Funky French with CH2 plate

Ahhh nude funky frenches how I love you so. I tipped my nails with Kleancolor Metallic Purple, which of course shows a blurple. I wanted to do more with my cheeky plates so I picked up #2 and stamped the heart using Kleancolor Metallic Aqua .... I do love stamping with the Kleancolors! I was totally digging this mani until my friend asked me if I stamped Hershey Kisses for Valentine's Day LOL. I freehanded my tips so they're not perfect but they look pretty great, if I do say so myself! Love me some funky french paws!

Sunday Challenge: Stars

Stars were the theme for my Facebook stamping group this week so I decided to try my hand out at freehanding a french tip.  I used Kelancolor Metallic Aqua for my tips.. it is so awesome! I originally had a different star image I was going to use but decided it didn't look well and with such a bold color as the tip, I wanted a big bold image, so I grabbed my Bundle Monster 05 plate and Kleancolor Metallic Fuchsia for the star. I wanted a bit of overlap into the tip so it blended well but the Fuchsia didn't really show over the blue, it just sort of melted into it. I still like it though because you can see the stars and it looks like some are supposed to be that way =^.^=  This was a fun challenge, I love stars! And it was my first attempt and freehanding a french tip, which I think I did pretty well. I wasn't sold on the naked nail but I have to say, it looks clean and fun so I may revisit it again.

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Julep: Anne and RA114

Today I have Julep Anne for you. Anne is a lavender creme that dries semi matte. In the swatch photo, there is no top coat, you can see it looks rubbery. I used Kleancolors Metallic Red and Aqua to stamp using the Red Angel 114 plate's heart image.  I liked how the red stood out over the purple, the aqua didn't stand out as much but was a pretty accent finger.  I wore it a few days and the SV did well with it. I had minimal tip wear. I would totally use this design again with the red hearts over a different color for Valentine's Day. 

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Nail Art: Cupcake Mani on Friend

I did this mani for my friend's birthday today! Happy Birthday M! I've been meaning to try a cupcake mani and decided she was the perfect one to sport it.  I used Essie Mint Candy Apple for the back ground color, sinfulcolors white for the frosting, Orly Fancy Fuschia for the cup part with OPI Do You Lilac It? for the stripes, Sparktacular for the sprinkles and Kleancolors Metallic Red for the cherry. The whole cherry on top of the cupcake confuses me, when I bake them I don't put cherries/candies on top of the frosting but when you do it as a mani, it looks funny without one... *shrug* Anyways, this was my first attempt, I'll probably try it on myself but as accent nails as to save time :-)

New Years Mani

This was my New Years mani and it was a pain to photograph. I started with a base color of OPI Fly (showed you that mani yesterday), and added Kleancolors Chrome Holo on top. Chrome Holo is a suspension base with holo glitter and it's tinted purple. The holo on this was awesome because it twinkled in the light... I blurred some pictures for you to see. I stamped a heart within a heart using Red Angel plate 110 and Sally Hansen Celeb City (love this polish for stamping and marbling). I was not really happy with it because I thought that a New Year mani should be blingy and eye catching so I took little silver beads and put them between the hearts. It looked cool in person and the beads stayed on for 3 days before I had two casualties  (not too shabby). If I did this mani again, I would use Fairy Dust instead of the Chrome Holo or use a dark purple under it or no top coat at all,  so the stamp shows more. Was fun to look at while it lasted. 

Oh hey, this is my 400th post :-) kinda cool! 

Kleancolors: Chunky Black Holo and Halloween

So this mani may look familiar to you... it's my twist on my earlier mani of this one. I used Wet N Wild Black Creme as the base and  topped it with one swipe of Kleancolor Chunky Black Holo. I stamped using the Bundle Monster skull in a gray polish, added red rhinestone eyes then did the Kleancolors around the skull. 

I really like the Kleancolors Chunky Holo Black because it lays flat and the color change is apparent.  You get the flashes of green, yellow, orange and a hint of blue, it's pretty spectacular.  So this one is similar to one I did before but really I wanted to show you an alternative do Behind Closed Doors since some people are having a hard time finding it.  This is an easy Halloween mani, I totally love the black background and the possibilities with stamping on this are endless. I will have to experiment more. 

Color Club All that Razz and Kleancolor Fuchsia Holo

I wanted to pick up a new pink neon for my toes to savor the rest of the summer while it's still sunny out.  I picked up Color Club All That Razz.

This was 2 coats and as you can see, there's visible nail line but it's kind of cute.  Since it's a neon polish it dries semi matte as well. This was without a top coat, you can see how it looks squishy.


In an effort to jazz this up and get through some of my untried polishes, I put a coat of Kleancolors Holo Fuchsia over it.  I only posted a close up because it didn't really show well on this color. I think it was too similar to All That Razz. You can see all the gold/honey colored holo chunks in it. It worked well to jazz it up and still look subtle with one coat. I would for sure add like 3 coats of the holo so that it flashes a bit more color. I also think this may show better over a darker color like a deep purple. Adding that combo to my to do list!

Also, for anyone who is wondering, you can get Kleancolors online from www.beautyjoint.com for pretty cheap.

China Glaze Rodeo Fanatic and Kleancolor Blue Holo

There is not one thing I did not like about this mani! I started with China Glaze Rodeo Fanatic from the Fall 2008 Rodeo Diva collection.  It's a deep shimmery turquoise that is stunning and has peeks of purple at certain angles.


