Who Doesn't Love Shoes?

We might be the nail queens, but we have some competition for the shoe queens. I have two friends that could probably rival each other in the shoe department, Nicole and Vickie. However I do know Nicole has a whole closet, top to bottom dedicated to shoes. I'm not sure Vickie can compete.

Now my daughter's roommate, Sadie loves shoes, but can't quite compete on the same level, but we found the perfect Konad stamp to help her make a statement. 

Base coat - Spartial

Base Cosmetic Arts - Screamin' Fuchsia

Island Girl Hawaii - Honolulu Orchid

Island Girl--no name color changing polish (here we go again with the throw back stuff)

BM 213 for the shoe stamp

For ages 10 and older?

For the past few years I have been trying to get my daughter to stop chewing her nails.  Well the idea of having Cat or I do her nails has stopped that habit cold.  Add to that that she could have her nails posted on the web - well my little girl has grown up nails now. Every week she shows me how much longer her nails have gotten and last night they were long enough to buff and shape a bit.  


Sorry for the picture - I just realized we hadn't cleaned up the nails on this hand yet.  Also - we added a little bling on each thumb nail as she is a blingy kind of girl.

Base Coat - Sparitual

Main color - LaGirl Rock Star - Head Banging

Taped off color (between each applied Seche Vite): Lane Bryant - Brown Bronze

Tip Color - La Colors Art Deco - Gold

Oh - And we are currently at Day 3 of our nail polish buying recovering program.

Epic Failure--"Save the Raid, Hug the Wall"

I simply find it amazing how I can have an awesome idea, and then watch it turn into a mangled mess of goo--epic failure. For the WoW fanatics it would be a "save the raid--hug the wall." 
However after recovering from the failure I just performed on Melissa's nails (failed on her so thought I'd better just move onto my own) I went on to do these.

I'm the purple freak so I enjoyed these. There are several things I would do differently, but I get told that's the perfectionist in me, oh well. Plus with this many polishes--maybe less is more?
Here's the recipe.

Base Coat - Sparitual

Main color - OPI Shangri-la-la Lilac

Sponged colors (between each sponge applies Seche Vite):

Wet n Wild - Vernis A Ongles

SinfulColors - Let Me Go #815

Rimmel - Wild Orchid #370

OPI - She's Golden

Stamp - Konad large plate using white

Top Coat - OPI regular and OPI Matte Nail Envy 

(I didn't like the shiny so added the Matte)

Enjoy

Calling for Ideas

Still hanging at day one it seems.  But that just inspires us to do more designs.  For tonight's nails we had a volunteer - Cathy's daughter.  


Now for clarification all I do is help pick colors and take the pictures - Cathy is the rock star behind the nail art.  She will tell you it is because we are all incapable of doing it ourselves - and she would be right.  But she has the final say on colors, design, and whether we start over.


Tonight we took some advice from Nailasaurus and taped off the nails to save time on the clean up.  It worked pretty well, we will try scotch tape next time.

Here’s what we did.

• Base coat: Sparitual
• Main color: - Dare to Wear - Summer Breeze
• First sponged color: Sally Hansen - Marine Scene 
• Second sponged color: Cosmetic Arts - Mistletoe Kiss
• Third sponged color primarily on the tips: NYX - no name color
• Stamp color: Pele Special Nail Polish - White
• Stamp is BM-210
• Top coat – Seche Vite

                       

Feels Like Fall

I’m really thrilled with how this turned out. Mel started by throwing out some colors she liked and I was playing around with sponging. We’ve decided it may be August and 102 degrees in other parts of the world but it’s starting to feel like fall.

We apologize now about some of our imprecision in identifying what we used to achieve this design, hell, like we said we ended up making the Kioski lady in Hawaii’s month. We bought the big sheets of stamp designs so we don’t exactly know:

1.     Who the manufacturer of the plates are

2.     Not sure how to identify the designs for you. Your best guess and description might be better than ours.

3.     Not really sure the name of this nail polish is for real. It reads “Special Nail Paint,” “product of China.”

Enough disclaimers…here’s what we did.

·      Base coat: Sparitual

·      Main color: Special Nail Paint Yellow (we added the color since it’s not on the bottle).

·      First sponged color: Pure Ice – Naughty Girl

·      Second sponged color: DFW – Rome

·      Third sponged color primarily on the tips: OPI – DS Glow

·      Stamp is from the large plate we bought in Hawaii

·      Extra dots were added with regular black polish

·      Top coat – OPI – Start to Finish Base and Top Coat (warning we have ordered, prior to the 12 step program, a better top coat. We went with this because it looked the least likely of our top coats to glob and smear the stamp. We have found when stamping you can reactivate the polish and smear the whole bloody lot, not fun.)

The finished product.

Day One

This nail obsession all started on our trip to Hawaii. Melissa and I were shopping and the next thing I know she is being magically pulled into a store with shiny, blingy nail polish. Little did I know I was vacationing with a closeted nail whore. Who knew? Of course when you are sharing a room and the foofy stuff comes out…well she infected me. The next thing I know I’m applying nail polish right along with her.

Well that was fine and good UNTIL, next to our last day we ran into the nail Kiosk from hell. Yep, that’s right, us Alaska girls had never seen, nor even heard of stamping our nails. Hell we were lucky to shell out $50 bucks for a mani and get a sticker thrown on a nail. So the Kioski girl fell in love. She went stamp crazy on our fingers and we made her sales for the entire month. Yup, we bought the cart…pony and all.

Cat

My nail obsession is to be blamed on another blogger, and the dark nights of winter in Alaska. The Daily Nail blogger was changing her nails every day for a year. Wow! Something to watch, every day of the year, awesome! Well that led to thinking “I can do that” and the rest is sort of history. I won her contest, received a bunch of her polishes in the mail and thus became, a nail goddess (whore is too sharp a word).

Yes, it is true, I’m like a fly to shit when I see nail bling, no keeping me from it. I think now that we have combined polish, bling, extras, foof, and whatever the hell else nail we are up to some 50-60 polishes. Of course I want to catalog the colors (Cathy says that is being anal).

Mel

So we have enough nail supplies that we are working a 12-step recovery program. We are trying to use all of our polishes, at least once, BEFORE we go purchase more. We keep ending up back at day one. In fact we have had to figure out if we start at day one when the nail polish arrives in the mail or is it from the day we clicked, “purchase”?

The idea now is to share some of our art and use this as our catalog to show we have made it through each polish at least once, while we work on the recovery, yep…day one here.

Mel and Cat