Day 10: Gradient

As I said in the Day 9 Rainbow post, I recently bought butter LONDON's No More Waity, Katie and I knew I had to do the gradient based on this polish.

Here are the pictures!

So, I won't lie. The first time I saw this polish, I just wanted my piece of the Royal Wedding. Is that shameful? Haha. This was also my birthday mani. February's birthstone is amethyst, which is purple. I also wasn't feeling very flashy on my birthday, so I went for something a little more subtle. I love this polish. As you can see by the pictures, I had some slight application issues. I blame my impatience, however; my right hand looked fine.

I might try No More Waity, Katie with different base and top coats next time. My gradient accent nail held up awesome in comparison to the butter LONDONs.

BASE COATS

butter LONDON Nail Foundation Flawless Basecoat

nails inc Kensington Caviar (ring finger)

COLORS

butter LONDON No More Waity, Katie

nails inc The Thames

Jordana Celebration

TOP COATS

butter LONDON Hardwear P.D. Quick Topcoat

nails inc Kensington Caviar (ring finger)

Let's see... Next is Day 11 which is... *drum roll*... polka dots. Or, as I like to say, polka spots.

Currently, I'm not wearing any polish. I removed my polish last night. Today, I filed them down real good and oiled them up! The oil has already absorbed, so I'm going to oil back up, and check out some other blogs. I need some inspiration for the polka spots! :) Have a good day everyone!

Day 9: Rainbow

Hello again! For the rainbow theme, I decided to go with gradient again (I was going to cheat and count this for day 9 and 10, but then I got butter LONDON's No More Waity, Katie, so I decided to gradient that instead).

Rainbow time!

This picture was taken in flash (sorry for blinding you with my whiteness!). I also tried to crop it more, but my software wouldn't let me! Grrrr. It is a little hard to see the red and orange differentiation, but I tried... 

You can see the red/orange difference much better here. But, the blue/purple kind of blend. 

This is probably the best picture of them all! 

Close up of my thumb! :)

BASE COAT

Mavlava Ridge Filler

COLORS

Sinful Colors Sugar Sugar

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Crushed

Sinful Colors Pull Over

Sinful Colors HD Nails

Sinful Colors Midnight Blue

Sinful Colors Let's Talk

TOP COAT

Seche Vite

There we have it: ROY. G. BIV. This manicure did remind me of school in that aspect... Learning about the colors of the rainbow using the name ROY G. BIV. Unfortunately, Indigo did not join us. Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, and Violet sure did! :)

Day 8: Metallic

Hello! I revamped the blog for spring time and I hope to be a posting queen tonight. I need some time to myself, and I've decided to devote it to the blog.

This is Day 8: Metallic. I did this mani Valentine's Day. I also added a little "how to" on how I did my gradient to make this mani legitimately metallic.

Here we go!

These first two pictures are of OPI's Excuse Moi! 

Pictured above are the tools I used for the gradient.

As you can see, I used polish, cardboard, tweezers, and a makeup sponge (the wedge-shaped kind).

 Unfortunately, I got a little carried away, and forgot to take pictures. So I will explain my steps:

1.  Put drops of polish on the cardboard. I've found cardboard isn't that absorbent.

2.  Grab your tweezers and pick up the sponge.

3.  Dip the sponge into the polish.

4.  Sponge your nails. Heavily sponge the areas you want thickly covered. Lightly sponge the areas you want to be sparsely covered.

The final product after the gradient sponging! 

Then, I went a little Konad crazy. I added a netting type pattern and hearts. The netting is courtesy of YouMix Cosmetics XL Stamping Plate A and MASH 19. I stamped using the Konad Black and Konad White polish.

BASE COAT

OPI Nail Envy

COLORS

OPI Excuse Moi!

Konad Black

Konad White

TOP COAT

Seche Vite (Excuse Moi! top coat)

Sally Hansen Insta-Dry (gradient and stamping top coat)

STAMPING PLATES

YouMix Cosmetics XL Stamping Plate "A"

MASH 19

Well, there we have it! Hope y'all enjoyed it! :)

Day 7: Black & White

Hello! So, first off... I apologize. In my Day 6 post I said pictures should be "up soon". Here we are... 3 weeks later. :( I can assure you, that was not my intention. I have been a very busy lady, but, no fear... I have had quite a few manis these past few weeks and I hope to get them posted this weekend.

