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!!!!  :)





e.l.f. Berry Pink Manicure

I have had this particular polish for a few months and just haven't used it yet. I have fallen in love and want to marry it. This is a beautiful pink with a sparkle. Again, I can't say enough about e.l.f. polishes. This went on like a dream in 2 coats.

Now you can see why I am in love :)

Something Dark and Stormy

I am almost ready to move into fall colors on my nails.  I love dark polish.  I even like black polish.  While this manicure was originally going to be black with white stamping I found this while going through my nail stash.

This is called Metal Madness by E.L.F.  It's a steel grey with glitter in it.  

Very cool looking.  Very metal.

I figured I should stick with my original plan of adding white stamping to the manicure so I picked out a design.  I chose this one...

I had an important business meeting the following morning so I didn't want to do anything too crazy so I think I did okay.

Here is what Metal Madness looks like on.  It's pretty cool looking and I am happy with the coverage.  This is two coats.

And here is the finished manicure with the stamping.  I chose the pinky because it's a whole nail stamp design and I wanted to make sure it was going to fit.

Subtle with a touch of funky.  :)  Personally I love it and I really love E.L.F. nail polish.  It had great coverage, dries fast and is inexpensive.  $1.00 or $2.00 a bottle!  Can't beat that!!  :)

Final Manicure Update!

I love to extend my manicure into a few days by doing something different to it to save time but to change it up. I have been playing with the same e.l.f. Cranberry and Dark Navy Manicure. You can check back a few posts and see where it started.

I decided today to add some alternating colored tips to complete the look.

I really loved how this turned out!

Ring Finger Art - Manicure Update

So, as I said last night, I wanted to add something to my Olympic inspired manicure. Well, I played around with some tape and crafting scissors and did some additional detail to my ring fingers. Not bad for a first try:

Ignore the dry cuticles...they are still recovering from the glitter removal from yesterday. I did the striping with scotch tape. I used a pair of scrapbooking shears to cut a pattern into the bottom one.

I like the look, it's subtle and ties in the 2 colors.

Simple Olympic Manicure - Go USA!!!

I wanted to do something patriotic in honor of the Olympics, but I don't have any fancy stamping machine, and I can't freehand nail art. I had to go with what I am good at. I had some new e.l.f. polishes I got a few weeks ago, and I had the perfect colors.

Introducing e.l.f. Dark Navy and e.l.f. Cranberry. I picked these because they are deep and sparkly.

I bought these during the 50% off e.l.f. sale so they were $1 each. I have had good luck with their polish, and you can't beat the price.

Now, I had to sit through the foil treatment to get my previous glittery manicure off. It went very well...whoever came up with that is my hero!

The great thing about this polish is I only had to do one coat. It was good because I was in a rush and was lacking any patience to wait for 3 coats to dry. 

I decided to alternate the colors. Simple way for me to use the 2 colors I wanted. I know there is no white, but I have plans for that over the next few days :) You'll need to come back and see what I have in mind.

Here are the bottle shots:

And, on the recommendation of my sister, I invested in Seche Clear and Seche Vite...I am loving them both!

Edited to add: I went back and did a second coat. I had visions of a manicure failure when I woke up tomorrow for work :)