NCC: April~Pastel~ Week 2

It's challenge mani day!  If you remember The Nail Challenge Collaborative, then you know we just started a new series where every month is a new theme.  April is pastels and here is my week 2 pastel mani.

Base Coat:  Rejuvacote

Base Color:  Zoya Neely

Nail Art Stickers (eBay)

Top Coat:  Seche Vite

I have had these nail art stickers for quit some time now.  I received them as a "sorry you didn't receive your striping tape order, here are some stickers and a replacement is on the way" kind of thing.  They sent a lot too!  Soooooo, with it being pastel month, I thought it was a good time to try these out.  And I have to say, I am really liking them.  They make a plain mani cute and summer-y.  

I had a really hard time photgraphing this mani and didn't know if it was going to make it to the blog.  I tried all kids of light sources, angles, indoors, out doors.....nothing was looking good.  This is the best I could do.  Here is another shot

 Not the usual pose, but I was getting desperate!  

Well, there you have it, a simple, cute and fun pastel mani.  Don't forget to check out the other ladies participating in the challenge :)

XOXO  Mandy

St. Patrick' Day

This morning I am going to start off with some Google news.  Google has announced that it is retiring it's Reader on July 1st.  There is an easy solution to this.  Just head over to http://www.bloglovin.com/, sign up if you haven't already and then on the top of the page, there is a notice about Google and a link to transfer all your blogs over to Bloglovin.  How nice of them!  I did it this morning, took about a minute.  I am happy that is all taken care of.  No worries here about losing my blogs in the shuffle.  Hope you do the same :)

St. Patrick's Day is right around the corner.  I did a quick and easy mani to celebrate.  Nothing too fancy, just cute and sparkly :)

Base Coat:  Rejuvacote

Base Color:  Essie Good as Gold (1 coat)

Glitter:  BadAss Polish Go Pack Go (2 coats)

Top Coat:  Seche Vite

See?  Super simple and cute.  Which makes this post short and sweet.  Have a great weekend!

XOXO  Mandy

BadAss Polish: Go Pack Go! {Review}

Happy Friday, it's another review day :)  I have the 2nd football inspired polish from BadAss Polish, Go Pack Go!  This one is inspired by the Green Bay Packers :)  I did a review of America's Team where I went into detail about the packaging, check it out HERE, it's worth a peek.  I will wait till you come back.

Ok, back? Good!  Now, lets get on to Go Pack Go!  In keeping with the colors of the Packers, this polish is packed full of green glitters with some large gold hex glitters. Perfect!!  Sneak peek of the bottle? Sure!

Isn't it lovely?  This is a must have if you or your other half is a Packers fan.  

Alrighty, so, since this is a themed polish, I kept with the theme and did a green and yellow base.

I went with Sinful Colors San Francisco and China Glaze Happy Go Lucky.  2 perfect colors if you ask me!

I topped with 1 coat of Go Pack Go! and a coat of Seche Vite.  I think it turned out great.

As with any glitter polish with large glitters, you might have to do a little fishing.  I didn't have to fish for the large yellow glitters, I just had to be careful not to swipe them off my nail as I was spreading out the polish.  So just beware you might have to "place" some of the large yellow glitters.

There you have it, a lovely green and yellow glitter polish based on the Green Bay Packers.  Of course, you don't have to layer over green and yellow.  It's green and gold, this will look cool over black, red for Christmas, blue, oooooh, and purple!  Lots of fun to be had with this one.  

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I have 2 more polishes coming up, stay tuned.  They will be up next week.

Enjoy your Friday and have an awesome weekend :)

This is Halloween: Water Marble

It's time for another installment from the This is Halloween Challenge.  Next up, water marble.  I have attempted this technique a couple times.  Neither time did it come out all that great.  So I wasn't too excited about doing a Halloween water marble.  I don't have lots of creme polishes nor do I want to go out and buy a bunch for one challenge.  So I am working with what I got, and what I got is a stamping plate.  Surprised?  I didn't think so.  The new Bundle Monster set came with a water marble design and I have yet to try it out.  The perfect time is now!!

