Teal Tuesday: Free Day

Happy Tuesday!!  Today's challenge was a free day.  YAY!!  I have been wanting to try this jelly sandwich for a while now and I finally have an excuse to do it.  I have been looking at my Sinful Colors Cinderella and Nail Junkie thinking this will make a great jelly sandwich.  Well, it makes a good one.  The glass flecks in Cinderella kind of take over.  But I wouldn't say this one is a fail.  I like the way it turned out.  Just not your typical jelly sandwich.  I did one coat of Cinderella, one coat of Nail Junkie, then one coat of Cinderella, two coats of Nail Junkie and topped with one coat of Cinderella.  Did you get all that?  What are your thoughts?

Base Coat:  Seche REBUILD

Jelly Colors:  Sinful Colors Cinderella and Nail Junkie

Top Coat:  Seche Vite

Sooo having a mommy moment right....is this a jelly sandwich or a glitter sandwich?  Help a girl out  :)

OPI DS Magic

Happy Memorial Day!!  This is gonna be a short post, just a quick swatch for you.  I am wearing OPI DS Magic, I LOVE THIS BLUE!  Blue is quickly becoming a favorite color of mine.  This went on super easy and was opaque in 2 coats. Like my Memorial Day mani?

Base Coat:  Seche REBUILD

Base Color: OPI DS Magic

Top Coat: Seche Vite

ASBMF #12 May Flowers (guest post)

Happy Saturday Everyone, today I am going to show you my May Flowers from my Spring Challenge, but you have  to head over to Lace and Lacquers to check it out. I was lucky enough to be able to do a guest post for her.  Come see what I have for you :)

Teal Tuesday: Stars

I have another Tealicure for you today.  This weeks theme is stars.  I was excited this one won, but then I realized, I had no clue what I was going to do.  There was no way I was going to freehand some stars and I wasn't in the mood to try out some stickers.  So of course, I went to my binder with all my plates and started looking. I was sure I had a ton of star images.  I don't :(  This is actually my 2nd attempt.  I liked my first attempt, which was french tips, but I have plans for the day and wanted to show off this polish.  I LOVE IT!  So I started over and did a full mani with a cute star stamp :)

Base Coat:  Seche REBUILD

Base Color:  Zoya Charla

Stamping Plate:  Bundle Monster BM21

Stamping Polish:  Konad Special White

Top Coat:  Seche Vite

ASBMF #11 Eggs and Chicks

I have been on a roll with with my Spring Challenge mani's.  I am up to number 11, Eggs and Chicks.  I wanted to do something a little different.  I also wanted to try out a new polish and it hit me, Golden eggs!.  You know, like the ones from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.  I know those weren't chicks in the movie, but the idea is the same.  So here are my golden eggs with white chicks

Base Coat:  Seche Rebuild

Base Color:  OPI Just Spotted the Lizard 

Chick:  Sinful Colors Snow Me White

Chick Accents: Sinful Colors Cloud 9, WnW Ebony Hates Chris & 

Sinful Colors Snow Me White

Top Coat:  Seche Vite

ASBMF #10 Butterflies

Can you believe that I got two challenges done so close together?  I cheated.....hahahaha....I did one challenge on one hand and then another on my other hand.  Trying to catch up makes for fun double mani's.  This challenge is butterflies.  I have a lot of butterfly stamps, but I wanted to try these free hand monarch butterflies I keep seeing.  I did this design completely free hand with a striper brush and a dotting tool.  I used this video tutorial.  She has some cute and fun stuff, if you haven't seen her channel, check her out.
When I was deciding what color butterflies I wanted, I just couldn't make a decision.  So I went with all the Metallics in the Kleancolor Metallic collection.  I was able to purchase the entire set on Amazon.  When I purchased the set, it was 8.88 plus 2.95 shipping.  Now looking at it, it sells for 4.24 plus 5.49 shipping.  It's a little cheaper now even with more shipping.  Might even be able to get the set from eBay for even less.  OK, back to the mani.  I painted my nails in this order starting with my thumb:  Metallic Aqua, Metallic Sapphire, Metallic Fuschia, Metallic Purple and Metallic Green.  I am really glad that I did it this way.  Now I know which colors work well with this kind of art.  My favorites are the Metallic Aqua and Metallic Green.  All the others are just too dark and it's hard to see the contrast in colors.
After I was finished with the design, I thought it needed a little POP....so of course that means some glitter.  I grabbed my silver glitter striper and added it to the top of the wing.  Next it was time for the white dots.  Super easy,  I used Sinful Colors Snow Me White and a dotting tool.  Some thing weird happened when I put on my top coat.  All my white dots turned the same color as my base color.  Which I thought was really weird.  I had painted my base colors earlier in the morning and applied my top coat.  I didn't get to the design until the afternoon.  So I had to go over the white dots to make them really white.  I added another top coat and all seemed fine.  Until I saw that there were blue dots on my index finger :(  No clue why it happened, but I wasn't messing with it any more.  Here is the final product

Base Coat:  Sech REBUILD

Base Colors:  Kleancolor Metallics-Aqua, Sapphire, Fuschia, Purple & Green

 Butterfly Wing Design: Wet N Wild Ebony Hates Chris

Glitter:  L.A. Colors Silver Glitter Striper

Spots:  Sinful Colors Snow Me White

Top Coat:  Sech Vite

I hope you will try out a butterfly mani

Happy Friday!!

Guest Post

Two posts in one day!?!?  Unheard of!  hahahaha......I had the privilege of doing a guest post for The Manicured Monkey.  It's kind of nerve racking doing a post for some one else.  But she told me she loved it and I believe her!

The reason today is a double is because I got the post day mixed up :(  I thought it was going live on the 25th, it actually went live on the 15th.  Totally my fault.  Mommy brain strikes again!  Ok, enough excuses go check me out HERE

Thanks Bunches <3