Deep Sea Mani

I found a display of Wet n Wild's Mermaid Cove collection at CVS yesterday and I picked up a few pretties. I am in loooove with Diving for Pearls so I had to try it first.

Two coats Diving For Pearls, bubbles in Ulta Steal the Groom, Seahorse in Sally Hansen Jade Jump, Eyes in Wet n Wild Waves of Enchantment.

 Such a great teal! I love it.

Justin and I also stopped by Five Below the other day and I picked up a few of the Christmas glitters that are named after Raindeer. I think what I have are Dasher, Dancer, and Comet.

It looks to me like Dasher is like the Glee mini exclusive Celibacy Club. It's a fine glitter topcot that's lovely in it's holographic goodness!

Purple Panther

Well, leopard actually. However, Panthers are Leopards (or jaguars) so hah! This is a neat manicure done in all purple. I did three coats of Milani 3D in Hi-Res with one stamp in Zoya Mira over top! Cool combination I think. The first picture is blurry to show the holo-y goodness!

Zoya Blues

So I've tried on two Zoya blues in the last two days. The first mani I did was with Zoya Phoebe which is from their Summer 2011 Mod Matte's collection. I loooved this color as soon as I got it on! I had to make it a little different though by adding a silver glitter liner polish down the middle then Ulta Borrowed Blue on one side with Sech QD top coat and Essie Matte About You on the other side. the result was a half shiny half matte mani that I thought was adorable :)

The Other mani I did was with Zoya Crystal. This is a super neat metallic/foil blue that has a load of gold glitter in it. This is a color that's really hard to look directly at, especially in direct lighting. I did stamping of dog paw-prints in China Glaze's Refresh-mint and Finger Paints Lavender Highlight over top of Crystal for a unique but kind of busy looking mani.

My Easter Mani and some failed stamping.

So Justin's awesome family was in town this weekend which meant a pedi for me and his mom as well as a trip to Ulta. I'll post pictures of my haul later but lets look at the mani and my stamping fail. The base color is actually a bit of layering. Two coats of Salley Hansen Insta-Dri in Jade Jump and one coat of Ulta's Always a Bridemaid collection in Something Blue. I do have to say, I really really hate the formula on the Insta-Dris I picked up... Sure they dry fast but they also dry sort of chalky and the polish gets little dry gritty pieces in it... Which is pretty much the only reason I did a layering deal with the Something  Blue, to cover up the gritty ick. I wonder if some polish thinner would help?

Anyways, the next day, I tried to do some stamping with Wet n Wild Buffy the Violet Slayer but as soon as I added Seche QD on top the stamp started to degrade and get blurry and fail... SO I did a bunch of other stamp colors on top to get a sort of tie dyed look.

Also, my easter package arrived today from my mom who's all the way out in California! Can you guess what one of the things in my package was?

Fauxnad-icure! Or Mashnad-icure?

My first full stamping mani! This is such a pretty combination I think. I started off with Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Grey Are which is a great very dark greige that leans a little purple. Then, I added a flower to each nail with MASH plate m21. I had to rush off to work so before work I just did the ring fingers but when I got home I finished them off! And, because I was feeling Springy, I also added a butterfly from the same plate to each thumb.

Two coats Grey Area, one Sech QD, flower stamp in Ulta Tutu Cute, butterfly stamp in Sinful Snow Me White, then topped off with another coat of seche QD!

101st Post! Essie Smooth Sailing

I told you I would have Smooth Sailing from the Summer 2011 collection for you next time i posted and here it is. It's a somewhat dusty grey based blue with a looot of glitter. The micro glitter is silver, pink, and blue but man was it hard to get a good picture of. Two coats was all it took for opacity though the formula felt a little weird and not like the normal super smooth/watery usual Essie formula. This was still super easy to work with though and you might want to use two coats of topcoat because it sort of eats the first one.

And my stamper came in the mail today! Soo I did a quick white flower with my striping polish and a quick blue butterfly with Wet n Wild's Saved by the Blue.