I am sooo drawn to pink sparkly polishes. This one is especially pretty and it just jumps off the nail in person!
This is 3 thin, fast drying coats of Cover Girl Nail Slicks in "Very berry". It's a bright pink/magenta with glass flecks or foil flecks, I still can't figure it out. This came in one of the two-packs I bought at the dollar tree a few weeks ago.
It's so sparkly!
I decided to add one coat of another sparkly polish I also got for an amazing .50 cents! It really blows my mind that you can find great polishes with fun colors (in the US, at least) for nearly next to nothing.
This is Maybelline Nail Expert in "Rock out" which I think I will be putting to good use in the near future. Adds a little something that some polishes really benefit from.
Just look at the sparklies!! Excluding the topcoat, this mani cost me A DOLLAR! LOVE!
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Saturday, January 29, 2011
disney on ice; snow white inspired mani
Today I took my sister, old roommate and her 3 year old daughter to Disney on Ice. We had such a good time and her little girl, Amaya, absolutely looooooooved the Snow White part and went NUTS when the 7 Dwarves came out. I actually did a mani the night before inspired, somewhat abstractly, by Snow White's iconic dress!
Three coats of China Glaze "Lemon fizz" for four nails and a base color of Funky Fingers "Alice" on the accent nail. I freehanded the red diamond with Art Club's red nail art polish and that's it! It was somewhat recognizable, but not an entirely gaudy and obvious reference to the dress itself. I loved it :D
(These are not my photos, love the Photoshop job on the first one LOL.)
Sadly we were running a bit late so we got there as the first scene was going and we were so enthralled and distracted I took maybe only two pictures of my own!
Three coats of China Glaze "Lemon fizz" for four nails and a base color of Funky Fingers "Alice" on the accent nail. I freehanded the red diamond with Art Club's red nail art polish and that's it! It was somewhat recognizable, but not an entirely gaudy and obvious reference to the dress itself. I loved it :D
(These are not my photos, love the Photoshop job on the first one LOL.)
Sadly we were running a bit late so we got there as the first scene was going and we were so enthralled and distracted I took maybe only two pictures of my own!
tags;
art club,
blue,
china glaze,
funky fingers,
notd,
red,
yellow
Thursday, January 27, 2011
franken; "candy hearts"
My first few franken attempts ever consisted of mixing together crèmes and seeing what I got. I started to notice that all of the frankens I did make looked like other polishes I already had, and those frankens didn’t contain the colors that they inevitably ended up looking like so I quickly lost interest.
I made 3 experimental frankens with some eyeshadow pigments and the results are just so different from anything I’ve already got, and I love that! A few weeks ago I made a yummy springlike peach that I love and don’t have any like, as well as a minty jade that was a unique addition to my collection (=
This franken I am showing you today hits close to a ton of polishes out there but reminds me a little of Good Witch (ChG) sans the chunky glitter.
The only problem I have with this one is I think I added too much pigment, because every few strokes a clump shows up on my nail. That requires smoothing it out, but it isn't too much of a pain. I added 2 balls and thinner and it's still a little clumpy.
"Candy hearts"
This was an entire bottle of Sally Hansen "flawless" which was just a clear, colorless polish. I mixed in 3 different color pigments but the red streaks at the bottom, but not on the nail - so no harm, no foul!
Also, we got lots of snow and I took some pictures!
tags;
hybrid,
pink,
shimmer,
unrelated ramblings
covergirl NOTD!
Purple purple purple! I don’t know what has gotten into me but I can’t get enough of the purples lately. This mani is about 4 or 5 coats of Cover Girl Nail Slicks in “Sheer orchid”. The polished pooled in some spots of my nails because they’re still so fk’d up from the fakes I used to wear. They’re growing out, slowly but surely!
-A totally superficial complaint but my stupid index finger nail that has been a nubbin since it broke a week or so again has finally gotten the best of me. I was at the vet, my little kitty isn’t behaving right, and I was impatient and nervous and picked at it well below the quick. It bled for a while and stung, still does, but I applied a fakey to it for now until it starts to grow a bit. I didn’t push hard so hopefully it doesn’t damage the new growth.
-My little bitty kitty has some kind of infection or something, there is blood in her urine and I’m not to happy about it. She’s being treated now but as of recently she started peeing on everything and acting erratically. She is in heat but there’s a defined difference between being in heat and being sick. I’ve seen cats in heat before, they howl and meow and rub all over things and stick their asses in the air and are super affectionate and annoying, but peeing over everything isn’t typical, especially of her. We just got her from my brother a few months ago and I’m just worried she still hasn’t adjusted.
