#31DC2015 Day 6 - Day 10 aka SO DAMN BEHIND!

What’s up beautiful people! So the #31DC2017…I am so far behind I make it look like it’s currently in fashion! Buuuut, between getting sick and being dataless, I think I can be excused! EXCUSE ME, DAMMIT! So now we play the catch up game, which means this post is going to be PIC HEAVY!

I will be posting 5 days posts today, the next 5 posts either tomorrow, Sunday or Monday and then we’ll see where it goes from there. I do want to try and be finished before month end though because I want to start posting weekly again without being tied to a prompt The descriptions in these collective posts will also be shortened so I’ll only be stating the techniques and the polishes/stamping plates used.

So in the words of Corinne from Threadbanger…

DAY 6: VIOLET

Techniques: Dry Marbled decals

Polishes Used: China Glaze Spontaneous, China Glaze Grape Pop, Nubar Pasadena Purple

DAY 7: BLACK & WHITE

Techniques: Gradient, Stamping

Polishes Used: Color Club French Tip, WOW Nail Polish #393

Stamping Plates Used: Moyou Gothic Collection 05

DAY 8: METALLIC

Techniques: Free hand, Dotting

Polished Used: Nubar Silver Mist, Tip Top Gold Digger, Essence “I LOVE TRENDS” Nude Sweet Nude

DAY 9: RAINBOW

Techniques: Watercolour

Polished Used: Color Club French Tip, Color Club Almost Famous, Sinful Colors Fly Away, Sinful Colors Pur Rouge, China Glaze Grape Pop, China Glaze Starboard, OPI In My Back Pocket

DAY 10: GRADIENT NAILS

Techniques: Gradient, Stamping

Polishes Used: Sinful Colors Endless Blue, Zoya Song, OPI In My Back Pocket, OPI On The Same Paige, Sinful Colors Snow Me White (Base underneath gradient)

Stamping Plates Used: Born Pretty Store BPL-027

So there you have all the prompts done till DAY 10. I hope I can be caught up by the end of next week because I am going on a short holiday with my family and then it’s back to “KNUCKLE DOWN, BUCKLE DOWN, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT!” (My husband reads my posts so he now has that song stuck in his head! You’re welcome, babe!)

Lots of mad love…

#31DC2015 Blue aka...no! No aka today!

Hi lovelies! Since I'm not really a person for posting on Saturdays I am going to keep todays post very very short and oh so sweet!

#31DC2015: Blue


I love blue! Seriously! It is possibly my spirit animal of nail polish...funnily enough I had NO inspiration whatsoever I got to this prompt. So basically I picked up my nail art brush, some blue polishes that "spoke" to me and I just went to town!

For my base I layed down 2 coats of Sinful Colors Snow Me White. When this was dry I made weird flamey shapes with my trusty nail art brush and Sally Hansen Pacific Blue. To finish the mani off I took a thin striping brush and added the darker blue lines with Zoya Song.

Blue makes me so happy! And I am LOVING Sally Hansen Pacific Blue. I finally know now why people went so nuts when the original color got re-done...dammit, now I need to go dust hunting for back-ups of this polish!

Lots of mad love...

#31DC2014 - Day 18: Half Moons...Ripply blue nails

Hi there lovelies! I am one of little words today and wont bore you with a silly little intro or rant. I’m blaming it on my epic mental tiredness at the moment...I’m saaaawry! But you guys are here for nails right? Let’s get to it then shall we?

Day 18: Halfmoons 

Aaaaah, one of the very few prompts I was not looking forward to. Half moons plainly said, just looks weird on me. I don’t know if it’s the shape of my cuticles or my short nail beds but like I said, it looks weird! So after I scouted the net a bit and consulted with my adviser aka Ordinary Misfit, I decided to reach for my stamping plates once again.

