Can't Stand The Heartache

There is this song by Skid Row called, "Can't Stand the Heartache," and every time I saw these nails one of the lyrics from that song popped into my head.  Actually it's my favorite line in that song!  I would glance down and all I would hear was, "so bleeds the red, red rose!"  I know, very poetic!  Anyways...

I started out with painting everything but my ring finger on one hand and the pointer on the other with the NFU-Oh polish in 61.  I painted the other nail with the Rapid Red polish by Sally Hansen.

I love, love, love that polish.  It's so pretty in the light, I can hardly stop staring at my nails!

I then used the NFU-Oh and the red Konad special polish to stamp on each nail.  I used plate RA-107 from the Red Angel set.

I finished everything off with a coat of Seche Vite.

Now, please enjoy the sexy, sexy Sebastian Bach and "Can't Stand the Heartache."  :)

Base Coat: Essie Fill the Gap

Polishes:

      Nfu-OH 61

      Sally Hansen InstaDri - Rapid Red

Stamping Polishes

      Nfu-OH 61

       Konad Special Polish - Red

Plate: Red Angel - RA-107

Top Coat: Seche Vite

Paisley Park

Last week I ordered a couple of the Cheeky plates off of Amazon.  I will do a post about them all later this week (including the set with 29 plates), but these nails were done with one of the sets of the jumbo nail plates.  I used plate C out of the Z3 set (you can check them out here).

I love, love, love these black and white nails.  The images I used off the plate were the two paisley prints.

I first did a coat of Essie's Fill the Gap base coat.  Then I painted four of my nails black and the ring finger white.  I used the Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in Whirlwind White and then Sinful Color's polish, Black on Black.

I used the Konad special polishes to stamp in black and white.

These plates stamp beautifully, the jumbo set at least, they are not too deep or shallow.  They produce a nice crisp image.  They may not look it because of the photos, all I had with me was my cell phone, but in person the nails are beautiful.  I got a lot of compliments on them while Eric and I were out to dinner and a movie last night.

Well do enjoy Prince's, "Paisley Park," to go with my paisley nails!

Base Coat: Essie - Fill The Gap

Polishes:

      Black:  Sinful Colors - Black on Black

     White: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri - Whirlwind White

Stamping Polishes:

      Black:  Konad Special Polish

     White:  Konad Special Polish
Image Plate: Cheeky - Jumbo Plate C
Top Coat: Seche Vite

Kokomo

One of my friends was having a beach themed party a couple of weeks ago.   Obviously I thought that was a magnificent chance to do some very colorful nails I wouldn't normally wear!

I started out doing a water marble with a yellow, pink, purple, and a light blue/green color.  Of course I didn't think to take a picture of the nails without the stamps on them to show the water marble.  I did really like the look of it.  The colors were very tropical together.  Almost looked like a sun set.

I also do a base of white before I do any water marbling, it seems to make the colors pop a lot better, especially with colors like these.  If I'm doing a two toned water marble with say black and pink, I usually put the pink down as my base.

I used a combination of Chez Delaney, Bundle Monster, and Salon Express plates to achieve this look.  I used the black special Konad polish to stamp with.

As always I topped everything off with a coat of Seche Vite and off I went!  I was the hit of the party!  Even Eric liked them :)

"Kokomo," by The Beach Boys, gets my vote for song of the day.  Especially because of this video, nothings wrong with having to look at a little John Stamos!  Yummy yummy.  I love this song, just reminds me of sitting on a beach drinking something with an umbrella in it!

Forever In Blue Jeans

I love that the water marble in this mani looks like denim in real life.  I'm not sure if it really comes across in the pictures, but they were gorgeous.  I didn't like them when I first did them, but they definitely grew on me!

Please ignore how weird my skin color looks, it was either making the nails look normal or the skin that day and I decided the nails, as usual, were more important.  My camera just did not want to participate!

I water marbled these nails with a navy blue and a white polish.

Then I stamped with the white special Konad polish onto each nail with an image from a Red Angel Plate.  As always I finished them off with a coat of Seche Vite.  I'll update later in the day with exactly what I used for the whole process!  Anyways, please enjoy Mr Neil Diamond and "Forever in Blue Jeans."

