Watercolor Mani!

Dig it! :D

Here's the technique from Jen on Polish and Pearls!

The gist is you put droplets of polish on your nails
and smear a bit with a plastic baggie.

Unlike Jen's lovely muted color palette on Polish and Pearls, 

I wanted summertime crazy colors happening!

Uh, I think I captured that whole crazy vibe pretty well. 

But I am a tad dismayed to see how lacking are my clean up skills... 

Wait, there's no CLEAN UP skills in CRAZY!!! 

So these are the colors I used.... hee hee!  Man, there were quite a few and most were from my friend Sarah's collection so I just took a pic of the box she brought :)  But I did add Essie's Shine of the Times over everything followed by Seche Vite!

As per usual, Shine of the Times comes through beautifully in person! 

...not so much here in the pix!

Be well lovies!

♪ Undah Deh Sea! ♫

Sarah just informed me of her adoration for Disney movies sooooooo.....

I'd highly recommend listening to this song while checking out her polish 

for the complete audio-visual experience!!!  ...of a lifetime!!!

    

The fishy that started it all!  Note the bubbles and sparkly sand!

Coral, seaweed, kelp, anemones, etc...  ya know, just what you'd expect to find on nails...

Does this Octopus rock or what?!

Starfish keeping just out of reach of Octopus.

Underwater Castle!  A residence of Atlantis?!

Does Poseidon know his trident is floatin' around Atlantis?

Most of her sea horse!!!!  It was so apocolyptical-ly bright out I couldn't see a thing.  I'm so happy most of the pix I got are of reasonable quality.

Cuz this is one mani I'm going to want to return to see many times!  I just love it Sarah!

Sparkle on my tootsies

I've been having fun doing up my toes in simple ways this summer so I'm finally going to start sharing!

In winter when I look at these pix it will make my snowed-in heart ache for summer.  I just know it.  This pic seems to encapsulate what summer is all about to me!  It's extra perfect that my beautiful little girl's folded under leggie is in the pic.  She's never far away, my little fairy girl.

This is the rare polishing where I knew exactly which colors I wanted!  Sally Hansen's Insta-Dry Lively Lilac, covered with clare's sparkley who-knows-what-the-heck-it-is!

This is the package of bitty polishes I recently got at claire's with nary a name for the individual polishes anywhere! I guess Precious Metals is the collection name.

Lookit!!!!  Isn't that so cool?  I love it!  

 Super duper close up of  the purple sparkly crazy-talk on top of the Lively Lilac.

So that's what's rockin' my toes these days.  All my best, lovies!

French fleur

ooooo, I wanted something pretty today...

basecoat of an ANCIENT Orly Top2Bottom.
Fenchie in my Grammie's favorite: Revlon Cherries in the Snow.  

Konad plate m20 with Sinful Colors Snow Me White.  And last but never least SV!

I posted the camping trip pix about a week after the fact.  

Since that mani I've been in mommy mode running around getting the day to day stuff done with nakey fingernails.  

Today I screeched to a halt to spend some time making my nails pretty again.

It reminds me of a Meryl Streep line in the movie Death Becomes Her....

 "(sharp intake of breath in surprise and delight)   I'm a girl!!!" 

♥

Camping = Manis

A camping trip with a nail polishy friend means Manis!!!!  (My girlfriend prefers not to be named on the blog so we'll just call her Voldemort from here on out.) 

It's doing Mani's outside on lawn chairs while our hubs and kids are swimming!  

What could be better!!!! 

These were the lovelies we chose....  once again Cult Nails My Kind of Cool Aid... essie's Shine of the Times... Sally Hansen's Rockstar Pink... & Sinful's Dream On.

On the way to the camp ground we made a pit stop at Target where I just happened to find myself running through the nail polish collections and I spotted Shine of the Times!  It's reputation preceded it!  I'd never seen it in Target before!  To say I pounced on that last bottle wouldn't be an overstatement!  :D  

Camping was off to a REALLY good start!

 Voldermort was smitten too! What's not to like after all? 
Right over the way cool Cool Aid.

Shoot.  I don't even know how to describe what's going on here!  

Here goes a try: Chunky, iridescent, transparent, dusky loveliness!

Voldemort is rockin' this look, don't you agree?

I was feeling less subtle, more I'M CAMPING AND LIFE IS GRAND!!!    The florescent Dream On was my good start!

 Topped by the crazy little silvery gold, blue and pink sparklies in RockStar Pink!

I love camping, don't you?  

:)