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!

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!

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!

Flower Power!

My fishnet konadicure didn't last very long. One of the nails peeled off!! Fail. So here's a new one done so very late at night!

Used Wet n Wild in White and Black Creme for stamping. I also used LA Art Deco for the silver glitter in the middle of each flower. The image plates used were m19 for the french tips and m60 for the flowers.

Taken in soft light. 

With flash.


It's past 1 am so I'm off to bed!! Gnite all!

First post!!

Yay! My very own blog for my current love for nails, nails and more nails!

I'll be posting pics of nail art that I've done using Konad stamping and also what colour nail polishes I've used. This is gonna be a gigantic blog because I've done 11 so far on myself and 3 on my friends.

I got started on Konad because of my good friend Jeanna and I hate/love her for exposing me to this!! I had gone to Vaughan Mills with my boyfriend and stalked the mall looking for the booth that sold it. I bought a double sided stamper with a scraper, an image plate holder and image plate m56. 

This was my very first attempt at Konad and I'm going to apologize in advance for some of the oh-so-very blurry pictures that you will see. I wish BB cams were better. 

My 2nd attempt at a Konadicure. I used Revlon in Valentine , I forgot which white nail polish and the same image plate m56 and used the swirlies french tip. This turned out a bit better than my first one but I still needed to re-do some of the stamping a lot!

My 3rd attempt! I used SH Xtreme Wear in Black Out again with the same image plate (it was the only one I had at the time!!) and used the checkered french tip. I felt like I should be standing at the start of a race flailing my hands around as a flag!! 

So at this point I had gone to Markham with some friends and we visited a store called Wow Wow Nails which had an abundance of Konad supplies. So after getting my friends into Konad as well...we all purchased something! I bought 3 more plates: m19, m36 and m66.

These were my Konadicures with my new m56 plate. I used Nailene French tip for a base, Revlon in Valentine and SH in Black Out. The 2nd Konadicure was a revised version with my accent nails changed.

My 6th Konadicure during a sleepover with my friend Rachel. I used Joe in Peacock, Rachel's special Konad nail polish in Black, Joe in White and LA Colors Art Deco in silver glitter. I also borrowed her image plate m62 for the hanging bows and used my m56 for the white bow.

These were my super girly nails! I used Joe in Pink and Orchid and image plate m36 for the designs.

This was a Konadicure done in a hotel room in Pennsylvania. Nothing special...I just wanted to change my nails. I used SH Xtreme Wear in Blue Me Away and Joe in Black and White for stamping. The image plate I used was m36.

This was my version of a Konadicure that I saw on Youtube by PlasmaSpeedo. I didn't have the image plate she used though so I had to improvise. I used Wet n Wild in Black Creme and CQ in Twilight and image plate m36 for the butterflies and m56 for the swirly design. I had a hard time with the staining from Blue Me Away and you can still see a bit of it left behind.

My Konadicure using my new image plate m57!! I loved these zebra nails but it took basically half a day to do!! I used Nailene French tip for the base colour and WnW Black Creme for stamping.

These are my current nails and my 11th Konadicure. I used China Glaze in Four Leaf Clover for the base colour and WnW Black Creme for the accent nail and just switched them up for stamping. My boyfriend, Jay picked out Four Leaf Clover for me from his recent trip to Cali and China Glaze Grape Pop which I haven't had a chance to use yet. He's got awesome taste! 

So these have been my Konadicures since I first purchased my Konad kit last month!! I'm looking forward to many more to come!!