Bluey as Gold

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Morning friends!

I am so happy to be walking and have my freedom again its amazing. Even being able to walk to my kitchen and get a glass of juice and walk back to my room is possible now. It's those little things that make life so much simpler :)

Todays look is some simple stamping and gradients that honestly I'm in love with. I was browsing through my helmer looking for something beautiful I forgot I owned and stumbled upon butter LONDON Bluey.

GAH it is gorgeous and I haven't used it nearly enough. Freakin love this colour!

Since we all know I'm obsessed with gold I decided to stamp with Essie Good As Gold and MASH-40. I had seen a few people use this swirly stamp in the past few months and had it on the back of my mind to use at some point. I also haven't done any gradients in a while and thought that I needed to spice this up with some gold gradient accents.

Sometimes simple looks are best and this I am totally digging! What are your thoughts?

Hope you're having a fab day!

A Broken Skittlette

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Afternoon loves!

Today I have the first nails that I have done since I broke my ankle. Everything is crazy tiring so I wanted something quick that was going to look great to last for a few days. I ended up doing one of my favourite looks, a skittlette!

I grabbed NCLA AM: Beauty Sleep, PM: Shopping Spree because I'm loving pastels for spring and used that as my inspiration. I rifled through my stamping plates and found MASH-47 and this broken pattern seemed rather fitting for this manicure.

I used Milani White On The Spot and Wet n Wild Black Creme for my stamped nails. I have really been lemming Nicole by OPI Luke of the Draw from all the swatches I have seen out there. Unfortunately every time I went to buy it it was sold out! Luckily when I was rifling through my helmer I found Milani Gray Tux which seems to be pretty close to my lemming! It has satisfied me for now!

I really like skittlette looks and this was my first time putting two rhinestones on my nails like that. I didn't think I would like it as much as I did, so you will see this style of nails from me again soon.

I think that I thought with a broken ankle I would have time to do my nails, but honestly I am struggling huge with even painting my nails once a week. Also my nails are breaking like crazy as they sometimes bang against my crutches and I have super nubs with no free edge. My swatch pile is building up, but at the moment I won't be able to catch up anytime soon. So I'm going to be a little more sporadic with my posting until I am able to walk again. I hope you all understand!

Love you all!

Holographic and Hearts

Morning loves!

How's everyone doing this Saturday? I'm still essentially snowed in, we got over 30cm of snow yesterday and the roads still aren't good. I had my first ever University snow day yesterday and it was awful nice not to have to get up and head in to 8:30 class lol. Buuuut I spent my whole day working on a paper, and that's what I'll be doing again today lol. I hope everyone that was affected by yesterday's storm is safe and sound!

Since Valentines Day is less than a week away I thought it was time to do some V-Day nail art. Since I am crazy busy with school right now I don't have a ton of time I did some simple and cute stamping.

Cute right?! I used Color Club Harp On It a fantastic silver holo as my base and then stamped with Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Rapid Red and MASH-38.

I didn't mean to invert the stamp on all my nails but my index, but it looks kinda neat that way I think! If I were to use this stamp again next year I think I would try for maybe only inverting it on my ring nail or something.

Even when I'm in a rush I like to have cute looking nails! I may be buried in work, but my fingertips will still going to look cute as a button ;)

What are you all up to today? I hope to make more progress on my paper! Wish me luck! :D

Sapphire Masquerade

Good Morning loves!

Today I have a skittlette stamping look to share with you. I needed a quick manicure that was still going to be visually striking so I turned to my stamping plates and found a wicked geometric pattern on MASH-46 so I used that as my inspiration.

I am still loving using my China Glaze Tranzitions Shade Shifter for stamping so knew that my base had to correspond with purple. As I was rifling through my helmer I found Maybelline Color Show Sapphire Masquerade which I picked up on Black Friday and had yet to try. Shame on me I know. The purple glitter worked so well with Shade Shifter that I pulled out Essence Ultimate Pink to be my base for my stamped nails.

