More old Mani's

Oldies but goodies...

Pinks, Glitters, freehand stripes & dots



Purple manicure. Not a big purple fan.

I went through a pink and glitter phase for quite awhile.

San Francisco 49ers nails!

So plain!

Oldies

I have been so lazy about painting my nails, it's despicable the way my nails look right now- chipped neon pink on one hand and a few sparkles on the other hand that I have been picking at for the last two nights... pretty ugly.
Since I haven't done anything new in awhile, I just decided to upload some old mani's I had posted on my Face Book page. Please forgive once again the bad photo quality of these.. and I promise to use a real camera next time I post!

Bubble Gum Pink tips with glittery half-moons.

Obnoxiously Bright.

Pink!

Free-hand mani and a rhinestone decals.

More Glitter!

Really wanted to do something "Springy", but ended up going a  little "Blingy" instead!

Indoors. (Still haven't gotten around to using a real camera) Love that they look so tinfoil-silver like, and not purely glittery. I bet this would look cool over a black or darker polish.

Outdoors in the shade, iPhone camera couldn't focus on it in the sunshine, too sparkly!


For these nails I used the 2 bottles on the left : NYC's "Tribeca Silver" for the base coat.  I love how this polish dries super quickly! I topped it with L.A. Colors "Sparkling Diamonds" from their Color Craze Collection. I love that both of these polishes cost only $1.99!

For the pinky I used  the 2 bottles on the right:  Icing's "Epic Winning" and L.A. Girls Glitter Addict's "Provacative"  I probably used at least 3 coats of each... lost track as I was pretty  engaged in my Pretty Little Liars marathon :)

Before I say goodbye to these, I'm going to try to coat them with a matte finish just to see how it looks. (not much into the matte look yet)
Next up?- Hello Kitty Nails for my niece's birthday party!

Pink!

Sometimes you gotta stop and take stock of what you've got in life, even if it is just a couple hundred nail polishes...

Piles of Pink Polish

Sinful Colors Pink Collection, I thought I'd have more... possibly some hiding in random purses, at the boys house and definitely a few stashed in the car...

Sunday Nails

Dotting Tool where have you been my whole life! I can't believe I went this long without one! *thanks Rebecca*
And yes I know you can make your own- (thanks CutePolish) but it's not exactly the same.
Trying to come up with something fun for that M.A.S.H. design contest.
Not loving this one enough to submit... maybe as a backup- need to use boyfriend's camera and get a semi-good picture! - and use some kind of editing program besides Microsoft Paint- cuz seriously my hand looks weird! hahaha
OK it's Sunday so lets just say I haven't only picked up bottles of polish today, and yes I know it's not even 5:00- close tho, and haven't you heard of Sunday Funday?!
(only I know how many spelling errors I've made trying to write these few short sentences)  My phone usually corrects everything for me, so I'll have to remember to click the spellcheck button...
Also I spent my Saturday night trying to round up all my polishes- that will be my next post-

New Polishes & Design Contest

Oooops I did it again! Well sort of, my boyfriend supports my addiction every once in awhile, usually when he's trying to buy himself something stupid. Instead of vetoing it, I say something like: If you buy that, can I get this? while trying to smile all lovingly at him.
"60% of the time it works everytime" (Anchorman)
 ;)

 So anyways he got these:

Super Creepy Mustache Glasses From The Icing.

And I got these:

"After Party", "Miami Neon", and "Pop A Bottle" From The Icing.



Not exactly a win-win situation but I did score 3 new bottles! Ha!

I can't remember how I came across this page: MASH Design Contest, probably while laying in bed surfing nail blogs and google images a couple weeks ago. I'm really hoping to enter something, any ideas?  Only like 4 days left- luckily I have no job or other real responsibilies...

Mash Nail Art Brushes

I finally made time to play around with my Mash Nail Art Brushes!
I got this brush set for Christmas from my sister, so after 4 months I finally stopped making excuses, and busted em out.

 Despite having plenty of time, I only got around to messing with these 2 brushes from the set.

One reason I hadn't made time to practice with them before was because I was scared, I had no idea what all these brushes were even for and more importantly how to clean them, until last week when I found this article on the Mash website's Blog.  

Ah Ha!

So you're probably wondering what I came up with right?

Not super proud but it was my first time so here ya go~

I only used the brushes on the thumb, pointer and pinky finger.

I attempted to dry marble 2 colors on the middle finger, not pretty! I used the super tiny dotter from the set to push chunky glitter around on the ring finger, all of these designs are set over Wet n Wild's I Need a Refresh-Mint. Overall I'd say my first experience went pretty well, although I did rush the cleanup of the brushes and they feel a little crunchy today, I'm excited to try again!  You can purchase your own brushes on Mash's Website.