Watermelon Sugar High!

Today's #MusicManiMonday is watermelons with Harry Style's Watermelon Sugar High in mind!  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of Sinful Colors Curry Up, with accents of Lakur Guilty Pleasure, both on Cupcake White Pop.  Two coats, no top coat.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using images from MoYou London Tropical 07 (enlargened; thumb), Lesly Garden Stuff 1 (pinky), Creative Shop 81 (middle) and CjS-182 (index and ring).  Used Sally Hansen Instadri Jumpin' Jade, MdU 52 and MdU 9 mixed for a custom pink and Painted Polish Midnight Mischief for stamping polishes.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

 Thanks for looking!

JAWS for Shark Week!

I watched the 50 year anniversary documentary on Jaws, which was really interesting!  Lots of background on what went into the making of it with great interviews with Steven Spielberg, Emily Blunt, George Lucas, and so many others.  Around the same time, I seen all the commercials for Shark Week, which started yesterday, so I thought it would be a great time to do a Jaws theme mani.  I also decided that I was going to do a new series to basically challenge myself to do some more interesting manis as I need some mani inspiration!  So I'm going to do Music Mani Monday's, and pair music with the mani.  For this first Music Mani Monday mani, who can forget the famous Jaws music!  Da-dum. Da-dum. Da-dum da-dum da-dum da-dum daaaaaaaa.  If you want to see the nails with the music, check them out on my IG page!

Started with a base of Sally Hansen Did I Blue That? and Lakur Silver Birch.  I know the coverage wasn't the best but I knew I'd be doing a gradient and hoped it would cover it.  Which wasn't the best but I'll know for next time!

UberChic Seas the Day

MdU Jaws

MoYou London Jaws Collection-01

KADS Ocean 009

MrFox LB018

Did a sponged gradient using Sally Hansen Did I Blue That?, Sally Hansen Dockside Dreaming and Sally Hansen Draw Blue in, no top coat.  I forgot that I was taking pix to share this mani as occasionally I paint my nails just to wear them plain and haven't been taking pix, so there's some stamping here but I'll share plate info below with the rest of them.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Used Kads Ocean 009 (pinky), UberChic Seas the Day (thumb), Mr. Fox LB018 (middle fin and on index), MdU Jaws (ring) and MoYou London Jaws Collection-01 (words on middle).  Stamping polishes are red Konad special polish and Painted Polish  Midnight Mischief.

Topped with a final coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top. 

Thanks for looking!

Prelude to Fall Nails!

With the official arrival of fall right around the corner, I've started to think about sharing a few more fall nails.  If only I didn't still have summer nails to share lol.  I guess they will wait and I'll share them in the cold of winter to remind us that summer is around the corner...or to brighten a day during a snow storm.  We'll see; they'll get shared eventually!  

Anyway, these are my prelude to fall nails.  Not really fall but close enough to make them fall appropriate!  I had picked up some polishes from Winners one day recently and thought I'd try them out and this mani was born.  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of Lakur Silver Birch, no top coat.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

After it had dried for 15 minutes or so, did a sponged gradient using same base polish and Lakur Save The Queen.  I don't know what others do for sponged gradients, but I always top coat the base and wait now; have for some time now.  I used to wait just for the base to dry, but I found that sometimes the sponge would start taking polish off the nail instead of on it so find this works better for me.  I tried different polishes, different sponges; kept on having the same issue.  Don't have this problem when I top coat it first!

Topped with KBShimmer Cleary on Top.  I touched the middle finger with the sponge but knew I was going to stamp on top of it so left it.

Using China Glaze GR8, stamped using an image from Lina Make Your Mark 08.  I like that you can actually see the holo in these pix.  

Shadow stamped using same image using Painted Polish Midnight Mischief.

I didn't shadow stamp the thumb that well though.  But to fix it would have been redoing the whole nail and as I did these nails around 11:30 pm and was getting tired, I decided to live with it.  It could only really been seen with these magnified pictures anyway.  It was the first name I did and although the shadow stamping aren't overly tight on the rest, I did get a little better lol.  I can live with it anyway!

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Thanks for looking!