Rainbow Dotting

Sorry for the impromptu hiatus. I had to go to Minneapolis for training. At least I got to do some shopping while up there and scored some nail polish. My husband was a good sport while I browsed through Ulta. (yeah, I brought him with, he golfed while I had to sit and watch power points for 8 hours)

I have big plans for this weekend. There is a golf tournament that my husband participates in every year. I'm going with for shits and giggles, but not participating. I am going more for the after party where the Spazmatics are performing. For those of you who don't know, the Spazmatics are an 80's cover band that dresses as nerds and are thoroughly entertaining. Anyway a bunch of us are getting dressed up in 80's gear to attend this shin-dig. Its going to be totally rad. (just getting into character) =) This will be relevant later....

Anyway on to the nail polish.

  Here is some loot: I got the two stripe rites and the sally girls today. I wanted some neon colors to paint my fingers for the 80's weekend.

Pixel: Spy Wear, the stripe rites didn't have names, Essence: Space Queen, and Sally Girl: 812155 & 812157. (I'm kind of sad that the yellow and pink didn't show up as neon as they are in real life)

 Orly: Fowl Play, After Party, Haley's Comet

Sadly in the last week and a half the long nails I had left tore and so now all my nails are short =(

But I  made the most of it and did a fun mani today.

 I did this on my toes a couple months ago and loved it, so I decided to do it with neon colors. I used my dotting tool to make lines of the different colors. I had some issues with anticipating the spacing but I made it work. I used the yellow stripe rite and the 2 Sally Girl polishes that I mentioned earlier in this post. I also used Wet n Wild's Sunny Side Up, Sally Hansen's Brisk Blue, and Sinful Colors' Innocent. With a white base of Loreal's I Will. and of course Seche Vite fast drying top coat for shine. 

I found my camera that I've had since 2006. I used it for pictures today. I think it takes ok pictures, perhaps a little better than my phone. I think they are both 8 megapixels.

Anyway that's all I have for now, I hope to come up a fun 80's inspired mani to share.

 toodles.....

Whimsical

Sorry its been a while. But I have 2 manis for your viewing pleasure.
I got a new coral color (which is a color I am really loving right now) from Sally Hansen called Temptation. To me it is just the right blend, its not too pink or too orange. So I decided to do a dot mani using my new color.

It makes me sad that my camera doesn't doesn't quite pick up the color as well as I would like. Which is a reason for my lack of posts recently. But here is a picture anyway.

 btw: I did clean up around my nail edges after this picture

I was trying to do something similar to this:

I cam across this on pinterest and it is from the lacquer log

So I sported that mani for a couple days until it began chipping. Also my dots became dull after a while. Definitely not a many for extended wear.

I also really like Revlon's Whimsical. so I layered that over China Glaze's For Audrey.

My ring finger got some tears in it while wearing the temptation color so I had to file it down and not its short =(

Pink, Blue, and Orange all over

Since my last few manis were a little wild, I decided to do something a little more subdued. I decided to try out my new Wet n' Wild Through the Grapevine. Since I find having one color on every finger rather boring now, I like to do an accent finger. For that I used China Glaze's For Audrey with Nubar's Absolute holo on top and then did a Through the Grapevine stamp on top of that. I LOVE Seche Vite for a top coat because it dries fast and is super shiny.

Once again Tim's fur makes a good backdrop

I've been painting my toes for a lot longer than I've been painting my fingers (which is a recent development). I really got into nail polish when I was about 12 and I don't think I've had naked toes since.

I wanted to try out another of my new polishes Wet n' Wild's 9021Orange. So I decided to do a sunset mani on my toes. 

small haul

Hey, I'm writing again, 2 days in a row. I think I can get into this blogging thing. So I had to run to Wal-Greens after work because I was running low on cotton balls (which they didn't have). I perused their nail polish selection while I was there, even though I vowed to not buy any nail polish for a while. All of the Wet n' Wild nail polishes were .99, so I broke down.

Here's what I decided to get:

 

                          I Red a Good Book, 9021Orange, Kaleidoscope, Through the Grapevine

(I think the paper towel roll gives the background some nice texture =) )

My phone on my camera doesn't quite do these colors justice, but its all I have for the time being.

Here is another picture of yesterdays manicure and my cat's fur.

Rainbow Tiger

ok, here I am a couple months later. I have done some neat (I think) manicures in the last couple months. However, I realized that in order to do a polish blog you have to be able to take pictures and the lighting in my house is very poor-equaling terrible pictures. I now have a set up where I can take semi decent pictures.

I happened upon this Blog tonight and thought I would try this rainbow stamping.

and this is what I got.

I am pretty happy with how it turned out. Adding the glitter just added that extra oomph.

So there, that's my first actual post. I hope to learn more and get better at my manicures as well as picture taking.