Greek Bubblegum

She-who-shall-not-be-named came over the other day and we both tried on nail polish after nail polish.  I just procured this gorgeous palest lemony whisper-of-yellow polish that I was dying to use.  So I put a coat on in exacting detail.  Then since that coat was waaaaaaay streaky I put another on.  And the Seche Vite.  That's when the smudges started to happen for no reason.  The dings made by the summer breeze.  

The top coat wrinkling up cuz the stuff underneath wasn't dry yet... simply by looking at it wrong I swear!  Oh I was so bummed!  

 

Voldemort was having no luck either.  So she just grabbed a polish and I grabbed my new Sally Hansen's Xtreme Wear Bubblegum pink and carefully put that on there and without further embellishment as we are so wont to do, we called it done.

Not bad for a mani done a few days ago right?  Yay, Xtreme wear!  I wanted to play today!

I ♥ me some konad action!  

Btw, I just found out the other day that, GASP, I think I bought FAKE Konad plates on Amazon!  Not real ones that I was led to believe I was buying!!!!   Oh I would have had someone's co-nads in a vice if I knew at the time!  My nail polish friends and I always wondered why some designs, clearly meant for the entire nail, were too small...  

insert emoticon with smoke coming out of ears here.  ...and a vice.

So the faux-nads have been doing pretty well by me.  

The ones that are big enough to use...  Isn't this pretty?

I had much fun this afternoon using the dregs of my ancient bottle of OPI's It's All Greek To Me. I'm going to see if I can find another bottle of this stuff.  

It's been such a fave over the years.

I put some Seche Vite, Bottle #3, on there after the photo shoot.  

I want to look at this mani for at least a couple of days!  

I hope you're having lots of nail polish victories this summer!!!  :)

Hello Kitty!

The 5 year old girl's Hello Kitty birthday party needed a special mani.  But I was also making 2 cakes and doing the planning.  Enter press on nails!  I saw these while collecting goodie bag items and they seemed to be perfect for my needs!  Quick and easy!  ...and QUICK.

Cute lil' Hello Kitty press ons.  I did these this morning.  We just finished up the party and they are coming off of their own accord!  Well I didn't expect much more than that to be honest and I don't need them anymore either!  So the timing if short lived is pretty much right on!

Just used the press ons on my accent ring finger nail.  Painted the others with a base coat and then my newly acquired OPI La Paz-itively Hot - Matte!  I ♥ e-bay! You need at least 3 coats of that btw.  I noticed while taking these pix that I could see streaking and I did one coat with touch-ups.  But I love the matte and hot pink color together!  No top coat here of course or I wouldn't have that matte effect!  -which after all the buttercream frosting my fingers had to deal with, you can barely tell that this is a matte any more!  ha!

Isn't the glitter french mani part of the press on so fun?!  I thought about doing the rest of the nails like that and then I realized I could do that or we could get to our own dang party on time.  So I chose the latter :)  What a fun 5-year-old birthday party we had with you, Hello Kitty!

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Addendum the next day:  Succumbing to peer pressure, I now post pictures of the cakes!  Hello Kitty is joined by her bud Chococat!

I've long had a passion for baking.  There's a personal reason I use "frosting" in my blog name!  :)  So my little girl's birthday is the perfect time for me to have fun.

 

Cray Cray rainbow cake inside both!  And Yay!  It turned out really well!  This is Kaitlyn's website for the rainbow cake.  I followed a link from there to Martha Stewart's website to get the recipe Kaitlyn used while doing a demo on the show (great clips from said show too).  This here is a separate site for a spectacular buttercream frosting.  Its a must!!!! The website is phenomenal.  I've also used the marshmallow fondant recipe with great success. (A passion = over sharing ideas with others. lol)

Ciao & Meow!

Mom's a Chrome Convert!!!

My Mom is over for a visit today. She NEVER has her fingernails polished. Never even had a manicure! Can you even imagine?!? Well my blog wore her down somehow 'cuz SOMEHOW I was putting polish on her nails SOMEHOW today! And she LOVES them!!! Color me thrilled!
She gravitated toward a silvery color for a base...

So we put on Nicole's Chrome For the Holidays first which has a bit of lavender in it. See the butterfly? Initially she wanted that stamp on all fingers... but I thought it might be a bit hard to see. So we went with a floral konad on the others. It's lines are a bit thicker so you can see it more easily on this background. Now there's a butterfly in the garden! :)

OPI Deer Valley Spice is the Konad polish. The only symmetry that she wanted was No symmetry!

She is loving it. So fun! Seche Vite is glossing it up even more on top :)

Sherbet

So before I started this here blog I was reluctant to take pix of my manis cuz all the pix would wind up becoming clutter, sitting around gathering proverbial dust on the shelves of my computer. Last week I did this mani and at the last second before taking it off, I found I couldn't let it go so easily and quick snapped some pix... :)

Complete with a chip cuz hey, no one would ever see these pix but me! :p

So I used SH complete salon mani in Kook-A-Mango and OPI Deer Valley Spice covered by Seche Vite. I tried for the first time using the sponging technique. I look forward to getting better! The hand shown also has SH insta-dry in Instant Iris on there. I didn't think the 3 colors looked better than 2 so I left that one out for the right hand. I tore off a bit of beauty sponge, usually used for make-up, took it in a pair of tweezers, dipped in in the paint and sponged away. I think any really strong pink and orange would get you sherbet on your fingertips too!