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

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!

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

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

Rainbow In The Dark

These nails sort of came about by accident.  I was planning to spend the night at my parents house to house sit, so I packed up a bunch of polishes and all my essential nail art stuff and off I went.  Well once I got there and settled in, I dug into my bag and realized I had forgotten ALL of my nail plates!  The horror!  So I improvised with my dotting tool and I think I love the outcome.  A very rare thing for me indeed!

I started out with a base coat of Essie's Fill The Gap.  I've only used it a couple of times but I do really like it.  It seems to have good staying power and when I use it for manicures that I wear for more than a day or two it definitely helps to add staying power.  I don't like it as well as my usual Gelous, but it was all I had with me!  I then added one coat of black polish for my base, it was a no name polish that I like because it dries super fast and has an amazing bottle.  (Refer to my Tigertailz post to see the bottle!  So cool!)

I then grabbed 7 different polishes in every color of the rainbow and my favorite dotting tool.  I'll list the polishes at the very end of the post.  I put little blobs of each color on the back of the container that I use for water marbling and went to work.

I put one color at a time onto the dotting tool and made a random pattern onto each nail.  If I were to do it again, I would do all of the nails in a variation of the ring finger.  Its my favorite.  But hey, you live and learn.  The thumb is probably my least favorite, it really doesn't look like there is any rhyme or reason to the way I did it, even though there was!

When I was finished I ended with a coat of Seche Vite as usual and then went on to my right hand!  It's not as easy as I would have thought to make perfect dots close to each other and in a pattern as I thought it would be.  Who knew?!

Today's song of the day is obviously picked for it's name!  "Rainbow in the Dark," by Dio.  An amazing, amazing band that I was lucky enough to get to see shortly before Ronnie James Dio's death a couple years back.  Check out the song and enjoy!  I hope you all have a beautiful day!

Polishes:

     -Sally Hansen - Xtreme Wear - Mellow Yellow

     -Sally Hansen - Xtreme Wear -Pacific Blue

     -Sally Hansen - Xtreme Wear -  Green With Envy

     -Sally Hansen - Xtreme Wear -  Sun Kissed

     -Sally Hansen - Xtreme Wear -  Bubblegum Pink

     -Sally Hansen - Xtreme Wear -  Blue Me Away

     -Sally Hansen - Insta-Dri - Rapid Red

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!

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!