Hare Bisbee

Tonight's post is going to be slightly lacking in pictures.  I've been in Chicago since Friday, and this is the first time I was close enough to my PC to do a post.

I decided to wear Hare Bisbee for my trip. I have had this polish for awhile now, and I finally got to use it. It's a teal color. I originally wanted to call this polish turquoise, but it is more green than it is blue. In some lights it leans more green and other darker lighting it leans more bluish green. I count this as a blue for April Autism Awareness month here on the blog. I know I'm stretching it with this color, but my other April polishes will be more true blue for future posts :)

One pictures is all I got :) YUP, just one lol. Not my usual barrage of pictures. This polish only really needs just one picture. It is gorgeous in a bottle.

I get a sea, mermaid scales feel from this polish - I LOVE IT. The gold glitters are really unique as well. The color in this picture is pretty accurate for the lighting I was in.

Hope you guys like this, and I will be back soon with some of my haul stuff from Chicago!

Stamping Plates anyone?...

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Tonight I'm going to show you my some of my stamping plates. I finally took the leap and purchased all the Bundle Monster Plates. Currently there are 3 sets with Bundle Monster: 2010, 2011, and 2012.  

2010 - 21 Piece Set retails for $17.99 USD

2011 - 25 Piece Set retails for $21.99 USD

2012 - 25 Piece Set retails for $21.99 USD

I did not photograph all 71 plates since the pictures would make this the longest blog post ever lol. If you would like a closer look at the sets, just click the links above, and you will be taken to the Bundle Monster website to have a closer look. 

I also purchased the Bundle Monster stamping plate holder. I really hadn't see this on many posts, so I took a chance with this item. I figured otherwise, trying to find a home for all these new plates would be a challange. 

 I LOVE THE HOLDER. This is the smartest thing ever created for stampers. 

Each page hold 12 plates, (6 plates on each side), and the holder has 14 pages.  That is a lot of plate storage.

I purchased two of these.

I have my Bundle Monster Plates in one holder and my Winstonia Plates/Konad Plates in another. That allows plenty of room to expand in the future with all the empty pages I have. These holders retail on Bundle Monster for $14.99 USD, and can be found >HERE<. The Bundle Monster site describes the holder as: a modern shiny vinyl, faux-croc skin textured outter cover with a soft velvet-like lining. 

 The holders are so soft and pliable. I love these holders and I can not rave about them enough. My plates are so organized and easy to find now. I highly recommend these.

I also purchased the new Winstonia Plate set. This set is brand new, and I was happy to be able to order it with a discount coupon. 

Picture Source: www.winstoniastore.com

This set retails for $15.99 USD on Winstonia's Web site >HERE<. They offer a lot of discount codes, so if you follow them on Facebook you won't miss out on any of the available sale codes.

I now have Bundle Monster, Winstonia and Konad plates. Here is a picture of a plate from each of the sets.

As you can see above, the whole nail images on the Bundle Monster 2010 plates are very tiny, and Bundle Monster increased the size with later plates. The Konad full nail stamps are also smaller.  Knowing the different sizes really helped me when I was purchasing. Be aware of the image sizes when purchasing.

I still have a lot of practice to go on this stamping thing. It does take some practice for sure. I did use my BM's plates on part of my recent Syracuse Nails >HERE<. Stay tuned for more stamping projects!

Autism Awareness ...

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April is Autism Awareness Month, so I will be doing a manicure for Autism Awareness for today and blue manicures for the remainder of April. 

For a long time, many people didn't even know what Autism was, so awareness is the first step. I myself do not have anyone in my family that has Autism, but I have friends that have Autistic children, so I wanted to join in to help spread awareness.

I followed this video tutorial on Youtube that can be found HERE. I have to say I enjoyed doing these so much. They are time consuming, but so worth it in the end. I'll be wearing these to work tomorrow as well.

Colors I used:

China Glaze - Happy Go Lucky (Yellow)

Sation - Board Girl Blue (Dark Blue)

Sation - Hot 4 Teacher (Red) 

Sation - Jock Juggler (Light Blue) 

I used regular Scotch tape for making my squares, and a dotting tool to make the circles.

My regular readers also know how obsessed I am with Matte Top Coat, so of course I used that to finish things off. 

 

Hope you like these :) How many of you will be joining in the Blue Manicures for April. Love to hear your comments :) 

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Zoya 2013 Summer Release - Stunning & Iresistible - Media Release

In addition to the Zoya Summer 2013 PixieDust collection coming out, there are two more Zoya Summer 2013 collections coming out as well. 

  

 

Happy Easter!! Candy Lacquer Easter Garden

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HAPPY EASTER

First, I want to mention that I had a horrible nail break this weekend. With Easter upon us I did a lot of cooking, and sure enough I snapped a few nails. I hate uneven nails, so they all had to be filed down from the breaks. I actually like to keep my nails really short and they had gotten too long lately (to me at least), so I was going to file them down any way. I really like my nails as nubs :) 

I usually HATE taking pictures of polishes right after I file them so drastically. I have skin that sticks out past the nail, and that skin takes a few days to shrink back under the nail. I hate the way it looks, so please excuse the PAINFUL looking nubs.

Today I have Candy Lacquer's Easter Garden. I layered it over Sation's Magic Mani Bus.

I really believe this should have been called, 'Everything but the Kitchen Sink', lol. There is EVERYTHING in this polish. There are square, round, hex, flower, and butterfly shaped glitters in this in all various colors and sizes. It's a wild polish!!

I love it!! This polish is exactly what they mean when you hear the term 'Glitter Bomb'.

If Spring exploded into a bottle of nail polish, it would look like this! The formula needs to be thinned quite a bit and the dabbing method is definitely recommended for this. Brushing this polish on will just result in clumping, since it is so packed full of glitters.

I really hope everyone is having a Happy Easter with there friends and family. Mine is going wonderful so far, but there is more cooking and preparing to be done. I'm only half way through the eating feast that goes on in my house lol.

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