Me Encanta Tu Blog Award

A blog award, cause i've been a slow blogger!! The phalanges Files mass tagged me.  The rules are to answer some questions:

1. Why did you create the blog?
 I became obsessed with watching youtube nail art tutorials after my cousin was talking about it on FB and i brought out my konad plates.  I soon found that the nail art tutorial artists had blogs and then remembering i used to blog (never very regularly) it made sense to create a blog dedicated to my attempts at freehand and Konad.

2. What kind of blogs do you follow?

Mostly nail blogs. Have followed crafty blogs before (beading jewelry and some diys)  but they got left behind since i started this blog.  Some makeup tutorials are also included on the blogroll.

3. Do you have a favorite make-up brand? 
I have purchased Mac and love it, very expensive but love the fact the artists teach you to apply your makeup and help you decide what colors to buy for my skintone, and to match the existing colors i have. All the other brands i have owned have expired and been placed in the trash.

4. And a favorite clothing brand?

No favorite, hardly buy clothes, no money as all of it is going to nailpolishes and tools lately. (but i'm on a spending diet now, time to use the polish and tools to create, but i will be getting a Sally Hansen Black pen...hope it works better than my white milky one)


5. What make-up products are essential for you?
Mascara and blush. and nail polish - it is so hard to go a day without polish on my nails.

6. What’s your favorite color?
  Favorite color is red right now.Was blue and before that green.  Favorite polish color - (don't have one yet)

7. What’s your favorite perfume?

Ange ou  demon by Givenchy, Irrestible by Givenchy, Rose essentielle by Bylgari

8. What’s the film you liked the most?

Tim Burtons' Alice in Wonderland, Life as we know it, How to train your dragon, PS i love you, Matrix...oh the list is lengthy and i could go on.

  
9. What countries would you like to go to?

Love to go back to Bali, Indonesia.  Machu Pichu, Peru, Southern Thailand. Would love to try my hand at deepsea diving again so Hawaii is a good choice. (can't think if i have other places on my list in my head)

tag, your it.

Haul over the last week (actually two weeks ago)

Dotting tools from Ebay....

Stickers from Claire's (buy one get second half price)

Claire's mood color changing in wild/calm, Claire's Rain drops From Sally's - Orly Shimmering Mauve and Nina Ultra Pro Leaf me Alone and the Sally girl  pink sparkles and From JQ from Flippery Digits - blue art deco in Royal Blue

I wore the mood color changing polish and loved the effect but hated that it didn't last more than a day. the next day i played with some konad and tried topping one nail with the sally's pink sparkles but it was muh.  Sorry didn't get photos at all.

My attempt on the Cute Frankenstein Nails for Halloween

Goldiestarling did a tutorial for Halloween, since i purchased this green in my latest haul (next post i promise)  decided to try this design. on the right hand i did the eyes differently but i like them better than the left hand.

right thumb

left hand

left thumb

left fingers

Products used:

Nina Ultra Pro - Leaf me Alone

Rimmel Black Satin (for hair)

Black Kiss Nail art (for outline of hair and pupils and mouth)

White Kiss Nail art (for eyes)

Top coat - Seche Vite

Dotting Tools arrived

I had my dotting tools arrive from Ebay so of course i had to do a dotting mani on Monday evening.Had no rhyme or reason but to use my dotting tools, decided to use one base color and stay with one color and use two the blue and green dotting tools (both ends)

Started out fancy on the pointer finger using a row of bigger size dots, then the second size down with the third size down row. (the last row..at the tip has now been worn)

so after i got all the dots i went upstairs to more overhead light to notice that the China Glaze Japanese Koi i thought i bought was actually China Glaze Neon Orange.  Kinda disappointed it was not the Japanese Koi.  Guess that's my fault for not checking the bottom of the bottle in Sally's.  The pinky is a mini dot swatch to compare the Neon Orange to my OPI Brights Power.  In the bottle they looked similiar but on the base of grey not so similiar at all.

Base color: Avon Urban Grey
Dots:  China Glaze Neon Orange


Please forgive the chips.  I took these pics on Wedn evening.  I'm still having issues with the seche vite...i think if i remember to always wrap my base coat and then wrap the seche vite and do a second seche vite this may stop my chipping issues.  I really want the seche vite to work the way some people love it to work.

What mani to do tonight?...not a lot of time after my meeting....halloween or breast cancer or one of my new colors....oh yah time to take pics of my haul...from Avon and Sally's Beauty Supplies(our city just opened one in the last month) and Claire's.

Now it's past my bedtime at 11:00, my roommate and me got chatting for an hour and 3/4 so i am shaping and removing now.  Maybe i'll have time for a base coat but i really should head to bed.

Halloween Mani - first attempt

I attempted a halloween mani on thursday.  It was fun to do but i need so much more practice with making thin lines.   Thanks to Simply Rins for the inspiration for the spider and dollface22772 for the youtube tutorial on the spiderwebs.  I still have to practice a lot more to get as good as these ladies. forget who's idea was the ghost. (will link later when i remember/find it)

I was lazy with the second finger...(i messed up and then left it cause i thought it might look like a broom) i also forgot top coat...notice the tip wear from one day without top coat.

Right hand thumb nail .... (my non-dominant hand) also not sure why the seche vite decided to bubble in the inside circle lines.

Don't show pinky finger in this pic but it was just white.

I'm a little behind in posting some mani's but mostly cause they haven't lasted long enough to take pictures, (still troubles with peeling or seche vite) or it's just nail color without stamping or freehand design, (i'm not good enough to show swatches yet)

Will be attempting a football theme tonight.  I already have the base color on, but i see the seche vite really shrinks with this San Francisco sinful color. **** Friday evening Update**** Wow this color really doesn't last more than a day the tips were showing so bad that i removed 5 polish from my fingers.  I was going to paint my design tonight(Friday) for the Sunday game but  i'm hoping that it will last till then, (it might as i don't work tomorrow and i think the tip wear is from all the paper filing and typing)

Base Color - Funny Bunny OPI
Lines/Design - Black Kiss nail art paint
Top coat - Seche Vite