I didn't do anything fancy, so here is my final design

Base Coat:  Rejuvacote

Base Color:  Sally Hansen Extreme Wear Green with Envy (1 coat)

Glitter:  Sinful Colors Smoking Hot (1 coat)

Stamping Plate:  Bundle Monster BM320

Stamping Polish:  Konad Special Black

Top Coat:  Seche Vite

There are over 50 of us gals doing this challenge, there are 2 challenges a week and one link up each week.  So there are going to be a bunch of thumbnails of others Halloween mani's.  Take a couple mins and check them out :)

Fall into Autumn: Apples

I have another Fall Challenge Mani for you today.  Number 2 is apples.  I had a hard time deciding what to do.  A lot of gals did a similar design, which is what I was planning in doing as well.  In the end, I decided it didn't matter if all our mani's looked similar.  Great minds think a like, right!?!?! So, here are my apples :)

Base Coat:  Rejuvacote

Red Apples:  Sally Hansen Extreme Wear Red Carpet

Green Apple:  Sally Hansen Extreme Wear Ivy League

Stems:  Sinful Colors Mercury Rising (applied with  a dotting tool)

Leaves:  Sally Hansen Extreme Wear Green With Envy (applied with an art brush)

Top Coat Seche Vite

These are fun to wear, I am enjoying them.  I wish they had turned out just a little bit better, next time!!  Have you tried an apple mani?

Cupcake Nails

My niece's birthday was this last July.  I can't believe it has taken me this long to share my mani from her party.  I was asked to make her cake, YAY!!  She was having an Ariel party and wanted an Ariel head.  Sure thing niece!!  I was excited to make this cake.  But she was kind of a pain in the ass.  I had never used the Ariel pan before so I was learning as I go.  I have done character cakes before.  Sadly, the indentations for the lines on this particular pan didn't match up to the picture.  So I had to wing it a little bit.  I think it came out pretty good.  I am not too happy with the eyes, but that is where there were some discrepancies with the pan lines and the picture.  

I decided it would be really fun to have some fun birthday party nails.  Normally, I make cupcakes for parties.  Since I wasn't doing any for my niece, I decided cupcake nails were a must! 

These were super simple to do.  I did a pink french tip and then added the green stripes with a nail art brush.  Using a dotting tool I created the "frosting" with white then added the green "sprinkles" and pink heart "topper".  Cute and simple.  I am really happy with how these turned out.  I will definitely be doing this design again :)

Base Coat:  Rejuvacote

Pink:  Sally Hansen Extreme Wear Very Cherry

Green:  Sally Hansen Extreme Wear Green With Envy

White:  Sinful Colors Snow Me White

Top Coat:  Seche Vite

I really wish I had shared these earlier.  I hope you enjoy my cupcake nails and my Ariel cake :)
More of my baking creations can be seen on my FB page:  Mandy's Custom Desserts

Guest Blogger Friday: A Little Polish

Happy Friday!  Today's guest blogger is Stephanie from A Little Polish.  I love her blog, her mani's, her style, everything!  She has some great designs and I am happy she agreed to post for me :)

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Hey Ladies, this is Stephanie from A Little Polish. I was so excited with Mandy asked me to do a guest post for her. I love her blog, and she has great nails, art, stamping, blogging, etc.. the list goes on and on!

For this mani I decided to do something freehand so I went simple with some leopard print accents. I'm calling it "Mint Chip Leopard" in my mind.

For this mani I started off with two coats of Finger Paints "Pistachio" and layered OPI "Pirouette My Whistle" over top. For my accent nails I used Sinful Colors "Snow Me White" and Kiss Nail Art Striper in Black. My leopard print isn't the best in the scheme of all bloggers out there, but one thing that I like about this print is that anyone can do it if they try and with all animal prints, and everything in nature, there is no right or wrong and everything is unique :)

Do you ever do animal print manis? What is your favorite?

Thanks again to Mandy for having me guest post on her blog. Hope you enjoyed seeing my Mint Chip Leopard Mani!

Guest Blogger Friday: WalkInMyEyeShadow

It's Guest Blogger Friday over here.  Today Natalie is joining us from WalkInMyEyeShadow.  She is a newer blogger and has some great stuff to show you.  Go check her out!!

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G'day all!

My name is Natalie Elise and I am a beauty blogger from Australia. Most of my time is spent either researching makeup and nails or blogging on my website, WalkInMyEyeShadow. When I was asked to do a guest post for Mandy's Polish I was really excited so hopefully you enjoy my mani and please check out my blog.

For my guest post I wanted to create a manicure inspired by peacock colours. My favorite colours are teal and purple and I wanted to bring those into a manicure, and this is what I came up with.

Here are the supplies I used for this manicure.

As a base colour I used China Glaze "Shower Together". I then applied stripes of colour across the background using various peacock inspired shade from LA Colours Art Deco. The colours I used were Magenta, Vibrant, Dark Blue and Forest Green.

