Born to the Purple

Hi All!!! Thank goodness it's Thursday just one more day of work left until the weekend!!! I'm still working my way through all the Kleancolor polishes I got so today I thought I would put up another one. 

This is a coat of Kleancolor's Born To The Purple. It is a purple tinted gel with all kinds of chunky glitter flakes. Because it was so clear I had to put 2 coats of Rimmel's 60 second polish in Zenith on first. Here are a couple of shots of this also...

I then applied the coat of Born to The Purple and 2 coats of Seche Vite. It turned out a really pretty purple which is kind of hard to actually capture properly in a photograph :( 

I also decided to try rounding my nails instead of having the square edge. I don't really know what to make of it. What do you guys think??? I feel like they may be on the way back in as I have noticed a lot more celebrities with rounds nails now. My boyfriend and co workers all liked it because they said it made my fingers look longer and thinner. That is a major plus for me since I have the smallest hands ever. My sister calls them Carni hands LOL after the carnival workers from the fair... How rude LOL!


Don't forget, I still need 3 more followers for the MASH Plate giveaway!!! All you have to do to have a chance to win is become a follower! 

City Never Sleeps

Did everyone have a good Monday??? I saw a late show of The Hunger Games last night and was totally dragging all day today. I don't think anyone could have been happier for 6 O'Clock than me today! I'm still trying out some of the Kleancolor polishes I got off of Ebay. I loved this manicure and have actually kept it on for over 3 days now. Pretty much a record for me! :P

I started with 2 coats of a gorgeous blue by Kleancolor called Neon Sapphire. I loved this color so much I almost couldn't bare to put anything over it... Here's one more pic, just because it's so pretty!

Then I put on one coat of Kleancolor's City Never Sleeps, which is a spectacular blend of turquoise dust glitter and chunky gold and magenta glitter pieces. It came out so pretty! I tried to take a couple different pics so you could see some of the different colors.

I then put a coat of Seche Vite as seen above. Of course, then I couldn't stop myself from trying to see what it looked like with a coat of Essie's Matte About You.

I loved it both ways, but the Matte ended up being my favorite. What do you guys think??? Don't forget only 3 more followers needed before the random lucky winners are chosen for the MASH plate giveaway!!! Spread the word so you won't miss your chance to win! 

Dry Marbling and a Giveaway!!!

Happy Friday!!! I'm so glad it's the weekend. I wanted something bright and peppy since the skies have turned dark and gray, so i decided this was an excellent time to try out the dry marbling technique I have been seeing on Pinterest with my neons. It didn't turn out as lovely as I would like, but it was worth a try...

I first painted all of my nails with a white by Sinful called Snow Me White just like I did with the regular water marbling nails. (2 coats) 

Sorry I didn't clean up the polish off my cuticles until the end...

 I then used the polishes in the picture below by putting but a couple drop of each color on my nail and then swirling it around with a toothpick. This was definitely wayyyyy cleaner than the water marbling, but I don't think it really looks all the similar either, unless I just did it wrong???

Also, I was soooooo excited to get all my packages I ordered from Ebay!!! I got 12 new Kleancolor polishes, which are all gorgeous! I have never used their polish before so I am excited to see what they will look like. I was also really excited for some new stamping image plates by MASH. Imagine my surprise when I ripped them open and thought to myself "UH-oh these look really familiar." Yup that's right I apparently already have the exact same images from Konad!!!!! So guess what, do you smell a give away coming up or what?!

 So I've decided that when I get to 10 followers I will be giving these brand new plates away to a few random followers!!! Spread the word if you know anyone interested in some free Image plates.  Enjoy your weekend!

Lost my Marbles Water Marbling

Happy Hump Day!! I'm just barely managing to make it through the day with out wanting to run out of work. It doesn't help that the weather is absolutely gorgeous outside... We're talking 80 degrees in NW Indiana in the middle of March, that's like unheard of. So you can imagine why I would rather be anywhere than in the office right now :(  Oh well... 

After a horrendous failed attempt on my friend Carmen's nails, we never even dipped one of her nails! The nail polish would not cooperate and do anything we wanted it to! This was my first attempt at water marbling on myself and I must admit it was a bit more tedious that I thought it would be. I honestly thought I was well prepared after further researching by watching the videos and reading all the advice on the subject, but no such luck. I did get better towards the end and I definitely noticed that some polishes work better for this than others. In the end I really only had one or two nails that I really liked and the rest were just so so to me.

