Impulsive Minty Sorbet

Happy Friday everyone! It's Thanksgiving long weekend her in Canada. Woop Woop!

I'm so happy to be back at work.... and blogging :oP  I had a ton of paperwork on my desk but it basically only took me the hour and a half I've been here so far.  I wonder when they'll notice.

On to the nails.  I've been neglecting my dots.  I love doing dots so much but am scared I'll overkill them on here.  They make me happy though so I'm going to continue.

For the base I used Sally Hansen X-Treme wear in 'Minty Sorbet.'  The dots are in 'Black Out'  and I believe China Glaze 'Spontaneous'.  No promises though.  I can't really recall what brand the purple was but China Glaze seems right.  I then used a matte top coat. This made all the difference. I love the look of the pale green mattified ;o)

Hope you enjoy!

31 Day Challenge: Rainbow

Yay for my mommy!!!!!
......  she dropped off her camera for me to borrow until I get a new one.  She left it in the mailbox and. although it was not as exciting as nail mail it was pretty damn exciting.  Needless to say I ran inside and started to do my Rainbow nails for the 31 day challenge. As you can see its nothing to creative but I did not want to miss posting it before midnight ;o)

I even have all the nail polish names because they are still sitting beside me.  From red to blue we have:

Quo by Orly mini bottle of red
Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in 'Sun Kissed'
Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in 'Mellow Yellow'
Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure in 'Grass Slipper'
Finger Paint's in 'Inkblot Blue'

oh ya....the dots are Nfu Oh 61!

See y'all tomorrow!

Kimber at Kimber's Lacquer Korner
-Kat at Hooked On Polish
-Diana at Nails By Diana
-Aly at Wonderland Beauty
-Meredith at Perfectly Polished
-Nicole at The Color Republic
-Kate at The Painted Pony Nails
-Cee at Absolutely Cee
-Sam at Polished Art
-Nail Narcotics
-Nicole at Nicole Gets Nailed
-Shelby at Shelby's Swatches
-Stephanie Louise at All Things Beautiful
-Mixed Mama
-Joanna @ Sweet Polish of Mine
-Patty Greenberg
-Liz and Lisa @ Lozlosa
-Mari at Nailista
-Greta at How Was Your Day?
-Miss L at Beauty by Miss L
-Gini at Sassy Paints
-Chameleon Stampede
-Pam at Nail-E-Glance
-Me, Myself, and Polish
- Robin Sparkles 

Sugar Spun Nails: Attempt 1

So that's not entirely true. I did make a semi attempt once but I was using the wrong polish and I only did one nail.

This time I made sure to pick out proper polish and took my time.   I made a point of using polish that was a little thicker.  I had some Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear that was getting pretty clumpy so this is a perfect manicure to use up those polishes.

The base colour is Essie's 'Bahama Mama'.  The Xtreme Wear is in 'Blue me Away', 'White On' and 'Fuscia Power'.  I didn't use a top coat as that would take away from the effect of the whole sugar spun concept. I had housework to do so I couldn't keep this polish on. I imagine it would take forever to dry and even then it would probably chip off.  It was fun though! ;o)

31 Day Challenge: Yellow

I have to start off with and angry sad face......:o(

I had so many problems with my yellow nail polish.  All of them were giving me a hard time.  I used thinner in some but nothing worked.  So frustrating!

Finally I decided forget the free hand I'm using a stamp! Thank goodness because it helped cover up some of the streaky grossness(not a real word but it fits) of the yellow. I ended up really liking it

Indirect light

Direct sunlight

I used two coats of Sally Hansen's Xtreme Wear in Mellow Yellow.  It's co-operated with me in the past but not this time. Then I stamped over with Konad image plate M65.  This is by far my favourite stamp.  Who doesn't love argyle!  It's especially adorable on little baby clothes.  Miniature argyle sweaters??..... Yes please!


