Black and Gold Tribal

I used some more of my stamping plates here, and I did actually have a hard time finding a polish that would show up on top of black, so I just stuck with my gold polish. And even that didn't really show up all that well before I put on a matte top coat, the gloss from the Seche Vite really hid the details of the design. (As you can see in the first picture)

The first picture is of my hand, because the image actually came out a little crooked. I did line it up straight but when I stamped it the stamp came down crooked onto my nail, but I actually like that lineup better than it being straight on. But I had already done my left hand.. And I didn't really feel like doing it over. 

I still need to work on placement and getting the stamp straight on my nails. 

Also, my nails are too short, so this whole stamp image didn't fit on my nails. I kind of wish that it was either smaller so it would fit, or my nails were longer.. Lol 

(Image Used)

Seche Vite Topcoat

Matte Topcoat

Matte Topcoat

Polished Used:

Wet n Wild Fast Dry - Ebony Hates Chris

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear - Golden-I 

Hard Candy Matte Topcoat

Plate Used:
MASH 47

Wet n Wild I got from Walgreens for about $2, Sally Hansen I got from Walgreens as well for about $2.50 and the Hard Candy topcoat I got from Walmart for $4.00

And Seche Vite topcoat I got from Amazon.

Sally Hansen Posh Plum and Designs

I've had this color for awhile and kept passing it up, but now that I've put it on I can't imagine why! 

Posh Plum - this is a gorgeous purple color that has a little bit of a duochrome to it. In some lights it does look a bit more pink than purple, but mostly it gives off that wonderful bright purple color. Fuschia! This is the name that I was trying to come up with, I think this name aplies to this color quite accurately. It does have a bit of a shimmer to it, but it is very fine. 2 coats got this opague and to the color in the bottle. 

I did do a design over this as well. I did something simple because I wanted the plum to still show through really well. 

I used Sally Hansen's Golden-l for the designs. 

This has got to be my all time favorite gold as well! I have used quite a few, Milani Signature Gold, Essie Good as Gold... Nothing compares! And for the price, it is amazing for detailing, designing, or a while nail!

I got these both from Walgreens: buy 2 for $5 or 1 for $2.99

Navy and Gold

I did another french tip mani today, but with a little bit of a twist. I did do an accent nail, as I usually do, to spice things up a little bit. 

But I took a picture of my right hand, instead of my left this time, because it turned out better. 

Polishes used: 

For the navy - Milani Sail Away

For the gold - Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Golden-I (or Golden-l)

I don't know if the last letter in the name of the Sally Hansen polish is an upper case I or a lower case L.... 

But anyway, the Milani went on great; it was a little thick, but it did only need one coat and dried super quick, so by the time I was done painting my nails and clean-up I was able to put the tapes down and start with the gold. There was no wait time there. 

The gold was a little bit trickier. It was thick as well, and wanted to goop up at the tips of my nails, especially on my ring finger, which is why I decided to take a picture of my right hand. My left hand; the ring finger looks pretty bad. When I put the top coat on, the polish wasn't nearly dry enough because it had gobbed on near the tips and when I put the top coat on, the polish bled a little into the stripes. But it a very vibrant gold, just a little tricky to work with and, as you can see I was able to get it to work for my right hand, once I knew how it was going to work; this had been my very first time using this polish. 

Milani - Approx. $3.27 (Wal-mart)

Sally Hansen - Buy 2 for $5 or 1 for $2.99 (Walgreens)

Gold and Red

I finally used my striping tapes! 

But I got lazy and just used the red polish that I posted the other day. (Revlon Saucy) 

The tape was a lot harder to apply than I had origanlly thought. It wasn't very sticky, so obviously it didn't want to stick to my nails, but of course eveything else. When I finally got it onto my nails and in the right place and moved onto start painting some of the tape had started to lift, and I hadn't noticed. So my right hand is pretty messed up, because I had done that one last so the tape had plenty of time to be good and lifted. My left hand is still pretty good except for my pinky finger. Next time I will have to be wary of this. 

But I just put the tapes down in a cross pattern on all my nails, except for my ring fingers; there I just did typical french tips for something different and to show more of the red. 

I was going to do red french tips on the rest of the nails, for more color, but then I decided not to... I liked this look too much. 

The gold polish is Essie Good as Gold.
My firsy Essie polish ever! And I must say that I do like it, worth the price definitely. It went on with only one coat, even over the red and dried very quickly. I half expected it to start crackling with how it went on, because the formula reminded me of my crackle polishes; they go on thick and dry fast.

