Oh The Horror....

Beware below are some graphic pictures of BARE slightly yellowed nails...


One day last week I had some major chipping on my mani and just had enough time to take off my polish, So I decided to take pictures and share my not so pretty nails with you all...  (also there is more to this post than just ugly yellow nails... just keep reading or scroll down and skip the icky pictures...)

I actually had to wear them like this for a whole evening until the next morning when I could re-paint my nails. Yes I know this wouldn't be bad for most people but not me (and if your reading this, then probably you too) In the past ten years or so I actually never had bare nails, With just a few exceptions and that was only in the past year and a half or so... and even then only a handful of times for a couple days at most.

So anyway point is I never leave them bare, you get the point right. And with further ado here they are:

 So this is my poor little nails all naked and exposed....

 Applied a base coat for a bit of shine I had to at least have some shine right. 

Today I started the 30 Days of Polish Challenge which was written Erin at The Sugar Cube, Now the image I have below was made by Joy at Okay Now Joy, I love how she made it to match her blog background, I first saw this posted in PaA and thought it would be fun and interesting. 

The only thing is I am not going to change everyday, I'm going to change every 2 to 3 days and post then. So it's more of a 30 polish Challenge, this will make my challenge last a lot longer but I'm excited to see what I come up with. 

For the first day it is "you favorite polish", I actually already did this buuutttt missed the sunlight, so taking pics did not work, I tried but flash totally changed the color of my polish, and there isn't any decent lighting in my house for nail pics. So tomorrow morning I will take some pics in natural sunlight and post sometime tomorrow. 

Glitter Sam-mich!

My first try at it actually. And I have to say that I loved this look. It's so different but subtle on the nail. I'm not sure, but isn't this usually done using a "jelly" polish? I know I probably have some, but not sure how to tell the different, and/ or too lazy to go through all my polish to check which ones were Jellys. So I figured that a neon would work great. So I pulled out my Heaven polishes, I only have two but love these colors they are so pretty.

I took pictures of each step so here they are. And then of course some pretty pictures after topcoat. So pls excuse the mess on some of the in-process pics. I did not clean up in between each step.

 On my right hand I painted Heaven- Marine Blue with an accent nail of Heaven- Dream, and of the left hand I reversed it. 

Oohhh look at that pretty semi-matte finish, just like all neons.

 Used: 

2 coats of Heaven nail lacquer- Marine Blue & Dream

1 coat Pure Ice- Cheatin

then one coat Sally Hansen Xtreme wear- In the Spotlight

And on top of all that a super thin coat of either Marine Blue or Dream. 

HaHa I have no idea how I got so much polish all over my Pinkie on my left hand. I actually don't remember it being that bad but pictures don't really lie. Hehe oops oh well nothing to be done about it now. 

I so loved that I had a glitter with both blue and purple glitter only, it went with my colors so well. 

Now right before I put the last layer of color on i t did pain me a little bit to cover In the Spotlight... Just look at bottle and all the pretty rainbow sparkle, but I did cover it this is a Glitter sam-mich after all, and can't have that if I don't cover the glitter.

Ok so here's the pretty pictures of the finished Sam-mich....

Half Moon take two!

The last time I tried the Half Moon  look I hated it, and then I hated it more as the day went on... But I wanted to try it again. I thought maybe it was that my nails were so short at the time, or the colors I used, or the fact that I added so much to it. Probably a combination of everything I just said. So this time I actually liked it alot. And will definitely do this again. So on to the good stuff...

 Used: 

Base color is Ulta- The Skinny

topped with Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear- Twinkle, Twinkle

stamped on top of the glitter with Pure Ice- Silver Mercedes. 

(Also I used the paper reinforces for the half moon.)

So after a few days wear I had one big chip (of course I photographed around it so you cant see it) And my nails were getting a bit long for me, So I figured why not kill two birds with one stone, I wanted to see how this looked on my shorter nails. So i carefully cut them and filed just enough to smooth out the edges. I actually could of worn them like this for a couple more days but didn't wanted something new. But I did take more pictures...

 So what do you think about them shorter? I liked it and think it works fine on short nails. 

Excuse the blue smudges in the "half moon" part of my nails, when I applied the Twinkle, Twinkle the blue kind of rubbed onto the brush and then left blue there. It was not that noticable in person.