Welcome Spring!

It's 12:15 p.m. and spring has officially arrived!  While it's far too cold here for any flowers to be blooming yet, hopefully they will be here once it gets a little warmer!  According to the forecast, it won't be warm for about three more weeks.  In the meanwhile, floral nails will have to do!  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls.  Then dry brushed with an assortment of polishes: KBShimmer In Yacht Water, KBShimmer Bahama Drama, KBShimmer Hugs and Wishes, KBShimmer Little Boy Hue, Nicole by OPI Hit The Lights, The Kit Smoothie Delight and Painted Polish Stamped in Greenery.

Stamped using an image from Marianne Nails Professional n18 using FunkyFingers Dark Knight.  I have no idea what happened to the middle finger; all I can think of is I forgot to remove the stamped image from the stamp before. Duh! I don't know what I was thinking lol!  I tried to do the brush stroking where I thought the flower would be stamped but that didn't work out all the well on all the fingers.  Maybe just the thumb lol.

Ms. Cindy didn't turn out too badly either; in fact, in some ways, I like it better, especially the thumb!

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

I thought the mani would look cool if it was matted, so after dotting flower centers to change it up a bit, added a coat of OPI matte.

I don't know about you, but I am glad spring is officially here!  I just hope it truly is the end of winter; no more snow!  I guess we'll see!

Thanks for looking!

Dry Brush Flowers

I haven't had a whole lot of time lately to do really detailed nail art and even less time to do blog posts (as you can see from the frequency of posts).  Unfortunately, I don't see a change to this in the near future.  I do have oodles of nails to share, but again, posting time is a problem but I will share as I have time!  I do find doing my nails at the end of the day helpful with relaxing after a hectic day, so I still do my nails pretty often, but due to time constraints, they might not all be the most elaborate, detailed nails out there and I thank you if you are still here checking out my little blog and liking my pix on the various social media accounts!   I have been trying to do some more creative backgrounds/bases that don't take a lot of time and this was another attempt at dry brushing as it's pretty quick although the end result wasn't that good lol!  Here's what I came up with!

Did a base of two coats of OPI My Boyfiriend Scales Walls.  Then added some dry brushing; polishes used from thumb going clockwise are LVX Citrine, Butter London Sprog, CND Taffy Pink, Butter London Lady Bird and The Kit Beach Dancin.

Top coated with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped with images from Creative Shop 22 (pinky, middle and ring), Creative Shop 61 (index) and Creative Shop 56 (thumb).  The stamping polish is FunkyFingers Dark Knight.  I absolutely love these images and thing they would be fantastic for some stamper decals/reverse stamping!  

Creative Shop 22

Creative Shop 61

Top coated with KBShimmer to finish.

Thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen Does Birthday's: March 2017

Surprise!!!  It's Digit-al Dozen birthday posting but we don't have any birthday's in March.  While we had agreed to do a mani based on a rainbow design, on the side, the rest of the group members decided instead to do a surprise post for the group's newest mom, Amber, who had a little baby girl a couple weeks ago! Congratulation's Amber!

Started with a base of skittles; starting at thumb and going clockwise:  ACO Mint Cream, OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, The Kit Smoothie Delight, Dermelect Above It and Nicole by OPI Bee in the Moment.  All two coats, no top coat.

Added a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

I had made some stamper decals using acrylic paints.  Used images from Chez Delaney Naissence 001 for all except the blocks which are from Chez Naissense 002.

Applied the stamper decals.

Added a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Added a few dots for filler and interest!

Finished with a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Here's the other ladies rainbow surprise baby girl mani's!

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen Does Texture; Day 1

Welcome back to Digit-al Dozen week; this month's challenge is texture! I did this mani a few weeks ago and have been chomping on the bit waiting to share it......I think it is one of my coolest mani's ever....but if history is any indicator, what I find cool, no one else does and what I think is meh, people love!  I guess we'll see!

Started with a base of two coats of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls and topped with SV (no pix as have shown before).  Added Zoya Godiva at tips for sand.

Added images from Infinity 18 using FUN black stamping polish.

Using Mundo de Unas 22 (brown) and 37 (green), added palm tree from Infinity 18.

Added additional images from Infinity 33 (ring and middle).

A quick look at plates used; here's Infinity 18**.

Infinity 33**.

Using the LeadLight technique, filled in images using assortment of jelly polishes.  Polishes used were L'Oreal Jolly Lolly, L'Oreal Miss Pixie, OPI I'm Never Amberrassed, OPI I Can Teal You Like Me, New York Summer Hot Sky Blue, New York Summer Hot Green and American Apparel Redondo Beach.  I also added a few birds; on the thumb, they are stamped from Infinity 33; on the middle, I hand drew it in.

Filled in the sky using a brush and more polishing.  The skin tone is The Kit Nude Jude.

Just before adding topcoat, I added a few more layers of polishes on the sky and water to give a darker hue; not sure how noticeable it is in the pix!  For top coating, I only top coated all but the texture polish and left it all gritty.  

So what do you think....cool or meh?

Here's the other ladies Day 1 texture mani's.....the group also has welcomed a few new members, so be sure to check them out!

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks for looking!

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