Pearlistic Dragonfly

Sometimes when I sit down to do a nail design I know exactly what I want it to look like, and sometimes I just go with the flow. Well when i did these nails, I knew that I wanted dragonflies because I had seen some cute nail designs with them, but I didn't exactly know my color scheme or what it would be like. I just sort of made it up as I went along.
It came out okay, I made a few mistakes on my right hand, of course (I'm right handed)but I wore it for about 4 days before It chipped a little and I grew tired of it, the pearl color is very old OPI, the name has rubbed off it is so old but still works well.
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Simply Blue Dots

Good afternoon wonderful bloggers, this is what i am currently wearing on my toes because I'm just too lazy to change my toes every week. I did this look to enter the nail contest from Illamasqua Blog about your alter ego. I am generally a very upbeat, laugh out loud sort of person, but due to everyday life, stress, and things out of my control, I sometimes get down and feel simply blue. On those days I just want to be left alone, which gave me the idea for my simple blue polka dot pedicure.


Products used to creat this look: nail fantasies "cornflower blue", Kiss products "white", Sally Girl "So Disco" and my trusty stick pens.

2009 Polish Bloggers Exchange

For all of you who have not heard about this, there is a polish blogger exchange set up by Nicole Hayes on Elfster. Basically if you sign up you will exchange gifts sort of like a Santa exchange with another blogger. All of the information is available if you click the title of this post. You can even make wish request list and a list of what you don't need.

Metallic fruits

Hope everyone had a good weekend,
This look started out as just strawberries, but I got tired, they took too much of a steady hand so I shortened it and did some cherries on some fingers and some rhinestones on others.

I went to see Fantasia and Dave Hollister in concert this weekend with my husband and had done some bright read nails with fiery tips but forgot to take pictures. So I cropped a picture I took before we went out. I only owned one red nail polish, I know that is sad, I have to buy some, I don't know why they are so scarce in my collection. I put strips of orange, red and yellow to make the fire. I'm sorry its not a good picture, but I wanted y'all to get the general idea.

Butterfly Garden

This is the look I am currently wearing, I really like this one and will probably keep it on a couple of days provided it does not chip. I used so many colors mostly paint pens too many to tell but the base is Revlon Color Illusion in Pink Crystal. I have had it for a while, but never used it so tried it today and went freehand from there. Here in the Memphis Zoo we have a butterfly garden where you walk through and all the butterflies fly over you and around, its really cool. This is what this look is inspired by Enjoy!! Oh yeah these pictures are all pre-cleanup sorry.

Sticker Drama (no thank you)

I had purchased some stickers from Ebay and various other places and have tried several times over the last week to create some cute looks with them.

It did look good though for like a day, hehe


So this was the first look and I liked it but those stickers are cumbersome. I could not do my hair, put on clothes the stickers kept snagging on everything. I put two top coats and you could still feel them when rubbing across the nail.

Second try was mostly striper but I added some little money stickers and was trying to do my "plenty money" look, but those darn dollar signs got hung on everything and I ended up pulling them off before I got where I was going.
Stickers are a pain for me, I would much rather do the free hand art and enjoy the benefits even though it takes longer to do.

Random Post, About Me (doll collecting)

This post is pretty random and thought I would take a little break from nail polish to post some of my other hobbies and likes. Along with doing my nails I am a doll collector. I collect mainly Silkstone barbies but have some others in my collection that are not barbies. Silkstones are kind of a cross between porcelain and vinyl but mainly are for collecting and definitely not for playing with.

The material is extremely heavy and can crack. I have a few platinum label dolls (less than 1000 produced) but mainly just regular silkies. I take all my dolls out of the box and are displayed in cabinets so their value has went down, and due to the recession I have only purchased one doll in like the last year but they are a major conversation piece when people come to my house. I have posted some pictures for all to enjoy. Email me if you have any questions about doll collecting, I love talking about dolls and nails. Oh and this is my baby Domino!!

Ants Marching

This one's pretty much in the kiddie dept. I though it was cute and got the idea from my fun with nail art book. My ants were harder than I thought but overall came out kind of cute. I only wore it for 2 days because I have somewhere to go tomorrow but the kids liked it.

Music notes

I am not sure when I did this look but it was on my camera so decided to post, I used the same cheap polish as in the Konad post earlier and just some striper paint and some rhinestones. Enjoy!!

Neon Dots (inspired by Love4Nails channel)

Hey Guys,
I'm currently wearing this look have been for about 4 days but it's kinda shrinking now so probably going to redo today or tomorrow. This is inspired by Love4Nails youtube channel. She is really talented and I have been inspired to do a lot more colorful looks because of her. Please check her out linked below I'm sure you will love her as much as I do.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOL1Zc4K09k&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fuser%2FLOVE4NAILS&feature=player_profilepage

Black Hearts

This is look that I got inspired from a Japanese nail art magazine. It looked really polished until I tried to trace the hearts. I did not have a glitter pen so I used like the striping polish which can be very hard to control when getting low. I am wondering though, this is day one, how do you guys keep the polished from shrinking at the end? I have a problem with that.

The Nail Buff Nails Inc Giveaway! Yay

This is my official entry into The Nail Buff Nails Inc Giveaway.

Objective is to post my 3 favorite nail polishes so here they are:

1. Misa - 197 dirty, sexy, money
2. Zoya - Trixie
3. Loreal Jet Set 112 Frolic (perle)

These are just what's in my collection, I plan on posting a wish list soon with so many that I am dying to try.

That's all for now folks!

Collection/Storage

This is just a look at my collection/storage in my home. It is not organized at all and I don't have all the polish that some of the other ladies have yet it suits me okay for now. This is kinda ghetto so y'all don't laugh, but I bought this cabinet at a yard sale for $5.00. It is glass and metal and very well put together. It is actually a bathroom medicine cabinet (ghetto I know) but works good as nail polish storage. It is about full though, so I will have to look at other options soon. I would love to get the helmers that everyone talks about but we don't have a Ikea here and the shipping price is ridiculous to order online.

Konadatics 2

I decided to try Konad again, and just to let y'all in on a little secret: I am the worst kondader ever. I have tried, and tried, and tried, but I can never, ever get a Konad to come out good. I don't know what the secret is, everyone makes it look so easy. I try with all my might to get it to come out cute, but I just almost never take pictures of it because it never comes out good. If anyone knows some secrets, please let me in on it because I really suck at it.

I started today with the low cost nail polish i found at Dollar Tree. They have not name or number and this is pre-cleaning. Then did my Konad stamping with plate