Sinful Colors Innocent Swatches and My First Gradient

     Hey everyone.  I apologize for being absent the past few days but I am back and in action!  It has been a little stressful in my neck of the woods.  I am experiencing my first lay off, and it isn't even mine.  My hubs was laid off but luckily I am able to support us with my income.  Barely, but it will do for now.  Needless to say, I won't be buying to many new polishes for a while.  Speaking of new polishes, I bout three a few days before he was laid off and haven't been able to find them.  I am  so freaking frustrated.  I cleaned my whole house at 11 o'clock at night, (mind you I worked at 5am the next morning) trying to fine them.  I think I am now considered a polish addict.

     Innocent is a lime green cream from Sinful Colors.  I picked this up a few months ago and thought it would be a great base for my first gradient experience.  I personally love how bright this green is because my dad has a 70 Camero that is painted this color.  He quit showing it in car shows until I asked him to do it again and he was so excited that I wanted to do it.  Funny how something I hated doing as a child, (me+heat+outside for 10 hours=grumpy kid) is much more fun to me as an adult.  I still abhor the heat and avoid it all costs but I really enjoy pretending I at least know something about restoring classic cars.  Edelbrock?  Any one??  See, I know a brand... any ways!

     To accomplish this gradient I followed this tutorial from The Nailasaurus.  I am pretty impressed with how this came out.  I like that I used three colors but on some of the nails it looks like there are four to five colors.  I know this is picture heavy but I really wanted to show this mani off!!!  I am not going to center the pictures for now because I had a bunch of issues doing that last time.  For those of you who don't know my computer crashed and I am using an app on my Ipad to post my posts and it took me six hours to post my last one because of technical difficulties.  Not to mention if you look at my last post on a mobile device the pictures are off the screen.  You can see them if you move the web page around but it was a pain in the butt and I want my blog to be simple for my readers, because hey, I want to keep the ones I got; I like you gals!  :-)  I also want to apologize for my cuticles.  Normally I apply cuticle cream before taking the pictures but I only had a small window for taking pictures due to the unseasonal hail storm we had yesterday.

  These next four pictures were taken 

outside in the previously mentioned hail storm. 

 So as natural as I could get them!

I included these next two pictures because it 

shows the purple tips much better than the first two.

Inside with flash

Inside without flash

Out side with no flash

Base coat: Chip Skip from OPI and Yello Out

Base color: Innocent from Sinful Colors - 2 coats

Gradient colors: 

• blue: Why Not from Sinful Colors
• purple: Let's Talk from Sinful Colors

Top Coat: Out the Door

What do you guys think?  Have you played around with gradients yet?  I thought it was fun.  A little messy but I really like the end result.

Sinful Colors Let's Talk Swatches and a Special Glitter

  Hey everyone.  So I have been having technical difficulties with my lap top so I am trying out a new app on my ipad and I really hope that it works because it seems like a very cool app.  I purchased Sinful Colors Let's Talk last month and really wanted to play with it.  Let me start out by saying this is an IMPOSSIBLE color to photograph.  It is an amazing purple but once you put a camera over  it it appears blue!  I tried adjusting every setting on my camera, taking pictures in every possible light source, and even charged my camera battery over night and tried taking pictures with that.  Sad thing is my phone has a better camera than my digital camera.  :-(  Pictures can't describe what this color is so I just suggest you go out and buy it.  The combination that I came up with for this mani is now one of my all time favorite mani's.  I will be wearing this for more than one day.

     Second most important thing to note about this mani.  I did no touch ups!  I am getting better at not making my nails look like my friends two year old drew chalk pictures all over the side walk!

     And the third most important thing about this mani is the glitter that I applied.  My friend Tina started making her own polishes.  When I saw this one I knew I had to have it and forced her to sell it to me.  It is a one of a kind and you can't have it!  Neiner neiner neiner.  Ok, ok, sorry, but I just love this glitter combo so stinking much.  It has blue micro glitters with pink, silver, green, and blue hexagonal glitter and I love it!

Here is the finished product.  It took me about 50 pictures to get one that somewhat showed the purple of Let's Talk.

I am only showing this picture so I can show you the prettiness of the glitter top coat.  

