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!

Kiss The Sky

Hate.  Hate.  Hate.  Hate.  Hate.  Hate.  Hate.  Have I mentioned how much I HATE these nails?  They looked so cool in my head.  They really did.  They just didn't turn out anything like I had envisioned.  Well I guess as I always say, tomorrow is another nail day.  Hopefully I'll like those better!

I started out doing streaks of three different polishes, after my base coat that is.  I used two Sally Hansen Insta-Dri polishes and a no name dark blue polish that's been in my collection for years.

When I started out I was very neat and used a piece of blue painters tape to mask off each section, but I got impatient and I just started to do them without it.  I think I would have liked this mani much better had I sponged on the different colors and not had such stark lines.  Hindsight is always 20/20.

 I used Konad plate M79 and stamped the clouds on with the Konad white special polish.

I finished everything off with a coat of Seche Vite.  Honestly I didn't even have these nails on an hour before I was grabbing for my nail polish remover!

So the song of the day is one of my three favorite Motley Crue songs, "Kiss the Sky."  Honestly I could listen to nothing but this song ever again.  I've noticed I've been listening to a lot of Crue lately, so you'll all be stuck with them being my inspiration!  Enjoy!

Base Coat: Essie Sensitivity Base Coat

Light Blue: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri -Blue Away

Medium Blue: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri -Brisk Blue

Dark Blue:  Unknown dark blue

Image Plate: Konad M79

Stamping Polish: Konad White Special Polish

Top Coat: Seche Vite

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