Subtle stamping

This is 2 coats of Elf's Mod Mauve.  The photo looks kinda brown for some reason but it's definitely a dusty purple/rose.  When Elf had their Black Friday sale on last year I bought every single nail polish that wasn't pink LOL.  It was insanely cheap!

I stamped it with Kleancolor Metallic Red and plate BM212.  It's subtle and extremely hard to photograph but I like it.  The Kleancolor metallics are so amazing for stamping and you can't go wrong at $1.75!  I wish I'd tried to matte this one before I took it off because I think it would have been awesome.

I'm stumped for my next mani, I need some inspiration!

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Canada Day nail fun

So I brought my kit with me last Friday and did some nails for my family.  I only have two to show you  because some people don't know how to take care of their nails and I didn't want to scare you ;)

This is the Princess of Poo who painted her own nails with 2 coats of Elf Medium Red.  I stamped her with the maple leafs from the same plate I used on my own Canada Day nails - BM04.  Then I dotted with plain old black and white.

This is my Dad's cousin's daughter who is 16 I think.  I painted her with 3 coats of Orly's Charged Up and I stamped with Pure Ice's Silver Mercedes and BM06.  You can't really see it in this photo but I added a purple gem to the middle of the flower on each ring finger.  I loved doing her nails because she takes good care of them.  She was also a Konad virgin and now I've got her hooked.

We had a great but hot day on Friday.  Yummy food, only one obnoxious drunk and some pretty cool fireworks.  Not bad.

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Overkill

So after I painted 3 coats of Wet and Wild Fast Dry in Magic Trident I wondered whatever possessed me to buy this and then decided to have some fun with it.

I sponged the following:
Revlon Copper Penny
An unnamed old rusty gold polish
China Glaze Ruby Pumps

Then I added two coats of Elf Golden Goddess.  I absolutely hated this.  So I stamped it in an effort to make it a little more tolerable.

Plate used was BM223 in Wet and Wild Black Creme like usual.  I liked it actually, but not to wear out of the house :) 

Oh and just because this is a short post today I wanted to share something yummy I had yesterday.  I have a serious addiction to Cherry Coke.  We don't get it here in Canada so when I go to the US I stock up.  And when I was in Michigan last week I found this new jell-o where you can mix in your favourite pop or juice...

Mmm Cherry Coke jell-o!

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My Kind of Holiday

So I didn't post any valentine's designs because quite frankly, even typing that word makes me want to vomit.  But a holiday that's just an excuse to drink?  Frig yeah!  In fact I'm even contemplating another St. Patty's mani.

This is 3 coats of ELF Mint Cream.  Another coat even wouldn't hurt.  Anyways, I was going for 'simple and elegant' and some might find it boring but I liked it a lot.

I stamped it with NYC Flat Iron Green and BM03.  It's a bit hard to see in the pic but the stamp didn't come through opaque and it almost looked liked the clovers were real...very cool.  I'm always so tempted to 'overdo' it with the simple designs but I managed to keep this one like this and I'm glad I did.

One more thing for today...so yesterday I posted about the Color Club Catwalk Queen set I picked up at Winners.  I was happy with the colours when I bought it so I'm not going to complain to the company or anything BUT...I feel liked I got ripped off when I got home and found that my set was missing the holo polish - Fashion Addict.  And when I got home last night and compared the replacement polish to the rest of my stash I found it was Uptown Girl, which I already own from the Rebel Debutante set.  I also want to mention that when I bought the Catwalk Queen set they had about 4 of them at Winners and they all had exactly the same polishes...so none of them actually contained Fashion Addict.  So I don't think it's actually some random person switching out polishes in the sets.  Not cool Color Club!  They are obviously selling them to Winners at a steep discount while removing the 'hot' polishes.  This is not the first time I've noticed this either...my Untamed Luxury set also has glaringly obvious errors.  I just wanted all the Canadian girls looking for the Color Club's at Winners to be aware of this.

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There's no place like home :)

So here's my first mani after I had to trim all my nails down.  I was dying to try all the new polishes I bought and I ended up pulling out an old Elf in Light Red as a base.

I should have used 2 coats, but I didn't because I thought the jelly glitter would even it out...and it sorta did but not really.

This is 3 coats of Kleancolor Red-Hot.  What a pain in the ass to get all those awesome hex glitters out of the bottle.  I just couldn't get enough of them on even in three coats.  I gave up.  Terrible pic too by the way.  But everytime I looked down at my hands I thought of Dorothy's slippers in the Wizard of Oz and it made me crack a little smile. 

When my nails grow out a little more again I'm going to try and get them totally coated in the glitter because I do love that little bottle of Red-Hot.

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