OPI's and Christmas Stamps

My friends and family are all slowly finding out about my secret obsession with nail polish.  Okay maybe it's not such a secret since I openly invite them to come over for manicures but they don't all take me up on the offer.  This is Shelley's second manicure since she found out last week haha.  The first manicure was a basic sheer pink Shellac with a black skull stamped on each thumb.  I didn't take a photo because her nails were in terrible shape.  But after the Shellac was removed she actually had a bit of good growth so she came back for her Christmas Party manicure.

She opted for regular nail polish this time so we did 2 coats of OPI DS Signature to match her outfit, stamped it with Billie French White and plate BM14 with a top coat of China Glaze Fairy Dust for some extra sparkle.

I also did my own nails in between hers with a new OPI I picked up at Winners last week.  I have been looking for the OPI Suedes for quite awhile and finally managed to snag 2 of them - Lincoln Park After Dark and Ink.

This is one coat of Lincoln Park After Dark Suede.  I love how you can 'touch up' the suede polishes and not even see any lines or marks.

And this is one coat of OPI Ink Suede.  I like them both but prefer the purple shade so I removed Ink and went with Lincoln Park After Dark.  If you run a light swipe of remover over either of these polishes, you're left with silver on your nails :)

So anyways, since Shelley and I were busting out the Christmas stamps I decided to go for a silver ornament in Pure Ice Silver Mercedes and plate BM225 topped with a coat of China Glaze Fairy Dust.

I think Shelley will be back next week too lol.  She actually insisted I take a photo of her nails.

Later
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Avon Golden Wine

Happy Friday!  Here we have 2 coats of Avon Golden Wine.  In most lights I found this colour to be more red than wine but it was still quite nice.  I did however find that on the second coat the polish looked like it got 'dirtier' towards my tips...kind of weird.

This polish has a golden glass-fleck to it.  I don't really own anything else like it.

The I stamped it with Orly Luxe and plate BM14.  I'm finding that whatever I have planned in my head never ends up that way on my nails lol.

So since my original idea never panned out I decided to do quick freehand tip in Color Club's Dark Romance.  Then I decided this probably would have been a pretty decent Chinese New Year mani and I took it off lol.

Have a great weekend!

Later
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Vacation Nails

So I know you guys have seen this one before but I liked it so much that I did it again the night before my flight left.  I just changed the colours and used smaller stones. 

It's 2 coats of Sally Hansen Salon Manicure in Bittersweet, stamped with m32 in Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Rose somethingorother (very similar to the Pink Aluminum I found at Len's Mill).  Sorry I'll edit with the correct name when I find it.  I topped this with Seche Vite and this manicure stayed on, chip free for 7 days!  Even the stones stayed on the entire time.  I probably could have gotten away with a couple more days actually but the tip wear was annoying me and I had all this pretty new polish so I finally changed it.  Nothing special though.

This was 2 coats of Orly Galaxy Girl stamped with BM14 in Pure Ice Silver Mercedes.  Galaxy Girl is one of those polishes that make you want to stare at your nails all day. 

Sadly on the last day of my vacation I got a nasty rip on my ring finger and my long nails are now gone.  I guess this is a good opportunity to use some of those full nail image plates.  So stay tuned for lots of short nail art ideas.

Later
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