Cotton and Rock Candy Nails!

Oh look at me, back so soon! Haha, kidding! I never left ;) 

Ok, all joking aside lol...nails then talky talky.

For some reason the OPI Liquid Sand (Get Your Number) reminds me of rock candy. Anywho, I did this with flocking powder which I got at Micheal's of course. 2 coats of the polish. This was the first time I used flocking powder and I really like it! Not much else to say about it. Have you done fuzzy nails yet?

As always, thanks for stopping by :)

Must Wear All The Blues!

Hey lovelies!

I have done a ton of polish buying over the past couple months or so and a lot of those were blues. Well I was sitting at work one night thinking about what to do with my nails when I got a crazy idea. Why not wear them all? Heck why not throw on the feathers I had too? So this is what I ended up with:

L-R Zoya Charla, feather over  NOPI Deck The Dolls, OPI Get Your Number
and Zoya Song

L-R Pure Ice Blue Midnight, NOPI A Lit-Teal Bit of Love,
feather over NYC Empire State Blue and Zoya Robin with
Ice Tinsel Town over it

The feathers weren't as bad to work with as I thought they would be. I do know that I love the Liquid Sand! 

The thumb is Pure Ice Peep Show with NOPI Kendall on the Katwalk over  it.

Thumb on this hand is NOPI It's Up to You with Orly Spazmatic over it.

So what do you think? Have you ever done a completely mismatched kind of mani like this? I liked it but it was just way too much for me! 

As always, thanks for stopping by :)

Nail Art on Toes: Butterflies and Flowers

I actually have nail art on all my nails at the same time *gasp*! Are y'all as shocked as me? I've been really interested in nail art and getting better lately. So if you hate feet or are disgusted by them turn back now!

This is my first time using LEX Cosmetics polish even though I got them a LONG time ago for free from sneakpeeq. Note that this is in no way a review of the polish, I will only mention the generals that are important to every nail polisher :)

I used 2 coats of LEX Cosmetics polish in Lil Mama (again free from sneakpeeq not for a review!); pink, blue and purple acrylic paint that I mixed with white acrylic paint all by Apple Barrel (.57 cents each!); Tulip glitter I got from Hobby Lobby on clearance (see here) and the flowers are Kiss nail decals (see embellishment post here).

All I did was paint random little butterflies all over in different colors. They aren't perfect but I still think they are cute! I put a little top coat over a couple of the butterflies and brushed corresponding colored glitter over them which definitely added something but made them lose their definition lol. So I ended up just going over all the nails with Jordana Crystal Glitter. I freakin love that stuff! Just found out where to get it again and I was ecstatic! The answer is KMart if you don't know. I've had the same bottle for years and it's kinda yellowed and really goopy even with tons of polish thinner so you can understand why I love my new bottle so much. 

Lil Mama is a great formula though pretty expensive generally. It applied nicely and was a little shear with just one coat. In the bottle it's kind of got a silver metallic sheen but not on the nail. 

So what do you think? Do you do nail art on your toes? Let me know in the comments below!
As always, thanks for stopping by :)

Hope nails and my comeback

Oh man, it's been so long since I posted any new nail art I've almost forgotten what it's like! 

I told y'all I got some new nail goodies and I'm gonna tell you what I got. Acrylic paints, brushes and water soluble ink. I'm a super fan! Well maybe not the ink so far, it's a little harder to work with than I thought so far. The reason for the ink and what am I doin with it? Stamping! Think how much easier it would be if you could just wipe off a messed up or misplaced stamp with water than it is with remover. Soooo much easier! It's not as opaque as I wanted but it's still a learning process. Anywho, the paints. Both harder and easier than I thought they would be. For this mani I used white acrylic paint with a little bit of pink water soluble ink (cuz how did I seriously not buy pink acrylic paint?!). But anywho, I used black acrylic paint for my tips. Harder than I thought as far as that goes but easier to do the ribbons than I thought.

I have more pics but they don't want to upload correctly :( The pinkish hint on my nail bed is Savvy USA Blush and the rhinestones were sent to me by a friend :) I put an extra coat of the Savvy on over the rhinestones to try to keep them on better but it turned out to be a bad idea. It got all bubbly. Looked way better before that! 

