Very Uncooperative Scrolls...

... And a bit of smearing ugh I hate when that happens.

So when I started this mani I had plenty of time to finish and make it perfect, Well the painting started out well Used two coats of each color. Then came time to start stamping and I was excited to try this image, I thought it was the perfect image. I was looking for something kind of scroll like or swirly.

Well boy was I wrong, this was a huge pain. I had to keep trying to get it right, every time it would pick up partial image and so I had to try again. Also I am not one to clean the plate in- between stamps only if I change the color, Well every time I only got half an image I had to clean it and try again. But I never gave up this whole process took awhile but finally I got a decent transfer on each of my nails.

Now when I usually stamp I dont have any smearing this was not my day for stamping I suppose, But since it took forever to get the image to work well enough when I saw the smearing there was no way I was going to re-do all my nails (not quite all but most had smears) I was already so frustrated with this mani, so I just left the like this for a few days.

Ok now to see my not so pretty nails:

 Used: 

Base Coat

the coral/pink is Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Caribbean Coral

the blue/teal is Finger Paints in To-Teally-Chic 

the dark purple is Ulta in Devious 

Stamping colors are black- Wet N Wild black creme

and Silver- Pure Ice Silver Mecedes

With Bundle Monster plate 201

So was this just me or has anyone had problems with this image. Either way it was a PITA so get a decent transfer and I probably wont be using the image again.

Out of This World with a Little Chic

Here is a combination that doesn't look awful but also doesn't quite meet the bar either. For being a quick mani that I just wanted to put on when I didn't have alot of time it works.
Used: base coat
3 coats of Sinful colors- Out of this world 
 accent nail 3 coats of Ulta- Chic Peek
topped with wet n wild clear coat,
and a coat of Seche Vite.

 First off I did not expect OFTW (Out of this World) to be so sheer. It's not your typical silver polish. And not really a color I would normally wear. But I though it was pretty, and I do really like it but I'm thinking it would make a better layering polish.

For most of my nails this went on pretty smooth and dried fast. But as you can see my middle finger on my right hand it bubbled, or something, I did notice that with the first coat but I was thinking it would just level out and look fine when I was done.

Of couse you can see that did not happen, but likeI said this was a quick mani so I didn't have time to change it right away.

In this picture it looks like there are bald spots on my accent nail, there wasn't the any bald spots that was because of my camera's flash. For some reason it causes some colors to look weird like that.  IRL Chic Peek covered really well. 

 As you can see there is a little gash on this accent nail =/ I hit it right after applying my top coat. But I had to show you this hand since there was no weird bubble mess. See much better.
Ah-hem please excuse the bald-look to the accent nail as well, damn flash caused it again.

All in all I did like these two colors, But maybe next time not together. I dunno why but they just don't really belong together. What do you think? And what colors would of been better? With either one?

It's been a month...

...Well a little belated I was planning on a post about this on the 18th which was a month from my first post. But I actually forgot about it entirely until Tuesday, and of course that night I was attacked by the flu. I went from being slightly tired on tuesday afternoon to not being able to sleep, sore throat and just feeling yucky on tuesday night. So for then next two days I spent most of my day in bed either sleeping or trying to sleep... I had the same polish on for about five days (finally changed on the fifth day) it was kind of driving me crazy but I did not even want to look at Nail polish let alone change it. Ok on to what I was saying about this being one month and all... 

I wanted to take a moment to thank every one of my readers. When I made the decision to start my own blog I had no idea if anyone would even read my little corner of the blogasphere,  it makes me so happy to know that there are people who actually read what I have to say.  I noticed every day when I gained a follower and it always made me smile. I know some people might not think 24 followers is anything but  was happy the day I logged on and saw 15 or the first 5.  Just thank you too every single one of you, and a special thank you to my boyfriend, who reads all my posts even though he hears about polish way more than he would like, haha and knows way more then he ever thought he would about new colors and good polish and whatever else I ramble on about sometimes (ah- hem yes all the time I know), he is awesome-ness and I don't know where I would be without him. 

Now on to the pretty stuff... This is the manicure I wore for five days, and these pics were taken on the fifth day right before I took it off, Yes very bad I know but I did this on Sunday, just didn't have a chance to takes pics before getting sick then of course I did not want to take pics or do anything really for a few days. Anyway this mani help up seriously well, there is only minimal tip wear, and only one chip on one nail, Which of course I did not photograph.  

 Used: 

Base coat

2  coats China Glaze- Secret Peri-Wink-Le 

2 Coats Sally Hansen HD- Laser 

1 coat reg. top coat (as in not fast dry) wet n wild clear coat if interested 

and 1 coat of Seche Vite to seal in

Also if interested I put a reg top or clear coat under my Seche Vite to counter act the shrinkage I read this tip on this post from Loodie Loodie Loodie, great blog BTW, this actually seems to be working to counter-act the shrinkage. Yay because I love Seche but hate the awful shrinkage. 

Now Laser is soo pretty, just look at that blue- purple pretty sparkle on there. 

Aww look at my middle finger on my left hand, I hit it after finishing and it left a dent =/ , but at the time didn't have time to change at the time and I've already explained everything else. 

This was part of the reason it bugged me to leave this on so long.