NOTD: Essie Damsel in a Dress + M37

Late, but I'm pretty awake for some reason. This was my NOTD Tuesday & Wednesday of this week; Essie Damsel in a Dress is gorgeous, I've had it for a long time & never worn it yet. Pretty as it is, it needed a little more, and I stamped with China Glaze Millennium & Konad image plate m37 - got to keep up my stamping skillz LOL, you can see a couple of them are a little crooked so I don't want to get any rustier!  The sun & shade pics were taken on the 2nd day so excuse the tipwear:

In addition to the rest of my NOTDs this week, I have 2 hauls to post up this weekend, one from Avon & one from Nubar. I went ... well, I refuse to say overboard, but I went beyond restraint & perhaps common sense. Thus the aforementioned no-buy. I've even put myself on the fence about Orly's Cosmic FX because I might feel a tad bit guilty spending more money on polish at the moment. But we'll see. That feeling may go away tomorrow XD

Thanks for reading.

~Colette

NOTD: OPI DS Diamond

Got kind of behind again, this is my NOTD from last Wednesday...  Kind of a cool weird color, this is almost like a light purplish-mauve ... not as holo as DS Original is, in fact I didn't capture much of it in the pics, but you can see it a little & it is more evident in real life than I was able to photograph.  From the Designer Series, this is OPI DS Diamond - Konad done with image plate m37 & black special polish:

It took about 3 stamps to get this pattern to cover my whole nail ... it would probably have been easier to use one of the full nail designs, the finished product reminds me a little bit of one on m73, but I wanted these particular vines LOL.

Thanks for reading.

~Colette

NOTD: Milani Cloud 9 (?)

Spring may not be in the air, but it is on my nails =)  This is Milani Cloud 9 ... maybe.  I don't really think so.  Why you may ask?  Well, because I have both of these in my collection:

 

To me, Cloud 9 is more of a name for a blue than a purple.  If anyone has an idea of what label should have been on this bottle, let me know LOL.

Today's mani is done with what is listed on my spreadsheet as Milani Cloud 9 (Lavender).  I like the blue also, but I thought the purple would go better with the Psyche Pink Konad Princess polish that I wanted to stamp with.  I decided on an image from plate m37 ... I'd call this a stamp & a half, because it's more than once but not the entire image the second time.  I liked my thumb best , although these angles don't do it full justice:

 

 

Thanks for reading.

~Colette

NOTD: ChG Paper Chasing

Hmm, I do love this bright green, but I was a little disappointed - this is 3 coats, and there's still a visible nail line. I thought, no prob, just cover it with Konad, easy solution ... but apparently I was too tired to execute that obvious fix correctly LOL because the Konad turned out way too subtle to cover the nail line.

Good news was the VNL wasn't as bad under the fluorescent lights at work. Bad news is that I feel like this color makes the bend in my middle finger look particularly mutated =/ ... I am strongly considering getting rid of some length so that the curve is not so obvious, but I'll make the final decision on that this weekend ... is there a way to fix this kind of nail issue does anyone know? It's a problem on several nails to on degree or another.

Enough rambling & whining, here are the pics =). From the China Glaze Custom Kicks collection, Paper Chasing; Konad done with China Glaze GR8 & plate m37 ... you probably need to click to enlarge to actually see this Konad in any detail:


So this was another mani that only lasted one day ... it's kind of becoming a habit, but the last mani I really left on for more than a day was the blue funky french tips from the past weekend ... although I am loving my new current mani also ... pics to come tomorrow, your clue is that it's from my Barielle haul (below) and it's one of the polishes from the ALU collection. Not nice to tease I know but you only have to wait one day =) Until then, thanks for reading.

~Colette