Anyone Else Still Getting BlaFri Mail?

Some of my BlaFri sale purchases are still being received including an order I made with Rogue Lacquer that arrived earlier last week.  This polish was calling to be used first so I did this mani a couple days after it came home.  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of Rogue Lacquer The Gallery, no top coat.  Love all the interesting things happening here!  

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

I don't know about you, but while I love all the polishes with the gold fleck, I find it hard to pick a stamping polish because not only do you have to find a colour that looks good with the base, it also has to look good with the gold fleck.  And not every colour goes well with it.  Or at least not to me.  I ended up going with MdU 33 that is a light grey, and stamped it with Apipila 12, which gives the nails just enough interest but lots of void space so you can see the beauty of the polish base.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

I still have a few BlaFri orders to arrive but I'm not stressed about it.  Mail is delayed with all the BlaFri sales, Christmas, just everyone shopping on line generally and I know packages will show up eventually.  In fact, as I type this on a Sunday afternoon (doing a bunch of post dated posts), I got a package delivered by Canada Post - they are still delivering on Sunday's even after New Year's, never mind Christmas!  Everything will get delivered in time!

Thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen Does Tropical; Day 4

I cannot believe that this is yet another mani with hibiscuses; I honestly didn't have the intention of sharing 4 hibiscus mani's when I was planning manis for the challenge but this was yet another mani that didn't turn out on my test hand and I had to improvise.  The plan was the base and then zigzag stamping then a full accent nail of lizards with a lizard or two on the rest of the nails.  But the lizards didn't stamp well on the accent nail and, as I seen this Delaney Hibiscus 001 plate sitting out from the night before, I decided to go with the hibiscus decals and this is how it turned out!  Here's what I came up with!

Started out with a base of two coats of Contrary Polish Cocoon Galaxy, which was part of the April 2018 Polish Pickup.  This is a magnetic polish but I didn't magnetize it; I bought it strictly for my love of these steel blue/gray shades of polish with the holographic micro flakes and it happens to have a little pink shimmer added for good measure! Unfortunately, this beauty is no longer available unless you are able to find one in a destash.  

 Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped with an image from Konad Square 14 using FunkyFingers Gesso.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Here's the plate, ZZ Hawaii,  that I was going to use with all the lizards.  In fact, any of these images would be good for the tropical theme, this is why I pulled it to use!

I did a test stamp on my test hand of the full image using both green and navy and was meh about how they turned out.  I didn't have time to search through my plates for another lizard image to use so used the same Delaney Hibiscus 001 that I had used before; made five stamper decals, filled in with Quo by Orly Femme Fetale and applied them directly onto the nail once the sticky base was tacky.  Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

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

An InLinkz Link-up

I still can't believe that I did four hibiscus manis this week; I had pulled plates for palm trees and leaves and tropical fish and tropical birds; I guess they will have to wait for other times.  Stay tuned for Day 5 manis tomorrow; don't worry, it isn't hibiscuses!

Thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen REDOES Fashion; Day 2

I'm late for day 2 of Digit-al Dozen REDOES fashion (what else is new); summer is very busy for me (as you may tell from my lack of posts) and even though I have nails done, just no time to get the post done.  I was going to share these nails later in the week because they are one of my least favourite nails (ever!) but when I was looking at what I had ready to post, I wasn't terribly happy with them either.  So these have moved ahead by a few days to give me some time to do better fashion nails (hopefully!).  Here's what I came up with!

For my fashion inspiration, I was surfing the net on Monday night getting caught up on world events, and there was an article about who was wearing what at Wimbledon recently.  One of the outfits that Pippa Middleton was wearing caught my eye and it became the inspiration for my day 2 nails.  This is Pippa Middleton at Wimbledon 2016; photo credit PopSugar

Started with a base of two coats of Zoya Kristen, shown with no top coat.

Added a coat of Girly Bits What A Rush QD TC before stamping.

While I had initially planned to use an image from MoYou Illusion Collection-06 for this mani, it just wasn't big enough to fit my nails so ended up using Big SdP I instead (stamped on an angle), stamping with MdU 13.

