I love black… I love purple… I love glitter. OMG I LOVE BLACK PURPLE AND GLITTER!! When it comes to me and polish, I’m not sure it gets any better than Wet n Wild Wild Shine Night Prowl! I’m in love!
It goes on smooth and evenly, it takes two coats (or one if you put it on thick enough) to get a nice cover, and it’s just so damn subtle and pretty! Ok, not subtle in the way that a nude color would be, but when you look at some of my other more ‘blingy’ polishes I’ve worn, the glitter in this is subtle.
You know how everyone has this ‘go to polish’ that they put on when they are feeling fussy and don’t quite know what they want to do with their nails. I’m pretty sure this will be mine.
After trying out the High Def with Silver Shatter I wanted to do something with a crackle polish that had a bit more oomph to it. My husband and I have been playing a little World of Warcraft recently and I thought, hey… why not make some lava nails!
Here’s a photo for those of you who have never played. Yes, I actually love you all enough to log in and fly to somewhere with lava just so you could see what I am talking about. I bet you all know where I’m going with this already!
The color I used for the base was from the new Essence collection, 50's Girls Reloaded. It’s a bright fire engine red color called Back to the 50’s. It took a few coats to get rid of the VNL (visible nail line) and even after two heavy coats it was still somewhat visible. It didn’t matter since I knew I was going to be covering it anyway. It was so difficult to get a photo of this polish. I ended up using the flash because with non flash photos it seemed to blend in with my fingers too much. I could have gotten out the light box but I couldn’t be bothered, this give you a pretty good representation of the color.
This is with China Glaze Black Crackle on top. Once again I tried to change how I added the crackle by doing thinner and thicker coats. I’ve not perfected it yet but it came out pretty much the way I wanted to… like lava peeking through the ashes!
I should have done a coat of Seche Vite over the crackle but I had other plans for my nails the next day and planned on removing it. My bottle of the SV top coat is getting low and I didn’t want to waste it. So it still looked quite textured.
It’s been a while since I’ve taken part in PAA's Monday Nail Art Challenge as I was away on Holiday and then bummed about how my nails were ravaged by camping. Now I’m back though and just in time for one of my favorite themes – taping!!
This theme was largely inspired by Jane over at Nailside, who is the queen of taping. She’s done more than one mani that I really love and have wanted to try. I’m still working up the courage to try her Double Lightning Bolt!
I wasn’t ready to remove my mani from yesterday so I just taped and did some black over it, but I think the result was so cute!! Products used: Essence Nail Art Protecting Base Coat
Sparrow Me The Drama (2 coats) from the Pirates collection by OPI
Fairy Dust by China Glaze Seche Vite Topcoat
Unnamed Black by Hot Topic
A while back I joined a group on Facebook called Polish-aholics Anonymous, which was created by Traci from The Trace Face Philes. It’s basically a group of women who love polish and nail art who came together to share their obsession. It’s a great place to chat about nails if that’s what you are into and what I like most is that there are a lot of women in there who make me feel a lot better about my little addiction. Some have hundreds of polish! So I always have a "I could always be worse…” example! haha
The group decided to start doing weekly nail art challenges on Mondays. Todays was polka dots!! You know how much I love doing dots!
I got my inspiration from a blog I came across, and I so wish I had thought to bookmark it! On the blog they credited a girl on YouTube who first inspired her. Here is the video tutorial I, and the girl who’s blog I first saw it on, followed to create this mani.
Mine didn’t come out quite as neatly as hers, and it really made me wish I had bigger nails! Sometimes having small nail beds can be a right pain when it comes to nail art, but we work with what we got!
I may not take part in all of the Monday Nail Art Challenges, but I’m going to try. It’s really fun!
Products used:
Claire’s Super Speed Black Polish Essence Stamp Me! White
Miss Sporty Gold
Essence Nail Art Protecting Base Coat Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat
Sally Hansen White Nail Art Pen
Essence Mysterious Black Nail Art Tip Painter
The other day I wanted to try something cool with some Lego stickers my husband had. I was going to paint my nails white and add the stickers to the nail and put a topcoat over, it was all very cool in my head. It didn’t work out quite as I had hoped… The stickers were a little too thick, plastic rather than thin paper, and they wouldn’t stay bent to stick to the nail. So I gave up.
I sat there with white nails and was wondering what to do with them. I was feeling a little wild (rawr!) so I went for a Zebra print. I wish I’d thought of that on my recent trip to the zoo. Doh!
Products used: Essence Nail Art Protecting Base Coat Catrice Snow Motion (white)
Essence Black Stampy Polish Seche Vite Top Coat
Konad Plate M57
A Canadian living in the Netherlands with my Dutch husband. I love photography, crafting and my little family. You can learn more about me at my personal blog, Canadutch (www.Breigh.com)
