Nail Polish Canada Contest!

So I JUST heard about this contest like 20 minutes ago, this might not be as well-planned as I hoped. But here we go, my snow theme nail art!

The base is OPI Happy Anniversary. The light blue is Julep Jessica, and the dark blue is Konad Blue. I used a BundleMonster plate for the snowflakes.

I should note I was pretty lucky I decided to do a snowflake design! We had a light snowfall this morning, so I was inspired!


I am doing this at my boyfriend's house, so I don't have any of my fonts :(

Good luck to everyone!
 

OPI Designer Series Mystery

Presented without comment: OPI Designer Series Mystery.

Just kidding! I'll talk about it after the pictures :)

Holy crud I love this. I looooove funky purples. This is spectacular! It's a deep purple base with gold flake accents. Eeeeee!

This is part of OPI's Designer Series, which is a series of truly exceptional colours. And this is no exception! It's a little thick and little chunky due to the gold flakes, but oh my goodness is it wonderful!

*Sigh* I love purple!

China Glaze Midtown Magic + BundleMonster 315

Oooooo a pretty brown!

I always feel a nice brown is hard to find. There is a fine line between "sexy chocolate" and "poop". Sometimes the line is very hard to find, indeed. But not today! Today I have China Glaze Midtown Magic from their Metro Collection. Shimmery dark brown! Lit from within! Gold highlights! What's not to love?

Recently, I had gotten the BundleMonster 2012 plates, and oh boy are they fun! There are some really interesting designs (although I must point out the 'full nail' designs are lies. Damn lies! My thumb is too big. And they juuuust fit on my regular nails if they're not too long. Boo-urns!). So my adaption has been to do a "French tip" but with the design in the tip. I found a nice flowery one from #315. I'd like to think I pull it off...

It's amazing what you can do with French tip stickers. Did you know, I've never had an actual French manicure? I'm trying to think of what possible situation would exist (nominated for Oscar/Grammy/Emmy/Tony/Raspberry? Meeting the Queen? My wedding? Alien encounter? My murder trial?) and I simply cannot fathom when I would feel a French manicure would be appropriate...

A England Bridal Veil + Deborah Lippmann Happy Birthday

Sorry for the wait! Family stuff, ya know :)

Anyhoodle, I did prepare something sparkly and eye-catching to make up for it: A England Bridal Veil from their Legends collection. It's a black holo! SO SPARKLY.

Oh, A England. You have had my heart since that first order of Avalon many moons ago... Perfect formula, lovely application, wondrous colours!

Now, I was technically wearing this manicure to a children's birthday party. Sparkly as it may be, it was also black. It needed a little more PIZAZZ (capitalization mandatory). Do you know what has PIZAZZ? Deborah Lippmann's Happy Birthday! Do you know what's really easy but really impressive? Glitter gradients! Two guesses what I did!

Ahhhhh! Rainbow glitter gradient!! Now it's appropriate for a six-year old's birthday party, right? Right???

A England Jane Eyre

Oh be still, my heart. A-England, you minx: you have stolen my love again.

This is Jane Eyre, from the magical Gothic Beauties collection. Deep deep blackened ruby. *Sigh*

A-England might as well drop the mic and strut off-stage. 

Without further ado...

Aww, there should be a way to show the inner glow...

Bazinga! You can see that glow.

And because I always go one more step...

Here is a small design. Not really a design, just as accent. It is done with Flower Girl from Sinful Colours. I found it in a Walgreens on one of my visits to the States. I think I picked this up in San Francisco. It's technically a 'nail art' bottle, so it has the super-skinny brush.

Reader, I married it.

Bond... James Bond

No, I don't have the full OPI Bond Skyfall collection swatched yet. But I did do a quick manicure before I went to work today with two of the colours.*

*Quick manicures before work not recommended. How did I not get polish everywhere???

Today I have Skyfall, a lovely deep dried-blood colour. It's dark and dangerous and sexy... perfect for Bond. I think the Bond Girl wears this colour in the movie, so it fits!

Now, I coudn't just leave it the way it is. I desperately wanted to try the special polish Man With The Golden Gun, an 18K gold flakie topcoat! How amazeballs is that?? Totes amazeballs, that's what.

LOOK AT THAT SEXY BOTTLE.

I love this combo. Deep red and gold? Perfect for this crisp autumn day.

Cheers!

Blue Lagoon Nails

Blue Lagoon nails? What is this, another new oh-so-trendy, oh-so-rare indie label?

Nah, just one of my favourite nail art ideas!

Surprisingly simple, astonishingly adaptable and splendidly striking! (That sentence took a surprisingly long time to make. My English teachers would be so disappointed in me!)

It takes a dotter tool (or a toothpick), and 4-ish colours.

I used:

OPI Catch Me In Your Net for the the base (I love this colour with a passion that cannot fully be expressed in any known language. I think Klingon would have a good one, though. Maybe I'll go asking the Internet...)

OPI Teal the Cows Come Home, Fly and Yoga-tta Get this Blue for the dots.

If you have some nice blues, dark greens, teals, aquas, etc you can do this manicure.

*BONUS* This manicure is OPI Suzi-Approved!

 I *love love love* this. Simple, but amazingly effective. I think I might try this in other colours, too...

Cheers!