Sheer orchid is a dusty kinda purple jelly. I chipped my pinky shoveling this morning, oops. Notice my index finger, yea, I "fixed" the problem by adding to it and slapping on a fakie.
Added some delicious sparkles with Cover Girl Boundless Color in.. wow I have no idea. The label is missing from the bottle.
Now for some genuine girl bitching. While all of the major aspects in my life are in order, I have a stack of minor irritations slowly adding up that, you guessed, I’m going to vent about!
-I somehow, I guess, broke my father’s camera. I dropped it a month or so ago. Well it fell off my bed, about two feet, onto the carpet. It wasn’t a drastic fall and it worked fine after up until this morning. It takes one picture, then the lens spazzes out and the camera turns off. I lost one of his credit cards 3 years ago and I still hear about it so I suppose I won’t be living this one down for a good while. I tried to make up for it by helping him shovel from about 4am til 6am this morning because we got a foot of snow and he had to go to work. I’m not mad that he’s upset, and he’s really not that upset, I’m upset with myself for ruining something he trusted me with.
-A totally superficial complaint but my stupid index finger nail that has been a nubbin since it broke a week or so again has finally gotten the best of me. I was at the vet, my little kitty isn’t behaving right, and I was impatient and nervous and picked at it well below the quick. It bled for a while and stung, still does, but I applied a fakey to it for now until it starts to grow a bit. I didn’t push hard so hopefully it doesn’t damage the new growth.
-My little bitty kitty has some kind of infection or something, there is blood in her urine and I’m not to happy about it. She’s being treated now but as of recently she started peeing on everything and acting erratically. She is in heat but there’s a defined difference between being in heat and being sick. I’ve seen cats in heat before, they howl and meow and rub all over things and stick their asses in the air and are super affectionate and annoying, but peeing over everything isn’t typical, especially of her. We just got her from my brother a few months ago and I’m just worried she still hasn’t adjusted.
This is my little princess (= She's so tiny! Only 6 pounds! My brother had named her Artemis but the name doesn't roll off the tongue well. As far as anyone in my house is concerned, this is Squidget. Or Squidge, or Squidgee. She's so petite and cute and such a sweet little girl. Loves cuddling and nuzzling, omg I just wanna squeeze her head off sometimes LOL.
tags;
covergirl,
glitter,
jelly,
purple,
unrelated ramblings
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
i shouldn't even make this public LOL
How did we come to this atrocity you wonder?
Read on my lovely, into the story you'll plunder!
Here goes nothing;
It started out with a pinkish pink
The pinkiest pink that you ever did think
A bright neon pink, so hard to capture!
But a beautiful pink, oh joy, OH RAPTURE!
She thought and she thunk and she thought some more
What could she do to spice up this bore?
She looked and she saw a bottle of glitter
“Pour it on the tips!” she thought, her heart went a twitter!
So she dumped that bright glitter all over her tips
And she poked and prodded, it dried in a zip.
But once more, there was more to be done
“I need to add PIZZAZ and make this more fun!”
So she picked up some polished and went to town
She stripped with pink and white, all up and all down
Then she looked and she thought, and she came to deduce
This looks just like something from the dear Dr. Seuss!
An original whack job poem by yours truly (=
tags;
french manicure,
nail art
fail of the week; water marbling
LOL. These pics made me laugh so hard. It was an honest effort but an evident fail. You don't get better without practice so I don't consider this a total waste. I'll get there (=
base: two coats of ChG "Lemon fizz"
marbles: some random purple unlabeled L.A. Colors Color Craze and "Static electricity" by L.A. Colors Color Craze
I tried having a talk with my nails. Went great. Really.
Me: hey thumb, I'm going to clean you up now.
Thumb: no, no you're not. i'm gonna give you hell, kid.
Me: hey ring finger, what are you doing?
Ring finger: raging against the machine cathryn, raging against the machine
Me: pinky, you ok? what happened?
Pinky: herpaderp
Me: oh btw, index finger, what's with that weird glare you got there, you know the one not caused by light?
Index finger: black magic.
LOL OH WELL!
base: two coats of ChG "Lemon fizz"
marbles: some random purple unlabeled L.A. Colors Color Craze and "Static electricity" by L.A. Colors Color Craze
I tried having a talk with my nails. Went great. Really.
Me: hey thumb, I'm going to clean you up now.
Thumb: no, no you're not. i'm gonna give you hell, kid.
Me: hey ring finger, what are you doing?
Ring finger: raging against the machine cathryn, raging against the machine
Me: pinky, you ok? what happened?
Pinky: herpaderp
Me: oh btw, index finger, what's with that weird glare you got there, you know the one not caused by light?
Index finger: black magic.
LOL OH WELL!
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