Essie - $8 (Walgreens, it is cheaper at Wal-mart)

Revlon - Approx. $5 (Walgreens)

Black and Gold

I did this nail polish the other day, finally using the Hunger Games nail polish that I got in the mail a while ago. With it being such a bright sparkle I didn't really know how to use it, whether I wanted to wear it over something or just do a few coats and wear just that. Finally I got over my indecisiveness and just picked it up and put it on. 

I wore China Glaze Electrify over Sinful Colors Black on Black, which is just a creme black and on my ring finger I just wore it plain; 3 coats and the glitter was solid enough to cover up my nail.

Electify definitely has a fiery shine to it that I couldn't really capture in the photos. I do think it would have looked better if I had done a gradient rather than just painted it on, but I'll just have to do that next time. 

Sinful Colors - $1.99 (Walgreens)

China Glaze - Approx. $4.50 (Amazon)

China Glaze - Fast Track

When I went crazy and bought a whole bunch of polishes online, I was most anticipating this one and it was well worth the wait! I love it! 

I was exploring Amazon one day and came across the Hunger Games collection and I was kind of iffy about getting them because I had never owned the China Glaze brand before and they were kind of expensive, or at least more so then what I was used to paying for polish, with shipping and tax. But I saw this color and the Luxe and Lush and just fell in love! As you may have seen from my previous post, I also bought Electrify, which I will be showing to you guys in the near future. 

But along with these, I also bought Seche Vite Top Coat, which is amazing! (It came yesterday in the mail) I never knew what a difference a top coat could make! 

Fast Track - it is a light tan color with gold shimmer in it. I have a light skin color, so when light is not hitting my nails, the polish is just barely darker than my nails and almost looks skin color. But when light is hitting my nails it is more of a gold color because the shimmer is so prominant in it. It's so hard to describe this color properly..

When light is hitting, so you can see the shimmer and it is more gold.

When the light is not hitting directly, so it is more tan. 

If I had seen this color in a store, and not swatched on someone else's nails when I was buying it on Amazon  I probably wouldn't have bought this color, and I am so glad that I did! I really do love it.

I really don't like how the color looks in the bottle. It's kind of muddy looking and you can't see the gold at all, unless you hold it really close to a light, or if there's a window near; which, in the stores around my house they are pretty closed off from natural lighting. 

China Glaze - Approx. $4.50 (Amazon)

China Glaze - Luxe and Lush

I finally got China Glaze Luxe and Lush in the mail yesterday! So instead of completely redoing my nails, I just put it on the nails that I already had done because they hadn't chipped yet. 

I had on Sinful Colors Midnight Blue which I talked about here. 

Luxe and Lush - is a polish that  you really need to wear over another color. It's a very large glitter that is foil, if that makes sense... They're foil pieces to make up the polish. They foils are a gold sheen and a pearl-ish opal that change colors as the light hits them.

When I went to put this on, I was dabbing it on at first and it made it go on really thick, as you can see. But on my right hand, which I don't have pictures of, I started to just paint it on like I would a normal polish and it went on much more scattered, and in my own opinion, I like the look better.
The pictures did not capture how beautiful this polish really is!

When I put this polish on however... When I went to put on the clear topcoat, which you will need one because the foil is kind of chunky, but the polish wasn't dry yet.. Well, the blue polish ran over the Luxe and Lush polish a bit! 

Now let me remind you, I have had the blue polish on my nails for a few days now, so I didn't even think that it would have wet it again. 

But now the little foils have a little sheen of blue now. I would prefer that they didn't because it did take away from the shine, but keep this in mind when putting on a top coat. 

Sinful Colors - $1.99 ( Walgreens)

China Glaze - Approx. $4.50 (Amazon)

Cross Design with Milani and Sally Hansen

Sorry the picture is so horrible... I don't have a very good camera. 

I made this design just a bit ago, but go easy on me I've never done this one before and I've actually only done french style tips twice before. But this is done with Sally Hansen's Black Platinum and Milani's Signature Gold. The picture does not give them credit as the black looks more blue in the first one... I did try editing them a little, but Photoshop only works so much. The polish did bubble up a little bit, I don't know why. If any one has a solution to this I would love to hear from you! I have not been able to fix this problem.

At first I thought it might be my base coat I was using, but I didn't use it on my left hand, as I chnged polish at the last minute from a flat color to this one that has a bit of shimmer. And the bubbling also happens before I put on my top coat. But anyway! I hope you like this design! I will be posting more once this one starts chipping, I've never used this gold before either so I don't know how long it generally lasts, but the black usually lasts 3-4 days and nail polish doesn't tend to last long on my nails. 

Where I got the idea: (And most of my ideas)

Link

Milani - $4.00 (Walgreens)

Sally Hansen - Approx. $6 (Wal-Mart)