OMD 31 Day Challenge - Day 15 - Hearts

GAH! Even later today!!! It isn't even Day 15 for most of the world anymore!! I haven't had a chance to catch up on my reading or comments either. Hopefully I get a chance tomorrow.

Today is heart day!! I have a pink ombre stamped mani for you today. I'll list the colors used below for each finger but they were all stamped with Konad white and Bundle Monster plate 317 which is one of my favorite plates and images I have!!

Here's the pinks I used:

• Thumb: 2 coats Barielle Baby's Breath
• Pointer: 2 coats Barielle Princess
• Middle: 2 coats of unnamed Color Club
• Rig: 2 coats of Julep Lily
• Pinky: 1 coat of China Glaze Traffic Jam

And a weird hand claw shot to show the thumb too!!

I'm off to finally climb into bed now - it's been a long day!!

Thanks for reading!

Check out the other (on time!) heart manis here

OMD 31 Day Challenge - Day 5 - Skittles

Happy Friday everyone! I hope your Friday was great and you're looking forward to your weekend!! I'm going to be doing my best to keep up with the challenge so fingers crossed that there will be two manis from me this weekend.

Today is Skittles day in the 31 Day Challenge. I have a pastel polka dot skittle mani for you! Here's what I used:

• Thumb: two coats of China Glaze Something Sweet
• Pointer: two coats of Julep Renee
• Middle: two coats of Julep Shenae, it has a slight shimmer
• Ring: two coats of Pure Ice Bikini. I LOVE this blue, it was so smooth and the perfect dusty pastel blue.
• Pinky: three coats of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls

My thumb, pointer, middle and ring finger are all dotted using OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls. The dots on my pinky are done using the base colors on the other finger.

I really liked this mani, it was delicate and fun at the same time. Not really season appropriate, it was more springy, but that's ok I still loved it!

Thanks for reading!!

You can see the other participant's manis here

OMD 31 Day Challenge - Day 2 - Blue

Hi everyone! I hope all you fellow Canadians out there had a good Canada Day yesterday and had a decent psuedo-Monday. I love short weeks!

Today I have day two of the OMD 31 day challenge which is blue! I have a simple manicure today which actually turned out the way I envisioned. That rarely happens!

I started with two coats of Julep Ally. Ally is a beautiful bright blue with a dark, evil side. The dark side is the formula, it was incredibly thick and goopy. And it smelt funny, sort of skunky. But the color is lovely. After Ally had finally dried (it took forever, even with Seche Vite) I lightly brushed Joe Fresh Twilight at the base of my nails. I used a second coat of top coat my right hand and Ally made weird wrinkles all over my nail with the second coat of Seche, so I skipped the second coat of top coat on my left hand. I really love the color of Ally, but the formula is terrible and definitely not what I've come to expect from Julep polishes.

The goldie-yellowie color above is what Twilight looks like most of the time, but when the light hits it just right it makes a lovely green which you can see on my pinky nail below. I love the greeny color with the blue.

Here's a direct sunlight photo, isn't the bright blue color lovely? Too bad about the formula :(

Thanks for reading!

Check out the other participants mani's here.

Julep Annie Peacock Inspired Manicure

This manicure was inspired by the brightness of a peacock and my need to use blue polish. Blue is one of my favourite polish colours but I don't seem to reach for it too often, whenever I do though I always end up loving it. I really should use blue more often!

Julep describes Annie as an "electric blue topaz creme". The formula on this one was excellent, I used two coats, but if I would have been careful I could have gotten away with one. It's very pigmented and levelled itself out very well. I used Bundle Monster plate number 212 and Konad white for the peacock feather looking design. Then to add a bit of interest I added some small round pink rhinestones from Cheeky Beauty to my ring fingers.

I love the feeling of the rhinestones on the polish. I spent the whole time I was wearing this mani running my fingers over them!

Thanks for reading!