Needle Marbling & Zebra Stripes (on my boyfriend!)

Here's more needle marbling, done with WnW Metallica, Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure Raisin The Bar, & SH CSM Gilty Pleasure... It kind of reminds me of Jupiter's colors, especially with the reddish spot on my pointer :-) I topped it off with NYC Matte top coat.

But you know what's waaaay cooler? My boyfriend let me paint HIS nails! :-D

I used SH CSM Pedal to the Medal & painted the black stripes on with a striper polish, & finished with the aforementioned matte top coat. He wore it all last night, & out to dinner tonight. He'll keep it on for a while... he loves them! He's pretty much the coolest guy ever <3

Franken Friday numbah 9!

always a bridesmaid :-) I put too much glitter into it, & it's a little lumpy. But... that's what polish thinner is for ;-)

Snakeskin Manicure!

Real (shed) snakeskin, courtesy of an old friend from NC... no snakes were harmed in the making of this manicure, I promise :-P

It took a few different tries to get it right, but finally I settled on a base of Rimmel Bare Naked. While the second coat was still tacky, I laid down the snakeskin bits. Everything is sealed in with top coat.

The plastic centipede I'm holding here came with the snakeskin. I was told it's name is Cumbersnatch... hahahahaha!

So far so good, but I think the texture of my nails is going to drive me nuts before long... What do y'all think?

Needle marbling!

My first successful attempt! Not as good as the original though... I took my inspiration from the magnificent Tartofraises:

She is friggin' amazing, no?!

The polishes I used were Sally Hansen Ion, Cover Girl Forever Festive, L'Oreal Jet Set to Paris, Sinful Colors Firefly, & Sinful Colors Smoking Hot.

It was so much fun, & although some nails came out radically different from others, & NONE of them came out as even as hers did, I really like the effect and I'm totally going to do this again soon! What do you think?

Franken Friday, #8!

I present to you, Unicorn Girl!

Pretty simple, a purple jelly with gold glitter. The story behind it however, is long & complex... When my mother died, she left me all of her knitting needles. Now, I was NOT a knitter at the time... I was a stubborn crocheter, & insisted that you could crochet anything that could be knit. (This is NOT true; each craft has their strengths & weaknesses. Truth be told, I was afraid to learn how to knit beyond garter stitch. Now? I'm addicted!) Finally, one day I decided to bite the bullet. So, while visiting my sister upstate (who had the majority of my mom's stuff in her attic), the night before we went to get matching tattoos of our mom's symbol, we cracked open some beers & decided to sort the needles. There were a gaBILLION. Naturally, we wound up getting a little tipsy, & I decided to sing a song about the first thing that popped into my head. I saw a pair of purple needles, & a pair of gold needles... and kablammo! "Purple & gold, that's the color of the unicorns... & some people like it tooooooo!" My sister nearly drowned on her beer laughing.

So of course, I had to make us singing it my voicemail... and then when my friend Ash Gray heard it and the story, he loved it so much that he wrote a pretty amazing song, using it as the inspiration. (You can buy it on iTunes, I think.) I'm credited on his album as "the unicorn girl", hahaha. So when I had a desire to make a purple & gold polish... well, what else could I call it? ;-)

Sinful Colors Rainstorm

I did promise you, so here it is :-) I couldn't find this polish anywhere, in any of the thousand drugstores in Manhattan. I looked in Brooklyn & Queens too. Nada. But then, a beautiful soul on Ravelry sent it to me as a random act of kindness! I'm super pleased with the gloves I'm wearing too... I spun the yarn & knit the gloves myself.

This could easily have been a one coat creme, but I chose to do two. It's seriously the loveliest grayed out blue I think I've ever had the pleasure to paint with. The formula was wonderful as well. No issues with drying time or streaking or anything. I highly recommend this!

Do you own this color? If you're a SC junkie like me, raise your hands! :-)

Polish Days MAN-icure :-D

Well, because I love my fella very, very much... I decided to honor him today. I let him choose the color for my nails, & he said gunmetal. (He's genuinely interested in my nail endeavors... I don't know how I got so lucky!) I sponged a gradient of Wet n' Wild Venomous Vixen & Metallica over Sinful Colors Rainstorm (separate post on that coming soon) and mattified it with NYC Matte Me Crazy. Because I'm a cheese ball, I went a step... ok, like, 5 steps... further... and, well... take a look :-)

Hearts were made with NYC Broadway Burgundy Frost & KISS silver glitter. Our initials were done with KISS white eventually, after trying several different looks. (You can still see the purple underneath, but I think it looks pretty cool!)

Words can't express how much I love my fella. He's handsome (looks like a tattooed depiction of Zeus), he's strong, he's intelligent, he could easily be The Most Interesting Man in the World from those Dos Equis ads, he's kind almost to a fault, he's sensitive (yet totally not in a whiny weenie baby way!), he's a damn good cook (& LOVES feeding me ;-), he loves all my odd hobbies & interests that all other men in my history have found irritating or strange (growing plants, knitting, nail art, writing, dyeing yarn, spinning yarn, etc etc etc), he's got the most beautiful tattoos all over his body (many of which he drew himself), and he loves me so wholeheartedly it's astonishing. I've never been loved, or loved someone else like this before. I am so, so, soooo lucky to be with him. He is the bacon of my heart and soul <3

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