Red and black color blocking funky french tips

• Maybelline - Onyx Rush
• Maybelline - Racy Red
• China Glaze - Ruby Pumps

This was fun! I used striping tape on the top of the blocks and in between them, took some careful brush strokes to make sure I didn't go over the thin tape. But it looks nice, and I like it! Sometimes I think I don't wear red enough.

This mani kinda reminds me of Cruella Deville from 101 Dalmations though. Just needs some white, I think, haha.

I hope to get one of my other cameras going soon, I think they take better photos. My current Sony is the newest but it seems to take some what crappy macros. :/ *pout* I don't know what it is, but the lighting did not want to play nice with this mani. It makes the red seem sort of washed out, it's not. :/

Christmas stamping manicure

China Glaze - Glitter all the way
Finger Paints red (can't think of the name)
and I think I used a MASH stamping plate.

Turned out pretty ok. :) Spent hours messing with my stamping kit.

I ~was~ going to do a rather sheer manicure but my nails are a bit yellow and I lost my buffer, they were also on the rough side. So glitter and stamping it is! Could have used a base color. Oh well. The last picture especially shows how the glitter actually does not layer all that well. Happy Holidays, everyone!

Studio M - Kalidascope swatch over Orly's Elsabeth's Rose

Yet another one of my Studio M polishes. :) I wasn't sure what the outcome of this one would be. At all. It goes opaque with three coats, but I prefer the one layer that's on my thumb. I lightened the bottle pics a little so you could see it better.

This polish looks like a few others I swatched from this brand, the Rainbow Connection dupes. Only it has a lot of gray/silver in it obviously. Mostly really fine silver micro glitters in with the rainbow circle glitters that are found in OPI's Rainbow Connection, as well as all the dupes of that. You can find my swatches of Studio M's Funfetti and Poparazzi here if you're interested.

I don't love it, I don't hate it. Props for originality though, and props for using the same glitter in multiple different polishes. I can't help but wonder what this would look like over black.

I used the pink Orly I got for $1 at Big Lots. as a base. :)

Three layers here. Little pre clean up-ish, sorry.

Ended up doing a funky french with it, too.

I think it looks best with one layer, and used as a layering polish.
Three coats doesn't look terrible though.

Three coats, pretty opaque really. I need
better lighting, I wish the pics came out better.

One coat over Orly's Elsabeth's Rose
 (sorry for the dry cuticles I used pure acetone last time-I moisturized
with 3 different things and it still drys me out.)

Halloween funky french blood splatter

I had been wanting to do this for awhile. Even with the nude color you can still some what see yellow on my nails which is what I hate about this. I love how it turned out I just wish my nails weren't yellowed. :-(

I actually bought a cream red specifically to do this. Classy mani combined with Halloween, what isn't to love about this?

I cleaned up quite a bit with acetone but due to the mess splatter nails makes it's not perfect. Not to mention red is notoriously evil for staining skin ugh.

Bonus picture! Didn't get a whole lot of pics of this mani
but these were my Frankenstein nails I did.

Subtle metallic gradient with silver holo tips

I actually wasn't going to do anything to the tips but I had some tiny smudges that were bugging me. I ended up liking it a lot though, it did feel like it was missing something before I added the funky french holo tips. The blue and silver seem to fade in very nicely with each other, too, which is something I haven't gotten with the few gradient designs I've done. (The blue was also metallic but not as obvious since I sponged it i guess.)

Am I the only one whos cuticles and hands are suffering with this hot weather? I don't remember this happening last year, and I haven't changed my moisturizing routine at all. Weird.

The colors I used was a blue metallic Pure Ice color (can't think of the names gah i really should take pictures of them.) and a Revlon silver. I'm absolutely fricken thrilled I found a use for Pure Ice's metallics because their formula seems to be a bit off. It's pretty streaky as a base.