Feeling like spring

I recently made a whole lot of purchases for my nails and I can't wait to use them!!  I'm most excited about the square studs (but I need to figure out how to glue them on properly, I bought nail glue but so far all I've done is coat all my fingers in glue ... not fun).  I also bought a lot of paint brushes and I finally sat down and tried to do something with it.  If you know me, you know that I have ZERO artistic ability, I keep trying and trying and failing and failing ... but hey, it's fun anyway :-)  So here's one I tried to do free hand.

Base:  OPI - No Room for the blues

Flowers:  OPI - mod about you (used a fan brush to brush it on the corners of my nails)

                OPI - Black Onyx (used a brush to outline flowers and do the centres)

                Konad - white stamping polish (added some white lines for depth)

Whirled Away

Clearly I've been obsessed with sparkles lately :-D  I've bought so many in the last little while that I'm losing count.  I bought this one (China Glaze Whirled Away) on sale at Winners.  I've had my eye on it for a little while but now that I have it, I don't know how much use I'm going to get out of it.  I think this is one where you have to spend some time to place the pieces individually to get a pattern you like .. I didn't do that.

Base - Nicole by OPI Respect the World
Sparkles - China Glaze Whirled Away

Turned up Turquoise

I just realized that I haven't posted in 10 days!  eek!  So here goes...

When I tried China Glaze's Turned up Turquoise I didn't know what I was expecting ... but I can tell you I wasn't expecting this.  Don't get me wrong, I like it. Just not what I expected.  The biggest surprise? .. it's matte!  It didn't say that anywhere on the bottle and all the pictures I saw of it had a top coat on it so I was totally caught off guard.  But hey, if you don't like matte nail polishes, just put a glossy top coat over it and you're good to go.  Here, I used a top coat just on the tips.

The coolest thing about this one? ... it glows a bright green under black light!

Under black light

If You Like It Then You Should Have Put a Ring On It

Still in love with sparkles!!  Let me know what you think of this one.

Base - OPI Mod About You
Sparkles - Essie Beyond Cozy

Shower together

I feel like I'm really behind on my posts!  I've done my nails about 5 times since the last one but I think only two of them are picture worthy.  I've been totally obsessed with sparkles lately!  This, of course, means that I'm going through nail polish remover like a fiend. Kind of a love / hate relationship really.

I bought this blue on impulse thinking that it might be really similar to OPI No room for the blues ... but I was wrong.  It's one of my favourite China Glaze polishes when it comes to how easily it went on.  The sparkles made me happy, they had a blue gel type base with dark blue, light blue/green and purple sparkles.

Base - China Glaze Shower Together
Sparkles - China Glaze Water you waiting for

Easy St.Patty's Day Nails

Let me start by saying that this was not my first crack at St.Patty's day nails, I tried, triangles, clovers, hats, stripes ... everything just looked so crazy!  So I settled on this, a nice simple look that still screams "Hand over that Guinness!!"

Base - China Glaze Tree Hugger
Sparkles - China Glaze Running in Circles

Essie Tiffany Sparkle

If you love sparkles as much as I do you'll have to get Essie Beyond Cozy.  Essie Mint Green Apple is nice, kind of a Tiffany blue/green colour.  Nice for the summer.  I don't like how it goes on, it takes 3-4 coats to get it to look like this and I messed it up and had to fix it about 3 times.  So a bit of a pain in butt, but nice once you get it right.

I Have a Herring Problem

Ever since my big OPI splurge from beyondtherack.com I have been thinking about one colour that got left behind .. OPI I Have a Herring Problem.  I couldn't stop thinking about it.  Shimmery grey-blue, how could I have passed this one up the first time!  It haunted my dreams until I finally gave in. (Another shade that haunts my dreams is Parlez-vous OPI ... if you know where to get this one in Canada, please let me know!!!).  My fingers were in really rough shape that day so unfortunately the pics aren't the prettiest but I thought I'd share anyway, just because I love the colour.

OPI - I Have a Herring Problem
Flower was made using Bundle Monster plate 313 and a silver polish .. Rimmel I think.

Happy Polishing!

Mod About Sprinkles

So the plain colour on my nails lasted all of 30 minutes before I had to add some sparkle to it.  I used OPI - Save me over top of the OPI Mod about you.  I think it looks like sprinkles on a pretty pink cupcake.  I also love cupcakes, so it was a win all around.  The pictures don't quite show how sparkly this one can be.

Happy Polishing!

Opi Mod About You

I kept seeing this colour on different blogs and I just had to try it for myself.  I really like it and highly recommend it.  On lighter skin it looks like almost a nude colour but on my darker skin you can easily tell that it's a light creamy pink.  I think the best description of the colour is cotton candy.  This one will be a staple through the summer for sure!

Flowers and striping tape

I had to play with this new colour some more ... so I busted out my new Konad plate (m73) and white stamping polish and went at it.  Then some silver striping tape for good measure :-)  I messed it up a little bit but ah well, that's life.

Base: China Glaze - For Audrey
Top: Konad stamping polish in white

My first China Glaze - For Audrey

So I finally bought some China Glaze nail polish.  I read a bunch of reviews and everyone seems to be talking about this colour.  Now I can see why ... I love this colour.  It's a nice Tiffany blue/green.  It makes me pretty happy.  The true test for me will be in a couple of days when I see if this brand turns my nails yellow or not ... that's why I love OPI so much, doesn't make my nails yellow.

China Glaze - For Audrey