ANOTHER MERMAID MANI??? ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME?

Hi Readers!  Let me just start off by saying in my defense I hadn't planned on this being another mermaid tail mani BUT I feel I had no other choice lol!  I planned on a glass fleck and glitter gradient and it just took me to a mermaid tail mani!  This glass fleck and glitter gradient turned out pretty bad ass!

I actually thought about leaving it as is and not stamping over it!

For about a minute!!! LOL!

Man do I love how this turned out!

I wasn't really sure about using the gold over it but my friend Charlotte told me to use gold and man was she ever right!

All these colors went so well together!

I used one of my new Color Club Take Wings as the glass fleck finish--Metamorphosis never looked so good! Then I tossed in my Peripera Aqua glitter and topped it all off with Jordana Cosmic


Here's a before and after

This might just be my favorite mermaid mani OF ALL TIME!

After my gradient I stamped using the McGuyver of polishes China Glaze Passion SO really Passion is living up to it's McGuyver name!  I used Mash-46 for my stamping image--I really love this image alot, it can be many things who knows next up I might use it for a dragon scale mani!


Here's a picture of the polishes I used

Aaaaaand I almost forgot to show you the ring I wore with it! I made this one a super long time ago but they went well together!

Apparently I'm not sick of wearing mermaid mani's Reader's--are you sick of looking at them????


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Breakfast of Champions!

Hi Readers!  You know the phrase a day late and dollar short--sometimes I feel like that's the story of my life lol!   I am just now FINALLY getting around to trying the poptart nails or jelly sandwich as some like to call them. Amber from My Nail Graffiti did this cool post awhile ago.  I've been meaning to try it and decided to give it a whirl today.  Of course I had to give it a little twist!

Can you tell which ones are my favorite????

I'm not going to lie readers I love anything cherry!  Cherry Turnovers, cherry pie, cherry lip balm, cherry jello, cherry koolaid AND cherry poptarts!
To make my "pop tart" I used 2 coats of OPI Alpine Snow and then one coat of Confetti Tasmanian Devil.  I applied a thin coat of a white jelly I frankened myself using clear and white--yep that's a franken anyone can do!  I topped it with Essie's Matte topcoat Matte About U and then decided to add the super cute cherries!  This is from a GCOCL plate I found on ebay last year.  I love the look of the matte jelly sandwich!

So now the real question is, readers, do you toast your Pop Tarts or eat them "raw"  I like mine either way!

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Wavy Gravy!

Hi Readers!  Since it's winter here in Wisconsin it's too cold for ice cream so this wavy gravy will have to be something else!  How about a delicious magnetic manicure?!!!  I'm really loving all my magnetic polishes so far and this one is simply stunning!  A gorgeous dark vampy wine!

For $5 a bottle these Nabi's are really nice.  The only downside to them is they smell awful!  Burt's Bee's Lemon Butter doesn't even help!  Oh well the price of  beauty is well worth the stink!

As you can see on my swear finger aka middle I touched the magnet to the polish and I used the magnet from one of my Icing's for this as the chevron design on the Nabi's doesn't wrap around enough on my curved nails.


Here's a nice close up though--so dark and vampy I just love it!

I tried to live with the mess up not bothering me but it was! SO I decided to haul out my Brett Favre franken and do some covering up

Brett Favre is a franken I made intending the old Mardi Gras look green, gold, purple.  My first attempt at it I did not like and I said "ug this is so ugly only a Minnesota Viking's fan would like it"  since if was a fail and since I'm a Packer fan and you don't screw with the Packers by signing with the Vikings and did I mention it was ugly and huge fail so I named it Brett Favre! Not accepting defeat I went in and revamped it and then loved it.  I decided to stick with the name though lol!
Here's a bottle shot of Brett Favre

He's a mix of micro green, gold and purple glitters and then some large gold hexes.

I like this glitter tips look with the magnetic polish!
Here's a pic of the polishes I used--pretty straightforward lol!

How do you feel about these magnetic polishes readers??  Do you love them, hate them or are you over them--OR do you need them all like me and my friend Amy from I'm Feeling Nail Venterous?


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A Happy Surprise!

Hi Readers!  Today's mani turned out to be a huge surprise to me!  Basically I was too lazy to take off the current mani I was wearing when I got nail mail from my lovely friend Ginger.  Instead of taking off what I was wearing to try out this Icing Duo I got from Ginger I just decided to cover up my current mani.  The Icing Duo I got was the Lippmann Across The Universe dupe Force Of Love and it's "B" side Magnetic Attraction. I know everyone and their mother is gaga in love with Across The Universe but to me it's just ok.  Magnetic Attraction was really appealing to me though so I decided to try and wear that and see how I felt about it.  I needed some dark to cover up my current mani so I went for my OPI Lucerne-tainly look Marvelous BUT I also might have went for it because it was right next to me too lol!
Magnetic Attraction is really intriguing to me.  It's a grey jelly base with copper and blue micro glitter with medium size holo hex glitter--very unique to me.  Sure there are lots of holo hex glitters out there but the combination of those with micro copper and green glitters sets it apart to me.  Let's check out the surprise mani!

Wow! For something I just whipped together out of laziness this far surpassed my expectations for it!  I honestly planned on not even doing my right hand to match lol!  Nope right hand was done as well and this was something I knew I would wear for at least 3 days.  3 days to me is the right amount of time for a mani.  As soon as I get tip wear or chipping my mani comes off--usually 3 days is as long as I'll go before tip wear.
Here's a close up of it!

I'm making do with a pretty old digital camera so I can't get that great of a close up but hopefully you can see some of that copper and blue in there with the holo hexes.  I just found this to be so stunning!
And here it is with flash!!! GORGEOUS!

I just cannot be happier with this mani!


To recap I used OPI Lucerne-tainly Look Marvelous with one coat of Icing Magnetic Attraction over it and then stamped using Konad Special Black on RA108


Have you ever had something like this happen readers?  You didn't have high expectations for a mani and it really knocked your socks off??


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