St. Patty Patchwork

Okay, so I'll take a break from the Crackles *sigh* lol. Well since St. Patricks Day is coming up, isn't it, and I have a brand new St. Patty's Day polish from Five Below, I figured I should do a green Patchwork mani. For this I used OPI Gargantuan Green Grape, Funky Fingers Erin & Sinful Black on Black.

I started with 3 coats of Gargantuan Green Grape, 3, yep you heard right 3 freaking coats, man I forgot how much of a PITA this was. Oh well.

Then I taped them off, and added the Funky Fingers Erin. Such a pretty sparkly green, which I can say, I don't own anything like it. I then added a coat of SV.

For my final color, I added my fave go to black from Sinful. and another coat of SV

 I am loving this soooo much!!!! If you are looking for a How-To on this, I have one posted up above in my 'Tutorials' tab.

Umm...Not how I pictured in my head

Okay, so not all my ideas are great, lol. If only you guys could see in my head, the way this was supposed to turn out! Anyways, this is the idea that I didn't finish on my previous post, because I thought with the glitter it would have been too much. Well I just don't like it with the butterfly. Oh well.  For this I used Sinful's Black on Black and Confetti Debutante.

 

 

Once again, I started with my black

 

Then this is how I cut my tape. I didn't want perfectly straight lines, so I did this.

 

 

 

 

with all my nails taped, polished then a coat of SV on. 

 

 

 

 

now this is the wheel of butterfly fimos that I ordered off of eBay

and finally with a cute butterfly. I am just not feeling the look of this, and had it pictured different in my head. 

An idea that would have been too much

So yesterday I mentioned buying 2 new Funky Fingers, well here is #2. This is called Sand and Stilettos, I <3 this name!!! Thinking this was going to be semi sheer like Golden Coast, I first used a base of Sinful's Black on Black. To my surprise, it was really almost opaque in 1 coat! Then I had this idea I wanted to do, since I had some fimo butterflies with me, but after I did the scotch tape design, I thought it would have been too much. So I just left it as is, and on my lunch break, will attempt my idea with other colors :)

I started with my black

Then added 1 coat of Sand and Stilettos

then half ass attempted my idea, lol, but here is a sneak peak, or idea, for tomorrows mani :)  I again used my black for the design & scotch tape.

Dawn...or AKA Daddy's Little Girl

If you're a jelly lover like me, then you need Sinful's Daddy's Girl. It's a beautiful deep/bright purple jelly with minimal glitter. The one in this mani does have a label that read's Dawn, but it was just a re-released color with a different name for Halloween 2010. I was tricked into buying both *shakes fist at Sinful*, trickery is not nice! This was 3 coats.

A Patchwork mani with Across the Universe

Remember how I did a few manis using OPI Lincoln Park After Dark Matte??? Well here is another, lol.
I actually did this just for fun, when I had the OPI Deborah Lippmann, and black in my purse for like 2 days. I didn't wear this out, but just tried it to see how it would look. I actually really liked how it turned out, even though the black is kind of hard to see, oh well. I used Deborah Lippmann Across the Universe, Sinful Black on Black and OPI Lincoln Park After Dark Matte.

More Water Marbling....

Okay, so I hope you all don't mind another post on Water Marbling. I did 2 more, lol. I'm just having so much fun with these. Thanks a lot Crystal, haha. I promise tomorrows post will be something else.
For this one I used Sinful's Dream On and Pure Ice Risk Taker. I first did a base of Sinful's Black on Black though.

For this one I used a base of Sinful Black on Black again, and OPI DS Original, OPI Lucky Lucky Lavender & Sinful's Black for the marbling.

How Konad killed my mani....

**EDIT** I just wanted to let you all know, I have added a 'FAQ' tab up above, under the header

So I invisioned this mani looking WAY differently in my head, lol. Which happens quit often. This is one of those times that the Konad just took it to a whole new level, and not a good one. For this mani I used Sinful Easy Going, Orly Purple Fusion, Sally Hansen Pink Petal and scotch tape. I just love this, before the Konad.

Oh well, I'm always up to try things. Here it is, after the mani killer was added!

This was how I started. I used Sinful's Easy Going

Then taped it off, and added Sally Hansens Pink Petal

Then to finish of the pink gradient, I used Orly Purple Fusion

Now for the stripes. I used Bundle Monster plate BM20 and Konad's special polish in Black.

After each layer, I used a coat of SV, Seche Vite. This helps the layers dry quicker, so it doesn't take too long.