A mani I forgot to share!

Hi all here is a mani that I forgot to share so for a quick post today here it is.  I used a black base stamped with MoYou London's Princess 10 plate. Color Club's Miss Bliss is what I stamped with!

I hope everyone has a great day!

Mr. Grey will see you now!

Hey everybody:) Today I have a post inspired by the up coming movie Fifty Shades of Grey. I really enjoyed these books and I'm hoping the movie is as good as they are making the hype up to be. For this mani I wanted something simple, like how this love between Christian and Anastasia starts off with a simple meeting.
I used Color Club Mamba and Colors by Llarowe  Smokin' in the Boys Room for this mani. Here is my Mr. Grey will see you now!

Now if you don't get this mani.... then you haven't read the books. I like the simplicity of this mani, it really says get to the room and I'll be back with only the tie!!!  Hot Damn!
Leave me a comment and tell me what you think and if you're going to see the movie.

Happy Polishing Everyone!
Love,
~Anne~

Halloween is almost here!

Hi all this is what I'm wearing today and hopefully if it stays on... for this week! I started with Color Club Eternal Beauty which is one of my favorite holographic purples. I stamped with plates from Bundle Monster using KleanColor Metallic Black and for my web Elf Liquid Metal. Plates are BM 413, BM 13, BM H06. On my ring finger I have a spider web but in the sun you couldn't see it to well so I'm sharing a shade picture also. 

 

 

 

 



 I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe week!

31 Days of October... Poison Apples!

Hey everybody:) Today I have a really cute mani inspired by the poison apple in Snow White. Nobody does wicked better than the Evil Queen in Snow White and this poison apple is the embodiment of all her evil! With Halloween right around the corner and everybody looking for nails to match there wicked costumes, this hits the top of the list!
I started off with Color Club Mamba halfway down the tips of my nails and then China Glaze White on White at the cuticle line and down to make the poison on the apple. Here is my version of Poison Apples and a shot of the poison apple from the movie.

I love how this mani turned out! Leave me a comment and tell me what you think about this look.

Happy Polishing Everyone!
Love,
~Anne~

31 Days of October... Holo and Ghosts!

Hey everybody:) Today I have a simple Halloween mani for y'all to try, Holo and Ghosts! Start of with a holo polish for you base coat, I used Color Club Cosmic Fate and then add some ghost stickers (or whatever kind you like) ... instant Halloween mani! No Muss and No Fuss! Here is my Holo and Ghosts mani!

Cosmic Fate is an orange holo polish that really is perfect for Halloween! Leave me a comment and tell me what you think of this mani.

Happy Polishing Everybody!
Love,
~Anne~

31 Days of October... Flame On!

Hey everybody:) Today I have a drag Flame marble to share with y'all. I was sitting around the other day thinking of what reminds me of October, well burning leaves and bonfires popped in my head... so why not do a flame mani:) For this mani I started off with Zoya Storm, quickly followed by Color Club Mamba and then "drag" with a toothpick, and then China Glaze Stoked to be Soaked "drag" and finally a dot of Zoya Darcy and "drag" again. All colors were done in a quick session as to be able to do the drag marble. Here is my Flame On mani.

                                                                                                                                                                   I LOVE the way this turned out! FYI this mani will have to dry for a great deal of time so don't try unless you have the time! Leave me a comment and tell me what you think of this mani:)

Happy Polishing Everyone!
Love,
~Anne~

Lets hear it for the weekend!

Hi all Quick Friday Post. Here is my weekend Manicure. This is Color Club's Over the Moon stamped with KleanColor's Metallic Blue. Stamped with BM 315. Here are the pictures...

I did notice in the pictures you can't really see the stamp as much as when it's in the shade (in the pictures). When I had this in the sun I could see it fine. I'm a little disappointed you guys couldn't (from the pictures).
I hope everyone has a nice weekend!

This one's for Bea!

Hey everybody:) I hope y'all had a great weekend, I know I did! This post is for one of our biggest fans Bea, she asked me to do a water marble she had seen on pshiiit.com . And so I tried for a couple of days and to no fault of my own I couldn't recreate the water marble (I just didn't have the same colors). So I did try a couple of times and these are the results.

Attempt #1
I thought that because the photo showed holo that using all holo would give me the same effect... no such luck! In this W.M. I used a black base, Color Club Beyond, Eternal Beauty, Holo-Graphic and Cherubic. FYI if you are going to attempt this W.M. understand that holos are extremely hard to W.M. with and dry quickly. I think I kinda like the way this turned out anyway:)

Attempt #2
This W.M. is the closest I could get to the one from pshiiit. I didn't have the same colors but I think this turned out really pretty and the photos showed the chromes I used but not like IRL. I used Revlon Street Wear Raw, China Glaze Swanky Silk, Unpredictable and Color Club Cherubic with a black base coat.

those are water droplets from taking pictures under water

Wow these really had me working hard to get the right combos and the right everything else... I guess the Earth aligned with whatever and these two came out pretty great! Leave me a comment and tell me what y'all think of these W.M.
And Bea I hope you love them as much as we love you!

Happy Polishing Everybody!
Love,
~Anne~

Headed to the Beach!

Hey everybody:) I wanted to share this weeks mani with you a little early cause I'm headed to the BEACH! I'm taking my daughter to visit my brother in South Carolina. I wanted to make sure my mani was as happy as I was to be headed to visit family and the beach! I had originally seen this mani on pinterest and just had to give it a go. So here is my mani I like to call "Headed to the Beach"!

OMG! I just can't get enough of this mani... it is perfect for vacation! Leave me a comment and tell me what you think of this mani! I'll be back next week with a new mani of the week, maybe something Easter related!

