Snowflakies!

We had a bit more snow last night so how about another snowflake mani?  Unfortunately, my pictures (and poor cuticles!) don't do this mani justice as it was pretty cool when I was wearing them!  Here's what I came up with!

Matte! Like this version too!

Started with a base of two coats of Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Beatnik, no top coat.

Topped with one coat of Illyrian Magika from December 2018 PPU.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped with an image from Sugar Bubbles SBS 013 using MdU 1.  (Please excuse the hair and bad cleanup!)

Sugar Bubbles SBS 013.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

I thought a coat of matte top coat would enhance the flakies so added a coat of My Indie Polish My Perfect Matte.

Thanks for looking

Layering With Paint It Pretty Love Without Limits

The Paint It Pretty Polish Valentines Collection 2019 is available today here!  I've already shared swatches and Valentine's Day nail art in the last couple of posts and thought I'd share a layering look using Paint It Pretty Polish Love Without Limits!  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of three coats of CND Vinylux Eternal Midnight.  (Two coats was good enough coverage for IRL but there were some baldy looking patches under the lights for the pix so added a third coat for good measure!)

Added a coat of My Indie Polish My Perfect Matte.

Added a coat of Paint It Pretty Polish Love Without Limits on a few fingers.  (In hindsight, don't ask me what I put matte polish on these fingers as I knew I was going to layer on top of them!  No need to have matted but I guess I wasn't thinking!)

Added a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top to the non matte nails.

Stamped using images from Sugar Bubbles SBS 10 using Funky Fingers Gesso.

Paint It Pretty Polish Love Without Limits and the rest of the Valentines Collection 2019** are available here now for $10 CAD each!

Have a great weekend and thanks for looking!

**press sample

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays!  Hopefully you had a fantastic Christmas and enjoying the holiday season!  

These nails were almost not to be even though I love how they turned out.  So several weeks ago, I made 4 decals on the stamper with the image on the middle finger.  I had been waiting for the time that I sat down to do my nails and was in the mood to do and wear this style of nails (hopefully I'm not the only person like this who has to be in the mood to wear a particular colour or finish or style, etc.  If you are, you get this!).  So anyway, made said stamper decals.  Hadn't been in the mood to do them.  Then maybe two weeks ago or so, I had nails longer than this and one nail had a little snag; before I knew it, that nail was down to nubs and the rest had to follow.  Well, I was in a real predicament for this design  then as these decals really needed longer nails.  Not to mention that I was tying up 5 stampers that were holding the decals.  So I waited a week or so for my nails to grow out a bit and decided a couple days before Christmas that I had to do them as the holiday season was going to be over before I would be wearing them!  So did my nails but then the decals had dried up and wouldn't stick even though the nails were topped with Orly Bonder.  So I had to coax them onto the nail the best I could but had to do some touch ups here and there on a couple of them.  I will have to keep this in mind for the future as I guess I'm used to doing stamper decals that are topped with Sally Hansen Hard as Nails and they are good to apply for a couple years!  These decals made on the stamper and applied direct are made more so to be applied right away so I'll have to keep this in mind and use them up right away.  Anyway, here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of one thin, quick coat of FingerPaints Blissfully Blue, mainly in case the stamper squishy missed any spot.  Then did squishy stamper method using it, and KBShimmer Sky Jinks and I'd Rather Be With Blue. 

Added some brush strokes of Nubar (to be updated) for interest.

Applied decals on the stamper on all fingers except ring.  The plates used were Creative Shop 36 (thumb) and Delaney Hiver A001 (index, middle and pinky).  The ring finger was stamped using image from Maniology M036.

Maniology M036

Added words to ring finger using Maniology M041.  I also stamped snowflake from same image on thumb.

Maniology M041.

I got to looking at my nails and was thinking why do all the trees have snow on them except the one on the index so hand painted in some snow (this is about the extent of my free hand skills!)

Love the thumb imagery!

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

The next day, I got to thinking this might be a mani that looks better with a matte top coat, so applied a coat of My Indie Polish My Perfect Matte.

