Time to shine...

Recently I went in search for some decorative edge'd scissors to do some tape manis with. Found a four pack like this at my local walmart for only $5, the price kind of threw my boyfriend and I, since one pair of these scissors were like $7. Not sure if they were priced wrong or on sale or something. Didn't really matter to me I was just excited to find them and at such a reasonable price.  And then my oh so great boyfriend bought them for me, of course telling me I was spoiled the whole time... Oh well it's ok to be a little spoiled right.

Anyway back to the my mani, so this was actually my first attempt at a tape mani (literally using scotch tape, I've used stickers and such), I used the scissors with the Squiggle design (Yes that is a technical term hehe), at first I could not get the scissors to cut the tape cleanly. Well I should of known right away, but sometimes I forget how hard it is being left handed. Ok not really just using knives and scissors are a PITA sometimes. So after realizing this I grabbed the scissors with my right hand and cut the tape and what do you know it worked on the first try. Of course right.

My nails were already painted with Avon's Vamp it Up so I just taped my nails off and painted with Sally Hansen's Time to Shine. Let me tell you I am not a big fan of Gold anything like shoes, polishes, or especially jewelry ugh, but this color is soo pretty I think it's one of my new favs. Ok now on to the nails, the important stuff right. First three are of my left hand, last two are my right hand. Enjoy.

Vamp It Up

So after my Galaxy nails, and everything I've done recently has been alot of stamping or glitter or something, so I wanted something simple for a couple of days. Well simple and dark because I really love dark colors and I'll wear them whenever. So I went with Avon's Speeddry+ in Vamp it up.

Ok so this polish is super pretty, but it was a PITA to apply, I could not seem to get the right amount of polish on the brush either it was too much and globbed all over my nail and skin, or not enough and I had to get more for the other half of my nail. Then when I would do this it had terrible cuticle drag.
Then when I first did my nails I put 2 coats on thinking it looked good (I was indoors), well later when I left the house and seen my nails in the sunlight I had bald spots! It wasn't too bad when I got home I just added another good coat and another coat of Seche Vite to fix it not no bald spots. Yay! So if you like the colors it's worth it, Such a pretty colors once your all done.

Sorryabout the mess around my nails this is right after applying the third coat and I didn't clean up after.

These pics were taken in the sun tried to get the colors right in most lights look almost black. Look the at bottle in the third pic shows the color well.

used: 

base coat

2 coats Avon speeddry+-Vamp it up

1 coat Seche Vite

1 more coat Vamp it Up

and one more of Seche Vite 

These next two pics were taken inside with flash shows the true colors a little better.

Attempt at Half Moon...

...And when I say Attempt I mean it, this so did not come out as I thought it would. I was debating weather or not to even take pics, earlier today I was dead set on not even taking pics didn't want to see it again LOL. But in the end I decided to take my pics and just put in on here, why not? Sometimes things don't work and that's ok.

Ok so this started our as being a half moon mani, but when I taped off my cuticles I put them too far on the nail, so it ended up looking like some weird in-between of a half moon and a french manicure. Which makes for this weird looking mani, For about the first hour after I finished I thought I might like it, but as the day went on I realized it's just not working out, My boyfriend even tried to say it looked good-ish, but I could tell he was only trying to make me feel better about it hehe, even he could tell how awful it turned out. Eh maybe someone will like this and want to try it, just a note it might of worked better on longer nails, note to self do not chop off nails right before trying something new...
 

base coat

2 coats Avon Urban grey 

1 coat Seche Vite

2 coats Confetti Moonstruck 

then 2 coats Sinful Colors Pinky Glitter

1 coat of Seche Vite, 

And after all that I started to think dont want this shiny, So I added a coat of China Glaze matte top coat.

And this is what I was left with, lol yes that does not only seem like a lot of polish for one manicure it even looks kinda thick ugh live and learn eh. Oh well no biggie now I know.

I will have to definitely try the half moon again and try to get it right.

oh yea, and the first pic is super clear shows my nails all chopped off (they were bugging me last night), but the second pic is way more true to color but a little blurry so I included both.