Geometric Challenge Day 5: Straight

Morning! Back today with Day 5 in the Geometric Challenge! Can't believe we've reached the halfway point already. It seems like it's flyyyying by. Today's prompt is straight. I didn't really have a set idea when I sat down to do these, but I just started drawing straight lines and this is what I came up with.

I was feeling like pulling out an untried when I did these so I reached for Finger Paints Go Van Gogh! which I got way back in August. It's actually a really pretty green! I'm sad I didn't try it until now, you can bet I'll pull it out for some nail art soon times. Then I felt like keeping this one pretty subtle after my super rainbow mani so I reached for Sally Hansen Ion a white gregie and Wet n Wild I Need a Refresh-Mint a beautiful robins egg blue.

I took my striper brush and just started drawing straight lines. I didn't really think while I was doing it, I just let the lines flow! I always paint thumb to pinky when doing nail art and came up with my pinky's design last. I think I like that design best and will have to do a full mani like it soon in new colours!

Which nail do you like best? I also felt it was fitting to add in a skittle mani since my Skittles Nail Art Contest is ending soon! You have until Sunday to get in your designs! I really hope you enter :D

I'm looking forward to seeing what the rest of my challenge buddies have come up with! I'm sure they are straight-tacular ;)

Victoria of Manicurator
Emily of The Lacquerologist
Whitney of Dressed Up Nails
Lindsey of Neverland Nail Blog
Alexis of XOXO Alexis Leigh
Brittney of Precious Polish

KKCenterHK Peacock Water Decals

Good afternoon!

Awhile back I was contacted by the lovely Maggie from the new to me etailer KKCenterHK and have had the pleasure of reviewing some amazing peacock water decals! (N.NAIL Silver Peacock Feathers Pattern Nail Water N.NAIL-WDHHC045-Silver)

This was my first endeavor into using water decals and they are awesome. Hands down. Gorgeous nail art with minimal effort? Perfect when you want to spice up a manicure but don’t have the time. Before you start painting your nails, cut the decals into pieces so that you can easily grab them without worry about smudging your polish.

For this particular look I started off with a coat of my go to black creme, Wet n Wild Black Creme. Then I added a coat of three of the Finger Paints special effect flakies, Twisted, Asylum, and Motley. I probably didn’t need all three coats, but I really wanted there to be an excess amount of flakies. Once that had dried I took the decal that I wanted and with tweezers held it underwater for about 15-25 seconds. I then took the decal and placed it near my nail and slid the design off the paper back and into position! The best part about these is that they don’t dry right away, so you have time once you place it on your nail to move It around until you are happy with where it is.

You do need to be careful when doing your other hand. I happened to do my left hand first, and then when I was doing my right hand, as I pressed the decal onto my nail some of the still tacky polish on my left hand got caught on my other nail and it all came off! So I had to redo one nail. Which isn’t really all that bad!

If you would like to try these water decals you can find them here

! They are US $6.39 for a set AND you can use my awesome 10% off coupon sincerelystephanienails. Water decals are definitely something I will try again in the future. KKCenterHK has so many unique designs to pick from as well, so if peacock feathers aren’t your thing, then maybe one of their other designs is for you.

Have you ever tried water decals? What’s your experience with them? Would you wear these peacock feathers?

Thanks for stopping by! :D

Swirly Stamping

Morning dolls!

This will be a quick post today, I'm in the middle of reading an amazing book and seriously all I want to do is finish it! LOL! Awhile ago Anutka of Wacky Laki posted a stunning mani based off an opal. As soon as I saw it I knew I had to recreate it!

I started with 2 easy coats of my favourite OPI My Boyfriend Scales the Walls and then added a coat of Finger Paints Motley a blue green flakie. Then I stamped using BM-201 and Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Blue Streak. I was hoping to capture the flakies more in my pictures, but I did this right when I got home from school and I didn't have my normal photo set up yet. So I tried taking pictures in the sun, which didn't come out until the next day.

My favourite thing about this manicure was that as soon as I finished it my mom looked at it and wanted the exact same thing on her nails!

I loved this swirly subtle stamping look! I wish I had been able to capture the flakies colour shift better here. Just imagine it was awesome ok? ;)

I'm back to my book! Hope you're all having a great day!

This Colour is Flecked

Today is the 5th post in the SNAARKM challenge it's so close to being done! Just two more days left. The criteria for today's post is My favourite effect. The first thing that popped into my head when I heard this was flakies. 


I was lucky enough to get all 5 polishes in the Finger Paints Special Effects collection thanks to the lovely Kitty of Kitty Polish n Bags. She had extras and sent me all 5! Love her! These flakies look best over a dark base, generally black, but I wanted to put them over something a little different. I used a deep maroon wine coloured polish OPI's Eiffel for this Color. Then I used Finger Paints Flecked which is a green flakie and Finger Paint's Motley which is a green-blue flakie as an accent nail. 

