Flowers everywhere!

Ok, I lost myself down the rabbit hole the other day.  A visit at a friend's became all about finding a fun mani and when we parted company I felt like we never visited at all!  Well wait THAT was  stupid!  :(  Anyone else ever have that happen???   Well we'll get together again and this time I'll cut myself off!!!  ha ha!  Yes, only so much darn time futzing with the nails and that's it!

What we have here is the last of my Sally Hanson Insta-Dry White for the base.  Made me really want a new white polish.  'Gloopy' does not begin to describe the white dregs I had to work with!  lol

And then a cute flower konad couplet!  

It was a big flower next to a smaller flower of the same style.  

I just painted the one individual flower I wanted to use for each stamp. 

Lots of pretty SH Insta-Dry colors with SV on top. 

If I was better at this there wouldn't be overlapping and half stamps of flowers! ha ha!  But I was under the gun and for pity sake and I wanted this nail adventure to be over already!

I like it.  When I catch a fleeting glimpse during the day I think of jimmies on vanilla ice cream!  Welcome summer!!!

Sarah ♥ Audrey

Or maybe it's more like my friend Sarah ♥ Tiffany!  She told me her story of, no kidding, being a carny in San Diego for a summer then spending her earnings on her very own Tiffany necklace.  I love it!

We did nails today and I think hers deserve their very own post :)

SO CUTE! Sunlight pic first...

Then in a bright shadow... crazy what light temperatures can do huh?

She had her 20 year old bottle of Sally Hansen metallic silver polish and China Glaze's For Audrey!

 Per her story, Sarah chose the necklace konad on plate m62.  

Clever grrrl!  I love this!

Here's another close up of her pretty accent nail.  And my fuzzy dog in the background :)  SV on top!  Sarah ♥ Tiffany and I ♥ Sarah!  What a triangle we have going!

fleur konad

Something pretty and spring-like is in order today!  Enter Revlon's Top Speed Lava, Sally Hansen's Insta-Dry Whirlwind White and Konad's m73 plate!  Not to mention some patience! ;)

 Way up close, the super fine lines in the design show varying amounts of polish -therefore they are varying opacities.  I wonder if the Insta-Dry aspect of the white is the problem.  Wonder if using the specialized Konad White polish would take care of that.  I don't have too many readers but does anyone else have experience with Konad's White polish?

 

Maybe we'll just stick with slightly out of focus pix!  ha ha!!!

This is only my second or third konad so it's still very fun to learn how to do this!  

I think the luscious Seche Vite topcoat dims the white somehow.  

Well I'll take it anyway!  

Hope you're enjoying springtime!  xo

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 :)

Tiger Tiger Burning Bright...

too bad this puddy tat has a beginner konad artist doing the stripes!
Love the idea, the Fascinante is so beautiful. But my durn perfectionist side is all up in my grill. So I say, sit down perfectionist side! I only just got my first Konad polish yesterday! Today, after a half hour of fail, fail, fail... not to mention the hours previously trying every nail polish I own! ...I finally realized my pressing down so hard on the nail polished plate was working against me! Whisper light pressure finally got the polish to adhere. Thank goodness...

Jeepers is this black a messer!

Yay! My first konad is done! Topped with SV. And I monkeyed around trying to finish off lines that ended in the middle of nowhere (with varying degrees of success) with SH Kiss Nail Art paint. I love my tiger concept but I'm going to have to practice more before I love the final presentation! You don't even want to see my other hand! ;) xo