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

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

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

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

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."