Pinky Glitter French Mani

I've been having difficulties with my manis lately!  I don't think anything I put on there looks good!  I doubt I'm the first to whom this has happened. What cha gonna do?  So I finally settled on this one last night after running around with nakey nails for a week!

Put some Sinful's Easy Going on first.  Am kinda disappointed with how streaky it was/is.  Needed at least 2 coats, and some of the brush strokes still visible even after drying.  Not too fun!

Got outside to take pix during the "golden hour" or dusk.  On the tips I wanted a sparkly pink.  Sinful's Pinky Glitter fit the bill! 

It was honestly difficult to get a pic without a pock mark or stripey streak, even with the Seche Vite! 

But overall I do think it's kinda cute and better than au natural-with-nail-strengthener nails :)

Be well y'all!

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!!!

Crackalackin!

My girl is in the other room watching Madagascar so "Crackalackin" is on my mind!  

This is my first Crackle purchase!

First I bought Sinful's beeeyooootiful color shifting polish.  I put it on and, hmm.  The tone wasn't quite right on me.  So I purchased Sally Hanson's blue Crackle and put that on top.  

Well it sure adds visual interest!

Funny, this hand seems more stringy than crackly!

I suppose Crackles have their place and I'm glad I did this.  But I'm still not exactly a crackle enthusiast.  :)  Seche Vite on top of course!  I think I'll always be a Seche Vite enthusiast!

Chickie Doodles

This past weekend I went camping with some awesome friends who all own chickens!!!  Backyard Chickens is the website on whose forum we all met.  What a blast.  The general kookiness of my nails suits the group's mentality to a T. 

This was after 2 days of camping so I didn't even bother to show the chickies on my other fingers.  They started to find their way off my nails long before this pic was taken.  

These pix are in front of my chicken tractor/coop/run!  There's Daisy Mae between my fingers and Ginger above my thumb!  My other thumb in the previous pic (with it's chickie footy prints wandering away from mama over to my ring finger) was the last one I did the lines for the footprints.  And it shows!  Used a push pin dipped in a drop of Sinful's Black On Black.  An Embossing/Dotting tool was used to create a flower on each pinkie nail.

Being impressed with the chickie and mama is not allowed cuz they're stickers!!!! (This chickie's foot has had enough apparently!)  A scrapbooking friend suggested stickers and I'm not good with fingernail art by any stretch of the imagination, so stickers and a topcoat of SV it was!

This was so much fun to do.  Revlon's Dreamer provided the blue backdrop. 
Chicken Dreamer.
ha ha ha ha!

Ixnay on the Ombre

Remember Offspring?  Love that band... couldn't help but think of their album title as I attempted my first ombre. 

I started out with my Nail Magic Nail Hardener because of some disturbing peelage!  Nooooo!  And then?  Get this:  my mom's just been introduced to the joys of nail polish by me.  But my beloved, deceased Grammie LOOOOOVED nail polish!  I never knew that!  And her favorite?  They still make it!  Revlon's Cherries In The Snow.  Now I have my own bottle of my Grammie's fave :*)  How awesome is that? 

Cherries in the Snow is the darkest pink/red.  Sally Hansen's Presto Pink Insta-Dri is the lighter pink.  SV on top.  I used the neato technique found here!

Personally?  I think I need more blending!  Sarah and I were doing our nails at the same time and after we got outside we were astounded at all the problems we could see in our work!!!  HAHAHA!  We were all like, "What's this noise?  It looked way better inside!"  Hilarious.  Next time, we're doing our manis outside. Haha!

Any perfectionism aside, I'm pleased with my first foray into ombre!  

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