Digit-al Dozen; Fashion, Day 4

I'm not terribly into fashion, so when I was surfing the net for inspiration for another fashion mani, I Googled famous dresses.  Didn't see anything too exciting (or at least something I thought I might be able to stamp close enough to resemble one!) so then did a search for Oscar dresses....a pix came up on the results (even though it wasn't worn at the Oscar's!) that I decided to use for inspiration; here's what I came up with.

This was the dress I used as inspiration, a Carolina Herrara dress worn by Lucy Liu at the 2012 Golden Globes.

Started with a base of two coats of Sinful Colors Sugar High, topped with SV.  The base isn't as close in these pix as I wanted; obviously there are some screen colour variations as when I was doing this mani last night using a pix I had picked on my iphone, the base was bang on but these pix, my base isn't nearly light enough. Or could be my camera/lighting.

Stamped leaves from plate MM07 using Sally Hansen Insta-dri Jumpin' Jade. (Really liking the mani just like this!)

Plate pix of MM07.

While I fully intended to use the assortment of single roses in different sizes from this plate, when I did a test stamp on a nail on my right hand, I wasn't liking how the rose looked.  Decided upon an image from DRK-A and then stamped random roses throughout using FUN stamping polish in Mango Shake and a franken made by mixing Konad pastel orange and pastel pink special polishes. ( I dabbed a bit of both directly on the image plate, mixed up a little using an orange stick, then scraped and stamped.)

Topped with SV.  (See the shimmer in Jumpin' Jade once it's top coated; it's most noticeable on the middle finger...love it!)



Here's the other ladies Day 4 Fashion mani's.





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Michael Jackson Tribute Mani

Today marks the anniversary of Michael Jackson's death (June 25, 2009), so thought I'd do a Michael Jackson mani.  I have to admit that this looked better in my head than it translated on my nails, but oh well, here it is!

Started with a base of two coats of Sinful Colors Cool Gray; top coated using HK Girl topcoat.

Added backdrop using China Glaze OMG using Handy 4 plate.

Stamped using black Konad special polish using Chez Divers 001 on all fingers except ring finger; SdP 111 was used for it.

Added a few random music notes from SdP 111 (and another plate that I didn't mark down for the stars on the index finger; unfortunately the topcoat smear makes them look like just a blob of dots!) and topped with HK Girl fast dry topcoat. 

The weather was very humid and even though I waited a few minutes to do the top coating after stamping, I had quite a bit of polish drag....bummer as I didn't take pix without SV.  *sigh*  Oh well.  Only noticeable in macro!  The topoat used was HK Girl topcoat; its obvious it does smear stamping as you can see.  I had heard before that it doesn't smear stamping but that's obviously not the case!

You will never believe this but it's true....Michael Jackson's Man in the Mirror was playing on the radio when I was putting on the finishing coat of SV on this....freaky, eh?

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Digit-al Dozen, Books; Day 5

****WARNING - SEXUALLY EXPLICIT IMAGES ON POST **** 

The Day 5 mani is based upon Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James.  I'm posting this warning at the top of the page because my mani is sexual in nature; therefore, if this type of mani/post offends you, or you are on your computer and there are minors present, you have warning before the post is clicked. 

This is what I came up with!

Started out with a base of assorted greys; all are two coats and topped with SV.  Starting at thumb and going clockwise, the polishes are Sinful Colors Cool Gray, Kit Grey Pearling, Barry M Grey, Dance Legend #1, and Ulta Concrete Evidence.

Stamped with black Konad special polish using MJ II (ring), LS-03 (index) and Handy 36 (thumb, middle and pinky).  MJ III was used for the chains on the index and thumb.

Added a few random dots using red Konad special polish throughout; the gray on the middle is Sinful Colors Cool Gray.

Topped with SV.

I'm glad that the book challenge gave me a *valid* reason to use the Handy 36 plate as these images are ones I'd usually put on my nails otherwise!  lol!

Here's the other ladies Day 5 mani's.....so much creativity!!!

Have a great weekend....and thanks for looking!

