It's a Boy!

Congratulations to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on the birth of their baby boy yesterday!  Here's the mani I came up with for the joyous event!

Starting at the thumb and going clockwise, the polishes used are SpaRitual Circle of Life, China Glaze Bahamian Escape, Essie Avenue Maintain, L'Oreal Royally Yours (how appropriate!!) and OPI No Room for the Blues; two coats each; topped with SV.

Stamped with various images from plates MJ VIII (full size image on index finger); OB39 (thumb), SdP 66 (crown on pinky - on further down pix), MJ II (hands and wording It's a Boy on index, rattle on pinky), and Big SdP K (full size image on ring finger).  Polishes used were white, royal purple and red Konad special polishes and turquoise Mundo de Unas stamping polish.



I did such a terrible job of lining up the double stamping needed to create the flag on the thumb using the OB39 plate, so had to hand paint in some of the lines....but did better than I thought considering it was my first attempt! Hopefully with a bit of practise, I can eventually do some double stamping better!

Added a few random dots using China Glaze Bahamian Escape and L'Oreal Royally Yours.



Topped with SV.



Thanks for looking!

Read More »

Add Comment

Unknown Big SdP K, blue, china glaze, Essie, l'oreal, MJ II, MJ VIII, Mundo de Unas, OB39, OPI, SdP, SdP 66, skittles, SpaRitual

Valentine's Day Mani

This Sunday's FB Adventures in Stamping Challenge is Valentine's Day....this is what I came up with!  It is also the first of several Valentine's Day mani's that will be posted over the upcoming week.





Started with a base of Cirque Nearly Nude; this is two coats, no topcoat.







 

Stamped using black Konad polish using Big SdP K.



Touched up a few of the images with the stamping polish using a brush.




.
Topped with SV.

Cirque polishes are now available at Harlow & Co.

Hope you're having a fantastic weekend...thanks for looking!

Read More »

Add Comment

Unknown Beige, Big SdP K, Cirque, Fauxnad, Holographic, Indie Polishes, Konad, neutral, SdP, Valentine

AIS Challenge-Stamping Over Blue Base

This weeks FB Adventures in Stamping Challenge was stamping over a blue base.  This is what I came up with for the challenge!

Started with skittles of blue polishes; polishes starting at the thumb and going clockwise are Essie Borrowed & Blue, Sation Bord Girl Blue, Sation Blue Sky's The Limit, Ulta Soho Blue and Duri Blueberry Daiquiri; all two coats.

Added a layer of Pretty & Polished Save the Date.

Stamped using SdP 84 for the single snowflakes on index and ring and Big SdP K on other fingers using white Konad special polish.

I wore this polish for a couple days but just before I took it off, topped with a coat of Essie Matte About You. (Unfortunately, the cold weather is really taking a beating on my skin and despite my best efforts, my skin and cuticles are just so dry so I'm sorry you have to see this in micro!)

Most pix I took of this mani, the thumb image didn't show up a whole lot even though it was pretty obvious IRL.  So I took a close up of the thumb; this pix was after mattifying it.

If you haven't had a chance yet to vote over at Nail Polish Canada's current contest, this weeks challenge theme was snow...you can see my entry and others here; please take a few minutes to vote if you haven't already at voting ends today! 

This was my entry......but please vote for your favourite!

Thanks for looking!

Read More »

Add Comment

Unknown Big SdP K, blue, duri, Fauxnad, Indie Polishes, Konad, Pretty and Polished, Sation, SdP, SdP 84, skittles, Ulta

How's Your Weather? This is What I'm Seeing...

We're had some nasty weather over the last few days; in fact, its snowing right now as I type this post. The snowy conditions was the inspiration for this mani.



Started with two coats of Spa Ritual Circle of Life and OPI Bride's Bouquet on accent finger; all two coats.



Added Color Club Starry Temptress topcoat; one coat on most nails but two on the accent nail.



Stamped with Konad white special polish using Big SdP K on thumb and assortment of snowflake images from XL K on rest of the fingers....except the pinky; on it, I used a couple of the snowflakes from the full size image from SdP K on it. I adore the snowflakes from XL K....a couple of these snowflake images are very cool!



For the stamping accent finger, used the same Big SdP K design with Konad special blue polish.



What?!! Based on the bottles, I expected the blue special polish to stamp pretty close to Spa Ritual Circle of Life, but it stamped much lighter. See bottle comparisons here:



What can you do? I wish it would have stamped closer to the colour of Circle of Life but it is what it is. *sigh*

Added a few more of the smaller flakes from Big SdP K here and there to fill in some bare spots.



Topcoat of SV to finish it off.



I'm not looking forward to my commute to work in the morning due to the snow we're having right now....in fact, I'd say its the most we've had all at once all season....and it's suppose to turn to freezing rain in the early hours of the morning. Maybe I'll call in sick (cough, cough!!) lol!

Thanks for looking!

Read More »

Add Comment

Unknown Big SdP K, blue, color club, layering, OPI, SdP, SpaRitual, XL K