Plumage Remixed

Hey Everyone!! I have been thinking it was Friday ALL DAY LONG! It wasn't too bad a day other than I was disappointed every time I realized it was only Thursday and I had to go back to work tomorrow. Then there is some stuff going on with df and work which is crazy and on top of that he may have caught something from work that though it is totally treatable without health insurance doctor visits are costly. Plus I am a super freak and I worry about everything so I am quite highly stressed out right now. I am trying to relax and do some crochet while watching football but it isn't helping much. At least tomorrow is FRIDAY!!!!

Today I have more pictures of the gorgeous Candeo Colors Plumage only I shook up the original mani a bit. 

It is hard to tell but I mattified it. I love the pictures of glitter manis that have been mattified so I HAD to try it. It looks really cool in person BUT it is not overly noticeable. This could be because I have the Hard Candy Matte top coat and to me it doesn't seem to mattify things as well as pictures I have seen of people using other brands. 

I love the matte look though. It made it kinda cool looking.

THEN I stamped!

Now I let my son pick out the design I was going to stamp from the Cheeky XL-A. He decided I needed to do a different image on each finger and since I couldn't figure out a reason NOT to I went with it.

I used Wet N Wild Ebony Hates Chris to stamp with and did not use a top coat so it stayed matte.

I was using the XL stamper and the plastic scrapers and it wasn't going well so not all of the patterns came out really well.

I do love the pinky image and the middle finger image the most. I wasn't really thrilled with the way the image on my index finger came out. It was funny how on one hand the image would come out better than the other hand. I think I eventually gave up and went back to my metal scraper because the plastic one was giving me fits.

It was a fun mani but two of my nails ended up breaking so the fun ended early. I am dying for them to grow back so I can start doing fun manis again. They are making me nuts being so short and my middle nail is peeling again. I need to find a miracle cure for these nails!

That's all for now :)

My Caitlin Opal

It is Thursday and I am totally not prepared to fly tomorrow! I have a lot to do including packing. Today I have a really pretty mani that I love! I hadn't tried to mattify flakies and thought it was the perfect time to try it.

I used Zoya Caitlin as the base and Color Club Covered in Diamonds (came with a set at Ross) and Hard Candy Matte-ly In Love.

This polish reminds me of the cellophane you can get for wrapping baskets.

Caitlin is more purple than blue in real life and on me but I couldn't get the color right.

I picked this up at Walmart on a whim one day. I like making things matte.

I took a couple pictures in the sun because it shines so pretty.

Caitlin applied like all Zoya polishes I have tried so far, really nicely. I used two coats. She is a really pretty purply gray toned creme. I love the color on it's own.

Covered in Diamonds was a pain to apply. The problem with this polish is that the chunks are thick and stick up. It was not easy to keep a few of them laying flat. I pushed them down, used a thick coat of Matte-ly in Love and still a few stuck up. I got less of the glitter flake chunks on my left hand and opted to just leave it alone rather than use another coat.

You can see the difference between the hands in these two pictures (top and bottom). I made it a point to get a lot more on my right hand than my left. I like it both ways but more pretty stuff is always better lol.

Matte-ly in Love was great. I don't have another to compare it to but it made the polish pretty matte and dried really quick. I used two coats on a couple of fingers to try and keep the glitter chunky flakie things down (didn't work well).

I love this combo. I think the mattified Covered in Diamonds gives it an Opal feel. I love Opals, they are my birthstone so I am really enjoying this look.

I had to post a lot of pictures of both hands because I loved it so much.

I will definitely have to remember to wear this again in October. Now I want to mattify everything sparkly!

That's all for now :)