Purple Jelly Flakie Gradient

*peeks in* OHAI GUISE. It's been a million and one years since I've written a new post! How have you all been?? Welcome new followers, I'm so happy to see all your beautiful faces =D. Finally back home and settled in from vacay. It's about freaking time! Apologies for the delay as my nails were seriously janky from all the luggage hauling and traveling. They needed a bit of rest and relaxation time too =P. Anyway, how about we get right back into it yeah?

As you can imagine, coming back from that long of a trip, my nail mail was pretty much piling up towards the ceiling. One of my newest babies included Verity Deep Violet which was used as a base here. Three coats of squishy purple jelly perfection. Omnomnom, she's gorgeous!!! I then did a gradient on my tips with Essie Shine of the Times. As always, tons of pics ahead...

There are several variations of the red-orange-green flakies but I found Shine of the Times to be perfect for building up a gradient because of how dense the flakies are. There was a bit of thickness on the tips due to all that polish layering but some Gelous and Seche Vite usually seems to take care of that problem. This look kinda reminds me of fire-y embers... a lit-from-within type of glow... you know what I'm talking about? No? Okay. No worries. Just nod and stare at teh prettiez with me =).

In other news, all that nail mail got me so excited that I somehow managed to stab myself in the left thumb with a gigantic pair of scissors . All I can say is, imma lucky mofo that it didn't hit any of my picture taking fingers =P. Alright you guys, hope this was good to come back to after my mini break from blogging. Have a wonderful Memorial Day Weekend everyone!

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A Summer Gradient

I know this isn't the weekend but I am going to make this a lazy post because 1. I can (bahahaha) and 2. I spent quite a bit of time writing another post. The contents of which are detailed here and also in the new "Nail Care" tab up top. I've gotten lots of questions regarding nail care and figured it was time to write a little something something about it. I hope it helps you girls! But I digress, continuing on with this post...

This was three coats of Essie A Crewed Interest for the base and a gold gradient using Color Club Enchanted Holiday (a mini). This made me look really tan. I love it. Summer time, here I come!

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Candy Lacquer Candies & Sprinkles

Hello all you beautiful people out there. Today's post features two wonderful polishes I've recently acquired. The base coat for this mani was done with one single coat of No More Film from Essie's recent 2012 Resort Collection. How shall I attempt to describe this color? Hmm, it's a gorgeous fusion of deep navy blue and violet, a color very similar to the ever-so-popular OPI Sapphire in the Snow (currently an untried for me).  I layered it with Candy Lacquer (formerly Sweet Fairy Boutique) Candies & Sprinkles -- a fun polish chock-full of multi-colored and multi-shaped glitters. This was all topped with two coats of gelous and a single coat of Seche Vite as per usual.

Check out No More Film on its own below

Indoors with flash

Indoors under desk lamp lighting

No More Film is truly gorgeous in its own right. I wore it solo for a day then decided to throw a bunch of glitter on it. Please excuse the dulling of top coat due to multiple days of wear in my initial pics. I really need to learn to take them when my manis are fresh and sparkly. Next time, folks, next time. Also, I tried to thin out my stash a little more and will probably be adding to my blog sale some time in the near future. Just gotta get all that set up. And no, I did not forget about my giveaway =). I just need to find the time to do all this. Patience little ones. Until then, Happy Thursday and thanks for reading my lovelies <3.

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TV Show Polishes

Normally, I don't repost pictures but I found this too awesome not to share. Which collection is your favorite guys??

 

 

 Sad to say these aren't real. One can still dream, right?? (Source)

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Autism Awareness: A Blue Jelly Sandwich

Hi everyone. As some of you may know, April is autism awareness month with April 2nd being World Autism Awareness Day. The color blue and the puzzle piece symbol have been widely recognized as support for raising autism awareness. There are many of us out there with loved ones who have one form or another of autism. In my own personal support for autism awareness, here is a blue jelly sandwich creation I came up with for today.

This was 4 thin coats of Essie Marshmallow, 1 coat of Icing Disco Ball, and 1 final thin coat of Essie Marshmallow.  This is my first official jelly sandwich and I must say that I am quite pleased with the results. If you are interested in showing your support for autism awareness, you can sport a blue ribbon or wear a puzzle piece pin throughout the month of April. Thanks for reading everyone! Have a lovely week.

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Green Speckled Matte

Lately, I've been seeing a lot of green manis pop up everywhere and appropriately so! St. Patrick's Day is only one day away and what better way to celebrate than by decorating our nails =D. Green is one of my favorite colors so this was a fun one for me to do. Since I also haven't done a matte mani in a while, I thought it was about time to bust out with the matte top coat. I used Essie Navigate Her from the recent Spring 2012 collection for the base. It's a beautiful pistachio green creme that I almost wanted to just leave alone. Too bad my Winmax #9 speckled green top coat was calling out to me. Yay for St. Patrick's Day manis!

This was 3 coats of Navigate Her but I could've easily gotten away with 2 for complete opacity. The formula was perfect perfect perfect. I loved it - couldn't have asked for a smoother application! I also love how the speckled green Winmax glitter had bits of black in it too. Reminds me a bit of a those speckled Easter eggs, you know, if it was a mutant alien one =P. So are you guys ready for the weekend? Time to hit all your local Irish pubs and get your green celebratin' on! Wooooo!

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Navy Blue & Gold Specks

Lazy weekend post time yaaaay!!! Lots of pics ahead...

  More pics, you say? Done!

Yay, it was so beautiful out this weekend.  Look at all that sun! Hope you all had a lovely weekend as well. <3

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