Fall Leaves

I know I said I wouldn't post any more fall manis but I did these a couple weeks ago when I thought there was a fall challenge in a nail art group I belonged to so did them....only to discover when I went to post that the challenge had already passed and I felt it was too late to post them!  Derp!  So thought I would share them now anyway!  

Started with a base of two coats of Nerd Lacquer Some Bastard Who's Presumably Responsible; shown with no top coat.

Added a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped with an image from UberChic Lovely Leaves.  I was going to leave it like this as wanted to highlight the base polish but decided to add some more stamping.

UberChic Lovely Leaves

Added some more leaves using a different image from the same UberChic Lovely Leaves plate.  Stamping polishes used are MdU 7, 46, 53, Girly Bits Fire Engine Red, Moyra SP 03 and Kiko 323 (brown for the tree trunk).  

Added a coat of KBShimmer Clearly ton Top to finish.

Have a great weekend and thanks for looking!

Fugly is Looking Pretty Normal Nowadays

I feel that in some ways, this mani is getting back to my nail roots; one of my early favourite things to do with manis was to add dots here and there for some interest but I haven't done it a whole lot recently it seems. However, once I stamped these nails, they needed something a little more so added the dots too for a little extra colour!

Started with a base of Nerd Lacquer Some Bastard Who's Presumably Responsible; two coats, no top coat.  There were no application issues.  

Top coated with Girly Bits What A Rush QD TC before stamping.

Added an image from Big SdP L using Funky Fingers Gesso stamping randomly for interest.  Well, tried to stamp randomly; I seen after the fact that the middle and ring finger were stamped identically lol!

Added dotted centers using CND Bicycle Yellow.

Top coated using Girly Bits What A Rush QD TC to finish.

Here's a close up of Nerd Some Bastard Who's Presumably Responsible.  You can see the base polish a little better; there's some gold flakies in there and black and bronze micro glitter for added interest.  This isn't a shade that usually appeals to me but sometimes there's an urge to wear what I called a fugly in the past but nowadays, it's no longer fugly but moreso a unique shade that I like to wear every now and then.

Thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen Does Spring; Day 4

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

This mani is doing double duty for the occasion as well as day 4 of the Digit-al Dozen spring challenge just because I really wanted to post a St. Patrick's Day mani today and had no time to do another mani more in line with spring for the challenge (plus still have to get up my day 3 post as it is; the nails are done but the blog post is not!).  So this will have to do.  It's a little busy, but busy is probably my blogger middle name lol! Here's what I came up with!

For the base, used OPI Don't Mess With OPI (thumb and pinky), Nerd Lacquer Thistledown (ring and index) and OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls (middle).  All two coats, top coated with Girly Bits What A Rush QD TC.

I did the white base for a water marble design that would have been the background for some stamping, but try as I might, the water marble gods were not with me and I had no luck with doing a proper design.  After the third attempt, I just took what was in the water, swirled it around, dipped my finger in and hoped for the best.  It wasn't that bad; in fact, who knows, this might have been better than the real water marbling. Anyway, it was late and I had spent enough time on it so just ran with it.  

I had made some decals last weekend; the rainbow is freehand using acrylic paints.  The decal was topped with Sally Hansen Hard As Nails and it was pretty dry and brittle by the time I used it last night, so it cracked and ripped in a few places when I peeled it off the stamper.  I smooshed it onto the nail with my finger as best as I could and quickly top coated to try to get the cracks to fill.  Its ok but not the best.  There's actually rainbow stamps out there; don't ask me why I decided to free hand it lol.  I thought it would be simple enough to do but am sure stamps would have been neater.  The other two decals are using images from Messy Mansion MM04 and assortment of paints and polishes.  Stamped image on the pinky is from MoYou Festive 21 using Funky Fingers Gesso.

(I actually kinda dig this look without all the extra stamping.)

MoYou Festive Collection 21

(Love, love, love the 17 image; I really wanted to use it for this mani if only I had six fingers!  I did next best thing by putting it on Cindy.)

Stamped image on the middle using another image from Messy Mansion MM04 using Funky Fingers Dark Knight.  The words on the thumb are from Moyra Stamping Plate 09-Celebration.  Added a few random shamrocks for filler using another image from Messy Mansion MM04. Placed with clear jelly stamper.

Moyra Stamping Plate 09-Celebration

After some touch ups, finished with a coat of Girly Bits What A Rush QD TC.  In hindsight, I should have put the sparkly hat on the dark green cream base and the pot of gold on the lighter green which would have made both stand out a little more but I guess I didn't plan it out well.  Next time!

I did my other hand a little different; base is two coats of OPI I'm Soooo Swamped with images from MoYou Festive Collection-21. 

Here's the other ladies Day 4 mani's!

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks for looking!

Another Blue; This Time a Nerd

I have a bunch of posts saved in archives which is why there has been an assortment of nail lengths and shapes in these most recent posts as I'm trying to clear them up.......not that I reallyyyy think anyone is paying attention to nail shapes and lenghts! Anyway, I noticed that there is a lot...and I mean A LOT....of blue mani's in archives; I'm going to try to mix them up a bit with others but it must be one of my favourite colours as there are so many (although to be honest, I don't think I wear THAT much blue, I just think I haven't posted as many of them as other colours).  Anyway, here's another blue mani that I was wearing last summer almost a year to the day.

Started with a base of Sinful Colors Oceanside; this is two coats, no topcoat.

Added a coat of Nerd Lacquer Antisocial Media, topped with SV.

Bottle shot of NL Antisocial Media.  (I feel badly showing this because unless you swap or buy this on a polish sale, it's probably hard to get as there haven't been any Nerd Lacquer sales in a long, long time.  It really is too bad that there isn't more consistency with the Nerd shop being open so that these polishes can be bought.)

Stamped using CND Gold Chrome using an image from FUN 7.

Topped with SV.

I had good wear with this; this is how my mani looked after 4 days (here's my highly sophisticated tracking system to show 4 days wear!)

Very faint tip wear but overall, pretty good!

Sorry for posting so much blue; if you are a blue lover, I suppose it's good but if you aren't, I am trying to mix stuff up!

Thanks for looking!