Glitterama swirls, edit**added 2 pics & details

 Early morning sun does not capture the sparkle of this mani. First picture is the best of the bunch. Click it to make it gigantic!

Hopefully, I can snatch a few minutes at work today to get some afternoon pics.

Anyway, this mani is for a holiday dinner I am attending with Jim on Monday.

I *really* hope it lasts through the weekend without too much damage or tipwear!

Details;

Base- China Glaze Millennium 1 coat

Overlay- Funky Fingers Wonderland- 3 coats

1 coat Seche

Konad plate- M63- the ever popular swirl pattern

Konad Special Polish Wine Red to stamp.

I *Love* how cool this mani turned out! It doesn't look like a stamped or decaled nail. It looks like a patterned foil. Konad Wine Red is a Jelly, so the base sparkle shows as flashy as the silver!

1 coat Seche

*edit...Sorry guys. In my zeal to get something up before I left for work, I forgot some details.

I double stamped the swirl image twice on my nails and then some. I still had 1/4" to fill at the tips of thumb, index, middle and ring. I also stamped the image horizontal on those nails as well...with the exception of my thumbs(not pictured). Those I stamped four times. They are so horrendously w i d e,  a horizontal stamp couldn't fill the space. My pinky is the only nail to which I could use the stamp longways also double stamped.

The Funky Fingers trio, Wonderland, Under Mistletoe and Yule Love It, were purchased for 3 @ $5.00 at my Five Below Store. The dry time was lightening fast! 

I'd bet a year's salary that these Funky Fingers are one and the same Color Club Wonderland set. The names are even the identical.

 

 

Konad Spiders!

Base-coat- Nicole, One Voice
Overlay- Sally Hansen- Fairy Tale Ivory
Since Konad doesn't have a spider web stamp (why is that?), I used a rub-on decal (not specifically for nails) that I found at Target.
Konad spider stamp from plate m28 with Essie- Where's the Soiree?.
2 coats of Seche Vite

Yellows usually look absolutely terrible on me. This one, from Nicole, looked pretty good by itself, however, I wanted it to be a bit softer and warmer...overlay to the rescue! I really love how this color turned out...an almost butterscotch and very shimmery!

SinfulColors Konadicure

SC basecoat in Show me The Way
Konad plate M57
Stamped with Essie Where's the Soiree?

I've had several Konadicures since my last post, all not very blog-worthy. Although I didn't do anything "special" with this one, I think it's a still interesting enough to post. My first time wearing a green that was not neon.
This konadicure with the tiger(?) stamp almost looks reptilian to me. I couldn't wait for my husband to get done work to snap pictures with his camera, so I used my inferior, ancient Fuji. I'm about to go see my manicurist for a fill and to repair the last fill that has pulled away from my nailbed.

Mani fail

There *is* such a thing as too much glitter.
SinfulColors Pearl Harbor(glitter) over CG, For Audrey and CC Ultra Violet.
Konad plates- M8, M26 & M20, stamped with Salley Hansen Insta-dry in Whirlwind White.

The SinfulColors glitter is just too chunky for the delicate Konad patterns I used..the better choice would have been Pure Ice in Oh Baby!
I also should have left "well enough alone" and not added the lime green accents to the flowers.

One doesn't have to look too close to see smudges around my cuticles. When I first finished my initial color block of For Audrey and Ultra Violet, I thought that my nails looked like half peacock eyes. I went ahead and started to freehand some semi circles and "eyes". I thought it looked really great until I looked at my other hand...I am not ambidextrous.
Thankfully, I had 2 coats of Seche over the color block and was able to remove the extra colors without ruining my base coat. It did, however, stain my cuticles something awful.

I think a Peacock Eye mani would be super original & look really cool. I just have to spend some time thinking things through with how to mask off.

Konad, click pictures for lg view

Base= Franken(OPI Fuji Weejee Fawn & Maybelline Salon Expert in #720 Cozy Cocoa)
Overcoat in Sally Hansen Brilliant Blush
Konad plates S6 & M66, Black Special Polish, Wine Red
Aromaleigh Rocks! Glam Glitter in Shakeitup applied w/toothpick
Topcoat= Seche Vite

A little too neutral for my taste, this is going bye-bye in a few minutes.

Konad!

I usually don't wear light colored nails. My hands are pale and ruddy, so "light" never looks nice. I did all my Konad stamping in Black (Special Polish).

Base- N.Y.C 134A French White Tip

ISO a good white creme...N.Y.C. = terrible formula, awful brush, but, as I don't ever use white, it's all I had.

Over the white, I applied Pure Ice Mint Dream that I Frankened with a sheer lavender-aqua flash, Franken I made ages ago.

Konad plates- 2 images from M20, and 3 from M8.

Used a toothpick to apply Nfu-Oh #38 to the wings of the butterflies, and also added NYX glitter #03 in Crystal at random throughout the flower chain.

Two coats of Seche Vite.

I'm pretty happy with how this turned out.