Digit-al Dozen Does My Home; Day 3

It's day 3 of the theme my home for Digit-al Dozen week!  This is my mani based upon one of my holiday towels in the bathroom at my house!  I've also decided to use this mani for the Nail Polish Canada holiday contest.  Please go here , check out all the wonderful entries and vote for your favourite one! Thanks!

Started with a base of three coats of OPI My Wish List is You.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

For a festive look, added a thin coat of Pure Ice Yule Be Cool to accents.

Decided to add heavier coat to those nails, plus on the middle, then stamped thumb using MJ XXXVIII and ring with an image from Sugar Bubbles Special 02 using MdU 1.

Stamped pinky and index using same image from Messy Mansion MM30 and middle with SPH-004.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

My inspiration holiday towel. (It's clear I don't iron my towels lol!)

Here's the other ladies day 3 mani's!

An InLinkz Link-up

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Spring Arrived....Didn't It?

This past weekend, my area was under an extreme cold alert....again.  Plus, there were reports of flurries and a trace of snow when people woke up Sunday morning.  (I can't confirm this myself as I guess everything was melted by 10:30 am lol). Anyway, even though the alert is lifted now, it is still pretty chilly out there (not February cold, but cold enough!); I guess Mother Nature forgot that Spring arrived last week! But with the return of the colder temperatures, it's a good time to share another snowflake mani that I did this past winter!

Started with a base of two coats of Lilypad Lacquer Rebel at heart on all fingers except accent.  Accent is three coats of Contrary Polish Frozen with a coat of Glitter Gal Light as a Feather.  

Different ligthing; can see holo a bit better!

Stamped using white Konad special polish and Mundo de Unas #9 using Sugar Bubbles Special 02.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

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Christmas Nails!

It's hard to believe that it's Christmas Eve and Christmas is just one sleep away!  I did these nails a couple nights ago; I went with something more in the holiday spirit; here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of Different Dimension HO3 (red), Different Dimension TREEmendous (lighter green) and Sally Hansen Ever Green (dark green), two coats, no top coat.

Top coated with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using Mundo de Unas #1 using Sugar Bubbles SB Special 02 (index), Sugar Bubbles SBS 01 (middle and pinky) and Chez Noel 002 (ring).  

Added a coat of KBShimmer Candy Cane Crush! on thumb.  Also, fished out a few of the red glitters from it and added to holly on pinky.  Found a red glitter star and placed it on the tree on middle to finish.  I thought about adding some green dots to the red fingers but decided to leave it as it is.

Because sometimes the smallest things amuse me, I took a pix of my thumb when I first swiped Candy Cane Crush as those glitters just lined up just so!  I couldn't get them to budge with a brush and eventually removed a couple of them with tweezers; as much as I like glitter, I didn't want it spread out like this!

Sugar Bubbles SBS 01.


Love the trees in the second row, middle image!


Top coated to finish.



I'm not sure if I'll be doing a post for Christmas Day and Boxing Day as simply so much to do and running out of time!  So have a fantastic Christmas; all the best to you and yours over the holiday!

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Digit-al Dozen Does Red, Gold and Green; Day 1

It's Day 1 of the Digit-al Dozen monthly challenge; this month's theme is Red, Gold and Green. This is the mani I came up with.

Started with a base of three coats of Layla Special Effects 02.




I really wanted the stamping I was going to be adding to stand out so decided to matte this; added a layer of OPI matte.




Stamped using Sally Hansen Insta-dri Jumpin' Jade using images from W232 (wreath), Sugar Bubbles special 02 (tree), Sugar Bubbles special 01 (ornaments), Chez Xmas 001 (mistletoe) and MoYou Festive Collection-03 (string of lights).




Added assortment of

glitters by fishing them out from polishes, mainly from KBShimmer Kringle all the Way.

A quick look at MoYou Festive Collection-03.






Added topcoat to finish.





This mani is doing double duty; my weekend was too busy with my DD's birthday and other holiday related items that I didn't get a change to do something specific for the Nail Polish Canada week 2 contest so it's my entry for this week.  Here's all the entries if you want to check them out and vote for your favourite!




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Let It Snow!

This is my very late entry for the 2013 Holiday Nail Art Challenge by Nail Polish Canada.  This weeks theme is snow; this is what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of China Glaze So Blue Without You, no topcoat. Love this blue foily finish; it is so bold and glowy with lots of shine!  China Glaze So Blue Without You is part of a trio of polishes in the China Glaze Dash of Dazzle Set** currently available at Nail Polish Canada, who provided this set for review. Sometimes the polishes in these sets aren't full size but these are three, full size bottles and are currently for sale for $15; that's $5 each which is less retail in my area.  

China Glaze So Blue Without You is almost a one coater.  In fact, with a slightly thicker coat and little bit more careful application, it would have been good.  

Stamped using white Konad special polish using Sugar Bubbles special 02.

I had a hard time getting a clear pix of the stamping because of the glowy reflection from Blue Without You but managed a couple. 

Added China Glaze There's Snow One Like You to mimic snow.

I thought it needed a little more so added loose glitter after topping it with clear to make it stick.  I think this was a good decision because it looked like loose, fluffy snow at this point!  Topped with SV to finish. 

At this point, the snow drips looked like melting snow and I thought that was pretty cool too!

Please go here to see the fantastic entries for the Nail Polish Canada contest entries and vote for your favourite! Good luck to everyone!

Hope you had a great weekend; thanks for looking!

**polishes provided for review; please refer to disclosure policy

Wrapping It Up

This is the second mani I did with the Sugar Bubbles special holiday plates....and another one of these funky frenches!

I'm going to be honest; this is a mani that I had no intention of showing.  While I love the base, and the glitter added..... I failed so badly with the stamping on so many levels that this was a fail that could do without being posted! 

Started with a base of two coats of Contrary Hayride.  Love the shimmer in these Contrary polishes!  And the shimmer isn't hidden like so many other polishes that its gorgeous in the bottle but hidden on the nail.

Bottle pix. 

Added Orly Halo at tips for some glitter accent.

I couldn't decide which gold stamping polish to use that would compliment the base best.....even though there are a bunch of gold chromes/metallics out there, there are different shades....I ultimately chose CND Gold Chrome which is my go to gold stamping polish most of the time, using Sugar Bubbles special 02 plate.

But...and here's the fail part....I failed miserably on the lining up of the ribbons...the ribbons are crooked, the bows aren't centered and are all over the place and the gold didn't show up very well.  I was ticked at myself at this point....didn't even take many pix/didn't worry particularly too much about doing a great job on cleanup.

BUTTTTT, when I got outside, the mani looked totally different and then I loved it (well, less the stamping fails!).

Contrary Polish is available here or mini size bottles or at Llarowe.  Sugar Bubbles here!

Hope you're having a great weekend...thanks for looking!