Chromatic MisAdventures: Orly

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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Hot Summer Can-Can

I am so in love with this mani!! I have been wearing it for days and I really don't want to take it off. It's time for a change though so it will be coming off today. :( It reminds me of can-can dancers or something. Can't quite put my finger on it. I used scotch tape to do this. The blue is wearing off of the tips but oh well. :)

Indoor Light at the Dentist ;)

Bottle shot in shade, without the glitter

glitter: OPI: Pirouette My Whistle

In sun (not good lighting for this lol)

The blue is a dark jelly and the silver glitter sparkles through it. I couldn't get a good picture of the sparkles. I have come to the conclusion that jelly samis are a great accent nail. :)

What do you think? Does this make you want to go to the circus?

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

#14 I Did It!!

April Showers Bring May Flowers

hosted by: Polished Prisms

Wow! The last couple weeks have been insane! I think I'm back to normal, still trying to figure out what normal for the summer is going to be! I actually gained a follower during my absence so that's pretty darn cool! I should be back to more regular posts, which is about 3x/wk for me.

For today I have the last challenge for ASBMF! I've wanted to experiment with stamping since probably February, when I first started getting obsessed with polish. I've tried it a couple times on paper and it didn't work out so well. I've been reading more about it and since I don't have 'special stamping polish' I searched on using other polish. You need thick laquer for it to work so I brought out a few of my older bottles and tested them to see if they would work. The best was Orly: Happily Ever Aver and so now I give you my first ever stamping manicure! Yay!

The Red flower is a Dahlia and the Yellow flower is from the Okra plant. I thought it was really pretty so I added it :)

So what do you think? I think I did pretty good. The pinky was my first one and then I had trouble with getting my scraper stuck in the images on either side so I changed designs. I also added a silver star to my ring finger. I need some practice placing my designs but I'm happy with it.

Now that I'm done with the Spring Challenge I'm going to check out what the other ladies did :)

Hannah from Polished Prisms

Amanda from Mandy's Polish

Heidi from DIY Polish & More!

Katee from A Girl and Her Polish

Charlotte from Charlotte's Nails

Tess from Football and Fingernails

Karine at Karinea0a

Victoria from Manicurator

Ashley from One Nail To Another

Dani from Rustic Comfort

Sue from Creative Nail Design by Sue

Amanda from Counting Down to Bliss

Kayono from Neues vom Kellerkind

Sarah from All This Polish

April from Munia's Nails

Sharra from The Blahg

Jess from Nearly Natural Nails

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Girly Girl: Inspired by the Runway

I don't really follow anything. Never have. (except now I'm following nail blogs. weird) so I went through HUNDREDS of Runway photos for Spring 2012 and my favorite collection is Marc Jacobs' Gatsby collection and the look that stood out the most was this color block swimsuit. Pink and Green are my favorite colors :)

And here is my mani!

Here are my Polishes

OPI: La Paz-itively Hot, Orly: Happy Ever After

OPI: Fly, and OPI: Don't Mess with OPI (mixed to make teal)

I'm glad I got this mani done so quickly because I'm super happy with it and I plan on wearing it for a few days. (and excited it has green in it for St Patty's Day!) I decided to paint a solid layer of the pink and then layer the other colors. I loved this Hot Pink so much I had to take pics to show you. This is only 1 Coat! How fun is that! I am so in love with this color- it's the Hottest Hot Pink Ever! :)