Have a great weekend and thanks for looking!

Still Sharing Fall Mani's!

Sorry for the brief hiatus but life has gotten in the way of doing blog posts!  Unfortunately, I didn't get many Halloween mani's posted but man, did I do a lot of fall mani's!  This is another fall themed one and I have a few more to post; it's a good thing winter hasn't arrived here yet which still gives me time to still post fall nails!  Here's one I recently came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of Moon Shine Mani Southern Belle, no top coat.

Topped with a coat of Native War Paints Special Effects Gold Coast, Polish Con 2016.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using an image from Moyra 55-Fall using MdU 9, 13, 106 and Painted Polish Stamped in Moss.

These are the polishes used along with the image.

Moyra 55-Fall

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Decided to add a matte top coat so added one coat of My Indie Polish My Perfect Matte.

Thanks for looking!

Yet More Fall Leaves!

I've been having a lot of fun with fall mani's this year; I've posted 4 fall mani's already and have maybeeee another six mani's that I haven't posted yet.  At the rate I'm going, I'll still be sharing fall nails in the new year, so I'm going to try to speed up the posting of them if my time permits.  Other than that, I'll still be sharing fall nails in January, or February or next fall, who knows!  Anyway, this is my absolute favourite fall mani that I've done this year although, I do have to say that overall, I'm pretty happy how all my fall nails have turned out.  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats OPI Fearlessly Alice, no top coat.

Topped with a coat of Girly Bits Unicornucopia which was one of the the Girly Bits August 2018 PotM.

For those who keep track of these things, OPI Fearlessly Alice did stain my nails ever so slightly; I wish I had have thought of the possibility before I did my nails so I could have added an extra coat of base; there were no application or removal issues with GirlyBits Unicornucopia.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using an image from Lina 4 Seasons-Autumn 02 using MdU 11, 53, 59 and 66.

Eeep, I can do a thing!  I've never done this before although other bloggers have been doing it for ages but my resistance to technology puts me behind on some things including this.  But thanks to a simple app on my phone, I can highlight what images I've used for easy reference (that is should anyone care lol).  

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

The base is one that begs for matte top coat to be added as it accentuates the flakies and glitter when matte top coated so finished with a coat of My Indie Polish My Perfect Matte.  Look at those flakies!

If you are wondering why I chose to wear undies with the stunning Girly Bits Unicornucopia, it is because 1) I've been layering more often just to see the outcome and 2) when I tested it layered as shown here or two coats on its own, it was a brighter/lighter base with the undies which I think complimented the stamping better, at least for the look I was going for.  It was pretty nice without undies and on it's own too, this is just how I chose to share it!

Thanks for looking!

More Fall Leaves!

I love, love, love, love how this turned out!  I've been doing some layering lately experimenting with some untrieds as well as trying to come up with some interesting nail art bases when I don't really have a lot of time to do something spectacular that takes hours of work as I simply don't have that time right now....hoping it just looks like it did when it was short and sweet!  But these fall skittles with the flakies on top are giving me all the fall feels and I was really happy how these turned out; I even wore them for a few days which is not typical for me!  Here's what I came up with!

Started out with a base of skittles in fall colours; starting at thumb and going clockwise:  Girly Bits Another Brick in the Fall, Sally Hansen CSM Butterscotch, CND Vinylux Gypsy, Girly Bits It's Near Leaf All and CND Vinylux Offbeat.

Topped with DRK Baila Comigo Colecao Rita Lee.nada (this is entire contents of bottom label; it could be more than the name, I'm not really sure, sorry.)

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped with image from Lina 4 Seasons-Autumn 02 using FunkyFingers Dark Knight.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

The next day (or even too, I can't remember, sorry) added a coat of My Indie Polish My Perfect Matte. The lighting isn't the best in the bathroom where I took the pix but it seemed to be the best lighting to see all the colours in the flakies!

I'm on the fence which I like better; glossy or matte.  They both have appeal to me.  What do you think?

Thanks for looking!