Sea Foam Layering

Hello Lovely Ninjas!

Busy week at work, it's stripe week again! My Husband and I both got our second stripe on our blue belts. Only one more stripe to go before we move on to blue-black belts :)

I was in the mood for one last summer color a few weeks back so I came up with this light green sea foam manicure to brighten up my week. This is two coats of Sinful Colors Mint Apple under two coats of Scherer Chameleon Mist. Mint Apple is a really pretty medium green with light gold shimmer. Mist is a pretty glass fleck sea foam color than flashes silver and teal.

This is Halloween day 15

Good evening Ninjas!

Sorry I'm running late on this post, had another rainy day so I didn't get a chance to take pictures until I got out of work for the night and re-adjusted my camera settings a bit.

Not the best representation of zombies but I didn't have a whole lot of time for the nail art. This is two coats of Zoya Storm stamped with Sinful Colors Casablana and free handed red stitches done with a striping brush. The plate is Mash m28 and I thought it was convenient that the Skull and Crossbones had stitches in addition to the eye patch to make it a little more zombie-esque.

This is Halloween Day 8

Good Morning Ninjas!

Week two at work, working our way through the water curriculum for the second time. I'm getting better at the foot work but it's still not intuitive for me. Hubby loves it because it's a natural way to move for him; I'm jealous! Tango seems to be feeling better and now he smells pretty because he got a bath last night :) MiL leaves today to go back to NY, it was great having her down here, she's super fun and really sweet so it's always sad when she leaves.

Day 8 is ghosts! I did the design over a base of butter LONDON Branwen's Feather. BF is a really pretty blackened purple with silver and pink shimmer that I thought would work really well for a dark night time background. I did a freehand ghost with Sinful colors Snow me White on my index fingers and used a black striping brush to do the eyes and outline (White dots in eyes were also a striper). I then did "BOO" on my middle-pinky fingers with an orange Sinful striper I picked up this Saturday. Since I saw a bunch of spiderwebs on nails when I was looking at ghost designs, I decided to use my white striper to do a web on my thumbs. The left one came out much nicer than the right but that's to be expected!

Zoya Clara and an iridescent french

Sorry about the delay getting you the pictures of the Zoya Clara I was wearing after the creepy Zombie manicure. Here's four coats of Clara over Seche recondition with Seche topcoat.

I like the shimmer in this dusty orange/peach color. Very pretty. After this I tried my hand at a french where I put the white tip under the base polish instead of over it. This is Sinful Snow Me White for the tips, Essie Sugar Daddy for the base color and then a coat of the iridescent top coat I picked up which is Pretty Pink by NK.

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!

Sinful: Sugar Sugar

Quick short post today: This is a color Justin picked out for me to try. Sinful Colors' Sugar Sugar (from their holiday line?) is a red shimmer in red jelly base that's super pigmented. I know some Sinful formulas require a lot of building but this was only two coats!

St.Patrick's Day Mani!

So I originally had a ridiculous idea to do green polish, party of five glitters topcoat, and green glitter tips... and I did it but it looks obnoxious... Soooo I went a more simple route! This is one (yes, one!) coat of Jesse's Girl Fool's Gold with Sinful Call You Later on top. It's a neat Pot o' Gold sort of effect and if you look at it quickly the glitter looks like little shamrocks!

Sinful Call You Later and Wet n Wild Bijou Blue

Sorry for the absence! I've been busy this week, had two midterms and a paper and work to keep up with! My first swatch is the green and gold SinfulColors glitter "Call You Later" I have the feeling this would be opaque in very few coats and is a super coverage glitter. I did one coat over Hard Candy Beetle and could barely see any Beetle!

Despite the great coverage on this, it was a major pain to remove! Took forever for me to get all the glitter off and you can actually see a piece of it on my pinky in this next picture with Bijou Blue

Bijou Blue is one of Wet n Wild's Shine polishes and I just love how it looks! This is three coats with Seche on top though two coats probably would have been enough if I wasn't sitting under a super strong light. one think I did notice is that it was picking about drying and you'll see on my ring finger that the polish wrinkled under the Seche. This is a great  medium blue leaning towards teal with silver shimmer. Love it!

I won a HUGE lot on Ebay... like, 42 bottle of Essie huge... So, there will be a giveaway in the near future :)

SinfulColors: Daddy's Girl and Sally Hansen Blizzard Blue

Ok so I tried on Daddy's Girl from Sinful last night and it is a GORGEOUS purple jelly with flakies/glitter but it takes forever and a day to layer so I'll have to try it over something next time. This is three coats with Seche Base and Vite on bottom/top.

This is Sally Hansen's XtremeWear in Blizzard Blue. I have not seen a swatch of this anywhere, I was looking for half an hour last night and didn't see a single one! So weird. This is a gorgeous light blue/teal/green duochrome that's almost a multichrome. It looks like mermaid scales or something. I failed to catch the flashes of other color here because I had to rush to work right after painting my nails.

This is three coats with no base and Seche Vite on top.

I got another haul last night after going to the Mall with my fiance. I got three two packs of polish (all different) at Hot Topic for .98 cents each! That's less than .50 cent a bottle. I also picked up a stars and glitter polish too because I don't have star glitter yet. Pictures tomorrow :)

Walgreens Haul

Ok so I've been reading about SinfulColors nail polish but I always thought it was in the China Glaze price range so I'd end up ordering it online if I needed to have a color. Well, today I saw a huge display of Sinful at Walgreens and they were the same price as Wet n Wild! I of course had to pick some up. On top of the Sinfuls, I grabbed another new FastDry, Silvivor and two more of the Shines.

I'm now wearing the dark purple with glitter Sinful. I can't remember it's name and I'm sure I'll post it tomorrow for you when I post the swatch. I'll also post the names of all the polishes I got.

I got the white because I didn't have one to use as a base for other more translucent colors.

Again, I'll get the names for the Shine colors for you tomorrow!

Jesse's Girl: Riff-Raff

Ok so I took pictures of this color last night but when I was editing them to post today the clean up was just so horrible that I decided I'll re-take the pictures when I get home later. For now, here's a look at the line-up!

EDIT: Here's the swatch of Jesse's Girl Riff-Raff in the shade. I love this reddish brown mahogany with golden-ish shimmer. Two coats was perfect application.

I also stopped by Walgreens where I found a Sinful display and picked upa bunch of colors (Haul to be posted later) and thought All About Me would look good over Riff-Raff.

All About Me is a gold glitter that leans towards the green spectrum but was quite pretty in one coat over Riff-Raff.