Super Bowl Nails

Happy Super Bowl Sunday Everyone!

I am not pulling for any team since....

the Saints are not in it but,

 they are playing in my home town of New Orleans!

Hence no team representing but I am rocking the Mardi Gras Accent Nail!

For the Field:

OPI  Jade is the New Black

China Glaze Gaga for Green

The Football:

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear White On

OPI Wooden Shoe Like to Know

Mardi Gras:

China Glaze Spontaneous

China Glaze Gaga for Green

Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Lightning

I also put a coat of Essie Shine of the times on cause looked too boring.

Hope you guys are having a great Sunday and thank you for stopping by!

Cher

Turkey Day!

Happy Turkey Day Everyone!

I hope you are all having a great day spent with loved ones. I will be celebrating with my Dad and hubby when he gets off work. Bird is in oven and fixings are all prepped!

Of course today's mani had to be a turkey!

I thought would be a tad much to have turkey on all nails so made it an accents with some glitter action on the others!

China Glaze Midtown Magic

KleanColor Metallic Red

KleanColor Metallic Orange

Julep Heather

KleanColor Neon Orange

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear White On

Wet n' Wild Black Creme

Martha Stewart Vintage Leaf Glitter:

Garnet

Fire Opal

Florentine Gold 

Brownstone

Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you all have a fabulous holiday and

 may your pants be elastic!! LOL

Cher

Rememberance Day

Forgive me for the odd layout than normal. I'm composing this post from work. ;-) 

I hope you all are doing wonderful and are having a great day to remember our veterans.

 In honor of remembrance.  I have these cute poppy nails.

The colors I used from left to right are:

Zoya Sookie

KleanColor Metallic Green

Sally Hansen White Out

Wet n' Wild Black Creme

I made a huge mistake and didn't put a base coat on first..... That metallic green stained sooooo bad!!

I hope you enjoy this look and thank you for visiting and go thank a Veteran today for all they've done and bravery!

Cher

Cruisin the Coast Mani

Happy Saturday!
Hopefully y'all are not working like I am and
having a awesome start to your weekend!

A little late on this one so forgive me. 

:-)

The weekend of October 13th was the culmination of Cruisin the Coast here on the Gulfcoast . 

It is basically a huge week long classic car show. 

Thousands of classic cars were in town and it was awesome seeing them all around the beaches!

This post is picture heavy so I apologize in advance but I had a lot of fun with this mani.

 I wanted ot include a bunch of different techniques.

I'm really proud of how this came out! love the gradient with the flames and the separation with the graphite striping tape just looks sharp.

 Left Hand:

 Sun

 Shade

Right Hand

 Not as clean as left but not too shabby for the non dominant hand. ;-)

 Both from the DRK-B plate

 BM-16

 Used for checkerboard

 BM-323 and BM-305

For pinky designs

Colors used:

These I used for stamping and bases:

 China Glaze: Papaya Punch

Sally Hansen Insta Dri Rapid Red

Wet n' Wild Black Creme

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear White On

 These for the watermarble:

Sally Hansen Insta Dri Lightning

China Glaze Pointsetta

Wet n' Wild Black Creme

Thank you sooooooo much for visiting, have a great day and see you next time!

Cher

Olympics!!

Hey Guys!

So I am a dork and LOVE the Olympics. I get all into watching the weird sports like trampoline and handball as well as the well known ones of gymnastics and swimming.
 

 Alot of people were doing some fabulous manis that represent the rings. I decided to do a twist on that.

The color theme for the London Olympics are this fabulous plum/raspberry. I represented it with putting a base of Zoya Reagan and one coat of OPI Louvre Me Louvre Me Not. 

 I then stamped the the ring design from BM-325 with Orly Luxe
I placed the stamp differently on each nail to add some variety!

 I hand painted the Union Jack.
I first painted the base with Sally Hansen White On. I used Zoya Sooki as the base red and then layered China Glaze Ruby Pumps to add some glitter. The blue I used was Butter London Blagger.

I hope you all liked this look and as always, thank you for visiting!
Cher

Go Netherlands!

Happy Friday Party People,

So you amy or may not know but the Uefa  Euro Soccer Championships are happening right now and for soccer fans, this is a big deal. 

I am a big Netherlands fan so to show my support I put the Holland flag as my mani for support. 

It didn't work since Netherlands are out but I still figured I'd share. 

Ill next have to do some Germany nails since that is the hubby's team!
They beat Greece today so hopefully I can get them done by the next game!

Be nice cause I did the striping by hand and I am still new to it so it can be improved. :-)

 Looking good with my Netherlands jersey!

 Julep January (Red)

Sally Hansen White On (White)

China Glaze Splish Splash (Blue)

China Glaze Orange you Hot (Orange)

Top coat: Seche Vite

Base Coat: Nail Life Gripper

Have a great rest of your Wednesday!

Cher

Happy Memorial Day!

Happy Memorial Day!

I hope you all are enjoying the holiday and thank you to all the men and women who have given their lives to give us the freedom we enjoy!

I wanted something patriotic but also that represented the military.

I did a alternating red, white and blue water marble and camo look.

 

Red: China Glaze Poinsetta

White: Sally Hansen White On

Blue: China Glaze Frostbite

 My fave finger that came out!

 

Light green: China Glaze Starboard

Darker Green: OPI Jade is the new Black

Brown: OPI You Don't Know Jacques

Black: Wet and Wild Black Creme

 

I decided to make it matte cause thought it looked more military appropriate 

instead of being all shiny.

  Top Coat: Seche Vite

Base Coat: Nail Life Gripper

Matte top coat for Camo: Essie Matte About You

 Left Hand

 Right Hand

Have a great rest of your holiday and thank you for visiting!

Cher

Monarch Butterfly Mani

Greetings All,

I am a Pinterest addict and just fell in love with a gradient with a couple of beautiful Zoya colors. 

I thought it would make a great base to do a monarch design on top of.

 

Here is the lineup:

Base Coat: Nail Life Gripper

Red:    Zoya Sookie

Orange: Zoya Arizona

Black: Wet and Wild Black Creme

White: Sally Hansen White On

Top Coat: Seche Vite

Red:    Zoya Sookie

Orange: Zoya Arizona

I used my regular gradient method of using a makeup sponge to apply on the colors.

I first painted a base coat of Arizona since it was the lighter of the two.

 Did not bother to clean up since still have to do design.

 To do the lines I used one of my nail art brushes. I altered one of them to make easier for me to use.

The brush with two on it had bristles that were same length as the #3 one but I just felt I didn't have much control. I used a cuticle scissor to trim it down to a length that made it easier.

I then used my smallest dotting tool to make the spots on the wings.

I thought I got these from Bundle Monster but I must not have but I found a set on Ebay for my sister for $1.89 with free shipping from China. 

Awesome Deal!

I think they came out pretty cute. 

Can't wait to try with other colored gradients to improve my free hand painting skills!

Thank you for visiting and I hope your Sunday is Awesome!

Cher