SpaRitual Ice Ice Baby & Konad H4

Good morning, Dear Reader!

Today I have a manicure with SpaRitual Ice Ice Baby (dun, dun-dun-dun, dun-dun-dun-dun...) and the tip pattern from nail art stamping plate H4, which I bought from Chez Delaney but have seen elsewhere since.  Aside from having a name that makes me think silly thoughts, Ice Ice Baby is an opaque shimmery white which required three coats, and I did the stamping in rainbow colors (or a selection of five of them) using various Konad Special and Princess polishes.

SpaRitual Ice Ice Baby Nail Polish and Nail Art Stamping Plate H4

I'm extra happy with how this one turned out, and were it not for the fact that my pinky's fake tip is looking worse for the wear, I think this manicure would go on my list of absolute all-time favorites.  The tip has actually held up quite well this week with daily polish changes including an OPI Burlesque glitter, but I noticed an edge of it lifting, and before I even had time to register a conscious thought about that, I pulled the lifted part off and made a big ledge in it.  That was really the result of being tired - I'd gotten all adjusted to sleeping really well, then in the last week something that's no big deal keeps waking me up super early, which is also why I'm posting this hour.  At 3:30 a.m., there's amazingly little to do - I'm not particularly interested in any Ronco products, and anyone I'd call at this hour would likely either be really drunk or really PO'd at being awakened to shoot the breeze, and I don't feel like talking to either.  Proof reading this paragraph, I'm simultaneously impressed and horrified that I wandered from an analysis of a fake tip to Ronco in so few sentences, so I think I'll leave it that way.

Lest I ramble on about every tired thought that drifts between my ears, I'll just wrap it up here.  Until next time, Dear Reader, love and nail polish to you!

China Glaze Anchors Away - Sea Spray and a little fauxnad

China Glaze Sea Spray is so gorgeous that my camera refused to capture it's perfect color!Description by China Glaze-Sea Spray: Calming pale blue crème
I can't dispute a perfect descriptionI added a little me over Sea Spray by stamping Red kisses from Bundle Monster plate BM02and then in black stamping across the tips and up one side with BM21I love how it turned out....a little goth

China Glaze Sun Worshiper & XL A

Good morning, Dear Reader!

I'd mentioned I had another theme in mind for this work week, and now it's time to tell you about it and get on to the manicures!  Food was suggested as a theme, which I thought was a great starting point, but more vague than I had in mind.  Well, I thought of the topic of food in terms of early February, and a specific idea came to mind: Produce I Wish I Had.

You see, I'm really big on fresh seasonal fruits and vegetables and on really good food.  I look forward to things coming into season all through the year, except that there's nothing that locally comes into season from December through February.  By February, I can't look at another mass-produced-and-stored-forever apple or orange, celery begins to lose its charm, and I start thinking "WOW, I wish I had ... "  When it was time to do my nails last night, it was mangoes (which are never local, but at least taste like mangoes for a few warm months per year).  I really, really wanted one, but alas, there were none to be had.

Mmmm, Mango!

More Mangoes!

Can You Taste It?

For my mango manicure, I started out with China Glaze Sun Worshiper, a neon yellow orange creme, to represent the flesh.  It takes a million coats on its own, but is worth it.  It's a little on the bright side, but remember that I'm screaming loudly here.  I decided to use a tip pattern with some tiny dots from my XL A plate, which I did in red and green to represent the skin.  The tips didn't work out quite as I had in mind at the outset - I tried to use yellow as part of the tip pattern as well, but it just didn't show up at all, leaving me with only red and green.  So it's not great, but is in the general direction of where I was going with it.

China Glaze Sun Worshiper Nail Polish with Chez Delaney XL A

Looking for the mango pictures was hard - I felt like I was toying with my own emotions.   Now I want one more than ever!

That my first Produce I Wish I Had manicure, and the start of a new work week.  I hope Monday is kind to you, and until tomorrow, love and nail polish to you!  

Free Hello Kitty Fauxnad Plate

There is some weirdness with this vendor's site you should be aware of before entering your info.

Here's a link to the details.

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Good morning, Dear Reader!

A few weeks ago, I received an email asking me about an overseas web site that was offering a completely free Hello Kitty nail art stamping plate (specifically, if it was legitimate). I'd never heard of it, so I figured there was only one way to find out and I placed the order, for which I did not have to enter any payment information. When someone tells me they'll give me something for nothing, I tend to hope for the best without any real expectations, and I promptly forgot all about it until I received a little envelope from Singapore yesterday that had the plate inside.