Here is one of my fails.... I just was not a fan of it at all

Make sure to check out the other ladies yellow nails!

Cee:Absolutely Cee

Stephanie Louise:All Things Beautiful

Miss L:Beauty by Miss L

Mandy:Chameleon Stampede

Kat: Hooked On Polish

Greta:How Was Your Day?

Kimber: Kimber's Lacquer Korner

Liz: Lozlosa

Mixed Mama:Mixed Mama

Mari:Nailista

Diana: Nails By Diana

Pam:Nail-E-Glance

Becca:Nail Narcotics

Nicole:Nicole Gets Nailed
Patty: Patty and Goldie's Day Off

Meredith:Perfectly Polished

Sam:Polished Art

Gini:Sassy Paints

Shelby:Shelby's Swatches

Joanna:Sweet Polish of Mine
Nicole:The Color Republic
Kate: The Painted Pony Nails

Aly: Wonderland Beauty

ORANGE: Day 2 of 31 Day Challenge

So we are on to day two of our 31 Day challenge spread out over 93 days. ;o)

Obviously these nails were super easy.  I'm not one to put things on my nails but I could not pass this up.  How cute are little fimo fruit slices?!  I love everything tiny so even if I was not in to nail art I would still want these.  If something is miniature I want it!

For these nails I used two coats of Sally Hansen's Xtreme wear in 'Sun Kissed'.   Once I applied the second coat I just placed on the itty bitty orange slice.  Pretty easy peasy!!!

I thought I'd share a picture of my itty bitty desk buddies!  Gumby would like to say 'Hidey-Ho'! Pokey says 'sup?'

Check out the other participants in Kimber's Lacquer Korner 31 Day Challenge

-Kimber at Kimber's Lacquer Korner
-Kat at Hooked On Polish
-Diana at Nails By Diana
-Aly at Wonderland Beauty
-Meredith at Perfectly Polished
-Nicole at The Color Republic
-Kate at The Painted Pony Nails
-Cee at Absolutely Cee
-Sam at Polished Art
-Nail Narcotics
-Nicole at Nicole Gets Nailed
-Shelby at Shelby's Swatches
-Stephanie Louise at All Things Beautiful
-Mixed Mama
-Joanna @ Sweet Polish of Mine
-Patty Greenberg
-Liz and Lisa @ Lozlosa 
-Mari at Nailista
-Greta at How Was Your Day?
-Miss L at Beauty by Miss L 

RED: 31 Day Challenge

This if my very first official nail polish challenge.  I'd always seen post of people doing the 31 day challenge but I was very intimidated by it all :os I said what they hey though and jumped on the wagon. Kimber from Kimber's Laquer Korner had decided that it would be better if we did it every 3 days.  Less pressure for all of us.  So I guess its more like the 93 day challenge.

Of course the first day as most people know is red.  I'm extremely disappointed with the quality of the picture.  It did not capture the effect at all.  Unfortunately I didn't check the photos until this morning. 

Enough poor me though.  I used my favourite red by Rimmel London in 'Red Stilleto'.  I then used Sally Hansen's Xtreme Wear in 'Red Carpet' to create a gradient effect.  I wish you could all see it in person because it really did turn out beautifully

Sorry for the dry nasty fingers. They need some serious TLC

Black & White/Shiny & Matt

This weeks Sunday homework assignment was black & white.  Of course the first thing that came to my mind was polka dots.  I was able to refrain from it though.

I'm a little later on posting than usual so have had a chance to see Nicole Gets Nailed first.  Please check out her Dotty French.  It's amazing! I did not put as much effort in to mine and now I regret it.  :oP

To begin I painted just the tips of my nails in Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in 'White On'.  I then used two pieces of striping tape across the white section and covered the full nail in Rimmel's 'Black Satin'.  Before letting it dry completely I pulled off the striping tape exposing the white underneath.

