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!

Thanks for looking!

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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Turning a Fail to a Win!

Here's a mani that started out as a fail but was just up my alley when it was finished!

I was hankering for some texture polish on my nails as I haven't wore any lately so went with Dance Legend 44 Sahara Crystal Earth.  However, due to my application error (too thick coats I believe), the only nail that turned out with texture was the ring finger and it was blotchy and uneven at best.  (This is the fail part.) 

Determined to make the mani work, I stamped using an image from MJ JR 41 using FunkyFingers Gesso. (Crooked stamping on index; also a fail!)

MJ JR-41

While the stamping covered the application fail, it was still kinda blah to me, so added dots using Glam Polish Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! for a little interest.

While I started out wanting textured nails, the uneven look of my poor application bothered me too much so I ended up putting on a coat of Girly Bits What A Rush QD TC on it.

Thanks for looking!

40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Teal and Gradient

It's Friday so that means another great nail art challenge! This weeks theme is teal; what is really cool about these bi-weekly themes is there's a mix up on how the theme is presented from everyone who is participating.  I got teal with gradient but you are going to see it done a bunch of different ways that teal is used so be sure to check out the inlinkz at the bottom of the page to see every one's awesome teal mani's!

Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of Cupcake Polish What in Carnation? with no top coat.

Did a gradient using Colors by llarowe Mean Dean Proffitt.

Looks much better after cleanup!  Sometimes I like to show the look beforehand just because I think its cool!  I wish I had have realized there is fine glitter in cbl Mean Dean Proffitt before I did the gradient because cleanup was such a pain!  I think this was the mani that made me seriously look into finding a good cuticle barrier although half the time, I forget to use it or don't have the patience waiting for it to dry!

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top before stamping.



Stamped using Funky Fingers Gesso using an image from MJ Wedding Day.



Top coated with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.



This isn't the best pix but you can see the holo peeking through the stamping a little better!



Here's all the different ways teal was used in the other ladies mani's!

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks for looking!

Hare For Margot Tenenbaum

I'm going to share some more indie polishes mani's over the next little while to continue to support all the indie polish makers!!  #SupportIndiePolishMakers!!!

Here's one I did a few months ago that I loved how it turned out but it doesn't translate the best in pix.  The stamping was kinda cool as it seemed to be floating over the base...hopefully it can be made out in the pictures!

Started with a base of two coats of Hare For Margot Tenenbaum with three coats of China Glaze For Audrey to accent.  I thought For Audrey was a good match but not that close in some pictures lol!

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top before stamping.

Stamped using CND Gold Chrome using image from MJ XXXV.  Added a few studs to accent (and it drives me nuts they aren't the same colour!)

MJ XXXV

Top coated with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Have a great weekend; thanks for looking!