Nails and Knitting

I'm still on quite a brown kick. I just love the warm shades of almond, coffee, chocolates... Oh wait, those are food. Well, you know what I mean. ;)

Today's mani is a simple one, but I'm happy with the end result. I chose a basic floral silhouette and stamped it in pieces on the bias over my nails.

Orly Nailtrition
OPI DS Illuminate x2
Stamped with Essie Penny Talk and Salon Express SE19
Essie Good to Go

I'm also showing a little bit of knitting I've been doing. A friend of mine asked me to make a hat and mittens set for her mother in law. Hopefully the mittens will speed along like the hat has!

Leopard Nails

How fun! I'm personally more of a giraffe print girl, but seeing how I don't have a giraffe stamp and I didn't feel like freehanding that, leopard it is. ;)

This is the second time I've tried these. Yesterday's attempt was an absolute fail. I used a shimmery gold polish as the base color and it just looked AWFUL with my skin tone. Yuck.

For this, I decided to Google leopard skin to find some inspiration for colors. I found a beautiful photo that showed a multi-colored base of white and tan - perfect.

To create the look on my nails, I started by painting them white. I then sponged on a glittery/holographic brown in random spots, leaving generous portions of the White showing through. I then stamped on the black spots and yay! Little leopards on my nails.

Polishes used:

Revlon Colorstay Gel-Smooth Base Coat
Sinful Colors Snow Me White
OPI DS Illuminate
Milani Black Magic
Seche Vite

RAWR!

Sparkling Almonds

I seem to have a theme this week - titles about food and shades of brown polish. I blame the food part on my Zumba schedule, and the brown polish on Autumn. ;)

After I did my chocolate mani yesterday, this lovely gem showed up from ebay. It's another attempt to have a polish that looks like the discontinued and very hard to find OPI Holiday Glow that I posted about yesterday. I think I might like this even more than Holiday Glow!

This is OPI DS Illuminate, a discontinued but gorgeous scattered holographic polish with a duochrome shift. There's so much awesomeness going on in this one!

I couldn't resist and actually did this last night after I got home from my class. I just had to see what it looked like on my nails! I loved the chocolate mani from yesterday, but THIS is just beautiful and might be my go-to color for Fall!

Polishes used:

Revlon Colorstay Gel-Smooth Base Coat
OPI Wooden Shoe Like to Know x1
OPI DS Illuminate x1
Seche Vite

Salted Chocolate

Drive by posting today!

I have a busy afternoon and evening but I squeezed in a mani - fresh nails always make me feel better!

There's a discontinued OPI polish from a couple of Winters ago called "Holiday Glow" that I desperately want, but I can only find it as a part of a mini set. Today's mani is kind of a "close as I can get for now" homage to it. ;)

Polishes used:

Revlon Colorstay Gel-Smooth Base Coat
OPI Wooden Shoe Like to Know x2
Essie As Good As Gold x1
Gelous
Seche Vite

They kind of remind me of delicious Salted Chocolate candies! Very Autumnal = ❤

Wednesday Water Marble

I've been wanting to try water marbling for a long time! It's such a gorgeous finished look! Each nail is like a Snowflake - all slightly different.

It took a few tries to find polishes that would work together. I nearly gave up, but finally decided to try something different. It worked and I couldn't be more pleased with how they turned out.

Polishes used:

Revlon Colorstay Gel-Smooth Base Coat
OPI Bubble Bath
Water marble with OPI Peace Love & OPI and Bubble Bath
Gelous
Essie Good to Go