ASBMF- Matte Magic

For this mani I wasn't sure if I wanted just matte or shiny/ matte. I'm still on the fence about matte polish and the matte look. I'm just love the shiny look, and matte feels funny to me, yes I know I sound like a 5 year old when I says "it feels funny". That's ok with me, besides anyone that has worn matte polish will know the "feel" I"m talking about, it's odd. All in all I'm just not sure. Ive actually never worn a "matte" polish just the matte top coats. I think it's more because I would feel weird not applying a top coat, also I"ve heard that most matter polishes are a pain to work with and chip very quickly, no idea if that's true or not though. In my mind I just ask myself why would I want my nails to not be shiny? Lol,, then proceed with my super shiny Seche Vite. What can I say the stuffs awesome.

Anyway what was I saying... oh yes I was deciding between just matter and matte/ shiny. At first I stuck with just matte, then the next morning I used some craft scissors with a squiggly (totally technical work BTW) edge to cut some tape. Let me tell you cutting tape with those scissors is not easy, they just do not want to cut, ugh. But finally I did get enough strips for all my nails. Then place tape on nail, paint shiny Seche Vite, pull up tape. That's it. Ok enough talk on to the pictures.

 See the squiggly line in the middle of each nail... Hopefully anyway maybe not on the accent nail, it's there but hard to see. I think this would of worked better on a darker base, but oh well this is what I was working with. 

Used; 

Base coat

Orly- Faint at heart (grey)

Ulta- Indigo-Go Girl (glitter over grey)

Accent nail 

Ulta- Maine Attraction (teal) 

China Glaze- Lorelei's Tiara (glitter over Teal) 

Below are base colors before glitter with flash... 

ignore those dry hands please

 See the weird bump on my pointer finger... Dunno what happened luckily by the time I was done it disappeared.

Now on to the rest... first 4 in artificial light, last 4 in natural indirect sunlight. 

 The last pics were taken a few days after applying, So I think my matter was turning kinda shiny. Kills the effect, but enjoy the colors 

ASBMF- #4 April Showers...

For this mani I knew what I wanted to do, just wasn't sure of how to achieve the look I was going for. After a few days of not having time and thinking it over I finally had the time to sit down and carry out my plan. I ended up using the water color technique. If you don't know the technique or how to do it, check out this post from Rebecca at Rebecca Likes nails, she explains it way better than I could. And is just awesome all together.

So the idea was to make my nails storm clouds, with water drops like from a car window. So not sure if it worked entirely but I'm happy with it.

Used: 

Base Coat 

Base color: Sally Hansen- Wet Cement 

Other colors: in order 

Sally Hansen- Barracuda 

Opi- Suzi takes the wheel

Wet N Wild- Black Creme 

Opi- Skull And Glossbones

all topped with Sally Hansen Glass Slipper 

Then topped with China Glaze Matte Magic

Then added randon dots and lines in Opi Topcoat. (not sure if its real visible in the photos, honestly it's hardly visible to me and I know it's there.) 

Below is Wet Cement with topcoat in natural sunlight, also the other pics in sunlight were taken right after I was done, my hands were a mess, and I even tried to clean up, well I use tried a bit loosely I gave up pretty quick figured I'd pick it all off later. 

Next Pictures are in artificial light 

Cont'd from Not so Valentine skittles

Well i promised to show you what I had added to this mani, unfortunately I did not have a chance to post this yesterday but I'm doing it now so oh well...
I decided to mattify my nails oh it looked so pretty whats better then pastels with silver matte? I was really happy with them anyway. Here are some pictures... Enjoy

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....

Newspaper Nails...

This was my first try at newspaper nails, When I first saw this design I wasn't even sure if liked the look of it. So after seeing some more pics I decided to try it. But most I saw were on a grey background (I know to look more like the newspaper) but who says a newspaper is always grey. I know for a fact they aren't all grey so I went with pink, a very light pink.... Yes there are even pink newspapers.

So I went and found a torturial, I settled on CutePolish's for comic strip nails seen here. I roughly followed this. Instead of just dipping the paper into the rubbing alcohol, I let it sit in there for a few seconds then took it out and placed on the nail. Then held it there until the paper was dry and pulled it up. And Voila La there you have it.

Well sort of only some of the image transferred really well. Thats ok I'm still happy with them, being my first try and all... So here is the comic I used:

Baby Blues is one of my favorites, I don't remember the name of the little girl, But I only used her on my nails. Used the 4 in the comic and then used regular print for the rest of my nails. And on to the pictures...

Used: 

base coat

2 coats Sinful colors Easy Going

regular top coat (non fast-dry)

and then Seche Vite m

 My left hand ring finger is my favorite nail. Followed by the middle finger on same hand.

And here is my Right hand, See some images didn't transfer so well. The texts ones did transfer fairly well, But the comics didn't.. Sadly they can barely be seen.












When I first thought to do this I had wanted to make it Matte, But when I went to do my nails I forgot I wanted to, So today I added China Glaze Matte top coat and I actually like it a lot better. Well are newspapers shiny? So why should newspaper nails be? And here it is