Different Dimension - Fifty Shades of Grey Collection Part 2 - Inner Goddess

So here we go with Part 2 of Different Dimension's Fifty Shades of Grey polish collection.

This is Inner Goddess...you remember her...I totally wanted to punch her in the face sometimes...

I put it on one nail and I decided it needed a base coat of white, so I used Sinful Colors Snow Me White.

I just did one coat and I wasn't very careful with it because I knew the glitter would hide the flaws.

Here is one coat of the Inner Goddess...

OOoooooooooohhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!

This totally deserved a second coat!!!

Pictures do not do this justice at all!!  It looks like I have diamonds on my nails!!!  I could see using this for toes for a wedding or some other formal event.  It's just GORGEOUS!!!!!!  I can't believe how in love I am with this glitter!!!

Stay tuned for the last two...  More... and Red Room of Pain!!

Daring Digits! Karen's 1st Indie Review!!

So excited!!!  I have been waiting do patiently for my first indie polish to arrive.

It's official...

I'M HOOKED!!!

How can regular people like you and me create such masterpieces???!!!!  I have never had something so fun and well made from a name brand polish company!!!  I could definitely go broke buying indie nail polish!!

So here we go!  First I need to thank Daring Digits for making this beautiful polish!!

It's called Ice Age and according to Daring Digits Etsy page, it is a combination of ice blue glitter and various sized white hexes.  I wanted to try this over black and white, but unlike my sister I didn't want to waste it doing swatches, so I just decided on a black and white manicure. 

So I painted my nails like this using e.l.f. Black and SinfulColors Snow Me White.  I figured this would showcase the glitter in different ways.  I knew the white polish would hide the white hexes but I still went ahead with the glitter.

This was one coat of glitter...it went on really well!  And I apologize for the blurryness...sometimes iPhones aren't all they are cracked up to be... 

I fell in love with the glitter so much I had to get a second coat of it on my nails...I HAD TO!!!!

How fabulous do I look?!?!?  Seriously!!!  I know you all WANT this manicure!!! 

Check out Daring Digits and you can have these gorgeous looking nails too!!!!

Thanks Ashley!!!!  :)





I Freaking Love Pink..Revitalized

I was getting an itch to change my manicure, but didn't want to go through the whole process. So, I added some glitter on top of the pink. The glitter is from SinfulColors and is called I Miss You. It is a purple base, and it has a TON of sparkle...blues, purples and silvers. and, you get a lot of glitter right out of the bottle. This is 2 coats. It dries pretty fast, and it has a coat of Seche Vite to finish it off.

It reminds me of pink sequins...I just love the sparkle and shine!

New Olympic Inspired Manicure...Kinda Sorta...

Well, I had some big plans with this new manicure. I had bought a bunch of Sinful Colors (before the issues of them using other people's artwork for their advertising) and had bought some awesome colors. So, I chose some lacquer from these to work on my next Olympic manicure. It kinda sorta worked, but not really.

Base coat is Sugar Sugar. The is a nice deep sparkly red. Only used 2 coats. Went on smooth and covered very well.

I had chosen a glitter polish called Hottie, and I planned to paint the top half of my nail with this color, and it was blue in the bottle, so I expected blue. Well...

You can see my confusion. There is blue in there, but it is not a predominant as the bottle would lead you to believe. This is 3 coats. The glitter is multi colored.

I like the look, but it is not the red/blue combo I was looking for, but still looks pretty kick ass :)

Can't wait to get my Indie polish this week. I am super excited to get my toes wet...or my fingers painted :)

Go Team USA!!

I was watching the women's swimming qualifications this morning on the 2012 London Olympics.  If you didn't know the Olympics are on you must be living under a rock.  If you live under a rock you probably don't have a computer or Internet, so you probably aren't reading this...so nevermind!!  :)

I noticed that many of the swimmers had their nails painted and some with some very patriotic nail art!  So that inspired me to show my patriotic side.

I started to rifle through my box of nail polish to see what I had for colors.  I found a blue by SinfulColors called Love Nails and a red by ELF called Red Velvet.  Not the exact shades I wanted but they will have to do!

So here's today's line up...

My base and top coat by Seche, my blue, my red and my stamping white.

Now it's on to find my stamping inspiration...

In the middle is a French manicure tip with little stars...I'll put this over the blue.

In the middle on the bottom are some diagonal stripes.  This will go over the red.

So I decide to do the ever popular accent nail on my ring fingers.  So I paint all my nails red except for the ring fingers.  I do those in blue.

See?

So the nail stamping itself proved to be very challenging.  I had redo several nails...it was quite frustrating.

My cotton ball was looking patriotic but my nails didn't...

But I kept with it, like a true US Olympian would and got this!!

It's not perfect but I think it looks great!!

Just goes to show if your nails don't turn out the way you want the first time around just stick with it and it will get better!!!!

GO TEAM USA!!