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!

Valentines Hearts!

I did these nails last year and as you can see, my nails were really,  really short as they were just starting to grow out.  It didn't stop me from doing my nails though and I have oodles of archived mani's to share when they were this short, which I hope is also inspiration for those who have short nails.

Started with a coat of Cuticula Never Sleep Again (June 2024 PPU Rewind) on top of two coats of L'Oreal Rouge Amour, no top coat.  Ohhh, my nails looks so rough here.  Going out on a limb sharing them but not everyone has perfect nails all the time and I think it's important to share everyday life as not everyone has manicured nails all the time as well as the fact that nail art can be done on short nails too!

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using image from Creative Shop 196 using Painted Polish Blanc Slate, no top coat.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

It's also #MusicManiMonday, and as Valentine's is all about love, music is Love Me Do by the Beatles!

Thanks for looking!

 

Valentine Roses

 

I didn't really do these nails for Valentine's Day, but rather, did them a while back and thought it would be a good time to share them now because roses and Valentines go hand in hand.  Here's what I came up with! 

Started with a base of Sinful Colors Tempest.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.  I always top coat my base polish for gradients as I find otherwise, it lifts when it sponges.  Waited 10-15 minutes to do the sponged gradient.

Did a sponged gradient using Sinful Colors Tempest, Quo by Orly Hop, Skip and a Jump and L'Oreal Violet de Nuit.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using UberChic 13-01 using Painted Polish Midnight Mischief.

UberChic UC 13-01

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

Thanks for looking!

Summeresque Nails!

Smmeresque...is that even a word?  Not entirely sure, but I'm going with it!  We are having some crazy summeresque weather right now...well, probably more like springesque weather, and it is warm, sunny and beau-T-ful the last few days!  I'm sure it is short lived but we'll take it while we can.  So I'm pausing fall nails for a little bit to share these uh-um, summeresque nails!  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of Sinful Colors Wonder Mint, no top coat.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Did a sponged gradient using Sinful Colors Wonder Mint, Nubar Sour Apple and L'Oreal Totally Turquoise.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using Painted Polish Midnight Mischief using Lina Mad for Mandelas 01.

Finished with a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

I don't expect this summeresque weather to stay much longer and it was nice to share something other than fall.  Although, I did A LOT of fall mani's; I still have some to share.

Thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen Does Throwback; Day 1

Happy (belated) Thanksgiving to all my fellow Canucks!  I'm sorry for posting late; I did these nails well in advance of Thanksgiving day (on Saturday morning as I was going away for the long weekend), but I couldn't get the pictures to upload from my phone yesterday to do the blog post!  I had to get them uploaded to my computer in a very roundabout way so am late!  I'm also using these nails for day 1 of Digit-al Dozen does throwback, as a throwback to Thanksgiving nails I've done in the past!  Here's what I came up with!

(The above nails are without topcoat; the nails below have topcoat - I couldn't figure out which ones I liked best!

Started with a base of skittles; starting at thumb and going clockwise:  OPI Santa Monica Beach Peach, Sally Hansen Butterscotch, SpaRitual Clay, American Apparel Mac Arthur Park and L'Oreal The Perfect Trench.

Added a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Made a few stamper decals using the base polishes and a couple others.

Applied stamper decals, and also stamped a couple fingers.  Used images from Infinity 65 (thumb), UberChic Lovely Leaves (ring), Delaney Automne 003 (middle and ring) and UC mini Give Thanks (pinky).  Used MdU polishes for index and middle.

Delaney Automne 003

UB mini Give Thanks

Finished with a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.  

Here's a past Digit-al Dozen mani that this mani is (loosely) based upon!

I did Ms. Cindy a little different but liked it enough that I thought I would share!  On a base of Sally Hansen Butterscotch, stamped using Delaney Feuillages A001 on all fingers except thumb which is Helen 19.  Used a few different MdU stamping polishes.

Helen 19.

Here's the other ladies throwback mani's!

An InLinkz Link-up

Hopefully you had a great Thanksgiving weekend!  Thanks for looking!

Blue Gradient

I did these nails a couple days after Valentine's; SDM had L'Oreal polishes on sale and I had picked up a couple as they are nice one coaters and I thought they would be good for stamping too!  And one coaters of course are good for gradients which is what I decided to do; here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of L'Oreal 670 Cobalt Indecent.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Did a gradient using L'Oreal 670 Cobalt Indencent, L'Oreal Bleu Royal and Kit Teal Tango.

Topped with a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using assortment of images from ZZ03.  I had initially pulled this plate to do something Valentine's related and with pinks, but got sick of doing Valentine's manis so never got around to doing it.  It was still sitting out when I did this gradient so I thought, why not?

ZZ03

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

Thanks for looking!