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Sorry I have been away, its been busy around here. I have decided to pink nails for most of the month of October. I had purple nails on the 1st and I will have Halloween themed nails on the 31st, otherwise it is pink all the way. 

- here is my first pink mani for this month. I haven't taken pictures of every mani, but I really liked this one. Sorry it is still a little messy.

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another flat iron inspired mani, that sounds strange

First of all I got a new phone, a Samsung Galaxy S III and it takes fantastic pictures!!!! This means more pictures and maybe more posts. 

Here is my inspiration for today's mani. I got an email from Ulta this last week that had this straightener advertised and I thought it would make a good mani.

It is a little blurry, I'm still learning to use my phone. Also this phone is huge and hard to hold with 1 hand and take pictures.

 

Until next time.......

Inspiration

While flat ironing my hair today I looked at my flat iron and thought it was pretty and I bet I could to a mani that is quite similar to it. It was also an excuse to try out my Cheeky nail plates that arrives on Tuesday.

pardon my clean up job, I'm just not that good at cleaning up after stamping.

 

My flat iron is a chi and I got it from ulta, if you wanted to know.

Toodles for now

Sheena

p.s. I have a pic heavy post that I hope to get up this weekend. Also I am hoping for a new camera in the new future, my phone just isn't cutting it.

Ok back to business

I have some manis to share with you...

The first one is pink. I found these Cala Nail Strips in a cute plaid design.

 

I really liked the pattern of these nail strips, however they were very rigid. They were not very flexible and it was hard to get them trimmed to fit my nail right because they were plastic. Needless to say this was a one day manicure.

Next one is orange, plain orange. 

 I got an awesome orange from Ulta, its just a nice vibrant creamy orange. So I put a sheer sparkly orangy color on top for  that extra pop. Ulta's Sun of a Gun with Wet N Wild's 9021orange on top.
BTW I'm trying to be more artsy fartsy with my backgrounds so I tried using an orange towel that I have.

Last mani on file is a charcoal grey glitter. 
I used Sally Girl IQ-812020 with China Glaze's Some like it Haute on top

It looks black, but it is grey.

Also remind me to do a post on my haul from Ulta and my new indie polish when it gets here.....

 Oh and here are my manicure helpers hard at work

Bloggity Bloggity

Hey Sister, I'm posting, its not going to make much sense.

So the nail polish blog thing hasn't been a priority in while. So maybe I will just make this a blog about stuff and things.
Billy's dad got remarried in August. (his mom passed away from cancer back in April 2009) I don't think the kids (billy and his siblings) were really ready for this, but it is what it is. The new wife lives in AZ and Billy's father moved there this weekend. So we aren't really sure if we will ever see him again. Billy's Grandma (mom's mom, and was the only surviving member of his mom's family that he knew) passed away the day after the wedding, so yeah. August was not a good month really.

Its 3am and I should go to bed, but I am not tired. Lots of things going on in my head.

here is a pictures of cats for your viewing pleasure!

Fruity

I tried my hand at nail art last night.

I started with my accent finger.

and then I though what do I do with all my other fingers, I painted them white, but I wasn't sure if I was just going to have white fingers or if I should do a stamp. So I looked at some of my bundle monster plates and saw some that had other fruits. I thought, I could free hand that,  maybe. So I took a shot at it.

And this is what I came up with. Cherries, Strawberries, grapes, and a lime. I tried doing grapefruit on my thumb but it didn't turn out the best, Also my right hand definitely doesn't look as good as my left, which I think turned out alright for my first try. All I used were dotting tools.

 

These are the dotting tools that I have, I found them on amazon.com They are Mash brand and were like $4

I'm not a huge fan of this mani, I think it is going to be a one day mani. But it was fun to try something new and different.

 I have a disposable pallet from an art class I had which is great for putting nail polish on for dotting, or trying out swatches, or I even use it for stamping. It feels kind of like wax paper, but is a bit thicker.

 

The brand of my is Utrecht, which is an art supplier, but I'm sure most stores that sell art supplies would have something like this. (i.e. Hobby Lobby, Michaels)