♥ Happy Valentines' Day! ♥

Happy Valentine's Day! The base color of here is Gouda Gouda Two Shoes from the OPI Holland collection. It's a nice warm rose color with orange shimmer. So, for V-day, I decided to break out the Konad. Every year I do hearts, so for something different, I chose the rose design from plate M65. I used Ulta Baby Doll to stamp with. Baby Doll is a very pale pink cream. I love the two colors together and I really like how Baby Doll is kind of subtle against GGTS. I was going to go with white, but I think the design would take away from the base color too much, so I'm pretty happy with how this turned out ♥



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China Glaze: Frostbite - Konaded

My niece Brenda is 13 today ♥ For her present, I got her the Salon Express Nail Art Stamping Kit. There's a great review of it over at My Simple Little Pleasures. Last time she stayed overnight, I stamped her fingers with a zebra pattern and I guess she asked her mom for this after seeing a commercial. I'm pretty excited to give it to her.

It made me realize I haven't Konaded in FOREVER! So that's the inspiration for today's mani. The base color here is China Glaze Frostbite. I used Art Deco silver as the stamping polish and plate M65.





Here is Frostbite solo:


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Quick Konad

I can't tell you the last time I Konaded. I think it was for Halloween! So I decided to spruce up my Massini mani from earlier. I used Konad plate M65 and Avon's Wicked. Wicked worked perfectly for Konading.



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Halloween Nails - Spiders!

I went to the Christmas Tree Store today and found they stock Color Club polishes. So I picked up the striper called Black Hologram. I used that as the base and stamped images from Fauxnad plate P57 and Bundle Monster plate BM13.




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Zoo Nails

I had a great time with my niece last night :) We watched alot of the Disney channel (Zach & Cody....argh!) and gave each other manicures; here are our zoo mani's.

Brenda is the tiger:



and I'm the leopard:


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Happy Independence Day!

Hope everyone had a great holiday! Here's my 4th of July inspired manicure:






My index finger is Claire's Chunky Blue with plate BM20. The rest is Orly Glam with an Art Deco white striper.

Caribbean Mani: take 2

In honor of my cruise next month, here's another Caribbean inspired mani. I used Maybelline Express Finish in Bungalow Blue (from the Dollar Tree):


Then I used BM plate 20 with Zoya Envy for the seaweed and Konad plate M27 for the fish (with Konad white polish):



Not too bad, although I think it looks better IRL!

Wet n Wild: Night Prowl + BM plate #16

I just picked up a couple of the new WnW shades, this is Night Prowl. It's a black base with purple glitter:


I had heard on the boards that the Sally Hansen Insta-Dri's were good for Konading, so I added Grape Going using the Bundle Monster plate #16. I used a full nail image on my index and ring finger and the flower "cluster" on the rest. It's a very subtle effect, I was hoping the SH color would have been a bit more vibrant, but hey, I actually got a non-Konad polish to work with the BM plates, so I'm not complaining! Ha ha.

China Glaze: Street Racing

I really loved the Retro Diva line from China Glaze. There were some awesome earthy colors in there! I think Stroll is one of my all time favorites ♥ Here is Street Racing:


and of course I had to throw some Konad at it! LOL.

Fauxnad french mani

I got my plates in from Bundle Monster and had to try them out! I I had a real hard time using non-Konad polish (I must have tried four different colors/brands), I couldn't get the image to pick up on the stamper, so I just used the only Konad brand polish I had (white). This is plate BM 16:


dare my Wild Heart.....

The wild heart is from plate BM 03. The images were nice and crisp using the Konad white polish.

LA Girls: Copper + Konad

I A D O R E today's notd! The base color is LA Girls in Copper, which has a metallic shine to it:


Than I used Konad plate M57 with Wet n Wild Black Creme:

I love it! I know what mani I'll be wearing when I take my niece to the zoo later in the year, how fun!

I'd never had luck using WnW with the Konad before, but I think the trick was using a new bottle? Whatever it was, it worked perfectly. I'm actually looking forward to using more WnW colors. I've only ever Konaded using black or white (I know, boring, right??)

Fauxnad Dragon

Plate B22


I used the dragon image along with some stars from the moon image:

Caribbean Mani: take 1

So I have a Caribbean vacation coming up in a couple of months and this was a trail mani for it. Not a winner, but it was fun for a couple of days....

I used Toma Glitter mood changing polish in "Green Glitter to Gold Glitter". Sadly, it doesn't change colors anymore, but i sill love it ♥. The tips are China Glaze Atlantis.

Mani Fail

So this is a classic case of trying to do too much in one manicure. I starting this one off by trying to do the glitter gradient with my Smudge Fixer, and realized I used WAY too much glitter for it to work. So I added a layer of China Glaze Cleopatra to my Enchanted Forest mani. Then of course I had to play with my new Fauxnad plates...Yikes! ha ha.

Behold the horror:

Orly: Glam Rock + Fauxnad

So, I just ordered from two different online vendors and I have to rave.

First one was: http://www.transdesign.com/
I ordered some nail tips for popsicle stick swatches, Orly Glam Rock and Orly Smudge Fixer. I plan on using the SF to attempt my 1st gradient soon. Yikes! I ordered on Monday, and had the package by Thursday. Shipping was only $8.50 and the package was sent via Fed Ex.

The 2nd vendor was: http://www.chez-delaney.com/delaney.html
I ordered two large Fauxnad plates and two small ones. The plates + shipping from France to Michigan was $32 (approx total of $8 per plate). It took about 3 weeks to arrive. I emailed one time for a status update and got an immediate answer. The quality of the plates are great.

So here is my NOTD. I saw this on Scrangie's blog (http://www.scrangie.com/) and thought to myself that I MUST own this! LOL.


It's an awesome copper colored matte polish. Now this is only the 3rd Orly polish I own and I have to say I need more. I love them! But I seem to have a hard time choosing a color when looking at them. Hmm.

Here is plate H22. I used the full nail image directly in the middle and added a coat of China Glaze Matte Magic:




I love it ♥

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Franken: "Digitized"

My continued quest for the perfect red holo polish.....today's franken is named "Digitized". I mixed Milani Digital with Sally Hansen Red Creme #06 and a drop of WnW Black. Unfortunately, there is zero sun today (it's a blizzard outside!) so I'll have to post a swatch when it's sunny.

Here's the bottle shot:


I'm pretty happy with it ♥

I added Bloom Mena with Konad plate M65:

Zoya Kaufda Konad

Welcome to my first blog post! So I just got in 4 new Zoya's yesterday using their 2 free polish promo: Kaufda, Ki, Freja and Gwin.

Today I used Konad plate M60 with Maybelline Express Finish in Bronze Dragon as the base (Dollar store find) with Zoya Kaufda overtop:


Very shimmery! Here's another shot:

Thank you!