I've showed a pick with Gosh's matt top coat and one with nothing.  If I were to leave it shiny I would definitely use a top coat. It gets a little bumpy where the tape is taken off

Which one do you guys prefer? I'm really liking the matt top coat on black in general. 

French tip/Dotticure/Sleepy girl

Today's nails are a post nap manicure.  I was still kind of groggy so I just went with it.  Generally these are the most fun. I don't like having an idea in my head then creating it.  Those ones I always tend to be so critical of.  Although this is not my favourite I just went with the flow and did what came to my head

For the full nail I used Quo by Orly in 'Green Meadow'.  I've really been a fan of the Quo nail polish but lately it has not been cooperating with me.  It was a mess until I put the top coat on.  I think adding some nail polish thinner may help.  Does anyone else use thinner? I'm just wondering if it works or if it ruins the polish.

The tips are in Sally Hansen's Xtreme Wear 'Coral Reef'.  I didn't use tape for this as I knew I would be hiding the messy edge with something else.  What is that something else you ask??? DOTS!  For the dots across the the tip I used Revlon's 'Impulsive'.  It still looked really messy and blah at that point so I added the final vertical line of dots in Sally Hansen's Xtreme wear in 'Lacey Lialac'. It was amazing how much it changed the look.  It created a much more clean even manicure.

Green Baby!

Well hello fellow bloggers!
It's been an insane week and I have barely had a chance to do anything. Long story short I hurt my neck so badly I couldn't swallow with out it going into spasm, had to move to a new house(while it was like this) and to top it all off with a cherry my dad had a heart attack.  The emotional and physical exhaustion I had was insane.  Everything and everyone is good now thank goodness

So on to the nails. I did this fun little look this morning before continuing to unpack.  I had the idea in my head but was not quite sure how it would turn out.  I love how the dots can create such cool designs.


Take a look below to see how it was done...

I started by painting my nails two different greens.  The lighter of the two is Sally Hansen's Xtreme Wear in 'Green with Envy'.  The second is Essie's 'Mojito madness'  You don't need a perfectly straight line for this because you will be adding the dots.

Next I used the dotter to create the dots on the opposite side of the line.

I used the exact same method up a little further on my nails using Revlon's 'Posh'. To top it all off I added Essie's 'Good to Go' top coat. 

I will definitely play with this method again. It was a lot of fun. What do you guys think?(if you don't like it lie to me, I had a VERY ROUGH WEEK ;o))

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Nails

Good morning all!  So we’ve moved in to our new place but it’s been a crazy past two days.  My nails are in pretty rough shape.  Moving boxes and furniture does not help them out at all.  I thought I would post two different nails styles I tried out on the weekend.   Both of them are purely with Sally Hansen’s Xtreme Wear nail polish. I really like this polish when it comes to nail art.  All of them were purchased at Well.ca

The first one I did is a little crazy. I’m really trying to figure out the whole flower thing but it’s not working out to well for me :o( Once again I used the dotter for these.  I applied two coats of 'Blue Me Away'to the entire nail.  Then I added the pedals in 'Mellow yellow'  .They did not look to impressive so I added another small dot inside with 'Red Carpet' followed my another of 'Mellow Yellow'.  I can’t for the life of me remember what I used as the centre of the flower but it was Sally Hansen.  It needed a little more jazz so I added the dots in ‘White On’.  I now realize I should not of but I added a sparkle coat of 'Disco Ball'.  I’ve attempted using this polish a couple times and I hate it.  Makes my nails look cakey and almost like there is sugar on them.  I don’t see any sparkle on it at all.  I’m contemplating just throwing it out.

What do you guys think of the nails? A little crazy but it was good practice

For the next manicure I decided to go dotter crazy.

For the full nail I used 'Coral Reef'.  The large blue dots are in 'Blue Me Away' and the small yellow are 'Mellow Yellow' 

I hope  to sit down and play with my nails tonight but we still have soooo much unpacking to do.  Wish me luck!