San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)

"If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair."  I absolutely LOVE this song by Scott McKenzie, at least once a week I play it on my way into work.  And after I saw the Chez Delaney plate with the 60s flowers on them, this song popped into my head and I knew I needed to do a mani with the flowers while listening to this song.

I started out with a base of my usual color for french tips, Girly by Orly.  I then used plate M19 from Konad and added french tips with Sally Hansen's Insta-Dri in Silver Sweep.  It didn't even occur to me until after I had already done the next step to start taking pictures!

I added the "In a Hurry" top coat before I went any further, just in case I screwed up with the stamping.  I go back in forth between really loving the Seche Vite and really loving the In A Hurry top coat.  Sometimes I'll use both in a single mani!  Anyways, I used China Glaze's For Audrey (my all time favorite color of theirs!) with one of my fauxnad plates B57.  I'm sure it's a knock-off of a Konad plate, I just don't know which one!  I got it on eBay for .99 cents so I don't really care either!  :)

I used my Chez Delaney plate D10 to do the flowers with the white special Konad polish.  I broke up the image and put different flowers in different places so none of the nails were exactly the same.

 

This is hands down one of my most favorite manicure I've ever done.  I got so many compliments on these nails, even from guys!  I think I kept them on for three days, which as you know if a lifetime for me!

Photograph (Warning: Very Picture Heavy!)

This is just a mix of things that I didn't take enough pictures of to make it a full post, but that I love/like enough to share.  The rocking song of the day is by one of the most amazing bands to see live, hair metal's Def Leppard.  If you ever get the chance to see a concert of them, don't think about it... GO.  This is their hit "Photograph" in honor of the pictures you're about to see. :)

We will start with my favorite manicure of the set.  I've actually done these nails a couple of times and at some point I will dedicate an entire post to them, but for now...  This will be your little teaser.  This is done with the Konad plate M13 and the polish is a pale yellow by Sinful Colors (eek I don't remember which!).

The top one shows the image better, but the bottom picture is a little closer to the true colors of the polishes.

This next set was done with the Bundle Monster plate BM19 and the white Konad polish.

These were done with a dark purple base coat by Sally Hansen, then I added the "Purple Glitter" by Sinful Colors.  On top of that I added a black french tip.  Surprisingly I got a lot of compliments on this manicure!

These last ones here are water marbled (obviously!) and were done with the  Wet 'N Wild's Fast Dry polish in How I Met Your Magenta, the black is Sinful Color's Secret Admirer, and Orly's glitter Love Each Other.

Just thought I would share what a mess my water marbling is when I don't do a very good job of taping off my fingers!  It's good to make sure everyone knows how FAR from perfect I really am!

Captain Crash And The Beauty Queen From Mars

"Captain Crash And The Beauty Queen From Mars"  "by the gorgeous Mr. Jon Bon Jovi has the HONOR of being my song of the day.  I was looking around online for some inspiration for a new manicure and it just so happened that I found a song that fit for one I did a while back!

This is Orly's polish in Dazzle.  I am absolutely in love with this silver nail polish.  I've used it no less than a thousand times now.  I added a bit of silver glitter to it, just to make it pop a little more, for this I used Sinful Color's Queen of Beauty.  I know I've shown you this polish before so you'll have to dig if you want to see it on it's own!  :)

I then did what I always do before I Konaded on top of my base color, I added a top coat to keep from ruining the manicure when I made a mistake while stamping.

For this I used the Bundle Monster plate  BM16 and the black special Konad polish.   I am so in love with these nails I cannot stand it.  They are so 80s and fantastic it's almost too much to bare.  They probably remind me of the 80s so much because they look just like the 80's band, Zebra's, album cover!  Well and who wasn't wearing zebra print in the 80s?!  I sure know I was!

Anyways, after I added the Bundle Monster image to the nails, I put on a thick coat of Seche Vite and went out on the town to show off these beauties!  Alright ladies and gentlemen, honest opinion time, what do you think?

Because for me, I'm absolutely in love!

Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree

"Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree," sang there by Frank Sinatra is my song of the day.  I wanted to show off the first manicure I did with my filo canes with these adorable little yellow ribbon bows.

This is Orly's polish in Girly.  Then I used the M19 Konad plate with their special polish in white for the tips.

Then I put on a coat of Seche Vite before adding the yellow fimo bows.  The bows were attached by adding a little bit of brush on nail glue to the nail and then putting another coat of the Seche Vite top coat on them. 

I needed something really soft and girly this day without being over the top and these worked perfectly.  I was really happy with how they turned out!