Base Coat: Essie Sensitivity Base Coat
Water Marble
Stamping Color: Konad special white
Image Plate: Red Angel - 
Top Coat: Seche Vite

Last Christmas

I was listening to Wham's, "Last Christmas," while I was working on my nails tonight so I figured a bumble gum pop song deserved some bubble gum pink nails!  And people say I only listen to hair metal...  you have to throw George Michael and Wham in the mix every once in a while!  I am very happy to be starting my last few days before Christmas doing Christmas mani's!  I will probably throw in a couple none Christmas posts here and there.  Maybe I'll just be a nice person and throw up more than one blog a day!  Who knows, I guess we will all have to wait and see.  :)

 

I will be adding a complete list of everything used at the bottle of this post so that I won't have to go into complete detail of all the items I used.

I started out by painting each nail a different color, two on each hand were painted pink, two were painted white with a glitter over them, and one was painted silver with two different silver glitters on top.

I grabbed every Christmas plate I could find in my book of plates, these plates included a mix of Konad, Bundle Monster, and also the Chez Delaney D-Series plates.  There were 9 or 10 plates total so it was a lot to keep track of!

I used the special Konad polish in white and then the two Sally Hansen Insta-Dri colors, Silver Swept and Presto Pink to stamp with.

 

I finished the nails off with the top coat Seche Vite to give them that amazing shine!

I hope you all are having a very merry few days before Christmas and please enjoy a little Wham!

Base Coat: Essie Sensitivity Basecoat

Base Colors:

*Pink Nails: Sally Hansen - Insta-Dri - Presto Pink

*White Nails:

1. Sally Hansen - Insta-Dri - Whirlwind White

2. Sally Hansen - Diamond Strength - Diamonds

*Silver Nails:

1. L.A. Colors - Color Craze - Live (1 coat)

2. Sinful Colors - Queen of Beauty (2 coats)

3. L.A. Colors - Color Craze - Sparkling Diamonds

1st Top Coat:

NYC - In a Minute - Top Coat

Konad Polishes:

1. Konad - Special Polish - White

2. Sally Hansen - Insta-Dri - Silver Swept

3. Sally Hansen - Insta-Dri - Presto Pink

Glitter Over Konad Images:

1. Sally Hansen - Diamond Strength - Diamonds (Over tree on ring)

2. L.A. Colors - Art Deco - Ice Breaker (Over presents & hats)

Plates Used:

1. Chez Delaney - D Series - D01

2. Chez Delaney - D Series -  D02

3. Chez Delaney - D Series -D07

4. Bundle Monster -BM-205

5. Bundle Monster -BM-225
6. Bundle Monster -BM-214
7. Bundle Monster -BM-209

8. Konad - M59

9. Fauxnad - Octogan Plate - M26

Woke Up With a Monster

 

Thought I would start with the nails and work my way to the inspiration.  I started out with my usual base coat of Gelous.  Then I added two coats of China Glaze's Mummy May I.  It's this gorgeous deep purple with glitter in it.  I don't use it very often, but every time I do I absolutely LOVE the way it looks.

I then used the Bundle Monster plate BM-209, I stamped this with the white special Konad polish.  Then I added these gold and white sticker decals that I got in a penny auction on eBay just to add another dimension to the nails.  I topped all this off with the usual Seche Vite and went on my way.  I was really happy with the way these turned out.

 

This was a manicure where I got a lot of questions and comments from random people I didn't even know.  Does anyone else have a hard time trying to explain Konad to someone who has never hear of it?

Today's song is by Cheap Trick and it's called "Woke Up With a Monster."  For some reason whenever I hear people talk about any sort of mummy's or monsters my brain goes to this song or the David Bowie song, "Scary Monster."  I hope you all have a very monstrous day!  :)

Tigertailz

My, my, my, you aren't even prepared for how lucky you are with the song that inspired me tonight.  First though, I'll give you a look at the manicure, then I'll let you enjoy the rockingness of the very underrated, but incredible hair metal band, Tigertailz.  (And yes, I'm positive that rockingness isn't a word, but it should be!)

