For Lily

It is Friday again dolls! Sorry for the delay in this post, my last fur puppy passed away last weekend from bone cancer:( Lily was my beautiful, sweet, and gentle 13yr old Rottweiler! It has been super quiet around my house without her:(  

 In Honor of Lily (or Beanie as we called her) I did a black and tan mani for her markings!

I did a simple black base with dotted design using China Glaze Sorry I'm Latte. On my accent nail I did a black and tan water marble. Have a great weekend!

♥  Melissa

Water marbling... the ultimate frenemy

Hey Dolls:) So I have been hibernating for a few weeks... Christmas season is always my busiest time of year,  pretty much like everyone else!!!! But I have all of my shopping done, all the decorations are hung and I am READY for the BIG DAY!!!!

To me water marbling is the Ultimate Frenemy for my nails...  love love love the look, but really HATE the process!!!! I have tried dry marbling to no avail and the only way I can get it to work for me is the standard drip, swirl, and dip method... and to be perfectly honest it is a pain!!!! For this mani I used China Glaze What's She Dune?, China Glaze Rain Dance the Night Away, and Zoya Talia!!!

I really like how well these colors play together:) Simple and perfect!!!!  And a quick question... am I the only one whose nails hate this time of year??? I have had 3 break in the last week:(

♥ Melissa

Water Marble... By golly I think I've got it!!!!

So for the past week I have been trying to do a water marble for Jilltastic's Weekly challenge, and I have failed miserably more times than I care to admit. But after some help from some fabulous ladies I know on FB I think I have finally got it!!!

I used Sally Hansen "Hard to Get"  as my base. Then marbled with Essie "Bikini so Teeny", "Turquoise & Caicos", and Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear "Coral Reef".  I was very happy that this finally turned out the way it was supposed too!!!! I did get some weird water bubbles on my nails though I guess I need to blow them off better!!! Well I hope everyone is having a great weekend!!!!

Bikini so teeny:)

So yesterday I went for a nail polish haul:) I got the OPI Spiderman collection (not impressed with the formula), Two of the OPI Minnie Mouse collection and several Essie:) I am a happy Polished girl right now and My Zoya mini's will be in hopefully today too:) So for this mani I was playing with some of my new polishes and wanted to do a color block but ran out of time so I dotted it up instead:) I used Essie "Bikini So Teeny" as my base a perfect periwinkle blue:) for the Dots I use Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear "White on", Essie "Camera" & "Action" from the poppyrazzi collection. I really wished the Essie formula wasn't so sheer so the colors would POP more:) I have so many ideas floating around right now. Can't wait to show you guys:) Sorry about the crappy pics my camera battery died so we get stuck with phone pics for now:(

Water Marbling attempt #1

My first attempt at water marbling... This is so not as easy as it looks!!! Now don't get me wrong the actual application is easy, but it is time CONSUMING!!! The trick is to use a base color, because you can't really do two coats of color. I know that a lot of people suggest using oil or Vaseline  to cover you finger during the process but I prefer tape, and yes I tried it all 3 ways:)  But the good thing is once your nails come out of the water they are dry and all they need is a top coat and you are done!