Life During Wartime

So I thought these nails looked very psychedelic, which made me think that I should have the song of the day be one of my favorite Talking Heads' songs, "Psycho Killer."  But that song always makes me want to watch the AWESOME video of "Life During Wartime" and David Byrne doing the most amazing dancing in the world.  Therefore the song of the day is "Life During Wartime."

I started out with three coats of Sinful Colors' polish Tokyo Pearl.  This is a very pearly polish so it took a lot to get it opaque.

I used the Sally Hansen Insta-Dri polish Brisk Blue to stamp with.

The plate I used was from the Red Angel set and it was plate RA-106.  I do really like this image but I think I would have liked these nails better with a different color combo.

Now please enjoy one of the greatest dance videos of all time.  Everytime I see this video I think of my twin brother doing the dance!

Base Coat: Essie -  Fill The Gap

Polish - Sinful Colors - Tokyo Pearl

Stamping Polish - Sally Hansen Insta-Dri - Brisk Blue

Image Plate - Red Angel  RA-106

Top Coat: Seche Vite

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

Sixx A.M. is an amazing bad with haunting lyrics.  One of my favorite songs off their first album was a song called, "Girl with Golden Eyes."  This song, even after having listened to it a billion times, still sends a chill up my spine.  I was listening to this song while I worked on this manicure and I thought it was a fitting song for a more muted mani.

I started out with a base coat of Essie's Sensitivity Base Coat.  This is my favorite base coat of the moment.  It seems to create a really good base with staying power.

I did two coats of a brown polish from Sinful Colors.  I used Nirvana, but the polish didn't show up very well in the pictures.  The gold sort of combined with it to create a weird color on my camera.  I used a couple different cameras and nothing, but whatever you get the idea!

I then used the Sally Hansen Chrome polish in Gold to stamp the design with.  The plate I used was a Shany 2012 plate SH21.

I topped everything off with a coat of Seche Vite.  I really did like this manicure.  It was definitely more subtle than I'm used to wearing lately.  But I did get quite a few compliments on it while I was out and about that day.

Base Coat:  Essie Sensitivity Base Coat

Color: Sinful Colors - Nirvana

Stamping Polish: Sally Hansen Chrome - Gold

Plate: Shanny 2012 - SH21

Top Coat: Seche Vite

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

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