Star Bursts!

Here is another one of my favourite images to use to show the beauty of the base through and boy, is this layered base beautiful!  

Started with a base of two coats of Essie Take The Lead (no picture), topped with Polished for Days Echor, no top coat.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using Moyra 52 using Painted Polish Blanc Slate.

Topped with a final coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

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Short Nails and Dark Polish Go Together!

I'm not sure why, but when my nails are short, I prefer to wear dark colours on them.  So when my nails are short, most of the time, a dark polish will be on them.  

Started with a base of two coats of Dam Polish Aquamarine, no top coat.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using image from Moyra 39 Eastern Mystic using Painted Polish Blanc Slate.

Topped with a final coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

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One Little Fiber

One little fiber wrecked this mani.  It's too bad I didn't notice it earlier and could have removed it before I took all the pictures for these nails, but it is what it is. 

Started with a base of Cupcake Polish Suitor on a Scooter, two coats, no top coat.  I love this holo; it is a great shade of blue; not too dark, not too light and has oodles of holo in it!  Holo all the days!

Topped with a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using Moyra 21-Retro, using Painted Polish Blanc Slate, no top coat.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.  

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Flamingos!

I seen flamingos in the wild on holiday travels recently and funny...they are not hot pink like we so often portray, especially when doing our nails.  Or maybe it's just me that always does hot pink with flamingos.  Like I did here; here's what I came up with! 

MRFOX-LC012

Started with a base of two coats of Quo Beauty Hot Stuff, no top coat.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top. 

Stamped using MrFox-LC012 (thumb), Moyra 66-Exotique (middle and ring) and B. Loves B.11 Summer Paradise (pinky and index) using Painted Polish Midnight Mischief.

Topped with a final coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

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2024 Olympics!

I've been watching quite a bit of the Olympics since they opened and got inspiration to do a few Olympic manis and have a few to share over the next few posts, including this one.  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls with accent nail of OPI Summer Monday-Fridays, no top coat.

Topped the white nails with Fancy Gloss Witchcraft, no top coat.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using image BM-XL182 Work It! on index, middle and ring, using Painted Polish Midnight Mischief and Hit The Bottle Gold as it Gets, Barry M 319 Foil Effects and Hit the Bottle Burnt Orange, then stamped pinky with Moyra 108 Champion using Painted Polish Midnight Mischief and CjS281 and Moyra 108 Champion on thumb using same Painted Polish.  

Clear Jelly Stamper CjS 281

BundleMonster BM-XL182 Work It!

Moyra 108 - Champion

Added dots on the thumb using same polishes that were used for the medals for some interest.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

A couple of the stars weren't the best on the medals but I had to double stamp them as the polish didn't show up that well but overall, not that bad!

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In Memoriam to My Mother In Law

Shortly after New Year's, on January 5th, my mother-in-law passed away.  We had just seen her a few days before as we had taken her and my parents out for brunch on December 30th and she was doing well, and we were glad we had seen her before she passed as it was sudden and expected.  Today is her Celebration of Life and these nails are for her.

Started with a base of three coats of Essie The Fuchsia of Art, no top coat.  Even with three coats, this polish was pretty sheer.

Topped with a coat of Wildflower Lacquer Fairy Lights (PPU April 2020), no top coat.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using image from Moyra 118 Dream On using Painted Polish Blanc Slate, no topcoat.

Finished with a final coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top.

A lot of people complain about their mother in laws but I can't say I ever had any issues with mine.  We never had any issues and she wasn't in our business as so many times occurs...or so I hear lol.  She loved her family and was a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, loved to play cards and dice and always had her nails done when she could get to the salon; just not in later years.  In fact, I stamped her nails a few times as did my daughter, who also gave her a few pedicures over the years.  Her and my husband were close, as she was with all her kids, and she will be missed.  Rest in peace.

Pretty Scales!

 I remember when this Polish Pickup order arrived; the first thing I had to do was put this beauty on my nails!  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of Danglefoot Woaahhhh Pigeon On a Chair (Polish Pickup June 2023), no top coat.  Such a stunner!

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

This is another one of those polishes where you don't want to cover too much of the base polish with stamping, so went with Moyra 28-Femme Fatale, stamped with MdU 68.

Topped with a final coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top. 

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