Showing posts with label The Lime Starts Here. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Lime Starts Here. Show all posts

Friday, June 17, 2011

LGBT

Hello Lovely Ladies today's manicure is something a group of ladies came up with for the month of June. June is LGBT History Month I'm a very firm believer of equal Rights to all! So to start my manicure I used o.p.i. base coat for natural nails...now I knew I wanted something bright so I went for my color club Wicked Sweet collection. This is the collection with the base and top coat I used I used ever color in the picture except Yum Gum.
Left to right: Color Club Vivid Top Coat, Gimmie a Grape Big Kiss, Raspberry Rush, I Always Get My Man-Darin, Get Your Lem-On, The Lime Starts Here, Wicked Sweet, Yum Gum, O.P.I. Natural Nail Base Coat (also used but not pictured is INM Northern Lights Hologram Top Coat "Silver" (OutTheDoor). *I also used a base color of Sally Hansen Lavender Cloud so that the neon's would pop and not show my nail line.*

Starting with an ohhh not that good of a picture *thumb is grape, index is raspberry, middle is mandarin, ring is lemon, and pinkie is lime ^_^ now as you may notice I have BUBBLES -_- on my middle and ring finger now I'm showing you this because after I'm done sponging you will not be able to see them ^_^

Now I started with my pinkie and mixed the blue *one drop* and green *one drop* and put that on the left of the pinkie by sponging (right side of the picture!) left the middle alone. Mixed Yellow *one drop* and green * two drops* and that was my pinkie...I followed that through out the manicure using one drop to two on the right side of the nail (left side of picture) and one drop to one drop on the left side (right side of picture). After I let that dry I noticed I needed more color (yes this is a lot of steps and I could have done without the last bit but I need it to blend more for my preference) so I dabbed with the brush on each color and wiped at it *left to right* with the main color *example: Pinkie I took the blue dabbed it on the left side took my green brush and swooshed the blue color over to the middle and stopped! then I sipped the green down the middle...then dabbed the right side with yellow and swooshed over with the green* It blended it so nicely that I continued on...this could have messed up a good sponging job on my nails but it was a success! ^_^ *HAPPY ME*



Added some Sparkles and this manicure is ROCKING it in my book!
Blurred so you can see the blended colors and the northern lights top coat sparkles better!

I love the way this turned out and might just be rocking it again soon! Don't let the steps in this manicure scare you away it is really easy to do! Well Ladies until next time I hope everyone is having a wonderful month of June...What Cause or Holiday would you like to see represented in a manicure?

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Time for a hard lemon-limeade (Picture Heavy!)

Good Morning Ladies last week while I was having fun with the nice weather, grilling and drinking adult beverages of homemade hard lemon-limeade so when I went to paint my nails and grabbed Get Your Lem-on from Color Clubs Wicked Sweet Collection I knew what I was going to do! I wanted a gradient look which is one of the looks I love to do because it is quick simple and looks great. So I started with 3 coats of Get Your Lem-on which has a lovely green shimmer to it and smells like super sweet lemon candy!

See that shimmer oh my gosh I have so much love for neon yellow! I'll tell you when I use to get acrylics done about 10-11 years ago I use to get Neon Yellow once in the while in the summer...After that I decided to grab my The Lime Starts Here from the wicked collection (neon green doesn't smell like lime to me though!) if I could go back I would pick out my other neon from color club that has a shimmer to it so it would kinda blend more...oh well c'est la vie! Then I decided I needed something else and grabbed for my fimo Lemon and Lime of course and stuck them on with my bubbly top coat just to see if I could and while it took longer then my nail glue it worked great!




I still wasn't done I looked at it and thought (sometimes I go to far! lol) where is my HARD! so I grabbed my China Glaze Fairy Dust! This manicure would have stayed on longer if I didn't want to change my color for the weekend! Four Days!!!! I'd like to point out that the green did stand out more then the pictures show...








Oh how I love gradient looks one of my favorites right up there with french manicures. I can't wait for more Sunny weather (it's nasty thunderstorms here right now) and for more Summer time manicures. I hope you Ladies had a wonderful weekend. ^_^


So tell me what you do you think of the gradient look?

How long does your manicure usually last before you get bored or it chips?

Until next time enjoy polishing those nails! I'm off to see if I can get some shots of my nails before it starts to rain again.