Happy Polishing Everybody!
Love,
~Anne~

Easy Nail Art

Hey everybody:) This weeks mani is a super easy mani. It's for those weeks when you have no time and want something a little more than just tips. So when I go grocery shopping for the week I always take a quick look down the nail aisle, I take a look to see if a) there are any polishes on clearance and b) if there are any new nail art stickers. Nail art stickers are one of the best things to add a little something to a mani without having a degree in art! So here is my mani for the week :)

So easy and cute! I combined two stickers for this look. Okay just so everybody knows "Yes I was being lazy and didn't want to spend too much time on this mani" because I am taking a vacation (spring break) with my daughter to go visit family. So next weeks mani is going to be an AWESOME beach mani! Do any of you use nail art stickers, what do you think of them?

Happy Polishing Everybody!
Love,
~Anne~

13 Days of Halloween 2013 ... Day 11

Hey everybody:) It is day 11 here and Halloween is getting closer, I can't wait! For today's mani I have an ombre green mani with witches hats. I saw this on Pinterest the other day and just fell in love with this mani. So here is my witch hat mani!

Leave me a comment and tell we what you think of this mani, I just love it!

Happy Polishing Everybody!
Love,
~Anne~

Color Club East Austin and The Uptown

Hey everybody! Today I have two new Color Club polishes from the Girl About Town Collection to share with y'all. They sent me these for review.
First I want to say that I'm sorry I haven't been blogging lately, my kids went back to school and this year it has been a little hectic. But I'm super happy to be back and can't wait to share these two polishes with y'all!

East Austin is a peach color almost a neon. I love this color! It goes on smooth and I don't have to use a white as a base to get that pop of color like you do with some neon polishes. Now I know it is the end of summer and most of y'all don't want to see any more bright colors and are just ready for a change, but this color is a must have for me! I love summer and am really sad to see it go, so I want to hang on as long as I can and this polish helps!

outside full sun

inside (true color)

The Uptown.... This was the polish I feel in love with as soon as I opened the box. But :( I don't think it lived up to its amazing look in the bottle. The Uptown is a flakie polish with a purple base. Here is a bottle shot.

Amazing right! Okay first I thought it would have a black base, wrong! Second I thought it would look like the bottle on my nails, wrong! With the purple base it looks nothing like the bottle on my nails. Maybe I needed to add more coats of polish, wrong! Nothing seemed to give me that look as the polish in the bottle...BOO!

outside, see that purple!

In the shade outside, this is the most holo I could get :( 

Check out all the Color Club products HERE. I have two Ruby Wing Polishes to review next, see y'all soon!
Leave me a comment and tell me what you think:)

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Happy Polishing Everybody!
Love,
~Anne~

Not so great!

Hey everybody:) Today I wanted to share some of the 4th nail art failures. Now sometimes I do things and they sound really great in my head and on paper, but when I finish the nail art it just looks like crap:( But I wanted to show you a few of the "not quite up to par" nail art from this week.

Here we go! First up is a water marble that really pissed me of.... as you can see the blue on the two middle fingers smeared and I had to do a little fill in work, boo! And I thought this one looked to much like the other water marble from Monday. Failure #1.

Next I did a star and stripes mani. Well the star didn't come out great and I really couldn't get passed that. So this is Failure #2.

This next mani was a really good idea in my head. I wanted to do half red and the other half blue and put stars in the middle.... well the stars from the polish I was going to use were to old and falling apart. And the white line just didn't do it for me:( Failure #3.

This next mani wasn't too bad. I did free hand fireworks. I really wanted more glitz, every time I went to make a post for this mani I just couldn't bring myself to put it up. So this mani is Failure #4.

Wow that is a load off me! I hope y'all know that I try really hard to bring you the best I can do and hope you enjoy reading our blog:) Leave me a comment and tell me what you think of these Failure manis!

Happy Polishing Everybody!
Love,
~Anne~

Easy Water Marble

Hey everybody:) I wanted to start this Independence week off with a easy water marble that just screams Happy Birthday America!

First I started off with China Glaze Frostbite in a half moon shape on the side of my nail. And then the rest of my nail I painted with Color Club Mamba. After that was dry I used China Glaze White on White and Finger Paints Sparkle Top Coat to water marble. I added some dots and BAM... Red, White and Blue water marble heaven!  Here are my pictures!

I hope y'all have a great 4th of July (week)! And just take a minute to remember all the people that fight for our freedom everyday!
Leave me a comment and tell me what you think of this 4th of July water marble!

Happy Polishing Everyone!
Love,
~Anne~

Butterfly Nail Art Tutorial

Hey everybody! Today I have a butterfly nail art tutorial for y'all :) This is a great way to extend the life of a favorite mani or just add a little zing to a mani.


Step 1: Have a great mani on! I have on a

halo ombre. I used Color Club Blue Heaven and Over the moon, I also used Glitter Gal Marine Blue.




















Step 2: Start painting your lines. The first line

goes from the middle bottom around to the center middle. Like a quarter circle.





















Step 3: Add your other lines. I added my middle

first, straight through the quarter circle I just made and almost all the way to the end of my nail. And the I added the other lines.




















Step 4: Next you want to curve the top of the

 lines. This should give you 4 sections on the top.






















Step 5: This step is easy now all you have to do

 is fill in the top of the nail black. Add as you can see I added a line at the bottom (you don't have to but I like it like this).




















Step 6: Add your white dots :) This gives you a

 monarch butterfly effect!






















Add a top coat and you are done! Here is a picture of the finished look:)

Oh my! This is super cute and easy! Leave me a comment and tell me what you think of this Butterfly Nail Art!

Happy Polishing Everybody!
Love,
~Anne~