LA Colors Red Glitter with Sinful Colors Rich in Heart

 This red glitter polish is sooooooo pretty -  I needed 3 coats of Top Coat but it was totally worth it!!!!! I looked at the LA Colors website and there is no comparable Color Craze polish to match this stripe glitter, I would love to see LA Colors come out with glitters just like this in different colours.

This LA Colors stripe polish is called Red Glitter and is a red translucent base with tiny red flecks, and two different sizes of round glitter.......

The base of my mani today is 2 coats of Sinful Colors Rich in Heart - I layered this over 1 coat of Wet n Wild Black Creme. I added the LA Colors Red Glitter to my nails in a gentle curve diagionally across my nails and used much more top coat then I care to admit - This pretty glitter polish is super grainy but totally worth it.

And here is a few more blogs I added to my blog list, I like it when other people do this 'blog roll link thingy', I feel like I never have enough time to hunt around for new nail blogs/tumblrs, but every week I find 5 or more = sooooo awesome.

Polish Obsession 

basecoat//topcoat

Esmalterapia

The nail movement


 stamp 'n' polish

 dare to be beauty 

 nailsymo

 nails on the cheap

Wickless and Polished

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dry marble - and a few new blogs to add to my blog roll.........

I am trying to experiment with something awesome I saw on More Nail Polish and Enamel Girl.  I started out trying  the water marble where you do a design like a normal water marble, then drop a cut out piece of plastic onto the marbled design to pick up the design, let it dry then affix it to your nails - but it turned out terrible!

So instead - I did a drag marble on a piece of plastic, let it dry then affixed it to a tacky nail polish base..... it turned out perfect.

I can see this being a great way to have my non dominant hand have intricate designs that I cannot do as well free-hand, My left hand ( model hand ) always looks better than my right hand.

This Sunday I will set aside some time to figure out how to do a real water marble - then pick up the design with plastic. If you haven't already check out  this post from More Nail polish where she did a fabulous job with dry water marbling  and a much better job of explaining how it is done...... Water marbles can be so beautiful but I find them to be so messy - and many of the times I have tried they looked awful.

In the mean time I will mess around with swirling nail polish onto zip-lock bags..... I only tried this on 1 nail and so far it turned out very nice.

I applied this to a still tacky nail polish base

here is with a coat of TC

and here is with 2 coats of TC and after an acetone clean up 

and here are the colours I used- LA Colors Static Electricity and LA Colors Atomic

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.... and here is a mani I wore earlier this week,  The base is Avon Bare Necessity, I made a chevron shape with LA Colors Black stripe polish, went over the line with LA Colors Metallic Pink stripe polish, then added Kiss pink Glitter over that line.... The pink glitter did not show up as much as I hoped it would. I added a coat of TC to my nails, smearing the black on my index - boooooooo!

 and finally a few blogs I added to my blog roll - I have been lacking on my blogroll, sorry!

  omgnoodles

 A nail  polish affair 

 nail passion 

 tip-top-nails

 cosmetics freak

 nail polish-addict 

 life and slight obsessions 

 nails and stuff 

 pistols and cobras 

 hold ur colour 


As long as your blog has 86.342839 % nail polish related content I will add it to my blog roll- It may take a day or two ( or 2 weeks ) but I will get it up there!

I have taken a few blogs off that had questionable content but for the most part I like that there is almost 800 different nail polish related blogs on there I am very Happy that there are soooooo may people sharing all their mani's, shopping hauls and tips and ideas - - -  Thanks everyone for posting all your stuff!

o

New blogs and a silver glitter mani

Todays mani is 2 coats of Wet n Wild Fast Dry - Silvivor, followed by LA Colors Nail Art Ice Breaker applied over entire nail with that tiny, skinny brush, then a coat of LA Colors Color Craze Sparkling Diamonds. NO TC!

