New Year's Lace

My husband and I are going to a black & white party for New Year's Eve, so I was thinking for a while about what to do. I decided to try this, and if the stamping wasn't happening, I would just do glitter on top of black. But this worked out well!

This is Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in "Black Out" stamped with Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in "Silver Sweep" using the flower/lace pattern from Pueen plate #28.

Happy new year!

Winter Wonderland

Well, it's been a while! For the last couple weeks, I've been so busy with holiday stuff, I've barely had time to sleep, let alone touch up my nails or do a design that wouldn't last more than a few days. So I just did a solid silver and then a solid nude color. But I wanted to do something a little different for Christmas day.

This is Nina Ultra Pro in "Spun Sugar" with stamped designs from BM-416 in Pure Ice "Superstar!" Originally I wanted to do that snowflake/sweater design on both ring fingers, but after two attempts, I still couldn't get it straight on my left hand, so I said, "Ok, forget it," and went for the penguin design on the same plate, instead.

Oh Christmas Tree

Here's one that I planned out and followed through on! The green is Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in "Mint Sprint," and my ring fingers are Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in "Celeb City," stamped with the pine tree design from Pueen #42.

My band's holiday concerts start this week, so I'm just getting into the spirit..!

Free Bird

I had something all planned out, to the point that I actually wrote myself a note of what colors and designs I wanted to use so I wouldn't forget. And the... I totally changed the plan. So instead, we have Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in "Uptempo Plum" (one of my favorites!), with a couple bird-related images in "Silver Sweep." On my left hand, I have the bird cage from Bundle Monster BM-407, and on my right I have that feather I liked from BM-419.

Candy Stripes

I have to say off the bat, I'm not 100% sold on this. And the fact that the color ran when I added a top coat doesn't help. That said ... I wanted to do something a little festive for a holiday event I have at work, and after considering a couple options, decided to go with the candy cane look. This is Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in "Cinna-snap," one of my favorite colors. On my ring fingers it's stamped on top of Pure Ice "Superstar!" using the diagonal stripe design from BM-423.

This is a very bad picture, but that's ok because it's a kind of bad manicure.

My husband said he wanted to eat my fingers - what do you think?