NOPI Khloe Had A Lam-Lam skittle mani

One of my favorite polishes of all time is Nicole by OPI Khloe Had A Lam-Lam. I'm not a huge Kardashian fan, but this darkened teal color is so great. I'm almost 1/2 way through one bottle so I'm gonna have to find another soon.

For today's mani, I added a holo topper of Hits Hefesto (the original!) then stamped using Konad Black and Bundle Monster BM305.

June Nail Art Challenge, Day 28: Destinations

A day late in blogging this, but I was able to get it up on Instagram in time! It's a Instagram challenge, so that's what counts, right?

Anyway, I bought Cheeky Jumbo Plate 3 (European Romance) a while ago because of the beautiful images on it. It's got some great full nail images that I really like. But it's also got some super cute smaller images that I haven't gotten around to using yet. So this challenge theme was a perfect excuse!

I chose to go with Italy as the theme simply because I have spent time there.

I chose the airplane to represent travel in general. The other images are for 3 of the cities in Italy I was able to travel to: Pisa, Rome, and Venice. The little gondola driver is so cute!

The base of this two coats of Milani Fresh Teal which I found at Dollare Tree. Score! I stamped the images using Konad Black.

June Nail Art Challenge, Day 22: Tropical

How was everyone's weekend? We went to Greek Festival yesterday and ate some yummy food. Also picked up some delicious frozen custard at a place we don't get to very often since it's far away.

Today my husband and I got some time away while my parents watched T. We hit up some sushi :) It was very yum!!

Today's theme is tropical, and I tried to not be super traditional (sunset with palm tree which I've done anyway).

For this mani, I first painted one coat of Wet n Wild French White Creme. You need 2 for it to be opaque, but I just needed a base for my gradient to pop.

Then I sponged on Sinful Colors Dream On and Rise and Shine. Next I added a thin layer of China Glaze Fairy Dust.

Then I stamped a flower from Bundle Monster BM318 using Konad White.

Happy Memorial Day Weekend!

Happy holidays everyone! For those of you not in the US, Memorial Day falls on the last Monday of May. It is a holiday to commerate our soliders who have fought and died for this country. It also is a big BBQ weekend and basically a kick off to summer.

Since it's such a patriotic holiday, I got my toes and fingers in the spirit!

For my nails, I used Zoya Sooki, Revlon Royal, China Glaze Fairy Dust, white acrylic paint for the French line, Konad White, and Bundle Monster BM14.

For my piggies, I used Zoya Chyna and Zoya Liberty plus I repeated the stamping from my fingers.

NOTD: Octopus

Quickie post today. I used China Glaze Sea Spray, Konad Sky Pearl, and Bundle Monster BM-401.

Springy yellow gradient

I've had the idea for this mani floating around for a while. I just haven't gotten around to it, but since it's finally spring (even though we got snow overnight....) I thought I'd finally do it!

I did a base of Illamasqua Load on all my nails. On the ring and thumb, I added one good coat of Dollish Polish Hylian Princess. I REALLY loved the mani at this point. Not that I don't love the outcome, but I just loved that so much more. I may end up sporting that some time soon.

Anyways, then I did a gradient of Zoya Pippa over that and stamped using a Bundle Monster plate (bad blogger! I'll put the name later) and Konad White. The flowers are super subtle and honestly the gradient looked better with out them.

Zoya London Snowflakes

I saw this idea from Geeky Owl and loved it so I recreated it! My snowflakes are a wee bit different, but everything else is the same.

Base: two coats Zoya London

Stamped with Konad White and Bundle Monster plates

Snowflake Gradient

Base: Zoya Seraphina (two coats)

Sponged on OPI Russian Navy Suede

Stamped using Konad White and Bundle Monster 300 series plates

Barry M Ridley Road

Base: Barry M Ridley Road (3 coats)

MoYou London plate & Konad Special Polish Black

Disney Belle French Tip

Today's challenge theme in one of my FB groups is Disney Princesses. I thought about doing Ariel since she's my favorite princess, but I've seen a lot of Ariel manis.  Instead, I chose to recreate a mani from Polish Art Addiction.

I used Fresh Paint Alex's Lemonade (it smells vaguely like lemonade plus the funds go towards a children's cancer charity) for the tip. I added a gold accent using Barry M Gold Foil. Finally I stamped on a white rose (I thought it would look better than a red one) using Konad White Stamping Polish and Bundle Monster BM14.

Neon Animal Print

Base coat: Cosmo Girl Wild Thing (pink) and Essie Brooch the Subject

Leopard print was free handed using Wet n Wild Black Creme

I stamped on the zebra print with Konad Black and went over some parts that didn't fully stamp.

Kiwi Flowers

Quintessential Kiwi is another of the polishes that I picked up from a sale at LynBDesigns.

Jenna describes her process for coming up with Quintessential Kiwi: "So, I started with a sheer and creamy spring green base. After that I added fine cut black and brown glitter, small black hexes, a mix of green stain glitters."

I used 3 coats for this mani. On top, I stamped using Konad Black and Mash-08.

