Wednesday, September 30, 2009

New nail station! click for bigger pics





My cable internet went down yesterday, so to make the best use of extra time I had, I built this polish rack. It's not quite finished...I need a wider piece of moulding for the bottom.
This sure beats those plastic polish racks that hold on 90 bottles! I also organized my Konad plates into plastic baseball card holders (seen hanging from pegboard), and my fauxnad plates in plastic 5x7 holders. I used my wood burning stylus to split the 5x7 pocket in half so 1 page holds 2 plates.

Starting my new mani after this post...#3 in my Hslloween mani series.

Monday, September 28, 2009

Fauxnad- A bevy of bats, click to make bigger!







Specs;
Essie- Where's the Soiree base
Overlay- China Glaze- Tempest
Full moon- OPI, The Ghostess With The Mostess
Haze around full moon and clouds- SpaRitual, She's a River
Fauxnad plates- H17 & H9
Essie- Where's the Soiree to stamp

Thumbs are already a couple of days old. Original fingernail art were silver stars that I wore for a day. I wasn't happy with them at all, but time wasn't with me that day, but I *had* to put something on my fingernails quickly.
Anyway, today, I re-did the 10 nails with my initial idea of bats across clouds. I think it turned out pretty good.

I could not, for the life of me, get a good photo of the full moons glowing in the dark.

Saturday, September 26, 2009

My fauxnad plates arrived today!

All 30 of them! Well, actually 31 plates. #H23 was duped due to a misalignment on the plate itself, so they included it along with a good H23. I'm going to add that mis-stamped plate to the giveaway I am getting together along with the fauxnad scraper and stamper. All the images are good, although 3 are cut a tad short.

I also went back To Sally's before work to see if I could snag China Glaze Fortune Teller early.
And I did!

Anyway, my last mani is gone, and my nails wet with new polish. I have bats to stamp!
Hopefully, I'll have pictures in a few hours. I have 2 more 14 hour workdays coming up. 8am comes waaay too early when one is still up at 3am playing with nail polish.

Friday, September 25, 2009

mini haul click pic for holo glitter sparkle



Left to right;
Nina Ultra Pro- Purple-Xing, fine, small and medium holo glitter in a sheer purple base!
China Glaze- Tempest & Secret Peri-wink-le
Orly- Enchanted Forest & Happly Ever After

Tempest and Purple-Xing will be in a future Halloween mani for sure!

Nfu-oh, Sparitual, Claire's & Color Zone haul



Left to right; click pic to make big and clear!
Sparitual in Tall Glass of Water, Epiphany, She's a River & Go Lightly
Middle top- Color Zone (Blue Cross Beauty Prod) Never heard of this stuff.
Bottom middle- Nfu-Oh in 50, 64 & 49
Claire's in Briar Rose, Glitz and Glam, Goldmine & Jen Jen (my first time purchasing Claire's)

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

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!

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

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.