Unexpected haulage!

Hello fellow nail polish fanatics! It's challenging to keep this nail polish addiction under control. I'd like to think I keep things within reason, but I did not hold back when I stumbled across a good portion of the Kleancolor line at a kiosk in a ho-hum type of shopping center. I wanted these chunky holos badly when everyone was going crazy for them, but I practiced some self-restraint. I also found OPI I Lilly love you which I had given up on.
Behold the pretties:

Left to right: Kleancolor Matte top coat, OPI I Lilly Love You, KC chunky holo purple, KC chunky holo poppy, KC chunky holo clover, KC chunky holo scarlet, KC chunky holo bluebell, KC chunky holo fuschia, KC firework, KC blue-eyed girl, KC holiday jingle

OPI Illy, KC chunky holo purple, poppy, clover, scarlet and bluebell

KC chunky holo bluebell, fuschia, KC firework, KC blue-eyed girl, KC holiday jingle.

I didn't find chunky holo black, but these will do!
Squee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Easter!

The Easter holiday just begs us to paint pastel, Easter egg inspired nails. I am proud of myself: I had a plan, it took me an hour and a half of painstaking work, but it paid off. Sure, there are some flaws, but I'm still proud of my Easter egg mani.

The tools: scotch tape and craft scissors. The polish: Hard Candy Sky,

Sally  Girl no name lavender, OPI Sweet Heart.

Thanks for reading!

First Scotch tape french

I'm a little behind in the nail blogosphere . . . I just tried my first scotch tape french, and it was fun. I started with a base coat of Zoya Marley. This was my very first time using Zoya. The formula was quite thick and opaque in 2 coats. I will have to get used to their formula. It's so different from $OPI, for example which requires a million coats on me.

Zoya Marley

So, now for the tips. I thought OPI Ink would complement the pale lilac of Marley.

Zoya Marley with OPI Ink tips

Zoya Marley, OPI Ink, Orly Love Each Other

This came out better than I expected. Here are some things I learned:

1. Since the scotch tape leaves such a straight line, I think the nails should be filed as square as possible.

2. Wait longer than you want before doing the scotch tape because it will smudge the base coat a little. However, the topcoat will smooth that out a bit.

3. Stick the tape to your arm or hand a few times to cut-down on the stickiness to avoid marring the base coat.

4. Take that tape off as soon as you paint the tips.

I must credit Chloe's Nails for inspiration!

Houndstooth Konad

This is my second "Konad-icure" and wow, the learning curve is steep. I'm quite happy with my improvements in coverage and discovering which polishes work best with Konad.

This is OPI Lincoln Park After Dark. I like the

glossy finish. This bottle is at least 5-6 years

 old and went on very thick.

I stamped the houndstooth design from

Konad plate m63 with Orly Rave or Rage -

the label with the name came off.

It seems like metallics show-up nicely over vampies. I think it's a good combination.

I wish I had more time for nails. I can think of so many different themes/designs. . . Valentine's Day, Egyptian flag, snowflakes . . .

Thanks for reading! -Crystal

dots

I wanted to do a very feminine color with a black accent. This is two coats of OPI Sweet Heart with WnW Ebony Hates Chris dots. At first I thought I would do random dots but didn't like that and switched to a line of dots. I like!

flash on - too bright! But you can see where I started the random dots.

Looks better. This is such a sweet, very pale pink. Love it!

Oh, also during this adventure, I spilled acetone on the kitchen table. Whoops.

My very first blog post!

Welcome to my blog. Since this is my very first post (sort-of, ignore the video of cats playing pattycake!), I will keep this simple and short. As some of you may know, I'm somewhat of a nail polish addict. NOT like Collette from mysimplelittlepleasures.blogspot.com, but I need to get more plastic boxes!

After watching Collette's tutorial on you tube, I attempted the sponging/gradient technique. The base is three coats of OPI The color to watch, with OPI for Sephora Just a little dangerous on the tips. I'm quite please with how they came out for my first attempt!

This manicure lasted a long time. Probably from the multiple layers, because I'm certainly not easy on my nails. But I try to remember Serena Williams advice, "Don't use your nails as tools." I'm actually sick of this now but haven't had time to do another manicure. Oh work, why must you interfere with my life?

Next post coming soon, with my recent purchases - or "haul" in the nail polish blog lingo. ;)