Above the Bay

Hey everybody:) Today I have a really cool mani that I like to call "Above the Bay". I found this tutorial on Pinterest and wanted to try it out.... here is the LINK. This was harder than I thought it was going to be, but the more I practiced the easier it seemed to get.
In my mani I didn't use any beads and kinda improvised on a few things. Some colors I didn't have so I just used what I had and mix what I needed to.
Now you have to imagine that you are in a plane flying over the bay, looking down at the sand and the ocean.  Here are my pictures of Above the Bay:)

My nail didn't come out as nice as the girl on the tutorial's did but I kinda like the look:) Leave me a comment and tell me what you think of this mani.

Happy Polishing Everybody!
Love,
~Anne~

Hot Pink and Navy Water Marble

Hey everybody:) Today I have a quick post for y'all .... Hot Pink and Navy water marble! I have been trying to get these colors together for a while and for one reason or another it just didn't work out, until now! I used Zoya Ali and Sinful Colors Midnight Blue for this water marble. Here are the pictures:)

I love this combo! It's not so "psychedelic-with a million colors" but still has the hot pink to make it summery. Leave me a comment and tell me what you think:)

Happy Polishing Everybody!
Love,
~Anne~

Water Marble Christmas Trees

Hey everybody:) Today I have a super cute water marble that looks like Christmas trees! I love decorating my tree, my hubby would say that I'm a little OCD about the tree and really I am ( lol ). So it was only natural to try to water marble this Christmas symbol, and it turned out great! Here are the pictures.

My pointer finger, my favorite in my mani ♥

Here is a shot with a ornament I made this year!

So what do y'all think of this water marble? I love it and the hubby said that this is the kind of tree he likes... No MESS! I have one more shot for y'all here is a picture of my real Christmas tree:)

Happy Polishing Everybody!
Love, 
~Anne~

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13 Days of Halloween.... Day 11 Purple Swirl

Hey everybody:) Today I have another water marble inspired by Halloween for y'all.... just cause I know how much y'all love water marbles:) For this marble I had to get a little creative... I used a silver base and tried to marble with clear but it wasn't working the way I wanted it too, so then I tried a almost opaque polish and it worked perfect. I wanted the silver to shine through, and it did!! Here are the pictures!

I love these colors together for a Halloween mani:) Let me know what y'all think of this mani and if you might try this look for Halloween.

Happy Polishing Everybody!
Love,
~Anne~

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Nail Art Wednesday......Sunflowers

Hey everybody:) As I was driving over to visit my mom the other day I saw sunflowers that were taller than me and just super beautiful. Well that really puts me in the mood for Autumn and wishing it would be cooler, can't you just see the leaves on the trees changing and smell the season change. So as soon as I got home I started on this really easy nail art for y'all.
I started off with Sinful colors Cinderella, which was the perfect base and looked like the sky that day:) I took my nail bushes out next along with Milani's nail art Yellow Design for the golden yellow petals on the flower. I did use Sally Hansen Emerald City for the leaves. After letting that dry for a few minutes I dotted Finger Paints Haute Taupe for the middle, well I wanted a darker center so I took my small #1 dotter and Zoya Raven and made a few dots to darken the center of the flower up. Okay here are the pictures :)

So what do y'all think??? I just love sunflowers and the way they follow the sun through out the day....and they really put me in the fall mood:)

Happy Polishing Everyone!
Love,
~Anne~

Nail Art Wednesday....I ♥ you!

Hey everybody:) Its good to be back blogging, although I really loved that mini break:) Today I have a look that I just fell in love with, I first saw this mani on Pinterest (LINK). I was like oh yea baby! I changed a few things.....I used a darker pink and a darker gold, plus I used some nail art stickers I had lying around ♥ .
Okay so I have to tell y'all that this mani was a little harder than I thought it would be...the lines are hard as crap to get straight and then painting the gold lines on that...wow I really didn't know what I was getting myself into. But at the end of the day I LOVE IT!!!! Here are the are the great pictures:)

So what do y'all think???? I am so in love with this look I have had it on for about 3 days now (thats huge for me). Since we are back blogging is there anything that y'all want to see more of on Southern Sister Polish??? Leave a comment and let us know:)

Happy Polishing Everyone!
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Love,
~Anne~

Ever have that craving?

Hey everyone! Ever have that craving of nail polish and you can't get your hands on it? Then out of the blue your friends (or maybe you see it on a blog) tell you "oh yea there is a dupe for that" @_@ I was happy to hear there was a dupe for China Glaze's Atlantis since I can't find it (and cheaper also)...a friend told me that Sinful Colors had a dupe!!! Here it is Sinful Colors Nail Junkie..I feel like it was missing a bit of sparkle but I found it very pretty...Let's take a look!!!

Very pretty! I have something similar to Nail Junkie (Nicole by O.P.I. "Nicole...Spotted" but it's lighter in the base)
So many dupes so little time <3 Do you have a Favorite dupe because you couldn't find the original?

Hand me that glass slipper!

Hello all! Today I have for you Cinderella...which I really haven't worn (until now) since I picked it up! I like the color but I'm not in love with it. Since I wanted to give it a chance I decided to give it a accent nail to pump up the manicure a little. I wanted to water marble with Cinderella but it wouldn't spread so I decided to give something else a try CLEAR! Yup I water marbled with clear (which I haven't seen done before) so I could see Cinderella through it... since it wouldn't work with me I worked around it! Now for the Clear I tried a base coat and a few top coats till I found that worked for me. I also picked out Zoya Moxie and Robyn because I thought those would rock together! I'm really happy with the way this turned out seeing as it was an experiment! Take a look ^_^

Right Hand accent finger.  As you can see the colors I used in the order of Color 1, Clear, Color 2, Clear--repeat. I feel like I have flower petals on my nails ^_^

I hope Everyone has a great weekend!
Tell me what is something you have tried lately! <3

Happy Hunger Games Everyone!

