Easy Dotted Mani

This is a quick and easy mani --- the base is Claire's Matte green, with a bunch of other Claire's polish's I am too lazy to name.  There is so many things around the house that can be used as dotting tools. All 10 of my nails, including this fast drying Matte green base took less than 10 minutes.

                Stuff I used......names? hello?

weird shadow pic

Is there a latex barrier in stores? I am hoping something shows up in Canada soon, but for now this stuff is great! I found this in the Hair section of Sally beauty -- it dried fast on my cuticles and was easy to peel off . I am never going to do a sponged mani or any other messy nail art without it. I am not allowed to order stuff online right now so this will have to do. There was several different sized bottles of this stuff but I grabbed the big one, just in case. ( it was $6 CAD) I

I found out about this stuff from someone on Instagram, or maybe YouTube. I'll try and do a mini tutorial in the future, but here is Youtube link of someone using it. I poured some into an empty nail polish bottle.

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Easy glittery tips

I'm trying to make March green nail polish month here at Deez Nailz.... we'll see how long I last though. Today's mani is 2 coats of an olive green from Color Mates. I found this at The Dollar Tree in the USA.  I sponged on a few layers of Sally Girl Rock Out.

 

I only have a few Color Mates nail polish's and they have a decent formula and dry fast. I have only seen them at The Dollar Tree USA.

This is 2 coats of Color Mates Karen's got a Gun (LOL) it dried super shiny. I believe that these are made in the USA by Diamond cosmetics. Whenever I see posts of these polish's they are always bright happy colors. I have only found bleak dark shades.

Here is a nail fail --- whenever I see people do this kind of nail art it looks awesome -- But I just can't get it right. DIY nail stickers look easy..... I'll keep trying.

stuff I used for the above nail fail - Icing Bamboozled, Icing Lucky Luis and a dark green strip polish

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N.Y.C. Big City Dazzle Top Coat

above; 1 coat of NYC Big City Dazzle top coat over 3 coats of NYC Park Avenue.

This is a nice multi-coloured glitter top coat -- I wore it for 2 days and it stayed shiny. I probably should have added a few more coats but I kinda liked the sparse-ness of glitter ( that feels so wrong to write that). These are my real nails~I'm working on some beaded jewelery this weekend.

This is the old 'big city dazzle'. Its a frosty monstrosity that need 3 to 6 coats. The colour is pretty but I prefer my polishs's to be opaque in 2 to 3 coats.



New York Color does this with a lot of their polish's = creating an entirely new colour but keeping the same name.

here is a side-by-side of the two polish's. Its odd that they keep the same name, there is literally thousands of New York themed names they could use.










 I love N.Y.C. polish's....the only complaints I have is a few of them are too sheer for my liking, but that's hardly anything to complain about.








I have 3 or 4 N.Y.C. polish's that have changed colours but kept the same name, or polish's that don't really jive with their names.

... and here is the modern NYC Park Avenue, 3 coats

sun...... glorious sun

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sunset diagional

Here is a quick and easy diagonal mani - The base is 3 coats of  a lighter apricot coloured Kozmic Colours polish, with a darker rose/copper diagonal.

For me - this is a plain look, I have a hard time trying to wear coral, orange and peach/apricot coloured polish's; I think the colours are pretty but I never gravitate towards them when it's time to choose a nail colour ( even though I seem to have many of these colours)

 colours I used

 I just used plain old Scotch tape for this diagonal mani

 Indoors                                             ----------                                    Setting Sun

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Kozmic Colours ChG For Audrey close dupe

 Above; Ring nail is China glaze For Audrey -3 coats

This pretty teal from Kozmic Colours is a close dupe for China Glaze For Audrey; the Kozmic Colours polish has more yellow in it but it's pretty close. There is many dupes of For Audrey and they are all beautiful. I used 2 coats of the Kozmic Colours polish ~ I needed 3 for the ChG.

I popped in a Sally Beauty Supply store recently and noted that China Glaze and most of their polish's were buy 2 get 1 free this month (China Glaze rang in at $7.99 when I was there - ouch!!!) I found these Kozmic Colour Polish's at the DollaRama in Canada.... they have some seriously beautiful colours and the formula has been on par with pretty much everyting else I have tried in the last few years.

 L- Ghina Glaze                    @ 2 coats each                       R Kozmic Colours

 crappy indoors shot ~ ChG on my ring nail

 ...... and some nail art. This is easy to do with stripe polish I used 2 different coloured creme striping polish's, a glitter stripe, and finally a blob of Wet n Wild  glitter ( name? )

stuff I used

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Purple Sponge Kozmic Colours

 I love this creamy pastel purple colour! Today's mani is 2 coats of a lovely light purple Kozmic Colours polish. I sponged on a rich metallic dark purple to the tips of my nails, then lightly brushed a coat of dark purple and silver glitter to the tips of my nails.

stuff i used - I thought that the purple/silver glitter comb was weird, like maybe it should be biger purple hex glitter and not silver...... I only used one coat here but i think if I added a few more coats of this glitter the silver hex's wouldnt feel so random; only 3 or 4 ended up on each nail.

 darker purple polish spnoged on..................

sun......... glorious sun

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Claire's Splatter paint

I actually had other plans for this pretty yellow and orange gradient sponge Mani --- but somehow I acquired a million pieces of black fluff all over my nails and had start over or hide it with something.

I bought Claire's Splatter paint last may! May 2013!!!!  and I am  just now getting around to using it. Anyhoo - this is 2 coats of Claire's Splatter Paint over a bright sponge base. I started with 2 coats of Wet n Wild white, then sponged on Claire's Dreamsicle, and Claire's Yellow Brick Road

lol @ the bite marks - Its neat to see the change in the labeling and Font's of this brand of polish --- I think it spans over 4 years, it seems like Claire's changes their stuff every 6 months or so......

@ 2 coats of Wet n Wild White

see those black pieces of fluff ---- all over my nails! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

@ 1 coat of Claire's Splatter Paint

@ 2 coats of Claire's Splatter Paint

There's a million of these types of polishes out there now, with the hex glitter and straight glitter, I bought this a year ago and just got to it now. I'm not really in love with this type of glitter~ and I don't know why...........................

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