Zombie Darlings Screaming Black Heart

Hello everyone!

Today's post is my first jelly polish.

Zombie Darlings Screaming Black Heart

I met Cindy on Instagram, Zombie Darlings, you should follow her she is awesome.  She is in the process of moving her store to Big Carlel, I believe she will have some new polishes up soon.  Her store is www.zombiedarlings.bigcartel.com.

This is a beautiful black jelly base with multi-colored and different size and shaped glitter.  These pics are 3 coats with no undies and Seche Vite topcoat.

This polish is fantastic.  The formula is amazing and perfect.  The glitter is dispersed evenly throughout the polish and there is no need to fish the glitter out of the bottle.  Application is PERFECT, and I barely had cleanup.

I can't wait to try more Zombie Darlings.

My very first Gradient

So I promised more activity blog posts and I will definitely be doing more.  So I apologize if I blow up your blog feed with posts.

I have spent countless hours looking at pics of gradients and videos on how to do them.  I bought makeup sponges a few months ago, and was to afraid to try one, because I assumed I would fail miserably.

I mentioned wanting to do a gradient for a friend and she told me I should and a few on Twitter told me I should try as well.  So I gave it a go.

I used the following colors:

butter London Dodgy Barnett
OPI On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Sally Hansen Navy Baby

The used the method where you pant a thin coat of the lightest color on your nails, and then I painted my colors on a makeup sponge and then dabbed the colors onto my nails.

Since I don't have any self control I added NYC Matte Me Crazy, and OMG I love it!

Then I needed to add Black Cat Lacquer Love Will Tear Us Apart.

Overall, I am very proud of how well my gradient turned out and all of my additions to it seemed to work pretty well!

What do you think?

Bondi New York Brick Road

What's up everyone?

I hope everyone is doing great!  I have my first yellow polish that I want to share with you. It is from Bondi New York and is called Brick Road.  Please note that this product was sent to me for an honest review.

You can find their polishes on their website, www.bondinewyork.com.

Their brand is 5 free and non-toxic.  They recently launched their brand with 20 pretty awesome colors.  Bondi also donates profits each bottle sold to charity.

Brick Road is a bright yellow cream polish.  This is the first yellow polish that I have worn.  I really like it!  The name totally fits because it reminds me of the Yellow Brick Road from the Wizard of Oz. This is 3 coats and a coat of Seche Vite.  I think this would look great with 2 coats but I wanted to make sure that I had full coverage. 

The formula is fantastic and applies very well.  Clean up is extremely easy as well.  I think this color makes my nail beds look slimmer.

Bondi did an amazing job on their start up selections, I almost couldn't choose just one.  I wanted like 4-5 of the colors.

I don't really have anything negative to say about this polish. I can't wait to add more to my stash!

I love Flakies

Hello everyone!

Long time no talk... 

I will be doing so much more on my blog, I appreciate everyone that follows me!  As most of you may be aware, GFC will be going away soon, so if you enjoy my blog and want to stay updated you should definitatel follow my blog with Bloglovin. 

As you can see I changed my layout and color scheme and I added a custom made header that was done by the amazing Ana from Lac Attack. 

I have so many post ideas coming up, and an amazing give away coming up as well.

Today's post is Layla Ceramic Effect 53, or Butterfly Effect.  It's an amazing purple flakie and I love it.  It was sent to me by and amazing friend.

This color is a very vibrant purple color and great flakie effect.  If you have a chance to snag it you should. 

I realy love the formula and application was pretty easy.  Cleanup was also because I have no self control I added NYC Matte Me Crazy.

Thank you all for reading.  Let me know what you think of the new look.  Talk to you soon.

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This is a Tribute....

Hello everyone.

Today I am posting a mani dedicated to the memory of my friend Amada's mother.  Most of you may have seen a few posts mentioning Amanda - The Nail Polish Enthusiast

Amanda lost her mother 10 years ago, and you can learn more about the tribute HERE

I haven't known Amanda very long, but I can say she is an amazing woman, and I think her mother would be so proud of the woman that she is.  Without further delay.