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Summer Gradient

How has everyone's weekend been? I hope you all had a chance to soak in some sun! I'm a real fusspot when it comes to the heat but even I have to admit that the weather this weekend was just perfect. I spent yesterday with a BBQ, campfire and plenty of cider, then visited an old friend in the beautiful city of Bath today. I'm currently fanning myself (literally) and considering taking a good old fashioned nap on the grass outside!

I used a base of  Barry M Blueberry and created the gradient with Barry M Key Lime. I added some glitter, Sinful Colors Call You Later, to the tip on my accent finger for a bit of sparkle. Finally I finished it off with two top coats of Essence Better Than Gel Nails.

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Digit-al Dozen, Animal Week; Day 5

I'm a little late in posting my Day 5 challenge mani for animal week; this is what I came up with!  A warning; this post is very picture heavy!

Started with a base of one coat of Sinful Colors Cool Gray, no topcoat.  This was pretty good coverage for one coat; I didn't do two as I knew I'd be layering it.

Added Barry M Grey at tips with sponging.

More sponging using FingerPaints Black Expressionism.

Decided the sponging on the thumb wasn't quiet was I was looking for so added a bit more, then did cleanup.

Prior to adding stamping, sponged in a little grey at the cuticle on the thumb.  Added the wolf using LLC10 which was stamped using black Konad special stamping polish.  Also added the moon using A53 using yellow Konad special polish.

Added tree branches using LLC B using black Konad special polish. In hindsight, I like the look of the mani at this stage, but I did add more.

Added stars using NC02 using white Konad special polish.

Stamped in a few clouds using grey FUN stamping polish from Konad m79.

Added a few more clouds with a custom blend I made on the image plate as I went along by mixing grey FUN stamping polishing with a drop of white which was mixed with a toothpick on the plate, then scraped.

Using a brush, extended a few tree branches using black Konad special polish.

Topped with SV.

(Couldn't decide which pix I liked better!)

Here's the other ladies Day 5 mani's; they are fantastic!

Hope you're having a good weekend; my next post will announce the winner of my impromptu giveaway....thanks for looking!

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Digit-al Dozen, Animal Week; Day 4

Continuing with Animal Week for Digit-al Dozen; this time I came up with some funny monkeys!

Started with a base of two coats of Sinful Colors Olympia, topped with SV.  I don't have a pix of it by itself as those I took the colour was way off because of the lighting.  So this pix shows two fingers stamped with Sally Hansen Insta-dri Lickety-Split Lime using plate H19. 

For the jungle scene, added a few palm trees using brown Konad special polish and dark green Dashica stamping polish using A64.

Continued with the tree trunk onto the pinky.

Added a bunch of monkeys using brown Konad stamping polish.  Image plates used were SdP 66 (thumb), SdP 54 (ring, index, pinky and half monkey on middle) and F3 (upside down monkey on middle).

Topped with SV.

Here's the other ladies Day 4 animal mani's.

 

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Digit-al Dozen, Geek Week; Day 3

There's been a few Star Wars mani's posted already this week in the Digit-al Dozen gallery; I had one planned too....this is what I came up with.

Started with a base of two coats of OPI Bride's Bouquet, Sinful Colors Cool Gray and one coat of FingerPaints Black Expressionism; topped with SV. (Please excuse the little SV bubble on the middle finger!)

Stamped using Ch45 (thumb) and Sugar Bubbles 004 (ring, middle and index) using black Konad special polish; used MJ VIII on pinky using Nicole By OPI Give Me The First Dance.

I remember lots of space craft fighting and big explosions in the Star Wars movies; I tried to recreate some exploding ship/space debris, so added Apipila P.02 on thumb; then Sugar Bubbles 003 star french tips on the other fingers.  While the space ship on the thumb isn't true to Star Wars, it was the closest space craft type of image I had (other than a rocket).

Topped with SV.

Star Wars isn't a typical theme that I would normally do, so I'm glad that there are themes like this as part of the Digit-al Dozen, which is taking me out of my stamping comfort zone...I now wish there was a C3PO and R2D2 image...and Chewy....and the rest of the characters on image plates.....including a proper Star Wars type of space craft! 

Thanks for looking!

 

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