Midnight-Manicures

Tonight I am bringing you one of my first Christmas manicures.  This was achieved with 5 of the Zoya Matte polishes that I have had for a long time but had never used much.  I copied an idea that my friend Jen from Jen's Painted Tips had done.  I have not been posting much due to my Dogs having their puppies for the year and some sickness, but I hope I'm back now to do at least daily posts, thanks to my readers for sticking with me! Now remember, I'm not the best at nail art and sometimes it goes better than other times and too, I'm just learning about some of it.  This is the finished results, in the middle of my mani I had to go take care of the puppies and messed a few fingers up, but touched it up instead of starting over...so please forgive the flaws. The polishes I used are from Zoya's Matte Collections.  Left to Right are Veruschka, Posh, Savita, Loredana and Dovima. My base coat is Zoya Loredana and I used a nail art brush and Zoya Dovima  to do th...

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I know it's been a week or over since I've blogged and if you have been paying attention you know we had 2 litters of puppies in September.  At that time I had lots of great people doing guest blogs to make sure my followers didn't get bored and also get to enjoy some nail art that I'm not able to do yet and some I'm sure I'll never be able to do :) Anyway, it's getting to that time where the puppies are going to start going to their new homes and I've had my hands full.  Since we only breed our dogs once a year at the most it's easy to forget how hectic things can get.  I totally take care of my puppies and dogs like I would my own children.  Since they are long haired, I have to bathe and groom them quite often...not so bad if you only have a few but with so many they get dirty fast and with future puppy families coming to look or visit I try to keep them clean. My nails have actually survived all this so far, last week I did take them down quite s...

Tonight I wanted to bring you another one of my Julep polishes that I received from their Maven Referral Program , this is Chloe!  I don't think I did this polish justice but I'm learning my new camera and still need to put my professional light box up.  Chloe is described as a  Charcoal base with a holiday sparkle in a vibrant magenta.   I think I now own their whole Holiday collection for this year.  I used 2 coats of Seche Clear to prevent staining, 2 coats of color and a coat of Seche Vite on top.  The polish was a little thicker than I was use to with Julep, but I was able to adjust my application for it to work out.  I think I will add a little thinner before I use it again.  All the shots below look close to each other, but some were taken in sunlight and some under a lamp.  You can click to enlarge. I have thoroughly enjoyed the Maven program so far.  If you are interested you can give it a try and get their first ...

Dr.'s REMEDY HOLIDAY HUES: JOLLY & JOY Seasonal shades to enchant, inspire, ignite Holiday cheer is contagious: the spirit is infectious, the charm is encapsulating. It's so divine, in fact, that you wish you could "bottle it up" - savor it, treasure it. Luckily, your friends at  Dr.'s REMEDY  did just that this year with their holiday collection of hues: JOLLY & JOY. In the lineup, five shades that are rich, riveting, and radiant. And the best part: the colors are traditional in scope but not on scale; meaning red and green - yes, the docs have you covered. See for yourself in the best holiday collection yet: Dr.'s REMEDY  JOLLY & JOY for holiday 2011. The holiday 2011 JOLLY & JOY collection of Enriched Nail Polish includes: REVIVE Ruby Red : A shimmer-infused, Wizard of Oz-inspired shade of crimson PASSION Purple : A bombshell-boysenberry with subtle silver meshed throughout ESSENTIAL Emerald : A take on the classic tree-and-plant-inspired ge...

Today I am bringing you a polish from  Australia that my friend Sarah Claire from the blog Shatter Me Claire   sent to me .   We recently did a swap and she sent me a whole lot of love and polish that I had no idea about until now!  This is Ozotic's #502 Multi Chrome polish.  I think their bottles have changed shape but the formula is still wonderful.  I used a base of Seche Clear, and since this Multi Chrome Color is a little sheer, I used 3 coats and a top coat of Seche Vite.  Application was smooth and even.  Hopefully by my next manicures I will have my light box set up and can bring you all the depths of colors like this.  This polish is described as a  Multi Chrome nail polish that shifts from red to green to gold to pink to red.  You can click on the pictures to enlarge and I posted a lot of pictures trying to show you the the different facets of this polish. For my followers in the US, we now have a distributor of this ...