LDTTWC Day 3: I Remember When

Hey polished prisoners,

Happy Sunday - woot!  Let me come down from my cloud of mania to say the week went by incredibly fast.   Suddenly, it's the weekend and I'm in the midst of scooting to catch up with my challenge posts.  Maybe this happened because I was also doing mani's for other things this week plus my phone when kaput yesterday so I was dealing with that all day :(  So here I am at day 3 trying to remember when.  I choose not to do a "major event" because I'm young enough to not have hit things like the moon landing etc but old enough to recall major catastrophes like Columbine and 9/11. And while honestly my life is certainly no bundle of rainbows and puppy dog tails, especially these last few years, I want my challenge mani's to reflect the positive aspects of my life and history.  Like my trip to the Land of Oz otherwise known as Australia.  One of the things I loved the most about the land of Oz had to be the artwork of the indigenous aboriginals especially their dot art.  I used it to inspire my own dotty mani...

My nails are starting to become like claws lol! Yes sweet length :)

Mani-logue

Trigger Fimger: Base: OPI Who The Shrek Are You?; Dots: OPI Gargantuan Green Grape, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Going Green, Orly Goth

Baddie Finger: Base: Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Blue Me Away!; Dots: Essie Sweet Talker 

Shackled Finger: Base: OPI Pink Flamingo; Dots: Essie French Affair

Length Challenged Finger: Base: China Glaze Happy-Go-Lucky Dots: Spoiled Designated Driver

Ape versus Man Finger: Base: OPI Funky Dunky; Dots: Sally Hansen X-treme Wear Violet Voltage &  Essie Liliacism

Source: Aboriginalart.com

Well because one of my majors in college was anthropology when I was living in Australia I made it my mission to learn more about the aboriginal tribes, the over 200 dialects they spoke, most of which are lost now, and their history.  Really the way they passed down stories and history through their art and music is amazing!

Even though this is only a slight nod to the dot artwork you can expect to see more of it at some point.   I really enjoyed putting this one together it's vibrant and totally me! Thanks for reading and stay tuned for my Sunday stamping post! Toodles...

Down The Dotty Trail

Hey polished prisoners, 

It's easy and breezy in today's post.  I don't know if I ever said it on my blog before, but my hands never match.  It's a game I've been playing for the last 3 or 4 years.  Sometimes the girls coordinate, but they don't call each other up to dish on which polishes they're taking out for the day.  When they do coordinate or dare to wear the same undies it's a minor miracle.  While I was doing my monarch mani the other day I inadvertently I painted both hands with China Glaze Custom Kicks.  I blame the color because I looked down and bam! Matching claws.  What's a girl to do?  I didn't want to waste it so I decided to add some cute details to spice things up a bit.

I like the effect of the matte glitter underneath the dots. Featured drink was a Passionfruit iced tea, yum!

I used Pixels by Nail Potions/Kunimitsu to sponge on a glitter gradient.  Pixels is a polish composed of small yellow, white, and light green matte glitter that applies like a dream.

You can see all the soft little matte glitters floating around inside Pixels. This is a really beautiful polish!

It took about two passes of the sponge to cover my tips entirely along with a thick coat of Poshe to smooth it out.  Then I used a dotting tool and Sally Hansen's Pat On Black to create a series of dots creeping up the nail.

Heaven preserve me from photographing my dominant hand.  It is SO much harder than I would have thought! The gradient you see is the same one I did in the monarch look using Custom Kicks, Grape Going, and Number One Nemesis.

Pixels is popping here!

What do you think? I have to say I'm really liking matte glitters more and more these days.  Do you ladies have any favorites to recommend?  I don't have any of the highly coveted Nailadventurous ones, but I'd surely love too! If your interested in Pixels or any other pretties by Nail Potions check out her store on Etsy.  Jessica is a doll face and has amazing polishes so you won't be disappointed.

Song Stuck In My Head: Is It The Way You Love Me by Jill Scott.  This song is my jam! First of all Jill Scott is my homegirl - I love her voice and her smokey jazzy style.  You can't NOT groove to anything she sings qnd this one is just so funky.  Every time I hear it I want to dance and sing. It's an instant mood lift.  Thanks for reading and I'll see you next post!