My other Love

Ah yes I have another love... As much if not more <GASP!> than nail polish. As much as I am a Geek I am also obsessed with Football. I get loud, I get obnoxious, and I think the tv can hear every call I say. However, I am only super bad like this with ONE team! And that is what I am highlighting for you today. Now you may ask, what did she do again? HAHA Well I wanted to pay homage to my favorite team, the New Orleans Saints.

 I grew up with them and no matter where I live on this big green planet, I will always support and bleed black and gold. Plus, I got a FANTASTIC polish in this week by mere coincidence that helps me achieve this awesome quest! Talk about the Holy Grail. I love this one Indie Polish company called Fandom Cosmetics. Though, I hadn't bought anything yet <darn no buy> I have been making lists. When I could finally buy, I was like um what to do, what to do?! Felt like a kid in a candy store. Then I saw that they had come out with a beautiful new line dedicated to LOTR. Now my adoration for Tolkien goes back to my childhood, so how could I possibly ignore Fate saying this is the one? I nabbed My Precious so quick you couldn't blink! And let me tell ya it definitely is the one polish that could rule em all! WOW! Just perfection.

 So that is part of the story. Then I needed just the right black polish. Hmm, choices choices. That was to be my shelves. I have about 15 different blacks so I went digging. And came up with Maybelline's Color Show Twilight Rays. I picked this because, irony enough, it had gold specks in it!!

So now we got the best of the best going here. AND we have the cast of now so let's see how this manicure came out!! I used my Dazzle basecoat and Nuance topcoat <as I wanted it to bling and sparkle>.  On the left hand I thinned out My Precious to almost non-existent on the brush to go over the Twilight Rays.

On the right hand I left My Precious dense as it is meant to be over Twilight to give it more of a bling effect. As we like it in New Orleans, bold and loud!

I definitely must say I am ready for some football tonight!! GEAUX SAINTS!

Overall there is only one way for me to describe my feels toward Fandom Cosmetics, My Precious:

So go check em out!!!!! Or say hi on their facebook page!

What are your thoughts of My Polish??

<I bought and paid for this polish and all reviews are solely my own>

Blog Sale

Well it has come time that I must do this. I have to do a blog sale.. Now this is a whole new realm for moi so bear with me as I get this up n going.

I have TONS of polish that I will be editing and adding in as we go. I will update as things sell as well.

I am offering surprise boxes of 6-7 polishes for 25 dollars shipped. You let me know what color you don't like and I will do my best to work around it and make you a super special surprise.

Shipping is 2 dollars for first item then 50 cents for items after that. Will do multi-discount deals.


First set I have to offer is :

Ninja Sunny Floam <please note usage line> Ninja Floam. 8.00 each



Next Set up is:

Nailnation 3000 Gloworm - 9.00, F4 Tomboy - 6.00, F4 Stormy Night- 6.00



Third Up is:

China Glaze Magnetix - <l to r> Instant Chemistry, Attraction, You Move Me, Con-Fused? 2.50 each

Fourth Set is:

Sally Hansen Sugar Coats Razzleberry - 3.00, NYC Charming Rose Creme - 1.00,
SH Sugar Coats Bubble Plum - 3.00, Sinful Colors - Ocean <FLAKIES!!> <no label> 4.00

Fifth Set I have up for you is:

1.00 a piece - WnW Grey's Anatomy, Sparked, Rain Check


Sixth up:

 WnW Fantasy Makers R.I.P set - 3.00 for all

Some Opi for you:

Suzi's Hungary AGAIN! (mini), OY! Another Polish Joke (mini) ,You're Such a BudaPest (mini), Can't Find My CzechBook (mini) <mini set of Euro-Central 6.00>



Last but not least:

Sparitual - It's Raining Men 6.00

And with that I will end this post thinking of:

Gradient Stars

A gradient of new beginnings. A normal gradient uses sponges which I do not have any makeup sponges at time so I decided to do my own concept. I started off with my Dazzle Base Coat. I decide to use all Julep colors for this idea. The first color was Alaina and made sure the have a good coverage on all the nails. I let this color set in before attempting this feat. Then I set out Cassie and Seche Vite top coat. I placed Cassie along the tip and immediately use the topcoat starting at the tip and going towards the cuticle. I did this for a streak affect and to blend it into the bottom color. I repeated this method on every nail. After it dried, I didn't feel it had a wow factor so I used Tracy and repeated the method using topcoat immediately after putting Tracy on the tips of each nail going towards the cuticle again. Here is the results of this madness.

When Daleks Attack!

I was stuck on ideas for a manicure. So I asked if anyone had any ideas. A dear friend suggested Dr. who theme. I asked her to elaborate and she said Daleks and TARDIS. That is where this manicure came from. I started off with a simple approach of Dazzle base coat, let it dry and then got down to business. On the pinky nail I put Matte n.a Oscar, on the ring finger and middle finger I used the femme fatale's Edge of the Cosmos, on the index finger I use Color Club Bright Night. I let this dry for a good 15 to 20 min. Then I proceeded to do the detail on the pinky finger. I found a dotter size and put three dots in the center my finger when the China Glaze Black Diamonds. I took the brush and edged the tip of my finger at the bottom of the Dalek. I streaked the first dot slightly out to make the top of the Dalek. On the index, I placed two white <Essie Marshmallow> squares and let it dry about 3 min. then I edged it in China Glaze Black Diamonds. I went over the edge with Color Club Bright Night to even out the lines and let it all dry. I waited up about 45 min. Last but not least, I used my matte topcoat to finish it off. This is the final product. <My Dalek is updated from black and white>

