My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic, Rarity Nails.

When I was young I never liked My Little Pony, I thought the cartoon was scary looking and never got into playing with the toys. I was more of a Barbie playing girl.
A while ago I was trying to find something that would maybe get my 2 year old's attention, and came across the new My Little Pony, Friendship Is Magic on Hub. And it didn't take long before she said "COW" lol, that's her first choice word when it gets to guessing an animal. So mommy had to explain, those are horses not cows. Didn't take her long to say horse when ever she saw the ponies.
I was shocked in a good way how good the new MLP series are, the characters are cute looking. And it's not just for 5 year old little girls. *PHEW* You get some funny scenes and some pop culture references aimed for the older than 5 viewers, in quite a few episodes.  Here they're fond of Pinkie Pie & Rainbow Dash the most. Anyways, I wanted to do a manicure inspired by one of the characters. So I thought it would be easiest to start with Rarity.

Rarity 

Items used for this manicure.

I used Julie G's White Orchid and Color Club Wild At Heart (thumb nail) as base color. On the thumb over Wild At Heart I made thin stripes with a nail art brush and Maybelline Color Show Amethyst Ablaze.

For the images I found them both on Nailz Craze NC 02. I used the rainbow image for the main and tail and  the unicorn image. I used Amethyst Ablaze for most of the stamping and then Konad Special polish in White for the unicorn image. Then I picked 3 blue diamond shaped rhinestones to use as Rarity's cutie mark on ring finger nail.  And sealed it in with Poshe's fast drying top coat.

My youtube stamping tutorial.

Final Look.

Can't really see the stripes over the purple holo polish...

Was so hard trying to take  a picture so you could see the beautiful effect it made.

I wanted to make a Rarity manicure that didn't look too childish, you know. But still see it's a Rarity inspired look for grownup ladies??? LOL.....

Hope you all will have a great summer weekend!!

Happy Stamping

Holy Holo Nails Under The Hot Summer Sun.

The first holographic polish I had was China Glaze LOL, at the time we lived in sunny Long  Beach. And I just fell in love with the holo effect when I went outside in the sun. I couldn't stop staring at my nails, since then I have been a holo junkie. I don't have that many holo polishes, there are a few on my wish list. But I have 2 grades of SpectraFlair the holographic pigment you can add to polish or topcoat. So I can make normal polishes look holo with a couple of coats of my topcoats that has the SF mixed into it.
But today I wanted to use two of my holographic polishes from Color Club, not any of the new ones. I haven't been able to find those in any stores here in Salt Lake City. I guess I just have to cave in and buy them online. Anyways the two I used as my base today is Fashion Addict (light pink holo) & Worth The Risque (silver). I don't like the finished feel to these polishes, and just in case the holo effect will dull under topcoat, I applied 1 coat of my fine grade SF topcoat. So I still get the holo effect with some beautiful shine, YAY.

Then it was time to decide what plate and image to use over these stunning holos. You don't want to cover up holographic polishes too much so you loose the pretty rainbow effect. I decided to try out one of my new Dashica Dash plates so I picked an image from Dash 34. I wanted to stamp with black, but decided to try the black holographic from Color Club that I have Revvvolution (Yes, that is how it's spelled on the label). It worked pretty well as a stamping polish.

When I was done the pain of getting a good picture of the manicure started.  You know how it is with glitters and holographic polishes, it's a hassle to get the perfect picture. Thank goodness we live in a digital age.... Can you imagine how many rolls of film nail bloggers would have to throw away if we still used the old cameras???

The final look, under a hot sun in Salt Lake City.

Moving on to random non nail related, the other day while we were eating dinner my 2 1/2 was playing with some block on her chair while we were eating. When we were done my hubby told me to look at what she had spelled out with her blocks. Needless to say my eyes went big and I giggled like crazy. So he asked aren't you going to run and grab your phone and share this on your instagram and fb? Before he was done asking the question I had grabbed my phone and snapped  picture. 

Now back to nurse away this dam cold we have had in our home the past 2 weeks, all of the others had it and now I guess it was my turn...... I hate summer colds, they always hit me really bad when I get them.
Hope my dear followers get to enjoy summer.

Until next time, HAPPY STAMPING.

Sunday 4th Nov Challenge and Sickness.

Today's Challenge in AIS was Over Glitter, so stamping over a glitter base. I did the base on Friday, first I used 2 coats of Elmer's glue (for easy removal), 2 coats of Color Club Magic Attraction and then 1 coat of China Glaze Techno and sealed it with Out The Door topcoat.
My plan was to do the stamping yesterday, but I have kids,hubby and granny in-law with bad colds. So I had m hands full yesterday. Well today with the colds Daniel woke up with some kind of stomach bug, so he has been throwing up left and right. But I managed to do some really quick stamping while he was resting in between being sick. So I had to make it simple and easy in case I had to rush away in a hurry.

I decided to use my Dashica XXL Big SdP 2 plate and Dashica stamping polish in black. I hope you like this one. Now back to tend to sick kids, granny in-law and hubby.

Have a great week.

Elmer's glue as base coat for glitter?

Are you like me who love glitter nail polish? But hate to wear them because of removing glitter polishes is a pain in the butt?? There is one method that works pretty well, cotton balls soaked in polish remover on your nails and then wrapping your nails with aluminum foil for 5 minutes.
A little while ago bloggers and nail guru's on youtube started to make posts about a new method that works better.

After hearing people rave about this technique on youtube, facebook nail groups and blogs I had to try it out my self. I am testing this with different type of glitter polishes. So I went to the dollar store and got a bottle of Elmer's School glue (yes, that stuff) and put some in an empty mini polish bottle. Then I applied 1 st coat of glue on my bare nails (no base coat) and let it dry before adding a 2 nd coat. 

Glue in a mini polish bottle. I got mine from:

http://www.tkbtrading.com/item.php?item_id=1308&category_id=80

The polishes I used L to R:  Color Club Magic Attraction, WnW Flossy Flossy & Rock N' Roll (both from Fergie collection), Color Club It's A Hit & China Glaze I Herd That. On the 3 middle fingers I used WnW Black Creme as base color over the glue.

Here they are on my nails.

Magic Attraction, Flossy Flossy, Rock N' Roll, It's A Hit & I Herd That.

So after a few hours it was time to try and remove the glitter polishes. I used a tooth pick and cuticle pusher. Did it work?? Take a look at these pictures down below.

Peels off quite easy.

And not a problem on the ones that had the base color and chunky and bigger glitters.

My naked nails and the peeled off glitter polishes.

It worked!!

I would say this works really well, way easier than the foil method or the nail tip remover soak gadgets. And you don't have to wait 5 minutes to remove the polish. I stopped in between to snap some pictures but it was  like 3 minutes to remove. So easy.... I will start to wear glitter polishes more often.

If you can't find Elmer's glue in your country, try similar non toxic & washable school glues. I hope this was helpful, and hopefully you will start wearing glitter polishes more too.

Good luck, and please let me know in posts below how this worked for you.