2 Snowflake Manicures

At the beginning of last year, I did this manicure. It was one of my first attempts at nail art stamping and really got me hooked! The base is Sinful Colors Midnight Blue. I then took Revlon Gum Drop and stamped snowflakes from plate BM14. I put a little bit of silver glitter top coat on as well to give it a nice sparkle.
The Revlon stamped pretty well, but because the blue is so dark it didn't give the result I had hoped for. But it looks cool nonetheless.

I then decided to mix it up and switch the colors around. It looks great this way as well. Same colors and nail plate, just used the blue to stamp. Sinful Colors polish always works well stamping for me. The dark colors are so opaque and work nicely.

Multi-colored Pink Pretty!

I started with OPI Do You Think I'm Tex-Y from the Texas Collection from Spring/Summer 2011. It's a light fuschia jelly and this is 2 coats.

I then added 2 coats of the OPI Ulta Holiday 2011 exclusive A Sparkle Yule Love. It is so glittery!! There are hex glitters and smaller glitters in there. They are pink, orange, light blue, purple, silver and gold. And I'm sure to have left off some colors because there are lots of different colored/sized glitter in this beauty.

Swatch: OPI Ski Teal We Drop

This is OPI Ski Teal We Drop and it is part of the Swiss Collection which was Fall/Winter 2010.

LOVE IT! It is a really pretty creme and goes on so smooth and dries shiny. I like the way it looks on me and it is a dark, murky teal. Very pretty.

I'm BAAAAA-AAAAACK!

It's been a few months! Wow! But, Happy 2012 and I'm back and ready to show off some Christmas/winter designs and do some more reviews and swatches and maybe even a contest or 2 this year.

Happy New Year!

Winter Penguin Nails

I decided to try my hand out a Penguin mani, I think it came out pretty cute.

Swatch - Funky Fingers Snakeskin

This is Funky Fingers Snakeskin. I think this is such a beautiful color! It is a dark silver chrome, with gold shimmer that peaks through giving it great depth!
I don't have Chanel Graphite, but I really wonder if this would be a dupe of it. If anyone has both and can compare, please let me know!

Swatch - Sinful Colors Fiji

This is Sinful Colors Fiji. It is a dark purple color and the photo is a little lighter and bluer than real life.

This photo is more color accurate. It s a nice dark purple and applies nicely, although mine is older so it was a little thicker.

I added OPI Black Shatter over it and they go very well together!

Here is a purple eye look I did with the Stila color pallette and LA Splash Cosmetics glitter eyeliner.

And a close-up to show the glitter liner better. I really love the liquid liners from LA Splash, they come in sooo many colors and are AWESOME!