2 cheery orange mani's

I had to take a break from blogging. I literally did not look at my blog for 3 days! It is easy for me to spend 2 plus hours reading nail blogs and watching nail videos, and I had to go cold turkey for a couple of days to get some crafts and sewing done. I am soooooo behind on reading blogs and adding my own stuff.

-♥- I MISS IT WHEN I AM NOT READING NAIL BLOGS AND LOOKING AT NAIL PHOTOS -♥- but; my time management skills are terrible and I have a tonne of things I want to sew, jewelery I want to make and crafty home decorating things I want to do.

I have alot of nail blog catching up to do!!!!!

anyhoo;  this is 3 coats of Wet n' Wild Blazed, a fabulous eye-catching orange creme. I swiped a pretty shimmery burnt orange polish across the tips of my ring nails, and used a dotting tool to make graduated sized dots. I added the single silver hex glitter and a coat of TC.

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I found 5 of the L.A. color's COLLECTIONS the next town over. The dollar store in Portage La Prairie Manitoba is awesome!!!!! I found the metallic's, french, disco, rock-star, and matte. I also found a display of Jordana polish and Jordana stripe polish, as well a s the LA Colors stripe polish & some of the LA Girls Color Craze polish's which was really nice because now I know where to purchase all of these in a real store vs. online.  Today I grabbed Metallic Olive, and even though I am off of my 'low-buy' I am proud I restrained myself♥

...... and another cheery orange mani

NYC Prince Street, 3 thin coats without TC. I tried to copy a beautiful mani I have seen recently but fudged it up so bad that it was un-salvageable. This is a darker range shade and does need 3 to 4 coats - all of the NYC in a New York minute polish's I have tried dry very very fast.

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Berry Blast Off

This is 3 thin coats of NYC Manhatten, followed by 2 coats of At Deco pink stripe polish, a purposely messy addition of Raspberry glitter and a few of those fake rhinestones set into wet Top Coat. I really should have used 2 coats of top Coat, becuase this glitter textured and marred what should have been a shiny surface.

It's strange how some glitter nail polish is smoothe and only needs a light coat of Top Coat, and some glitter polish needs 2 or even 3 coats to get a shiny even surface. I got these fake rhinestones from the DollarRama and if they are covered by polish, any polish, the shiny finish clouds over. So now I just set them into wet top coat.

These fake rhinestones hung on for the day despite being placed into wet Top Coat..... My thumb nails and ring nails lost a few gems towards the evening but none of them got stuck in my hair.... this time!

NYC New York Color Manhatten, Art Deco Pink Stripe Polish, Icing Raspberry Glitter

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I used a piece of spaghetti ( not cooked lol ) to pick up these gems and place them into wet TC

My Right hand, which I plan on adding to more posts.... my left hand gets all the glory

Icing No-Name Glitter...... I think I'll call it Raspberry Glitter

 2 'coats' of Stripe polish

with the glitter & gems

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another pretty sponge mani

This was 3 coats of NYC Prince Street, followed by NYC Chelsea sponged on, then a coat of Maybelline ColorRama #40 Frosty Pink. I wanted the two polish colours to be distinguished on the nail, and it turned out just the way I hoped. 

The ColorRama Top Coat was a last minute addition. This is supposed to be the same shimmery particles that are in Clarin's 230 or Unicorn Pee as it's referred to on MUA. The particles in  ColorRama #40 Frosty Pink have a unique property in that they look like glowing embers floating off of a burning fire.

I picked up this ColorRama polish at the Dollar Tree USA in my great USA haul of 2010.

NYC Prince Street, NYC Chelsea, Maybelline ColorRama #40 Frosty Pink

Below is NYC in a New York Color minute quick dry polish in Prince Street. this was 3 coats.I would say this need 4 thin coats to opacity - it does dry fast! Hopefully for my next franken collection I will be using this polish, I have already used NYC polish's for some fabulous frankens and  I know I could whip up some stunners with this polish by just adding black, white and a few other shimmers I have kicking around to make some lovely polish's.

NYC Prince Street - 3 thin coats No Top Coat

.... also F-yeah! I found 2 more of these discontinued artificial nails at a dollar store in my town!

I like how they say 'career length' and I call them trophy wife length lol! in photos where my nails are on the long side, this is what I am wearing. Lately I have been using Nailene shorter length square artifical nails..... Typing with long nails like the ones above is not fun........

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Franken polish series made with NYC East Village RE-Cap

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Thumb- Franken Holding Hands on an Escalator
Index- China Glaze Sexy in the City
middle- East/West Village Franken
ring- Icing Dark & Stormy
pinky- Icing Roger That

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Above is a quick comparison of some similar colours and two of my favorite frankens from this batch that I made with NYC East Village....


All that I used to make these 8 frankens was, NYC east Village, a shimmery lite blue silver micro-glitter polish, and black and white. I always take my time and add polish in small amounts. (The 8th polish is missing from the re-cap as I have not worn it alone yet.)