Pink reminds me of tulips, which was Amanda's mom's favorite flower.

I am wearing China Glaze Naked since it is a very pink shimmery polish.

Kitchen Sink Saturday #3

Hello!  How is everyone today?

Today is the third installment of #kitchensinksaturday.

For the 4 Saturdays in January, a few of us are going kitchen sink manis.

Amanda The Nail Polish Enthusiast
Inky Inky Whiskers Musings
Nicole Young Wild and Polished
Sarah Swishienails 
and myself


Kitchen sink saturday, was my day today, I had so much to do...  get some food, change my oil, organize my nail desk.  I now have a nail desk.  A few months ago if you would have told me that I would have a nail desk and about 180 polishes before February, I probably would have laughed at you....  Now, not so much.  I need a helmer or a melmer and I am doing swaps, and buying tons of nail polish.  I guess you could say like a good little nail polish addict?!? 

I am really trying to make myself blog more.  I think having the desk will make it so.  I will be getting a light box soon too, so my pics wont suck as much. 

ON TO THE MANI!

My thumb isn't shown because I was having lots of issues today.  I haven't been moisturizing as much as I should nor using my cuticle oil as much either.....  BAD!  I know.  I apologize for the horrible looking nails too.  I had a few breaks this week to so I had to file them down.

Pointer = KB Shimmer News Print

Middle = Santee Nail Polish Beach Blue with J.Indie Nails G code on top

Ring = China Glaze Naked with Ulta quake top coat (crackle)

Pinkie = Santee Nail Polish Aqua with Glimmer by Erica Beneath the Blue

Please check out the other manis in the group, I promise they are better than mine.

Wes

Kitchen Sink Saturday #2

Hello!  How is everyone today?

Today is the second installment of #kitchensinksaturday.


For the 4 Saturdays in January, a few of us are going kitchen sink manis.

Amanda The Nail Polish Enthusiast
Inky Inky Whiskers Musings
Nicole Young Wild and Polished
Sarah Swishienails 
and myself

I am really digging these manis.  I think it's because I get to wear more polishes.

On to the pics:

In this mani:

Thumb = Jade Energy

Pointer = Hot Looks Siren with China Glaze Liquid Leather stamped

Middle = Jade Energy Undies with striping tape and China Glaze Liquid Leather

Ring = aEngland Perceval with China Glaze Whirled Away

Pinkie = Revlon Posh

Do you do this types of manis?  Let me know what you think! 

Wes

Essie - Shine of the Times

Hello everyone.  I am a bad nail blogger.  I really need to post more.  I am sorry for the lack of posting. I will do better!

A couple months ago I was sent Essie Shine of the Times flakie by the amazing Arlyn.  I love this so much.  If you have a chance to grab it I highly suggest it.

I'm not sure exactly what category it falls under, I would say a topper?

 Shine of the Times is from the Luxe Effects collection. It looks milky in the bottle in real life.  However as you can see above when light hits it is looks reddish.

I am wearing China Glaze Liquid Leather as undies.

As you can see once applied it has a multi-chromatic appearance. In some light it is red an in other light it is green.  In my opinion it looks kind of like fire.  I even had a point where it was a blueish color as well.  Like I said this polish is amazing and if you have a chance to get it you really should!

Let me know what you think.

I promise more posts!

Wes

Guest post on Fashion Footing

Amanda from Fashion Footing has allowed me to take over her blog today.  Check it out here - Guest Post

Kitchen Sink Saturday

I'm a bad nail blogger.  I haven't been posting like I should as I have been sick.  I will get many more posts up I promise.

So, the AMAZING Nicole over at Young Wild and Polished does these Kitchen sink manis all the time, and they are freaking amazing.  If you have never seen her blog go check it out, you wont be disappointed I promise.

For the 4 Saturdays in January, a few of us are going kitchen sink manis.