Here's a terrible pic (sorry old camera) of just the tips. Acrylic paint dries matte and it looked pretty cool.

This mani is all about hope to me. The black because it's a dark time, the rhinestones because just because you feel like shit you are still beautiful. 

That's it for this post, it feels great to be back though! I can't wait to play some more with my paints and such. AND it's getting closer to Halloween, yay! Can't wait to try some of my fun holiday stamps :D 

As always, thanks for stopping by :)

Gorgeous but difficult *pic heavy*

Today I have what I think just might be my favorite mani I've ever done! Its gorgeous but a HUGE pain to try to get good color accurate pics. Lets jump right in shall we?

Inside sunlight

Inside Flash

Inside no flash

These are the most color accurate and the only ones I didn't try to mess with the colors. All I did with these was stick the text on there.

Kleancolor Metallic Aqua 

For this mani I used only Kleancolor polishes. I'm super in love with them can you tell? This is 2 coats of Metallic Pink. It was completely opaque in one coat but I did 2 only because I wanted to wrap my tips and fix a couple of my imperfections. I used Born Pretty plate M72 to stamp the super cute flower in Metallic Aqua. The little stones were sent to me by my friend Sherry (see posts here and here). And I don't think pictures do this justice at all. Its so pretty, I can't stop staring at my nails!

You might be saying what?! I thought you had all kinds of problems with your Born Pretty plates? I did and I will do an update post tomorrow :) But I'll tell you now they fixed the problems. 

Anywho, all my Kleancolor polishes (and I've got quite a bit) I have got from Copious (if you don't already know they are giving out another $10 in credits this weekend see here). Speaking of which, I am off to hurry up and spend mine before they expire ;) Come chat with me on Facebook if you feel so inclined. 

As always, thanks for stopping by :)

My Stash: Embellishments

I decided I'm going to do a little series about my stash :) Mostly because I have a lot of stuff and if I did one single post it would be crazy long and I know the average reader might not find it as interesting as those of us living in our polish-tastic world ;) So I'm going to start with embellishments. I consider embellishments to be anything that you put on your nails that isn't polish. Particularly like fimo, rhinestones, microbeads and such. 
We'll start with stickers:

 I got the top ones at Dollar General for about a dollar and the other 2 sheets came together also for a dollar I believe. I know I was annoyed when I opened it and instead of 2 sheets of the pretty ones it had the others behind it. 

Glitter:

The NYX I got from Ulta and they were on sale something like 2 for $6. The left one is called Disco Ball and the other one is just called Blue. You can see the Haul post here. The other silver glitter in the bottom pic is from a craft kit from a long long time ago and I used to use it for hair lol. Now its migrated its way to my embellishment box ;)
Stones:

The very top ones I got in a temporary tattoo kit from WalMart. Don't judge me it was in the clearance section for under $10 lol. They're pretty much just blobs of colored plastic but still cute. The post I used them in is here. The next ones down I also got in the clearance section at WalMart and I think they were like a dollar. 
The other 2 sets were sent to me by my super awesome friend Sherry. She rocks and I <3 her :) 
Fimo:

The only fimo I have is from the fantastic Jen of Jen's Nail Files on Facebook. She sent me a sunscreen sample and included the fimo! I was so excited I may have actually squealed and thanked her profusely (which I later found out she doesn't like lol).
Now the other stuff. Some of it is glitter but you'll see why I'm doing it this way.

Bar Glitter

More Microbeads

Microglitter

So these I got at Dollar Tree all of them were a dollar a piece. Most of them I have 2 sets of though the shells I only have one set and the flakies as well as embellishments I have 3 sets of. I used the silver stars on this mani and some of the microbeads here. I also used the little purple flowers on my toes as you can see on this post. 
I also thought I'd show you how I store these teeny tiny bottles :) 

I got these little Tupperware containers at a Salvation Army thrift store. The bf and I like to go and look to see if we can find cool stuff lol. I think they were something like 69 cents and I got 7 or 8 of them together. I also got some matching ones for the same price and they are bigger square shaped ones that are the perfect size for holding stamping plates lol. 
Well that's it for this one, hope you enjoyed seeing my stuff ;) What kind of embellishments do you have? 
As always, thanks for stopping by :)