I picked NYC East Village, which is a shimmery sheer teal polish for this franken series  BECAUSE ALMOST EVERY POLISH COMPANY HAS A SHEER SHIMMERY TEAL POLISH JUST LIKE THIS. In face I am certain that I did a post comparing this very same polish with 6 other brands and the results were that they were dupes.

this was 5 coats and it is still a little too sheer for me

While mixing East Village with West Village created a salivating deep teal polish, just adding black or white or black and white ( Grey lol ) to NYC East Village made some seriously beautiful polish. I am happy with all 8 that I whipped up and have already started on another franken polish series which I will start posts on tomorrow.
 

Also - I am positive with a little more tweaking, and possibly a few drops of Sally Hansen X-treme wear Emerald City I could totally dupe Icing Dark & Stormy. So if you missed out on China Glaze Rodeo Fanatic, or Joe Fresh Peacock, or Icing Dark & Stormy, mosey on down to a dept store and pick up these two in-expensive polish's and start mixing..... I seriously did not want to take my East/west Village Franken off and wore it for alot longer than my usual mani's.

If you have used East Village to make any franken

polish I would love to hear about it!

l-r - Franken Holding Hands on an Escalator, China Glaze Sexy in The City, Franken East/West Village, Icing Dark & Stormy, Icing Roger That.

L-R - East/West franken / Icing Dark and Stormy

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east/west village franken

Made with NYC East Village and NYC West Village

against all odds

made with NYC East Village and lite blue shimmery micro glitter polish

laughing through my tears franken

Made with NYC East Village, SH White dove & Sally Hansen Balance Frost

shown layered over a light Grey creme

welcome to the jungle

Made with NYC East Village, white and black creme polish

is this love

made with NYC East Village and white

holding hands on an escalator

made with NYC East Village, NYC West Village and lite blue shimmery micro glitter polish

i aint missing you

made with NYC East Village and white

franken polish made with NYC East Village

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Franken and Plug Youself Sunday

3 coats of Claire's Matte Grey, with franken 'Laughing Through my Tears' layered over - NO Top Coat. I made this sheer franken with NYC East Village Sally Hansen White Dove and Sally Hansen Balance Frost I added some clear polish to that mix as well.

White Dove is a milky irridescent that leans on the teal side but flashes to a medium/deep purple. It is a weird consistency in that is translucent but also applies very streaky. I had hoped by watering it down with some clear polish, then adding the sheer NYC east village, and another milky purple iridescent polish I could make this a much more manageable polish and kick up the irridescent flash.

Sally Hansen Beyond Perfect White Dove Layered over Black ( these are my real nails )

So this is  work in progress and I will have to add much more clear to SH White Dove to get it to the consistency and translucency that I want. When the Beyond Perfect polish's were available in stores I never bought any. I think they were quite pricey compared to other Sally Hansen polish's at the time. I did find an assortment on eBay last night ( oh my - ebay - you time sucker you ) and there are 2 or 3 Sally Hansen  Beyond Perfect that have a iridescent/duo-chrome or strong flash like White Dove. I'll have to hit up those dollar stores in my town for another one of these - hope they have some left.

Also; please leave a link to your nail blog so I can add you to my nail blog roll -  I will assemble a post tomorrow with all the new blogs I added to my roll.

2 coats of my franken 'Laughing Though my Tears layered over Claire's Matte Grey

NYC East Village , SH White Dove, SH Balance Frost and my Franken Laughing through my Tears

2 coats of NYC West Village - with 2 coats of my franken layered over West Village

3 coats of Claire's Matte Grey, 2 coats West Village on Thumb

w/ 2 coats of My Franken Layered

3 coats of Claire's Matte Grey no TC

2 coats of Franken Laughing Through my Tears layered over Claire's Matte Grey

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Against All Odds Franken

Franken 'Against All Odds' 4 coats - no TC

Okay, it's not an 80's hair metal song, but Phil Collin's had alot of awesome hits in the 80's, and this is a wicked song.....plus I ran out of ideas for franken names and ended up watching dozens of Phil Collin's videos on You Tube.

I made this franken with NYC East Village, and Icing Starry Eyes which is a silver micro-glitter in a sheer lite blue base with blue iridescent flecks scattered throughout. ( Starry Eyes is discontinued  - it was very plain on it's own)

I am not sure if I should call the silver glitter in this polish fine glitter or micro-glitter..... it is very small but still obviously glitter.

The base colour did not change much for this franken. It was still very sheer, I may add some white creme polish to this in the future, but for now I am happy with how this turned out as well. I have 2 more frankens to share which were made with NYC East Village. So far they have all worked out perfectly.

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fuzzy indoor fluorescent pic

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I Ain't Missing You Franken

Here is a new franken I made with NYC East Village and a plain white creme.... this is paired with another franken that is made with the same polish's, just different quantities.

These are both cremes with subtle shimmer. The darker franken needs 2 coats for full coverage, while the lighter franken needs 3 or more..... it is sheer but they both dried fast because both polish's that I used to make these have a great fast drying formula.

I used my nifty pattern scissors to make this scalloped design, I cut them out of mailing labels

see the gooey bits left over.... that's because it is very humid inside right now.

with a coat of TC

with Is This Love franken

with I Ain't Missing You franken

I made these two frankens with NYC East Village and Billie French White

above |L-R NYC East Village, Billie White, I Ain't Missing You and Is This Love Franken

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