Below is Quintessential Kiwi by itself. I forgot to take a photo before stamping so this is of my non-blogging hand. I used 2 coats here and could possibly have used a third for full opacity.

Sassy Lacquer Blue Mist

Today, I have another new polish from the Sassy Lacquer Spring Showers Bring May Flowers Collection.  I named this one so I'm super excited that I got to try out this polish!  Blue Mist is described as "a teal frost, reminiscent of a rainy day, with silver peeking through."

I used 4 coats for this mani, though I could have probably gotten away with 3. I tend to use thin coats though  because they dry faster than thick ones. If the baby wakes up from his nap, I don't have to worry about smudging!

As you can see, Blue Mist really is a gorgeous color. Despite being a frost, you can't see brush marks which is really nice.

This macro really shows you the awesome glitter in Blue Mist.

And since I can't leave any mani below, I stamped on some clouds (very appropriate I thought!) using BM-312 and Konad White stamping polish.

Blue Mist can be purchased for $9 through Sassy Lacquer's store. For more information, check out her Facebook page or blog.

Polish sent for review, but opinion is all mine.

31 Day Challenge, Part 2!: Day 25, Inspired by Fashion

I am definitively not a fashion person! So for today's challenge I scoured the Neiman Marcus website until I found this beautiful dress by Vera Wang.

Source: Neiman Marcus

For this mani, I started with a base of Nicole by O.P.I. Khloe Had a Little Lam-Lam. This is my favorite color, but I had a hard time photographing it this time. Look back on this post I did to see the color in a better light.

On top of it, I stamped using Konad Black and Mash-08 to simulate the lace on the dress. The mani was really dark so it was super hard to photograph, and this was the best photo I could come up with :(

Also, my poor middle nail broke. I didn't really want to trim down my other nails, but looking at these photos is really bothering me so I'll be shortening it up before my next mani.

Check out other manis inspired by fashion below.

31 Day Challenge, Part 2!: Day 20, Watermarble

Since you know that my time is super limited lately, I was trying to figure out how to so a water marble mani is a short amount of time. At first, I thought about just doing an accent nail, but then I remembered that Bundle Monster has a plate with a water marble stamp and I had that plate (BM 320).

I started with a base coat of NYC MoMa. MoMa is named after the Museum of Modern Art. I only needed 2 coats for this mani. MoMa is part of the In a Minute line and dries nice and fast (I wouldn't say in a minute), plus I really like the brush. They are pretty cheap too so I really should pick up more of these.

As you can see, my stamping didn't work out so well. On the pinkie, I tried Konad Psyche Pink. The colors look cute together, but Psyche Pink isn't as opaque as I hoped it would be. I was having stamping issues so I thought I would try Konad Black with the plate. It sorta worked on my middle finger, but not really. When I was scraping off the excess polish from the plate, I noticed that there wasn't much left on the image. I tried the process several times so I'm going to have to guess that my plate isn't etched very well :(

Check out some other water marble manis below and see if they had better luck than me!

31 Day Challenge, Part 2!: Day 15, Delicate Print

Just a super quick post for you today. I had a busy though super fun weekend, including a trip to the movies while grandma watched the little man so I'm a bit behind starting off this week.

For today's mani, I decided to go with some simple stamping since I do not always have the time to devote to intricate designs like what I would normally do for delicate print.

The base coat on this is China Glaze Sea Spray. It's a lovely light blue grey with a touch of shimmer (though that's lost since here). I stamped on top using BM-312 and Konad Sky Pearl. I topped it off with Sally Hansen Glass Slipper.

I really like the way this turned out, though Glass Slipper did make it hard for my camera to focus on this mani.

Check out some other delicate print manis below.

31 Day Challenge, Part 2!: Day 7, Black and White Nails

Just a quick post for today. I did these ahead of time because we had a family Christmas party on Sunday, and I wanted to wear something festive.

The base coat on this mani is Orly Androgynie. I used 2 coats here. Then I stamped using Konad White and plates BM-14, BM-319, and BM-323. I topped it with Sally Hansen fast drying top coat and then added Essie Matte About You.

Enjoy some other black and white manis below.

31 Day Challenge, Part 2!: Day 2, Orange Nails

Every time I look on my Facebook feed, it seems like a new friend is getting sick! And my friends live all over the United States. These colds that are going around seem pretty nasty too. I've been trying my best to stay healthy so I don't get sick and that includes getting plenty of Vitamin C by drinking juice and eating clementines, yum!

This orange mani is inspired by all the juice I've been drinking! My base coat is Zoya Arizona. I love this orange, but it takes so many coats to be completely opaque that it makes me sad :(

I stamped on the oranges using Konad White Polish and plates BM04 and BM308. I haven't stamped in a while so it isn't quite as neat as I would like it.

I finished with one coat of Dollish Polish 1-Up to represent the green leaves and white pith of oranges. I love love love the combo of 1-Up with orange polish and I'm sad I have to take it off :(

I took a close-up with my macro lens so you can see the prettiness of 1-Up.

Here are some more orange manis for you to enjoy.