Blue Gradient Attempt

Hey! Long time no post. I decided to try my hand at gradients using the hot new tutorial by the Nailasaurus! However, I must have used old sponges, because I ended up with pieces of sponge on my nails :(

I started with three thin coats of Orly's Skinny Dip. Then I sponged China Glaze Up All Night. I'm rather impressed with my first attempt!

I intend to try again once I get better, newer sponges. I love the look of gradient nails! Also, the Nailasaurus is the ultimate tutorial queen! I am going to try more of them soon!

Day 7 - Black and White

Hello! For the black and white day, I went with two Orly's from the Holiday Soiree collection of last winter - Au Champagne and Androgynie.

My momma came to visit me - she's a piano player. So I stamped my white accent nail with Konad plate m73 for her. She loved it!

Androgynie let me down - not a lot of the hex glitter made it to the nail. I love Au Champagne though! The perfect pearly white. It reminds me of melted marshmellow.

I'm weird when I stamp - I stamp so it looks right to me. I look at my hands a lot. I'm stamping selfish I guess!

Nail Stamping with Orly Sea Gurl

Yeah, I stamp. I'm not very good at it, but I'm in love with this. I got the idea from the konadlicious blog and did my own spin using other colours.
I started with a base of Orly Sea Gurl, which I neglected to photograph before I stamped over it. I used my usual silver stamping polish (CND Silver Chrome) and Bundle Monster Plate 206

 

This is actually the closest I've been able to match my thumb, so I'm pretty impressed about it. It's still messy but I wanted to photo it before I chipped or wore it down.

I love to stamp - I'm not very good at it, but I think it looks great and I get a lot of complements. What's not to love?

Orly Flirty

Look who's alive!! It's me!! Here with my favourite polish OF ALL TIME!

I'm a real pink lover, and this is my favourite pink. I also don't think it gets enough love. From last summer's Happy Go Lucky collection, here's Flirty! (and a cameo from angel and Febreeze)

This is what I wanted Pink Friday to be - just a speck lighter though. 

It's bright enough to look good with my skin tone, and the awesome shimmer is a welcomed bonus!

Yeah, I just chopped my nails down so the nubbin wasn't so lonely. I'm rather fond of how they look right now actually. They'll never be perfect though....

Orly and I have a hit and miss relationship - some are like this which I'd never do without (Au Champagne and Royal Navy for example). Others are very "meh" and unoriginal to me. 

I have so much stuff I want to post! I just don't know where to start - there always seems to be another new package in my mailbox which makes me forget about all the other wonders I have.

Orly Meet Me Under the Mistletoe

Hola people!

In honour of October being Depression Awareness Month, I'm going to swatch all my green polishes! I don't have that many (I think?) but I'm thinking it will be nice to go through them all.

I just bought this polish on the weekend and I'm loving it! It reminds me of a darker Zoya Ivanka actually. I'm kind of a Zoya fanatic and I'm sure I'll be showing you my lovelies as I go on.

Meet Me Under the Mistletoe is that perfect dark green I'd been looking for! My pictures aren't the greatest - I'm working super hard on them though.