Multi polish manicure w/ nail stamping featuring Pretty and Polished - Priivate School

Okay so this one was a multi-step mani!  But it came out awesome!!

I had gotten a mini of Pretty & Polished's Private School and I have been dying to try it out!  I felt it needed a base color though so I didn't have to put on too many coats.  I chose China Glaze's Hook and Like from the Capitol Colors Collection inspired by The Hunger Games.

So here is today's line up...

 

I chose to do the little wine glass stamp on my ring finger.  Here is a close up of the stamp design.

Here is a close up of the Hook and Line by China Glaze...since I was only needed a slight base color I only did one coat.  It's really pretty.  :)

On to the Private School by Pretty & Polished.  This polish is amazing!  It's described as a gray creme with black and white hex glitters surrounded in a sea of sparkly red micro glitter.  I bought this at her Etsy store.  I think it was the red micro glitter that got me.  Here comes the photo bomb!!!

The back of the mini bottle so you can see the details.

 

One coat - no flash

 

One coat - with flash - see the red glitter???

 

Two coats - no flash

 

Two coats - with flash!

 

 

Then I added my wine glass - which was subtle since there was white hex - but I knew it was there and I loved it!!

 

All in all I loved this glitter polish.  I had good coverage.  I didn't need to place anything, it all fell in the right places.  :)



 

 

 

 

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!!  :)

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!!