Monday Mani PaA - Fierce Accent

Phewww!

I know right? Busy past weeks with my trip, a baby shower I pulled off and then Thanksgiving and all. I thought of having automatic posts for you guys but I just did not have time whatsoever for it. No kidding! next time I'll try to plan on staying more active and not let my blog out to the flies.

But overall I had a blast in Arizona visiting my sister, my in-laws, a baby shower, visiting friends, eating at my favorite places, surprising my sista with a totally unexpected baby shower - it was sooo fun. I also got to meet the lovely Sarah Johnson, my polish friend that I met online in one of the groups I'm part of awhile ago. She is also in the Lacquered Me 11 Packages Birthday Club. It was sooo fun cause she got to give my package in person ( I'll let you guys know how the club is going in another post). It was so great to get to meet her in person and chat about polish and also what we enjoy besides polish. I just love meeting people in real life. It's like " they are real". Duhhh , I know. But I'm dork like that. Hey Sarah, I'm so glad we got to meet during my trip.

Anyways, I have been neglecting the Monday Manis really bad. I promise I'll fill up the past 2 Mondays I didn't do. For this Monday they came up with Fierce Accent. I pulled my stamping plate M64 for the accent. But oh man, I love that plate. I like all the designs on that plate and the one chose is definitely my favorite.

This is my take on the fierce accent challenge. I was going to do just the finger nail cause when I hear " accent nail" that's what comes to my mind. However I find  this mani to be very fierce and super elegant. Sorry I didn't take a picture of the base burgundy color by itself. Totally forgot. But that is RIMMEL Burgundy Flirt. I'll do a swatch later and come back posting here for you. It's such a pretty cream bloody red.

 Bottle of RIMMEL Burgundy Flirt

Bottle of Color Club Antiquated

BC: OPI
Base Color: Rimmel Burgundy Flirt
Stamping: Color Club Antiquated
Desing: M64
TC: SV

My Thanksgiving Mani

I was neglecting blogging but just cause i did not had the time to upload pictures to my computer and then here. It's late but it's finally here and I'm updating my blog. Hope you guys still enjoy seen my pictures even if they are belated to its date. Hope you all had a fun and safe Thanksgiving though :) I kept myself busy making yummy rolls and a sweet potato cassarole with marshmallows to mingle with family.

Anyways, watch what I had on my nails!

 What I did was I started with my color base being NYC Fifth Avenue a shimmer orange cooper polish. Love the NYC nail polishes. Easy application and beautiful colors.

Then I started playing with some sponging using Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Bronze Ablaze. I knew I wanted to do something over it so I kinda did the sponging in a deliberate way.

Then yeah, I found what I was looking for, leaves and leaves. I absolutely love this mani. Hope you guys love it as much as I do.

BC: SH
Base Color: NYC Fifth Avenue
Sponging: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Bronze Ablaze
Design: BM 04
Stamping: Essie Licorice
TC: SV

Pink Wednesday - Essence Meet me Now -- and some fail :(

Just look at the color ok? I was soo tired and totally messed up taking care of my cuticlesfor this manicure. Sorry! It's getting really cold here and I do need an extra care with my hands and cuticles. But like I said look at the polish color :) I'm wearing Essence  Meet Me Now, a purplelish cream pink and better >>> just needed one coat. I love one coat nail polishes. That baby came all the way from Netherlands. I did a swap with my lovely polish friend Laura this month ( we share November is our birthday month). I'll be showing what I got from that super good swap.

Then I tried some stamping that uhmm I don't know if I like it but oh well. I'm happy anyways cause here I can show you guys my sucess and my fails as well. Thank for watching!

BC: OPI
Base Color: Essence Meet me Now
Design: M73
Stamping: Sally Hansen Pink Chrome
TC: SV

Sinful Colors What's Your Name

Another old one I had to post.

Yay I'm trying to use my untrieds Sinful Colors and for today I have this baby. Very cool polish.

This is Sinful Colors What's Your Name, fine blue glitter in a jelly black base. Based from the first picture you must be like "Where is the fine blue shimmer she is talking about?" I know. Scroll down and you will see.

I couldn't get the fine blue shimmer to show on th efirst picture so I had to overexpose my picture so you guys can see what I'm talking about. Pretty ugly pic but at least you do see the blue shimmer. It's 100 times better in real life than these pictures I promise you :)

I used 2 coats for that manicure and I totally love this polish. It's another hit on my Sinful Colors scale of hit and miss. Hope you guys enjoyed this post! Thanks for stopping by :)

Monday Mani PaA - Plaid ( w/ a little fail)

Here is my take on Plaid for this week. I tried to be as fast as I could and there I had it ... fail. But besides that I still like how that mani looks. Not from a close up though. I used plate M60 cause I knew I didn't feel like attempting a free hand for this. I used Sally Hansen Navy Baby for the stmaping. And oh, baby yeah that polish is great for stamping.

and if you wanna see a swatch for the base color here it is. That is Essie Lapiz of Luxury. A nice cream lavender blue that looks beautiful besides the pain in the neck that it is to apply. The formula is soooo thin that I needed 3 coats there for full coverage. Love love Essie polishes but there are a few of them that they lack consistency in their formulas. It's yet to come my swatches of the Cocktail Bling , Essie latest collection that has been released. I absolutely love them all. And must tell yoou most them could be a one coater. I'll give you more details when I post that here. But Lapiz of Luxury just reminded me of one of the polishes in that collection. Such a graceful color but Essie really knew how to cranck up on pigmentation. Stay tuned!

BC: Essie
Base Color: Essie Lapiz of Luxury
Design: M60
Stamping: Sally Hansen Navy Baby
TC: SV

Happy Monday!!!

Catrice Sold Out Forever

I'm a girl who loves green specially the mint kind ones. I have here Catrice Sold Out Forever. It's a cream mint (more mintsh in real life than on the picture). There is a sublte yet beautiful shimmer in that polish that I wish you could see that in pictures. With Catrice I don't know how I feel about them. Their formula is just so thin I always need 3 coats for full coverage and it takes forever to dry. I love their colors but I'm not amazed by the formula and application. I like their brush though. I have more Catrices so I need to wear the other colors and see if that's just an issue with some of their colors.

But here you have some pictures. For the flower accent I used stickers I got from a seller on Ebay from Shangai. Horrible stickers btw. Hated! They don't lay flat on your nails. Anyways ....

And now Sold Out Forever by itself:

Happy Saturday to you all :)

Sinful Colors Secret Admirer - Happy 11/11/11 !!

I bet there are lots and lots of people getting married today cause of the fun with the numbers 11/11/11 :)

My husband and I have done that on 7/7/07 and it was soooo fun. Except we couldn't find a wedding photographer cause everyone decided to get married on that date apparently. But today we have a story to tell right? Now, I wanna see what today holds. Any special events that you guys know of?

As far as polish, I have something that looks very festive and classy.I had this one on my untrieds stash it's been a while. I then saw that I have at least 3 different brands of polish that have similar polish like this one. I have to do a comparison post. This Sinful Color thought is the cheapest one among them all.

This is Sinful Colors Secret Admirer, a gunmetal color full of fine silver glitter. Very pretty! I remember I had bought this bottle cause I got one for a swap and thought of getting a bottle for myself to keep. That always happens. Does that happen to you too? Go out to buy for somebody and you end up buying something for you too lololo Like I've said before Sinful Colors is a hit or miss. This one is a hit. Really good polish, application was good and coverage with my usual 2 coats.

But now to the pictures :)