This came out more ... hmmm, I don't know what to say other than more tomatoey on my nail than it looked in the bottle. A little weird, it made me like it less. I prefer a red with a blue undertone I guess. But I don't dislike it either, it is what it is - a nice filler manicure in between better things. This is OPI Ali's Big Break:
A lot more catching up tomorrow! Honestly for real (I hope). If you want to see a couple holiday looks, check out the "Watch me on YouTube" link in the sidebar for some tutorials for looks that I hope to have up here soon.
This is the manicure I did as part of the Let it Snow collaboration on YouTube back on the 5th. If you'd like to see some of the other amazing entries, check out my Let it Snow Playlist HERE.
I kind of knew everyone would expect a marble from me, so I wanted to do something completely different. I stumped myself until I decided to play around with some small sequins. I couldn't remember exactly where I got them but I went back to look & finally figured out I'm pretty sure they're part of the 10 wheel Bundle Monster rhinestones from Amazon. The black base color is L'Oreal Raven's Strength. I was really, really happy with this manicure, the sequins give such a different look in different lights:
The only thing I would change, in retrospect, is that I would have put 4 points on my index finger, and I think it would have been a bit more balanced than it was with only 3. Relatively minor in the grand scheme of things LOL.
Here's the tutorial:
And here are a few shots of my experimenting, trying to figure out what exactly I was going to do with the sequins & if I wanted to include any rhinestones or glitter polish over the black base:
Mom kept calling this color champagne; and while the final effect is kind of a champagne color, I kept correcting her - it's silver with fine copper glitter. And I think one of my favorite colors of the year, and became even more of a favorite after stamping!
I don't remember what polish I used for the stamping - either Konad Black Special Polish or Wet n Wild Black Creme ... whichever I found first at the time LOL. They're pretty interchangeable as far as I'm concerned. This lovely flower design is from Bundle Monster image plate bm221 & it took me a while to figure out which sides I wanted to match up, but I finally decided to stamp sideways, and match the top & bottom edges. Some nails more successful than others, I particularly like the way my ring finger lined up, but even those that aren't right on look pretty good:
LOVED wearing this a lot =) Finally getting into December manis with the stamped version. I've still got pics to edit for my Mosaic Snowflakes, OPI Ali's Big Break, Ulta Into Astrono-Me? & my Candy Cane Water Marble, so stay tuned. Had a great day of frosting & baking & tray making today! & plenty of pics to come of that as well of course. Thanks for reading.
I didn't realize, until I went back & reviewed Part 1 to make sure I didn't repeat myself too much (you can check out Part 1 HERE if you missed it), that it had been nearly a year since I recorded it. Time flies I guess =)
Part 2 ended up to be a lot longer than I initially thought, but I ended up talking about more than just the technique behind stamping small accent designs onto your nail. I also touch on what brands other than Konad you can use & how to figure that out, & stamping a designs with multiple colors. So if you're new to Konad, or just curious how I do mine, enjoy:
Today would be catch up blogging all day except for one thing - today is Cookie Day!!! Honestly maybe my favorite day of the year, even above Christmas. I'm sure I'll still get a few things posted, but most of the day will be spent frosting sugar cookies & making up trays. If you missed my cookie frosting marbling last year, check it out HERE, posted with last year's Cookie Day pics - and stay tuned for not only pics from this year's Cookie Day, but some cooking tutorial vids very very soon. I have 3 recorded, & although none are edited yet I'd like to get them all up before Christmas.
I hope any of your pre-holiday plans are going as well as mine =) Although I still have to do the majority of my shopping! Gah, don't know when I'll fit that in this week but we'll see. Thanks for reading.
So, my unworn pile ... heap ... well, let's be honest, mountain is getting a tad out of control. Just a tad =) So I had the thought I should try to do more manicures that use more than 1 color. I wanted a lot of bling, and I thought that Butter London The Black Knight & Sally Hansen Lady Luck went really well together. The bit of pink in TBK matches perfectly with LL. But my first attempt, a totally blinged out funky french, didn't sit well with me:
It just came out so think & chunky looking. I think it looks quite a bit better in these pics than it did IRL. It was ridiculously late, but I couldn't stand it - since the polish wasn't completely set, it wasn't horrible to remove, even though they're both glitters. I redid the mani with my original idea, going with TBK as my main color & LL for accent nails - I considered switching on my other hand but I ended up doing them both the same:
Then I had the not so great idea to matte-ify them ... then I thought if I dabbed on some clear to bring the glitter out, it might look like little gems on the matte background. Final result was all of that but not a bag of chips if you know what I mean LOL. Matte, yes, and little gems, yes - but one of my better ideas, no I don't think so:
Which is your favorite? Mine is obviously the middle version, but everyone has their own taste so maybe you like #1 or #3 =) Leave a comment & let me know!
