5 of 31: Blue Nails

Howdy!  Is this week as long for everyone else as it seems to be for me?  Whew!  I'm bushed and no days off til next Saturday!  Oh well, at least the bills will get paid :)

On to Day 5 of the 31 Day Manicure Challenge; blue nails!

I started with one coat of a turquoise Cynthia Rowley polish and a coat of Seche Vite on top.   I cut out heart stencils from blue painter's tape and applied the stencils to my nails after letting the base polish dry.  Using China Glaze Crackle Glaze in Oxidized Aqua, I painted over the stencils and then removed them to create the silver hearts on top.  I saw this technique on Pinterest but, alas!, I'm unable to give credit to anyone since the link went to someone's tumblr page.  If anyone knows who thought this up, let me know so I can post a credit.  It's such a great idea and would work for all kinds of shapes.  Hearts were easy to cut out so that's why I started with those.

Tomorrow is purple, so be sure to stop by to check 'em out!  Thanks for reading!

Debbie and Cindy Glitter Gradient Manicure

Howdy, everyone!  Ready for Monday?  Me either.  Oh well, at least my nails look fabulous, which is always a great way to start the week :)  Here's what I'm wearing:

 I have to give a shout out to my new best friend, Bernadette, who was nice enough to give me my very first bottle of Deborah Lippmann polish!  I have long coveted Lippmann polishes but can never bring myself to fork over the dough for them, so it was great to get a bottle to try.  Incidentally, Deborah is the "Debbie" to which this post title refers.  We'll talk about Cindy in a minute.  

So I started here with 2 coats of Deborah Lippman's Pop Life, a beautiful petal pink creme.  Fantastic formula, I'm so in love with this polish right now!  The color is so lovely, but I couldn't wear it just by itself, cuz that's just silly :)  Enter "Cindy".  I decided to do a glitter gradient with another Cynthia Rowley polish.  I hit Marshall's the other day and scored another set of CR polishes, this time a little box of 3 glitter polishes.  Does anyone know where I can find the names of these?  The one pictured here is a multi-colored hex glitter.  Tons of colors in a few different sizes, total wow factor on the nail.  Here's a closer look of the color and shape of the glitter:

As always, thanks so much for reading!

Cynthia Rowley Polished Polka Dots

Howdy, everyone!  I'm so excited about the manicure I have to show you today!  Yesterday, I showed you guys the haul I got from Marshall's and Sally's over the weekend.  Here's a shot of the polish I'm using today.

I wasn't aware that Cynthia Rowley even made polish before I saw these at Marshall's!  They had several colors to pick from, but I'm always drawn to blues so I went with these two.  There are no names for the colors on the bottles so I'll be calling the one on the left Turquoise and the one on the right Bright Blue.  And here's the finished product!

This was such a fun manicure to do and really a lot more simple than it looks.  I found a tutorial on Pinterest, but the link is defunct so I'm unable to credit it to anyone.  If you know who this belongs to:

Please let me know so I can credit them with this awesome tutorial!  It's so easy to see step by step how the dots cross over.  I used tape to create the first diagonals on my nails, but if you're surer with a brush you can just do it how it's shown here.  My nails alternate with Turquoise being the top half of the diagonal on every other nail and Bright Blue being on top for the others.  I can't tell you how much I love this mani!  It's so fun and looks like it took forever.  Quite impressive lol 

As far as how much I like the Rowley polish, I'm about 50/50.  The Turquoise is a standard creme, a pretty color but I feel like I have a few of these in my stash.  The formula was a little thick and kind of gloppy but smoothed out with a coat of Seche Vite.  Not my favorite application.  The Bright Blue seems like it might actually be a jelly, though it was hard for me to tell for sure.  The formula was much smoother and easier to apply.  I LOVE the color!  I don't have a blue this shade yet in my stash so I'm thrilled with this one.

Thanks so much for reading!