Does anyone else have this happen when using their clear stamper?  The design gets etched into the stamper! This is how the clear stamper that I had disintegrate a few weeks ago started and my fear is all my clear stampers are going to do this!  This is a DRK head.

MoYou Illusion Collection-06





Topped with Girly Bits What A Rush QD TC to finish.

Here's the other ladies Day 2 fashion mani's!

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks for looking!

Happy New Year!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!  I know I'm a few days late; but these were the nails that I was wearing to ring in 2016!

Started with a base of two coats of piCture pOlish Winter, no top coat.

Added a coat of Girly Bits What A Rush QD TC before stamping.

Stamped using MoYou Festive Collection-39 using MdU 64.

MoYou Festive Collection-39

Added images from Pet'la Koy using Funky Fingers Gesso on all fingers except middle, which is Messy Mansion MM02.

Added a few more fireworks using same image plate using MdU 11 and Girly Bits Red Fire Engine and Sapphire.

Finished with Girly Bits What A Rush QD TC to finish.

I did my other hand a little different; used same MoYou Festive 39 plate with gold and silver chrome stamping polishes.  This was OK but not what I was looking for so did the left hand different, as shown above.

Thanks for looking!

Brrrrr! It's Cold Out!

It has been chilllllyyyy here for the last 24 hours; cold enough to have to have the fireplace on last night to warm up the room a bit! Good thing I have a sweater mani to wear!

Started with a base of Glam Lisbeth, two coats.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top. 

Stamped using Infinity 86 with an accent of Infinity 36 using Funky Fingers Gesso.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Infinity 86.

Hopefully we will have warmer weather soon!

Dot, Dot, Dot!

This weeks FB Adventures in Stamping challenge was ...dot, dot, dot!.....to add dots to your stamped mani....this is what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of L'Oreal Greycian Goddess, topped with SV, then stamped with Konad black special polish using HD-B. (I didn't take pix of Greycian Goddess on its own because I know I've worn it before...but seems I haven't posted those pix yet...oops!  But you can see pretty much how it looks under the stamping...sorry!)

Filled in the hearts with Jade Holgrafico Magia Negra.

Picture overload on this simply because I can never pick just one pix and think the holo is soooo coooool filled in the hearts!

One more for good measure! 

Added a few random dots using CND Raspberry Parfait.

More picture overload!

I really was impressed that the holo in Jade Holgrafico Magia Negra showed up so well considering that the filled in area is so small. 

Topped with SV.

 

HD-B is available via Bunny Nails ecrater store here....there are lots of holiday images on these plates which are perfect for a holiday/theme mani kinda gal like me! Speaking of which, St. Patrick's Day is around the corner and I'll be posting St. Paddy's mani's soon!

I hope you had a great weekend....thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen-Festiveness; Day 3

Am I the only one that thinks Festivus when I see Festiveness?  I type it every time I type Festivus  Festiveness.  Too much Seinfield back in the day, I suppose....anyhoo, this is my mani for Day 3 of the challenge (my second mani as I missed first day!)

I was trying to come up with something a little different just to mix it up instead of the more typical greens, reds, whites and blues that are more seasonal right now! 

Started with a base of two coats of China Glaze Let's Do It In 3-D, no topcoat.  It dried fairly fast and after about 5 minutes, I was able to do the stamping.

Stamped with black Konad special polish using an assortment of images (BM222, large g-men on thumb; Nailways0002, small g-men on thumb as well as pinky; OMG XL, ring finger g-man; HD08-middle finger g-man; and AT01 on index). 

Added a few randomly placed stars from T37 using red Konad special polish.

Topped with Sally Hansen quick dry.

When I was out and about this morning doing some Christmas shopping, the sun came out so I snapped a few pix (when I was parked, of course!). 

I urge you to check out the other Digit-al Dozen bloggers are are participating in Day 3 of Festivus Festiveness! Another day of awesomeness!!

Thanks for looking!