  Here are a few blogs people submitted, then a few I found during the week. For some reason ( again ) blogger will not let me add new blogs to my blog roll, or do a bunch of other stuff, so before I pull my hair out I will quit for the evening and try again tomorrow. In the meantime - please check out these links to some new blogs!


 polished not put together

 chalk board nails

 pretty and adorable

 food and lacquer too


 adventures in acetone 

 candy glaze

 my wet nails

 nails and stuff 

 funky monkey nails 

 un po di colore 

 bookworm-nails

 blue tape and nails 

 Konad Kolata 

 butterfly in a jar 

 ya gotta hand it to me 

diavas lacquer box

 2 coats of Wet n Wild Fast Dry Silvivor 

 Stuff I used......

Wet n Wild Silvivor,  LA Colors Nail Art polish Ice Breaker, LA Colors Color Craze Sparkling Diamonds

Left; 1 coat LA Colors Color Craze Sparkling Diamonds

Right: LA Colors Ice Breaker stripe applied over entire nail

I was hoping the color craze polish would have much more hex glitter, so I was a little dis-appointed to  find that the hex glitter was pretty sparse. So I whipped out the stripe polish and used that instead.... I added a coat of Sparkling Diamonds over the stripe polish just in case it was too lumpy = but it was surprisingly smoothe.

indoor flourescent

sunshine!!!!!

o

New Blogs & NYC Bakcstage Brown, Color Workshop "Pink"

 its a bright shiny copper - not brown

This is one of the three new NYC polish's from their newest limited edition collection. Backstage Brown is a lovely copper shade, like a brand new penny; so I am not sure why they are calling it Backstage Brown. This was 3 coats - it dries fast and was easy to apply - N.Y.C. polish's are always a dependable polish for me.

Sorry I am late in adding this list of new blogs. I am addicted to another forum-type website that starts with an 'R' that I would never introduce you to because it is addictive and the biggest time sucker behind nail polish blogs.

I drove myself bonkers trying to figure out how to change some blogs that are saved as 'RSS feeds' and to have them appear in proper order on my blogroll..... Here are a few new blogs ~

rainbowhands

 er-nails 

 steffels 

 nevorpurify's nail art

 oh me oh my oh me 


 hedonism-ltd.

 im obsessed with nails 

 lauras lacquers 

 sannuk 

 gold specknails 

 Backstage Brown.... I guess 'Backstage Copper' would'nt be as catchy

and this is a lovely pink shimmery-flecky polish from the Color Workshop that I found at the Dollar Tree in the USA -

I call this hand model pose 'The Lextard'

Even though I despise these big clunky polish caps, there are many beautiul nail polish's in bottles like these, and quite a few companies are using them..... so I better get used to it! I did'nt like the Sally Hansen X-treme wear polish caps when they first came out either...... but I managed.

All three of these polish's from The Color Workshop were sheer, the rose/pink colour and the apricot colour have a lovly shimmery fleck, though it looks like a foil finish in the photo above - I think these are too sheer to be called a foil finish polish. I snagged a few packages of these for franken bases...... @ .33 cents each - I should have bought more ( how many times have I written that/ said that in my life? )

 ..... and I added a coat of Hanna Pinktanna, a holographic micro glitter in a pink jelly base.

a fuzzy picture to show off that holo glitter ( no TC )

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New Blogs & Cheetah Print nails

 But first New Blogs!

Confessions of a nail polish junkie

 mini-color

 kitten nails

rainbow hands

 addicted to the allure of beauty

 wacky laki

starlight radiance

 amoda na ponta das unhas

 lets polish some nails

 maquilhagem &  acessorios da marbel

 ive got that polish addiction

 polish and pigments  - glitter and pigment directory for frankens

NIGHTLYNAILS

Polish on my Mind

 I seem to lean towards the zebra look when it comes to animal print nails..... So I thought I would try a cheetah print today.

the base for this look is Sinful Colors Innocent

oh love my nails Dazzling....... I'll never get enough if you

I dropped a few drops of Sinful Colors San Fransisco onto a piece of tin foil and used an old crappy paint brush that I snipped some bristles out of to make a small thin nail art brush. The polish's I used were Sinful Colors Innocent for the base, and San Fransisco and Happy Ending for the cheetah print. I topped the cheetah print with a coat of Love My Nails Dazzling and a coat of Top Coat

on the left is my nail after drawing the random cheetah spots with Sinful Colors San Fransisco - and on the right I filled them in with Sinful Colors Happy Ending

on the top nail is after 1 coat of LMN Dazzling, while the bottom nail is just the cheetah print

