China Glaze Fancy Pants

Hi all!

Yikes, it's been a little while since I last wrote a blog post.  While I want to be sorry, I'm not really :P  I'm in my home province, spending a whole lot of time with my very big family.  The passed weekend we had our annual family horseshoe tournament and this next weekend we celebrate my grandparents 65th wedding anniversary.  How crazy is that?

You'll notice that I have a new nail shape.  I'm not sure how much I like it yet, but in the last few months I picked up a few new hobbies, one of which is hula hooping, or hoop dancing.  And because of it I've broken SO MANY nails.  So, I'm trying this out and see if they'll stop snapping every time the hoop hits my hand.

Right now I'm at home working on my thesis so I took a bit of me time.  I had two huge nail fails yesterday, and I'm not super happy with this current mani but what can you do?

This is China Glaze Fancy Pants, a beauuutiful blurple with amazing shimmer.  On my middle and pinkie finger we have dots and stripes in Essie No Place Like Chrome.

My index and ring finger have this gorgeous glitter that I don't use nearly enough, Icing Written in the Stars.

I'm holding my hoop in the last two pictures.. how pretty is it?!  It's made out of heavy PVC piping though, which is why my nails have been snapping.. Maybe once I actually get good it won't happen so much ;)

Happy belated Canada Day to my Canadian lovelies, and Happy early 4th of July to my American loves, hope you celebrate(d) with those you love the most :)

Black and Pink

Hi darlings!

Okay.. so V-day is around the corner, and I did want to do valentine inspired nails, I just.. I stared at my stash, wondering just what to do with my nails, and I really just wasn't feeling the baby pinks and the reds and so, this is what I ended up with.

I admit.. I adore wearing black nail polish.  And since I have a pretty dark complexion, it actually doesn't look half bad on my skin tone.  And black and pink?  Those two colours make me swoon.  I have a lot of black and pink 'things', hair included!  Anyway, this is what I ended up with.  Black nails with a gorgeous pink glitter I had yet to wear.  This is one of those manis I can't stop staring at!

 

And, yes, because Valentine's Day is so soon, I added kissy stamps as an accent.  There's too much overlap though so it just looks like smudges, but it was a nice try regardless ;)

 

The base is OPI - Black Onyx, and I used Icing - Glitterati for the glitter gradient.  It has gorgeous fuchsia hex glitter, and holo micro glitter particles.  It's such a gorgeous glitter polish!

 

OPI - Black Onyx

Icing - Glitterati

Hope everyone has a lovely Valentine's tomorrow.. My love is out at sea for the next month, so I plan on getting cozy at home, sipping on tea with my kindle in hand.  Not such a bad way to spend the day :)