Here is a swatch of Let's Talk in side without flash.  As you can see it appears to be blue.  It is kinda fun to hold the camera up to the nail, see it blue, and then move the camera out of the way and it be purple.  It is kinda like a magic show.  lol

 

 This image is not mine.  I got it from Polish Etc blog.  I just could not for the life of me catch the beautiful purple that this is on my camera.

Isn't the purple just so pretty!  I LOVE everything about this mani!!

Base coat: Chip Skip and Nail Envy from OPI

Base color: Let's Talk from Sinful Colors - 2 coats

Glitter: Just For Me from Polish Plus - 1 coat

Top coat: Out the Door

Also, I really hope this post looks good because I have spent about 5 hours on it trying to figure out how to use the damn Ipad app!!!

Sally Hanson Hi-Definition DVD Swatches and Stamping

     I bought this color while it was on sale a few months ago and finally decided to try it.  DVD is a duo chrome that shifts from purple to blue.  The coverage wasn't that great and I had to do three coats.  Next time I may try four coats.  I have actually been wearing this mani for two days, which is not normal for me.  My mani's normally don't last longer than a day at work from washing my hands so much.  Luckily I had today off so it is lasting quite well seeing as how I have been sitting on the couch watching Bones all day.
     I am trying out some new positioning of my nails.  What do you think?

Inside without flash

 Inside without flash

 Outside in natural light

 Inside with no flash

 Inside with no flash

 Inside with flash

Base coat: Chip Skip and Nail Envy from OPI
Base color: DVD from Sally Hanson Hi-Def - 3 coats
Stamping color: Alpine Snow from OPI
Top coat: Out the Door
Stamping plate: Mash 42

Sinful Colors Clementine Swatches and Stamping

     So much has been going on this week that I have had no time to do anything to my nails.  I took part in Mash's nail plate sale they had  this last weekend.  I was able to purchase plates 26-50 for $12.99 with free shipping!  I got them on Wednesday and let me tell you how excited I am to try them all out.  You guys better prepare your selves for a lot of stamping posts!
     I originally used Clementine on Wednesday because I wanted to stamp with it but then ran out of time to actually stamp it.  I ended up redoing it so I could play with my new plates.  The only thing that I do not like about this color is it stained a little.  Not as bad as Why Not but I did have to use some baking soda and water to scrub my cuticles clean.  I did get a lot of compliments when I wore just the color so that was nice.  I am slowly warming up to wearing oranges, especially for summer.

Inside with flash

Inside without flash

 Inside with flash

Inside without flash

Base coat: Clementine from Sinful Colors - 2 coat

Stamping color: Energetic Red from Sinful Colors

Stamping plate: M 42 from Mash

Top Coat: Out the Door

One thing I really like about the image I stamped is that you can turn the image sideways like I did on my pinky for an entirely different look.

I also finished this mani really late at night so I couldn't take any pictures in the natural light for the swatches.

Sunday Stamping Challenge and Avon's Vintage Blue Swatch

    In the facebook group Adventures In Stamping, our challenge for today was the sky is the limit.  I don't have to many stamping plates yet so I wasn't planning on participating but a thought pooped into my head.  I had just bought an Essence plate that had a sneaker and a high heel shoe on it and I remembered when a bunch of kids in my neighbor hood threw a bunch of shoes over the telephone lines last year and I thought, hey, that is perfect.  This is what I came up with.  It seemed like such a better idea in my head but oh well.  It turned out decent but I don't know how long it will stay on my nails.  I spent a lot of time on it and don't know if I want to redo my nails again today, I'm pretty tired. :-)

 Without the shoes and powerline

Outside in natural light

 Inside without flash

 Inside with flash

Base coat: Chip Skip from OPI and Yello-Out
Base color: Vintage Blue from Avon - 2 coats
White clouds (applied with a dotting tool), power line, and power pole: acrylic paint
Red shoes: Ruby Slipper from Avon
Orange shoes: Clementine from Sinful Colors
Green shoes: Not Now from Pure Ice
Blue shoes: Why Not from Sinful Colors
Purple shoes: Midnight Plum from Avon
Top coat: Out the Door

I look forward to your comments.  Don't be shy!