Colourful Valentines!

I thought a bunch of colourful skittles would look cool for a bright Valentine's Day mani, and like that it's not the typical pink and reds either!  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of skittles; starting from thumb and going clockwise, Pretty Serious Hootenanny, Rave, All-Nighter, Sugar Cakes and Morgan Taylor Go for The Glow; all two coats, no top coat.

Added a coat of Black Dahlia Lacquer Double Kill, no top coat.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Different lighting; you see the colours in the flakies a bit more.

Stamped using Born Pretty - Valentine's Day - S001 using Painted Polish Blanc Slate.

Born Pretty Valentine's Day S001

Topped with a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

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Roses

This is another mani from last year; I didn't share them at the time as I wasn't overly thrilled how they turned out.  But since then, they have kinda grown on me.  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of Cupcake Polish I'll Never Grow Up (Polish Pickup November 2019).  I love this colour!  

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using MoYou Pro 07 using MdU 1, 3 and 68 with accent nail of MoYou Festive 51 using same polishes.

MoYou Festive Collection-51

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

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Hearts!

Happy heart month!  💘

It's that time of year again so I thought I'd better start to share some Valentine's related mani's soon.  I still have quite a few mani's from the last few years that I never did get around to sharing, incuding this one from last year.  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of Different Dimension Odyssey II, no top coat.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using MdU 1 and 15 using Moyra 61 L'Amour.

Moyra 61- L'Amour

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

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Trees and Snow!

I love the combination of the blue base, the white stamping and the pop of holo dots!  I used this combo on an accent nail for a mani and thought that it would look cool for a complete one.  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of Morgan Taylor Making Waves, no top coat.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using image from MoYou Noel Collection-09 using Painted Polish Blanc Slate.

Added a few dots for interest and filler using Different Dimension Kiss Me Under The Light of a Million Stars.

Topped with a final coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

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Winnie the Pooh!

My BlaFri order from Mundo de Unas arrived last week and this plate immediately caught my eye and I knew it was the first plate I wanted to use.  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of skittles; the polished used are OPI In My Back Pocket, Essie Hay There, China Glas Boho Blues and OPI Lima Tell You About This Color.  The base is all the polishes in a stamper smooshy base on the thumb.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using images from MdU Winnie The Pooh 3 using Painted Polish Midnight Mischief.

My nails are a little long for the images; they look a bit better on Ms. Cindy.

MdU Winnie the Pooh 3

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.  Had a bit of smear issue on the finger but not too noticeable IRL.

 I did these nails late at night one night when I didn't have too much time to do my nails.  Well, I had all the time in the world but wanted to get to bed earlier than usual.  Anyway, I thought simple stamping, just have to pick out a few colours for the base polishes.  I picked them all out relatively fast except the ring finger; I had picked a polish too dark; couldn't see the stamping.  Then did it too light; colour was off.  This simple mani still took over an hour start to finish simply because of this small item in not being able to find a suitable colour!

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It's Frickin' Cold!

We are in the midst of some of the coolest temperatures we've seen this season;  cool but I'm sure not as bone chilling as others have had already.  Thankfully with COVID restrictions, no one is leaving the house much.  If there is any benefit to being under lockdown, this might be it.  Trying to look at the best light of the situation!  Here is my tribute to the weather lately mani!

Started with a base of KBShimmer Pansy-Monium and KBShimmer Thanks for Poutine Up With Me, no top coat.

Added a coat of Polished for Days Pixie Dust on the thumb for a little bit more interest.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Creative Shop 154

Stamped using Creative Shop 158 (middle, ring), Creative Shop 154 (pinky, index) and Marianne Nails n. 31 using Painted Polish Blanc Slate.

Added a few more snowflakes to thumb using Creative Shop 156 for filler.

That's where the magic ends....I topped with a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top and had soo many smears!  This was through my topcoat smear phase; I don't have it happening now but went through a spell of mani's when it happened.  I think there was something on my top coat brush causing the drag because once I changed bottles and a new brush, it stopped.  It was really getting me; it was like I had forgot to 'float your topcoat'!

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Sweater Nails!

My, how the weather has turned colder in the last few days!  Chill. EE!  I'm sure cooler days (and nights) are to come in the next couple months or so, but the chilly weather makes me think of sweater weather and I even have a few sweater nails to share including this one! 

 Here's what I came up with!

I'm not sure why I picked out a tropical looking polish to pair with sweater images but I did.  I think I was going for the non-traditional look with the ocean blues, sheer polish, flakies versus the chunky sweater look.  This is three coats of Pahlish Ganymede Elegy with a couple more coats at the tips trying to cover them, with no top coat.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using Moyra 36 Winter Is Coming using Painted Polish Blanc Slate.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Thanks for looking!