Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to all my little turkeys that celebrate!! :) 

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays, food and family always go so well together! You know what else goes great together? Teddy bear pilgrims and turkeys!! Yes, you heard [read?] me right! LOL! I wanted to do some cool nail art for Thanksgiving and I saw THIS photo online and knew I had to use it as inspiration! 

I started with a gradient of Azature White and Pure Ice Gold Dust. I painted the teddy bear pilgrim and turkey using acrylic paints and the leaf designs with China Glaze Harvest Moon. I used NYC Matte Me Crazy for a flat finish and viola! Finished :) 

AND you guys get a special Thanksgiving treat, my 'Cinderella hand' ;) My nails are super short on my right hand because I broke one yesterday :( But oh well I loved this design too much to resist!!

What do you think?! 

I like to take times like these and reflect on what I'm grateful for. I'm so grateful for my family, friends, and my boyfriend but there is another thing, or things, that takes a special place in my heart. I am so truly grateful for all of YOU. Every one of you that comes here and reads my little blog are the reason I do what I do. I paint my nails because I want to share with all of you my love for polish. Your comments and just the pure fact that you stick with me through all of my ramblings and my slightly crazy moments makes all of the time I put in to this blog worth it. I don't ever want to take any of you for granted because without all of you this blog wouldn't be the source of true happiness that it is. So thank YOU from the bottom of my heart :) 

I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving and I hope you stop by again soon ;) 

Thanks lovelies!

Vroom vroom!

Hey chickies

I was seriously lacking some nail inspiration a little while ago so I decided to use some outside sources and find out what they wanted to see on my nails. My boyfriend came up with a great idea... he just recently picked up a new motorcycle and thought it would be cool if I did some nails inspired by them. Now the bike he just picked up is pretty cool, it has chameleon paint on it that changes from emerald green to a pretty navy blue. It also has this silver crackle paint on the top. This gave me like 237489345649 ideas but I'm pretty happy with the one I decided on.

I tried to find a polish as close to the chameleon paint as I could get.... turns out I didn't have an exact match but the one I chose will have to do ;) 

To start this design a painted a base of Pure Ice Silver Mercedes. Then I created a ruffian look using China Glaze Unpredictable. I took Bundle Monster's place BM-208 and stamped with Pure Ice Silver Mercedes to give it that crackle-y effect. I top coated with some Poshe and was done! 

*trying* to catch the shift here.... didn't really work -_- lol

It came out much lighter then I intended... I think if I layered CG Unpredictable over a black base it would have given me better results. But oh well I still quite liked these nails and the boyfriend loved them ;) LOL

And bonus picture!! Here's his new bike. 

Snazzy!!! ;) Lol!
What's your favorite duochrome polish? 
Thanks chickies! :) 

Blizzard Warning!

Good morning!

So some of you may not know but I live in Massachusetts and there is currently a blizzard warning out for us. I've read a few reports of snowfall up to 40 inches....that's over 3 feet! And what am I doing? Why getting ready for work of course! -_- Because people need money in a blizzard right? Grrrrr! Oh well I've got a blizzard outside and a blizzard on my nails!

Colors used:
- Wet n Wild Black Creme
- Pure Ice Silver Mercedes
- Claire's White stamping polish

I used three different Bundle Monster plates to create this "blizzard" ;) And my pinky isn't really that muddy I promise! I just love how the silver stands out on the black! 

Because we are supposed to be getting this blizzard I'm anticipating my power going out... which means I may be sparse on here :( I'm keeping my fingers crossed that that isn't the case but if you don't hear from me then you know what happened.

And to all my lovely readers and bloggers out there affected by this storm, stay safe and warm! 

So what do you think?

Thanks for reading guys! :) 

Keep Calm and Stamp On ;)

Hello lovelies!

I've been missing my stamping lately and yesterday I managed to get my hands on Pure Ice Silver Mercedes which I heard stamped beautifully so you know I had to try it out! I also managed to get to an Ulta and picked up my first two Essences in the new bottle, a really pretty Ulta glitter, and OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls :D I was really hoping to get a Layla Holo but alas there were none there :( I'll have to go to another one I guess ;) 

So everyone who said the Silver Mercedes stamps amazingly was absolutely correct!! I couldn't be happier with the results! I'll have to stamp with Silver Mercedes and Sally Hansen Silver Sweep to see which one is best though. I also got a chance to try out one of the new Essences so check this out! :) 

Colors used:

- Essence Let's Get Lost

- Pure Ice Silver Mercedes

I'm not sure why my fingers look so weird in those two pics... poor modeling I suppose -_- LOL. 

So awesome! I love Essence Let's Get Lost so much! It only took two coats for opacity and dried so shiny! Not to mention I'm totally digging the new bottles, they click closed which is really helpful and the brush is super wide which I personally love!

So what do you guys think?

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Thanks for reading all!! :) 

Layered stripe

Good morning guys!

Some of you may remember a while back I found a Pure Ice nail polish that when layered over black turns a really pretty green; being my first experience with layering polishes I was super impressed ;) Heck I still am super impressed LOL! Well I've been itching to use that polish again so lookie what I came up with this time! 

