Digit-al Dozen Does Recreating Your First Blog Posts; Day 1

It's Digit-al Dozen week; this month, we are recreating our first blog posts!  I should have shared this on day 2 as this mani is inspired by the nails I posted on my second ever blog post back here on June 7, 2010; the inspiration pix is below!  But unfortunately I don't have any mani's done in advance and did this one quickly last night so I'd have something to share today.  Here's what I came up with!

This is my inspiration nails!  While it is scary to look at them, it is nice to see how far I've come doing my nails, taking better pictures, etc.  I still don't think my pix are the best and am working still on my lighting, etc etc but they are an improvement anyway!  This is OPI What The Cattitude stamped with an image from Konad m64; I couldn't find the OPI even although I know I have it someplace.  

But I thought I would update the mani a bit so did a sponged gradient using OPI The I's Have It, Fearlessly Alice and My Pal Joey.  Added a coat of Nfu Oh GS04.  I didn't take pix of the gradient alone as I was having issues with index nail; the polish kept on sticking to the sponge and taking off polish versus putting it on; I did the nail twice and did it both times and unfortunately, it wasn't that picture worthy.  I left it as is with the hope that the stamping would cover it!

Stamped using same image from Konad m.64 using FunkyFingers Gesso.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Here's the other ladies Day 1 mani's!

An InLinkz Link-up

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L.A. Girl Color Addict - Hooked

I picked up a few of these polishes that I seen yesterday at Designer Cosmetics ....not that I need any more polishes especially after hauling in the US over the weekend...it was nice to get the polishes not readily available in Canada....Anyway, these L.A. Girl polishes were 3/$10....

Stamped using Konad IP m64, using Konad blue special polish.

The whole line of L.A. Girl Color Addict have a soft gold shimmer which was nice...application was OK-maybe a little runny but not bad for $3.33...

The gold shimmer is lightly visible...yes, I need to work on getting some better indoor lighting....

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I Finally Have Nfu's!!

Swapping is absolutely the best!

I have swapped a couple times with a lovely lady from Netherlands, and while she is mainly interested in obtaining OPI's, I'm obsessed with nfu-and catrice, and p2 and...well, you get the picture! First, I adore Nfu oh bottles-they are little mini works of art alone! I've been lucky enough to swap for Nfu oh 17, 44, 50, 51, 52, 54, 61, 64, GS04, GS11 and GS 14!



OPI Jade is the New Black had been an untried for a while and haven't worn green in a few weeks so thought it would be a great time to give it a whirl! Two coats JitNB, then one coat of Nfu oh 52. It has a blue base with flakies, that turned a shade of teal over the green OPI polish.





Day two of mani, stamped using Konad IP 64 with white Konad special polish-yes, I did say white... even though this obviously looks light purple...you see, some weird chemical reaction occured ....did two coats of JitNB, then SV, then nfu and then just left it to dry naturally as I had lots of time as was surfing net. Then stamped...and yes it did stamp white BUT when I put SV overtop of the white...it turned purple before my eyes! Never had this happen before...but I don't actually mind the purple....



Day three of mani, taken outside in overcast skies, but you see the flakies a little better and I have a little chip...but a little chip/wear on day three isn't too bad as its time to change mani again!

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Do You Like It?

This mani is about half a year after I started taking better care of my nails....not 100% cuticles but much, much better than when I started out...one of these days I may be brave enough to post those jagged cuticles...but I still aspire to greatness to those whose mani's I admire on their blogs!

OPI Do You Lilac This? Great application, great coverage, two coats, no vnl. Stamped with white special polish, plate m64. This kinda has the look of a french manicure but a little funkier...still work appropropriate. As you can see, I still haven't mastered lining up the images on my fingers...but I'm getting there.

After a couple days, i added silver swish...just for variety.

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OPI What the Cattitude-Shrek Collex!

My youngest son absolutely loves Shrek...so it was a given I had to buy all of the Shrek collex! This is What the Cattitude, with Konad blue special polish, plate m64. I got lots of compliments when I wore this polish.

After a couple days of wear, I topped it with Piggy Polish Sunshine on Snowflakes! I found this polish at Chatters and was so excited to find as I had been lemming it for some time. Love the sparkle.

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