Starred Purple Panic

Another purple, and this shade DOES NOT DISAPPOINT!  This is Purple Panic by China Glaze.  Good gracious, this is bright, yummy neon purple with the best pink microshimmer.  My nails glowed for days.  In person it's way more purple... it just photographs pink, and boy did I try.  I used Bundle Monster's BM05 plate for the stars with China Glaze's Millennium.  This is definitely going to be a repeat performance for me. 

Happy Polishing!

Cute right?.......NOT!

Don't ask what happened here cuz I don't know. This is what happens when you have too much time on your hands and no clear direction. Lissi thinks its adorable... I don't. Stamping FAIL!

I started off with Zoya Jolene, which is a super cute, super bright, super shiny Rose color (that's how my photoshop settings, monitor and color wheel describes it). Then I decided I wanted to stamp that cute leafy pattern from the BM05 plate. I wanted similar yet still different shades overlapping but now it looks like one big leafy mess. I used China Glaze's OMG and Something Sweet and Konad's Special White. Can you tell? Uh, no. *raising eyebrow*

Anyway... tomorrow is another day so stay tuned. :)

Happy Polishing!

KOTD: A Tap Dancing Kitty

Hey Ladies!

I literally have a tap dancing kitty for you today... My niece! It's so weird posting a picture of myself on here. Has anyone else pictured what a blogger looks like based on their nails and online personality? And then laugh when you see a real picture of them because its nothing like what you imagined? Or am I the only weirdo? So I imagine some of you gals seeing my picture and thinking "That is Lissi!?!?! Never would have guessed it." LOL!

So my niece is 4 years old and is in dance classes (ballet and tap). On Sunday (June 20th), she had a dance recital. Her class was dancing tap to the Aristocats song and they were all dressed like cute little kitties!

So I promised her I would do my nails with little kitty cats in her honor... Of course she asked me to do cats on her nails too. I had to promise to do them for her the next day (which I ended up doing them tonight) because she wasn't allowed to have painted nails for the recital. So here is my tribute to my little kitty cat:

I apologize for my horrible looking nails and cuticles. I literally did this manicure (with stamp and all) 20 minutes before I had to leave to the show. So I didn't do a good cleaning up job, no pushing back of the cuticles, and no moisturizing. This was a paint and dash mani!

This is 2 coats of Zoya's "Loredana" from the MatteVelvet collection. This color reminds me of fresh asphalt when its still nice and dark. LOL! Zoya describes it as a medium gunmetal gray packed with silvery shimmer and a velvety matte finish. It's not matte in the pictures because I applied a layer of Seche Vite since I stamped. Application was great and it dried super fast (like most matte polishes do).

For stamping, I used China Glaze's "Millenium." The cats are from Konad's S10 image plate. The little fish skeleton is from Bundle Monster's BM04 image plate. I associate cats with fish. LOL!

Hope you gals like it!

O.M.G. It's my New FAVORITE Purple!!!!!

I have a thing for purple... love it! So many shades... lilac, lavender, plum... but this? This is super fantabulous and cool. It's been around the block with you gals for quite some time now but I just can't get over how lovely it is. I'm talking about China Glaze's Flying Dragon. woof. It's b.u.tiful. I decided to go back to my love of stamping for a while because I don't have the energy needed to remove glitter polishes every few days (that stuff can be draining).

I decided to use the star pattern from Bundle Monster's 05 plate with some China Glaze Millenium. Head's up! Dallas Cowboys fans out there: Come the 2010 season, this is the plate to use with your blue polish of choice. Anyway, it's my new favorite mani. Alas... should be getting my Zoya Exchange shipment any day now so I'm gonna make the sacrifice and change my look yet again. *whiping brow*

Hope you like the look! Happy Polishing!