Otherwise known as no festive manis over here lol.
I've wanted to do this for a while and I actually tried rainbow on my toes last week but I hated the way they came out. This is inspired by Colette from My Simple Little Pleasures.
I used a Q-Tip to do the sponging, I find it's usually easier and neater. I used Ulta Sweetheart Pink, Sally Hansen Inst-Dri Lightning and Fingerpaints Inkblot Blue. I started by putting pink on the top of my nail at the cuticle as well as at the tip. Then going to yellow work halfway down the pink so that it (is supposed to make) makes orange. Go far enough down with the yellow so that you have a strip of yellow plus another length of it. Now add the blue. Start by going over the yellow to make green. Keep going all the way down the nail so you get purple at the bottom.
The yellow I used is far too opaque to really show orange well unfortunately. I'm pretty happy with the rest of the colors though :) The pink could have been brighter but that's ok. Neon colors work best with this mani. I did start off with 2 coats of LA Colors White so that the colors would pop more.
I added random little different facing c's, spots and dots using my Metallic Black acrylic paint by Folk Art. It isn't really different at all from the regular black though so I'd say save your money lol.
The spots on my right hand are a little more messy, I'm still pretty shaky but I still like it :) I do wish the colors showed up more vibrant in the pics.
What do you think? Will you be trying this one?
As always, thanks for stopping by :)
I have another mani I did for Tiffani :) I used Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Virtual Violet and Kleancolor Holo Chrome. I also stamped using WnW French Tips and MASH plate M17.
I seriously love this, its so pretty! The Kleancolor I got from Copious for a penny so if you haven't signed up yet click right here to sign up and get your first $10 in credits on me :)
I did my nails for Enchanting Cosmetics song contest (on Facebook). I chose Sex On Fire by the Kings of Leon for my song. Watch it on YouTube here. I love this song! Its a great song and has sentimental meaning to me as well. Onto the nails!
I used Wet n Wild French White, the orange is a Copious buy Wet n Wild 9.0.2.1. Orange, the dark red on top is Sally Hansen Red Hot Creme, the other red is Wet n Wild Red Red, the yellow is Sally Hansen Lightning and the black is LA Colors Circuits.
So the little stick figures (in case you can't tell) from left to right: Missionary, Doggy, Cowgirl and standing up positions. Haha get it? Sex on fire! That's it for this post, maybe I will actually do something and not take it right off lol.
As always, thanks for stopping by :)
By request from the Facebook page I decided to show you all the stuff I have gotten from Copious! You can see my original post about Copious right here. If you haven't signed up yet for a Copious account and you live in the US you totally should! Click this link right now and sign up with Facebook. You need the friends to get the credits :)
Basically you get $10 for signing up with my link and once you complete a purchase (you have the item in your hot little hands and hit the complete button on Copious) I get $5 credit for bringing you there. So we all win right? But you can invite friends too and get more credits for more free stuff! Anywho onto the goodies!
Kleancolors:
The minis were to my understanding supposed to be regular size but I have given up complaining lol. So they are Metallic Fuschia and Metallic Sapphire. Then from left to right: Metallic Aqua, Metallic Pink and Chuky Holo Teal.
Julep Melissa:
Pure Ice Rio:
Zoya Tallulah:
China Glaze Luxe and Lush (my first flakie!):
Milani Cyberspace (my first Milani):
My super cute ring that wants to turn me green:
And a group shot:
Somehow I totally missed getting my Sally Hansen Gem Crush Bejeweled in there as well as getting a shot of it by itself today :( Supa sad face :( But you can see it here with some of its friends :) You can also see more pics of the ring in this post that I did specifically for it and the mani inspired by it :) Yay for jewelry inspiration!!!
Have you joined Copious yet? What the heck are you waiting for?! All of this stuff cost me pennies! If you have joined and have already gotten your gooodies, what did you get?
As always, thanks for stopping by :)
If you hang around my Facebook page then you may know that I recently got a ring from Copious. While I love the ring it does have the capability to turn me green lol (thank man for clear fingernail polish!) You may also know that I was having quite a bit of trouble the other day with Sally Hansen's Blizzard Blue. I REALLY REALLY wanted to use it to do a mani that matched my gorgeous new ring so I decided to try it again before I called it crap and got rid of it. It didn't want to dry at all and it was ridiculously bubbly :(
2 coats of Sally Hansen's Blizzard Blue (FAIL) and the ring:
Can you tell how bad that is? Seriously, it was complete crap. But try again!
3 coats this time, stamped with Kleancolor Metallic Aqua and Sapphire and 1 coat of Kleancolor Chunky Holo Teal:
Woohoo! Better definitely though the Blizzard Blue still didn't want to play nice :(
And with the ring :) So what do you think? Have you ever tried to match jewelry with a mani? Would you?
As always, thanks for stopping by :)
For Gay Pride Month everyone is doing some kind of themed nails. I wanted to take it up a notch of course, try to do something a little different. It doesn't help that the rainbow has seven colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet) and I have 5 toes on each foot and 5 fingers on each hand (as do most people lol). So I did a little improvising:
The other pics are terrible really but the colors show great:
Sorry it was right after my shower so my toes are wrinkly lol. Anywho this is WnW Red Red, WnW Sunny Side Up, Ulta Sun-sational, Sinful Colors Irish Green, the big toe has 3 colors (though you can't really tell lol) Zoya Tallulah, a mix of WnW Bijou Blue and Fingerpaints Be A Pal-ette for the indigo, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Purple Potion, CG Fairy Dust and WnW Kaleidoscope over it all. That's a lot of polishes!
As for my fingers I wanted to do something a little different so I decided to paint them white using Fingerpaints Well Cultured Pearl and stamp rainbow colored flowers on them using my MASH 15 plate.
So same colors minus the indigo since I just didn't have enough nail room lol. My nails really are way shorter than they were though you really can't tell.
As far as I'm concerned it shouldn't be just one month out of the year I feel it should be an all the time thing, pride for who we are and what we support. Gay Pride to me means being yourself and feeling that you won't be hated for who you are and what or who you like. Maybe if everyone was more accepting of others the world would be a happier place. Maybe if you didn't feel you would be persecuted for your beliefs, feelings and sexual orientation everyone would be more confident and get along better. Maybe there would be less bullying and suicides. It's something that I have personally dealt with as well as seen for myself. No one is asking for special rights just EQUAL rights.
My wish is a wish that people will soon understand that being gay is not a disease or a choice! People who are gay are not looking for a cure or special rights, but acceptance and Equal Rights.
Will you be doing something for Pride Month? I might add something to my toes :)
As always, thanks for stopping by and I hope you all take a look at how you treat others :)
