Fantasy Fire

Hi all!

Sorry for my absence again - this time I have a cold from hell to blame.  I spent my entire Thanksgiving weekend cooped up in my empty apartment trying to get better.  I slept, sat on the couch and watched movies, and slept some more.  The joys of living a few provinces away from family and having a fiance in the Canadian Navy, no one came to my rescue! :P  Such a crappy weekend, but I'm finally feeling better!  :)  I hope all my Canadian readers had a fabulous Thanksgiving weekend though!

 

A few months ago, a lovely lady that I met through PAA offered to buy a bunch of us the gorgeous Max Factor Fantasy Fire.  At first I passed on it, but then I actually had a dream about it, and so the very next day I sent her payment and a few weeks later it arrived in my mailbox.  And it took me THIS long to try it out.

 

I layered it over one of my favourite polishes, Nails Inc. Baker Street.  These two polishes were seriously meant for each other.  Baker Street is stunning on it's own, but add the extra glitz of Fantasy Fire over it - WOW!  I just comes to life, and glows, and shifts colours, and just.. sparkles.  So, so stunning.

For the accent I used Orly Dayglow, then sponged on Baker Street, and stamped using BM-317 and Essie Blue Rhapsody.

(Sorry for the chipped nail!  I took these photos right before taking this mani off)

Blue Skittles

Hey lovelies!

I have a really fun mani to show you today, which I kind of sort of copied from this mani by the Polished Perfectionist.  I had naked nails, seen her post and had this strong urge to recreate it because it's just soo pretty!

 

She stamped some roses but I didn't have a nice floral stamp that wouldn't cover most of the nail so I settled for this cute fishnet-like stamp from the new BM set.

I got to use a lot of untrieds in this mani.   I tend to gravitate towards my tried tested and true polishes and ignore a lot of untried polishes but the only polish I had previously used was Baker Street.

Index finger: OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, Finger Paints Blue Raspberry Taffy. 
Middle finger: China Glaze Liquid Crystal. 
Thumb and ring finger: Nails Inc. Baker Street, stamped using Konad White special polish
Pinky: Color Club Take me to Your Chateau.

Thanks for stoping by, I hope you're all having a great week so far!

In love with Baker Street!

Hi darlings!

Quick post for today, I'm off to a cottage for the weekend and have a few things that I still need to prep before we leave :)

 

I was sooo loving this mani!  I even kept it on longer than usual even though I could see that some of the polish was starting to crack.

The accent nails are simply Nails Inc. - Baker Street.  My first ever Nails Inc. polish.  I kept eyeballing it every time we walked by our Sephora so finally I went in and purchased it.  I love love love this blue!  It's so stunning!

 

The other three nails are Essie - Orange, It's Obvious! stamped with my bundle monster plates and WnW Black Creme.  Then I filled in some spots with Baker Street.

I hadn't stamped in well over a month so these aren't my best work, but in the case of leopard print, I think the pattern is quite forgiving.  I absolutely adore the orange and blue together though, in my opinion they complement each other so well :)

 

  Essie - Orange, It's Obvious!

Nails Inc. - Baker Street

 Thanks for having a look!