I first applied 2 coats of Sinful's Snow Me White, and then put tape around my nails once they were dry to try and avoid a huge polish mess from the marbling. Sorry I didn't bother cleaning up the polish on my cuticles for this since I knew I would just have to do it again after the marbling.

I then used Pure Ice in Wild Thing, Sinful's Neon Melon, Irish Green, CoCoa Diamond, and then I tried to put a dab of a glitter polish in my Sinful called Green Ocean, but that didn't really show up at all. 

This one was my favorite. It was the pinky finger on my right hand, so the very last one I did. It turned out pretty different than the others for some reason, but I think that by the end I finally got the hang of it LOL. Sorry it's a bit blurry! 

 All in all I would definitely try this again and hope that I could perfect it a lot more. I also want to try the non water marbling technique I saw on Pinterest a few days ago. It looked a lot less messy. 

Ga Ga for Goldfish

Happy Monday! I spent most of the day at the hospital with my boyfriend, Keith so this is gonna be a quick and easy post today. I was so excited to finally get to use some of the foil stickers I got from Maytheps. Hope you like it!

I first started my filing my ring finger a bit so that I had a rough surface for the foil sticker to adhere to. I looked for foils that weren't similar to anything I could get locally from Sally Hansen or something like that. I came across this goldfish one and totally loved it! I have a pet Beta named Binx that looks a little like this so I am probably a bit biased :D

With flash...

Without flash

I loved all the holo colors in this. I really wanted to use the red ones too, but for the size of my ring finger I ended up having to use black on both. As it was I had to majorly trim this foil to be able to get the whole fish on my nail since I keep them short for typing at work. It's nice that they are made for longer nails so if you do have really long nails they will still cover it. 

I then followed with 2 coats of a Milani polish called Purple Passion. I loved how this color turned out. It's very pretty in person but for some reason my camera is not cooperating in picking it up. Just ignore my seriously dry thumb lol... It needs some cuticle oil like immediately! I then put a coat of Seche Vite over all my nails including the foil. After that I was still having issues with the foil wanting to come up a bit towards the end of my nail. This seems to always happen to me when I use this type of nail sticker. So I decided to file off the end more and ended up putting a layer of UV Gel on top of it. After that is feels just like my other nails and has lasted several days with out the normal wear. Usually by now I would have ripped it off already because I can't stand that sticky residue feeling. 

Hope you like it! I just ordered a few water decals and polish off of Ebay so I can't wait to get them in and try them out. Enjoy your evening!

Pot of Gold

I had such a great time at the St. Patrick's day parade last night that I didn't get around to posting my last manicure for the holiday. This turned out a bit darker in person, so I didn't end up liking it as much as I thought I would. I thought I would share it anyhow.

First I put on 2 coats of this light gold Revlon polish called Sheer Honey. I have had this since what seems like the beginning of time so I honestly have no idea if they even still sell it or not.

Followed by 2 coats of a gold glitter polish by Sinful called All About You. I wish the glitter would have shown up better in the photo, but you get the idea...

Then I put on a coat of a dark turquoise type green called Tomorrow by 2012. This was a really strange Crackle, because it went on Matte, and dried extremely fast, making it kind of hard to work with. I actually hated it until I put a coat of Seche Vite over. Based on how this polish was, I don't know that I would ever buy another polish by 2012, because it was such a weird texture. Does anyone have any of their other colors that weren't like this???

Hope you all had a fabulous St. Patrick's Day also and I am tickled pink to have 4 followers!!! Yay! Thanks for your interest, it has truly made my day!

Win Me Clover

Happy Friday! I still wanted to go with the St. Patrick's day theme but I wanted to do them on a Navy, because I love those colors together. 

I found an awesome Navy by Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure called Navy Baby on clearance at my local Meijer's for less than $2. SCORE!  I was happily surprised I really only needed 1 Coat of this with a coat of Seche Vite over.

Then I used my new dotting tools to make 4 leaf shamrocks on each nail using a kiwi kind of green called Wild Thing by Pure Ice.

This still wasn't quite flashy enough for me LOL. Of course I wanted some glitter. I just used some fun glitter I got in packs from Michael's. It didn't have a name so I just decided to name it myself as Win Me Clover. I poured the packet into a clean empty loose eye shadow container I had and then just dipped my nail tip in it while it was still wet from the top coat. Then I used a small brush (or your finger would work also) to kind of spread the glitter up the nail a bit so it wasn't a big clump. Then I put on 2 coats of Seche Vite so it would be shiny and smooth.