Damn I love flakies. 

Eiffel for this Colour was a part of OPI's 2008 Tour De France Collection and is a seriously hot vampy colour. It reminds me of Black Cherry Chutney. It is freakin gorgeous. Not  the most unique polish I've ever seen around, but love it regardless. It's dark enough to make the flakies really pop too.

When flakies came out they really stole my heart and have to really be one of my favourite things. 


How do you like my favourite effect? What is your favourite effect? Have you tried putting flakies over any other colours other than black? 


Check out the other girls participating in this challenge! Alaina of The Little Canvas, Ryan of Dream A Little Dream of Polish, Ave of Polish Pixelle, Megan of Let there Be Lacquer, Nicole of My Nails. My Polish, Kristen of In the Name of Polish and Amanda of Fashion Footing.

Lightning Tape Funky French

Good Morning!

Today I have a manicure that I did on my mom a little while ago. I had used Orly's Bailimo's on myself a few days earlier and she was obsessed with the colour so I decided to try my own twist on Lightning Tape manis that Jane from Nailside does so well. I decided to make it more of a french tip than extending further down into the nail. I used Finger Paint's Art You Wondering? for the tip.

Cute right? Since I was alot on a mattifying everything in sight kick at this time we threw a coat of Essie's Matte About You on top!



I love the look of this mattified! It gives a whole new dimension to Bailimos!

What do you think of mattified funky frenches?

Until next time,

Sincerely Stephanie

Art You Wondering about Lightning!

Good Afternoon Lovelies!

How is everyone doing on this post Valentine's Day Wednesday!? Today I have a swatch of a polish I really like called Art You Wondering? by Finger Paints. This polish is a greeny teal micro glitter in a clear base. For me it applied fairly easily and only needing three coats for complete coverage. I find that micro glitters with clear bases generally require more than this depending on how thick your coats are.

As with many micro glitters if you don't take your time with the coats glitter can end up everywhere, so even after clean up I still had a little bit on my skin that just refused to come off!

Then I've been dying to try out my China Glaze Crackle polish as I had previously only used OPI's. Here is Lightning over Art You Wondering?

I was pretty disappointed about the lack of crackle on my later fingers. It started out great on my thumb then as I went along my hand less and less crackle happened and virtually none on my pinky. Hmm... not too sure about that. I do like the colour combo however and maybe with a different stoke technique it will crackle more? I'll look into it.
Please ignore the really odd skin tone of the next pics I took all my pictures in the same light and for some reason even when I tried to alter the colour my hands still look just odd.

And there it is! Hope you're all having a great day!

Until next time,
Sincerely Stephanie

mermaid green glitter gradient

hellloooo lovelies! 


I did another glitter gradient recently using some of the nail polish that my mom got me when she was in the states. Here's the final product!

It really reminded me of a mermaid, or under the sea. It was so shimmery and beautiful that I kept looking at it all day! The first day I wore this I actually wore a sweater that is the same colour as the base coat with some gems and embroidery across the top. I was so matchy it was awesome haha. The polishes I used for this were Orly's Bailamos, Finger Paint's Art You Wondering and LA Girl's Nostalgic in that order. 

Macro shot, look at all that glitter!

After a day of wear I had some tip wear so I decided to put a matte top coat over top to see how it looked!

I liked the matte glitter, because well I love all matte glitters, but I think that since all the polish I used was so close in colour it didn't allow the little pieces to shine through and show of the glitters itself. But I still loved it. It's a blueish colour and well I simply just love blues! 

Until next time,

Sincerely Stephanie

NEW POLISH HAUL!

I have to start off this post by saying my mom is AWESOME. She is completely embracing my obsession and even helping my grow my collection.
This past weekend she was down in the States and while she was there picked me up SEVEN new polishes! Just cause. Needless to say last night when she came home I was drooling just staring at all my gorgeous new polish. 
Here is everything that I got! 

my stash!

Art You Wondering, Bailamos, Lightning Bolt (crackle)

Synergy, Eutopia, Nostalgic, Celebrate

Glass Nail File!!

FULL SIZED STRAWS!

So for those of you that are incredibly confused by the 100 full sized straws, here's a quick run down. When I did my splatter mani last week I only had a teeny tiny straw and ended up with polish all over my lips and teeth because it was only about 2 inches long so the polish was getting everywhereeeeeee. So my loving mother decided to pick me up 100 full sized straws so that won't happen again! So thoughtful haha


I can't wait to swatch all of these for you! Look for them this upcoming week! 


Until next time,
Sincerely Stephanie