Oh, Barnacles!

 

On FB I created a group. Its called Polish Exchange. Its a small group of girls, and we have a box full of our unwanted polish that circulates around. We pick from the box and then add in more unwanted polish. Its fun. These are three colors I chose from this last round.

 

Essie School of Hard Knocks (Grey)

Orly Ma Cherie (Red)

NOPI Scandal Secrets and Sparkle (Accent on index finger)

 

 

I found this cool little rock with barnacles on it at our mini beach. I brought it home for our future fish tank.

I love these colors together. I am not a red polish girl at all, but this is one I love!!

~Carrie
www.sassylacquer.storenvy.com

Testing....

Here is a pretty for ya, just so its not a wasted trip here to my neck of the woods....

NOPI Khloe had a little lam-lam with A Perfect "10" Snow Queen on top.

Layering...

Yesterday I told you about how good Nicole by OPI's Kim-Pletely in Love and Its all about the Glam would be for layering......well, just see for yourself....

I took several different shades of dark blue, and deep red and a black, and swatched them with each of the above colors....

the colors by themselves

Kim-Pletely in Love is on the left, and It'a all about the Glam is on the right.

KPIL on left and IAATG on the right

Ok, so KPIL is much better for layering, but left some brush strokes but if applied better (I went to fast) it might deplete the brush strokes....

Don't forget about the Franken Naming contest <---------------

And My Christmas/Holiday Themed mani contest!

<3 Carrie



Mmmmm Candy Canes!

Hey there! How is your Christmas/Holiday shopping coming along? Mine is almost done, I need to get stocking stuffers and a few more presents...then I am done!

Hey, have you voted in my Franken namin poll on the left yet? <------------ Go do that now, it won't mess up your reading this post, promise!

And have you entered my Christmas/Holiday themed Mani contest yet? There is a grab box on the left to help me spread the word....post it on your blog for me and then email me your entry! You have 5 more days left to enter!

So onto those candy canes...

I painted FOUR coats of Nicole by OPI's Kim-Pletely in Love as a base. It is such a pretty color, it has a slight blue shimmer to it, and is so 'romantic' looking. This polish and it sister polish - Its all about the Glam, which is a white polsh, with a shimmer to it, very lovely as well, they are going to make great top coats! I put one coat of them onto a black, and its just...well.....its good! I'll show you all those tommorrow.....

Then for my stripes I was going to stamp, but it just wasn't working out, so I took out a thin brush and used it with China Glaze's Go Crazy Red, and made candy cane stripes. It turned out really cute!

Not the best pictures, Dang I really need to fix my light box....

Do you see that lovely blue shimmer?

Thanks for stopping by!

<3 Carrie



15 Week Challenge......Part One, Week Nine

Testing my Button:




Yay! Back to the challenges. Finally! Today is Rainbow. I went with a new polish I bought just recently, Nicole by OPI It's all about the Glam, one of the K-Dash polishes. It is a really pretty white with a shimmer, blues and pinks come through. It took me three to four coats on some fingers to get it opaque. I'm OK with the brush, a little to square for my taste. Its formula was very nice, It was my first time trying a NOPI.

I then used a dotting tool, and various rainbow colors:
Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Mellow Yellow
Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Blue It
Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Green with Envy
Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Sun Kissed
NYC Big Apple Red Creme
China Glaze Senorita Bonita

Then I topped it all with a coat of Seche Vite.

I didn't clean up as well as I had thought, it was about 11:59pm on a Saturday that I did these....very late. And sorry about my cuticles, I had just cleaned...and moisturized, believe it or not :(

I really liked this design, I saw it somewhere but I don't remember where.  Next up is feathers....hmmm, might have to break out the stamp plates for this one.

I am sharing a recipe tomorrow, so make sure you check back and see which one it is, I can't decide if it'll be a desert or a meal........suggestions?

<3 Carrie