Ombre Gradient

Hey guys!  I have a fun mani to share with you today.  I wanted to do a fun ombre, but then I thought "well wouldn't an ombre gradient be fun?!?".  And I like how it turned out.  Though I now wish I had used a different color on my ring finger.  I was going for a light minty green to a blue green and ending with blue.  And the color on my ring finger was just blue.  I wish it was more blue green.  Oh well.

You'll notice my awkward little thumb there.

There is no good way to photograph my thumb.

Ahh, there's my chunky monkey thumb again!

Color's used from thumb to pinky: Essence The Boy Next Door, Essence Shopping @ Portobello Road, Essie Where's My Chauffeur?, China Glaze Kinetic Candy and Zoya Neely.  And the glitter is of course one of my favorite glitter China Glaze I'm Not Lion.

Hope you all have a wonderful evening, and yay!  Tomorrow's Friday!

Zoya - Amy

Good evening my friends!  Hope you all don't mind a short post tonight, I'm dead tired after work today.  But, well, I need to get caught up on my posts.  I have almost 30 waiting in my drafts folder, wowza!

This lovely orange goddess of a polish is Zoya Amy.  And she is an absolute stunner!  I'm not huge into orange polishes, but whew was this gorgeous and glow-y!  Zoya sure knows have to to do those glass fleck shimmers!

This is another polish that would have fit perfectly in the Zoya Sunshine collection. So, so beautiful!

Essie - Sunday Funday

Hey guys!  Hope you all are having an awesome day.  I'm having my own marathon of Tattoo Nightmares.  I love tattoo shows!  And it always makes me want to get more tattoos.  Fun fact about me, I've ALWAYS wanted a half sleeve.  A bright, floral half sleeve.  But my guy (who doesn't have any tattoo's), has nixed that idea.  Oh well....I'm just gonna get another unicorn tattoo! lol!

Anyone else get confused by all the Essie collections that come out?  I feel like there are 4 new collections out now, and I don't know what's what.  Anyways, this is one of them.  This is Sunday Funday.  I believe it's the summer collection, and it was hard for me to pick just one.  I could have picked them all up.  It's going to be hard not to pick them all up!

Can you guess why I picked this up?  CORAL?!?  SHIMMER?!?  LET ME PULL OUT MY WALLET!!

I started to apply and was like, "wait.....this looks exactly like.....OPI's I Eat Mainely Lobster".  And in truth, it is really close.

BUT, this one was more annoying.  It took three coats to get what you see here.  Two was just too streaky to look decent.  AND the shimmer seems to have sunk since applying last night.  The shimmer was much more apparent last night after applying.

With that said, I still love it cause......CORAL!! : )

Hope you all have a wonderful day/week....and to kick it off (I know it's Tuesday, but it's still the start of the week, right?), watch this funny Ryan Gossling video.

Born Pretty Store Review - Pirate Nails

I've got another Born Pretty Store review for you guys today.  One of the products I picked out for review is this awesome skull and crossbones stamping plate.  I actually got pretty creative (for me of course!) with this mani, and wanted to do a "pirate" nails.  This is the first time I've actually used striping tape as well (*purchased by me BTW).

I've actually used this particular plate 3 times (though was not happy with the placement or colors I used in the previous manis), and the plates give nice crisp lines, and I was able to pick up the whole stamp.

Feel free to use my coupon code for 10% off SEL91.  Born Pretty Store carries a lot of awesome stuff, and carries a lot of unique and cheap nail art supplies.  They offer free shipping, and shipping from HK is super quick.

I hope you all enjoy what I created with this stamping plate!

*some products in post provided for my honest review.  See my disclosure policy for more info.

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