My striped nail is stamped with MASH-43. I was originally going to go with all the diamond pattern, but I had never stamped stripes before and I was really interested to see how it would turn out! It is so much easier than putting down striping tape! Love it!

Stamped skittlettes are my go to nail art look when I'm short on time. I absolutely love having my nails be different and skittlettes are so fun!

What do you think of this look? Do you like the pink and purple combo? Hope you guys are having a great day! :D

Gold Liquid Sand and Snakeskin

Goooood Morning! Last week after I swatched OPI's Disney's Oz The Great and Powerful lacquers I was fascinated by the taupe liquid sand What Wizardry Is This? and knew that I needed to wear it! But since I can't hardly ever wear polish by itself I added a few accent nails to spice this shade up.

I used 2 coats of the fascinating taupe liquid sand from my thumb to middle nail. I was thinking about what could work as an accent when I saw MASH-43 just sitting on my desk! The snakeskin print looked like a match to me!

I stamped using Born Pretty Store black stamping polish, which is wonderful, over Essence Let's Get Lost.

I wore this for 2 days and was just enthralled by the texture. I couldn't stop running my hands over my fingers and feeling just HOW cool this was! When I took it off I seriously missed the texture of it. You can see my full swatch of What Wizardry is This? here.

What are your thoughts on this look? Do you like this kind of accent manicure? Like the liquid sand?

Hope you're having a great Tuesday my dears!!

It's My Birthday!

Goooooood Morning lovelies!

Today is my 22nd birthday! I'm really excited, but still have no idea what my birthday/new years nails will be. I plan on spending some time on them later this afternoon, but I did some pretty cool new years-esque nails a few days ago so I thought I would share while I contemplate what to do!

I started with GOSH Holographic Hero on my index and ring nails. Then added a zebra stamp using MASH-41 and Born Pretty Store Black Stamping Polish. I really liked the opacity of this stamping polish and it wasn't too hard to clean up. It will be my go to black stamping polish for sure now.

On my pinky and thumb I did 3 coats of Harlow & Co. Misfits. I actually forgot I owned this polish until I hauled it out to do my sisters nails, so I was feeling the need to use it lol. On my middle nail I did two coats of OPI My Boyfriend Scales The Walls and then went a little crazy adding 3mm clear rhinestones, 1mm black and clear rhinestones and these studs from Born Pretty Store.

I got a new camera for Christmas and I'm still trying to work with it to best improve my photos, so please forgive me for the next little while, all my photos might not be under the same lighting while I try to sort it out! Here's one with flash to show you some holo goodness :)

What do you think of my fun zebra and rhinestoned nails? I realized that in my over a year of blogging this was the first time I ever did zebra print! Can you believe it?! I was actually a little shocked. You can grab the stamping polish or studs from Born Pretty Store and use my 10% off code SA7X31!

What are you planning on wearing on your nails tonight? Do you have any big plans? I'm hosting a new years/birthday party and I'm sooo excited! Hope you all have a fantastic new year and I'll see you all in 2013 :D

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Geometry Rocks

Hey Guys!

Today I have a pretty wicked stamping mani that I did a week or so ago to share with you. I had finished swatching for the night and needed something with a little in your face awesomeness so I turned to my stamping plates. I pretty much just pulled out a bunch of random plates with all sorts of geometric patterns and went to work!

I used my go to Milani White On The Spot on all my nails and then started to stamp! I started with BM19 and Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Vigorous Violet on my pinky. Then I used BM-322 and Wet n Wild Black Creme for the awesome houndstooth on my ring nail. I loved this so much that I stamped with it again on my thumb. Seriously this stamp will be making another appearance. It's awesome. On my middle nail I used MASH-45 and Essie Watermelon to give it a little more colour. Finally I finished off by going back to black and using BM-319. End result = super awesome geometric look.

