Happy (Belated!) Canada Day!

Happy Canada Day to all my fellow Canadians!  Unfortunately, I'm a little late in getting this post up as I spent most of Canada Day either in airports or flying home and didn't arrive home into the GTA until the evening on Canada Day.  I was in Las Vegas for a few days meeting up with some fellow nail fanatics!  More about our getaway will follow in other posts; you can also check out KarenD of Frazzle and Aniploish's post here!  The only nail plates I took with me were to do Canada Day nails for the trip home as I was flying home on Canada Day....but we were so busy out shopping for polishes and seeing the sights and shows.....aka having a great time!..... that I just couldn't fit time in to do my nails while I was away! So better late than never in doing my Canada Day nails so am sharing now!  While this pix isn't the finished mani, I thought it was a kinda cool in progress as it looks like the Canadian flag.

Started with a base of two coats of OPI Bride's Bouquet and Duri Taming of the Shrew; topped with SV.

Stamped the red maple leaf on middle nail with red Konad special polish using plate OB-M (I bought this plate specifically for this maple leaf image but was a little concerned it wouldn't fit as the images on the plate generally are on the large size; it's a tight fit but it did!)

Added accent of Girly Bits Canadian, eh? on thumb and pinky; topped with SV.

Stamped tips using white Konad special polish using Mash-26.

How everything looked together at this point.

While I was pretty happy with how this looked at this point, I thought I'd add a little more to it, so added the I Heart Canada using the I Heart image from plate Chez Animaux 01 and the Canada wording from fauxnad m56.  Also added more maple leaf french tip images from Mash-26 twice to fill in the ring finger.  Topped with SV to finish.

Another pix just because I like the look of these three nails together!

Hopefully you had a great Canada Day!  I didn't do any celebrating this year as I was in transit all day.  However, after my husband picked me up from the airport and drove me home, he took the kids to the local park where they watched an awesome fireworks display and my daughter seen Hedley performing.  At least the family was able to enjoy some festivities...I was simply too tired from my weekend away!

Hope you're having a great week....thanks for looking!

**Post edited to correct OM-B to OB-M!

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Canada Day Nails

Happy Belated Canada Day to all my Canadian nail pals!  Here and abroad...as I know I frequently get messages from gals who are Canadian and for one reason or another, reside in another country.  Here's the nails I was wearing on Canada Day.

Started with a base of OPI Red My Fortune Cookie, two coats.

Added a coat of Glitter Gal Red.  I don't see any other name on my bottle other than red, sorry if I missed it.

Another pix of this gorgeous holo.  Hard to believe its just one coat.

Stamped using fauxnad m56 with white Konad special polish.  To be honest, I'm lucky I had a plate to do Canada Day nails with me at all.  I had another mani in mind for Canada Day using the maple leaf french tip image from the new Mash plates.  But for some reason, when I was getting a few plates together to use for the weekend, I thought the plate I wanted was in the new Bundle Monster set and only grabbed this plate to take in case I wanted to add the Canada Flag image.  Well, thank goodness I did because the only other plates I had with me were Bundle Monster...and the image I wanted was on the Mash set.  I was kinda ticked off at myself but I guess there's always next year! lol!  I was telling my husband how I brought the wrong plates with me and how ticked I was at myself and his response was...believe it or not....why don't you just buy two sets of everything and just keep a set here so you have them on the weekend so you don't forget anything! 

A couple other views, this one in slightly less sunny skies.  The single maple leaf images are the middle of the flag alone polished and scrapped than randomly placed. 

This pix was taken in the shade.

I thought I'd share some pix of part of the Canada Day festivities I attended.  After singing the National Anthem, there's the release of red and white balloons.

Up....

...up.....

...and away!!!

Sorry I didn't get around to posting this earlier but unfortunately, I don't have reliable internet connection on the weekends and didn't get home until late last night.  I probably should get my stuff together and have a mani ready in advance or have schedule posts or something like this when I have unreliable internet service....one of these days I'll get it together!

Hope you had a great weekend....and thanks for looking!

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Happy Canada Day!!!

I know everyone who may see this may not be from Canada, but I'm a very proud Canadian and involved in lots of festivities and celebrations so HAD to do Canada Day mani!!

Here's what I came up with:



Base coats is two coats of OPI Alpine Snow, stamped using Konad red special polish and fauxnad image plate m56. I know the base isn't special but thought I'd share if you are looking for a good white base coat. Two coats of Alpine Snow had great coverage for a crisp, white base...too bad the pix aren't that great :(




This mani actually took me a FOREVER to do as I had to carefully try to paint and scrape the leaf image from middle of the full flag image so just it was visible...lots of polish and attempts just to get a few good images.

I wish the pix were better but I just don't have good lighting when I'm away on the weekend. (The first one, I took this morning!)



I also thought I'd share this....when Konad had a clear stamper available (I think that's what its called; clear or white) as soon as I found out, I ordered a couple as, when I'm stamping using pink or red polishes, I have a hard time seeing the image well for placement purposes (well, sometimes it doesn't even matter if I see it or not as my placement still gets off...lol!!) but at least it helps. These pix will show you what I'm talking about....






Thanks for your patience in my lack of posts this week....I had two followers drop off which pains me greatly as I don't know why and wonder is it something I did; or didn't do.....or did I offend someone somehow...don't know if it was lack of posts or the fact the giveaway over.....I'll never know...anyway, work was extremely busy, especially with it being a short work week, plus it was the end of school and I had two kids graduation ceremonies to attend, plus getting ready to head to cottage country for the long weekend etc etc. My DD did very well....not only did she graduate with honours, she also was the recipient of the overall student award for good academics, volunteer work, attitude....my husband called it the "Spunky Award"! LOL! And last but not least, my oldest son, who is heavily into rep sports, is spending a *bonding* weekend with his teammates at a 100 acre camp this weekend, so on top of everything I had to do, had to get him ready for this! I honestly couldn't wait for this long weekend to arrive fast enough to get some relaxing time....and still will be busy with stuff I'm involved in with Canada Day celebrations over the weekend!




My last mani, the bright green one, I wore from last Saturday until I took it off last night. Here's what it looked like last night just before I took it off:



Pretty good wear for six days if I do so say myself! Other than minor tip wear, no chipping or fading at all! China Glaze (and OPI) wear well for me....Chanel, which is 6x the cost, and Zoya, not so well. I still wear them as Chanel and Zoya have so many great colours and finishes and I usually only wear polish for a day or two anyway, but glad that this mani stood up so well as I just had no time to change it!

Happy Canada Day to my fellow Canadians! And if you're not Canadian and you still checked out the post, thx for your understanding in my patriotic mani!

Thanks for looking!

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O, Canada! My True and Native Land!

I am a very proud Canadian and what better way to show off my heritage, and love of my country, by doing a Canada Day manicure!

I got a lot of compliments at the Canada Day celebrations I attended. 100's of red and white balloons were released and after, everyone had strawberries and ice cream!

This is three coats of OPI Alpine Snow Matte, topped with Seche Veche, then stamped with Konad Special Polish, Red and White. The red polish is Sally Hansen nameless red, marked 60, and fauxnad image plate m56.

I'm sorry for posting this after the fact but had busy long weekend!

Happy Canada Day!

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