Lively Lilac Bandanicure!

Hello everyone!! Long time no post. Hope everyone's doing ok. We've had some weird weather here, spring-like temperatures one time then next thing you know, we're having a snowball fight! I wish nature would make up its mind. 

Anyhoooo, I've realized that I don't have a lavender/lilac polish and all of a sudden, I really wanted it! So off I go to Walmart and I picked up Sally Hansen Insta-Dry in Lively Lilac! It's exactly the shade I was looking for! =) It's a pastel lilac with a tiny hint of shimmer.

Didn't get a swatch of it on its own, but here it is Konadicured with Wet n Wild White Creme and image plate m64 with the image my BF has dubbed "Bandana".

Pic taken indoors with natural light. If you enlarge the pic, you can see the shimmer in the bottle! In real life, the lilac is a bit brighter. It looks slightly dusty in the pic, IMHO.

Here's a pic of me holding my phone. Yesterday I matched everything, purple scrubs, purple nails, purple phone! Lol!

Application was very nice, 2 coats was more than enough. Dry time was pretty fast, I'm not gonna lie. Actually, the Insta-Dry topcoat is becoming a fast fave of mine. I find myself reaching for it now instead of my Seche Vite. *gasp* I know right? It dries pretty fast as well! Plus it's Big 3 free, so I've got my replacement for SV! 

Update and hello to new readers!!

Hello beauty bloggers!! Hope everyone's doing well. Just wanted to say a quick hello to my new readers! Thanks for following!

I've got two Konadicures that I wanted to show you. I used Orly Bonder as a base coat and Seche Vite as a top coat for both.

1st is a base colour of OPI DS Magic. Instead of stamping though, I took a cosmetic wedge and applied a diagonal french tip using Color Club Worth the Risque.

This was taken with flash to show the pretty shimmer. It's blue with some pretty purple shimmer that's very obvious in the bottle but you gotta look closely to see it on the nail. No problems with application, cleanup and removal was a PITA though.

Taken without flash in natural light. You can't even see the holo-ness of Worth the Risque but it's there!!

2nd Konadicure is with China Glaze Jolly Holly and Sally Hansen Color Quick Chrome Pens in Green Chrome. The image was from plate m65. I got the awesome idea from Erika, from her Stamping with Sally post. Thank you!

This photo was taken in natural light. I am so in love with Jolly Holly!! I was initially gonna stamp all my nails but then when I saw how gorgeous the colour was, I dwindled down to one nail. The Sally Hansen Chrome pens are awesome for stamping!! You just have to be careful that the brush doesn't get dry otherwise you're gonna have a hard time with it. 

'Til the next Konadicure!!

One of many...

Update time! Please forgive me for taking my sweet time. I've got lots to show you so please be patient with me!

As always, base coat is Orly Bonder and top coat is Seche Vite.

First here is my NYE Konadicure. Please forgive the state it's in...I took these pictures RIGHT before I removed it to do my next one. This has been about 5 days after I first did it.

Base colour was my highly anticipated OPI DS Extravagance. I had used image plate m72 for my index, middle and pinky fingers and m77 for my thumb and ring fingers. I stamped with my # 1 stamp champ, Sally Hansen in Rave Review Critique. I also used Color Club in gold holo glitter to outline some of the images.

My 2nd Konadicure was done after mine and Puppy's ginormous haul after visiting this lil hole in the wall that sells massive amounts of nail polish for half the price of beauty salons!! Forgive these pictures...I don't know why I was in such a hurry to take them. I'm either too excited to take the pictures or leave it til the end right before I remove the polish!

I used China Glaze in Jitterbug for the index, middle and pinky fingers and China Glaze in Black Diamond for the thumb and ring fingers. I then used the argyle design from image plate m60 and stamped it with Sally Hansen in Celeb City.

Of course after a couple of days I wanted to change it up a little so I added China Glaze Wireless (holographic top coat) on top of Jitterbug. I loved the end result!

