Playing with Jellies

Hello lovelies!

Today I have a mani that started out as a fail but ended up being a winner!

Colors Used: L'Oreal - Jolly Lolly, Mango Mamma, Bananarama Love, Creme de Mint, Miss Pixie. Lilac Coolers, Julep - Hermione

I received the entire L'Oreal jellies collection for my birthday last month and I was so excited!  I decided I wanted to do a rainbow-y watercolor design with them.  Once I had it on tho, I didn't really like how some of the colors layered over each other.  The green and orange looked particularly like pond scum lol...

 

 I then said to myself, "Hey!  Remember when crackle was cool??".  So I pulled out a white crackle (Julep's Hermione) and went to town!  And I lurvs it!!

Winning!

I hope you all have a very good Good Friday!

Until next time!

Stef <3

Inspired by the Evil Queen

Hiya, lovies!

I have a quick post for you today.  My inspiration was The Evil Queen (who's name is actually Queen Grimhilde) from Disney's Snow White...

 Colors Used: Rimmel - Black Satin, OPI - It Color and Stay the Night, Mentality - Tempest, Daisy Nail Lacquer - White Diamond, Maybeline - Carbon Frost

I wanted to go for something a little more dark/sinister rather than cartoonish...

I free-handed the crown and apple and then used stamping plate SH02 for the skull and cross bones.

I wish the detail of the apple popped more but c'est la vie!

It's almost the weekend!!  Anyone else excited?  :P

Until next time!

Stef <3

Under Lock & Key

Hello, dolls!

I hope you all had a very happy weekend :)  I would like to say a big WELCOME to my new followers!  You ladies are the reason why I have continued blogging.  Thank you all so much for your recent comments.  it really is encouraging and it's helping me to tweak the things I'm doing as a blogger.  You all are amazing!!

Well, it's been gloomy here in SoCal the last few days (no April showers tho).  The weather put me in a bit of a somber mood over the weekend so, I busted out one of my favorite polish to cheer myself up...

 Colors Used: Zoya - Blaze, Avon - Mosaic Mica

Fitting for a gloomy day, but I LOVE the way it came out!

I started with 2 coats of Blaze.  Cannot get enough of this polish!  Then I applied the "Mosaic Effect" polish.  It doesn't really come across in the pics, but it's very very shimmery and pretty.  Lastly I applied my nail art stickers that I picked up from H&M, truly the best I've ever used to date.  I topped them off with my new fave Nutra Nail Speed Dry Top Coat and viola!

"Look at the pretties!"

My work/rehearsal week is looking a little bit crazy.  I am now partially running the children's choirs at my job along with everything else I've got going on.  I don't know why I do these things to myself lol.  April TPC starts up tomorrow and I've got a couple of other surpirses coming along the way *sigh*.  Busy, busy, busy!  I hope you will bear with me ;)

Until next time!

Stef <3

Getting Into The Spirit :)

Good morning, all :)

After yesterday's post, I decided to get back into the swing of things with a simple Halloween themed mani.  I think it's a good start...

 Colors Used: Wet n Wild - Straight A Jesse, Maybelline Color Show Shredded - Carbon Frost, China Glaze - Fairy Dust

This is the first crackle polish that I've used that I've really been able to get big cracks from... I like it!  in general, I'm not a big fan of crackle polishes.  They're a little to edgy/grungyfor my taste.  I put the Fairy Dust on as an after thought to jazz the mani up a bit.  I think it turned out pretty decently :)

Now, this is post #99.  Which means the next post will have... a GIVEAWAY!!  Yayayayayayayyy!!!  I can't wait to share it with you :D  

Until next time!

Stef <3

What's Crackalackin'??

Jello ladies and germs!  It's been faaaar too long since I've blogged :(  Let me just say wedding planning is a lot less fun than it sounds lol.  If you can afford a wedding planner... get one!  I am fortunate enough to have a lot of AMAZING women in my life who offering me they're help, so I really have no room to complain.  It's just very time consuming *sigh*

Anyway on to my post!  For today I have a simple mani and nail haul to share :)

I've gone a little polish crazy recently.  I'm still hunting for the Stick It To 'Em Slater from Wet n Wilds Saved by the Bell colletion, and while out on these hunts... I found other polishes to buy lol.  First tho I'm going to share the crackle polishes I reciedn as a gift from my soon-to-be-mother-in-law (featured in today's mani) :D

Colors Used; Love & Beauty - Coral/Gold, Avon Mosaic Effects - Gold Glimmer

She'd told me that a friend of hers was selling Avon and so she decided to order me a couple.  I love her to death!  She's too good to me :)

Here are a couple more pics...

I haven't really been a fan of crackle polishes.  The never seem to crackle enough for me and just end up look like a sloppy mess!  This one actually turned out really well, I think I may give crackles another chance :)

Onto the rest of my haul!