Colors used:
- Sinful Colors Black on Black
- Pure Ice Heartbreaker

 

I love the simplicity of one stripe right down the center and from far away it actually looks like the whole nail is green. A cool thing about this polish that I didn't know before is when layered over black it doesn't just turn green, at certain angles it looks blue (you can see it in pic 3) and when I put my hands under water it looks purple.. sorry no pic of that -_- I never realized how awesome this polish really is. :)

So what do you guys think?

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TIHC Day 30: Trick or Treat!

Good morning all you lovely people!!

So as many of you know Sandy is here in all of her infamous glory -_- Yesterday we were out of power for most of the afternoon and night. I realized I had a challenge to post for today so I decided to paint my nails by flashlight yay!!! NOT! :) So I do apologize that these nails aren't up to par with many of my other manis but come on I painted them by flashlight! LOL :) By the time the power came back on it was wayy too late to redo them so you guys will just have to deal =P Take a look! 

Colors used:
- Sinful Colors Black on Black
- Sinful Colors Slate
- Wet n Wild Sunny Side Up
- Pure Ice Wild Thing
- Black Acrylic Paint
- White Acrylic Paint

I wanted to write Trick or Treat on my ring finger but I just couldn't do it by flashlight so I just wrote T -o- T instead I still think it came out cute though :) 

So what do you guys think? 

Thanks for reading and the other challengers are below make sure you take a look! :)

One ikat, two ikat, three ikat, four...

Happy Sunday everyone!!

I hope you are all having a fantastic weekend!! :) So I know I posted about my very first ikat just the other day and you all probably don't want to see the same design so soon but I just couldn't resist!! I finally got around to playing with my polish and put together a color combo I just love! Take a look :)

Colors used:
- Sally Hansen Teal Steel
- Pure Ice Wild Thing
- White Striper Polish
- Black Striper Polish

I'm just going to take a second to talk about the beauty that is Sally Hansen Teal Steel :) I am so in love with this color although it's not teal at all but a beautiful mid-tone blue! Unfortunately it's really sheer, it took me 5 coat just to get rid of most of my VNL :( BUT let me tell you about the deal I got on these Sally Hansens. 

So the other day I went to my local Kmart and obviously I went straight for the polish section :) I was looking for a new yellow to replace my old practically empty one when I saw one in the clearance bin and boy was I shocked when I saw that the sticker read .49! WHAT?! So for the heck of it I decided to scan all of the Sally Hansen's that look like the yellow I picked up and THEY WERE ALL .49!!! So you know I cleared out the whole display ;) 

I'd advise if any of you live near a Kmart GO! You might just find some .49 wonders :)

Ok back to my design! What do you guys think?! 

Thanks all for reading and look for some ghosts and gradients on here tomorrow! :)

Momma nails to the rescue!

Hi guys!

So I totally didn't have any time last night to paint my nails T.T I'm so glad I have a few pictures saved up for just this occasion so today you will be seeing some more of my momma's nails! 

I think I told you all this before but my mom is the DBA for an elderly home and the other night she was taking her secretaries out for dinner and a meeting and she wanted something fun and work appropriate at the same time with a little Halloween mixed in for good measure ;) 

I figured an accent nail would be subtle enough for her so I started by painting all of her nails black and then on all but the ring fingers I put a layer of Pure Ice Heartbreaker over the black and Oh. My. God. was it beautiful!! I'm new to the whole layering thing and I'm experimenting with all different colors. This one is definitely a keeper though it's so pretty! For the accent nail I pulled inspiration again from the Youtuber I follow: IHaveACupcake, if you guys haven't checked out her channel yet I highly recommend it she's awesome! And I came out with this design check it out! :)

Colors used:
- Sally Hansen Black Out
- Orly Decades of Dysfunction
- Pure Ice Heartbreaker
- Black Acrylic Paint
- White Acrylic Paint

Look at that green shimmer <3

So gorgeous right?! I love her accent nail with the little.... Elvira I think? I think that's who that is LOL

What do you guys think??

Thanks for reading :)

TIHC Day 1: Horror Movies!

Hello and good morning on this lovely October 1st day!

Hopefully you guys remember that I posted that I was doing two challenges this October and they both start today!! Yayy! Ok challenge number one "This is Halloween" Nail Art Challenge is Horror Movies! I have to confess I'm kind of a weenie and don't watch that many horror movies :( I hope you all know and Freddy vs. Jason because thats what I did! Take a look...

Ok I used quite a few colors here let's see if I remember them all...
- Sally Hansen Black Out
- Finger Paints Paper Mache
- Pure Ice Gold Dust
- China Glaze You Move Me
- China Glaze Hook and Line
- Sally Hansen Nearly Nude Naturel Pink
- Ms. Pedicure Red
- White Acrylic Paint
- Black Acrylic Paint
I think that's all of them!

So this challenge is definitely going to make my free hand nail art much better if the prompts keep going like this lol! 
What do you guys think?

Thanks for reading the second challenge is coming up next :)
And here are the other challengers add your link if you wanna join!