A Magical Sunset Nails.

I am waiting to get nail mail from Shirley, I waiting for 17 new Infinity Nails plates to get here. So because of that I am having problems finding inspiration to do my nails or use any of my other plates. Every time I am waiting to get some kind of nail mail, I am stuck. For some reason I always think I don't have enough plates to find inspiration from. How can that be when I have over 400 plates??? I know my plate collection isn't the biggest one, I know of plenty of girls who has way more plates than me. But I know that most of those girls are the same way when they are expecting nail mail.
I have been walking around with naked nails for 5 days, yeah you read it right 5 whole days. Because I couldn't think up any ideas. But then I forced my self to sit down and look at my polishes (that was the easy part) then my plates. 2 hours looking at plates and I had a hard time deciding.
So my base is an orange acrylic paint mixed with some white, then I used a sponge Essie Meet Me At Sunset on the nail tips.

My plate choice finally ended on Infinity Nails by Dashica and plate number 10, the top image. It's a special image that shows a whole scene, that can be stamped on multiple nails. There is a portion of that image with a fairy, flowers, a mushroom and a butterfly. So I picked that part of the image to stamp on my nails. I picked my trusty Dashica Black stamping polish and Magno XL stamper.

Have a great weekend, thanks for stopping by.

Orange butterfly

This Sunday's challenge in AIS Over an orange base. Wasn't quite sure I wanted to do one, I thought there was going to be a lot of butterflies by other members too. But I guess I was wrong, so I pulled out my only orange polish Essie Meet me at sunset for my base color.
The plate I used Dashica Big SdP V and used Dashica stamping polish in black to stamp with. I like this stamping polish as much as the Konad black one. Then I filled in white dots with my dotting tools and Julie G's in White Orchid and applied NYC matte topcoat Matte Me Crazy. Tho it looks orange it came out more red in the picture and video.

Spring break is over so back to school again, tho it was nice to sleep for a bit longer in the mornings. But spring has started to show her face here in Utah green leaves on the trees and of course that means pollen season has started, so I have been sneezing like crazy.

The items I used.

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Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!
If you truly celebrate this day, or if it's just an excuse for you to have a few drinks LOL, never the less Happy St. Patrick's Day.
15 years ago I went to Ireland on a summer holiday, and I loved it there. All the people I met were all very friendly and welcoming. And I went to some tiny villages that an Asian chick wasn't a normal sight, but still got invited to have a pint with them at their table. And at one of the local pubs in Tuam I had the best Irish stew, ever.....  It was one of the best vacations I have had, so I guess every year St. Patrick's Day I always think back to that 3 week trip.

Anyways St. Patrick's Day is also this Sunday's theme in AIS, so I had to do my nails.
I used Essie's Mint Candy Apple as base (it's one of my favorites), then I used a plate from Shany SH219 and stamped with Dashica Jade Green and Maybelline's Bold Gold.

Have a great week, and as always thank you for stopping by.

Breast Cancer Awareness Nails.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. So time for me to do my Pink Ribbon nails too. I know there are a lot of bloggers who have done the same. I decided to do this in honor of one of my mother's 3 best friends who lost her battle to breast cancer a few years ago. She was an amazing lady, I loved talking to her. So many fond memories with dinner parties with her and her family and our gang.  I know my mother miss her, we talked about her a few weeks ago. Just as my parents she and her husband adopted a child from South-Korea too, a boy. He's a few years older than me, but that was one of the things they had in common. They also worked together for years, and I had the pleasure of working for my mother and her for a few weeks with people with special needs. She had this amazing laugh and her uplifting spirit could turn your day from bad to great.  So this manicure is for you, Aase. We miss you.

For these nails I used China Glaze Dance Baby as base color, 2 coats of my SpectraFlair topcoat, then Essie Miami Nice to stamp and Bundle Monster 321.

French Tip Challenge.