This would be great on its own but I did this as a full mani and had some more untried Kleancolors to try out.



I added Kleancolor Blue Holo over it. Now this isn't really a holo polish per se, it's a holo glitter in a light blue transparent base. I blurred a picture so you could see the holo fun. I also added a butterfly from my fimo canes as an accent to jazz it up even more. I focused my camera on a different nail from the ring finger so you could see how the holo shows up behind the butterfly, it was really awesome. I wore this as a full mani for 5 days and it didn't stain and had no problems with it.
For sure one of my favs with fimo!

Kleancolor: Midnight Seduction

Kleancolor Midnight Seduction is awesome! It’s super micro glitter in a clear base, I enlarged a picture for you to see the micro glitter colors.  I can see silver, blue, gold, pink, green.. it’s endless!  

This is only 2 coats and it was opaque. I’m not sure that I would put it over anything because it is so spectacular by itself.  It reflects a lot of light and isn’t as hard as most glitters to clean up.  The one thing I have noticed about Kleancolors glitters and holo glitters is that they are thick.  

blurred so you can see the holo fun!

This means it takes a while for them to dry but they are only 1 or 2 coat toppers, which is a great pay off in my opinion.  I got mine from BeautyJoint.com and they’re under $2!  (you all just left my page to go look at their site huh?);-)

I have many of their layering polishes to show you and I think you will really like the possibilities with them I also started making some jewelry with them, which I’ll have up on my Etsy shop soon.  The glitters are awesome!

Flomar: Purple with Kleancolors and Cupcakes

This is a mani I did for my friend who is also into nail polish (shout out to M!).  I used Flomar neon purple for a base color. This polish is awesome, it's a one coat polish and purple.. total awesome.  I got this polish in a swap from Brazil a while ago.


I wanted to jazz up the polish so I used Kleancolor Holo Fuchsia (one coat) over so it flashes blue, purple, pink, orange, green- it's rad!


Because my friend loves cupcakes, I stamped a cupcake, topped it with a rhinestone from Born Pretty. But that wasn't enough so I cut a cupcake slice from a fimo stick and put that on.
To put the cupcake on, I sliced the fimo cane with a razor, then used nail glue to adhere it to the nail. I did a thick coat of SV over the cupcakes and a normal coat over the other fingers.
I really liked the way this mani turned out, feel free to click on the images and get a closer look at the color shift in the Kleancolor top coat.

It's always hard to take close pictures of someone else's hands in my light box, but I think you get the idea :-)

Kleanocolor: Chunky holo teal

Recently I put in an order with Beautyjoint.com to get some of the Kleancolor chunky holos and glitters.  This one is super pretty but I think I needed a darker color under it. 

I started with 2 coats of Orly's Frisky and did two coats of Kleancolors chunky Teal holo.  In the light it was hard to see the color shift in the holo, so I played with it in my light box out of direct light and changed the angles of the camera.  

You can see t bottle though is full of major squishy pretty holo.  I like this mani over all and I wore it for a few days with no problems.  I had topped it with Posche for a quick dry time.  The holo flashes pink, purple, blue and green, it's quite pretty and makes a somewhat normal creme color interesting. 

As far as taking it off, it wasn't too bad.  It's not quite as frustrating as a glitter but it is a little more work than a creme or a shimmer/frost.  I like these, it's a quick way to update a mani to make it look different to just to add a bit of pop to an otherwise ordinary base.  Great top coat effect. 

Comparison: Deborah Lippmann Across the Universe and Kleancolors Blue Eyed Girl

 So if you keep up on the nail blogs, I am sure you have seen the brand Kleancolors, and of course many know of Deborah Lippmann.  Well I have a comparison for you.  I was at my friend's house playing with her polishes and I put on Kleancolors Blue Eyed Girl (after about a few minutes of looking at it n the bottle, I ordered it LOL).  This was my first encounter with Kleancolors. I never looked into the brand because all the swatches I saw on blogs were their holos, and to be honest, I have all the holos I want at the moment; but I didn't know they had delicious jelly chunky glitters!  So this is a close dupe or better, a substitute, for Deobrah Lippman's Across the Universe.

This blue jelly has large hexagonal glitter in teal and blue with small round blue glitter.  I did an approximate of 2 coats. I say approximate because putting on chunky glitter is not exactly an easy process and I end up adding glitter in spots that are sparse. I did not use a base color before applying, just a clear base coat to protect my nail from staining. Which, by the way, it did not.  The great thing about this polish is that the glitter looks suspended in water! it's so jelly and blue, I love it! The sun reflection on the big glitter through the jelly is massively blingy!  There's not a bad thing about this, except the patience required to take off a big glitter polish, but that comes with the territory.  

A friend, Jennifer, was kind enough to let me use her pictures of Deborah Lippmann Across the Universe as comparison to Blue Eyed Girl.  She has a base coat of China Glaze's Frost Bite, which is a bright blue shimmer polish.  You can still see the formula is a great jelly and has similar glitter shape and color.  The only differences I can see is that the blue jelly is darker in Across the Universe, more of a navy rather than a true blue.  It also may have more of a green hue to the teal hex glitter.  I can't compare formulas because I don't actually own the Deborah Lippmann polish but I think if you layer the Kleancolor over a black or deep navy base, it is a nice and cheaper substitute for Across the Universe.