Catching Up...

I haven't posted in a while. Life happens and I procrastinate.

I was unhappy with the state of my cuticles (which look awful in the pics below) so I've been working on that some. While they are never going to be perfect, I think they are better.

Also, I've been messing with the length of my nails as well as their shape. In the next few posts, it will be clear that I have had to shorten them quite a bit because I'm going to be taking a class that necessitates shorter nails. I do not want to accidentally poke someone in the eye!

Here are a couple manicures from the last few weeks. I don't have a list of products used, but I will get back to normal posting soon.

This was my attempt at a Breast Cancer Awareness watermarble mani. I used a glitter polish as the base which I think showed through pretty well.

This was supposed to be a variation of a Steampunk manicure. I added some liquid leather tips. I still haven't decided if I like it or not.

Monday Mani - Steampunk Inspired

I have been thinking of doing this manicure for a while now. It's not exactly as I planned, but it turned out better than I hoped too.

Here's what I did:

• Started with Seche Vite Ridge Filling Basecoat
• On all nails except ring fingers, I used 2 coats of L'Oreal Smell the Roses (it's sort of pink in honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness)
• On my ring fingers, I used 2 coats of Julep Winona
• Once that was dry, I stamped using Milani Dark Coffee. For ring fingers, I used Bundle Monster plate H14 for the stop watch. On all other nails, I used Bundle Monster plate 415 (gears).
• To give it some subtle shine, I brushed on a coat of Orly Fifty-Four.
• Next I applied some tiny copper stones at random in the gears and a couple on the stopwatch designs.
• Finished up with Seche Vite Fast Dry Top Coat.

I thought about adding some liquid leather in dark brown to all of the nails, but I thought that might be a little too much. Maybe I'll try that before I change manis again just to see what it looks like.

Friday Mani

I decided to try a black matte mani this weekend. I like it!  I used polishes from the latest Julep box. The hardest thing was cleaning up