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!

Edge Of A Broken Heart

Vixen's song, "Edge of a Broken Heart," is my song of the day!  Finally a girl band!  I know you're impressed.  I did this manicure super quickly as I ran out the door this morning.  I'd thrown on the Wet N Wild color Ebony Hates Girl (just a black polish) last night right before I went to bed.  And when I got up this morning my nails were far too plain for me so I put the China Glaze Crackle, Broken Hearted (hence the Vixen song... now you're catching on!), polish on with a coat of Seche Vite.

I really like!  They were really cute and I couldn't stop looking at them all day!

I really love all of the crackle China Glaze polishes, I had to have them all so I bought them all, but I'm just not a fan of the white one.  It doesn't cover anything without a really thick coat and when you do that, it doesn't crackle very well.  Ooh well... They can't call be winners!

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!

November Rain

The song of the day is "November Rain."   Yes it is true that I hate GNR, but I needed a song with rain in it so lay off!  :)  And to be honest, if I had to listen to a Guns 'N Roses song it would probably be this one...  Onto the nails though, this is Wet and Wild's Rain Check.  I used three coats of it and I'm in love.  It couldn't have taken more than 2 minutes tops to be completely dry in between each coat.  I added a top coat which is called, "In A Hurry," and then used a fauxnad plate.

 In certain lights the color looks very grey and in certain lights it's REALLY purple.  The picture below was with the flash on my camera, the picture above was just in normal lighting.  See the extreme difference?

I used a fauxnad plate that I got from a seller on eBay, it's plate M27and I used the flower design in the middle.  I've actually used the plate a number of times, I just love the look of the image on my nails.

  

I used the Konad special polish in blue for the images.  Now I don't particularly like the nails as they are above, but once I added Hard Candy's Matte-ly in Love,I really was Matte-ly in Love!  They were gorgeous and I got so many compliments on them!

The picture just can not fully encompass how incredible they were in person!  You'll have to give it a go yourself and experience the awesomeness!