Last but not least, here is my "Applause" was heard at "Lincoln Park After Dark". This picture was taken after 5 days of wear.

Base colour is OPI's Lincoln Park After Dark. The image used was the houndstooth design on m63. I used Sally Hansen in Applause to stamp. I used the full nail design on my thumb and ring, but only half of it on the tips of the rest of my fingers.

My current Konadicure has just been updated about half an hour ago, but pictures will be saved for another post. I'm using China Glaze in Below Deck from their Spring 2011 collection for a base colour and stamped with Rimmel London's Pure Silver (a new stamp champ discovery!).

'Til the next Konadicure!

Puppy and Kitty gift exchange!

YAY! Our long-awaited gift swap has finally passed and we took lots of pictures to commemorate! (Warning: another pic heavy post!)

My Color Club Holo glitters in the forefront with my OBI nail polish remover and kit in the background.

My haul!! My kit, OBI nail polish remover, 3 Color Club holo glitters, Sula nail polish trio in Teal,Royal and Moss and glass nail files.

Puppy's haul! Seche Recondition and Dry Fast Top Coat, LA Colors Art Deco stripers in silver and bronzey gold glitter, Color Club Wild at Heart kit, Konad image plates s6, m64 and m65, OPI You Don't Know Jacques and Ink.

Kitty and Puppy!!

Christmas tree and the ornaments!

Fun times! Thank you so much Puppy for my gifts!! I love them all and I can't wait for my CG Wireless and my CC Revvvolution and Worth the Risque!

Forgetfulness and MAJOR HAUL!

Ok so remember the Konadicure that I was talking about in my last post? The one that looks like wrapped gifts? I made a boo boo and removed it without taking a pic of it in my camera. =( WHOMP.

But I did manage to take a pic of it on my Blackberry so here is the blurry goodness.

Base coat was Orly Bonder and Top coat was Seche Vite.

Base colour was Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Blue It and stamping colour was Sally Hansen Hard as Nails in Rave Review Critique.

Image plate used was m64.

Blue It was such a PITA to remove. It stained like a mother!!

Here are the loser shots of me and Puppy with our "holiday manis"

We couldn't stop laughing while taking the pictures! =D

So yesterday I decided to stop by the Winners by my house and see what I can add to my Christmas kit for Chel a.k.a. Puppy. I found some great things to add! LOOK WHAT I FOUND!

Color Club sets! I couldn't believe my eyes! I picked up 2 Wild at Heart sets, one for me and one for my Puppy. 

The Wild Heart set includes

Love 'Em/ Leave 'Em (beige-y holo)

Wild and Willing (multi-chromatic pearly shimmer)

On the Wild Side (Gunmetal frost)

Rule Breaker (Teal shimmer)

Wild at Heart (Purple holo)

With Abandon (Black/dark brown base with bronze/gold shimmers)

I can't wait to try out Wild at Heart but I have to wait until after my next Konadicure that I've got planned. I'm going to be using China Glaze Lubu Heels, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Red Carpet and Celeb City and image plate m64. 

My nails are au naturale for today...just some Sally Hansen Triple Strong on it. But wait til tomorrow cuz I'm gonna get my Konad on!

My very own Hidden Treasure

 Presenting...my very own swatch of Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure!!

I'm sure you've all seen hundreds of swatches over tons of different colours but I wanna show mine too!!

I used Sally Hansen Triple Strong and Orly Bonder as my base coat and also my trusty Seche Vite as top coat.

The base colour I used was CQ in Mystical which I picked up from Rite Aid during my last border cross for $2!! 

I happened to stop by Pharma Plus on my way home from work 2 days ago and just peeked at the Sally Hansen Complete Manicure display. I was so sad cuz I didn't see Hidden Treasure right away until I started reading the names and BOOM!! Right there in the middle....HIDDEN TREASURE!! I snatched it up like nobody's business and almost danced in the aisle. I had to BBM my Puppy and share the great news! And BONUS it was 30% off so I ended up only paying a little over $5 for it!

