Lubu Mani with a holiday twist

So I totally lied and ended up doing my nails today. Just couldn't wait I guess!! 

Here is the mani I came up with for the weekend of Christmas parties! Friday, there's a party at my house with close family friends. On Saturday is my work Christmas party. We're going to see the National Ballet of Canada perform "The Nutcracker" on opening night and riding the party bus all the way to downtown Toronto! Sunday, I'm meeting up with my Puppy for our gift exchange and hopefully to watch CON: Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Monday, is a triple date with sushi dinner!

First some swatches! (Which I've never really done before Konading so this is my first time! Yay me!) And as always my base coat is Orly Bonder and top coat is Seche Vite.

Here's a swatch of Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Red Carpet. Apparently, it's a dupe of China Glaze Ruby Pumps so I'm pumped! (Pun fully intended...sorry)

This is with one coat and taken in natural light.

I painted over Red Carpet with China Glaze in Lubu Heels. LOVE this polish!

This was a two coater, taken in natural light.

Close up of bombastic glitter!!! 

So I added the same image I used from my last Konadicure from image plate m64. I used Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Celeb City for stamping. For the dots, I used the striper brush from LA Colors Art Deco in silver glitter and SH Red Carpet. I don't have fancy shmancy rhinestones...so I had to improvise. :(

This was taken with flash in indoor light.

This was taken without flash in indoor light.

I'm hoping to have this last me a week, which is the longest time I will have a Konadicure on!

'Til the next Konadicure!

Konad date and Mini-haul

So this past Thursday I had to gone to my Puppy's house for our Konad date. We ate taquitos and potato wedges while watching Criminal Minds before doing our nails. We ended up doing manis that felt like holiday manis! Hers looked like a Christmas tree and mine looked like wrapped gifts so we took pictures of our nails together like losers. LOL!

Today, we had gone to Sally's to look for the China Glaze holiday 2010 nps but to no avail as it was sold out with no hope of restocking. I was thoroughly disappointed, but with a sale like buy 2 get 1 free, I just couldn't pass it up. So I picked up For Audrey, Lubu Heels and Long Kiss. I'm so excited to change my mani sometime either on Tuesday or Wednesday! Saw that there was this thing called a "Lubu Mani" but methinks my nails are too short for it. I'm planning Lubu Heels with Long Kiss as an accent nail. If I can't do the "Lubu Mani" China Glaze style, I'll do it my own way!

Pics of current konadicure and next manicure will be posted soon!!