Ombre not Hombre

Oh ombre, where have you been all my life.  I have seen tons of ombre manis on the blogs and I realized I had tons of blues and could probably pull it off.

Oh, yes. Sooooo pretty.
Pinky - All Night Long by Pure Ice
Ring - Blue Year's Eve by China Glaze
Middle - Sweet Peacock by Orly
Index - Blue Iguana by China Glaze
Thumb - A light blue franken I made. Call it Nice Ice

I have had a polisher's block lately so this is actually kind of old. I have a ton of stuff that I haven't published yet. I figured that I would post old stuff for now until I get out of this funk.

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!

Day 4 and 5 Black and White challenge

I must be a Betazoid. (Yes, I have been watching too much star trek) Whenever someone else is unhappy, I am unhappy.  Dingus has been really depressed lately and I can't help but feel the same way.  So, I've been painting my nails, and photographing, but not posting.  I didn't feel like I had anything good to say.  Last night we had a great night and today I feel refreshed.  So, now I am posting, lol.
First I have day 4 White base with color. I used a pearl white base by Essie called Oui Madame, and sponged on in order from pinky to thumb: Flirt Alert by Pure Ice (pink), Sun Kissed by Sally Hanson Xtreme Wear(orange), Mellow Yellow by Sally Hanson Xtreme Wear(yellow, duh), Wild Thing by Pure Ice(green), Blue Raspberry Taffy by Finger Paints(blue, duh), and Charged Up by Orly(purple).
Here are some pics!

Day 5 was color with black, I know this one is more black and white and color but I think the black designs over the color are what really make this design.  I bought a new shirt for girls night and it's awesome!  It's a pretty white flowy shirt with a mishmash of butterflies flowers and animal print! It sounds awful but it is gorgeous.  It also inspired my favorite manicure ever! Behold, Butterflies and nonsense:

I love this mani so hard! the white is Superstar by Pure Ice, the black stamping is Black Creme by Wet 'n Wild, and sadly the colors are some frankens I made up.  I loved Dazzle by Orly(silver) so much that I made several frankens in different colors with it.  For the butterfly stripes I used a black striper by K.I.S.S.  and they were inspired by this post at Amber Did It.
I just can't get enough of them.
Happy Manicures!

Little things make me happy!

I am actually kind of excited.  One of my classes requires me to purchase my own domain name and hosting site.  So in non-techie terms, I'm gonna have my own website soon! Woo Hoo! I was trying to think of a domain name for myself and the website(Dreamhost) mashed my name up and came up with one for me, Amarapos. I think it sounds pretty cool, don't you? My blog will probably be moving there, but don't worry I will direct you to the right place. :)
I don't really have anything new on my nails at the moment, but I do have a pic of a neat design I did for my tea party not too long ago. It's a white base with most of my blues on it.  Makes me think of bubbles.  The blues are, in order from dark to light: Royal by Revlon, Blue Iguana by China Glaze, Blue Me Away! by Sally Hanson Xtreme Wear, a metal flake and light blue franken I made, and Bikini by Pure Ice.
Here's a pic:

My nails were nice and long, the dots are nice and round. Ah, I love it!

I think it is now time for bed.  I have school early tomorrow.

Happy Manicures!

Day 3!

Yay! Day 3! So, today is Black Base with Color.  I found this awesome new black which has black glitter! I actually found it in quite a few different brands but I bought it in pure ice, to save money while trying something new.  It's called Electric!, the other two colors are some un-named fluorescent purple from Sally Girl and Blue Raspberry Taffy by Finger Paints.  I got the idea from this post over at Nailside. Here ya go!

The neon purple is actually neon, but it is really thin and comes out a pretty grape over black.  The last picture is a result of all the experimenting I was doing today.  It's in the daylight from my window. I think it looks kind of neat. :)  The top two are my nightstand light.  It's the only one with one of those natural light CFLs.  I think I like those.
Anyways, I really love this new black.  I thought last night it looked like asphalt, so I may do a road trip mani this summer. LOL.

Happy Manicures!