First ever konadicure!

I used China Glaze Shocking Pink (neon) and Konad Special Polish in Black Pearl. This took me about to hours to really get the hang of it and finish.

Sorry for the AWFUL picture...this is not true to color at all and is a cellphone pic. At the time I didn't know how to adjust the macro/conversion lens on my camera. And I didn't really clean up my cuticles at all here lol. But, I thought it was pretty good for my first konad (:
Thanks for looking,
B

new goodies.

so yesterday my mom took me 'school shopping' haha. Yeah, I still get to do that...even in college. :P So we went to Kohls and hit up some clearance racks and I got some great clothes. A few pair of jeans (Candies has these great jeans right now that are REALLY soft and comfy) 2 pair from Candies and 1 pair of Elle denim leggings. I got two long boyfriend-style shirts(grey and stripes), and one regular navy blue button up. I got an Elle dress that is similar but dressier that several of the dresses that I already own. I got a black sequin tank top and a tiered skirt (love love love...I think I'm going to go back and get the fushia one to). My favorite item was this tiered Candies top by Britney Spears. The tag says that it's limited edition. Anyway, I LOVE LOVE LOVE it..can't wait to pair it with those skinnies and some heels or cute flats. I also needed a particular belt for a particular dress that I own and when I got the the belt/bag/scarf section..OMG 90% off?! So I got 3 scarves (and one that didn't make it home?) and about 5 belts...for $2.40 A PIECE! And they're all Candies and Apt 9...and super cute. So I'm pretty excited now to go back to school.
Speaking of school....I need to register for classes.

Inspiration: Rita's dress!

I follow several nail blogs and view a lottt more! This is my 3rd or 4th one, I own the m57 (duh) and the m03 and just recently got the bundle monster plates - yay! I've only starting konad-ing recently, but I'm a long time nail polish collector and and super glad to have something cuter than just plain polish that I can actually do.

So I thought I would post my own "konadicure" and see how it went. It's pretty apparent that I need more konad-worthy stamp colors and/or special polishes. Right now I only have the Black Pearl Special Polish. So I got my inspiration when I was watching Dexter. Rita had on this great dress and fortuntely she did a shoot in it so I have a good picture to go by:

Isn't that a cute dress! I was watching and thought, "wow that would be a cute nail design!" I wanted to do a lacey-ish french tip but my nails are really short right now so I didn't even try! Haha.

This is what I used:
Base coat: Sally Hensen Double Duty (not sure if I like it yet, but I needed a strenthing base coat)
Base color: Sally Hansen - 02 Whirlwind White topped with American Manicure Sheer Effects in Pink Opal
Leaf color: Funky Fingers (super old! do they still make this brand?) Rebel
Flowers: For the blue: China Glaze Sexy in the City, and for the pink: ULTA Flamingo (old?)
and the plates I used were from the bundle monster set: BM03 and BM16 (also found on BM11?)
Oh yeah and rhinstones I picked up from eBay.

Hahah...I should have cleaned up better, sorry!

and here it is: (I'm a n00b)

I'm pretty SURE that my worse problem is cleaning up around my cuticles...the brush that I was using to do it kind of gave out on me. I need to pick up a flat stiff brush at Michaels..

My work space/stamping tester is largely made up of my desk calender..hahha. July is quite decorated.

Tell me what you think!
Until next time,
xoxo.

My first water marble (from a few days ago)

I was so excited to try this! And so glad I went for it. I read/heard that it was actually hard but I found it really really easy once you got the hang of it (meaning I spent about 10 minutes making designs and screwing them up until I got the swing for drying times, where not/to put the toothpick, etc). I was really happy with it until I piled a gob of glitter of it and like 4 coats of top coat! The story behind that many coats is that I thought I was finished, so I slapped on 2 coats of seche vite top coat, and later than night after I showered I thought, "oooh, glitter.." so, I glittered. Two coats of that, and at least 2 more coats of top coat. Am I crazy? I don't know. I couldn't stand how thick it was and I had to take it off. BUT I must say that overall my first water marble was a success! (I really wish I had post-glitter pics!) The gobs-o-glitter and top coat even made the pics turn out funky...must redo soon.

Oh, here is what I used:
base coat,
base color: 2 coats of China Glaze Shocking Pink (neon),
Marble: China Glaze Shocking Pink (neon), Sexy in the city (I think), and Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Deep Purple,
the glitter is Pro but I'll have to dig it up and look for the name,
and Seche Vite top coat.

Thanks for looking!
xoxo