Sunrise/Sunset

A couple weeks ago, I decided to try something with my delicious new color club Take Wing collection.  I started with a base of about 3 coats of Daisy Does It, a beautiful yellow.  Then I used hole reinforcers to cover the half moon area and placed some of my new striping tape in lines radiating from the half moons.  I used Sky High and Wing Fling in a gradient pattern over that(and let me tell you, sponging over tape is so much easier than just painting over it.  I may do that specifically from now on.) This is what I got: (Please excuse the crappy looking cuticles and tip wear, I wore this for about 3 days before remembering that I hadn't taken pics)

I think it was a great effect.  Super sparkly too!

Happy Manicures!

Wedding!

Yay! Congratulations Jenn and Michael! On May 12th these two wonderful people got married and my lovely Dingus officiated!  Not enough exclamation marks to express the joy!

Happy Couple!

Their colors were purple and peach and hot pink.  I did some nails for the Best Lady, a friend of mine and her hubby, Sweetpea, and myself.  I forgot to get pics of Sweetpea's nails and I should have, they were a pretty glitter purple with turquoise dried flowers on the thumbs(only nails they would fit). Oh well, here's the rest:

These are mine, boring cuz I was working on everyone else's lol. It's my color club franken Purple Paradise and Orly's Luxe. Simple and Sweet.

These are the nails of the Best Lady.  She is a really good friend of our and theirs of course.  The groomspeople were all wearing purple and black pinstripe and so I did my Purple Paradise with a black striper on top.  Then added the flower decals.  She was super happy!

This is Eskimo Pie, one of my besties.  Her hubby was one of the groomspeople and she's not very girly but had some really nice girly clothes on for the wedding.  I offered to do her nails in something that was kinda her style. That's a white creme from Pure Ice and A purple crackle from China Glaze.

This is her hubby Cynical Abe.  The beard below is why we call him Abe, he looks amish.  We got on a discussion of how Penn Gillette paints one nail for sleight of had purposes and decided he needed one nail painted. 

The camera came out and he got creative, LOL.

And this is my beautiful family.  My love: Dingus, the cheesy Miss SweatPea, and me: Mograt.

Well, there you have it, a new post!

Happy Manicures!

MOAR COLOR CLUB!

I am just obsessed with the Color Club Take Wing collection.  It just makes me so happy! I picked up Dazzle by Orly as one of my first purchases when I started doing nail art again.  I love how nicely it covers in just ONE coat and how shiny it is.  Well, I decided that I wanted colors like it.  I started mixing Dazzle with the brightest colors I had.  These frankens were ok, not great.  But then I saw swatches of color club.  I was sitting in my car reading the blogroll from my phone, and decided then and there that I would own all the colors.  I also made a purple(which color club did not make, sadly) and the rest is history.  For this mani, I wanted something simple and incorporating some layering.  It turned out to be a pain in the a$$ but it was pretty.  The green (Fly With Me) is a very yellowish green. So it looks yellow on my nails. But it's still cool, and please excuse the total crap that is my pinky. LOL

I love the sharp lines on the purple, I think that happened because I put a layer of Seche Vite over the green so I could do the purple faster. Look for a Seche Vite review soon, that stuff is the bomb.

Happy Manicures!

Product Feature: OPI Nail Envy

So, Today I think I will tell you about one(of many) of my favorite products.  This is a great nail strengthener by OPI called Nail Envy.  I use it under every mani I do.  Before I started using it, my manis wouldn't last long, my nails would flake and peel and with it would come the polish.  I didn't think there was anything I could do until I saw one of the blogs I follow, (probably Nailasaurus, Polishaholic, or Let Them Have Polish, let me know if you use it too!)  It was quite a while ago so I don't remember exactly who mentioned it.  I went in search of this amazing thing.  I found it, at $16.99 a bottle! Whew! Way too much for my little budget.  But I had tried a ton of others with absolutely no results.  I decided to try this stuff even with the giant price tag. (should've started at ebay where I recently found 2 bottles for $11.95, *facepalm) I will never put regular polish directly on my nail again! This is the most amazing product I have ever used! I have strong long non-peeling nails all thanks to OPI Nail Envy. It's amazing! It's actually hard to clip my nails, they are so thick and strong. Try it. It's awesome.

Also, here is my new favorite polish again in a spongy mani.  Color Club - Take wing, With Orly - Dazzle, and Wet n Wild - Black Creme`. Love this!

So, I hope you like my little showcase and I hope it helps you out!

Happy Manicures!






disclaimer: I was not contacted by OPI in any way and I decided to do this review of my own accord.

My Precious! Color Club - Take Wing

I am so excited today! I have the best new collection to show you.  It's called Take Wing, by Color Club.  I had never heard of Color Club before but when I saw this post by The PolishAholic, I actually bought my first two within the hour.  They're that awesome. You can get them at Rite-Aid, that's the only place I've found them. Ok, so I'll quit my jabber, here are the pics!

Here are all the colors included in the collection:

Wing Fling

Sparkle and Soar

Daisy Does It

Fly With Me

Metamorphosis

Sky High

I was really upset that they didn't make a purple, so I made one! I mixed some Sky High with some Take Wing. You like?

I think I'll call it Purple Paradise

Here are some more lovely pics of the collection plus my purple.

 

And here are the first designs I did with my new beauties:

The sun was even shining!

So what do you think of this collection?

Happy Manicures!