 I wasn't so sure I could live with this for the day - but it is actually pretty cool

o 

Sinful Colors Whats Your Name & New Blogs

 franken with Sinful Colors Whats Your Name

The base of this Diagional Manicure is a franken I made with a blue stripe polish and Claire's Matte Cobalt. I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!! I wore it alone for 2 days before I added the Sinful Colors polish on the diagional. It wasnt the best match but I happened to spot this in my polish drawer and added 2 coats and a coat of top coat.

 some new blogs I added to my blog roll......


 primped and primed

 betty-nails

 asecond to breathe 

 peredita creations 

 unhas decor michelle yasmin

 rainbow hands

 pee before polish 

 painted on 

 opinionated about opi.

 addicted to opi

 nail p0lish addicti0n

 the color palette blog  formerly Melanies nail polish (The Color Palette)

 super cute super easy

2 coats of my franken..... I used a normal polish brushand dipped it into the stripe bottle.... it wasnt as messy as I imagined it would be

NEW BLOGS & a predictable sponge

 above- 2 coats of old skool Sally Hansen Chrome nail polish in Moonstone Chrome, followed by Wet n Wild Frosted Fuschia sponged on. I added Clear and stuck some dollar store nail gems in the wet polish. the gems did not last long - I lost all the gems on my thumbs before bedtime!

I tried to copy some fabulous nail art that I have seen recently but it sucked so bad that even I would not show it as a 'learn from  my fail' - so anytime something like that happens I do a quick easy sponge. They always look  good to me!

 Here are a few new blogs which I have added to my blog roll - still not sure why I cant 'follow' some people.

 polish changes

 finger polish mania

 glass flecked

 the posh polish 

 polished in canada

 the kracked kat

 nails by malinka

 nail art and things 

 happily polished

 nails by coco

 the sugar cubeblog

 pallino girl

 manicure-maniac 

 sometimes i spill my polish 


... and a few more photos.....

o

NEW BLOGS & LA Girls Metal Metallic Olive

 LA Girls Metallic Olive 1 coat layered over 2 coats of Finger Paints Tough Art To Follow. Metallic Olive is surprisingly sheer, so if I did not layer it - it would need 4 to 5 coats to get to the bottle shade and I would probably still have a few bare spots. My pinky nail is 3 thin coats and there is some noticeable bare areas.

I bought this at an awesome dollar store in Portage La Prairie Manitoba where they had full displays of 7 or more collections from LA Colors, plus the nail Art polish. I haven't been back since but wish I took photos of the giant table filled with polish...... it was heavenly.

 Where have I been?

My computer is making me crazy - there is something very odd happening where some program or script is not working, any web page I open or any program I use on this computer crazily scrolls on it's own - and the 'fn-F9' key trick only lasts for a few minutes..... I have all but taken it down to back to the manufactures setting ( saving all my important stuff ie; nail inspiration photos ) and really don't want to take it somewhere to get fixed. I need that $$$ for bargain nail polish!!!!

 I am avoiding being on here; but am actually doing crafts and making stuff. I am soooooooo far behind in catching up with blogs, MUA and watching Nail video's on You Tube that I doubt that I will ever get caught up.

Blogger also appears to be wacky as well, and I have uploaded photos only to have them appear fuzzy and pixil-ated. Is anyone else having trouble following people, the last time that happened thing's returned to normal after a day or so - but I have not been able to follow people for almost 6 days!

grrrrrrrr, I am thankful to have a computer, the Internet and all that jazz; but when stuff like this happens i avoid it all together.

end rant.

