Skulls and Boy Toys

Morning! How are you all doing on this lovely Monday? Here it is HOT. So I plan on going out and sitting by the pool with my book and soaking up the sun. It looks like it's going to rain all week so I may as well right! ;)

I recently found a huge lemming of mine OPI Skull and Glossbones and knew that I needed to use it in a manicure. So I started out with 2 coats of the perfect light gray creme and went from there!

Lots of pictures of this one so check them out after the jump!

The Last Twin Post with Carmela - MASH 49

Morning Loves! Today is the last twin post with Carmela of Polished Indulgence! If you haven't seen any of our twin posts yet, you can check out all of mine here :) I'm sad this is coming to an end, it was so much fun to come up with these! Todays requirement is using MASH 49. I'm not going to lie this one stumped me a little. The plate has a cool giraffe pattern, some stars, a crown, tidal waves (or wind blowing?) and an interesting looking flower. I thought about a number of different ways to use this plate and had a hard time coming up with something that I really liked. Plus I wanted to finish twin posting with a bang! I eventually settled on the cool giraffe pattern and I think this is my favourite twin post that I came up with!

For this look I started with two easy coats of OPI Cuckoo for This Color from the 2010 Swiss Collection on all but my index nail. I found this a few months ago for cheap in Trade Secrets and had yet to use it. It's a sparkly forest green blue shimmer. It shows up more green in my photos, but in the right light, it gives a stunning blue shimmer. On my index I used 2 coats of Bille Gold, a gold foil, and then used Gold to stamp with MASH-49 on all my nails but on my index I used CFTC to stamp with. Finally I freehanded some triangles on with CTFC and a medium length striping brush then added gold studs from Born Pretty Store along the triangles to give it some oomph.

This felt very rich to me. I really like the green gold combination and I realized after that I did a similar colour combination before here, but shush that's ok right? lol

These twin posts have been SO FUN! Since this was again Carmela's pick I can only imagine she has come up with something amazing! I can't wait to see and all of you should shoot over to Polished Indulgence to see what she's done!

Have our twin posts made you want these MASH plates? Do you already own them? Which one is your favourite plate?

Hope you're all having a fabulous day! :D

Daring Digits Superhero Collection

Morning loves! I'm back from the cottage today! It was such an amazing relaxing getaway and I'm soooo glad that we decided to head up there! Great way to celebrate being done my semester!

Today I've got the fantabulous Daring Digits Superhero Collection to share with you. Now it's not often that I will buy a full collection of something, but these? I just had to. I am kind of a huge nerd in real life so these polishes are riiiiiight up my alley! Let's see the superhero goodness!

There are lots of pictures in this one so keep reading after the jump!

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