Nail of the ehhh...

This one didn't turn out how I wanted it to...oh well. I used China Glaze's Princess Grace color, it is a sheer shimmery very light pink. I wanted a pink background for the design and was trying to decide between that and OPI's Mod About You. When I tested it out, I thought the black stood out better on the Princess Grace color...plus I was feeling rather royal...LOL!!! I used Konad plate m57 with Wet and Wild Black Creme for the fishnet design and then used the rose design off of the m65 plate with the Konad black polish. I was trying for a lace look and wanted the roses to stand out more but it didn't turn out quite how I wanted. I think if the fishnet had bigger squares it might have looked better...oh well.

Nail polish haul...

See the problem with sales on nail polish is that I have to buy a bunch....hahahahaha!!! BUT IT WAS ON SALE!!!! Sally and Ulta still had their buy 2 get 1 free deals going on, plus with Ulta I got $5 Ulta cash....just so I can perpetuate my nail polish collection...lol!!!

And the other problem with shopping for nail polish is that I never remember what I have so I am going to catalog my polish in Excel (I know, very nerdy). I think I got some duplicates. I need to figure out how to organize them a little better cause I'm running out of room. I got some Bundle Monster plates in the mail the day before last so I'm quite excited about that and now have some new designs to play with. I ordered some empty nail polish bottles off of e-Bay and got a bunch of glitter to play with. I'm going to try to make some frankens with them. Hopefully that goes well.

Last weeks NOTW

I've been slackin' but here is last weeks NOTW... OPI's Rumple's Wiggin' stamped with Orly's Wild Wisteria on Konad stamp m63...purples are awesome!!

Freakin' Awesome Combo!!

I was really excited about this one and thought it was such a pretty color combo!! I love how it came out!!!

I used a base coat, followed by 2 coats of Revlon's Top Speed in Royal (1 coat probably would have worked but I wanted it to be nice and opaque and FYI this one has a stinky smell to it). I topped it off with the paisley print off of plate M60 in Pure Ice's Silver Mercedes. I have found this one to be the best silver to stamp with as far as how it appears against the base polish. I like this one way more than the Konad silver and best part...it's only $2.00 at Wal-Mart!!! I finished it out with 1 coat of Seche Vite top coat.

Konad polish vs regular polish

So when I got my Konad, I just got the stamper and scraper and a bunch of plates not any of the polishes. A lot of people were pretty successful with regular nail polish that I just decided not to spend the money on it. Recently I decided to try some of them and compare...

The color is China Glaze - For Audrey, the bows (plate M3) were in China Glaze - White on White, and the flowers (plate M37) were the Konad white nail polish. (pardon the chippage...I didn't have the Konad polishes so this had already been on my nails for 1wk and was right before I removed it). This was also the first manicure I did with the Konad plates too. Personally I liked the Konad white better for the stamping but I still liked the regular one. If you know of a better regular white nail polish, let me know!!

How it all began...

I've been painting my nails since I could sneak my mom's nail polish out of her room. :) Recently, I had a friend post a pic on Facebook about a Konad print she did....and then the flood gates opened and I found a world of nail polish that I never knew existed. My nail polish collection exponentially multiplied like rabbits after that as well.

So here I am just looking to explore it further and !! Hope you enjoy!!