O My, The Sunshine!

YAY! Summer has finally arrived in Montana, and so has the sun! Wheeeee!
I have some older manis I will post later...but I have some sunny summer ones I want to show you first..
oooooh, lookee! I have wanted to do a tone-on-tone holo stamp for awhile...

Sinful Colors Timbleberry, I think! I forgot to get a bottle shot :0)

Stamped with a truly old polish-I think I may have had this close to 10 years...Sally Hansen Nail Prisms Amber Rose

Close-ups! So pretty, yes?
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Sinful Colors Hazard (so yummy) 2 coats and I adore this color already! Above is the finished look-I was trying to catch all the colors.

Below, sponged with Zoya Gaia just on the tips. GAH! Ignore that nasty ugly skin thing I have going.

Below, sponged over Gaia with my new franken, which I plan on selling...it is SO cool...

Again, a look at the finshed look, really groovin on the blue and gold sparkles over the melon-y color of Hazard. What do you think-Doesn't it yell, "SUMMER"?

Random Mani Spam-fest

I really am here....

OK, so my blog has been a bit neglected while life moves on and summer has finally arrived. Camping season is here (yes, I love to camp!), but since sleeping on the ground is no longer something my husband can do, I splurged and found a used tiny camper for us. And I am loving it, Mouahahahha! No more fighting the rain, I can cook inside and sleep dry! And yes, my nails are the prettiest in the mountains!

OK, on to the Manis!
(btw, I am not touching any of the Lynderella issues floating out there-I love her polishes, and I will post my pretties!)

Lynderella Change over NYC Tangerine cream (YUMMY!). The gradient wasn't very even, but it was still lovely...this is going on my toes next!
This is where we have been spending our weekends-Outside, getting our feet wet hiking!

My Nova (she loves her sticks!)

Crappy picture of me looking fat-ugh...but at least the waterfall is gorgeous!

Wet feet...had to take a picture!

~Break over~More Lynderella...

Essie Lilacism (damn bubbles...)

 Gradient using (woops, can't remember) I THINK  LA Colors gray/silver (sorry!)



Mercurial over the top-Stunning, I thought! Very distracting in the sun!
My franken, Cinnamon Glow! Have a few bottles of this up in my Etsy store (6HartsCraftCompany)

This one is yummy-kind of reminds me of cinnamon rolls and cinnamon toast.....Darn it, now I made myself hungry-off to the kitchen to make some toast!

Franken Quick Change!

I couldn't leave my last franken on my nails... 1) It changed the pretty blue too much and 2) Not enough sparkle/glitter :0)

So I decided to switch to a franken gray color and a franken neutral-purple glitter.

One coat of my gray franken....on my really atrocious-looking right hand...ok, it could be worse, but not a lot...

Then 2 coats of my neutral-purple glitter franken

 So, I had to look close, but I guess I did put black glitter in this...

Also, I put in some (pinkish) glitter you can see below in the close-up version, that made me think "black cherry" because it had an offset look to it that was almost black. Cool glitter that I got from Jo Ann's Fabric. White holo hex glitter, silver holo bar glitter and some other pretties...

Here are my two frankens above...

And the purple glitter franken over Orly Charged Up, next to the franken alone...you can see more detail here!

I was really pleased with how this turned out...I was inspired by Lynderells'a frankens, since it looks like I will never have one, hahaha!!

My take on Clarins 230

I don't claim to be a frankening genius, but I was pretty pleased with how this franken turned out...even if it doesn't really look like Clarins 230, the famed Unicorn Pee.....

I was a Franken Maniac last week and made 2 versions of this but liked this one best. I started with Sally Hansen Thinking of Blue, 2 coats...so pretty on its own! Some of these might have topcoat, I didn't keep track...sorry!

After I got done sighing over this pretty blue, I added my franken, which I haven't named yet...
1 coat...

I am trying a video for the first time, so bear with me!

OK...I think it worked, but please forgive the weird ambient sounds going on in the background! I thought I had applied some music to the video to hide the sound of incoming e-mail on my phone, but it disappeared.....
Let me know what you think!

Ghost mani-not a total failure!

Hmmm, This mani was awesome-until I stamped little ghosties on it! I started out with 2 coats of a gray franken that I put a bit of color-morphing pigment into. You can't really see it though, but I liked the finished polish anyway.
Here we go...pretty gray with an almost undetectable hint of blue glimmer...

 Alrighty then...pretty but too plain for me, hehehe. I wanted to get a light stamp that would sort of be a subtle background...should have stopped there. The part where this is not a total failure is that I discovered Orly Golden Halo is a rocking stamping polish! I have hated this polish since I put it on my nails, but I couldn't bring myself to toss it.
Ignore my lousy stamping, hairy cuticles and check out the gold lines under the crappy ghosties.....

