Sponge Gradient!

Happy Saturday!!! (I love the weekend ;)

Here we have a sponge gradient mani done with OPI Gargantuan Green Grape and Wet n Wild Sunny Side Up. I tried my hand at following The Nailasaurus 's sponging tutorial (found here).  I was inspired by the beautiful color combo she did here. It was harder than I expected and ended up sponging SSU over GGG instead of doing exactly what the tutorial said. 

Im sure this combo would look great matted too.

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Belated Easter Skittles!!

Hi lovelies!
Here is another glitter gradient!! This time with some holo's ;)

These are the polishes I used:

 The Intimidating Line...

 

 What do you think?

OPI I Juggle.........Men

It finally cleared up with some sun so I could take some pictures. Here is 2 coats OPI I  Juggle.....Men, a milky/clear based polish with subtle blue and purple sparkles.

Definetly verrryyyy subtle. Just for fun, here is what all of the other pictures looked like...
Can you find the sparkle? lol

    

   -Katy

spring sunday!

I believe it is still officially winter, but it sure feels like spring...We finally had some rain! (Yay plants)

Anyway, I'm switching my mind set to spring feel-good colors. During all the seasons, I try to have a manicure that cheers me up/inspires me/ makes me feel happy! Spring is just more so. Onto the polish!

This is actually another guest appearance from my right hand. I think she will be making more appearances on my blog. ;) I am wearing one coat of OPI Alpine Snow and 2 coats of my franken, Mazarine* Salt (yay a franken with a name) top with a coat of SV. I think this would also look cool over black but the white brightened it up.

 *Vocab word of the day! 

Mazarine : a deep, rich blue*  Im deciding to pronounce it Maz-ar-I'-ne 

Its a little chipped up, but you get the picture.

Mazarine Salt is a sheer blue based pearly polish with scattered blue sparkle particles (the salt).

I recommend clicking on the pictures to ENLARGE them! You can see the sparkles better. One coat would have left the sparkles sitting more individually, to a cool effect.

Also, I will try put up a new poll on the sidebar biweekly. I encourage you to take part!

Happy Sunday!

   -Katy

quick NOTD: OPI Bling Dynasty

Happy Tuesday!!!!
quick NOTD

here we have 3 coats of OPI Bling Dynasty (part of the OPI Hong Kong collection Spring 2011)
It was almost almost almost opaque in 2 but I had accidentally smudged it (oops) so I did three

unfortunately today was a very overcast/rainy day and I wasn't able to do good close ups
(you can see a rain droplet in the second picture)

A very pretty gold, no doubt

I will have to swatch this again once the sun comes out

-Katy

OPI DS Extravagance

hi everyone!...
3 posts in one day lol
Well today I'm showing you guys the beauty that is OPI DS extravagance.....sooo beautiful
the formula was excellent! here is two coats, but one coat makes it a lighter purple...
it dried fast too! so smooth no need for top coat! TOTALLY worth $12.50

well lets just let the pics do the talking.....

(O.O) sooo pretty

mint chocolate chip!!

hey lovelies!

this polish today reminds me of mint chocolate chip ice cream every time i wear it!!!
maybe sometime i'll do a base of this and sprinkle brown sparkles on it

here we have OPI Gargantuan Green Grape
i looked up gargantuan and it means enormous

this was a 3+ coater with a slightly streaky formula :( . Not what i would expect from OPI.
A good time to wear this nice color is in the summer or any time when the sun is shining. Otherwise the green isn't as bright or cheerful.

As you can see, I randomly placed a silver hexagon sparkle on all the nails...Unfortunatly the one on my ring finger fell off :(
 I think it adds an extra sparkle

excuse the chipping, this was taken 1 day after i swatched it

quick NOTD

heres something that i forgot to post this week...
Bogota Blackberry by OPI with black tips

i got Bogota Blackberry at a yard sale a long time ago, never really used it till recently
now i really like it!!
a great holiday polish

very pretty!!
application was excellent, of course...its OPI :)

Im loving the subtle shimmer
hopefully you will take the time to click on the pic and get a better look

what do you think?
i have some more posts I'm planning with this beauty
-Katy

I'm playing catch up ;)

here are the manis that I've done but haunt loaded

this is 3 coats of boundless color "bronze beauty"

reminds me of wet sand :P

here is a cool mani i did...

it has different metal-like colors ( gold silver bronze berry)

slight ombre ness

with a matte finish

over the matte, i did flowers using my dotting tools 

no top coat 

i love how the glossy flowers pop out against the matte

this is 4 coats OPI Alpine Snow 

  i matted my accent finger and added multi colored blue dots :)

no top coat

whats you fave of the three?

what do you guys think?????

should i do more catch-up pages ? or do you prefer a specific post?

i love comments ;)

**guest post** starring...... LUCY !!!

**im soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo(x1000) excited!!!
my bestie lucy decided to do a guest post here!!!
she currently doesn't have a blog but I'm hopping she'l make one soon
enjoy!**

HI GUYS  IM SO EXCITED!!!!!!!  it is really awesome to be on katy's super blog.YAYAY.

 Here we have an OPI, big hair big nails. It has a kind of jelly finish and it is part of the Texas collection. 

 Then, I added white flowers that complement the color, making it a very tropical effect. I used katy's wonderful supply of dotting tools and her nail art pens for the center of the flowers.

Hope you Like!!!!!! 


** wonderful job Lucy!!! I think we all agree that she is supremely talented ;) 
hopefully we can do more guest posts in the future!

sweet manicure

today i decided to do a candy/sweet inspired manicure
since my camera wasn't working i had to use the camera on my computer
 i used ( in order from thumb to pinky)

a sheer orly pink ( I'm not sure what this is called, the name rubbed off)
orly Lemonade
OPI Gargantuan Green Grape
Revlon Minted
orly Lollipop

 heres 2 pics of the final mani

this is my imitation of the "sweet" collection at orly

lemonade and lollipop are actually part of it

the third pic is a better representation of the OPI polish 

the color reminds me of mint chip ice cream!!

overall application was good

i think this is about 3 maybe 4 coats on each

yellow was a bit streaky and pink pretty sheer