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Cooooookie Crisp Lines

I'm back! Inspiration struck...and stuck! I'll often think up a manicure, love it in my head, and then as soon as I sit in my polishing chair, hate it or try to think of something else. I don't know why I psyche myself out like that, but it'll often result in a poorly thought out or poorly executed design. Not tonight! Tonight...we've struck gold! White gold!


I wanted to use my new TheHungryAsian polish, Cookies & Cream. (I've decided to change the way I display polish names from being italicized to bold, for easier readability.) I took her advice and used an opaque white underneath, White On (Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear). I'm not even sure how I came up with the idea for the stripes, but they worked out perfectly! I used Light Mist (Savina), Papaya Punch (China Glaze) and my small striping brush from Color Madric, Black. I got the crisp lines using tape. Good ole tape.

Glitter and Nail Art: Day 3


Do you know how hard it is covering up even just a tiny bit of today's glitter? It literally pained me to apply any strokes of a different color to Sneeze Breeze, a sick blue glitter from TheHungryAsian. That also may have been from the recent increase in weights during YPump, but let's attribute it to the gorgeous polish shall we? After all, this is Nailed It, not Wailed It.

I thought it appropriate to add roses to Sneeze Breeze. It's Attack of the Cottonwoods out here in Boulder, as day after day, little soft fluffy cotton drifts breeze around town. It's beautiful, especially at night when cars' headlights capture them moving across the surface of the roads, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't constantly pumped full of allergy medicine. Stupid gorgeous nature!

The roses were done with Hot Like Lava (Color Club), White On (Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear), Be My Valentine (Sinful Colors), Green (Color Madric), and a hint of Me First (Sinful Colors). Whew! 

I layered Sneeze Breeze over Swimsuit...Nailed It! (OPI) because I didn't want to waste any of it. They actually appear quite close in color at first glance, but the OPI doesn't pack the neon punch like Sneeze Breeze. I don't know where Kae (TheHungryAsian's shop owner) found the blue glitter used in this, but it's a mind-melter. Is it neon? Is it shimmering? Is there more than one color of blue in there? I wish I had these answers, but alas, my glitter envy stops at buying polishes, not making them.