My New Job Nails

Hope yall had a great weekend!

Tomorrow I am starting a new job at AT&T and  of course I had to 

commemorate the day with some nail art!

I wanted to use the AT&T colors of orange, blue and white.

I was also happy cause I got to use my new set of awesome nail stamps from Bundle Monster!

Swatches will come soon!

I also used BM 311 since it had the stamp of numbers and it made me think of a telephone number.

 Base Coat: Nail Life Gripper

Orange: Zoya Arizona

Blue: Konad Stamping Polish

White:Konad Stamping Polish

Top Coat: Seche Vite

 Indoor Lighting

I'll be at a call center which is awesome since I can wear crazy nails and no customers will see. :-)

Thank you for stopping by and I hope your Monday is a great start of the week!

Cher

Zoya Beach Collection (minus Tracie)

TGIF Everyone!

I fell in love online with the new Zoya Beach collection so I had to get it with one exception.....Tracie.

The reason I loved the Beach part of the summer collection was it was cremes. I have found a new love in creme's that wasn't there before. Tracie.....is a shimmer! What is it doing there? Why a shimmer in all cremes? It would have made a beautiful creme color. Grrrrr......

Well onto the other 5 lovelies:

Shleby: Its a bubble gum pink but not leaning on the pastel side.

       Wednesday: Awesome turquoise but not your typical bright type. The Zoya description kinda nails it by  saying it's a "Faded, dirty medium turquoise."

Lara: Typical Barbie pink

     Reagan: It is a deep fushia/raspberry. Very gorgeous color.

Arizona: A bright but not crazy bright citrus orange color. Super Fun

The formula was a little thick for my liking and you will see in the nail art I do with these that I actually used a little thinner to make them work how I wanted.

I hope everyone has a great Friday 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