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Nails & Nerds

I absolutely love watching The Big Bang Theory on Thursday nights.  This week, I invited 2 of my girlfriends over to watch it with me and do our nails. So the 3 of us geeked out and watched the Big Bang and I showed them how to do nail stamping. 

They each did a dark purple base with silver Konad stamping on top.  They chose single stamps rather than ones that cover the whole nail.  And they both did only a couple of fingers.  But I think they enjoyed it and I certainly loved sharing my polish and doing my nails with girlfriends. 

I already had Revlon's "Royal" on my nails from the night before.  But they were plain and I wanted to do some stamping too, so I used Konad silver and a Bundle Monster polka dot stamp.  I love the way this turned out. 

I really enjoyed the evening and I think the girls did too.  I'm hoping we can do it again soon!

Blue Lagoon

The blue is Revlon's Blue Lagoon, stamped with Konad white and Red Angel plate 110.  This manicure was somewhat inspired by Linda at Copy That, Copy Cat..  The inspiration came from her post China Glaze Kinetic Candy and Simple White French.  I liked the color combination, although I don't have Kinetic Candy.  I thought Blue Lagoon was a good substitute.  And now that my nails are a decent length again, I wanted to do something with tips. 

Multi-Colored Leopard Print

This was the same leopard stamp I used before on the sponged manicre.  I did the leopard stamp first then went back in with a dotting tool and put in the colors.  But I think the idea would have turned out better if I'd put the dots in first, then outlined them in black with a nail art pen.  But, I did like this mani a lot.  I like the three colors.  Incidentally, these are the same 3 colors that I used in my previous sponged leopard mani. 

Sunshine & Smiles - For Kris

I did this manicure in honor of my friend Kris.  She is one of the most uplifting, positive people I've ever met.  And she's extraordinarily funny and always has a way of brightening my day when she comes around.  I always tell her she spreads sunshine wherever she goes, which is what inspired me to do my nails in a bright sunshine yellow, and stamped with some smiley faces from a Bundle Monster plate.  I had quite a time getting these little smilies centered on my nails.  It took me numerous attempts.  Luckily, I was prepared with 3 coats of the yellow so I was able to remove messed up stamps without damaging the base color.

Anyway - here's to Kris, whose friendship I cherish. 

Bullseyes

This is China Glaze IDK stamped with Konad black and a Red Angel plate.  I got tons of compliments on this manicure everywhere I went with it.  The lady at Subway wanted to know all about stamping and luckily there wasn't anyone behind me in line so I was telling her all about it.  It was fun to share my limited knowledge! 

My nails are finally back at a length that doesn't make me cringe with disdain every time I look at my hands.  This length is great for trying stamps that cover the whole nail. 

Sponging & Stamping

Major photo fail.  After I'd removed this mani from my left hand and one finger of my right hand, I realized I'd never taken a picture of it.  Therefore, the only pic I have is the above, which is horrid.  But, you get the idea.  This was 3 different China Glaze colors (I can't remember them all but the turquois color closest to my cuticles is For Audrey.)  The leopard stamp was from a Bundle Monster plate.

Playing with Matte

Just playing with my matte topcoat.  It looks good under direct light but in a normal room it just looks like purple nails.  Might work better with a darker color.