Since it is legitimate, I thought you'd want to know about it. The site is called Born Pretty, and the item is called Hello Kitty Nail Art Stamping Plate. Here's Born Pretty's picture of the plate, which is numbered M71.

Free Hello Kitty Nail Art Stamping Plate from Born Pretty

To get it, add the plate, which displays a price of $2.99, to your cart and go to check out. For shipping method, choose "Airmail (Unregistered)" for free shipping, and enter coupon code BP299 to deduct the $2.99 price of the Hello Kitty plate, and for your payment option choose "I have paid before/Free items," which doesn't prompt for additional billing info. Submit order, and that's it.

Mine took 3 weeks to arrive, which is about the time I'd expect. I checked the site now for my order history to get the details above, and found that my order status is Pending. That's not a huge problem, but it indicates to me that their system is not 100% automated since the order was shipped and delivered. That can cause some hassles when something isn't manually updated correctly on their side, so I wouldn't be astounded if an order required a few emails, but their CS was good - I recall getting an email clarifying some detail right after I placed the order. I mention that just because I'd want to know about it before spending money on a future order.

I thought this was a nice thing because I'm always a bit reluctant ordering from a smaller place overseas, and this lets potential customers place a test order for free and see how the company does. They had a few other offers for a free item going, but they all required additional action, such as tweeting links. I didn't want to announce this until I'd gotten a test order just in case it went south, so I only went for the one.

Born Pretty has a lot of fauxnad plates and cheap nail art supplies (and oddly, colored contacts, but I think I'd hold off on ordering from them and go to an optometrist), and I'd place an order for paid items from them now.

For the record, I placed my order strictly as a test to see how they did so I could tell you about it, and Born Pretty was given no indication that anything about my order would be published anywhere (or that a platform for me to do so exists) , so I believe the service I received is what can generally be expected of them. Fortunately, you can place your own test order and verify that for free. If you place an order and have a noteworthy experience either way, please leave a comment - additional accounts experience with the company would be useful to anybody interested in ordering.

One addition - I just noticed the banner at the top of their home page announcing time off for Chinese New Year, so they probably won't reply to emails for a bit, and that's something to be aware of.

That's all I had to pass on to you this morning, Dear Reader. Until next time, love and nail polish to you!

I am "Rich in Spirit" Nicole by OPI Liquid metal collection

I love everything about this polish!The name suits me...I am Rich in so many ways except the monies! :o)I love the metallic foil blue, the short slightly wide rounded brush...I love it so much that I don't even mind that it is slightly sheer and requires 3 coats...it's worth it!Rich in Spirit Nicole by OPII needed something beautiful to look at after a very unpleasant day and with a name like

Unchained

First a disclaimer....My hands and cuticles look like poo!It has gotten very cold and dry here and my work has me washing my hands constantly as well as wearing surgical gloves all day and I ran out of my Indulgence cuticle creme and my supplies were delayed so I apologize for my craptastic looking hands. I've been using lots of hand cream but my skin prefers the non chemical filled richness. So

Camera woe's and French Kisses

First I have to apologize for the color freakout from my cameraMaybe I've over used it or maybe it just sucks but it is doing strange things lately.From hazy, blurry, super bright, way off color, washed out to just plain craptastic pics.I am on a no buy to try and save up to get a decent camera by February. I recieved a beautiful H&M Lipgloss compact in "French Kiss" from the fantabulousLily of

A very skully holiday!

I got a surprize package from Astraea the other day, which I've been too busy to take pictures of.She sent me a bunch of skull bottle nail polish's and the rest of the coffin polish as well as decals and yummy candles and oh how she spoiles me so!( Thank you my dearest Robin, my sweet little Faerie)
I decided I wanted to do a winter mani and one of the skull polishes is a beautiful deep blue

The Hello Kitty Murders

If you have not figured it out yet....I adore hello kitty. Have you seen my shoes?Seriously I'm a 37 year old with Hello Kitty shoes and I need another pair just for a back up!=(^_^)=I was sent the set of 12 image stamping plates from Born Pretty Storea while ago and one just happens to have a Hello Kitty image. I have been pondering how many ways I can use that image (A LOT) and decided what is

A more traditional Halloween manicure! :o)

