Recent paintjobs

After spent the summer with only Borghese Hydrati on my nails and the poor suckers still looked like filo pastry, I decided to get back to paint them. Not that it makes them healthier (at least I think so), but at least several layers of polish do keep them "glued" together.
First one: Color Club "Be Bold" stamped with China Glaze "Hi Tek":

Second one : OPI "Black Tie Optional" stamped with China Glaze "Joy":

Third and latest:

You know that I have this hate/love thing going on with Zoya polishes - it never dried and it chipped instantly. Well, I gave up and gave them away to our nieces - but not all though. So, I saved just a few because the colors was so awesome and I hoped that maybe by some miracle, they would turn usable over time. So I bought out "Jules"  - two coats of Hydrati, two coats of Jules and one coat of Seche Vite. Then I stamped with Essie "Little Brown Dress" and one more coat of Seche Vite. And this time it dried and even though some minor chips fell of after a day or so, the overall mani stayed put for 5 days = small yayyy.

Rest assured, there are more to come ;-)

Corporate color

Morning all,
Now how many people do you know who goes to work wearing the corporate color on their nails? I did. Unintentional. And - the polish lasted all week long. Put it on on Sunday, the pic is taken yesterday. Only one little chip on the middle finger - that's it:

Two layers of Borghesi Hydrati, Zoya Midori two layers stamped with SdP 404 and China Glaze Passion. If I had been really true to the company colors, I would have used a silver polish for stamping ;-p

Since I found the Hydrati base coat, I have been testing my way through the Zoya left overs, and by some mysterious reason, they suddenly work...except one...so far.

Have a lot to do, but not very much energy to actually do them, so I think I snuggle up under a blanket and dream of the FQ bundle that is on it's way across the sea:-)

Easter dots

First of all, thanks to a girl on the Makeup Alley forum, I think I have found the holy grail of base coats - Borghese Hydrati. It works superbly on my nails, the chipping has slowed down to almost nothing and it makes the manicure stay on for round 5 days without chipping, which for me is a record :-)

Happy with the sudden change of result for Zoya Jules last week, I decided to try out one of the few Zoya I have left (I gave the rest of them away cause they simply refused to work on my nails), a green one - Irene. And along with Borghese as a base (two coats) and three of the decorative polishes, I'm ready to hop around like the Easter Bunny LOL.

As usual the quality of the pic is not perfect, but at least you get an idea of how it looks - Easter Dots and I'm happy that I finally found some use for all these bottles of decorative arty nail polishes :-)

Gaudi nails ;-)

Talk about seriously bubble headed - this I posted on my quilting blog yesterday instead of here... sigh...

Anyhow - a couple of years ago The DH brought back some gifts for us from Barcelona while on a conference: a couple of soccer t-shirts for the kids and this beautiful trinket box in an Antoni Gaudi design for me:

and it has been sitting on a windowsill ever after looking pretty. Until yesterday.

Remember all these 60 bottles of art nail polish I bought from China some months ago? I think I said it before, but the quality of these polishes has left a lot to be desired for, mostly cause they never dry no matter Seche Vite ot Poshé. So they have been sitting there in a box, doing nothing. Until yesterday.

Not in a sewing mood I decided to try something with my new dotting tools (also from China for under 1 USD :-O) and started with yellow, green and blue. Then it struck me that the result was similar to the Gaudi box, so I checked it out and added red, white and black dots:

So here we are - a kind of Frenchie Gaudi manicure :-D Sadly my camera refuse to focus and give me crispy clear pictures, it's probably that shiny Zoya Jules fault. The upside is that all them dots and several layers of Seche Vite, makes Jules staying power so much better :-)