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!

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

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!