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

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

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

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."

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!

Last Chance

I would like to preempt this  post by saying that I was just playing around with these nails.  I liked them until I added the OPI Black Shatter to them and then I was just plain sad.  So I'm sorry!  Please don't judge my crazy impulse to crackle my nails too harshly!  All that being said, the song of the day is...drum roll please..."Last Chance," (I'm sure that title shocked you), by  John Cougar Mellencamp.  I' not actually a big fan of his, but I do like this song.

With that said I started out with a base coat of Sinful Color's polish in Last Chance.  Its this gorgeous forest green color.  Normally I'm not much of a green fan, but this was very pretty in the bottle and on the nail.  I also love that Sinful Color's polishes (for the most part) are very thick and are opaque in practically one coat. 

I love this color even without anything else on it!  But since I can leave nothing alone I decided to break out my image plates.  I added a coat of Seche Vite and then grabbed my Konad plate M64.

 

I used the green special Konad polish to do the design.  Now this is exactly where I should have stopped!  I think they look GREAT here!  But I didn't...  I just couldn't leave well enough alone...  I have no impulse control so I grabbed my OPI Black Shatter and went to town...

 THE HORROR!  They are awful!  They just remind me of a dinosaur!

Rawr!

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!