HAPPY NEW YEAR!! - 2012

Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a safe evening! I just stayed home with my kids and my husband. I made pigs in a blanket, rice krispie treats, pizza dip, and a meat/cheese with crackers try. We played games and had a fun family night! So anyway, here is my New Years Nails. :-) I hope you all enjoy them like I do. I got some China Glaze polish's to sample and review. One of them was Haunting. I absolutely LOVE Haunting. It's black with a little Silver glitter. It is so pretty. I applied 2 coats and love how it turned out. I ended up doing some stamping on them, I used BM21 and used Wet N Wild Shine - Metallica. LOVE LOVE LOVE this manicure.

Dotting tools

Do you have dotting tools? I just recently got some dotting tools and I LOVE them! I used Finger Paint's Lavender Highlight for the purple, I used Suzi Says Feng Shui for the "tealish" color, then I used Watermelon Watercolor for the pink dots. I wasn't too happy with the way they turned out. I think I needed to use different color contrasts. I think they were all too close in darkness, etc. So needless to say I didn't "love" this manicure and it only lasted a day because I took it off. I like the design just not the colors together.

 I did a base coat of the Finger Paints - Lavender Highlight, I let it dry then I taped it off and used OPI - Suzi Says Feng Shui. Then I used Watermelon Watercolor for the dots with my dotting tool. I then topped it with Confetti's - Ice Ice Baby to give it a glitter look.

What do you think?

Finger Paints - Flakies

 Hello all and Merry Christmas. I hope you all enjoy your holiday! I am going to be in and out, so figured I would make a post now. I literally JUST painted my nails. I was out shopping the other day and found the finger paints flakies. I have the whole set of 5. 

From left to right we have: Asylum, Flashy,  Flecked, Motley, & Twisted. Aren't they gorgeous?? 

Anyway, I wanted to use them. I was supposed to wait until Christmas, instead I didn't and used it tonight! HAHA. Anyway, I did one coat of Seche Vite Rebuild as my base coat. Then I took one coat of Zoya's Anja, she is such a beautiful color that I only needed one coat to get the look I wanted. It's like a very dark purple. I then added one coat of Finger Paints - Twisted. (The last one photoed above). Then I topped it with probably my FAVORITE top coat, Seche Vite. And I just LOVE how they turned out. :-) I've never used a "flakie" before, and these are my first ones in my polish collection.

 Excuse my dry cuticles and my nubby nails. They were all breaking so I filed them down to their breaks in hopes to start over :-) The above picture is with no flash.

 This was taken with a flash.

Flash with my Zoya - Anja polish :-)

I hope you all have a VERY Merry Christmas and enjoy your family and friends!

Christmas nails - Round 3

Today I re-painted my nails because I wanted to do a holiday themed manicure. I used Zoya's - Sarah as my base color. Sarah, is probably one of my favorite colors from my little Zoya collection. I just love her, I basically just love all of Zoya, everything I've tried. I've never been let down. Sarah is a beautiful red, more of a darker red with a shimmer.

 

I used Nail Life as my base coat for strengthening. I then used two coats of Zoya, I probably could have got away with one coat but I wanted it a richer look. I then used Kiss Silver Nail art to do my design. I used Sally Hansen XTreme Wear - Mellow Yellow for the star on top of my tree. On my middle finger where I painted the tree I used Confetti's - Ice Ice Baby to give it a little more sparkle. Then I topped it off with Seche Vite's top coat.

 I did some nail art "swish's" on my thumbs and pinkies just to add more design but not too much. :-)

What do you think of my third Christmas Mani?

Zoya - Charla 12-19-11

Okay so today I am going to do two posts because I painted my nails twice :-) I painted them yesterday (forgot to post) and re-did them today because I was bored :-) So this first post, is with one of the polish's that I got in one of Zoya's many many flash promos. I used Charla, and I absolutely LOVE her. She is beautiful. I'm still new with my camera and still messing around with lighting and the settings. However, these pictures do NOT do Charla justice at all. To me in my opinion it actually comes out as a darker blue in these photos, and to me it's really more of a greenish blue when applied. It's BEAUTIFUL! I love!

I used Nail Life as a base coat for strengthening. Then I used two coats of Charla. I might have been able to even do one more coat. But I was happy and just loved the two coats. Then I topped her off with Seche Vite top coat :-)

 Flash

 Tried to get a different "view" to get the "true" color, but it didn't work. No flash was used here

 No flash.

What do you all think of her? Isn't she gorgeous?

Candy Cane Water Marble

I have a family Christmas party today (Saturday) and tomorrow (Sunday) so I wanted to do a different manicure. This is my second try at water marbling; my first attempt was back in October for Halloween. I absolutely LOVE water marbling. I hope with time I will keep improving my water marbling skills :-)

I started off with a two coats of China Glaze *White on White*, then I used it again with China Glaze *Hey Sailor* rotating white, red, white, red, white, red, white.

This is my right hand, every nail came out different. :-) My thumb nail broke all the way down about a week ago, so ignore the sad sad nail :-) Normally, I wouldn't take pictures of all 5 fingers, but I wanted to for this so you can see all the designs it made :-)

 This is my left hand, again middle finger and pointer broke, and aren't long enough for me to "Square"

Isn't water marble fun???

Nail Life???

Hello everyone! Sorry I haven't posted in a couple of days. I've been super busy, we are having company in from out of state; they are coming in tomorrow for the weekend. I will probably be fairly busy up until after Christmas, so bare with me. :-)

Anyway, I went to Sally's today originally looking for something to make my nails stronger. I saw a post from a fellow blogger about something by Orly called "Nail Rescue". You can see her review HERE Anyway, I wasn't really going for that in particular, however, was looking for a strengthening base coat as 3 of my nails have broken in the last day and the corners are actually off. I was going to buy the "Nail Rescue" as well if they had it. Well, lucky me, ended up with two new polish's today. I just can't get enough of polish :-) I got Orly *Green With Envy* and Orly *Velvet Rope*. In turn, my Sally's had a sale if you bought two Orly polish's you could get a FREE Orly nail treatment. So lucky me, I was able to get "Nail Rescue" for free :-) I love free stuff! I also bought a new top coat, that I've heard a lot of people talk about called "Seche Vite" and also bought something called "Nail Life" You use it as a base coat and top coat, and use it daily. In a nut shell it is for brittle nails, such as mine.

Here is my nail haul from today! Anyone heard of Nail Life? Anyone used it? Opinions? Sally's says it is their 2nd from top nail strengthener. I would have bought their #1 but they were of course sold out.

Anyway, I got home and of course wanted to try out my new polish :-) I used one base coat of "Nail Life", and used two coats of Orly *Velvet Rope*. Then I topped it off with Seche Vite. I absolutely LOVE this color. It applies great and to me it's just plain beautiful! I took pictures, but they do NOT do it justice. It is 1:00am here, and again, lighting is not great in my house.

With flash

No Flash

Beautiful! Thanks for reading!!!