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!

Glitter

As many of you know by now, my favorite band is Motley Crue.  I was sort of inspired by their song, "Glitter," after the fact.  Every time I looked at this mani I got that song in my head. The silver just looks like tiny bits of glitter floating down from the ceiling, I love the look of it.

I started with a coat of Sinful Colors', Black on Black, and then used a cotton ball to sponge on the LA Color's polish, Live.  If I had to do this again I would use a sponge, but I didn't have one handy and I didn't feel like digging through my makeup bag to find one.

I put the polish on the back of one of my image plate holders and then dipped the cotton ball into the polish, tapped it off a couple times, then dapped it onto the nail.

Then I grabbed my Red Angel imgae plate RA-119 and stamped onto two of the nails with Sally Hansen's Chrome polish in Red.  I love, love, love the chrome polishes, they stamp like a dream.

I finished it all off with a coat of Seche Vite and away I went.  I really loved these nails.  I adored the way they sparkled whenever I typed today, or did anything for that matter!  And I got a billion compliments and questions about them.  They were definitely one of my most talked about manis of late!

 

Now, the important part of today!  Motley Crue.  :)  This is a song that my twin brother used to play CONSTANTLY on our way home from high school and I, shockingly enough, HATED it.  But I've since learned to love it!  Who would have thought, me hate anything by Crue!  It makes me think of my bro every time I hear it and I miss him since he's far away at grad school now.  By the way, I would like to point out, that it is certainly not the lyrics that make me think of my bro, Eric just pointed out how bad that sounded if anyone listens to them!  Well, without further ado, "Glitter."

Base Coat: Essie Sensitivity Base Coat

Nail Color: Sinful Colors - Black on Black

Sponge Color: LA Colors - Live

Stamping Color - Sally Hansen Chrome - Red

Nail Plate - Red Angel - RA-119

Top Coat: Seche Vite Top Coat

Black or White

The song "Black or White" was for some reason my favorite Michael Jackson song when I was a kid.  Why, I'm not sure, are there better songs of his?  Absolutely, but that one was just my favorite.  Now what does that really have to do with these nails?  Not a whole lot, except they do have black and white in them!

 

 I used the Sally Hansen's Diamond Strength polish in True Love for the base.  Then I used the special Konad polish in white with their plate, M19, for the tips.

 

For the design on the tips I used the Konad polish, Shocking Pink, and the Bundle Monster plate, BM17.  I love the way they look!  The silver under the tips was done with the L.A Color's, Art Deco, polish in the silver glitter.

And because I loved them, but still thought they needed something I added on a nail decal sticker with two black flowers and a pearl onto one finger on each hand.  I usually like to do the ring finger on the left hand and the pointer finger on the right.  I just don't like them the same on both hands, I like to change it up a bit!