This black and white one was, fun, frustrating, and awesome. I *really* did not want to take this one off!! It was fun to design. However, I also learned that stamping using my non-dominant hand is a bit... Challenging (hence my frustrations). Pictures now to illustrate the "awesome"! :)

 The MASH plates - 13 and 23 - that were used in this mani.

 The thumbs were mirror images of each other.

NOTE: All the pictures were taken inside under florescent lighting.

BASE COATS:

China Glaze Strong Adhesion

OPI Nail Envy

COLORS:

Sinful Colors Tokyo Pearl

Nicole by OPI Follow Me on Glitter (accent nail - ring finger)

Sinful Colors Black on Black

Konad White

Konad Black

TOP COAT:

Sally Hansen Insta-Dri

Up next, I believe, is rainbow nails. Stay tuned! :)

Day 6: Purple

All I have to say about my purple is, well, AMAZING!

I was able to get a few shots in the sun, but none of these pictures really capture what this mani looked like in real life.

Additionally, there are some pictures marked as "KTP". These are my pictures; I changed the watermark for the specific pictures because I plan to post them on MUA. MUA has a strict "do not talk about your blog" policy.

Enjoy!

 This picture directly above is the closest (on my monitor) to what this mani looked like in person.

BASE

Mavala Ridge Filler

COLORS

Orly Fowl Play

Finger Paints Twisted

TOP COAT

Seche Vite

MATTE TOP COAT

essie Matte About You

Black & White is next! I just finished it up a few minutes ago, so I've just got to get a few good pictures and they should be up soon!

Day 5: Blue

Day 5 has finally arrived for the blog! I didn't get many pictures of this, but, as I said earlier, abysmal weather has taken its toll this winter (it's more like spring, to be honest). However, at the time of this manicure, our area was being hit with its first legitimate "cold snap". So, the blue manicure was well-timed. Matched my blue lips, haha. Brrrr...

Looking at this manicure still makes me cold, actually.

BASE

Mavlava Ridge Filler

BASE COLORS

Orly Sweet Peacock

Sally Hansen Smooth and Perfect Air (ring fingers)

SPONGING COLOR

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Celeb City

KONAD COLORS

essie Loophole

Sinful Colors Tokyo Pearl

(I'm sad these two didn't work out)

TOP COAT

Sally Hansen Insta-Dri 10 Day Formula

STAMPING PLATES

Feaux-nad 20

MASH 18

There we have it! I'm currently wearing purple right now, but, it's on its last legs. I'm going through pictures right now. My purple post should be up later today, hopefully! It's a BEAUTY! I LOVE the combination I did!

I'm back!

Hello readers!

I've decided it was a good time for me to update the ol' blog before I got too far behind. School has started and, while having time every now and then to paint my nails and take pictures, it's a different thing entirely to be able to crop, edit, etc. pictures. Also, the weather has just been terrible, and there has been ZERO sunshine to bring out the "pretty" in my pretties! :(

Without much introduction for this one, it was my 2011 National Championship mani for football. The University of Alabama Crimson Tide was hosted by the Louisiana State University Tigers. Well, my significant other is an avid Alabama fan (I myself am a Florida State University Seminole fan). I went for the Tide on his behalf, and, okay, they are kind of my 2nd favorite team; I must say though, they are 2nd favorite waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay behind my 'Noles. :)

So much for "without much introduction"... Haha. I have one picture of this mani and one picture of the "ingredients". Alabama's colors are crimson and white. They're also known for their hounds-tooth pattern. Enjoy!

BASE COATS

For some reason, I used two. Most likely an experiment, but I fail to remember the results. Oops!

nails inc Kensington Caviar

essie Fill the Gap

COLORS

Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Wined Up

OPI DS Radiance

Wet 'n Wild Ebony Hates Chris

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear White On

TOP COAT

nails inc Kensington Caviar

Feaux-nad Plate: 63