St. Paddy's nails

I have completely fallen behind and have a backlog of photos that I will hopefully be able to show you once I figure out how to schedule posts from my phone .

These are my St. Patrick Day themes nails. I am not very skilled at nail art but I loved these!

Unfortunately I only took 1 picture in poor lighting. I can still tell you what I did though. I did a base of Nicole by OPI's "It's all about the Glam" on all nails but my ring fingers. On my pointer finger I drew a cauldron in black. For the gold I used Milani's Jewel FX "Gold", and was very impressed with how it looked. For my ring fingers I did a base of Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear "Going Green". I then did a stripe of black as a belt and used a gold for the buckle.every

Super Bowl Nails!

 Here I am back again. I could give you a list of reasons why I haven't posted in a while but the big one is: I am a lazy sod. On to today's nails.

I live in New England, so today I will be going to a friends house for a Super Bowl Party. The colors I have chosen work for both teams, but deep down I will be routing for the Patriots.

It was hard for me to figure out what kind of manicure I could do that didn't scream LOOK AT ME I LOVE AMERICA WOOOO since the Pats colors are red, white, blue and silver.

There are sparkles hiding on my middle finger

My husband saw me struggling and actually suggested this. The blue I used is Sinful Colors "Ciao Bella" which is a nice dark blue with some shimmer in it, I had an issue actually finding a dark blue. I have found that often times blues look much darker when they are in the bottle than on the nail.

The Crackle I used is Sally Hansen "Fractured Foil". I made sure to put it on thick to get some nice big cracks for the blue to show nicely.

I put this manicure on my hands and then ended up doing bath time for the little lady and two of my nails started to peel at the tips. I cleared them off, put down the base of blue, decided to put some sparkle on (because why not!), and then crackled them. The sparkle I put on them is Confetti "Tinsel" You can just barely see the sparkles but it's just enough that it makes me smile when I notice them.

Pink Wednesday!

so shiny..and messy!

 Hello Hello! Life has been very hectic and will continue to be hectic so I don't know how much I will be posting. I will be going on vacation, and then immediately after moving to a new apartment.

Even though it is fall I felt an extreme urge to do some super pink nails! I put Sally Hansen HD Hi Res as the base which seemed like a nice warm color. I wasn't just happy with pink I wanted super girly sparkily pink!!

I then put on two coats of Sally Hansen HD Byte! I love this color! This pink has a blue shimmer to it. It is gorgeous, I can't stop staring at my nails!

Now my nails are looking a little messy as I did them during a Raid..and I am still there. Shhhh don't tell anyone, luckily I doubt any of my raiders will read this. I will clean up the edges..at some point.

Also I wanted to share a mani I did a while ago but somehow did not post. I then deleted a bunch of the pictures...meaning all of them but one. I love love love RedBull! For me it tastes like liquid pixie sticks. I felt the need to share my love with the world with this Redbull inspired manicure.

Hi Res and Byte

It gives you wings!!

Glitter Tips

The two survivors

Thumb!

what the heck did I do?

Once again I had a spectacular idea but I just can't sit still long enough to let it dry.

I put a base coat of a polish I picked up a couple years ago Revlon's Steel-Her Heart. That went on nicely in two coats. I then decided to sponge on Sally Hansen's Spectrum on the tip.

I then decided it would be a great idea to go type frantically and mess up all but two fingers. I really am a spaz. Spectrum is really a beautiful polish. I put a couple coats of it over a black base and couldn't' stop staring at my fingers. Of course I didn't take pictures (read spaz)

Green Summer nails

 I was very excited about this concept. I thought they would be a fabulous looking summer manicure. The end result was no where near what i imagined. I did this manicure probably over a week ago and at this point I don't even remember the glorious idea that made this happen.

I do still love the clean fresh look of the green which is Wet n' Wild's Sage in the City. I also enjoy the orange on my ring finger of Sally Hansen HD Three D. Three D I find goes on a little thing and leans of the red over the yellow side of the orange spectrum. The yellow tip on my middle finger is Sally Hansen HD Lite. Now I love this color but it did not work well.

I am still getting used to trying to do Scotch tape manicures. Before I read any tutorials I wouldn't de-stickafy them at all and wait for the paint to dry before pulling them off. So now I am finding an issue of being afraid to do more than one coat with it, being afraid that letting the first coat dry will mess it up. Well this whole process is trial and error so I will work on it.

On another topic I am going to try and get a patriotic 4th of July manicure done, but my sister is coming down to visit on the 4th so i might get distracted. My niece loves nail polish too so maybe I might just steal pictures of her nails instead!