ARTastic

I must say I love Art. Any type I just love it. Today is last day <we hope> for the cast, and I wanted to try a new manicure. I didn't know what. I went through three ideas. Third one I was dead set on but couldn't find my brush. So I grabbed a different brush. I wound up with something similar to the Art Style of Splash Art. Now if you are going do wha? Let me explain Splash Art was made most famous by Jackson Pollock. Fantabulous artist with wicked ideas. Love, love, love his work. But I digress. This actually wound up being a super easy mani and I will definitely be storing this one away for future use! I started with my base of Dazzle, did a coat of Julep Nadia (FINALLY a yellow that is thick and works well!), then I put some Dream On Sinful Color in my Nail Art lid (I use an old prescription bottle lid), and grabbed out my feather brush (posting picture below). I dabbed the brush making sure the tips got wet but stayed apart and splashed it across my nails in varying patterns. I let it dry and covered it with Dazzle topcoat. And voila, we have Splash Art nail style!

Matte my dear

I kept noticing all those pretty manicures that were matted and couldn't figure it out! Well, I went on a challenge this week. I did a LOT of matte work. I used NYC Matte Topcoat for these "experiments". Think of Dr. Frankenstein trying to create the monster here ok? Then I had an awesome email on a blog from Julep (which I cannot find now to reference so I apologize) that said to make a good white manicure is to put your basecoat on then a thin white then matte coat then reapply white then your regular topcoat. Well, this got my mind a-thinkin'.... So I decided to test out *that* theory. EUREKA! I figured it out. The manicure you will see here (don't mind the nail that is little it attacked a mattress that was being moved darn Jedi powers failed me again) is a result of that build up and then some. So let me explain what I did. I switched my basecoat as I have been wanting to test out Dazzle base (I really really LIKE it!). I place my base down and let it dry good about 2 minutes. I picked a bottom coat color (for the index I picked Essie Marshmallow) and put a thin layer and near immediately put the matte topper on it. Once it dried (I wanted 10 minutes), I put another layer of Essie Marshmallow and put in my jewels to dry with it. Now applying jewels is NOT easy. I goofed and had to redo it as I touched the polish and it went kaput. Once the second try went good I covered with another layer of matte (including the jewels) to give it a flat subdued look. Now you can pick any combo you want to do this idea but I do suggest matte in the middle of layers now to give it the secure look and not as much mess or fuss. To get the "marbled" look on my other nails while they were still drying I put white on the color to subdue it and enhance the red or blue or pink. I did the same method of putting a matte layer in between. This method with so many layers does take a while to fully dry so please make sure you don't do this before going in the TARDIS or off to fight the Rebels. I would suggest putting on a good movie or marathon (might I suggest Princess Bride for a movie?) and enjoy!

Big Bang BOOM

Well after two days of really trying I finally did it. It took going to a store and buying a new polish but I did it. I thought I was going to have to buy two but alas I had a saving grace. I was trying to do a Patriotic manicure with my nails and being that I do not do great polish on my right, boy oh boy, did this get fun. I will say this all started at noon on Thursday. I had a great image in my head and some great polish. I said yea let's do FIREWORKS. Red, white, and blue. This should NOT be hard even in my condition. I could never be more wrong. The first polish job wasn't bad but it didn't just POP. Then I said ya know I am a Padiwan let me use the Force and paint the left using my good four fingers. HA HA HA! 3 hours later and lots of tears I had to Surrender all. That was so not going to work. I now have one finger about to lose a nail below the quick and another that did lose the nail below the quick *yeow!*. Okay so back to the right fingers. I took off my ring finger mani and my index and got to thinking more. I pulled out even more polish and attempted something different. Well ring finger finally looked good but index was still atrocious! So at about midnight I called truce. It stayed naked over night. After a night of dark horses, 7 am rolled around and I had a BRILLIANT idea (mind you my left hand is not my dominant hand!) let's do the flag on that finger! So off to work I went again. We cannot discuss what occurred or what was said at that point as I think Darth Vader would have turned red! I realized what was going wrong. The red was all wrong and my white was too low. I set a task to trot off and find both new colors later in the morning. I was going to be Sir Galahad and save the day for my nails. But alas the mail came before I left. Influenster picked me for their #SunVoxbox and in it was a GORGEOUS red by SinfulShine Colors. It is an all free box that is sent for me to review (which I will do so in another post) Alas my fair maiden had arrived. But I was short for a white. So off to town I went. I found Essie's Marshmallow and prayed this would be it! I came home and got to work. At 5:30 yesterday afternoon, I *finally* decided on my index finger. Would you know the final result does not have the Essie in it? But I will say that the Essie Marshmallow is a fantastic white! Okay so here we go this is the nails du jour.. All are Orly Bonder for Base Coat and Dazzle Top Coat. Pinkie has Color Club Bright Nights Topped with Lynderella's Ice the Snowcake, Ring Finger is China Glaze White on White Topped with Lynderella's When the Moon was a Star and Ice the Snowcake, Middle Finger is China Glaze Red Pearl Topped with Lynderella's Ice the Snowcake, Index Finger is SinfulShine Colors Devious Topped with Lynderella's When the Moon was a Star and Ice the Snowcake. And here ya have it my boomer for Fourth of July:

And here is the bottle of SinfulShine Colors that I received that I found out is available at Walgreens. Can we say trip to Walgreens in the Milennium Falcon coming up soon?