This one is for my less demented friends! (Do I have any of those?)**Disclaimers first: Sorry for the gator skin but scrubbing fake blood off does tend to suck all of the moisture out of you. Sorry for the still slightly "blood" stained cuticles.
I tried to whip up an orange holo for this but neon orange does not take to holo very well.Still pretty but more of an odd shimmer than holo.I used the

Baby Blue Moon

I had to use the Baby Blue from Bloody Mary.It's my perfect Baby Blue. Application was nice for a pastel, the first coat was a little streaky but not bad and perfect on the second.The Moon and stars are from Chez Delaney plate A12. I used navy blue konad special polish for the moon and Color Club Wild and Willing for the stars.
I've looked forever for exactly this baby blue.The Hot Guy really

I'm just a Zombie girl living in a cupcake world!

I took my 9 year old daughter out fora girls day out for her Birthday. We went to a Tea Room for lunch. (Lots of snitty side glares over my pink hair, tattoos and who knows)Then we went to the mall (I hate the mall) so she could spend her Bday money.(Hot Topic has no Twilight crap left now and I found a studded bra, score)
So I had to do my nails for the big day of Toture fun.She said nothing

Flaming Gelati?

This is what happens when nail art goes wild.
I used Borghese Tutti Gelati as a base  and T32 Chez Delaney plate.I can't remember what colors I used to stamp. I was trying to create a sort of flame look.....yeah didn't quite work.
I like the way it turned out  none the less.This is why I love nail art, you can almost always make a mistake look intentional.
What does it look like to you?

OCC Inky

My sweet and beautiful friend Stiletto of The Kronicals of a Konadersent me a lovely package, cuz she's awesome like that. One of the lovelies she sent me was Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Inky. Inky is a drooly Deep inky blue jelly. I just adore this color. It is not a sheer jelly since the color is so very deep you'll have no vnl to worry about. The formula was nice and opaque in 2 coats.
I

Kisses on Spiderwebs

I was just playing with my Chez Delaney plates and seeing if my newest Finger Paintswere as awesome as I'd hoped and this is where my twisted mind wandered!I used a base of 1 coat (you read right 1 coat) of Finger Paints Hue Rang?Then I stamped the spiderwebs and kisses from plate H25 using Wet n wild black for the smooches and Finger Paints Silver Sculpture fot the webs.I love how it turned out!

666 Giveaway. I'm a bit late! (^_^) Now Closed

Sunday We hit 666 followers. YAY!So as promised it's Giveaway time.Just a small fun giveaway to say thank you and I love you all!The goodies:8 Fauxnad plates1 Stamper1 ScraperTeal mini flakie franken I made special for this.Nubar Reef GreenChina Glaze SpitfireLA Girl AmethystNail art colored rhinstone shapes in case with pick up toolandThe winner will recieve 1 custom Eyeshadow or Lipstick from

Welcome To The Jungle

That song is stuck in your head now isn't it?!Muahahaha.....oh yeah there was a point. :oDMy 8 year old daughter has been anoying  asking me if she could try konad.So lastnight I gave her some fake nails and set up the konad for her and caos insued!She did her nails, the fake nails, her toes, and then she started eyeballing me....I gave in and let konad over my franken mani.After she finished she

How to not be selected for Jury duty 101

My mission to not get picked for jury duty was a total success!So I thought I would lend my tips to my other civic duty shirkers!
First consider where you live and what "type" of community it is.Mine is Super conservative, rich, republican, stick up the but hard core Southern Christian extreemists.So yes this was not too hard for me. :)
First I consulted the top minds in the Nail world...MUA Nail

Nail art madness

So what happens when your husband says why do you need all this crapWhile looking in the drawers of your nail art cabinet. Ummmm......because! Him: Because you never use it?Me: I do too use it. (covers up unused nail art brush set)Him: Hmmf! K...crazy nail polish lady!Me: Flips him the bird!Him: When are you going to be on Hoarders?Me: Right after you! (Points to eleventy billion cd's):oP
So I

Juicy tips and a bad pun fauxnad!

I was in a green juicy mood so I pulled out Golden Rose Fashion color #52Jellyish nearly neon, juicy green yum!
Even the 90+ year old Neighbor lady (I sit with so her daughter can get out of the house for a few hours), loved this color and kept having to touch it. She was wearing Neon pink tips.


This color makes me happy!
And now a bad pun fauxnad....
Can you figure out my fauxnad pun?Lisa the