Neon Matte Gradients & UberChic Beauty Abstract Cacti

Hey stamp champs

Purchased by Me

Ok so I was supposed to be demoing the new storage binders that UberChic Beauty released in the holographic colorway that hold 34 of the medium sized 9.0cm x14.5cm  plates and then as I was filling up my binders I ended up pulling the Wild West plate and wanting to do something with the cacti on the plate.  I'm not sure about the creation.  Tbh I have created like 5-6 manis that I feel have been fails.  I'm so frustrated and embarrassed I have hesitated to post anything, but today I decided to just jump in.  I held back the tutorial because I'm so uncertain so unless someone asks I most likely will not post it though the materials for created the mani are listed below.  Regarding the binders - I'll be putting up the holo binders next which are I have to say completely and utterly awesome and I hope some of you were able to pick them up with the initial release or during the recent sale.  I know I  did!

MoYou London Triangle Grid Placement Neon Nail Art + Tutorial

Hey hey hey lacquer ladies,

I'm back today with some nail art that is a little more typical for my brand of art ;)  In short - MoYou London, tribal-esque, and neon.  Yeah typical and right up my alley a bit different from my last delicate mani with the 3D placement.  Where the last was soft this one is bold and right in your face lots of gradient power and eye grabbing color.  This time around I also took my new AliExpress "Clear Jelly Stamper" out for a spin.  I'll have some more thoughts on it coming up in a future post since I haven't had a chance to test it under all conditions yet.  I will say this however so far I actually find it easier to do placement mani's without it than with.  Lol go figure.

UberChic Beauty & Pipedream Polish Radiating Stars Nail Art & Tutorial

Hey stamperistas,

It's been really too too long.  I'm really far behind in everything.  I know I had a lot of you asking about my health and worried and I want to say thank you so much!  I haven't been well lately and I've been hospitalized on and off during the month.  I'm just slowly getting back into the swing of things so please forgive my long absence and for those of you who stuck around I'm going to have a huge thank you for you coming up.  Now let's talk about something that always makes me happy and has absolutely nothing to do with the necessary evils of medical care  - Uberchic Beauty and Pipedream Polish neons! Yas yasss y'all you know I love me some of both of these things.  I created this mani seriously ages ago and then finally got around to editing it today.

China Glaze Electric Nights Gradient Dot & Swirls Nail Art & Tutorial

Hey stamperistas,

Its been crazy quiet over here apologies for that.  I've been in the midst of craziness and now somehow I'm having to plan a move!  Lord I hate moving mostly too because it's hell on my nails! Gah!  In any case today I finally got some time to sit down and do some photo and video editing so I have a nail art to share with you lovelies!  I also took my new Nail Matinee plates out for another spin ;)

Pipe Dream Polish Neon Floral Watermarble Nail Art

Varnished vixens,

It may be winter, but on this blog we are going to sizzle like it's summer and not just because the stamping press is on fire.  I believe in the necessity of neon polish and frankly with my skin tone I can pull it off year round.  More importantly when I look outside and see the horrors of winter coming upon us I can look down and my nails and go ah ok.  This isn't so bad ;)

Orly Baked Chevrons & Studded Triangle Nail Art

Hey lacquer lovers,

I really am sick of winter! I know everyone is sick of it but I swear I am ready for summer.  I skipped the pastel season and went straight for the hardcore neons of summer.  Welcome a few beautiful and bold polishes from Orly's Baked Collection.  They are so hot they sizzle!

I kept the nail art fairly simple today.  Mainly because I was testing out these new Nail Art Stencils by Polish Me To Go (PMTG).  Basically they are like the Nail Vinyls I introduced 2 weeks ago here, but by a different indie maker.  I bought an iteration of nearly all of the various shapes, but I am hesistating about how to use a few so I will reserve judgment of these stencils until I can play with them a bit more.   Then I can give you a better sense over all.  The shape I chose to use for this nail art was the Bolt shape.  They are a bit like twisted chevrons only smoother around the edges and bit more curvy.  I can say I love these quite easily.

