Cinco de Mayo Nails Did

Arrriiiiba!!!

LOL so these nails started out with all the best intentions. They're supposed to be happy cactuses with sombrero's on...but really they kinda look like scary green scarecrows. :S

Ah well the spirit of the season is behind them at least right?? Right?? Ah, well you can't be perfect all of the time! :D

For the base I used China Glaze Solar Power with some orange nail art pens for the tips. For the cactus I used green nail art pens and for the sombrero I frankened Rimmel Torrid with OPI Curry up Don't be Late.

Maybe they look like they have beards? Oh and I apologize for the semi-blurry pics - my camera died after only two photos!

I feel like I'm struggling this week hahahah, I think its just out of pure exhaustion. :P I need to sleep!!

Hope everyone has a shot of tequila for me!

Its Definately Not Easy Being Green Nails Did

Okay so in my last post I was super excited because I just got my hands on two Zoya polishes which I had been coveting ON SALE! So tonight I thought I'd try Zoya Veruschka since it was eying me tantalizingly from its bottle.

Here it is with nothing on it. It was actually really surprising to me. Usually I check out a lot of polish sites and swatches before I grab a polish but this one caught my eye right off the shelf and I didn't do any further research into it. So who knew it was going to go on almost like Emerald Sparkle...but then it went matte/shimmer...and then just matte. It was kinda dissapointing that with all that application shimmer that it would kinda just fade away :( So now its just a really dark matte green. But I can work with that.

Oh and before I continue - holy long drying time batman!! I must have smudged my right thumb like two times before it finally set. SO FRUSTRATING!

So I wanted to keep it simple, mostly because I'm not feeling too well and have the sniffles :( So I decided to use a Konad plate and Nubar Wildlife which I haven't gotten a chance to use yet. So this is plate M51's flower design. And then I put a rhinestone in the middle which involved me somehow getting super glue on my tongue! I don't know how these things happen I'm just awesome like that :S

By the way these had to be one of the hardest things to photograph to date! But as you can see the Zoya polish is hardly shimmery and the Nubar polish is just meh. I think Wildlife would be awesome as a base but not so much Konading...or perhaps i just have to find the right base for it. I consider this a mani-fail. So not in love with it but it'll have to do for one day until I find the strength to change it tomorrow. Boo.

Oh and here is a swatch of the Gosh Golden Dragon polish I bought yesterday too. This is two coats. It's kind of a blue/green with a hint of gold. I think it definately would need more than 2 coats if it was going to be your base. But the colour is super!

Muppets for Sheilah Nails Did

I haven't seen Sheilah in about a year now! Oh the days of sitting in edit...doing more gossiping than work, yet still being so efficient you would think all we talked about was putting together W Network nexts and nows. MOAR KISSING SCENES! Oh the good old days. Now the coordinators don't even sit in with the editors. :(

So to entice her to come back I did her request of muppet nails. Granted they're not very good. So all I want is for her to visit with no obligation to stay. I think that's fair!

AHAHAAHAH look at that mess. LOL. Okay so - The thumb is Kermit, pointer is Miss Piggy (it is too!), middle is Gonzo, ring is Animal and pinky is Beeker.


I think Kermit came out the best...which isn't saying much LOL.

Okay everything has a base of CH White on White.

Kermit: CH Liquid Leather for the black and Nubar Green Tea for the Green. I used a darker green art pen to line around everything

Miss Piggy: Nail art pens, CH Solar Power for the Hair and CH Neon Purple Panic for the eyeshadow.

Gonzo: No name light blue from the dollar store for his beak, CH Sexy in the City for his hair, CH Solar Power for his yellow eyelids and CH Liquid Leather for the black.

Animal: (ahahahah..sure) CH Neon Purple Panic for the hair, Liquid Leather for the black, OPI Thrill in Brazil for the red and an orange nail art pen.

Beaker: Actually this one isn't that bad... Pink nail art pen for his skin, orange nail art pen for his nose and hair and Thrill in Brazil for the mouth.

BTW Sheilah, this took 1.5 hours. That's how much I heart you.

Oh friendship.

Sparkles and Lace Nails Did

I did this a couple of days ago but didn't get around to posting it.

I feel like this is a definite Konad fail, but I guess all in all it didn't come out TOO bad. I really need to get a better black nail polish (but OCnailart is shipping my package now!!!). I was trying to do a 1/2 lace look, 1/2 sparkle thing...and for some reason this manicure took me almost 2 1/2 hours. Why? Because I kept getting my f'ing thumb stuck to cotton pad whenever I was cleaning the Konad plate.

Konad tip #1 learned the hard way: do not clean the plate with a cotton pad - use a folded tissue!

Seriously, I think I redid the thumb like 3 times.

So this is China Glaze Platinum Silver as a base, Sally Hansen Black with KP M66, black nail art pen for the line and Sally Hansen Disco ball for the glitter on the other 1/2 of the nail.