100+ Followers & Pink Wednesday: "Diagonalized"

Happy Wednesday! Before I go any further I just want to say a MASSIVE:

THANK YOU!

As of right now I am at 101 followers - unbelievable. Thank you for commenting and sharing your thoughts with me. I truly love getting to know you all and am looking forward to getting to know you all even better! These past few months have been so much fun and I'm glad that you are joining in the fun with me. Stick around for many more posts to come!

xo

All right, back to the mani! I purposely planned this manicure for today. I did this look almost 2 weeks ago now but it fits perfectly with today's pink theme. Is it considered cheating if I'm not actually wearing pink? I hope not. I'm currently sporting OPI's "Who The Shrek Are You?" that I purchased last night before my 'date night' with the hubby and I'm loving it. You can see that tomorrow! ;) 

This look is a diagonal tape mani or a "Funky French" as some call it. See below.

Pink is Color Club "Yum Gum" (scented)
Purple is Color Club "Alias"

I added a pink flower rhinestone for fun. It matched perfectly!

I love the green shimmer in the bottle, unfortunately it doesn't translate very well on the nails.

This mani didn't last too long. I felt really weird wearing something so obviously "girly". I think I would have been fine if the pink was changed for a green or something but I doubt I will do pink and purple like this again. Anyway, it was fun and I hope it's enough pink for "Pink Wednesday". I think my goal will be to post a mani with at least a little pink every Wednesday or do a swatch of all my pinks. What do you think? Do you follow "Pink Wednesday"?

I hope you are all having a wonderful day!

Thanks for reading.

Nail Look: Blurple + My Current Project

Hey everyone! First off I just want to say "hi" to all the lovely new people who have become followers on my blog. It means a lot that you would take the time to follow me and my (not-so-little) obsession. :)

I normally get right to the manicure, but I just wanted to let you know about my current project: swatching all of my polishes. As of today I have 258 nail polishes, not including nail art polishes - ie: Art Deco, etc. Thankfully my husband is a *really* good sport and helped me organize them. He even created an Excel spreadsheet for me as a reference guide. :) With all that said, let me know if you would like to see them once they're all done. I know I love seeing what polishes other people have!

Anyway, onto the manicure. I wore this look about 4 days ago and it lasted a whole 3 days! *gasp* I know. A rarity, but it does happen. The funny thing is, I would have taken it off sooner but my husband went away for a couple days and took the camera so I couldn't take any photo's. Lame.

Base colour is Sinful Colors "Crystalline"
Diagonal swipe is Wet'n'Wild Fast Dry "Buffy the Violet Slayer"
(Sorry that it's blurry - I was in a rush.)

The next day I added a glitter polish to make things a bit more fun.
Sinful Colors in "Purple Blue Glitter"

The glitter matched perfectly - score!

You can really see the tip wear in this shot.

I painted my base colour and then taped off my nails to add the purple diagonal swipe. I usually do this free-hand but ever since I tried my tape mani I have grown to like the "exact-ness" (I made that word up...) of the line it creates. When I added the glitter polish I just free handed it, being careful to keep it only on the purple area.

Thanks for reading. :)

Inspired Mani: Flash

Is anyone familiar with the comic book character 'Flash'? Well my husband loved that comic book growing up so I did a nail look inspired by it. For all who don't know what he looks like, see below.

Source: http://www.desktoprating.com/wallpapers/flash-wallpaper.htm

Now, onto the look!

I painted all my nails, except my ring fingers with OPI "Malaga Wine". The ring fingers were polished with Wet'n'Wild Fast Dry "The Gold & The Beautiful".

I added SV (Seche Vite) on top of the gold and once it was dry I cut a piece of tape and placed it on my nail sideways. The exposed area was polished with OPI "Malaga Wine". I pulled the tape off as soon as my nail was painted.

To finish the look I used my Nail Star Two-Way Nail Art polishes in Black. I roughly outlined between the red and the gold and added my top coat. (Seche Vite)

I didn't do any clean-up before I took these pictures so I apologize for that. (*Ahem* ring finger) I figured you'd rather see this look than not at all, so I'm sure a little polish mistake won't take away from the look. :)

I hope you're all having a great Wednesday!

Thanks for reading.

OPI: Silver Shatter

I received OPI 'Silver Shatter' as a gift from my mother-in-law the other day and I was so excited to try it out. I wanted to practice with this polish first so I painted it over the polish I was already wearing. (I honestly have no idea what I was wearing as a base, oops!)

No Flash - Index finger not shown because I smeared it just before taking this photo.

With Flash

The next two photo's are from the look I posted yesterday. I wanted to fiddle around with the application of my Silver Shatter and really like how it turned out over the blue. (Trick: apply your Shatter with a very thin coat. I find it "shatters" better that way.)

I wasn't too fond of the shatter polish with the tape mani, I think I would rather choose one or the other, but I am getting better at applying this (rather thick) polish. I skipped on the Black Shatter but I think I may just have to pick one up. Wouldn't it look fierce over red? I think so! :)

Let me know, do you own a shatter/crackle nail polish? If so, what do you think?

Thanks for reading.

First Tape Manicure!

Today I'm posting my nail look that I did Wednesday morning and wore until last night. I have to say that I'm getting bad at leaving my nails alone. I don't think I've worn the same look for more than 2 1/2 days for a while now. Oh well, it gives me more stuff to post for you! Also, I've been trying to get better at photographing my finished look, so let me know if you like seeing the different angles, etc.

My base colour is two coats of OPI 'No Room For The Blues' on all my nails.

On my accent nail (ring finger) I did two diagonal lines with Sinful Colors 'Timbleberry' and  'Irish Green' leaving two blue spots above and below the lines I created.

After the lines were created I added a coat of SV (Seche Vite) and allowed it to dry for 8-10 minutes.

When the SV was dry I took regular clear tape and cut strips out of it. I placed them on my accent nails and took my Wet'n'Wild 'Ebony Hates Chris' and painted it over top of the tape. Before the black polish could dry I pulled the tape off very carefully and got this look. I sealed everything in with another coat of SV.

I got this idea from the amazing Erika over at Chloe's Nails. She does some pretty spectacular nail looks using Scotch Tape and definitely inspired my first attempt. 

This being the first ever attempt at this type of manicure, I was pleased with how it turned out. It was definitely a learning experience. (Note to self: cut thinner strips of tape!) I really enjoyed my first "tape mani" and have some fun ideas for future looks. Please comment and let me know your thoughts. (I had a friend say that it looked like a sticker, which I took as a compliment - stickers don't have any flaws. ;) Haha.)

As always, thanks for reading.