Happy Memorial day!

In honor of Memorial day, I went for a patriotic mani.  I love the look of different patterns on each nail with a common color theme.  Normally I couldn't pull this off at work, but fortunately it was a three day weekend.
I'm not feeling very chatty tonight, so I'm going to stick with photos and few words.

Here are my red, white and blue nails.

 Here is my right hand.

I hope everyone had a great day filled with sun, picnics and friends.

Does a tiger say roar?

My nails decided to stop cooperating and continued to break for the past few weeks.  They weren't photograph-worthy until this weekend.  In the meantime I've been experimenting with all my new glitters from youmix and TKB.  FYI the sample size of TKB shaplies is plenty.  I ended up ordering 1oz of some of the sizes and ended up with way too much glitter.

The manicure below has china glaze seduce me as a base, topped with two coats of my magenta glitter franken.  I stamped a franken over that, put on a coat of seche and called it a day.  Typically I'm not one for animal prints, but I thought I'd give it a go.

Glitter appreciation shot.

 It's so glittery.  The purple magic glitter looks awesome when the light hits it.

Who said "puke green" couldn't be beautiful

Green is by far my favorite color, especially vintage shades.  Everyone who knows me describes "puke green" as "Liz green".  I should probably be insulted by this, but unfortunately it's true.  I'd prefer to think of "Liz green" as a 70's retro shade rather than vomit.  China glaze's trendsetter is pretty much my ideal color.  This floral design from BM plate (224) has been posted many times before, but it's too pretty to not to show pictures of.  China glaze VIII was used for stamping.  I LOVE this color combo.  It achieved the retro look I was going for.

I'm happy with this manicure and especially pleased that I've found a shade of green that matches me in trendsetter ;)

Gold leaves

Today's mani isn't anything too crazy.  I love that the bundle monster plates can make even a plain manicure look a lot more interesting and fun.

I started with a base of OPI tease-y does it.   It's so pretty just by itself.

This is bundle monster plate 19.  The leaf pattern is my go-to.  My only complaint, like most people, is that the designs are just a little too small.  I added a few stripes with gold glitter polish to finish up the look and of course seche vite.

Just because I  love close up photos...

The polishes I used

1. OPI: tease-y does it

2. lippmann collection: nefertiti

3. Milani nail art: art of gold

Saved by the bell

This finished manicure reminded me of a shirt pattern that would have been popular in the 90's.  I started with a mustard yellow franken.  It looks a little more orange in the photos than in person and has a subtle shimmer.

 I used a BM plate 221 with china glaze first mate.  It was topped off with cult nails clairvoyant.  I haven't mastered using a camera to show off glitter and flakies.  This ended up looking muddy.