I started out by laying down 2 coats of Zoya Song on all my nails except for my ring finger. When this was dry, I stamped on my cuticle area with Bundle Monster Plate BM-426 and Sinful Colors Snow Me White. On my ring finger I layed down 2 coats of Sinful Colors Snow Me White and with the same Bundle Monster stamp, went in and stamped randomly all over the nail with Zoya Song.

Even if this is a halfmoon mani, I really like how it came out! The stamping kind of reminds me of water ripple and man, I love love LOVE Zoya Song! But that being said, I do love blue so I might be a teensy bit biased!

Lots of mad love...

Out Of The Vault: Skulls and Roses

Hi lovelies! Heck, I should've typed this post out yesterday already but for those of you who don't know, I am the queen of procrastination...that and I'm very easily distracted, be it shiny things or internet meme's. But here I am! Finally!

Last week I went digging around in my vault of mani's that didn't exactly “make the cut” and found this little mishap. I wasn't to happy about how my roses came out but thought “Meh, she isn't too bad! Lets give her a second chance!”

I started by laying down a base of Tip Top Nail Chic Sun Kissed. For my roses I made random blobs with Sinful Colors Snow Me White and a dotting tool, and put in the details with Zoya Song. For the skull I used a small nail art brush and Zoya Song, and added the details using Sinful Colors Snow Me White.

I'm glad I took this mani out of my vault. Sure, it's not perfect but it's just stuff that I'm adding to my "Lessons Learned" File Of Life! Leveling up!

If you would like me to swatch any of the colors you saw in today’s post, please let me know via email or drop me a comment below. More than willing to oblige! 

Lots of mad love...

Just a small acknowledgement AKA ZOYA FAIRIES ROCK!!!!

Hi lovelies! Today I don't really have a mani post but more like a “personal experience”. A Thank You, so to say! Now, I don't want people to think I'm a suck up or well, plainly said a kiss-ass but credit where credit is due right? Okay, so there are also two pics of a mani that I did in the end but that isn't what this post is about.

On Tuesday my sister and I met up with our very own Pretoria Zoya Fairies, Teresa and Isma. It wasn't anything stuffy or formal. Just a nice lunch with them and a few other clients of theirs. When we got there, we were greeted with friendly and warm hugs and told to play with the polishes, do art if we want and just have fun! And fun we had! I loved that these two ladies were so relaxed. You could joke with them, talk to them and just enjoy yourself without feeling like you had to buy stuff from them immediately. Teresa even pulled out some awesome combinations of color and finishes that made you just want to grab the Zoya polish briefcases and run out of the restaurant, laughing like a Disney villain!...okay, I'll be honest! I always want to do that when I see those briefcases!

Be still my aching heart!

Pardon the bad quality of the photo but look...sparkly holos! *dies*

Before we were done with lunch, Isma did some great mani's for the other clients while me and my sister sorted ourselves out with some awesome mani's! It felt great to walk out of the restaurant with killer colors on our nails and just a happy feeling from knowing it was an afternoon well spent with some amazing people!

Mani's done using Zoya Charisma and Zoya Roxy.

Teresa and Isma, you guys ROCK!

To follow these lovely ladies on Twitter, you can find them here:

Teresa

Isma

Lots of mad love...

First Post for 2014...featuring Christmas 2013.

Hi lovelies! How are you guys?? I have genuinely missed everybody but for the past few weeks it has been absolute holiday chaos here at home so the blog just never got time! It sucks though because I had so many ideas and things that I wanted to post but now they're all going to have to wait for the end of this year. It's okay though. I am psyched for 2014! I have some things I want to start doing more regularly on the blog this year. There is also definitely going to be more swatching taking place because I am busy with a swatching project at the moment but we'll get more into that once I start posting my swatches.

