Orly Fresh with a Leprechaun

Hey Everyone. I think I need a nap. I am suddenly sleepy. It is pretty slow at work so that doesn't help all that much. At least it is almost Friday!

I am still catching up from St. Patrick's Day so today is another green mani. 

For this mani I used a base of Orly Fresh. I love this green. It is bright and squishy and so fun. I used three coats for this mani.

To stamp I used Mundo de Unas #19 Bronze and Sinful Colors black polish.The black wasn't thick enough to be dark enough over the Bronze but I couldn't get my placement right to double stamp it. 

You can see in the picture above where I tried to double stamp the Leprechaun. 

I used Messy Mansion plate MM04 for the designs on this mani. It was fun and festive but I think my nails are a little too small for the knot work to show really nicely. 

That's all for now :)

But of Corpse it is St. Patrick's Day

Hey Everyone!! St. Patrick's Day is almost here so this week we will be doing all green manis. I am hoping to get them all posted this week but we will see how it goes. It might turn into Valentine's Day and we might be going through them for long after the holiday. It is Monday which is unfortunate. I am far too sleepy and not wanting to deal with Monday at all. I could also use a snack. 

Today I used a Halloween polish that I had gotten not long ago on clearance. I love recycling holiday collections for other holidays. This one worked very nicely for St. Patrick's Day.

I used two coats of China Glaze But of Corpse from the Apocalypse of Color collection.

This one dries a little matte and with all that black micro glitter it is textured when dry. I had only put a quick coat of top coat on this mani before stamping so it was still bumpy and textured.

I used my DIY alcohol ink stamping polish for the stamping. It showed up nicely but I think I should have used black instead.

I used Messy Mansion plate MM04 for the images.

I don't know if it was poor placement or my nails are just too small but the knot image didn't come out quite as nice as I had hoped it would. I wasn't exactly disappointed with this mani but it wasn't my favorite either. I do love the Shamrock image.

That's all for now :)

Dragons and Clovers

Hey Everyone!! Happy Saturday. I should probably get moving on dying my hair but I thought I should probably post another St. Patrick's Day mani first. 

Today's mani features the gorgeous A England Dragon. I forgot how much I absolutely love A England polishes.

Dragon is gorgeous in the sunlight. The application was perfect and smooth. I definitely need more A England polishes since I only have a few.

In the shade this polish is just as pretty. I find that I lose interest in some holos if they aren't in the sun. They seem to look dusty and dull but this one is just as pretty in the shade.

Even though I was tempted to leave it alone I decided I had to do some St. Patrick's Day stamping on it.

I used a stamping polish I made with alcohol inks for the stamping.

I used Messy Mansion plate MM04 for the stamping. 

I didn't want to use images that were too big because I really didn't want to cover Dragon. 

That's all for now :)

Spoiled Music Notes

Hey Everyone!! I am having some wicked dry eye issues lately. They are causing headaches and general annoyances. I had such a bad headache both Thursday night and Friday afternoon when I was finally ready to do my July 4th mani that I just skipped it. My nails have pretty much been naked all weekend. It is terrible. So are my peelies and the general state of my nails. Yesterday I was going through a box of polishes that I know are dupes and I found the 5 frankens I had made a year ago. That includes the July 4th franken I made last year. I was so annoyed because I wanted to wear that this year but couldn't find it. I might do a July 4th mani in the next couple of days just for fun. I am going to hold off on starting gel polish week until this stupid eye gets under control. The computer aggravates it and I don't want to start the week and not be able to finish it. 

Today I have a fun mani I did for T's end of year concert.

I used my new Messy Mansion purple rectangle stamper and Spoiled Toad-ally Amazing and Champagne Siren.I stamped with Konad black and BBF plate BBF-09 for the music notes.

A better picture of BBF 09. I am torn on these plates. I got them in a group buy on facebook and was super excited for them. It took a bit for the order to come since they are made in Brazil by a very small company. The designs are really really cute. The plates themselves are really small, much smaller than I thought, but the images are big enough for my nails and then some. I had a really hard time with some of them stamping properly though. A really hard time.  I was very tempted to sell or trade them away after swatching them into my book took so much effort. Picking the image up for this mani was no picnic either. For now I have decided to hold on to them and see how I feel next time I use them but I have already opted to not join other group buys for them. It is sad too because they have some really cute images. 

I started the mani using a base of Spoiled Toad-ally Amazing. I think I did three coats but at this point I can't remember for sure. C bought me both of these polishes as a cute little anniversary gift. I hadn't worn them soon enough and he started complaining about it so I decided to use them together for this mani. 

I used a sponge to create glitter gradient tips. I really like how fine the glitter is and how pretty these two colors worked together. 

I stamped the music notes on with my Messy Mansion stamper. I love that stamper. It cooperated best with the BBF plate but I did have some issues here and there.

Top coat of course smeared my stamping and made me very angry.

Overall I loved this mani even with the smears. I love the color combination which is amazing because I am not really big on gold. C did good in picking out these colors for me. Maybe I should convince him to buy me polish more often.

That's all for now :)