Tutorial Inspired - Week 25

This weeks nails are inspired by this tutorial by one of the first nail bloggers that I started following, +Wacky Laki.  I wanted to use my purples, SinfulColors Candy Coated and Let's Talk, and Color Club Pucci-Licious.  The design was easy enough to do on my left hand, although a bit time consuming.  My right hand though, I'm sad to say did not go as easily.  I used the pointy end of my orange sticks that came with the Ms. Manicure set I have to draw on the design.

This is the most color accurate picture, by the way.

Left Hand

Right Hand

By far my favorite nail look so far!

Week 24 - Violet

Not sure if I can call this violet, but it's the closest color I have at the moment.  

SinfulColors Let's Talk stamped with a Sally Hansen polish pen in a purple chrome color. 

Let's Talk is so hard to capture on camera!  It def leans more red that the blue it shows in my picture.  I've found this as the best color match. (Image originally found here )

Springtime!

I am in LOVE with SinfulColors new spring colors, especially Candy Coated!  It might be because it matches my eReader cover that I got for Valentine's Day.

I of course couldn't leave it alone, so I stamped with Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Celeb City.

I used the same Mash plate as the fish scales for the grid stamp, and one of the plates that came in my Salon Express stamping set for the dragonflies.

Color Club In True Fashion duo French Tips

Trying to get back into the habit of posting, and following the Challenge.  This week is French Tips, and my cousin Jen had suggested pairing 2 of my Color Club polishes together, so I figured I'd give it a shot.  I started with my normal nail strengthener and base coat.  I then used Wet'N'Wild Wild Shine in Black Creme as an undie for Color Club Personal Stylist.  Here's a shot I took before stamping and clean-up, to show off how gorgeous this color is!  This is 2 coats, with top coat.

I then used my MASH plate and stamped Color Club Editorial in the fish scale pattern.  I then did a french tip and added top coat.

It was insanely shiny and shimmery, and I didn't want to take it off!  I did eventually take it off, since it was starting to chip and snag.  This design reminded me of fishing lures for some reason as well.  I want to get more stamping plates!

Inspired by Nature

Things have finally started going back to normal around here, so I've resumed the 52 week challenge.  Last week's challenge was Inspired by Nature.  I decided to try to do a natural-looking nail, but with polish.  

I used Sally Hansen Smooth and Perfect in Dune as the base color, and Wet'n'Wild Megalast in Break the Ice for the tips.

Zoya Swatches

I still am in disbelief that I won  +Love For Lacquer 's giveaway!  These are my first Zoya polishes, I've been wishing to try this brand for a long time, especially after seeing they had polishes with the same names as The Charmed Ones, Pru, Piper, Phoebe, and Paige.  I got to choose 3 shades. Phoebe was sold out and Paige was a shade that I would likely never wear, so I chose Pru, Piper, and searched for a 3rd that would be a different color than what I have in my collection.  I finally decided on Jinx, and after seeing it on my nail I already have an idea for some nail art!

Box they came in, with an advert of all the polishes

Jinx, Pru, and Piper

inside with flash

outside in sun

Pointer finger is just basecoat, Middle Finger is 2 coats Jinx, Ring is 3 coats Piper, and Pinkie is 3 coats Pru.   no top coat in these pictures

taking a break

got the phone call yesterday that one of my Uncles passed away.  12 days after we buried his father, my Grandpa.