Follow my blog with Bloglovin

Monday, February 27, 2012

Sinful Colors Cinderella & Spring Glitter Blizzard!

I am so tickled that I found the Sinful Colors Cinderella, because I love it!
At any rate, I thought I would try it over white since it seemed so sheer...

2 coats of SC Cinderella over 1 coat Orly Softest White

This was a restful color to wear...I don't know how else to say it. It glowed and played pink peek-a-boo but it felt heavenly to wear....

After I took that off...and only because it started chipping...I decided on something more rowdy :0)

I want some shiny sun and green growing things, so I decided I needed some shine on my nails...

2 coats of Essence Break Through with 3 different glitter polishes: Spoiled Papa-Paparazzi, Wet N Wild Hallucinate and un-named Sally Girl silver glitter. The first picture of the Essence polish is the most color-accurate---a pink-ish purple and very pretty.



Yikes, Shield your eyes! 


It was hard to get the silver glitter to show without glaring or looking black, but see if these pictures work...

Ok, I am done with the spam-fest. I hope your weather is lovely and your friends and family are close. Take care!!

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Just a few not-so-fabulous manis

Hey there...I have made several frankens lately, with some glitter I bought online. Unfortunately, I think the glitter was not solvent-resistant, so they turned into goo. I realized this after I put the frankens on over base colors...
3 coats of pretty polish + 1 coat of crappy, melty goo = ruined mani!

Consequently, my nails have been a mess...here are the second-chance manis...I think I have learned my lesson!


This was 3 coats of a franken inspired by Nerd Lacquer's polishes....This one turned out very nice, but a little plain-the glitter didn't show through the color very nicely...


Please forgive the oiled up cuticles...


Two coats of Orly Bailamos...Very lovely but not as flashy as it looked in the bottle, so I dressed it up (below) with a good franken topcoat...
Much better!


Wet N Wild, Lavender Creme (!?) 2 coats (who the heck named this?!)

(This is what I am wearing now...after my Sinful Colors Last Chance green turned into gooey muck...there might be staining that I missed--ugh!)

2 coats of Icing Sipping On Bubbly. This was a bad move-blegh! I don't know what it is, but this mani bugs the heck out of me and it needs to come OFF!!

And a small happy dance is in order...I did find Sinful Colors Cinderella...YAY!...it is mine and it is so cool!
And finally~
For those of you that follow llarowe.com or her FaceBook site...please take care of your health? Women have very different heart attack symptoms and we should all know them and listen to our bodies. If you do nothing else, visit http://www.goredforwomen.org

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Happy Birthday with Ozotic 534!

Yup, today is my birthday and my family has spoiled me. I am extremely lucky and feeling only moderately old, hehehehehe!
I went to my mom-in-law's house to help her with her young alpacas and trim their hooves. The alpacas are about a year and a half old, and getting to be quite bundle of fleece! What made me feel pretty darn good, was being able to get the larger alpaca (aka Tom Sawyer) down to the ground with minimum fuss when my 21 year old daughter could not...YAY for Moms with Muscle!!

OK, I will get on to the mani *grins cheesily*
My present to me...Ozotic 534 over black . Whoo-Hoo! Thank-Heaven for llarowe.com! That site is amazing!
1 coat SH Black Out, 1 coat of Ozotic 534...sit back and drool...

Under artificial (Ott) lighting, above..

 With a little bit of natural light, above and below. You can see one of the offset colors. It really didn't give me lobster/corpse fingers...my camera simply didn't know WHAT to make of actual sunshine this time of year hehehehe....

OK...below-what happens to an awesome birthday mani after wrestling outside in the cold with spitting alpacas (yes, they really DO spit). However, they are so darn adorable, I can ignore that...
Not bad, really...I expected a broken fingernail, to be honest. This is long for my nails. So thanks to Loodie and all the other awesome bloggers that have helped me gain stronger nails and better looking hands!