Enjoy These Last Days of Summer Weather!

Southern Ontario is going through a little heat wave these last few days even though the first day of fall has come and gone!  Not that I'm complaining; we didn't have that great of a summer as it was cool and raining so much in the spring and early summer as well as unseasonably cool in late summer.  Anyway, not like we have any choice in the matter but I thought I would at least share these summer nails that I was sporting about a month ago!  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of Quo by Orly Femme Fatale, no top coat.  I love this colour; so bright and fun; it's the colour that I've wore on my toes most of the summer!  Yes, I try to take my own polish when I get a pedi so that I have it in case I need a touch up.  I also take my own quick dry top coat because they never, ever have quick dry tc at the salon and I can cut down dry time (plus am usually wearing sandals all summer long so my dry time is cut down substantially) so I keep this polish and a bottle of KBShimmer Clearly on Top in my purse.  I have a couple backups of this too because I love it so much!

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using images from MoYou Tropical 16 (middle), MoYou Tropical 06 (thumb), Lina 4 Seasons-Summer 03 (ring), Lina 4 Seasons-Summer 02 (image over words on ring) and Lina Feeling Shapely! 02 (index and pinky); used Painted Polish Midnight Mischief.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Thanks for looking...and enjoy this summer weather while we can!

Digit-al Dozen Does Rainforest; Day 4

I'm late, I'm late,...just like the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland!  This is Day 4 of the Digit-al Dozen rainforest challenge; tropical birds!

Most of my rainforest posts have pretty much had some type of greenery, so I was trying to do at least different base styles if they all had to be green!  For this one, I did dry brushing with Zoya Tilda, Zoya Tara, Zoya Shawn, Zoya Veruschka and American Apparel MacArthur Park.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

I made a few stamper decals from MoYou Tropical Collection 06 and 19.

Applied stamper decals.  The images are from MoYou Tropical Collection 06 (index, middle, pinky - which is partial stamper decal and part stamped) and MoYou Tropical Collection-19 (thumb and ring finger).  (I do not know what I was thinking with the white parrot but Love how the flowers on that decal turned out!)

Applied topcoat to finish.

Here's the other ladies day 4 rainforest mani's!

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Thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen Does Neon; Day 5

It's the last day of Digit-al Dozen sponged gradient neon week and while I have more sponged gradients to share, I thought I would share something a little different being some neon stamping.  This is another favourite mani of mine; here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls (no pix as have shown before). Stamped using an assortment of Mundo de Unas polishes; numbers 29, 39, 49, 51 and 69 using an image from BP L015.

BP L015

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

I actually thought that was the end of the mani as I was pretty happy how it turned out, but later that night I got looking at my nails and got to thinking it needs a bit more.  So, the next morning, decided to add a little to it.  First, added a few flower center accents using Shimmer Alice.

Then, added image to accent using an image from MoYou Tropical Collection-06 using Funky Fingers Dark Knight and Mundo de Unas 48. This was just a little extra that added big umphhh to the mani, and finished it off I think.  

Here's the other ladies Day 5 neon nails!  

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Hopefully you have enjoyed every one's neon mani's this week; I know it was fun for me to put such bright and colourful colours on even if they were mainly sponged gradients.........thanks for looking!

*edited on July 21 2015 to add pix of BP L015.

Digit-al Dozen Does Nature; Day 2

Today's Digit-al Dozen mani is for the birds!  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of bright skittles; polishes used starting at the thumb and going clockwise are Sally Hansen Insta-dri Blue By! (one coat...one!), Sally Hansen Insta-dri Lightning (two coats), China Glaze Kiwi Cool-Ada (3...and a pain in the butt polish all around if I do say so myself!), Sally Hansen Insta-dri Impulse Orange (two coats) and China Glaze Shocking Pink (Neon), two).  Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Very simple stamping using Funky Fingers Dark Knight; all images are from MoYou Tropical Collection-06.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Here's the other ladies awesome Day 2 mani's!

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Thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen Does Summer!!!!!!!!!!!!!; Day 1

I'm very late in getting this post up...and hopefully it will still be Day 1 by the time I do, but it's again Digit-al Dozen challenge week!  This weeks theme is summer; this is what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls (no pix as have shown before).  To make the mani all tropical and summery, added a coat of 10.1 Polish Going to a Rave**. I love the oh, so bright colours of 10.1 Going to a Rave...bright pink, blue, green and yellow.  Perfect for a tropical mani!

Using stamping polishes in the same colours of the glitters, added images from MoYou Tropical Collection-02.  The stamping polishes are Mundo de Unas 4 (blue), 11 (yellow), 39 (green) and 15 (pink).  

MoYou Tropical Collection-02

MoYou Tropical Collection-06

Added birds from MoYou Tropical Collection-06 using Mundo de Unas #2 (black).

Finished with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

10.1 Going to a Rave and other 10.1 Polishes are available here!

Here's the other ladies Day 1 summer mani's!

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Thanks for looking!

**item sent for review; please refer to disclosure policy