Snowflakes!

Ok, so as you all are still just getting to know me, you wouldn't know yet that I LOVE snowflakes (but now you do, and you can see another snowflake mani in my inspired by a movie post... Just ignore the really bad first set of nail pics on that post).

Anyway, I had a holiday party to go to in the very begining of January, and wanted to do my nails (finally). I decided that, even though it was a Christmas party, since it was after Christmas, I didn't want to do a mani that was specifically Christmas. As it was still winter though, and I love snowflakes, I figured that snowflakes would be a great idea (plus I found some online pictures that I fell in love with). So below is the mani I ended up with.

I will apologize that the picture is from a day or two later, so the polish is chipped, and that there is only one picture... also for the horrible position of my hand (working on that stuff)... Oh well... At least you still get to see it!

Colors used:

Base Color: "Romanticism Ruby" by Finger Paints

Stamp Color: "French White Crème" by Wet n Wild (wild shine)

Image Plate: "BM-323" by Bundle Monster

Holy Crap!!!

So, I just realized that it has been 2 1/2 years since I last posted... What the Hell? Well, I will tell you what has happened, and maybe you can forgive me.

So later in the year that I last posted (2013) we had my sister's wedding, and just under a year after I last posted, I added another tiny to my horde, another girl, and that means more nails to paint, yeay! (I will say she is now just about 20 months, and any time she sees nail polish or a nail file she touches her nails and says nail... She also has tried to file and clip her own nails, and has even opened a nail polish and tried painting her own nails... So proud, and yet very scared. I may end up having to change the name of this blog to "Just a girl, her 2 girls, and their polish". lol) So between being super sick before hand (morning sickness the whole time), and then busy as Hell with 3 tinys, and still working (plus I just can't get motivated to paint my nails when they are super short... Which they have been... Garr...), I really have not had time to do my nails. Well that is changing! I actually have at least 2 recent manis that I am about to post. WooHoo!

I have also started taking better care of my nails (and even started teaching the oldest tiny (my first girl, who's nails were pictured at the age of 4, in August of 2012, in my "Yellow" challenge, and who is now almost 8... Wha???) to oil her cuticles and nails every night), and hopefully I can grow mine out, and keep them long and healthy, so there should be more posts again, and heck I may even join in some challenges again! 

Also super excited to have just discovered that "blogger", the website I use for my blog has an app! This makes it easier to write posts as I can start and save them on my phone... (Say while I am waiting to pick up tinys at school) and then finish them with the pictures at home.

My goal this year... After having looked back at my old manis, and seeing how horrible most of them are, I have invested in some new tools to help do better manis, and am striving to put out manis people actually want to see. I also plan to buy a better light bulb, so that my pictures will be better, and I can take them inside instead of using my car as a backdrop and the sun as a light. I hope to sort of put the past behind me, and start over as a good, new, and fresh nail blogger. There are a few of my old manis that I am proud of, and I may do a post soon as a look back at my proudest moment from before, and bring them back to life, then just forget the rest. 

So if you liked what I put out before, or at least stayed with me thank you, but let's get better!

Any who, there is so much more I could say, but we don't need to spend more time listening to my ranting, so just wait for my next two, maybe three posts!

4th of July

Ok, so first off to all my followers, and anyone who checks out my page. I am truly sorry for not having posted anything in sooo long. I actually have done a few manis since my last post, but I have been to busy to post it. So I figure here is a good one.

One or more of the groups that I an in on fb, are doing a  4th of July challenge, I am not, but I decided after seeing a number of the other posts, that I would like to do one. I also figured since I was going to be out all day with the fam doing 4th type things this would be nice.

First of when choosing what to do, I didn't want to do something that was over the top. I wanted something that was subtle, and elegant. So I hope you like my little tribute to the nation of my birth!

Colors used:

Base Color: "Superstar!" by Pure Ice

Stripes Stamp Color: "Crawford's Wine" by Orly

Stars Stamp Color: "Saved by the Blue" by Wet n Wild (fastdry)

Stripes Image Plate: "Mash-40" by Mash Nails

Stars Image Plate: "CH24" by Cheeky

I Am Back... Kind Of...

First off I would like to apologize to all of my readers, that I have not posted anything new in well forever. I don't really know what happened.