For today's post I decided to post my mani's I did over the Christmas season. Yes, they are all festive and I am sure most of you guys are actually enjoying the break from all the Christmas mani's that we get flooded with over Decembers but just think of them as that “Marked Down” table in the entrance of Supermarkets. Sure, all the mince pie boxes look old and unwanted and the Lindt Chocolate Santa's head has been squished in from all the handling he has been through but damn it, I am going to enjoy my 50% marked down Woolworths shortbread! Even if the outside looks wonky, the inside means well and they still taste damn good!

So, now that I have finished guilting you guys into enjoying some more Christmas goodies, let's get on with it shall we!

My mom made these adorable little cards for our gifts and I thought it might make a nice idea for a mani!

For this mani I used Nubar Greener, Nubar Reclaim, Zoya Chyna, China Glaze Starboard, China Glaze Spontaneous, OPI A Oui Bit Of Red, Tip Top Nail Chic Solar Flare and Tip Top Nail Chic Grape To Meet You.

My next mani was inspired by THIS awesome post I saw in 2012 on Manicurator. After realising I SUCK at making Christmas trees on my nails though, I decided to change it up a little bit. For this mani I used Sinful Colors Snow Me White, Nubar Competition Red, Nubar Greener and Nicole by OPI Rainbow In The S-Kylie.

Last but not least, I saw this awesome idea to stamp over watermarbling on Facebook somewhere. For the life of me though, I can not find the original creator of the idea anywhere so if anybody can help me, that would be great! For this mani I used Bundle Monster plate BM-323, Essence White Stampy Polish, Sinful Colors Snow Me White, China Glaze Grape Pop, Nubar Competition Red and Opi Jade Is The New Black.

In general, I loved all these mani's. I was the proudest of the watermarble mani though. Even though the stamping isn't perfect, I think it is a great idea and and I am definitely going to try it again!

If you would like me to swatch any of the colors you saw in today’s post, please let me know via email or drop me a comment below. More than willing to oblige! 

Lots of mad love...

#MTV Challenge: 5. Blue and Delicate Print...I'm back!

Hi there lovelies! Before I say or do anything, let me first start off by saying I am so so sorry for my absence and lack of posting the past week and a half! My grandad passed away last week Monday and I decided I was just going to take a few days away from the blog because things can tend to get hectic with arrangements and other stuff. I also then spend a few days this week with my family after the memorial service. Michelle from Ordinary Misfit and Voni from For The Love Of Nail Art were absolute rockstars about the situation and said I could just catch up with the challenge when I get a chance! These ladies are awesome!

Now, time to catch up...

5. Blue and Delicate Print

I was so ridiculously blessed on my birthday with AMAZING spoils from my friend, Ordinary Misfit and two of the polishes I got from her was my 1^st ever ZOYA! Yes, there might have been some squealing and clapping like a spastic seal involved when I opened my package but it was awesome! And this also sent my whole initial idea for this topic down the drain because I absolutely needed to use one of my new babies!

Nail Polishes used:

• Sinful Colors Snow Me White
• Zoya Song

Tools/Other Used:

• Konad M73
• Striping Tape
  
  

EEEK! Stained cuticles!

This mani was pretty straight forward. For my base I layed down 2 coats of Sinful Colors Snow Me White. Once this was dry, I placed the striping tape verticaly on a small section of my nail and filled it in with one coat of Zoya Song. To finish off the look, I stamped the flower pattern from Konad Plate M73 on to the open white section of the nail.

I adore Zoya Song! Adore, adore, ADORE! I need to swatch this color because my photos does not do this color justice even slightly! It's just...perfection! Thank you so much M! I might just be in love...with Zoya Song that is!

My fellow lovely ladies are quite a bit ahead of me in the challenge at the moment but go check them out to see what lacquered adventures they have been up to! Gorgeousness all the way!

For The Love Of Nail Art

Ordinary Misfit

Polished Tickles

Passion for Polish

Mama Zombie Mumbles

If you would like me to swatch any of the colours you saw in today’s post, please let me know via email or drop me a comment below. More than willing to oblige!

Lots of mad love...