The colors I chose for this mani were Orly Tropical Pop, Neon Heat, Ablaze, and Liquid Vinyl.  My camera freaked.  These are mega mega neon especially Neon Heat and Tropical Pop.  The most impressive part about these polishes?  They were really well formulated.  No nasty streakiness like I've gotten before with neons just endless creamy application.  These were opaque in two coats.  I put a white no name polish underneath to really make the neon pop.  The triangles I freehanded and then added studs for extra appeal.



What do you think? I couldn't stop staring at my nails.  They were extremely bright lol almost alarmingly so.  Well I feel better about the coming warmth, but still I will heave a sigh of relief when the winter finally breaks.  You can get PMTG stencils here on the Big Cartel site.  I warn you now try not to look at all the pretty neon glow in the dark polishes.  I was sadly unsuccessful at such an endeavor ;)  Thanks so much for reading and see you next post!

Essie's Action: Summer Skittles Makes Lacquerista's Happy

Hey lacquer lovers,

Friday was quite the productive shopping spree for me.  All drama aside, I got my virtual hands on some lovely HARE polish pre-orders! I'd been lemming these polishes for so long I was so happy to see the shop open again and can't wait to receive my polishes! So now I'm in the mood to celebrate with a fun and funky mani  Recently The Nailsaurus posted a look that has been plaguing me since I saw it - the Sandy Skittle.  To say it was exquisite would be an understatement.  She took one color and put her spin on it in 5 different ways.  I wanted to do the same but not necessarily in the same way so here's my translation using Essie's Action, a bright orange jelly polish released for their Poppy Razzi Neon Collection.

Nail Art Key
Thumb - Tiger print freehanded with Kiss Nail Art Striper in Black.
Index - Microbeads of multicolors.
Middle - Jelly sandwich comprised of two alternating layers of each polish using Lush Lacquer's Lite Brite and topped with Essie's Matte About You.
Ring - Leopard print french tip freehanded with Orly Liquid Vinyl and Kiss Nail Art Gold Glitter. CND Effects Gold Shimmer is also over the base coat.
Pinkie - Gradient using China Glaze Harvest Moon stamped with cG passion using  BM20 (Series 1)

Can you say jelly? Lol! I haven't been this impressed with a neon orange polish since Color Club's Wham Pow!

Isn't the mattified sandwich here so juicy looking? The more I look at Action the more I realize I need absolutely every color from the Poppy Razz Collection. I'm only missing Bazooka so game on!

Close-up's of Lush Lacquer's Lite Brite

The microbeading on this gave me so much trouble. It's my first time using them in this manner but jeez it was quite a bit of work to get them placed properly.

Ultimately, I'm happy with how things turned out.  It's like a small jungle in here :)

This is definitely funky and not for the faint of heart!  My favorite nail is the matte jelly sandwich closely followed by the glitter leopard.  This was fun albeit time consuming. The final result is so upbeat this would be perfect for a night out. What do you ladies think? If you are interested in Lite Brite and other amazing glitterbombs find you can find Lush Lacquer on Etsy.

Song stuck in my head today: Nighttiming by Coconut Records. All about cheating hearts minus the angst - lol.

Anyhoo, thanks for reading and toodles!

2NE1 UGLY Inspired Mani

If you haven't heard of 2ne1 chances are you will in the near future.  Let me just say I freaking love this k-pop group!  These girls are so cute, special, and spectacular in a very individual way and create music that is both super catchy and also meaningful.  I have been loving this k-pop band since the first time I heard the words....naega jeil jal naga.  English translation - I'm the best! In any event the video for the song Ugly is really funky - splashes of neon glow in the dark paint, torn and ripped clothing, masks, braids, glitter, you name it.  Super cool only in the way these girls can do it. I wanted to recreate the chaos of this video on my nails and these were the results.  I'm hoping they fell into a category of beautiful ugly than just plain ugly (pfft).

Super duper neon pink!

Judicious use of crackle.

Sort of the funkiness I was aiming for.

If you want to see exactly how I got this look and the products I used you can watch my tutorial here:

And if you haven't seen the Ugly video you can check it out here on 2ne1's official YT channel.  If you look up the english lyrics you'll find this is a song that many women or men can identify with.  Thanks for reading and now to quote Niga Higa, "2NE1 K-pop shoutout exit - I'm out!" Singing, "I think I'm ugly and nobody wants to love me just like her I want to be pretty. I want to be pretty....".