Essie Gradient Glitter Sunday

Well, this weekend is over...back to the daily grind tomorrow. That's ok...I have a vacation coming up in 2 weeks! Yay. My first paid vacation in almost 3 years! Well, I will  make this short and sweet. I always do my nails for work on Monday. I'm waiting to get my stud nail art from Cult Nails tomorrow, so I wasn't planning on doing anything but just one color, but I couldn't help myself. I have been looking on tumblr and the web this weekend and have seen so many cool ideas I had to try something simple but with a lil sompin-sompin...

This is what I used:

Essie Splash of Grenadine, NOPI Fabulous is My Middle Name, and Nina Pro Glamrock. This Essie color is one of my favortist colors and I've used probably half the bottle. I used the NOPI glitter because it's thinner and has rectangle strips mixed in with smaller different colors of glitter. I've had the Glamrock for a while and used it on Addie. It's a thick black and silver glitter. You only need one good coat of this sucker to get a full application.

 It started to rain just as I went outside to take my pictures, so I ended up getting stuck under our shed with not much light. Well, I used Seche Clear basecoat, 2 coats of Essie, then I used a thin coat of the NOPI almost up to the tip. I then used a thin coat of Glamrock and right after used another thin coat of NOPI to sprad the glitter around and kind of mix it together. I really like the strips of glitter and was my fav part of this mani. I then decided to top it off with a rhinestone and 2 thick coats of Seche Vite...voile!

Well, I wish everyone a wonderful fantabulous week! As promised, I will leave you all with a lil somthing:

DS Extravagance

Hello ladies!! Did everyone have a good Memorial Day? It was so nice with this 3 day weekend! Saturday my cousin had her 2nd child, Reese, Sunday was my birthday (which just makes me a year older and that I don't look forward to), but it was nice to see family. Allen and I went up to Arkansas to see my mom and grandparents. I gave my mom a manicure and showed her what I enjoyed doing in my spare time lol.
I wanted to out her camera- she has a brand new Nikon DSL. I wanted to see if I just couldn't take pictures or if I need a new camera. Ha! So...I guess I need to start saving up!

So, I used Seche Clear basecoat then 2 coats of OPI DS Extravagance, and 1 thick coat of Seche Vite. This was my first OPI DS. I found it at a Ulta when I first started polishing earlier this year.  I have found one other that I really liked that was available in stores, Mystery. Anyways, I've never worn this until  now, and I can say that it's MUCH more beautiful on my nails that it is in the bottle! I LOVE it! It's much more holographic than I expected. I just thought it would be shimmery and glittery, but it's really  more holographic than anything.

I was amazed how easily and awesome photos were to take and ended up looking with my mom's expensive camera (of course).  The difference in hers and mine is uncanny. I just need so many other things than a $1100 camera! Guess I should really start playing the lottery...