I Love Experimenting on Mel...

  We got reaally bored reaally fast...  So this is what we came up with on our... Jenga day...
  Be ready for picture overload.  And they are out of order...

Right hand

Claire's Blacklight with Essie Shine of the Times

Sephora by OPI Slushied with Pure Ice Oh Baby!

Sephora by OPI Slushied with Revlon Blue Mosaic

Hot Topic Neon Green with Essie Shine of the Times

China Glaze Mega Bite with Funky Fingers Baby Baby Baby

Left Hand

Delia's Neon Orange and Essie Shine of the Times

(green nail) Pure Ice First Time

Claire's Blacklight with OPI Silver Shatter

Claire's Blacklight with 2012 Jesus Christ Superstar

China Glaze Mega Bite with China Glaze White Cap

Clair'es Blacklight with Revlon Blue Mosaic

  So basically, it was a sans cleanup layering fest.  I just wanted to try random things out.  She actually hated the Blacklight/Jesus Christ Superstar combo so much that she removed it and put some other neon on instead.

  Hope you like the randomness!

Happy randoming,

Em

Essie Luxeffects: Shine of the Times (over SC Black on Black)

  This polish... Oh this polish is a stunner.

  Funny story!  Our class finished our work in Spanish early on Monday or Tuesday and one girl told the girl in front of her to look at her nails.  I was sitting right next to her so I took a look too.  Turns out, she was wearing the Essie Luxeffects A Cut Above (see it on Scrangie here!).  And the girl asked her what it was.  She couldn't remember so I chimed in and told her it was from the Essie Luxeffects collection.  She said that I was right and how did I know that?  I held my nails in front of her and said that I got one from the same collection.  She was amazed by how much this polish does :).

  So my first Essie.  A stunner.  So happy I finally got a flakie topcoat.  I wanted Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure soooo badly, but I couldn't find it anywhere.  But Shine of the Times is a HT, 2010, GOSH Rainbow, etc.  It is the coveted flakies.  And it was a justified price too.  $8.00 plus tax, not terrible.

One coat over black.  It looks green in some lights...

And a fiery orange/red in others

Fingers at various lights to show difference and range of these flakies

  So so so so so so so soooooo so awesome!  *falls on floor in happiness*

  Go and buy it.  Now.  I'm serious.

Happy flaking,

Em

P.S.- Plus, this was my New Years' manicure.  Talk about starting 2012 off with a bang!

HAPPY (late) THANKSGIVING!

  I know this is late but mainly I am thankful for my friends and family.  They are my shining stars in every day and I don't know what I would do without them.
  Without further ado, failed turkey mani!

All with Pure Ice Oh Baby! over it.
Red- Sinful Colors Ruby Ruby
Orange- Wet N Wild Shine Sunny Side
Blue- $OPI Slushied
Purple- Funky Fingers Cheshire

Brown is Pure Ice Magic, gold is China Glaze Mega Bite.
Fail of a turkey face...

Happy turkeying,

Em

Rainbow Polka Dots

  I saw Kayla's tutorial on her site (riiiiiiiiight here!).  Mine isn't nearly as close to awesome as hers, but I was pleased with mine.  I used most of the same colors as my water marble but with Sinful Colors Happy Ending instead of the Hot Topic one and OPI Funky Dunkey instead of the Funky Fingers purple.  It looks okay I guess. It made me happy though :)

Ta-da!  My awesome left hand!

I am happy :)

My slightly screwed up right hand.  It didn't go too well here...

  I needed something impressive for marching band camp and this was what I was wearing for "home camp".  I need something to keep my eyes busy when I'm bored.  I had to explain to my BFF that my nails are my way of impressing people.

  When I couldn't decide between this and another splatter mani, Noah decided on this.  Thanks Noah!

Happy dotting,

Em

(As of when I am writing this, I get my GOSH Holographic in two or three days!!  Eek!!!)

Water Marble Semi-Fail

  I tried watermarbling and it turned out okay-ish.  The reason that I didn't like it was that some nails were lighter and some were darker.  I shouldn't've used six colors for this...
  Those six colors were Sinful Colors Cream Pink, Wet n Wild Shine Sunny Side Up, Pure Ice Excuse Me, Hot Topic Neon Green, Funky Fingers 220 Volts, and Funky Fingers Riot.

Not a bad first try

Terrible cleanup...

Favorite nail was my pinky

No comment

After wiping it off (it never dried) it looked like this.  It wasn't fun to clean...

  It wasn't a bad first try, but it didn't turn out like I wanted it to.  Oh well.  I'll try again another day.

Happy marbling,

Em

Lets Go Mets! (for game on 8/20/11)

  Ok I did this Mets manicure with Ogre-the-Top Blue (blue) and

:)

Again blogger is screwing up the order of my pictures.  Why blogger?  Why??

Niice.  Please ignore the dye all over my hands.  I was tie-dying before I took these pics.

  We lost 11-9 but it was a very interesting game.  Several lead changes and a fire.  Very fun :)

Happy shattering,

Em

Late July/Early April Hauls

  These past couple of weeks have been like a shopping spree for me.  This is kind of sad...

All my goodies :)

Wet N Wild "SaGreena the Teenage Witch" (about $1.74 at Walmart)
Pure Ice "Oh Baby!" ($1.99 at Walmart)
Pure Ice "Busted" ($1.99 at Walmart)
Revlon "Blue Lagoon" ($3.74 at Walmart)

Mini 4-pack of neons with 3.75ml in each bottle ($2.99 on clearance together at dELiA*s)
Love & Beauty "Blush" ($2.80 at Forever 21)

Eek!!  Expensives!!!
Butter London "Knees Up" from their new collection ($14 at Ulta)
Deborah Lippmann "Get This Party Started!" set (including "Happy Birthday", "Candy Shop", and "Forget You") ($42 at Nordstrom at their anniversary sale)

Necklace: $5.95 at H&M
Lip Gloss (coconut flavored): $1.95 at H&M
Lotion (Paris Amour): $1 at Bath & Body Works
Ring: $3.80 at Forever 21

I absolutely adore this!!!!!!!

  Now go out and buy your own goodies!!!

Happy shopping,

Em

Guest Post: Mel

 (SC Innocent, SC Big Daddy, SH XtremeWear Twisted Pink, BonBons Black, BonBons Blue, BonBons Purple Sparkle)
  Mel said that each color was two coats and the BonBons did NOT have names but thats what color they are.  As you can see below, she French tipped her nails and her big toes which she says, "doing the black tips is kindda hard, but with practice u get better."  (I took that exactly from Google Chat so we ignore spelling and grammer there :-P)

Sinful Colors Innocent with BonBons Black for the French tips.

Sally Hansen XtremeWear Twisted Pink with BonBons Black for the French tips.

Sinful Colors Big Daddy with BonBons Black for the French tip.

BonBons Blue with BonBons Purple Sparkle over it with BonBons Black for the French tip.
(If you enlarge it, it almost looks holo!)

  This might almost be Skittles :).  This is exactly like Melissa, a different color each hand (or foot).

<3 you Mel and happy painting,

Em