Win or Fail - Navy & Orange Wedding Nails

Hey y'all!  So back in October, of last year, my little sister got married.  My dress was super easy to find, but as usual the nails were the difficult part.

I thought I'd do something easy, and with colors that matched the dress.  Little did I know that I'd absolutely hate what I ended up with.

For this I used Zoya Ember and Lauren B. House of Blues to create an ombre, with the accent nail being a reverse of the others.

Then I added China Glaze Fairy Dust, because usually it makes everything look great.

THEN I went even further and added OPI Servin' Up Sparkle over the accent nail, so it wasn't left out....and hated it even more.

I mean, it doesn't really look THAT bad, but I was SOOOOO not happy with it.  What do y'all think?

Win Or Fail Nails - Patriotic

Hey y'all!  So while I was swatching the new Salon Perfect polishes I decided to play around with them a bit.  I'm not sure how I feel about this, but I basically wanted to use ALL TEH GLITTAS! 

I started off with Wild Blue Yonder as my base.   Randomly brushed He's With Me onto the tips of the outer nails then topped that with Silver Sparkler. 

On my middle finger is Star Spangled & on the ring finger is Grand Finale.

I probably should've sponged the red on, but I think it's still sorta cute. :D  What about y'all? 

That being said, I hope those of you celebrating have a safe and fun filled day.

My total fail mani's from Friday.... (pic spam)

Since Patricia over at Southern Sister Polish posted her nail fail, I don't feel so bad about wanting to share mine.  I totally think hers is cute and different. 

This past Friday I was attempting a mani for a JROTC reunion I was going to on Saturday.  I know, I waited until the last minute and spent all day trying to get something decent.  I just wasn't happy with any of it.  I finally took it off & put Electra Magenta from the China Glaze Tronica collection on.  I didn't think to get any pics of it while I was out and I'm about to take it off shortly.  I cracked the corner of my thumb off so I need to file my nails down a lil bit.

Anyway, back to the reason for this post.  I hated everything I tried & my bedroom smelled like a Hazmat zone. 

I started off with Zoya Mira & attempted to stamp over it with Marley....I think this went horribly wrong.  Then, I made it worse by trying to do a funky french.  This didn't stay on long.

Then, I put on Marley.  The white spots on my nail are shiney spots from the Quick Dry.  I didn't like the look of this after it was applied as you'll see in the sun pictures.

inside/flash

inside/flash

sunlight/no flash....see the horrible application

sunlight/no flash

So, then I tried stamping over it with Mira, then adding some extra with a black & silver nail stripe-r and brushing some Zoya Faye on with a small brush.  This went horribly wrong after I attempted to draw an arrow on my middle finger & it looked just bad (I didn't even take a pic of it).

So, I took those 3 fingers down & put Marley back on them.

I then decided to layer other purple shades on top to see what it looked like....

Adina-Thumb, Faye-Index, Zara-Middle, Yasmeen-Ring, Dannii-Pinky

While I did that, I "attempted" what I thought was a good idea on my right hand.  I used the same brush I use for clean-up, dabbed a little polish & brushed it on each finger.  I kinda did the "gradient" thing and it looked more like watercolor to me.  After looking at this again, I think the only finger that looked bad was my pinky.

(base to tip) Zara, Adina, Dannii, Faye, & Yasmeen

I wanted to share this not only to show you that we ALL have mistakes, but to remind myself not to go too far sometimes.

TOODLES Y'ALL!!!