Gnarly Gnails: Pattern: Houndstooth

Incoco - Garden Daydreams Collection Applique Review

Tuesday, March 18, 2014
By Missy
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Hi sweet babies!!
Am I jinxing things to say I think winter may have finally taken the hint and beat it for the year?
I hope so...
Today I have part of the adorably girlie spring collection from Incoco - Garden Daydreams.

Brand: BB Couture

Digit-al Dozen September Spectacular - Fashion

Saturday, September 14, 2013
By Missy
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Awww....sads.

It's our last day of the Digit-al Dozen Does It Again!

It's been a BLAST to run through our first year of challenges in 12 days!

Our last theme is Fashion - which ugh...I'm just not a fashion person AT ALL.

I love fashion but when it comes to my own lifestyle, I fall short.

But I do admire and covet it, mostly on my nails though these days.

Here is my inspiration for todays theme:

Alexander McQueen - I chose the dress on the left. Houndstooth and Floral.

Seemed easy enough but I tried to stamp florals OVER the houndstooth and it looked terrible. So I did this instead:

Brand: Color Club

Neon Houndstooth

Wednesday, April 17, 2013
By Missy
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I've been LOVING the idea of coloring in my stamping designs like an adult coloring book lately.
It's awesome when you can take a standard black or white outline design and color it in to be truly awesome and one of a kind looking, freehand almost! Taking a spin from my Floral Grunge Tutorial, this is another similar technique with the decal part of the tutorial.

Items In This Post:

Konad Special Black Polish

Orly - Hot Shot

Orly - La Vida Loca

Orly - Jealous, Much?

Fingerpaints - Blue Raspberry Taffy

Color Club - The Lime Starts Here

Bundle Monster - BM322 Stamping Plate

How much do I love this mani!? A TON! I've been wanting to do this for awhile, but with challenges and laziness, well, I just now got around to doing it this morning!

The technique is quite simple, though it is time consuming. But now that I have a new workspace setup, I wasn't hunched over on the floor painting and then trying to get back up like a granny afterwards!

Essentially - you top coat a sheet of wax paper making the top coat as big as it takes for as many nails as you want to do this for. Also, an important point, make sure you don't do your designs right up to the edge of the top coat, leave some room to peel it off and have tears.

After the top coat dries, stamp your houndstooth, then fill in the clear places with random neon polishes. When dry, peel off the wax paper and cut to fit your nails.

For this mani, I did two coats of white polish, quick dry top coat and about 10 minutes later I was able to apply a clear polish and apply each decal, one nail at a time.

Cleanup with a brush and acetone and top coated!

Brand: Zoya

All On Black

Sunday, February 19, 2012
By Missy
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Today's post is brought to you by the fine ladies over at Adventures in Stamping. We stamp on Sundays, and today's challenge was a plate ending in 3. I struggled with what plate to use now that my collection has grown. Initially I used a bm plate with spiderwebs but it sucked so so hard. SO....I opted for my beloved Konad M63 Houndstooth, oh Houndstooth, you never dissapoint.The title of this blog post...well, it happens to be the title of my favoritest song in the world..and it's pretty obvious when you see the pic:

Base was 1 coat of Fingerpaints Black Expressionism (hands down my fave black right now, so glossy and opaque in one coat!)

1 coat Seche Vite

Konad M63 stamped with Zoya's Dovima, which is a great Matte Black and great for stamping!

I absolutely love monochromatic and what I call "matti-cure" mani's...this is definitely in my top 10 of best manicures I've done. Hope you enjoy!

Brand: Lynnderella

Too Busy 2nd Day Spice Up Manicure!

Friday, January 27, 2012
By Missy
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I added the glitters and an extra coat of SV to get another day out of my mani since I had to work and couldnt change it.
Its Nubars Black Polka Dot layered with White Polka Dot - I think of it as Poor Mans Connect the Dots!

Color Family: Black/White

Ombre Manicure w/Houndstooth Accent

Wednesday, January 25, 2012
By Missy
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Used:
Thumb - WnW Black Something or Other
Index - ChG Recycle
Middle - ChG Pelican Gray
Ring - NYC French White Tip w/WnW Black Konad M63 Stamping
Pinkie - NYC French White Tip
Seche Vite Top Coat