Adored Aztec

And yep I was right, I'm a woman obsessed.

This is CND Shellac Cerulean Sea with MoYou London Explorer plate 26.

OMFG

I sound ridiculous but seriously I was so impressed with myself with these nails! I found a tutorial somewhere online, pinterest I think, AGES ago. The tutorial was all about how you can do a stamp, leave it on the stamper and then paint in the areas you want colored. Paint over the whole image and then peel it off and apply to the tacky layer of your polish. I have done this before with some success but THIS. THIS I LOVE!!! Pretty sure this technique will be slightly overdone in the coming months. Im already looking through all my stamps and picking out which ones will work well!

This is Orly Gel FX in Shine with MoYou stamping plate Explorer plate 3. Random colors just in normal polishes.

This is so very pretty IRL. Like super pretty. Like driving along and you cant help look at your nails in the sun pretty.
The polish is Gellie Beans Emerald City with CND Additives Midnight Tide brushed from the ends towards my cuticles. Honestly could ombre be any easier? I dont know how people can do it with normal polish and get it to be even and blended well!

Frequently Foiled

As you may or may not know I am slightly obsessed with Foils. I love them. I love them so much. I do not love how they wear but when put on with gel top coat they do slightly better. I couldnt get this to photograph properly but its actually an Ombre. Dark to light. Anyway I hope you like it.

Terribly Tropical

 I work in about half an hour out of Onslow in Western Australia. Onslow is barren. Its most known for the salt mines and now the gas plants but its barren. I grew up in Darwin which is not barren. Darwin is green. I CRAVE greenery like a drug.
Thanks to MoYou I can now have tropical nails so at least something up here is green :)

This is Shellac Serene Green stamped with Essie Chrome. I do love a dark green nail.

2014 Catch Up Post Five

I am a massive fan of all things kind of spooky but not actually scary. Halloween is so much fun! You can go all out with your nails and even my work didnt comment!

2014 Catch Up Post Four

You know how sometimes you try something you half saw on Pinterest or somewhere but you cant quite place it and it works and for the life of you there is no recollection of where you saw it but its so awesome you want to remember? Anyway some of these are that. If the sentence above was to make any sense at all which it doesnt. 

K

Gellie Beans Burnt Meringue with CND Gilded Gleam brushed over a piece of netting. The Additives stick right to the tacky layer so if you dont like the way it comes out simply wipe off with alcohol, apply a thin layer of either the color or top coat, cure and go again.

Shellac Moonlight and Roses with Shell Nail Foil transfer.

Gelish Tiger Blossom, Orange Creme Dream, Tru Gel Designer Carry On, Shellac Bicycle Yellow, Gelish Coco Cabana Banana all over Gel II Arctic White.

Shellac Blue Rapture with Glitter in an Ombre from darkest to lightest.

Gelish Garden Teal Party with Tru Gel Lets Celebrate.

This is LeChat Black Velvet, THE best black gel I have found! So So good. No pullback, two coats to opaque, perfect. This is a hand painted swirly design I did over the top of the matte top coat. Looks so much better in person :)

2014 Catch Up Post Three

So I dont know if you have ever noticed but I LOVE red polishes and crystals and stamping and I am slowly getting better and here is more of 2014 :)

 

K

Shellac Wildfire with Ruby Ritz and Swarovski Crystals.

Shellac Wildfire with Essie Silver Stamping

Shellac Cerulean Sea with Swarovski Crystals

Shellac Overtly Onyx with Silver Stamping. MoYou London Explorer Collection Plate 3.

Shellac Tango Passion with Silver Stamping. MoYou London Pro Plate 06.

Shellac Lush Tropics with Swarovski Crystals

The Tri-Polish Challenge March 19th

I have started another challenge!!! Glutton for punishment but the amazing girls at Crumpets Nail Tarts have come up with such an amazing idea so here goes.I have to use the SAME 3 colors in 4 manicures that I will post over the course of a month. This months colors are Coral, Green and Purple and have to be posted for the 19th/21st/26th/28th March. The colors I ended up choosing are Shellac Lilac Longing for my purple, Gelish Tiger Blossom for coral and Gelish Amazon Flirt for green. I am starting with simple and effective - the tape mani :)
Hope you like it and follow what everyone else is doing!

You can follow the challenge with the links above or through their facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/purplecrumpetfairy/or on The Crumpets blog: http://www.the-crumpet.com/2013/03/the-tri-polish-challenge-starts-march.html

Challenge No 28 - Inspired by A FLAG

This is the one Challenge that seriously just does nothing for me. So i'm gonna link back to the blue and white variations I did as examples for a friends upcoming wedding. I will edit this page and add in the photos of her actual wedding day once it has happened :)

2014 Catch Up Post Two

Hello!!!

So this is continuing on with 2014 nails. By now you will have noticed that I am getting into Stamping in a BIG way. So very cool and so very very pretty!!!

Shellac Serene Green stamped with Pueen plate 26

Shellac Cerulean Sea with Bundle Monster Stamping. Done as a decal transfer so I stamped it onto the stamper and then colored the triangles in and then painted a coat of clear and peeled off and applied to the tacky layer of the Shellac. Top coated and DONE. Its the only way to use opaque colors and keep those clean lines!!! Thanks Pinterest for another amazing idea!!!

This is a coat of Gellie Beans Purple Popsicle and a foil I purchased form Shardee Nail Shimmers on eBay.

Shellac Scarlett Letter with Bundle Monster Stamping

Shellac Black Pool and Hollywood with Orly Gel FX Shine.

Gellie Beans Emerald City with Messy Mansion Stamping

Look out World!!!

So I'm back. For the last year and a bit I have been taking a break. Not from doing my nails but just from the blogging side. 

I just felt like I had nothing to say. Well I kind of still dont BUT I have plenty to show so I figured meh might as well.

Plus I Google searched something and one of MY photos was the top image so technically I'm famous so totally doing you all a favor by continuing :)

Now I have so so many photos to load so will just do a few every couple of days going from oldest to newest. Hope you all enjoy!

K

Shellac, Gelish and Tru Gel Polishes

Shellac Masquerade with Essie Silver Dots

Orly Gel FX Oh Cabana Boy with Stamping

Shellac Tutti Fruitti with Shellac Ice Vapour on Tips