The challenge this week in AIS was French manicure. I have to admit I haven't used my Konad French tip plates that much,  just a couple of times. Why? It's really hard to get them perfectly lined up. But I was willing to wipe off the dust off my French tip plates. Needless to say it didn't go as well as I had hoped, I kept messing up my manicure. After 5 tries I was ready to give up but was going to try one more time before throwing in the towel..
I used Essie Sugar Daddy and WnW Black Creme for the French tip, then I used Maybelinne Bold Gold as stamping polish with Dashica Big SdP T. Also used red rhinestones in the design.

Wasn't too happy with this manicure, so it only lasted a couple of hours.

I found this buffer at Big Lots yesterday, just had to get it. The owls, so cute.

So time for bed, just have to put on a thick layer of Mango Mend. My cuticles are so unhappy tonight.... So dry... Have a good week.

What a week...

This week has been so stressful trying to stay calm and exited for my 6 year old for his first day of school. Then all the meetings with teachers, assistant principal and so on. And dealing with all the mood swings he's had since then, from happy to exited, to sad and scared. And all of that with a 20 month old who is glued to mommy or wants to run around like crazy.

TGIF so I decided to get some glam on my nails with some stunning glitters and stamping. So I did a black French tip with WnW Black Creme and Essie's Sugar Daddy, then applied a coat of China Glaze Techno over the black tips. Then I pulled out my Dashica SdP 40 with stars and Mickey Muse image on it, and decided to use those two images. I used WnW Black Creme to stamp with. And sealed it all with Poshe Fast drying topcoat.

Techno is stunning over black polish, just love it.

The youtube tutorial for this mani

Have a great weekend.!!

2 Dashica mani

So here are the 3 mani's I have had on my nails since Friday.

I had some fun with SpectraFlair and my new Dashica stamping plates, I just love using these. I am afraid I am going to run out of SpactraFlair, because I can't stop using it. Needless to say I am a holo junkie, I can't help it. So far the images I have picked from my Dashica plates have all been really great, the image gets picked up on my stamper and goes really clear on my nail. I haven't had many failed images, like I do with Konad or Bundle Monster. Next time I will try one of those other images with very fine lines and details again.

China Glace Dance Baby, top coat w/SpectraFlair, Dashica XXL Big SdP 1

& stmaping Essie Miami Nice

China Glace Dance Baby, top coat w/SpectraFlair, XXL Big Dashica SdP 1

& stamping Essie Miami Nice

Wet N Wild  Caught Red Handed, top coat w/ SpectraFlair,  XXL Big Dashica SdP 1

& Konad special Black 

Have a great week, people!

Nail Polish Haul.

Is there a better way to welcome spring than getting nail polishes? Well, it may not be the best way but it's pretty good. To add some color to your nails after a long cold and dark winter, besides I bet that quite few people out there are adding some new spring and summer outfits to their wardrobe.
Why not add some new colors to go on your nails too? Well, I did.....
I saw some polishes from Nubar I really wanted to try out. I've never tried any polishes from Nubar before so decided to order a few polishes from them. I ended up getting 7 polishes  from their Prisms and Royal Gem Collection. I only had to wait 2 days and my order was in my mail box. Super fast shipping.... YAY...
The Royal Gem collections are all gem colors with glitter, and the Prisms Collection are holo's (I LOVE HOLO's like China Glaze OMG collection). I'm getting low on my OMG colors so I've been looking for new ones and found that Nubar have heir own collection.
Then I went to Wal Mart and I saw an Essie polish for 1 $ so I had to grab that, was clearance and only had that one color but still good deal for an Essie polish. So after a trip to Kohl's and my new polishes I am ready for spring to come my way. Here they are, the new adds for my growing nail polish collection:

from The Royal Gem Collection:

Amethyst, Emerald, Ruby & Sapphire

Prisms Collection + Essie:

Treasure, Absolute, Brilliant & Miami Nice

Mint green Art Deco nails.

So I did an other art deco nails using the same stamping image, but in other colors.
The items I used:

Seche Vite ridge filling base coat
Essie's Mint Candy Apple
Out The Door Topcoat
Konad plate 83
Konad Special polish in white
Konad topcoat