I then added a little bit of sparkle by using the glitter stripers in Blue Glitter, Teal Glitter and a purple glitter striper that I don't know the name of. This is how it turned out

I then stamped a design from Mash image plate 49 with China Glaze "Metallic Muse", and this is how it turned out

Hopefully you have enjoyed my guest post here on Mandy's Polish, I would like to thank Amanda for giving me the opportunity to become known by a wider audience and look forward to hearing any feedback you have for me. Please check out my blog for more looks and reviews.

ASBMF #9 Fresh Cut Lawns

Today I did an attempt on one of my April Shower's Bring May Flowers Challenges, Fresh Cut Lawns.  This looked good in my head.  Not so good after I was done.  In my defense, my kids woke up with so much energy this morning, they just couldn't be contained.  I also used a polish I had never used before.  The Nabi Magnetics.  My thought was that I would be trying out some thing new and getting in a challenge mani.  The formula on the Nabi is really good.  You just have to make sure that you get a nice even coat.  Not too thick, not too thin.  Also, it's best to get your nail as close to the magnet as possible.  It makes great lines the closer you get.  I held my magnet to each nail for 30 seconds.  I wish I had taken a pic of my thumb.  The lines are so cool and defined!  I wanted to add a pretty butterfly, cause that is what I think of when I think of bright green lush lawns.  Remember when I said my kids were a little crazy this morning?  It messed up my stamping mojo.  I didn't get my butterfly center and at that moment I didn't care and surely didn't want to re-do it.  So I decided to wing it and try to add a partial butterfly to fill in the empty space.  Here what I ended up with.  Be honest, what do you think?

Base Coat:  Seche REBUILD

Base Color:  Nabi Magnetics in Teal

Stamping Plate;  Red Angel RA 119

Stamping Polish:  Kleancolor Metallic Yellow

Top Coat:  Seche Vite

China Glaze Agro with Devotion

Yesterday I showed my Mani using China Glaze Agro, you can see it here.  I decided last night was a good night to do some stamping and I had yet to try the polishes I have from the China Glaze Romantic Collection.  Which are supposed to be great for stamping.  My first choice was Chords.  Colors seemed good to me.  NOT!  Agro is too dark.  So the stamped image didn't hardly show at all.  Back to the drawing board.  I picked out Devotion from the same collection and was hoping it would work out.  It did!!  I quit like it!

Base Coat:  Seche Rebuild

Base Color:  China Glaze Agro

Stamping Plate:  Bundle Monster BM225

Stamping Polish:  China Glaze Devotion

Top Coat:  Seche Vite

Hunger Games: Agro

Hunger Games the Movie came out last week.  I have seen a lot of cool mani's inspired by the

movie.  Mine isn't inspired by the movie.  I haven't read the books nor have I seen the movie.  I 

would like to, but we shall see.  That being said, I did get some of the China Glaze polishes :)

I already posted about Stone Cold, you can take a peek if you like.  Back to Agro.  This is an awesome 

color, and opaque in just one coat.  Which means, this could be a great stamping polish, more on that later.

Here is the basic mani

Base Coat:  Seche Rebuild

Color:  China Glaze Agro (1 coat)

Top Coat:  Seche Vite

I just couldn't leave well enough alone!  I decided to add some glitter :)  I used Wet N Wild 

The Gold and the Beautiful.  This polish is jam packed with gold specks.  I used a sponge to do a 

gradient look.  Well, I tried hahahahaha, I forgot how dense this one is and so the gradient isn't perfect. 

But I still like it.  You?

Base Coat:  Seche Rebuild

Base Color:  China Glaze Agro (1 coat)

Glitter: Wet N Wild The Gold and the Beautiful

Top Coat:  Seche Vite

Hope you enjoyed my Agro Mani's

Happy Friday!!

St. Patty's Day Mani

Tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day.  Will you be celebrating with green beer?  A special dinner?  I am embarrassed to say that we do neither of these things.  And I am married to an Irish Man!!!  Obviously he doesn't mind much.  Although I know he would like a traditional corned beef hash one of these times.  This holiday just creeps up on me EVERY year!
So, in honor of St. Patty's Day, I did a themed mani last night.

No Flash

With Flash

I wasn't too excited about the green when I first put it on.  Thankfully, after the glitter top coat, I was in love.  I love how this turned out.  

This was also my first time using my new Bundle Monster plates.  I know this isn't exactly a 4 leaf clover, but it looks like a bunch of clovers and I thought "hey, it's my St. Patty's Day Mani"  :)

Basecoat:  Seche Rebuild

Base Color:  China Glaze Holly-Day

Top Color:  Wet N Wild Fast Dry The Gold and the Beautiful

Stamping Plate:  Bundle Monster BM 16

Stamping Polish: Konad Special Black

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