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Funky Floral

Lately I have been swatching new collections like my life depends on it, and hope to get a couple of them posted asap. Some greaaaat new colors this spring/summer. It's funny, there are some that I expected to love, yet don't, and some I expected to dislike, but love. Goes to show that you never can tell. I'm working hard to be a more frequent poster again, even devoting some of my lunch hours. (my only time of respite from the daily grind, as it were) Even today, I'm typing this over a steak taco salad with corn salsa, sour cream, cheese, and of course, guacamole from Chipotle. Not really my first choice of lunch, but it's the only place near work where I can order and pay online. (I forgot my wallet at home this morning) Still tasty, but the corn salsa is burning my face off. Anyway, I digress.

I always love when I find cool patterns out in 'the wild', so to speak. When I say in 'the wild', I refer to when I'm out doing other things, whether it be grocery shopping, clothes shopping, or out running office supply errands for work. In this case, the pattern I loved was actually the pattern covering a spiral notebook or planner, I can't remember off the top of my head. I loved the bold pops of color that took the white and black flowers to another, more mod level, and we all know how much this blogger loves her mod. Also, who can resist clean, bright colors that pop off the nail? Not me, that's for sure. For this design, I even got to use one of the new Mod Mattes from Zoya, Phoebe, which looks amazing with top coat.

I used Zoya Phoebe as a base, with American Apparel Cotton for the flowers, American Apparel Hassid for the center dots applied with a dotting tool, then American Apparel Manila, Finger Paints Heavenly Hydrangeas, China Glaze Electric Pineapple, and Zoya Jancyn for the center colors. Topped it all off with 2 coats of Seche vite top coat. Doesn't Phoebe glow? Love it.

Where is your favorite place for inspiration?

Pink Leaf mani & introducing Pink Wednesdays

Morning!! As you might have noticed the new image over to the right, that states 'On Wednesdays we wear pink, do you?' Well it's such a fun idea that the ladies from Colour Coated, Glitta Gloves & Life and Polish started. As stated by them -

"Once Upon A Time….
A couple of nail bloggers decided to let their love for the movie Mean Girls manifest itself in the form of  wearing pink manis on Wednesdays.
In the movie Mean Girls, “The Plastics” always wear pink on Wednesdays. And while we’re not mean girls at all, we loved the idea so much that we tweaked it a little and made it our own.

 And thus Pink Wednesdays were born!"

I too love that movie, and thought it would be fun to join in on Pink Wednesdays. So here we go.

If you're interested in joining in, you can go here and fill the form out, and just follow the instructions :)

Okay, mani time. Remember how I mentioned I purchased colored leaves with my feathers, well I decided to use my pink leaf.

Here is is prior to me cutting it

I started with 2 coats of OPI Mod About You

Then after some trimming, I again glued it on, and did 2 thick coats of SV

Spree open!

Opening spree again!

Do send in your orders to valerie.gmh@gmail.com

OPI - $10.50 per bottle
ChinaGlaze - $8 per bottle

Orly - $12 per bottle. $10.50 for 5 bottles and above.

 Spree targetted to end 30th April. Thanks. (:

Layering Magic

Hey guys!!! Okay, these pics was still during my day o' playing, with the light box I really can't wait to get my new lamp in!!!! I have had Jesse's Girl Fire Fly for quit a while now, and decided to slap it over China Glaze Liquid Leather. I was seriously shocked at how well this looked!!

This was 2 coats of Liquid Leather

This is Fire Fly and me practising with the light box :)

Then just one layer of Fire Fly over top, and ta da, MAGIC!! Oh and yeah yeah, it was shiny in person.

See the gold and green???

No more Monday blues!

Nail design from Nail Max!

Little badges on her thumbs. :D

No more Monday blues!

Nail design from Nail Max!

Little badges on her thumbs. :D

More bridal nails~

Kinda lazy to type.... so just sit back and enjoy the nail pics ok? :)

The popular bridal design. Roses, pop up laces and crystals no less.

Ok this is for a Japanese bride who's wearing a very very elaborate and detailed kimono! I hope I'll get to see some pics on her FB then I can get her permission to post it here. :D

Loving the flowers. Soft pink with silver glitter~

The lace design we all love~

More bridal nails~

Kinda lazy to type.... so just sit back and enjoy the nail pics ok? :)

The popular bridal design. Roses, pop up laces and crystals no less.

Ok this is for a Japanese bride who's wearing a very very elaborate and detailed kimono! I hope I'll get to see some pics on her FB then I can get her permission to post it here. :D

Loving the flowers. Soft pink with silver glitter~

The lace design we all love~

Color Club 2011 Wicked Sweet

Wow, I had such a great weekend! My night with the girls was so much fun, my husbands cousin and his fiance came up to stay the night with us and their new baby boy, sooo cute, my daughter now has an imaginary pet ghost dog, haha, Max, and my husband built me a light box to take pictures with. So here are my first pictures using it. I know I still need to play around with it, and my camera settings, but I love it. So these look semi matte, but they are not, for some reason my light box makes them appear that way. I have an OTT lamp on the way to me :)

Okay anyways, here is the 2nd set that Kim from Color Club sent me, called Wicked Sweet. It's 7 scented neon polishes, and OMG do they smell, and sooooo good!!  Since these are on the sheerer side, like most neons, I always do a coat of white first, then the polish.

This is Get Your Lem-On

The Lime Starts Here

I Always Get My Man-Darin

Yum Gum

and my favorite, and current pedi, Raspberry Rush

Gimme A Grape Big Kiss

and yep, my camera really hates my skin when I wear blue, lol.

Wicked Sweet