Here a few new blogs I have come across, or that people have sent in. Sorry it took so long!


 nailstyle

 kasis glitzy nails

 nail p0lish addicti0n

 kk nails

 super cute super easy 

 theartofpolish

 a colourful soul

lets get naild

 manicure-maniac

 alice-in-lacquerland

 polish loving 

 the clumsy kiwi

Fab Nails

 konad covered nails 

 painted tipz N toez

i love lacquer

 nail-newbie

 original wacky 

.... and a few more photos

2 coats of Finger Paints Tough Art to Follow - with is a swampy green creme. My pinky nail is 3 coats of LA Girls Metal Metallic Olive......  I think I would need 4 or even 5 thin coats to get opacity without any bare spots with Metallic Olive.

o

Purple holo glitter sprinkle & NEW BLOGS & my 700th post

wow - my 700th post!

Here are a few new blogs I have come across, and added to my blogroll. I am trying to do a 'plug yourself' post as often as I can, but have been a busy gal as well as having some major computer issues, so please plug your nail blog in the comments, I will list your nail blog in a post and add you to my blog roll.

nails & jjjustii

 esmalte pouco e  bobagem 

 polish and charms

 painting rainbows 

 purple fairy dust

 lovin nailz

the polish diary

 crystal's truecolors 

Jaztee

 beautifully chaotic

in love with lacquer

Bonnie Binnacle

 the khromazone

 chosen nail files 

AE Make-up

 glamovision

hopefully, I got the proper name of everyone's blog in this list......

A glitter sprinkle mani is when you apply polish and sprinkle loose glitter onto the wet polish. Then add a coat or two or top coat; I usually add a coat of clear first; then a coat of real top coat. Glitter sprinkle mani's are messy - so I do this over the sink and wash away any glitter that did not adhere to my wet nails.

Most of the time, the glitter sucks up multiple coats of TC and it never has that smoothe shiny finish - but the holographic effect usually makes up for a lack of a high shine. One of the best top oats I have tried for thick glitter effects such as this has been China Glaze Fast Forward, it smells terrible but it does dry fast and it does level out an un-even surface such as this.

This glitter sprinkle mani is over Wet n Wild Eggplant frost except my thumbs. I applied a very thick coat of Nailene Top Coat, lightly sprinkled on the purple holographic glitter and waited 5 minutes then gently pressed down on  the glitter to have all the glitter pieces laying flat, then added another coat of TC, and another coat when that was dry.

indoors

 

 

 sun

 shade

sun

o

fingrs nail stickers & New Blogs

2 coats of Billie Aqua with Fingrs nail stickers and Claire's Matte Top Coat

there is some gorgeous nail stickers available out there. these fing'rs brand can be found at Walmart and other department stores. They go a long way and even though i have them on all my nails, I sometimes think that having 1 nail embellished with a sticker is prettier then having all my nails with stickers.

 I sorry this took so long! i am beyond busy and I erased the original post with the new blogs with their proper blog names,... grrrr! Thank you for adding your nail blog to my comments, and thank you for sharing all your photos and ideas.

i beat polish

truth about glitter

 tata-nadaver !

 all the pretty polish

pretty piink stuff

 the nailaholic

 paws to polish

 groupie glam

 ya gotta hand it to me

 polish for the MMASSes

 love bean girl

Deborah's Daily Dish

 polish fixation

if it shines its mines

 martens girls nails

 pallino girl.

 megs manicures

glitterM

 tiny plastic finger nails

 taras nails

 bottle-of-happiness

 alaxandrarC

 nail and beauty blog 



.............. back to the nail stickers.....................

to get the stickers off of the paper backing I bend the paper slightly and use a tooth pick to pick them up and place on my nails.

I have had these stickers for a while, as well as several sets of fingers nail stickers that i have sitting in my 'to use' basket. If you look closely at the photo below, the stickers are opposite or mirrors, one for the left one for the right, and i totally spaced on that and had to remove 1 from my nail..... and the size difference is subtle, but there is 4 different sizes in this package of stickers

I applied 1 coat of Claire's Matte Top Coat over my nails and although i like the matte-ness, i might add normal TC.

w/ Claire's Matte Top Coat

o