The gold stamped lines looked AMAZING over the grey. Should have stopped there...but at least I have found a great new stamping polish. This stuff is so sheer I could never wear it on its own, but is like gilding your nails, the gold stands out so much!



Gah....I have to get some of the AHA cuticle cream. I have heard a lot of people go on about Poshe...what do YOU use? I use a mixture of oils on my cuticles, but obviously the hairy hang-nails are getting out of control...at least on a few fingers. They are tiny enough that I miss them until I look at my pictures....

"Zombie Lovin" Halloween Franken-pic heavy

I had the best of intentions making this franken, Really! I wanted a franken that kind of reminded me of Glitter Gal's Lizard Belly, but not holo, maybe some glitter and texture. What I got was a gory mess that could only be named aptly, "Zombie Lovin ".  I tell you what, though, it grows on me as I wear it, LOL! I started with a dark green and added color-morphing pigment and gold-ish glitter. The color morph is red to green, hence the zombie effect...

At any rate, it is truly a Halloween-style polish and perfect for decorating with red blood drops and anything else nasty lol...

I was out of town for work at a training when I tried this out, so bear with the mess/weird lighting. See the red? 2 zombies, havin some fun, lol! This is 2 coats with SV as a top coat.

Now here is the COOL green flash....so bright!

Here are some other frankens I made with Spectraflair last night for some friends, but it will be really tough to give these away!

I love how rich and dark this one turned out! This is 2 coats.

This blue holo made me happy and cheerful to no end! I love my blues and this is made from Pure Ice French Kiss  which is a truly awesome polish. This franken is a 1-coater! Woo-hoo!

Well, I have to go....cool, rainy and dreary today and I am going to make some homemade bread and stew...yummmm. Take care!

(Anyone else having problems with certain letters disappearing in Blogspot? I had to change the font for my Z in the first paragraph for it to show on my post...weird!)

Franken Funfest! and Gel polish update

I finally received my low-budget order from TKB trading....bottles, color/sampler tray and clear bases. That was all I felt like I could get this time, but my wish list was much bigger, lol!

Now the fun started! ....I had already made hmm, 3 ? frankens and needed more bottles...I was going into franken detox! I blew through 6 of the new bottles like nobody's business. Here are 2 of the new polishes, I did give a little peek of the green one on a previous post.

This is the bright green I made for my daughter. Middle finger has 2 coats, that seems to give the best effect. Since my nails don't curve downwards, no full holo effect, but still pretty!
This brown franken was made with the color-morphing pigment.

Full sun and I was AMAZED! This was the color-morphing pigment, green-gold. I only saw the green inside, but outside-gold... W O W ! I'm thinking this one needs to be Named. Molten Chocolate. How's that sound? Yummy? IT IS!!!!

Click on the pictures of the polish in full sun to see some of the gold. Pesky color was playing hide-and-go-seek with my camera.

Inside, artificial light, you can see the green a bit better. I can see I am going to have to find the funds to make another order for polish bottles and bases.

Regarding gellac under regular polishes....
I put on gellac and some sheer pink gellish polish last Thursday night, have changed my polish 2 times since then, using non-acetone polish remover. Even though the gel polish has lost some of its beautiful shine, it's holding tough and has still protected my nails amazingly well! Also, I think it gives a lovely smooth finish under the polish. I am going to hang tight and see how long I can keep this one application going before it shows or starts cracking/flaking.

More frankens in my next post! Take care and *don't sniff the fumes!*

New Franken Fun!!!

When Morenailpolish was selling the color-morphing pigments and some other goodies, I put an order in and patiently waited for my goodies to arrive (she had a HUGE response!). And arrive they did, this week!! Woo-hoo!
Man alive, I can't wait until my empty bottles come in so I can play more! Here is a little picture of my pigments and little tiny sample of one polish I made last night for my youngest daughter...I don't have a name for it yet...maybe I need some help?!

If I didn't think the Copyright police would find me...I would name it after Kermit, since I love the Muppets, but ah, well!!

I also made a very cool teal franken with color-morphing pigments and a purply-maroon holo-franken my friend Saundie is trying out. More pictures in another day or two, hopefully!! If I can pry my teenager away from World Of Warcraft (WOW) hahahahaa! 

Oh, and if you are looking at the pigments and drooling, go check out morenailpolish.blogspot.com, because I think she has more now! She did an awesome job of labeling, weighing, shipping and just putting up with more insanity than I would have-in order to fill people's orders.