Digit-al Dozen Does Metal; Day 1

It's the week to feature Digit-al Dozen challenge mani's; this month's theme is metal.  I chose to share this mani as it looks like copper (to me) and copper is a metal; this is what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of two coats of Girly Bits I'm Your Venus**, no topcoat.  I'm Your Venus was easy to apply, two coats gave good coverage.  Girly Bits I'm Your Venus is part of the recently released Girly Bits 80's Girl Bands Collection which can be seen on the GB's site here.

Different lighting.  

Bottle shot.

Stamped using Infinity 29 using black FUN stamping polish.

Infinity 29.**

Top coated to finish.

This pix was taken the next day in the sun....loving all the sparkly holo!

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

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks for looking!

**items provided for review; please see disclosure policy.

Digit-al Dozen Blog Post

I did a blog post over at the Digit-al Dozen blog featuring animal stamping plates.  There are some mani's I've already shared before plus a few new ones.  Please go here if you are interested in checking it out!

Thanks for looking!

A-England Excalibur Renaissance and Hurt No Living Thing

I apologize for the unexpected hiatus; I had hoped to get this post up much sooner than now as I've had these nails done for a couple weeks and uploaded the pix a week ago; just hadn't finish the post. Hopefully, I'll have some time this week to do a few posts and next week is the start of the Digit-al Dozen challenge so the plan is that there will be a few more posts coming up soon!

Here's a couple mani's highlighting A-England polishes that were sent to me from Nail Polish Canada to review.

The first is A-England Hurt No Living Thing. 

A-England Hurt No Living Thing has a slightly tinted base with beautiful pink shimmer.  As Hurt No Living Thing is fairly sheer (and I'm sure you don't want to see my stained nails!), I layered one coat over Quo by Orly Runway Ready.



Different lighting; the shimmer is more obvious.  (This lighting, the polish is more accurate; but always give me lobster hands!)



Stamped using Lily Anna 08 using Mundo de Unas 20 stamping polish, which I chose to compliment the shimmer in Hurt No Living Thing.



Top coated to finish.  Feel free to click on the pix to see the shimmer from A-England Hurt No Living Thing!




A-England Excalibur Renaissance was also sent for review.  This is one coat, no topcoat....aka, perfect in those situations when you need a quick mani change! There were no application issues; one coat had great coverage and it dried fast as the case with most polishes with this metallic finishes. And while the pix look a little brush strokey, it wasn't nearly as obvious in real life.



Stamped using Konad black special polish using assortment of images from plates Big SdP C-2 (thumb, ring and pinky), Big SdP O (index) and Big SdP I (middle).  Unfortunately, cleanup isn't the best....I have been using other black polishes for stamping and forgot how bad Konad is to clean up.  It's not too bad here the next day, but still could be better.



A-England polishes are available here at Nail Polish Canada**.

Thanks for looking!

**items sent for review; please refer to disclosure policy.

Ellagee Ev'ryone Wishes for Silver and Gold

Here's something a little different than what I normally do. A look I really liked in theory, just didn't execute it that well!  I will try this out another time (New Year's Eve??) for sure and hopefully have better results, but maybe this might give someone some inspiration so I'm posting it anyway.  Here's what I came up with.



Started with a base of one coat My Vampire is Buff on thumb, middle and pinky and topped with one (maybe two) coats of Ellagee Ev'ryone Wishes for Silver and Gold.  Accent fingers are one coat each of OPI Love.Angel.Music.Baby and OPI This Gown Needs a Crown, no topcoat. (Really liking this look with no stamping!)

Stamped using Konad gold black pearl special polish using Apipila 01.



Here's were I messed it up...by adding too much topcoat on the pinky and it blobbed causing the stamping to smear.  It was a pretty pleasant surprise to see the golden shimmer in the stamping as it really popped when it was topcoated!



My test hand.



Love this!!!


Ev'ryone Wishes For Silver and Gold and other Ellagee products are available here!

Hope you had a fantastic weekend; thanks for looking!

Pahlish Whiskey from a Bottle of Wine

Here's a mani I did back in March just haven't got around to posting it yet....to be honest, I had the whole post finished and just didn't publish it....not sure why now but anyway, this is Pahlish Whiskey from a Bottle of Wine.

Started with a base of two coats of Pahlish Whiskey from a Bottle of Wine. Oh my goodness....this is a sparkler!  Not only holo in the sun but sparkly as anything in the shade due to the addition of fine shimmer. Whiskey from a Bottle of Wine is part of the Timeless Flight collex.

Stamped using white Konad special polish using Lily Anna 06 with an accent of Lily Anna 10.

Loving this 70's vibe and always great when you can pick an image that lets the base show through!  In hindsight, I probably could have used this mani for the Digit-al Dozen does decades challenge; it probably would have fit in just fine!

Top coated with SV.  Unfortunately I had base reaction and it turned the stamping polish light purple.  Serves me right for not top coating the polish first before stamping as this sometimes does happen.  

At tleast light purple is complimentary to the base lol!

Thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen Does Decades; Day 5

I'm late getting up my post but finally, here's Day 5 of the Digit-al Dozen decades challenge.  This time, I'm doing the 90's; here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls (white), FingerPaints Black Expressionism (black) and Duri Taming of The Shrew; topped with SV.

Stamped using assortment of images from MoYou Back to the 90's-01 (index and ring), MoYou Roxy-06 (thumb), MoYou Tourist-02 and HD-A (thumb) using black FUN stamping polish, Mundo de Unas in 11 (yellow) and 48 (green).

Added 90's on the thumb using the wording from the MoYou plate.

Here's a closer look at the plates used.  MoYou Back to the 90's-01

MoYou Roxy Collection-06

MoYou Tourist Collection-02

Topped with SV to finish.

Here's the other ladies Day 5 mani's!

An InLinkz Link-up

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

Digit-al Dozen Does Decades; Day 4

Have you enjoyed DD decade challenge so far?  I know I've said it before, but it always amazes me the creativity the other ladies come up with for their mani's...I feel I barely keep up!

Anywhoo, every mani I want to do for decades is using bright pops of colour and thought that wasn't very imaginative so decided to go for something a little different for this one.  This decade is the 50's; I went with black and white on the basis of black and white TV back in the day.  If I'm being honest, I was going to do Elvis but I'm pretty sure there will be another lady doing Elvis at some point this week (here's looking at you, Laurie!) so decided on something a little different. Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls and one coat of FingerPaints Black Expressionism topped with SV (no pix).  Stamped using Konad white special polish and FUN black stamping polish using images from MoYou Back to the 50's-01.

Touched up some of the stamping with same polishes and added dots for filler.

Topped with SV to finish.

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

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks for looking!