On Fire-fly!

As the proverbial last weekend of summer is upon us (yes, I'm aware we technically have a few more weeks of summer), what better for today's manicure than a summery design? When I think of my summers as a kid in Michigan, I remember nights where fireflies filled the night sky, dancing here and there with their glowing butts. Fun (albeit cruel) fact, you can smear the butts on your skin and it remains glowing. (I learned this as a kid) Today's manicure was inspired by the bugs that light up our summers, fireflies!! :) Thank you to Chris for this idea!! :) (I was braindead today)

I used OPI What's With the Cattitude? as a base, with Orly Snowcone to shade, China Glaze Millennium for the mason jar lid, then mixed with American Apparel Hassid to make the rings on the lid. I also used American Apparel Hassid for the firefly bodies, with Hot Topic Glow-in-the-Dark for the butts, and Essie Bone Chilling White for the wings, as well as the jar highlight. Topped it all off with 2 coats of Seche Vite top coat.

Ok, back to the Little House on the Prairie marathon. I'm officially sucked in, and there's no stopping now. Enjoy your labor day weekend!!! :)

Lazy day for Konading :)

So today a had some extra time, and decided to Konad my mani. I started with Sally Hansens Gray by Gray, using 2 coats.




Then for my Konad, or actually Bundlemonster, I decided to use Claire's 14 Karat polish.

Well long story short, a girl at my local Starbucks, REALLY angered me, and while I was waiting in the drive thru, for 15 minutes, I picked off this pretty mani, that's what happens, when I'm mad, lol. Anyways, tonight I wanted to Konad again, and after a few different ideas, I came up with this. This is 1 coat of Sinful's Black on Black with OPI DS Original for my Konad.

Well hope you all enjoy, I'm off to watch Transformers 2 with the hubby. Night XOXO

Dear girls, please kindly refrain from sending me smses to book your appointments cos I can't see my smses(my stupid smartphone is really damn smart to auto delete all my contacts and I cant even read a single sms now). I'm trying my very best to get my phone exchanged within these 2 days.

PLEASE SEND ME EMAILS TO BOOK YOUR APPTS INSTEAD!!! And for those who sent me smses for the past few days, I'm really sorry for not replying cos I can't see them!! Please kindly email me. Thank you very much!!

Dear girls, please kindly refrain from sending me smses to book your appointments cos I can't see my smses(my stupid smartphone is really damn smart to auto delete all my contacts and I cant even read a single sms now). I'm trying my very best to get my phone exchanged within these 2 days.

PLEASE SEND ME EMAILS TO BOOK YOUR APPTS INSTEAD!!! And for those who sent me smses for the past few days, I'm really sorry for not replying cos I can't see them!! Please kindly email me. Thank you very much!!

Argyle Style

A week or so ago, I got an email from Barielle about their new collection for fall- lovely browns, rusts, and golds. It took everything in my power not to buy them all. I even managed to talk myself out of even just getting a couple of them. However, I was not as successful when I was perusing my local Ulta a couple of days ago and happened to see the display of them, in all their autumn-colored glory. (when did Ulta start carrying Barielle colors? I knew they carried the treatments, but color? awesssome, I won't have to order!!) I got away with only getting two of them, with a coupon at that!! Anyway, polish colors made me think of old Grandpa socks- argyle style. (My buddy Jordan has a mini-obsession with argyle socks- he even has hot pink ones!)

I used Barielle Unraveled Rust as a base for all nails but the ring finger, where I used Barielle Aura Angora as a base. For the argyle design, I used the same two colors, and reversed them, with Sally Hansen Professional Lavender Cloud for the diagonal lines. I then topped everything off with 2 coats of Seche Vite top coat.

Well, that really socks.

On a side note, if you live in Las Vegas, you need to track down Slidin' Thru, the slider truck, it will change your life.

Black Light Polish.........1 word AWESOME!

So I was at Rite Aid about 2 weeks ago and saw these little cuties. I'm such a sucker for novelty items, epesh when it comes to polish! Well I was so excited to try out the Black Light Magic polish.




So I put a different color on 4 nails NOTE:the polish on my nails is NOT the pumpkins in the picture above. They are too sheer. So left to right I used : Sally Hansen Pronto Petal, Sally Hansens Blue Blast, Color Club Pucci-Licious & Sally Hansen Jumpin' Jade. I then put just 1 coat of the Black Light polish on them.
no flash

flash

So I went upstairs and got 1 of our 4ft tall black lights, and tested them out. OMG, I am actually shocked as to how well it worked!!! As you can tell, it doesn't matter what polish, if any, you use as a base, they all glow the same!

Alright, that's all for now, my daughter is having a sleepover, and I need to make dinner. I just had to show you guys.