Please ignore the little bit of overlap on my index nail. For some reason sometimes when I stamp the image seems to 'jump' a little and I end up missing the tip of my nail and have to restamp that part. I'm sure I'm just not lining it up right, but I think I am each time! lol!

One thing I loved about these nails is when I showed them to my mom she instantly asked me to do the exact same on her! I was shocked! She was going away for the weekend and she said she's never received so many compliments from random people and cashiers and the like. I wore these for 4 days because I just liked them too much to take off.

What are your thoughts on geometric stamps? Do you like this kind of skittled stamp look?

Hope you are having a wonderful Friday my dears! :) Woohooo Weekend!

Twin Post 3rd Times a Charm - MASH 47

It's time for the third twin post with Carmela of Polished Indulgence! We're now onto Carmela's picks, her first plate up is MASH 47. Now before I show you this, I think this manicure looked a lot better in my head. When I first was looking at the images on this plate, one really stood out to me. It reminded me of ninja stars. I thought putting them over silver would look totally badass. Unfortunately I ended up with...

They look like snowflakes! I think my mistake was using Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Co-Balt Blue instead of black. But alas Co-Balt Blue was sitting out and in my head it looked wicked, I promise. The silver base is 2 coats of my favourite silver foil, Sally Hansen Celeb City.

I tried rotating the stamp on each of my nails to get a different pattern of ninja stars, or snowflakes? The rotating went pretty well, easier to get different patterns, I'm still just dipping my toe into this whole stamping thing so I'm learning every time :)

Well folks, badass ninja stars or wintertime snowflakes? Let me know what you think these look like!

This was my first time using Sally Hansen Insta-Dri polishes to stamp, and they are awesome! I'm really impressed with the quality, and once this no-buy is over I plan on picking up a few more! If you have any shade suggestions I would love to hear :D

Since this is the first of Carmela's picks I'm really excited to see what she came up with!! Swing on over to Polished Indulgence to check out what I',m sure is an ah-mazzziinnggg! manicure!

Hope you are all having a great Friday! Thanks for stopping by!! :D

Twin Post with Carmela Take Two - MASH 41

Morning! Time for the second twin post with Carmela of Polished Indulgence! If you missed our first twin post, you can find it here. This is my second pick, MASH-41. When I looked at this plate there was one design that really stood out to me. This was the intersecting wavy lines!

I liked a lot of pictures on this one, so check them out after the jump! :)

Twin Post with Carmela of Polished Indulgence MASH 39

Good Morning lacquered lovelies!! Today I will be starting a series of twin posts with the lovely Carmela of Polished Indulgence! Awhile back I was on twitter and mentioned how much I wanted the new MASH plates but wasn't about to pay $20.00 for shipping to Canada. So Marta of ChitChat Nails chimed in and mentioned that both myself and Carmela were after the plates and since we're both in Southern Ontario we should order the plates together! Well we ordered them that day. Once we both got our hands on them we decided to do some twin posts! We both picked two plates and put no other restrictions on it than we had to use the plate in the manicure! We will be going in numerical order so the first two days will be my picks and the last two will be Carmelas! First up we will be using MASH-39.

I was feeling something really subtle and pretty. Cult Nails Charming was sitting near the front of my plastic drawers and it was staring at me begging to be used. So I whipped it out and did 2 lovely coats. This is a charming purple jelly creme (see what I did there? *nervous laugh*) with a beautiful lilac/pink shimmer throughout it. It is really velvety and beautiful. I used Konad Special Polish in Purple and stamped with of course MASH-39!

After all the crazy manicures I sport, sometimes a pretty subtle look is what my nails crave. There is a shimmer in Konad Purple that complements beautifully with the lilac shimmer in Charming. This whole manicure was shimmering and I loved the look!

Do your nails ever crave something a little more subtle? Or do you always sport a crazy look? Or maybe you always go for something a little more subtle? What's your nail style?

Make sure you head over to Carmela's blog Polished Indulgence to see what she came up with using MASH-39!

Hope you are having a fabulous day! Thanks for stopping by!!! :D