Couldn't sleep last night so I ended up looking at swatches of HT online until I couldn't take it anymore and did my nails at 3 am.

So, enough talk...here is one coat of HT over 2 coats of Mystical.

This was taken right by my window.

 Close up of flakie goodness!

One more shot for posterity. :)

In indoor light it flashes magenta...oh the prettiness!! I can't stop staring at my nails! I never wanna take this off...until I get my holos that is! 

This is a shot using indoor light but my camera hates me and won't capture how vibrant of a magenta it is!!! GRRRR. I wish you were all beside me so we can "Ooohh" and "Aaahh" over the gorgeousness. It looks like my nails are on fire!

Until the next Konad/manicure!

KOTWs

Wow haven't updated in ages!! Sorry about that...just a mixture of busyness and laziness. LOL!
Ok so moving on to the KOTWs. In all these Konadicures I used Orly Bonder as a base coat and Seche Vite as a top coat.

I call this Bronzed Henna.

Base colour was Wet n Wild Craze in Rustic, stamping colour was Sally Hansen in Rave Review Critique. I used image plate m64.

My boyfriend said "It looks like a bandanna" when he saw this Konadicure, therefore it has been dubbed Bandanicure. LoL!

Base colours are Wet n Wild in Black Creme and Rimmel in Grey Matter, stamping colours were vice-versa'd.

Image plate used was m64.

I was so gung-ho about taking a pic of this mani that I failed to clean around the sides before snapping a pic of it! FAIL!

My boyfriend said this looked like winter so I'm naming it Black Frost.

Base Colour is Sally Hansen Silver Lining, stamping colour was Wet n Wild in Black Creme.

Image plate used was s6.

Taken with flash.

Taken without flash.

For some reason, I got tired of this one real quick and couldn't wait to change my nails. =( It made my hands look dirty for some reason. Weird??

Current KOTW. Silver Sculptured Tips.

For the tips I used Finger Paints in Silver Sculpture. For the design I used China Glaze in Grape Pop and LA Colors Art Deco in silver glitter.

The image plates used were m19 for the tips and s6 for the design.

Until the next Konadicure!

Purple Pearl and Wallpaper on Peacock

I've done two Konadicures since coming back from NYC. My Flower Power was good during the trip but I had to change it once I got home. 

This one is just a variation of my Flower Power. This picture was taken after 5 days of wear...I realized I haven't taken a picture of it yet and I was planning on changing my Konadicure today.

I used China Glaze Grape Pop and Finger Paints Well-Cultured Pearl as base colours and switched them up for stamping. For this I had tried the "Sticky Sandwich" method. 

I used Orly Bonder as a base coat and then applied my base colours on top. Then another coat of Orly Bonder then another layer of base colour. Then ANOTHER layer of Orly Bonder then my Seche Vite Top Coat. 

As you can see, no chipping, very very minimal tip wear. 

My current Konadicure is what I call Wallpaper on Peacock. 

For Base Coat I used Orly Bonder and I did the "Sticky Sandwich" method again. Then I used Joe in Peacock for my base colour. Then for stamping I used Sally Hansen Hard as Nails in Rave Review Critique which my friend told me about. I love stamping with it! I never ONCE had to re-do a stamp! I used M65 for the flowers and vines. Then Seche Vite for my top coat.

Doesn't it look like wallpaper? =D

I've been a very bad girl. I had gone to Sally's and bought 3 Finger Paints nail polishes in Well-Cultured Pearl, Silver Sculpture and Hue Rang? I also ordered 4 plates before I left for NYC and a week later I got my haul!! I bought M64, M65, S6 and S9. If you're wondering where I order my supplies from, I order from www.wowsocool.com. They send your orders pretty fast and if your order is $20 or more, they ship for free to U.S. and Canada!

'Til the next Konadicure!