XOXO

How to: get velvety hands

Hi guys! Due to all kinds of crazy busy-ness, just a quick little tip for today: how to get smooth and velvety hands. Ages ago I got an excellent tip from Kirsten from TheDuchNailBlog: scrub your hands with sugar or salt with vinegar oil. By doing this you get rid of dead skin cells thus making your hands a whole lot smoother. If oil dries you out, finish with a rich handcream and you won't stop touching your own hands, I promise!

Clumsy?

If you're clumsy, like me, you'll be happy to know there are several pre made hand scrubs available. I tried the P2 - Ultra Clean Hand Peeling and let's see how I like it!

First thing I noticed was the smell, it's quite fresh but strong, reminding me of pomelos or grapefruits. You're supposed to use this several times a week, by taking a little, massage your hands with it and wash it off. The texture is really grainy, which makes sense, because it has a lot of sugar in it. I like how the sugar leaves me with smooth hands, but I hate how it gets under my nails. It's easily washed of and you won't end up with oily hands. I don't find this scrub to be very moisturizing on its own so I like to use a handcream afterwards, and with this routine I get the softest hands ever.

Ingredients

Sucrose, Helianthus annuus [sunflower] Seed Oil, Caprylic / Capric Triglyceride, Isopropyl Myristate, Cetearyl Alcohol, Glyceryl Stearate Se, Silica, Sodium Lauryl Sarcosinate, Tocopheryl Acetate, Fragrance, Water, Propanediol, Eclipta prostrata Extract, Propylene Glycol, Hibiscus sabdariffa Flower Extract, Lactic Acid, Phenoxyethanol, Methylparaben, Propylparaben, Ethylparaben, Butylparaben, Isobutylparaben, CI 26100, CI 47000th

Conclusion

I really like this scrub, it does a good job at exfoliating, I like the smell and how my hands feel afterwards. This product costs only 2.45 eur for 100 ml, but it's not easy to get (DM in Germany). Good news is, like I mentioned before, it's very easy to make your own scrub!

NOTD (well morning) - Armour's Rain Glitter

Okay, so I know I JUST did my last mani last night, but what can I say, I have an addiction. This morning, I am wearing a pretty boring outfit for work, so I wanted an obnoxious mani to spice it up. And what did I have in my purse, but Rain Glitter. Oh how I love this polish! Every color in the rainbow is in it, and shows so beautifully. This is 2 coats w/ 2 coats of Poshe, to guarantee smoothness.

It's Matte-ning!

So I did a bunch of swatching today that I hope to get up on the Reviews site in the next couple of days, and the last polish that I swatched was Borghese Mediterraneo Sea. It seriously caught my eye when I was Ulta last and I'm SO glad that I decided (after much hemming and hawing) to get it. It's a Matte denim-colored base, with multi-colored glitter- much like if OPI Mad as a Hatter had a baby with a matte blue. (really descriptive, eh? Couldn't think of a matte blue off the top of my head) Today was crazzzzy. I decided this afternoon that I needed to get out of the house, so I went to the $1.50 theater here in Vegas and saw Knight & Day (don't judge me), and on my way out of the parking lot, some lady backed up into my car, with her bumper scraping down the entire side of my car past the middle of the passenger door. The irony? She had just gotten her nails done and was driving in a way as to not damage them. :-P I decided to make myself feel better, so I went to Arby's for dinner. lol Anyway, grumpy nail blogger = simple nails.

I used Borghese Merditerraneo Sea as a base, with China Glaze Millennium for the flowers, which I randomly painted on each nail. The glitter in Mediterraneo Sea makes a VERY textured nail surface, it's kind of interesting actually. I kind of want the other matte glitters from this collection because this one is so damn rad.

And as a bonus- a recent craft project (I posted this on Twitter yesterday, so you twitterers have seen it), my brand new slouchy hat. It is the very first hat I've ever made!! :)  (I love it)

My night of tough decisions......Wait....is that a vajay-jay on your nails? *nods* Yes it is :P

So tonight I was getting ready to do my nightly mani, and I just couldn't decide. Grrrr...I hate these kind of nights. One thing I can say, it always makes me try different things. So tonight, I have 3 different manis to share.

Okay to start off, I decided to use an untried I had. Ulta's Ultra Violet. It looks exactly like Color Club's version. This is a neon, so I had a hard time getting a color accurate pic, sorry. This is 2 coats w/ 1 coat Poshe.

Then of course, I was bored with it. So I added Color Club's Covered in Diamonds, and really liked how it looked.

But.....shocker, I wanted to Konad. So I removed the entire mani (sigh) and re-did the Ultra Violet, and.....wait for it......used the vajay-jay image from the BM16 plate. Now, I didn't come up with this name, but had heard it on MUA, and it fits! After I was done this mani, my hubbs came down stairs, looked at me....then my mani, and said 'Daddy likes', LOLOLOL, then walked back up stairs! I used China Glaze's Millenium for the design.

Alright I am finally off to bed. Night Nail world!! XOXO