Sparkly Tips and Stamping

I recently seen a pix of a funky french tipped glitter kinda mani here and really liked it so thought I would give it a try. I didn't want to copy the mani 100% so decided to use silver and then added stamping. Here's what I came up with.

Started with two coats of Orly Cashmere Cardigan.

Put a thin layer of Sally Hansen Celeb City on the tips (like I was french tipping them). Right below the line of Celeb City, I added Orly Tiara. On top of this, added OPI Servin' Up Sparkle.

Then stamped with Konad special polish in Royal Purple using XL E.

Lastly, added a few pieces of loose glitter, Glam and Glitz, Magic Potion 146 which is holographic hex glitter, in the centres of the flowers as well as here and there on the tips. Lastly, topped with a coat of SV.

While I didn't capture the look of the mani that I had seen posted, it was good practise and I'm sure I'll be trying something like this again at some point as I think the mani in the post is so cool!

Thanks for looking!

China Glaze Rich and Famous

I liked the way the NYX mani turned out so much, I decided to do something along those lines again, only in a different colour!



Started with a base of two coats of China Glaze Rich and Famous.



A coat of OPI Pink Me I'm Good about half way down the nail. I really need to do a full mani with Pink Me I'm Good...its gorgeous!



NYX Gold Sparkle on tips.



Stamped using Konad black special polish using fauxnad IP XL E.



Decided to add a few white dots to give it a colour pop.



I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend...thx for looking!

New (to me anyway!) NYX Bottles

It's hard to believe that I closed my weekend place almost a month ago already...I miss it already! The very last weekend I was there, I went without the family, leaving me with a bit of free time on my hands. I remembered a post from a fellow GTA gal, nailxchange, about possibly finding the elf concealer brush (used by some gals in their polish cleanup) at Giant Tiger. I drove to both the Giant Tiger locations in Peterborough and Lindsay to see if I could track one down. (In hindsight, I'm sure this was not an economical thing to do seeing how I probably spent $25 in gas looking for a $2 cleanup tool....but I did.) Anyway, it was all for naught as I didn't find the brush at either location. But when I was driving through Lindsay, I seen a Rexall on the main drag and thought I'd see if they have anything new. I checked out all the polish displays and came across the new style of bottles in the NYX display. While I had seen these on some etailer sites, it was the first time I seen them in real life.



I picked up two colours, NYX Aqua and NYX Be Jeweled; this is the mani I came up with.

Started with one coat of NYX Aqua. Yes, one coat!





Added one coat of NYX Be Jeweled about halfway or so on my nails.





Lastly, added NYX Gold Sparkle on tips. (This is the old style bottle; I've had it for a while.)



Stamped using Black Konad polish using XL plate E.



Lastly, added some of those really tiny balls in the centres of the flowers. I bought a set with a bunch of colours from ebay a while back, super cheap.



This was the first time I've used them and they were a little tricky coaxing onto the nail as they are so tiny...and as small as they are, I found they actually stick out and get caught on clothes and towels even with a topcoat. They stick out and get caught on stuff more than rhinestones, which is pretty annoying.



Topped with coat of SV.



I did this mani on October 21st in between Halloween manis. I'm only pointing this out as you may notice that my last post, my nails aren't this long. I've actually filed them down twice since October 21st as they are just too unmanageable for me at the length posted here. The Day of the Dead mani was after filing them once about a week before then and I cut them down again last night because they seem to be growing awkward...or I filed them funny the last time, not sure! Anyway, they are now even shorter today than as in the Day of the Dead which I did November 1st. So you may see a bunch of mani's with nails at different lengths over the next little while as I post the mani's that haven't been posted yet....so you'll know why! (I'm not even sure if anyone cares about this or even notices as I can't imagine that anyone is checking out my nails that carefully, but just thought I'd explain anyway!)

Have a great weekend!

China Glaze Crackle!

As soon as I picked up the bottle of China Glaze Crackle in Fault Line, I was planning my mani in my head..


I wanted white underneath topped with CND Amethyst Sparkle so that the purple shimmer could show thru. Below is two coats of Amethyst Sparkle over top of CND Brilliant White.

Big hopes....Or so I thought. Unfortunately, Fault Line cracks in big chunky pieces so you don't see much of the base colour. Total waste of the expensive CND sparkle effect.

This is nail fail for me...not liking it at all. I mean, I guess it is OK but certainly wasn't close to what I was looking or hoping for. Took this off less than 24 hours later but not before fooling around with it a bit...

Here's my right hand stamped...there haven't been too many images out in the blogesphere with shatter/crackle stamped (at least not that I've come across) plus I wanted to try it for myself. The good thing is that crackle with a topcoat of SV is smooth enough to stamp over. This is stamped using Beautiful Scratchers white polish, fauxnad IP XL E.

And on my left hand, I added a coat of OPI Black Shatter. I was just fooling around ....but in some ways, I like it even better! I think the layering of crackles/shatters could have lots of possibility if the colours underneath are visible if the polishe crackles enough. I may try this again when OPI releases their new crackle shades as their polishes seem to shatter more!

I guess they all can't be successful...but none the less, a great opportunity to experiment so not all of a fail!

Thx for looking!

My Not Pink, Purple or Red Mani

Last night, I was trying to pick a colour and for some odd reason, my eye kept on gravitating towards pinks, purples and reds...all of which I've worn plenty over the past two weeks so really didn't want to do another. So when Icing Roger That caught my eye, I knew it was going to be today's mani.

This is more green then blue, but unfortunately, the colour wasn't captured accurately with my camera. I had bought this Icing polish after discovering that there are a couple of Icing by Claire's stores in my general area so went to the one closest to me over the summer. (I was really looking for Icing Black Out-I got it too, but its still untried).


This polish was on sale for $2.87 when I picked it up. I don't have anything like it in my stash so was glad I did.

Stamped using Beautiful Scratchers special polish in white using IP XL E, then dotted with a yellow polish pen.


These flowers are probably wishful thinking that spring is right around the corner...but I sure hope so...I've had enough of winter (but I'm sure we will have at least one more winter blast!)

Roger That by itself...



Thanks for looking!