Hello everyone and Happy Hunger Games! I am so super excited about this movie its scary:) Okay so if you don't know by now The Hunger Games is a 3 book series by Suzanne Collins that was made into a movie(well the first one so far). This mani was created from the love I have for the books and the excitement I have for the movie.
I first started off by panting my nails with a grey base... I used Spoiled Polish Black Mamba, two good coats. The next thing I had to do was paint flames....READ THE BOOK, or now go watch the movie :) I used Sinful Colors Sugar Sugar, OPI Color So Hot it Berns and Pros & Bronze, Piggy Polish Sunshine Highway, and a touch of Zoya Snow White. So I know that sounds like a lot but remember you are only using a drop of polish:) The next thing that I painted was a bow and arrow... this was pretty straight forward and easy, I used SinFul Colors Nail Art  in Flower Girl. Then I wanted to used the district number some how and just ended up painting it on my pinkie with Wet n Wild Black Cream. Okay for the main artwork ..... the MockingJay pin:) This was the hardest nail to paint, I used Sinful Colors Flower Girl and OPI Pros & Bronze.... and took my time to get the pin just the way I wanted it:)

I hope you enjoy my "Tribute" to The Hunger Games!

I have to say I think my nail art is improving.... this only took me all afternoon to do, lol:) So did any of y'all read the book and if you did what was your favorite part??? I really loved the whole book, and I can't wait to see the movie and how they will bring the book to life:)
I leave you with a quote from the book......
“Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to…to show the Capitol they don’t own me. That I’m more than just a piece in their Games” -Peeta Mellark”  

Happy Hunger Games Everybody!
Love,
~Anne~

May you have the Luck of the Irish!!!

Happy day before St. Patrick's Day:) I thought I'd do a short post for St. Patrick's day....with green's growing on me and everything I thought I would share:) First off I really have no plans but maybe a drink or two with my hubby:) With that thought in mind be safe and don't drink and drink!!! Okay on with the green!!!
I went to Sally's a few weeks ago and found some awesome deals... one deal was Orly Here Comes Trouble for $1.99....I know right $1.99!!!!! And this had me thinking of St. Patrick's Day. So I decided to do a green french mani:) I started off with Orly Here Comes Trouble and then used Finger Paints Sparkle Top Coat. I had to add a little bit of gold in this mani, I used SinFul Colors Nail Art in Flower Girl and then really wanted some art work. So I decided to paint a shamrock with China Glaze Kiwi Cool-Ada:) Here are my pictures:)

So what are y'all doing for St. Patrick's Day??? I'm leaving you with a Old Irish blessing.....

An Old Irish Blessing

May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, and rains fall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again, May God hold you in the palm of His hand.

Happy Polishing everyone!
Love,
~Anne~

SinFul Colors Cinderella

Hey everybody:) I finally found SC Cinderella ....that only took forever*sigh*. This polish is so pretty that I have caught myself staring at it in aw!  Cinderella with its light blue base color and iridescent glitter is going to be used by myself (and my daughter...who by the way wanted to use it before me) a whole bunch:) Now I'm such a great sister that I even found one for my sister (I think she made me buy it for her)...that makes me Sister Of The Year!
Here are the great pictures:)

This is truly a "princess" worthy named polish:) Do y'all have Cinderella??? If you do what do you think of the excitement over this polish???

Happy Polishing Everyone:)
Love,
~Anne~

Swatch and Review of SinFul Colors Holiday 2011

Hey everybody :) So I'm so sorry this review and swatch has taken me so long to do, I've been sick and work has been a little crazy. *Face Palm* again I'm sorry for the delay in this review. Okay all that is out of the way....SinFul Colors came out with a holiday collection that was a variety of colors. Here is a picture of the set.

From left to right ...   Fashionista, Last Chance, Daddy's Girl, Out of this World, Sugar Sugar, Midnight Blue and Flower Girl. This set really is a year round set of colors, all basic colors that everybody should have in their own private collection:) 
So that first swatch is  Out of this World. A shiny silver that I applied 3 coats and really wanted to keep going... maybe 4 or 5. Very basic silver that can be used all year, maybe as a accent color or alone. You can never go wrong with a silver. Here is the pictures.

The next polish is Daddy's Girl. This purple I thought would go on a darker but I had to apply 3 coats and again wanted to do more.  The polish has a little glitter to it that really gives it that extra pop:) Picture time.

Next up is Last Chance. This a dark green, a hunter green. My first thought was this would be awesome for St Patrick's day. Now as many as y'all know I'm not a green person, I don't like it, don't wear it and really can't bring myself to buy even polishes that are green.... but this green is a nice hunter green and would be a great addition to any collection. Pictures....

And then I took the Nail Art polish, Flower Girl to do a little dotting art.

Okay next up is Sugar Sugar. This is one of the prettiest red polishes I have ever seen. This would really be awesome for Valentine's day:)  The polish has a nice shimmer to it that catches the light just right. Pictures...

And again I wanted to practice my nail art so I took the nail art polish in Fashionista  to say I ♥ you.

Last but not least I have for you Midnight Blue. This is a basic navy blue that I love to pieces. I have always used black on my toes in the winter and now have found a great blue for those long winter months:) This is going to look great with yellow flowers in the spring and summer months:) Pictures..

   

So there y'all go the complete set of SinFul Colors Holiday collection from 2011. Over all this is a great "year round" collection, colors for every season not just holiday. 
Happy Polishing Everyone!
Love,
~Anne~

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