A Mani of Indecision...

Hello hello and happy Wednesday!  :D  I can't believe the week is already halfway over, yikes!!  With summer quickly approaching I feel that I should let you know... (don't freak out! lol)... I may not have time to post a new mani every day :\  Between working 35+ hours at the summer camp and rehearsing/preparing for auditions like a mad person I will have very very very little free time.  And I do plan on sleeping at some point as well hahaha.  So that may mean 3-4 mani's a week or a couple posts a week that double-up on pics... *sigh* I don't know.  I hope that you will bear with me, it's only for 10 weeks :)  Enough jibber-jabber, on to the mani!

Today's mani is the result of my sheer joy at being able to wear other colors besides pink again lol.  I had bought O.P.I - It Girl before I started Think Pink week and couldn't wait to wear it.  And then, on Friday when I got the Ginger scented polish at Forever 21, I was dying to rock it as well!  I just couldn't decide between the two so I wore them both :D

 Colors Used: O.P.I. - It Girl, Love & Beauty - Nude/Ginger Scented, Love & Beauty - Gold, NYC - High Line Green, Sally Hansen - Green With Envy, Sally Hansen - White On

All I can really Say about this mani is that I'm pleased as punch!  2 coats of each base color I used a dotting tool and striping brush for the flowers and then the gold glitter just kind of tied it all together :)

And last but certainly not least a pic of my nails with the lovely water bottle my honey bought for me (It has a built-in filter in the straw so that I can just fill it with tap water and go. I loves it!!)

I love this mani because it smelled amazing and looked really fun on my hands :)

That's all folks!  Soooooo....

Until next time!

Stef <3

Let's Get Fancy :D

Hellooooooo!  How are we doing today?  Let me start off by saying that I do have the "not-church mani" I spoke about yesterday to show you but it will be at the end of this post :)

The mani I have to show you is one that I wore right before I started my "Think Pink" week.  I did this design to celebrate my amazingly wonderful friend's senior recital (it's basically a small concert a student puts on to complete their studies as a music major).  She was fabulous as always!

My idea was to do something related to "concert black".  And then I got to thinking that my friend will definitely end up on stage at the Met someday so I tuxedo-ed them up!

 Colors Used: Rimmel - Black Satin, Konad - Special White, Sally Hansen - Pumping Iron, Julep - Vanessa

I started with 2 coats of Black Satin and then free-handed the white tux shirt.  I then took my dotting tool and made the bow tie and buttons.  With a small brush, I detailed the bow with Pumping Iron.  I added the striping tape as an after thought and then applied Vanessa to the rest of my nails

I liked the way it came out and my friend was flattered :)

I have a polish haul to share with you right after the jump!  Woot!! 

Church Mani: It's a Formal Affair?

Good morning :)  How was your weekend?  Mine went really well but I'm exhausted from it. I think I'm sick with a stomach virus, the results being that my stomach is in knots and I have a fever that's making my brain addled *sigh*.

Today's post is going to be a little disappointing :\  I was not feeling well at all and I only took one picture of my nails before had to crawl back into bed (I also wasn't crazy about how they turned out)...

Colors Used: O.P.I. - You Callin' Me A Lyre?, Rimmel - Black Satin

Soooo in my head I thought this mani would be really nice for church.  I think I got church and formal affair confused in my head.  It's a balancing act for me.  I'm singing my praises to the Lord but at the same time I have to keep my professionalism.  Sometimes the two conflict and this was the outcome lol.

I removed these from my nails soon after taking the pics because I felt they didn't fit.  And then I was inspired to kick professionalism out the door and to paint my nails in colors and patterns that matched a new dress that I bought.  I planned on wearing the dress at the choir after-party Sunday afternoon, so I justified it in my head as great time management ("One less thing for me to do when I go home to change...")

I will have that mani to show you tomorrow.  Right now I'm going to crawl back into bed and hope that my fever breaks before I have to go in to work :(

Until next time!

Stef <3

Think Pink... A Subdued Finale ;)

Hey there!  I hope everyone is having a pleasant weekend :)  I'm on the run here so this post is going to be short(ish) and sweet hahaha...

It's my last day of "Think Pink" week and I thought I'd do something a little mellow/simple (because quite frankly I am OVER wearing pink! lol).  So here it is...

 Colors Used: Confetti - Heartthrob, Savina - Heavenly

Simple and sweet (with a heart on the important finger teehee...)

I applied 3 coats of Heartthrob and then used a dotting tool to dab out the heart.  I went back with a striping brush and acetone to clean up the edges of the heart and ta-da!  I topped it off with one coat of Out The Door.

And the big-un...

A little boring?  Maybe, but sometimes boring is exactly what I need to restart my creative juices :)

That's all for now I suppose.  I'll have another haul to post in the upcoming days and a story to go along with it, woohoo!!  Haha...

Until next time!

Stef <3

Think Pink.. and Plaid!

It's Friday!  Yaaaaaaaayyyy!!!  :D  Lol good morning all!

For today's mani I decided to attempt an actual plaid look.  A couple of weeks ago I did a plaid-ish mani, but really i was just layering stripes.  This attempt was different...

Colors Used: Elf - Flirty Fuchsia, Elf - Coral Dream, Sinful Colors - Snow Me White 

My striping abilities having been lacking as of late, so I was really excited when this turned out as well as it did hahaha.  

But of course it couldn't just stay perfect.  I don't know how I did it, but in the middle of the night I messed up my thumb :(

This made me very sad and a little irritable.  Alas... earwax!  A couple more pics...

So there you have it!  What do you think?  I was contemplating doing a tutorial on this but I don't know if anyone would really be interested.  Let me know! :)

Until next time!

Stef <3

I almost forgot!  I broke my middle finger nail yesterday while making my bed D:  It hurt quite a bit but I fixed it with a silk wrap