Friday, April 19, 2024

Giant Daisies!

I see spring flowers blooming all around now that the warmer weather is here so thought it would be a good time to share a few floral manis over the next little while, including this one.  Here's what I came up with!


Started with a base of two coats of Morgan Taylor Deja Blue, no top coat. 


Topped accent nails with Whatcha Indie Polish Love & Respect - Pride Month 2023.


Maniology M401



Stamped accent nails with image from Maniology M401 using MdU 91.  (Sorry, I don't know why these images aren't the same size as the others.  I tried to correct them, but couldn't.)


Stamped all nails uring image from KADS Flower 66 using Painted Polish Blanc Slate, no top coat.


Added centers to the daisies using Painted Polish Stamped in Starfruit.


Finsihed with a final coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.



Thanks for looking!

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Swirls!

Spring is upon us and we have warmer weather again, which means I'm going to be sharing a whole bunch of floral mani's, but before I do, I thought I'd share this swirl mani that I did one bleak day this past winter.  Here's what I came up with!


Started with a base of two coats of Orly Synthetic Symphony, no top coat.


Topped with a coat of Glam Polish Sunset Surf, no top coat.


Topped with a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.


Stamped with image from Lesly LS-20 using Painted Polish Blanc Slate.


Topped with a final coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.


 Thanks for looking!

Monday, April 8, 2024

Galaxy Nails

I know a lot of people will have their eyes to the sky today for the April 8th solar eclipse and while I don't have eclipse nails to share, I do have galaxy nails that will have to do.  Here's what I came up with!


Started with a base of Sally Hansen CSM Dark Hue-Mor, two coats, no top coat.  And not very clean up by the looks of it.


Maniology MXM 121



Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.


Sponged Lemming Lacquer I Blue Bubbles When You Were Not Near and Pahlish Out of the Woods until I got the galaxy look I was going for.


Stamped images from Maniology MXM 121 using Painted Polish Blanc Slate.


Added a few more stamped images from same plate using Painted Polish Thirty & Flirty.


Topped with a coat of KBShimmer to finish.


Added a coat of Essie Matte About You so the flakies pop!


Thanks for looking and be safe if you're watching the eclipse today!
 

Thursday, April 4, 2024

More Snowflakes!

I know the calendar says April 4th but when I looked out my window just before starting a blog post, I seen about an inch of snow on the ground.  So that means reason for me to post another snowflake mani before the it melts, which will probably be by morning.  So here is yet another snowflake mani that I did this past winter but hadn't shared yet.


Started with a base of Essie Ride the Soundwave, then topped with a coat of Scofflaw Heisenberg.


Then topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.


Kads Christmas 026

Shadow stamped using Painted Polish Blanc Slate and 2.0 using MdU AZ Winter 2 for words on ring, and Kads Christmas 026 for the rest. This is the best shadow stamping I have every done; I can only thank the large magnifying light that I got as a gift at Christmas time.  What a game changer!


Topped with a final coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.


Thanks for looking!

Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Happy Easter!!

Hopefully everyone had a good Easter weekend!  Here's the final set of Easter nails that I have to share this year!


MdU AZ Easter


MdU AZ Easter 2


Started with skittles; starting at thumb and going clockwise:  Essie Take The Lead, Zoya Kay, China Glaze Holy Sugar!, Zoya Lena and Zoya Tilda, no top coat.


Topped with Penelope Luz Scocery, then topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.


Decided to do some tone on tone stamping:  used MdU AZ Easter for words and index image and MdU AZ Easter 2 for the rest; I shrank some images and also double stamped some images to get image opaque.  Stamping polishes used were CjS 165, CjS 212, CjS 218, Painted Polish Stamped in Royalty and MdU 11.


Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.


Thanks for looking!

Sunday, March 31, 2024

The Easter Bunny is Coming To Town!

Here's another quick Easter nail art!


Started with a base of flakie skittles; starting at thumb and going clockwise, used Pahlish Notorious RBG, Girly Bits I Beg Your Garden, Pahlish Boo Berry Ice Cream Sample Batch, Pahlish Flutterfly and Girly Bits Peep Calm and Polish On.  All over a coat of Cupcake White Pop.


Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.


MdU AZ Easter Gnomes 1


Stamped all nails using image from MdU AZ Easter Gnomes 1 using shrinking/enlargening stamper and shrunk a few of the images to fit on the nail better.  Used Painted Polish Blanc Slate.


Using words from CjS H-87 and MdU AZ Easter Gnomes 1, added words to the thumb, then topped with a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.


Thanks for looking!

Friday, March 29, 2024

Easter Time!

It's Easter time and I'm going to share a few Easter mani's over this next few days, starting with this one!  Here's what I came up with!


Started with a base of two coats of Zoya Shannon, no top coat.  My index finger is growing out a bit; enough that I'm sharing nails even though they are less than perfect!


Added a coat of Pahlish Witches Brew Sample Batch on accent nails, no top coat.


Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.


Stamped most nails using image from Creative Shop 182 Basic using MdU 52, and words on index nails from MoYou London Festive Collection-76 using Painted Polish Blanc Slate.


Added cute bunnies in different sizes and locations on nails using shrinking/enlargening stamper from image from Nicole Diary 042 using Painted Polish Blanc Slate.


Also added a few little itty, bitty flowers from same image.  I had shadow stamped the ring finger and it didn't turn out the best, so removed it and tried again with MdU 52 as the base.


Dotted the itty, bitty flowers using Zoya Shannon and shadow stamped the words on the ring finger more successfully.  I think this stamping is more balanced versus if the green was the predominant colour for the words.


Topped with a final coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.


 Thanks for looking!