The base color is a franken tan, I used an unnamed Playboy brand tan polish, with the two Sinful Colors polishes: Easy Going and Nirvana.  I didn't have a tan that I liked so I had no choice but to mix one up.  I didn't think it was worth buying something new when I probably wouldn't wear it very often and I really didn't feel like going out to a store at 4:00am.

I then stamped the nails with the Bundle Monster plate BM-223.  Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, I didn't stamp the image very well and had to add something else to it.

Since I had made my own base coat for this and not made enough, when I screwed up my stamping on a couple of the nails I was not able to take the polish off and start again.  So I had to improvise.

I grabbed my favorite black polish, which I don't even know the name of.  I bought it only because of the bottle, which I absolutely love.  However it doesn't have a label or anything on it and I didn't think to save the packaging at the time.  I'm sure that any polish would work for this though.  I just made a straight line down the edge of each nail.  I was going to use my new blue painters tape to mask them off as I wanted them perfect, but as usual I couldn't find it at 4:00am when I was doing my nails.  Other than the fact that some of the black lines are thicker than others, I think it actually turned out just fine that I didn't use the masking tape.

Now for the saddest part of my tale, something very tragic happened today.  I smashed my hand into the door and broke the nail on my middle finger.  It now matches the nail on the other middle finger that I broke last week.  Damn fingers...  :)

All in all, I am extremely happy with the look of this mani, which is very rare for me, I'm never satisfied with my nails.  But these ones will defintiely be staying on for at least a day or two!  :)  Now without further ado, please enjoy the AMAZING hair metal band Tigertailz and the ROCKING, "Love Bomb Baby."

Shot Through The Heart

Welcome back my dear readers!  While digging through my old pictures of nail designs I came across these oldies but goodies.  I had forgotten all about them and was madly in love with them when I did them.  I've been very into having nails lately that are in a state of organized chaos.  They all go together, but none of them match.

I used a hot pink color and a the black from Wet N Wild to paint each nail.  I then used the white, black, and shocking pink special to do all of the stamping.

I used a combination of the Bundle Monster plates, the Konad plates, and a couple fauxnad plates that I have to create the designs.

The whole design came about because I had just seen this sexy, sexy picture of Mr. Jon Bon Jovi and I knew I needed to do something with pink.  I had just done a green leopard print like his pants a few days before... but that is another post. :)

 

If anyone would like to know the plates that I used to create this I am more than happy to let you know, just leave me a comment and I'll get them posted.

Now, since I'll such a nice person I will leave you with the sexy Bon Jovi and "You Give Love a Bad Name."

Blue

I heard the song Blue by Eiffel 65 while in my car the other day, it immediatelty sent me right back to middle school and I did a manicure to show my love for the song.

To do these nails all I did was put a base coat on, Gelous by the same company that makes one of my favorite top coats, In A Hurry.

Then I used the blue Konad stamping polish with the M19 plate to add the blue.

Then I added a sticker decal off a set given to me by my niece and finished it all off with a coat of Seche Vite.

There you have it!  For your reward you get to enjoy Blue (Da Ba Dee)!  Hope you have a very blue day!

Elektra

By now I'm sure you know how much I love the Tronica collection by China Glaze.  I bought all of the colors and a couple of them I even bought two of!  And I'm sure you also know by now what a bitch these colors are to photograph.  I take hundreds of pictures and they STILL don't turn out right!  But I thought I would give it a whirl anyways...  For this mani I used the Electra Magenta color...and mainly because I loved the name!  My brother had just suggested the Dio song, "Elektra," to me days before I saw this color so I knew I had to buy it and try it out that night!

I wasn't sure I was going to like this color but it is so pretty on!  I just love the way these Tronica colors sparkle in the sunlight!

And since I can't leave well enough alone I broke out my Konad and went to town.  Of course I added the top coat, "In A Hurry," before I did any stamping as usual...

I used the Konad plate M69 with the Sally Hansen Insta-Dri polish in Silver Sweep to do the nail design.  I saw this plate on eBay and I HAD to have it.  It is the first plate in a long time that I actually paid full price for.

I then broke out the rhinestones I got off of eBay and my brush on nail glue.  I added two clear rhinestone to each nail.  I thought it gave the nails a little something extra...  Not that they needed anymore sparkle!

And there you have it ladies, I added a coat of Seche Vite and I was out the door.  Another quick and easy mani!