Day 24: Inspired By A Book

 This was another tough one for me. I couldn't decide on a book. Some of my favorites I just couldn't figure out how to make them translate to the nail. I ended up choosing this book mainly because the cover and theme gave me something that I could work with :)

So with that said, the book I took my inspiration from is:"The Eye Of Horus" by Carol Thurston

Anyone that knows me, knows I look all things Ancient Egyptian.  I even have a few Egyptian based tattoos. but anyways on to the nails :)

 I wasn't totally sure what I was going to do from the beginning. I kinda just grabbed a bunch of colors that I thought would work well with what I had in my head. Pretty much I was just winging it lol I started with my glue base and after that dried I applied 3 coats of Pure Ice "Bite Me!" I love the name of the polish and the actually polish is pretty good too

 Since I had no sense of where I was going I decided to let the polishes led me on my way to a finished product.

( As I write omrhing it soing ok, e caff) <---- I was falling asleep when I started this post lol. No clue what that is suppose to mean. Anyways, I added a coat of Sally Hansen "Gilded Lily' which is pretty much just a gold glitter. But it's not an over powering glitter.

So here is a picture of all the polishes I used.

Pure Ice "Bite Me", Essence "Date With The Night", Sally Hansen "Gilded Lily", Milani "3D", OPI  "Alpine Snow" - Which was used for the stamping, and the white nail art pen I used for my hieroglyphs.

So after I used 3 coats of "Bite Me!" and 1 coat of "Gilded Lily" I used "Date With The Night" and used the saran wrap technique. I wanted to make a kinda old gold ancient look. After the saran wrap I felt it was a bit too dark so I added another coat of "Gilded Lily" and saran wrapped on some "3D" for a little depth. I was finally happy with what I had so Then I added some freehand hieroglyphs, and a couple stamped images.

Left Hand

Right Hand

I've been wanted to use the ankh image for a while so I knew it would be perfect for this mani and I needed the eye of Horus :) Using the nail are pen, I took some of the hieroglyphs from the cover of the book and tried to recreate them on my nails. Some were easier than others.

All in all I am happy with how this turned out. Cleanup could have been better but I was getting tired and I need to get the pictures up. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. The book is great by the way, and I think I'm going to start re-reading it :) Day 25 is "Inspired By Fashion" and I don't really follow fashion so this is going to be another pain in the butt I think, but we will see. Thanks for reading and make sure to check out the other ladies below :)

For Bitten & Dazzling Dimonds

Well Happy New Year to everyone. I hope you all had a good time. I didn't do anything, like usual, I don't go out for New Year's because everything is so expensive, everywhere is really packed, and at the end of the night your on the road with a bunch of drunks, so I prefer to just stay home :)

I was to apologize for not posting for a bit. I've been fighting a bit of depression and am now on a new medication so hopefully it will help. Anyways, your here to see some pretties, not to hear me ramble :)

Today I have a mani I did using Ulta Professional "For Bitten" and Milani  "Dazzling Diamonds" I love how it turned out :)

 I love how this color looks. This is 2 coats. It almost looks like black, but it's got a red in it that looks like it glows from within. It is so beautiful. I almost didn't get this polish, and now I'm glad that I did :) The formula was great I didn't have any issues that I can remember. Sorry for the lack of clean up, not sure why I didn't do that lol

 Since I'm Miss Can't-leave-anything-alone, I added some bling to it :) I did one coat of "Dazzling Diamonds"

I think it adds nicely to it without making it look like too much. I really like the end result and I can't wait to try layers different stuff over "For Bitten"

Do you own either of these polishes? Do you plan on getting them?

Please leave any questions or comments below and as always thank you for reading :)

Milani 3D Holographic - Hi-Res

I've been seeing swatches of the Milani 3D holographic polishes and I love green so I had to pick it up. I'm so glad I did. I plan on getting the rest of the colors because they are just so awesome. I wanted to do somethign other than just a plain nail so I decided to try out a new product I found called nailene Perfect Tips







 I'm not very good with nail art so any I will take any help I can get. I don't have the most steady hand either. I decided to do a black tip since I had a polish that has the same holographic-ness to it.












So the two polishes I used were: Milani "Hi-Res"
                                                     Icing "Blackout"

You can really see all of the colors in these polishes

So I used "Hi-Res" as my base coat, I did two coats to make sure the color was even on all nails.
I am inpatient so I didn't wait as long as I should have to apply the french tip guides. Some people say to wait at least 30mins for the polish to dry... I didn't lol.

The guides are very sticky so I stuck them to my hand a few times to get them a little less sticky. I did mess up one nail when I pulled the guide off, it took my polish right off. The guides are simple to use.

I had to try fix a couple of my nails, but they still turned out nice. Some of the lines are a little messy, but again that is due to the fact I was not being patient and taking my time.

Please excuse the ooppsies, I took the pictures before I cleaned up...

They look even better in the sun, I will try to take another picture tomorrow before I take it off... Please let me know what you think... Thanks :)

New addition to my stash...

I decided to take a gander at my area CVS, it was my first time there. I'm glad I went. They had a few brands I haven't seen any where else. They also had a larger selection on brands I did know. I only bought a couple of nail polishes but I was very happy with my purchase.

  The colors are: Confetti - "My Favorite Martian," Wet N Wild - "The Gold And The Beautiful," Confetti - "Conga Line" & "Centerstage"

This Is Milani 3D Holographic in "Hi-Tech"

I was so happy to find this one. I love green and I love glitter, I have seen them online and was so happy to find it in the store. This will be my next post :)

Can't wait!!!!