Some stamping, bad start on my son's summer holiday, and some other random stuff.

Tuesday was the first day of summer holiday for little D, he finish his first year of school. But for the last days he and his sister G have been coughing like crazy. But I guess that will happen when yo go from warm weather to cold to warm again, just in a few days.... Even tho the meds are in cherry or berry flavor they hate taking their meds. So I have been armed with lollipops, lately... What ever I have to do to get them to take their meds right....

But I woke up to some great news today, one of my cousins back home in Norway and his long time girlfriend gave birth to a little baby boy. Tho I wish I could go back home this weekend, my dad turns 70 years old. #@$^#$ the whole mess with my papers, hopefully it will all get sorted out soon so I can visit and sit at my parents table and just talk and talk for hours over my mom's yummy food.

Moving on to the nail stuff, I know that's why most of you pop in for. I got this Julie G polish a while ago 9 To 5, but when ever I put it on I remove it right away. For some reason I think it doesn't look good against my olive skin tone..... But then again, I feel that way with all neon colors and this is a neon peach. Still it is a pretty color and I love peach, so I applied 3 coats. For stamping polish Maybelline Color Show in Navy Narcissist, Dashica SdP 110 (one of the new plates).

Now I just have to see how long I last before this neon peach freaks me out and I remove it all. I know, one odd things about me...... An other odd thing about me, if I don't like a DVD cover I won't watch the movie...... Yup, crazy..... 

Have a great one, have a drink and relax.

Happy stamping.

Gumdrops, Nom nom!!

Here is a closer look at the Julie G's Gumdrop polish collection, they come in 6 pretty colors and they have a lot of glitter in them. It says on the bottle to not use topcoat over them to get that sand effect. It kinda feels like fine sandpaper, just way prettier. You can find these at your local RiteAid, but I got mine on a special via Groupon. I have to warn you, this post is picture heavy, and I also did a youtube vid to see how well these are to stamp over. These sand texture polishes are trendy right now next to the holographic polish trend. Zoya, China Glaze, OPI and Julie G all have their own collection. The ones from China Glaze I don't think have any glitters to them. I will be picking up the ones from OPI that are all named after Bond girls, I went to my nail supply store and he said he will get them in. I will do a swatch and stamping test on those too and blog and youtube about those too.

L2R: Tangerine Dream, Rock Candy, Sugar Rush, Blueberry Fizz, Hot Cinnamon & Crushed Candy

Crushed Candy, Hot Cinnamon & Blueberry Fizz.

Sugar Rush, Rock Candy & Tangerine Dream

Hot Cinnamon, Sugar Rush & Tangerine Dream

Tangerine Dream

Sugar Rush

Rock Candy

Blueberry Fizz

Hot Cinnamon

Crushed Candy

Now onto the stamping test, I did this over Blueberry Fizz and tried using a dark navy blue to stamp with. But because of these polishes have  a lot of glitters in them it didn't show as well. So I swapped to black, I also noticed if  I used an image with some fine details to them they kinda drowned in the glitter.

Badtz-Maru on index finger & Betty Boop on far right,

I love these colors, all of them but Hot Cinnamon are great for spring & summer. But if you're not a fan of glitter polishes these won't be to your taste. And if you don't like the sandpaper feel but love to get these you can slab on some topcoat and they will have a smoother finish to them.

As always thanks for stopping by.

Have a great weekend.

Yay, it's Friday.

Happy Friday!!

A short post about the nails I did today. I used 2 polishes for my base color, on thumb and ring finger I used White Orchid from Julie G. It's applies really well, I only needed 1 coat. The other fingers I applied 2 coats of OPI Lucky Lucky Lavender. Then I pulled out one of my Bundle Monster plates BM 301, and picked out the lavender stamping polish from Dashica and stamped over the white polish.
Then I used 2 coats of my SpectraFlair topcoat and added some bling to thumb and ring finger nails.
The trick was getting a good picture of the finished manicure, not easy when you have holo and bling on your nails.

Have a great weekend.