MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I hope everyone is sporting

their special holiday mani's today, 

I know I am! 

I want to wish everyone a very Happy

And safe holiday!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! 

xxx - Dolly 

 

Candy Stripes

I know everyone is in full swing

with the holidays and their Christmas mani's 

but I just couldn't help but squeeze this last

gem in before I go all ho - ho - holiday!

CANDY STRIPES!

 

 

I'm such a sucker for pretty girlie shades, 

and I've been a huge light pink kick in particular. 

So I started with a light pink base color,

China Glaze in Dance Baby

Once dried, 

I cut several pieces of nail art striping tape

placing them onto the nail in a horizontal stripe pattern. 

Using the following 3 shades,

Barry M. in Mint Green

Orly in Purple Crush

Color Club in Disco Dress

and a sponge, 

I sponged the colors onto the whole nail, over the tape.

Then removed the tape, applied a top coat and vola!

 

YUMMY! 

It reminds me of

something Katy Perry would wear, and SO I'm loving it in all this

sea of Red & Green!

   

A Whole Lottta Awesomeness!

With the holiday season upon us,

like so many others I've been swamped with

holiday cooking, shopping etc.

So I never did anything special for my nails for

Thanksgiving :( OH, THE HORROR!

So to make up for it, I decided to knock it out of the park,

holo style! 

 

This look is acheived with 3 amazing colors and scotch tape!

I started with Layla Hologram Effect in  Ultra Violet as my base

Then Enchanted Polish in Awesomeness, which is one of 

the best purple holos ever!

And lastly  Gallery Colours in Purple Sparkle

 

If you love purple, this is a wicked combination to try!

YUM! 

It was a bit overcast outside so I wasn't able to 

capture the true vibrancy of this amazing combo, 

but here it is non the less

 

Holy Holo Fishnets, Batman!

I LOVE holographic polishes, I mean, who doesnt, right?

But seriously, I'm borderline obsessed with having them all,

so naturally when Color Club announced their 

Halo Hues collection, I was all over that!

The overall intensity of this collection is really awesome and 

the first shade to stick out for me was

Halo-graphic, a gorgeous soft pink.

So I decided to grab for it with this weeks mani.

As my base I used China Glaze in QT, from another

great holo collection, OMG collection.

Then I sponged down the center of each nail with Color Club's Halo-graphic.

I then topped it off with a fishnet stamp from the X-large Cheeky stamping plate B and, 

VOILA! 

 

China Glaze QT and Color Cub Halo-graphic 

 I'm seriously in love with my fingers right now.

HOLO-RRIFIC!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

There's just no way I could not rock out at least

1 Nightmare Before Christmas mani for Halloween this year,

so what better way to celebrate Halloween day with this

Jack Skellington mani!

 Black nails with white stripes, achieved with

Wet n Wild's Black Creme & L.A.Colors Art Deco nail striper in Black

For the accent nail I started with Essie's Marshmallow,

topped it with Pure ICE in Don't You Wish

and then with a Migi nail art pen, I simply drew Jack!

I don't know how much success we'll have today with 

Trick-or-treating, since my area was hit very hard with

Hurricane Sandy, but we'll give it a shot anyway, and Jack 

will be coming with me to keep me company!

I hope everyone has a safe and fun holiday!!

I'm Rocking This Leopard....Hard!

Hey everyone! 

I've got another great Fall mani today...

have I mentioned that I adore Fall?

Stepping away from the Halloween themes

for a moment, I can never resist a cute animal print mani!

Excuse my poor little nubbins, 

my hands take so much abuse that my nails have

been breaking like crazy!

But hey, still no reason not to rock out a cute mani, right?

 

My base color is Essie's School Of Hard Rocks

the leopard spots are Milani's Key West

I created the print using Sinful Colors Nail Art Striper in Black 

and topped it off with a coat of Out The Door top coat

I really could kick myself, as I got a little too eager to finish off

the look and placed the top coat too quickly on my pinky...

the result, a sweet little smudge-fest :/

Lesson Learned.

But the rest of it turned out killer, and I'll probably end of re-doing the pinky. 

 

I am obsessing over School Of Hard Rocks, this color is just SO me.

And the color combo is wicked, 

I love it so much that I know I'm going to use it again on

some sort of different nail art.

 

What new shades are you obsessing with this Fall?

 

Candy Corn Crackle

Today I've got another

simple but very festive mani, 

Candy Corn Crackle!

 I started with a White base, using Sinful Colors Snow Me White

Then I did a sponge gradient of Orange & Yellow 1/3 way down 

the nail to create me candy corn. 

I used a cosmetic sponge with Sally Hansen's Xtreme Wear in

Sun Kissed and Mellow Yellow.

Once the gradient was dry, I applied a single layer of 

Barry M.'s Instant Nail Effects crackle polish in Black.

I topped it off with 1 coat of Gelous top coat, 

followed by Out The Door top coat, 

because the crackle really does soak up alot of top coat. 

I could probably even have used a 2nd coat.

 I know most are over the crackle look, 

but I still really love my crackles and I loved the thought of using some for Halloween!