 and Messy Mansion MM078XL using Painted Polish Midnight Mischief and FUN red stamping polish.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Lest we forget.

Digit-al Dozen Does Texture; Day 4

Happy Valentine's Day!!  This mani is going to do double duty for Valentine's Day as well as day 4 of Digit-al Dozen texture challenge!  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats each of El Corzaon N530A (thumb and middle), Claire's Galaxy (index and pinky) and Girly Bits Brrr-ch Please (ring), no top coat.

Added topcoat on all fingers except thumb and middle as the El Corazon dries matte and rough, making it appropriate for the texture challenge!

Stamped images from Marianne Nails Professional n.29 (thumb and middle) and Lina All About Love 02 (index, pinky and ring) using MdU 1 and 2.  Added heart to ring finger using same Lina plate using Konad red special stamping polish.

Lina All About Love 02

Marianne Nails Professional n.29

By hand and brush, filled in heart on pinky using same Konad red stamping polish.  Shadow stamped the thumb using Marianne Nails Professionals n.29.  Note:  I love the look of this image shadow stamped!  I'll have to do another mani sometimes using this image!

Unfortunately, the heart on the pinky didn't show up that well.  So found my rarely used and cherished FUN red stamping polish and redid the heart on the pinky.  Added heart to index using an image from the same Marianne Nails plate.  I didn't risk restamping the heart on the ring ring finger as I probably wouldn't line it up that well even with a clear stamper, plus it showed up pretty good on the light base colour, so left it.

Topped all fingers except the thumb and middle with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Here are the other ladies day 4 mani's!

An InLinkz Link-up

Have a great Valentine's Day if you do that sort of thing, or have a great Thursday if it's just another day!  Thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen REDOES Art; Day 4

I'm a little bit behind with the Digit-al Dozen challenge but here is day 4 based upon a pix I found on pinterest!  Here's what I came up with!

Inspirational art.

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

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.  

Did a sponged radial gradient using Zoya Tilda and Shawn.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Made a stamper decal using an image from OS-03 (and a spare...that I did end up using on Ms. Cindy!)  FYI, used FunkyFingers Dark Knight for decal on the left and Mdu black for one on the right; the difference is very obvious!)

Applied stamper decal.

OS-03

Stamped rest of the nails using images from MoYou Kitty Collection-15 using MdU black.

MoYou Kitty Collection-15

Added butterflies using FUN red stamping polish.


Finished with a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.



Here's the other ladies Day 4 art nails!

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks for looking!

Smitten Sunny Side Up and Apipila P.2

Another archived mani; yes, I'm still doing my nails about several times a week but have soooo many mani's in archives because I do my nails at a great rate that I can do posts so need to get some of these up!  I lost about 2500 pictures not too long ago by fingers moving faster than my brain and then accidentally deleted them; I tried a recovery program but still wasn't able to recover them.  So I'm hoping if I get some older mani's posted, as well as delete some ones that are so fugly no one is ever going to want to see them anyway, that I won't have to worry so much about accidental deletions and what not.  So these nails that I'm sharing are almost two years old now; I love how they turned out and not really sure why I didn't share them sooner but glad they weren't deleted in the brain freeze purge!

Started with a base of two coats of Smitten (now Dreamland) Sunny Side Up, no top coat

I remember how exciting getting Smitten/Dreamland Sunny Side Up was as there weren't many yellow holos on the market at the time.  This pix, you can see the holo a little bit better!

Stamped using FUN black stamping polish using an image from Apipila P.2.  The stamping doesn't look that crisp here; I'm not sure if there was a problem with the plate or it could have been not a good press onto the nail and a little movement which I know sometimes happens which causes the shadowing. 

Added a few dots for interest.

Top coated with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Hope you're having a wonderful week; thanks for looking!

Go! Blue Jays! Go!

I don't think I've ever seen so much baseball on our tv as the last couple of months but the hubs anyway sure has been watching every game!  We'll be watching the game today and now that it's down to the wire for The Blue Jays, thought I should finally do a "Support the Jays" mani just in case it's their last game today as I've been meaning to do one for a while now but haven't gotten around it it .........but I'm confident it won't be their last game as they are going to take the World Series!  Go, Jays, Go!

Started with a base of two coats of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, top coated.

Stamped using assortment of plates; BM-414 (ring), UberChic Sports Fan-01 (thumb and index), MJ IV (pinky) and Nailways Back to the Basics 123 ABC (middle) using MdU 4 and 23 and FUN red.  The images on the Uber Chic plate are too big for my nails; I had to do the stamper shrinking method on the thumb and it's still a tight fit.  I should also point out that I used the clear jelly stamper for the letter placement on the middle finger; what fantastic results!  I would never be able to place the letters so well without it...believe me, I've already tried this before lol.  

UberChic Sports Fan-01

BundleMonster BM-414

Added baseball to index, then topped with Girly Bits What a Rush QD TC to finish.  

Sadly, sports images are lacking on stamping plates; UberChic Sports Fan-01 is a start, recognizing that there are a few other images out there on other plates but not many.  I do hope there are more images coming!  Even though you might not necessary be cheering for the Jays, at least someone might get some inspiration from these!

GO! JAYS! GO!

Thanks for looking!

More Fall Nails!

I know I shared a few fall mani's already; I did these nails over a week ago and had planned on sharing them as part of Digit-al Dozen autumn week but decided to share ones I liked better instead.  

Started with a base of one coat of Lilypad Lacquer The Pumpkin King.

Did a gradient using Lilypad Lacquer Skulloween.



There was a whole lot of sparkle and sheen happening with this mani; while I had originally wanted to add multicoloured leaves, I thought the base had enough action without a magnitude of stamping colours fighting for attention.  So went very simple using FUN red stamping polish using and image from MJ X.



Top coated to finish using GirlyBits What a Rush QD TC.



While the mani was OK, there was just a little too much sheen or somethingsomething that wasn't sitting right with me.  So topped with OPI matte, which toned it down a bit more to my liking.



 (Remember my post here where I had streaks through the stamped images from the top coat application; it did it this mani too being really noticeable on the index and pinky.  I've since figured out the cause which was an easy fix so hopefully there won't be any more scratchy images lol).

This isn't my most favourite mani ever but not my worst by any means.  Fall appropriate in colours anyway so might be inspiration for someone plus I always share the good with the bad!

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