Amanda The Nail Polish Enthusiast
Inky Inky Whiskers Musings
Nicole Young Wild and Polished
Sarah Swishienails 
and myself

If any of you wanna join fee free, on Twitter use the hastag #kitchensinksaturday

My base color on all my nails is Revlon Gray Suede., its a beautiful nude.

My thumb is stamped with BM #315.

The color is Sinful Colors GoGo Girl a nice red, but the 1 coat looks pink.

Index - China Glaze Ruby Pumps with Windestine Into the Wild glitter on top

Middle - Mentality Rapture an indie Nude holo

Ring - China Glaze Ruby Pumps w/ striping tape

Pinkie - HM Sparkling Rainbow

I'm really in love with this mani.  What do you think?

12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge #12 - Santa

That's all folks!  Day #12 Santa...

First, I want to thank Kristine and Lorene for hosting this challenge, and for allowing me to join in.  I had a lot of fun with it.  You should check out their blogs:

Kristine: Pink and Polished Nails
Lorene: Over Polished

I also want to thank everyone for the positive comments, those have boosted my confidence in trying more nail art a bunch. 

I told you in my post yesterday that I cheated and did elves and Santa together so you've already seen these nails.

Because of this challenge I will venture more into nail art.  I have ordered striping tape and the Bundle Monster 2012 stamps. You'll see more I promise...

Wes

12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge #11 - Tinsel

And then there was 1...

Today is #11, Tinsel.

You know I didn't even know what tinsel was until I Googled it.

I've always known it as garland...

I know this is a nail art challenge, and when you see today's mani, I didn't put a lot of art into it.  But I think I got the tinsel on a Christmas tree down...

The pics dark, because my phone is messed up and no matter how much light and flash I use it sucks. 

I am wearing:

Finger Paints Avant Garde Green
Lac-Attack Forever Rydell
Zoya Electra

To me they look like a decorated Christmas tree with silver tinsel

I have gotten lots of comments about how festive it looked.



Wes

12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge #10 - Elves

#10 Elves.....

Man only 2 days until Christmas, I hope everyone has a great day today and gets everything they hoped for.  Me, I have to work tomorrow.  But anyway, I have to say this is going to be a great Christmas, regardless of the gifts I get.  I have been a little under the weather this weekend, and been thinking.  I have already gotten a pretty amazing gift.  I'm going to get a little sappy here....


Al of my new friends, have made me one of the happiest people around.  All of you are so positive and supportive.  From bottom of my heart, all of you have given me your friendship, and that means so much to me. 

Today, 7 years ago I found out that my best friend had stage 4 cancer, and would be staying at a cancer treatment hospital about 400 miles away.  That was the last time I talked to him, he had surgery and was in a chemical induced coma until 2/14/2006.  He passed away the day before I was going to get to visit him.  I don't think I ever got to tell my friend how much his friendship meant to me. 

So I tell you all...  Thank you for your friendship.  I would mention each of you but I don't want to forget any of you.

I hope you all have an amazing Christmas. 

Now on to the nails...

I know these are kind of bad...  they are my elf nails and my Santa nails, so these will be posted for Tuesday as well.  Im cheating a little... 

12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge #9 - Wreath

Mani #9.

Sorry its so late.  Wreath.  Now I was at a loss for this one.  I have no wreath stamp on my stamp discs.  So I free handed this... I have really enjoyed doing this challenge,  and look forward to more nail art because of it. 

Fell free to laugh if you want, my mani is nothing compared to some of the others in this challenge. 

Sorry for the bad pics, my iphone is messing up....

Only 3 manis left.....

Wes

12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge #8 - Ornaments

Wow!  Only 4 manis left in this challenge. 

I'm not going to lie, I was at a loss for what to do with this mani.  I just couldn't think of what to do. The last few manis in this challenge are all pretty hard.  Stars are ornaments to right?  On to the mani.....

I kind of obsessed with stamping....