My Twilight-Themed Breaking Dawn Mani!!

Hello again lovelies!! Time to show you my Breaking Dawn mani. :) It didn't turn out exactly as I had planned, and it is not perfect, but I am still pleased with it. I was planning on representing the cover of each book on four nails (not an exact replica, just a representation) and then doing feathers on my thumb for the part in Breaking Dawn where Bella wakes up covered in feathers. I tried free-handing the Eclipse ribbon and failed...I would have tried longer but I ran out of time. So, sadly, Eclipse is not represented....I just did feathers on that finger as well. I will post a pic of the book covers first, for any of you that may not be familiar with them. 

Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn

Here is a pic of the full mani (minus my thumb which is the same as my middle finger)....

Is that a chip on my ring finger?! GRRR That's what I get for using cheap polish and waiting 24 hours to take pics. Sorry!

Now for an explanation of each finger...

 My Twilight tribute....I didn't have an apple in my plates but I did have the Twilight water slide decal. I applied it and sponged around it with black and OPI I'm Not Really A Waitress

My feathers from BM15 ...if you've read Breaking Dawn you know why I included this. :) I am very happy with how my feathers turned out! 

 My chessboard for the Breaking Dawn cover...I used BM17 and this pattern is actually a tip pattern, not a whole nail pattern. I had to try to line them up, which was hard. I ended up smudging them and they turned out kind of crooked. Not 100% happy with it but I didn't have time to re-do it. They do look better in person than in this pic though.

 I am, by far, happiest with this nail. My New Moon flower...I think it turned out really well! I used BM06 and stamped with white, then I took my small dotting tool and went over it in spots with OPI I'm Not Really A Waitress for the flower and China Glaze Glittering Garland for the stem.

One last shot of the complete mani. :)

Colors used in this mani were Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Black Out, Sally Hansen White Tip, OPI I'm Not Really A Waitress and China Glaze Glittering Garland.

What do you think of my Twilight tribute? I wish I had had more time to make them better but it is what it is. :) I'm sure I will be re-creating it at some point. LOL

Mustache Mani Monday!

Hello everyone! I hope you are having a good Monday so far. As mentioned in a previous post (you can see it HERE if you missed it) some of my Facebook friends and fellow bloggers decided to do a "Mustache Mani Monday" today in support of Men's Health and Prostate Cancer Research. Men are encouraged to refrain from shaving in November and it is called "Movember" (much the same way women are encouraged to wear pink in October in support of  Breast Cancer Awareness). 

As I have mentioned before, I am horrible at nail art. I can do tape manis and dotting but you can forget freehand. I did freehand these mustaches. I spent 3 hours re-doing them and this was the best I could come up with. My thumb was the very first nail I did and I was happy with it. I was thinking this might actually be easy. WRONG. I ended up getting 4 fairly decent mustaches and by this time I needed to go to bed so I just went with black on my other nails. I waited 30 minutes before adding a topcoat and it still smeared my ring finger, which was my favorite one.

I started off with 2 coats of OPI Malaysian Mist. My bottle of Malaysian Mist is very old, I would guess 10-12 years old. It is the smelly, black-label version with the old brush and it took FOREVER to dry. I have a swatch of this by itself first, before I added any nail art.

OPI Malaysian Mist by itself...

 Mannequin hands

For the black I used Sally Hansen Black Out. This black is pretty thick, even with thinner. It is not my favorite, I need to get some OPI Black Onyx. I topped off the mani with my new Color Club top coat, which is nice, it's thick and shiny but it wasn't a fast dry.

What do you think of my "fail art"?  I wish I was a better artist but I had fun trying! Don't forget to send in pictures of your mustache manis to polishaddicted@gmail.com. I will feature them on my blog next Monday, November 14th.

Ozotic 531 Over Black!

Hello everyone!The polish I have for you today is simply amazing! It is brand new from Ozotic and it is one of their new mish-mash polishes. The mish -mash line from Ozotic is both multi-chrome and holographic! They are so amazingly gorgeous!

One thing you need to know about multi-chromes (or duo-chromes) is that you have to layer them over a dark color to bring out their amazing color-shifting abilities. Today I have layered this over a black creme, I will be doing another post tomorrow on 531 over a different color so you can see how it changes depending on your base color.

This polish shifts from an amber color to a reddish purple...I could see green in sometimes but I couldn't seem to capture that in the pics. In the pics are 2 coats of Ozotic 531 over 1 opaque coat of Sally Hansen Black Out. I put Orly Sec 'N Dry over my index and ring fingers and left my middle and pinky fingers without a top coat so you can see that top coat does not dull the holo in this polish. 

I'm sorry this looks a little sloppy....I didn't notice it until I was editing the pics and since it's almost bedtime for me, I could not take new ones.

This is my favorite picture of this polish...you have the blurred holo on the index finger but you can see two different colors on my other fingers!

*This product is no longer available for purchase.*

*Product provided to me for my honest review.

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Sparkly Gradient Halloween Mani!

Happy Friday everyone! I am so glad it's almost the weekend! I have a busy one planned...I will try to post every day but I'm not sure I'll have the chance. I have some good manis planned out in my head so I hope I have time! 

Today I have another post featuring my mom. As I've said previously, I do her nails as often as I do mine so it only seems right to feature her nails on here occasionally. LOL I wanted to do something fun and sparkly and I was in the mood to sponge. I love sponging, it is one of the few nail art techniques that I can actually pull off. I believe anyone can do this - it just takes a little practice. 

As a "bonus" to this post I will add a pic at the bottom of my first ever gradient sponging mani. Please keep in mind this was from awhile ago (way before I started blogging) and my picture-taking skills were non-existent so the picture is very blurry, but it does show that someone who's never done this before can do a good job!

For this mani I started out with a base of Sinful Colors Courtney Orange (I have a love/hate relationship with this polish...I love the shade of orange that it is but is takes several coats to become opaque) and then for the sponging I used Sally Hansen Black Out on the tips with Zoya Faye and Zoya Gabrielle in the middle to soften the line and add sparkle. I topped it off with Seche Vite - not my favorite top coat but it's good to use with nail art since it is so thick.

For this one I used a base of NOX Twilight in Poseidon and did the sponging in China Glaze Dorothy Who? and Zoya Charla. It reminded me of mermaids and ocean waters. :)

I hope you enjoy gradients! You'll probably see a lot more of them from me!

Halloween Explosion!

Finally a new nail post! I wanted to do something fun and still Halloween-related. I tried several different Halloween designs only to be reminded that I fail at anything art-related. So, I decided to do a tape mani that I have done before with different colors.

I followed the tutorial from the amazing blog Nailside (see the tutorial here). She has some amazing designs and easy to follow instructions. Since I wanted to make it Halloween-themed I used black and orange (original, I know lol). For my orange I used 3 coats of OPI Ya'll Come Back, Ya Hear? and for my black I used 1 coat of Sally Hansen Black Out. I finished this mani off with Seche Vite. My edges look a little jagged in the pics but they looked clean to the naked eye. Darn macro setting. 

What do you think of my Halloween explosion? I think it's super fun!

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