Pink djinn mani. OPI Mariah Carey Liquid Sand in “The Impossible” & Milani Jewel FX in Gold.
I don’t really dig multicolor Skittles manis on myself but the monochromatic ones do actually make me swoon.
Hot!
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Strawberry nails from Dainty Squid:
1. Paint your base coat (red/pink)2. Use pinking shears (or a super steady hand) to cut strips of tape, and apply them to the larger part of your nail (the part where the green with NOT be)
3. Paint the area of your nail without tape green, and remove the tape within a few moments
4. Use a toothpick (or a DIY dotting tool), make small black dots on the red sections.
5. Let dry and finish with a top coat
Perhaps some weekend when my spouse can take on all baby-handling duties for a couple of hours…
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EXOTIC
OPI Lincoln Park After Dark
Essie Shine of the TimesKonad plate m57
Konad Special Polish WhiteI had two math midterms last week, and as soon as I was done, I went straight to the mall to treat myself to a little somethin’. When I spotted the zebra knuckle ring, I KNEW I had to add it to my ring collection. ;) And of course, I did a matching manicure for the ring.
I love layering Essie’s Shine of the Times over dark, creme-finish polishes. The effect is incredible from various angles. You can see a swatch (layered over a black polish) of this beautiful flaky polish I posted a few months back here. This is definitely something you want to have handy in your polish collection for an instant eye-catching manicure. Get your own bottle here on Amazon!
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Snowflake nails on Flickr.
Snowflake nails - black with a layer of blue glitter, then a snowflake stamp. I should have taken a picture of my previous nails - candy canes and peppermints. Ah well.
Cute!!! Is the stamp Konad?
Ring fingers are four coats of glitter each. For some reason, Fresh Frog of Bel Air gives better coverage than Gettin’ Miss Piggy With It—I think it’s that the latter has chunky red glitter along with the small red glitter, and it actually thins out the coverage you get. Both have a small amount of chunky silver glitter, but all the green glitter in Fresh Frog of Bel Air is small, and that actually ends up giving a much more uniform color when you layer it.
Thumbs are three coats of the glitter with a coat of Sally Hansen Crackle in Antique Gold on top. I don’t know if it’s just that metallic crackles work better, but I like this one better than OPI Black Shatter or the Sephora OPI turquoise crackle polish.
Other fingers are Revlon Gold Coin (very thinly applied) with two coats of glitter over that.
Top coat is Seche Vite.