First I just kind of fell of the face of the planet, and then when I was about to put out a new post, my daughter accidentally slammed my fingers in a door, and broke two of my nails half way down the beds. It was a bloody, painful mess, and just couldn't do any form of mani. Since then I have been battling them growing out, and am just starting to get a small amount of nail (they are very pathetic right now). So hopefully soon I will have the nails again that I feel are good enough to start doing some form of art on. Right now I do have one nail that I have a silk wrap on to keep it from taring, but that should grow out soon.

I must say I am very happy to see that people are still visiting my site, and I do appreciate the loyalty so much. Hopefully soon I will have a new mani to post. Until then, enjoy your manis.

ABC's Week 4 - 'D'

Ok, so let me start of by saying Grrr... I had this post set up Tuesday morning, ready to be posted on Wednesday, and then I get a really nasty 24 hour stomach bug... I could barley do anything but lay down, and... never mind you don't need to know the rest. Anyways I tried really hard to have this out on the due date, but oh well...

For this week, we have the letter D. I knew last week what I wanted to do. I was looking through my image plates, and saw this one image, that just clicked on a light in my head... and I though...

DANDELION!!!`

So now that you know what I choose to do, I don't know what else to say, so here are the pictures. Hope you like them as much as I do. (I really liked how this one came out as well... I guess I am getting a little better then I used to be since I seem to be liking more of my manis...) Also sorry for the funky light, it is heavily raining here, and I used the light from my turtle tank, hoping it would be the closest to the sun light, and not give that orange tinge.

Any way enough of my rambling. Pictures!!!

Colors used:

Base Color: "Cinderella" by Sinful Colors

Stamp Color: "Black Creme" by Wet n Wild (wild shine)

Image Plate: "Mash-30" by Mash Nails

Trick or Treats (Nail Tarts Halloween 2012)

Woo Hoo, time for Orange!

Ok, so I have always kind of loved orange, so since this is my first Halloween challenge, I decided I would just have to use orange.

So for this challenge it said Trick or Treats... so I wasn't sure how to do any form of Trick, so I decided to do Treats. There are a number of stamps that depict different types of candy. So having a bunch to choose from, I decided to do stamped images of Treats!

I had first started out doing a free style candy corn nail, as this was the example used for the challenge, but didn't really like the way it turned out (actually at first I did the colors upside down, and it looked awesome, but then when I did it correctly, I didn't like it). So I decided to change and do all the nails kind of the same.

I really like how these came out. Especially the double effect of the silver under the black, I think it gave them another dimension. I hope you enjoy! (and yes I am going to say something like this each time, but if you don't like it then that means I need to get better, so let me know and help me grow!)

Colors used:

Base Color: "Orange" by Wet n Wild (Fantasy Makers)

Silver: "No Place Like Chrome" by Essie

Black: "Black Creme" by Wet n Wild (wild shine)

Image Plate: "BM02" by Bundle Monster

Image Plate: "BM-322" by Bundle Monster

Halloween Here We Come!

So today starts the season... well A Season, and that would be the season of HALLOWEEN! Now I can't wait till THE season, Woo Hoo, but that will be later...

So during the month of October, I will be endeavoring to complete a number of different challenges. I will be continuing with the ABC's that I am doing, but now will be adding three others (one of which starts Saturday, so I will tell about that one later when it starts).

So the two new ones (I think it is only two, will update if I find others) that I will be doing are both Halloween themed... Luckily both are only a few days, not everyday like the 31 Day Challenge (which would just be too much) so I should be able to pull off all of my challenges (so excited).

The first one that I will tell you about, actually has set days and the first of which will be today (that post to come). This challenge is being presented by the group Crumpet's Nail Tarts, and will be their 2012 Halloween Challenge, below you will find the challenge.

The second one is an event created by SassyNails, a fellow nail polisher. This one is the Nail-Aween Nail Art Challenge. The difference with this challenge, is you are given 10 different challenge days, but you can do them when ever you can, as long as you get them all done by the end of the month. Meaning no set day... Find this challenge below.

So one thing that is nice, is that since the Nail-Aween challenge does not have set days, if by chance I do a mani that is the same on my other challenge, it will work for this one too, so it may be easier then I thought.

Well, that concludes my announcement of my Halloween challenges (I like to tell you about a challenge before I start it, as you may have noticed before). So I hope you are ready for a lot of Halloween inspired manis (but there will be others to break up the over load), so join me for the season of Halloween through my manis!!!