Gray Area Konadicure - m78

Hey everybody,

Here is the konadicure I am currently sporting.

It has Sally Hansen's "Gray Area" as the base.

I used plate m78, a favorite design of mine, that combines leopard and zebra prints.

I used the awesome China Glaze Khromes in "2030" and "Millenium" to add a silver/gold design.

And, as usual, I used Seche Vite Quick Dry topcoat to seal the design.

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"Double Bling" Mint Sorbet Manicure

Hi everyone,

this manicure is one of the "thickest" I have ever done. I layered two coats of Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in "Mint Sorbet".  It is one of the worst polishes I've ever used. It was very gloppy and streaky all at once. It went on thick and then seemed to dissolve as I went over it.  I thought it would never dry, and I should have just aborted the whole mission, but I wanted to use this colour at least once since I just bought it!

Then I layered a coat of Nubar "Martini", an awesome pale green holographic glitter polish that has tiny glitter as well as bigger pentagonal silver glitter.

I should have probably stopped there, but I don't know what possessed me.  I decided, "more is more" and added another new polish I bought.  I slapped on more glitter in the form of  Sally Hansen Insta Dri "Snappy Sprinkles" which has both pinkish and green strips of glitter in a kind of thick sheer pink base.

The glitter in "Snappy Sprinkles" goes on a bit unevenly, so I just blobbed it on and pushed it around.  It dries really bumpy, with pieces of the glitter sticking up, so I needed two coats of Seche Vite to smooth it out.  It's still a bit "textured" shall we say, but at least all the layers did dry!

I'm not sure I even like this manicure, after all that... And, I know for sure it will be a royal pain to get all that glitter off!

Well, what do you think of this manicure? Please let me know...

Glitter for glitterM

It's been too long since I posted. I have had many manicures but have been too busy to photograph them!

Anyhow...here's the mani I've been wearing for the past few days, and it has held up really well!  I layered 2 coats of Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear in "Rockstar Pink" over 1 coat of China Glaze "Grape Pop".  A coat of Seche Vite QDTC helped smooth out the texture and bring out the bling!

I don't usually like layering polishes, but I really like how this turned out. The glitter on its own is too transparent for my taste, even though it is densely packed with pink, blue and gold glitter.  I love how it looks over the purple base.  In sunlight it is truly dazzling, but these photos were taken with indoor lighting.

"Thinking of Blue"

I bought this polish a few months ago, and I finally got around to using it last night.  This is Sally Hansen's Complete Salon Manicure in "Thinking of Blue".  It's a deep colour that looks navy blue in some lights, and slightly purplish royal blue in other lighting.  I used China Glaze "Millenium" to stamp the pattern from IP M77.

I'm still really jazzed about how well the polishes from the C.G. Khromes collection work for stamping and show up so crisp and clear on dark colours.

Hope you enjoy the long weekend, fellow Canadians!

Multi-Coloured Konadicure

I got inspired to do this konadicure after seeing this post on xsparkage's blog. I used different polishes than she did (cremes instead of holos) and a different Konad IP, but you can click on the above link to see what gave me the idea.


Here's my version of a multi-coloured background, with a design stamped on top:

For the base colours, I freehanded diagonal stripes in Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure in "Grass Slipper" and "I Pink I Can", as well as Orly "Snowcone".  I thought these colours worked well together to create a bright, summery background for the black pattern.

You can see that I placed the colours in different orders on each nail instead of doing each nail with the three colours in the same order. 


The design I stamped is from Konad IP m60. I love these concentric circles, and I realized that I'd only ever used this pattern once before, so I figured, why not? The pattern isn't quite big enough to cover my thumb, so that looks a bit messed up, but otherwise, I really like how it turned out.

This is a new polish I just bought form the Complete Salon Manicure line.  "I Pink I Can" is a cute name and it's a light pink, but not as light as is looks in the picture. It leans a bit to the warmer side of pink.  The thick brushes in these bottles weren't that great for trying to paint diagonal lines, so I did make quite a mess, but most of it washed off my cuticle area after a few hand washes the day after I created this konadicure.

So, I hope you enjoyed this post, and maybe some of you will be inspired to try a similar konadicure yourselves.  It was a little difficult, but I think the results were worth it.  What do you think?

Hot Pink & Black Lace

Here's a konadicure I did to wear to a party.  I thought this would look great with a LBD, and I wore hot pink lipstick to match!

I used a lace pattern from m57 and to create the accent nail, I reversed the direction of the pattern and then flipped it over and doubled it to make a double-thick lace design.


For the base I used a Sally Hansen polish from one of their cheap lines that I just picked up in "Cerise".  I stamped it using Konad Special black, and used my typical Orly Bonder b.c. and Seche Vite t.c.

I love this kind of hot pink especially in the summer.  I had my hair dyed red for a few weeks, but it looked terrible with hot pink polish or lipstick, so I just dyed it black so that I could wear this colour makeup and polish again!

Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure

Just picked up Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure in 430 - Grass Slipper when I was at Walmart.  I was pretty excited to see it there, since it's a pretty oddball colour.  It is a bit brighter and more yellowish green than it appears here - I had no sunlight, so this is artificial light, no flash.

Why the banana? Not sure....

Here's a shot with the bottle- pretty decent design and the rubber grip on the handle helps if the lid gets stuck.

This colour has attracted a lot of attention from various strangers. I loved it so much, I didn't even do a konadicure over it - and that's very rare for me!

This polish has the wide brush, but it's a bit more tapered than the Insta-Dry brushes.  The polish is really opaque and quite easy to handle.  I barely needed the second coat!

What do you think of this colour?  Would you wear it?