Return Of The Nail Art!

I've been pretty busy over the month of January! I've been keeping on track with my New Year's resolutions, filling some custom orders for nails, and helping my husband with his palm trees. In fact, Today I worked on the very plants used in the background photo for this blog and my website!

Happy Halloween!

Good Morning Everyone!! Happy Halloween! It's been a lot busy here lately. (when isn't it, right?) I hope all of you that were in the path of Sandy find yourselves safe and sound today!!

Today's nail art is one I did last spring, but haven't posted just because the color combination so obviously screamed Halloween! So, I saved it just for today.

Without further ado, I bring you pictures!

I used Mattetastrophe to give the orange a matte finish and left the black glossy and  trimmed the diagonal with a gold glitter. 

I hope your Halloween is filled with more treats than tricks!! What are you dressing up as?? I still have no clue! :O 

Let's Hear it for the Bridesmaid

Good Morning and Happy Friday Eve! Today will be the last post of my bridal/prom series and this mani is aimed at both bridesmaids and prom goers alike. I chose a bold red color as my base, in fact, I chose my all time favorite glittery red, China Glaze's "Ruby Pumps". Let's get right to it shall we? I'm always giddy over anything I do including this polish.

I stamped a white floral design over the red, attached rhinestones to the middle of the two main flowers and silver microbeads as accents.

I definitely had this in mind more for prom than for a bridesmaid - but at my last wedding, my bridesmaids were dressed in red. Yah, don't ask. It can happen, I know I'm not the only weirdo who picks that color. lol

I hope you liked today's nail art designs and my little bridal/prom series. I'll be posting more of these here and there but they will be more versatile and I'll label those that would work for those type of events as well as everyday wear. Also, tomorrow will be another "FishEggFriday" and I'll be reporting in on the durability of this week's "FishEgg Mani" and we'll see just how well I did at making this style "ready to wear" using just regular polish and including before and after photos!  Thanks for reading!!

MY Bridal Nails

Good Morning and Happy Tuesday! As I previously promised, today I'll be showing off the nails I plan on wearing for my own wedding. This will be my third marriage (his first) and we've decided to keep it VERY low key and casual. I will still be wearing a dress - but it'll be a tie-dyed strapless cotton sundress. Orange and blue. After six kids and two previous marriages, I'm just so far beyond a "white" dress it's not even funny.

I already have matching jewelry that was made for me by a friend and I promise to post pix of the completed look when it's closer to the big day.

The dress is tye-dyed and the perfect matching mani for it is a watermarble!! It just don't get any better than that. Here's another shot of it.

Of course, my favorite orange shade is China Glaze's "Riveting" from the Hunger Games Collections and that's the orange I used here. The Navy/purple is just a cheap polish I picked up on sale at CVS and is from my personal nail polish stash. Yah, I really do keep a separate set of nail polishes just for myself. I mean if a client really really likes it, sure I'll use it. It is just one of the few polishes that I have purchased with myself, rather than clients, in mind.

I hope you enjoyed seeing a preview peek of my wedding attire and thank you for reading!

Who doesn't love a good matte look?

Good Morning and Happy Friday Eve!! I stayed up a little late last night doing this mani and my mani for "Fish Egg Friday". Starting tomorrow, the theme for all my nail art for the next week (if not longer) will be Bridal! What better way to start than with a caviar mani??

That all begins tomorrow, I have not forgotten today's Nail Art!! I have been dying to try a matte stamping design and I finally worked out one that I really really like!! I hope you do tooo.

I am just sooo in love with this look!! That's "Riveting" from China Glaze's Hunger Games Collection. It's second only to "Ruby Pumps" as my favorite polish. Adding the matte top coat was really what made this look for me.

You know I took more than a few pictures of this, so I'm going to show them all.

That's all I have for you lovelies today. Don't forge that this week is bridal week and spread the word to those friends looking to get married this summer! ;)

Can you be subtle with a color this vampy?

Happy Friday everyone! I hope you have a groovy week and are ready for the weekend!

I'm a huge fan of Sammy and her wicked stamping skills, and some of my favorites of hers are done with darker colors, so I decided to give it a shot. I love what I do, I love doing fun bold designs on myself, but I am a professional and it's usually not my tastes that I need to be catering to! I'm not a fan of dark nail polish colors but I just loved this one in the bottle since the moment I laid eyes on it. I was disappointed in how little glitter actually comes out on the nail - but those non-glittery clients I have (yes, they do exist!) actually like it that it isn't so glittery and sparkly. It's these gals that I had in mind for today.

I picked that stamp design because it's much more subtle without being almost invisible.The nail color is OPI's OPI Ink.

Here's another angle with the light coming from a different direction and you can see how the color goes from a bright blurple to almost black. It's not a duochrome but you definitely get different looks depending on the lighting.  I find it much more suitable for a club than anything else but everyone has their own aesthetic.

I hope you enjoyed today's post and thanks for reading! See you tomorrow! 

Hunger Games!

That's right, I said it. Today I have both a Hunger Games Mani and a Hunger Games Pedi to show you. I decided to show a pedi because I actually do some Nail Art on a Pedi too, and it matches when possible. Sometimes a client will go a little wilder on their toes because they are not allowed to be so bold with their fingers for work. Even on those occasions when I am at liberty to "match" like this, I still usually alter the pedi design a little bit to suit toes. See for yourself and tell me what you think?

Certainly not the best shot of my toes ever...but you can clearly see there's a minor difference between the Pedi and the Mani below.

The Colors I used on the Mani are (cuticle to free-edge) "Stone Cold", "Harvest Moon", "Riveting" and finally, "Electrify". I toned it down for the toes and did "Stone Cold"," Riveting" and on the big toe I added a thin bit of "Electrify". They clearly go together but they aren't exactly the same.

Just as an aside, I went back to my Gelish Sunset Mani and stamped a new design on it. Of course, you know I took pix to show and share! The pedi, however, *that* I kept. I genuinely like it and I thought it would be different from my usual plain shade of polish. 

What are your plans for the Hunger Games? Going to see it opening night? Are you reading the books now or have you read them already?