Digital Dozen; Fashion, Day 1

It's fashion week for Digital Dozen.  Here's the first mani I came up with for the challenge!

Started with a base of two Dance Legend #3, Shock.  No topcoat.

This is the pix used as inspiration for my nails.  It's a Marc Jacobs pink holographic print floral neck dress from the Fall 2012 Collection.  Looking at the pix a little bit more, I think some chunky glitter would have been appropriate too!  (I guess I'm not very fashionable as while I don't mind this dress, I'm not a fan of this hat at all!  But I suppose I could have added an accent of a maroon fuzzy flock nail!)

While Shock is stunning on its own, of course I had to stamp it!  Used Big SdP X with an accent of Betina B-13 with black Konad special polish.  (Be prepared for far too many pix now!













While this pix is blurred, it does show the incredible holo on the nails!




Topped with Sally Hansen Diamond Flash Fast Dry Topcoat (aka the black bottle one) to finish.


















I'm terribly sorry for so much picture overload....it's just I can't help myself so many of the pix show such amazing holo!

Here's the other ladies fashion mani's!



Thanks for looking!

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Nails from Last Summer!

I've had this mani stored in archives for a long, long time; since last summer.  Hard to believe that this much time has passed and I still hadn't posted it...so I thought before even more time goes by, I had better the pictures posted!

I recall at the time that I had just bought new FingerPaints colours at Sally's so was eager to try them out; remembering that one of these, FP Plum Startled, was getting lots of loving at the time.  So did skittles using them, alternating FingerPaints Plum Startled with FingerPaints Fall-ing For you; two coats each, topped with SV.  The picture below was taken in natural daylight.

This picture was taken in the shade.

Stamped using SdP 67 using CND Gold Chrome polish.

Dotted centres of the flowers with the opposite base colour.

Topped with SV.

I remember thinking that these colours would work well for a Mardi Gras mani; I'll have to try to remember this for next Mardi Gras!

Have a fantastic weekend; thanks for looking!

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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.



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Mint Mani's for Talia Joy

The world lost a beautiful young girl earlier this week.  As announced on Angels for Talia,  Talia Joy Castellano earned her angel wings on Tuesday, July 16, 2013 at 11:22 am.  The last picture that she had posted to her Instagram page was trio of mint mani's of her mom, sister and herself.  It had been suggested by Nail Polish Wars that the nail community do Mint Mani's for Talia today; this is what I came up with.

Started with a base of two coats of Orly Basket Case and Orly Gumdrop; topped with SV.



Stamped with red, black and white Konad special polish using assortment of plates; Apipila 02 (mascara on pinky), A49 (wings on thumb), FUN12 (compact and brushes on middle), SdP 119 (words beauty and nail), SdP 57 (lipstick and polish on index), BM321 (ribbons on ring), HB18 (angel on thumb) and MJ XVIII (RIP on thumb).



Stamped a few random stars using red Konad special polish using an image from SdP 57.



Added random dots throughout in an attempt to bling it out as I had seem from pix that Talia had really loved the use or colour and had lots of bold, colourful mani's!



Topped with SV to finish.



I finished this mani around 3 am last night (this morning!) and my eyes were a little blurry and I had a hard time to get my phone to take a focused pix (or maybe it was the blur in the eyes; not sure!) so I didn't have that great selection of pix to share.  I took another this morning outside in case I could get a better one; it's OK, but still not the best.




Here's some other Mint Mani's for Talia.







My condolences to the Castellano family.

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Indy 500 Nails...Plus New Plates!

This weekend was the Indy 500 in Toronto; while I didn't attend, I thought it was a good time to do an Indy 500 mani....as well as gave me an excuse to use a few images from a newly released plate, MJ XXII; this is what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of OPI Bride's Bouquet, with an accent of Nubar Faded Jeans, then topped with SV.



Stamped using black Konad special polish using images from Big SdP Q (pinky and flag french tipped design on middle finger), Big SdP J (thumb), MJ V (car on middle), MJ XXII (flag on index and racing words), Mash-16 (CN Tower on accent) and m79 (clouds on accent).



Topped with SV to finish.



Here's a closer look at MJ XXI.











MJ plates are available here.

Thanks for looking!

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Digit-al Dozen;Tape Mani's, Day 3

It's back to Digit-al Dozen mani's this week; I have a few mani's finished but unfortunately, haven't been able to post them due to being too busy or having no internet due to storm systems.  Then, I finally got some time...and the internet is working.... then Blogger was being an arse, giving me an error code to my posts and wouldn't let me add any text or do any type of editing to the pix...anyway, I seem to have figured it out, so finally joining the group posts today!  Here's what I came up with.

Started with a base of two coats of Layla Softouch Effect 06, topped with SV.  (Those in FB Adventure's in Stamping will know that this weeks challenge was doing a mani using the colour of your birthstone...I have an August birthday, my stone is peridot and this is the start of the mani I did for the challenge...just didn't get around to posting it!)

Stamped using white Konad special polish using Cheeky Jumbo 10 Plate, Happy Hands.  (I topped the mani with SV and wore it for a day like this, but as this post has so many pix, no pix shown at this time. )

The next day for the Digit-al Dozen tape challenge mani, I added various pieces of tape over the stamped base and then applied Color Club Pink Flame to the tape void area.  This green and pink combination is one that I love and I wear this colour combination fairly often; although, I'm not sure how many of the mani's have been posted though!  

My taping skill (lack thereof, actually!) is to be desired so the end result wasn't the best.  The pink on the index finger is all blotchy as I nicked the pink while putting tape on the middle finger so just brushed over top of it to fix. And, well, you can clearly see the rest of the mistakes!

Once Pink Flame was dry, stamped using white Konad special polish and added a row of hearts and lips from plate SdP 120.

I got to looking at my nails now and thought the mani is looking a little off as there is stamping only on two fingers and decided more stamping was needed.  I decided to see if  I could challenge myself and get some itty bitty stamping onto those itty bitty pink stripes on the index finger; so added stars from SdP 49 and a flower from SdP 77; also added a couple more flowers from SdP 77 to the pinky. I was surprised that I was able to get a few images on somewhat OK on that thin pink strip!

Topped with SV to finish.

This actually turned out better than I thought; a little on the girly side and really on the busy side...but that is pretty typical of my nails!  It was a good time saver that I was able to use a mani for two challenges, too!

Here's the other Day 3 mani's of the Digital Dozen; again, so much talent in this group!

Thanks for looking!

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