Stamping with What's Your Name?

Usually if I don't like a color, or plan to change it soon, I'll go ahead & stamp over it to see what it looks like.  I just like to play.  So, that's what I did.

I grabbed my Bundle Monster plates and went to town.

Two coats of Sinful Colors What's Your Name?, BM-205, and a bright blue polish from a Playboy kit I picked up at Big Lots a while ago.

Inside w/flash

sun

sun

sun

inside w/flash

This is one of the few times I didn't totally mess it up.  The blue I used to stamp with came off the plate very well.  I only messed up kinda sliding while pressing it onto the nail.  

You can see the sparkle in the base color on my thumb in the last pic.

TOODLES Y'ALL!!!

You Can't See Me!!!!

I was going to save this as a draft, but I want to share.  In my house, when you wear or see something in Camo you say "I can't see it" or "You can't see me". 

This mani is brought to you by my friend Wendy.  She got her Bundle Monster plates before I did and said she saw something that looked like a camo pattern and made her think of me for some reason.  So, while watching Army Wives, I decided to give it a go.  I tried the stamp colors alone on a piece of tape first to see if they looked good.

Color Club High Society was my base color.  I used 2 coats and this is supposed to be taupe, but it looks more like a taupe/purple to me.  I dunno why.  Maybe it's just me.

Then, I used BM-222 (I hope this was the plate she was talking about) and Essie's Little Brown Dress.

CG's FF kinda messed up my pinky, so the other fingers have SV over them.

Then, since I didn't have another shade of brown, or a few different green cremes, I went with Zoya Shawn.  It makes me think Army Green.

Hunter's easter egg from school.

My dad looked at it and just shook his head.  Hunter said it looked like chocolate, before I put Shawn on, and after I put it on it looked like chocolate camo.  So, I had to grab one of his camo Easter eggs.  :D

I almost don't want to take it off, but I chipped a corner of it on my thumb while trying to open my Coastal Scents blush palette.  :(

TOODLES Y'ALL!!!

My Valentine Mani

This is going to be a pic heavy post.  I used Zoya - Isla as a base & the LA Colors nail art deco polishes in Black & Silver.  I also used my SHANY fauxnad nail art stamps BM02, BM03, BM09, & BM11.  I decided to try a different stamp on each finger & after several tries, finally got the silver to work.  They're not perfect, but cute anyway.  I used one stamp multiple times on my middle finger just for something different with it.  Then I freehanded a black french tip on the top of each nail. 

I messed up with black, so I rubbed it off & re-did it with silver.

Missing part of the I, but it's cute IMO.

I didn't get all of the "stamp", but this looks kinda like a Coke logo.

thumb

index

middle

ring

pinky

upside down.

 I've only done my left hand, dunno if I'll do my right hand or not.  I may remove this soon and try another new polish!!



TOODLES Y'ALL!!

Fauxnad Pedi

I said on Facebook the other day I was doing this and well forgot to do the post.  I decided to give my SHANY nail art plates a whirl & wanted to try it on my toes first.  No sense in testing on my fingernails first in case I have to do it over.  So, I let the kiddo pick the colors.  I was going to do a black base with pink & red lips as I got inspiration here from Bright Lights, Big Color.  Well Hunter thought differently. He picked a dark gray base with red & pink(which didn't work out too well).  

I started out with this as a base coat....

Nutra Nail Mineral Base & Top Coat

 Then I only took pics of the 2 colors he picked that worked...

 

Red from the no name BedBathBeyond kit & Pure Ice in Kiss Me Here

The noob I am, I forgot to take pictures of just the Kiss Me Here on my toes, but I'm posting a pic below with it and just one of the lips.  This gray is very opaque, but to me at times is a taupe/gray or a blue/purple/gray.  Though it is a solid color, it's really the lighting.  Unfortunately since I did this at night all of the pictures were taken in my room under the fan light and with a flash(for the most part).

Please excuse the excess polish on my skin.  I ALWAYS do that, never fails.  Usually it's much worse.  After I looked closely at this pic, it looked like the polish was thinner in some areas on my big toe.  Could just be me, then again I was watching OLTL while I was painting them.  Also, excuse the bad shine above my right toe....I took this on the side of my bed.

Here's what my "set-up" looked like....I made sure I watched some YouTube tutorials first.  I did this in my bed, so I used a box to set everything on to keep it somewhat level. The tweezers were to hold the cotton round with the remover on it so I didn't clear the top coat off my fingernails.

SHANY plate BM02

 So, I did 2 coats of the Kiss Me Here, waited for those to dry.....grabbed my red and went to work.  Surprisingly, for a cheap no-name kit polish, it was kinda thick.  The brush itself and stuff was cheaply made, but I figure I can use those colors for stamping or water marbling....look at YouTube for tutorials too, it looks so awesome!

With this stamping, I did have to work fast.  I found that even with wiping the stamp & plate down every time with polish remover, I still had some staining on the stamp.  A few times, not all of the polish transferred off the stamp onto my nail, but wasn't too bad for my first time.  I'm completely OCD about this sort of thing, and it didn't bother me.  I knew ahead of time there would me mistakes, which is why I did my toe first, and was prepared.  The 2 shades of pink that I tried didn't show up too well as the polish itself wasn't really thick so it came out really light on the stamp. 

Overall, I was happy with my final result.  I only did the design on my big toe, as it would look really silly on all 5 toe nails.  I will definitely be doing this again, but of course will be trying the polish combo's/designs on my toes first before ruining my fingernails.

 TOODLES Y'ALL!!