Back in Time - Disrupted Water Marble
- Monday, November 18, 2013
- By Missy
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Hola!
I'm late today, shoulda done this much earlier but I did one of those "oh I will just do this tomorrow when I wake up"s and what do you know - I got sick, stayed up all night and then slept all day.
Come 7 o clock at night I can finally keep my eyes open without a raging headache, so here comes the post!
Remember when I used to do the Back in Time series? Well, Ashley and I took a break from it while she was off on vacation and now we are getting back into it. Today we do our own, then late in the month we do each others! Let's check it out!
I'm late today, shoulda done this much earlier but I did one of those "oh I will just do this tomorrow when I wake up"s and what do you know - I got sick, stayed up all night and then slept all day.
Come 7 o clock at night I can finally keep my eyes open without a raging headache, so here comes the post!
Remember when I used to do the Back in Time series? Well, Ashley and I took a break from it while she was off on vacation and now we are getting back into it. Today we do our own, then late in the month we do each others! Let's check it out!
 | Welcome BACK to the BACK IN TIME segment of the blog! This is where we go back and re-do old manicures. The first of the month we do our own, the 15th of the month we do the other persons. This challenge consists of myself, Smashley and Debbie - however, Debbie has moved on from this challenge so now it's just me and the Smasher! Let's see what mani of hers I recreated...shall we? |
Here is Ashleys on the left, and my re-imagining on the right. She actually based hers off of the following scrapbooking cover, so I took a little from that as well as her previous design:
So I had the idea to do some houndstooth in this, but omg...three fails and I gave up.
I made a few changes, for one I switched up 2 florals for a combination of the 2 into one. Then I also did this in neon instead. And matte.
I used a neon pink from POP Beauty (the name isnt on the bottle since I bought it in a duo of lip balm and polish, but I think it may be called Pinkest), the neon green is I'm With the Lifeguard by China Glaze. Then black and white.
I am proud to say that even though the many fails of houndstooth are gone, I freehanded this whole thing. First florals I've done that I actually like, too.
 | It's Back in Time, time, AGAIN! That time o' the month when I go back and show you an old, ancient mani of mine and how I've revamped it for NOW times! I do this with Debbie from The Crumpet, and we've also added in Ashley from Smashley Sparkles, so those ladies will also be showing you theirs today (minds out of the gutter!), and then on the 15th we will switch off and do each other! So many innuendos....sorry! |
So this month we go back to July of last year. I chose one of my Rockabilly Luau manicures to do. They were all some of my favorites ever, but there was one in particular that I wanted a rematch on pretty much since I did it 12 months ago. THIS GUY - the Vintage.
Mainly just because I did it reverse of what it was supposed to be, so this time I did it the RIGHT way!
Behold - the Vintage mani!
But wait! I did it HOLOOOOOOOO!
This is the correct style for a Vintage manicure, red in the middle with nude tips and moon.
This one started with a base of Essie Topless & Barefoot (one of my all time favorite nudies). Then I applied two coats of A Wink and a Nod by Slick Lacquer by Suzzie. Which happens to be another favorite nudie! But HOLO!
After those were super dry, I added french curved tapes and added the middle section, which is LA Girl 3D Effects in Sparkle Ruby. This one was an untried and OMG. So in love with that!
And a matte version because...AWESOME.
Here is the before and after, the then and now...what do you think?
I kind of love the juxtaposition of each of these and think it will be fun to do a mani incorporating both ideas in the future!
Back in Time Part 2 - June Edition
- Saturday, June 15, 2013
- By Missy
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 | It's time for BACK IN TIME! This is a 2 part feature on the blog where every month I do a Back in Time mani of my own and then halfway through the month I do one of Debbie's. We did add a third person to the mix for Back in Time though, so next month we will rotate between the three of us choosing who does what. it's all behind the scenes stuff... Just enjoy the pics! |
 | So, you may know already that it's June. Because I told you before, so I hope you were listening/reading. You were, right? Cool. I told ya'll last month there would be some new content rolling through soon, as you saw earlier, and here is the other. Back In Time. A series where every month I will go back one year ago and pick a manicure from the same month last year and re-do it. HOWEVER, I'm not doing this alone! The Crumpet has graciously hopped on board to keep me company on this time travelling adventure! Call her the DOC to my Marty! Not only will we do our own, but we'll do each others too! On the first of each month, we will do our own recreations. Then on the 15th, we will do each others! |
So today being the 1st of June, I am doing a mani-recreation of my own.
I have chosen to re-create THIS mani from last June.
So, you may have noticed this is, how do you say...? Crackley? Crackle-y? Crackilly?
Its cracking! What the blip!?
I used a base of Ruby Kisses Dance with the Devil then topped it with Orly Stone Cold to get a deep blue shimmer. On all other nails I topped with Meta Metics Blood & Snow.
On the accent I taped off in a union jack pattern and then I went in with a MASH Nail Art Pen in white and kind of traced around the tape lines. Because these pens are super fluid and not very opaque, I had to go over the lines a few times to get them bright white. I guess when I did, it made them do the crackey dance. But in 'real life' you couldn't tell...I didn't even know until I looked at the pics that it had even happened. Boo. But...it adds an interesting flair I guess. I always need more pieces of FLAIR!
In case you didn't click that link up there to show you my old mani this was spun from, I'll help you out lazy! This is what last years mani looked like:
Now - go check out The Crumpet and see what she did too!
