Tri Color Challenge Entry 2

I am totally loving laser tape.  It took a while to get the hang of it but I love it now.  So, I did a laser tape mani.  I painted half the nail green and half orange.  I laid some tape in vertical and horizontal lines then painted  purple over the tape and took the tape off as soon as it was painted.  These are easy manicures and look really neat.  If you haven’t tried it give it a try.  I got the laser tape on amazon for like $2.00.

Let’s see what the other girls did.

Ciao bellas,

Patty

Kimber’s Challenge A-Z Letter K

K stands for Kerfluffle.  What the hell is kerfluffle.  I thought it might be a pastry but nope it is a British word for a fuss.   Like Queen Elizabeth made such a kerfluffle when Harry played strip pool.  You learn something new everyday.  I really like this color I got it a when it came out and I am just starting to swatch it.  It is a smooth crème.  It reminds me of a peach sorbet.  Formula is great and this is two coats with one coat of Nubar Diamond top coat.  K- Kerfluffle.

Ciao for now,

Patty

Check out what the other girls did.

I Got Lucky this Month

I was pretty lucky this month, I got the gold Julep Maven box this month.  I won a giveaway but haven’t won one this month.  The Julep box was cool though.  First it came in a gold box and I just thought they changed the boxes but I knew I was wrong .

Because this was right on top when I opened it.

So, here is what was in it.

A box, geez I wonder what is in it.

A bracelet.

ohh, strawberry lipgloss.

The Rock Star Hand Lotion.

What is in here?

Six, count them six nail polish.  But I have a question this is only my third box.  Did I get this so I would keep ordering so that I might think I will get the Gold Box or was I just lucky?

Let me know if you are with Julep and if this has ever happened to you.

Ciao Bellas,

Patty

Crumpet’s Tri-Color Challenge

So, I joined another challenge it is the Tri-Color Challenge.  We are given three colors and have to use only those colors for four postings.  The only colors we can use is a purple of our choice, a coral and a green.  The colors I chose were Zoya’s Arizona (coral), Zoya’s Suvi, (purple) and China Glaze Close Encounters (green).  A little hard?  So, far it is ok.  Today I did the most obvious to me a water marble.  I only did three fingers and painted the pinkie green and thumb coral.  I just think it brings out the colors of the marble that way.  Here is my entry.  Let’s see what the other girls did.

What I Wore on St. Paddy's Day

 This post is going to be totally promoting a polish that I bought.  It is .......Shamrock Floam.  I love floam and I got this one to shine which reinforces my belief in my new favorite top coat.  I put three coats of Seche Vite on my right hand which I should have.  I like mattes but sometimes I like shiny.  I used Nubar Diamond top coat.  It works great.  The only down side is that you have to clean up right away because it is hard as a rock.  The other down side is you need to order it.  It is less expensive than Seche Vite on Amazon but do what I do order a bottle every week.  I still use Seche Vite when I am going to stamp.
Now, about this floam, it is the same as the rest of them in consistently.  I find you just have to wait another minute than with normal polishes for it to dry and if you have not visited Ninja polish lately you gotta check out their polishes.  They have some beautiful ones.  I have two more that I will be posting this week so keep an eye out.  I am still doing Kimber's A-Z challenge, we post on Wednesday and I am doing Crumpet's tri- color challenge.  We post on Tuesday and Thursday.  Our first post is tomorrow, I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with these next three days.

St. Paddy's Day mani

I know this is coming really late but it comes with a little story.  Now, many of you are saying what is a Jew doing celebrating St. Paddy's day.  Well, I was a Catholic till around the age of 30.  But here is the thing.  As parents we really need to watch what we say around our children.  I grew up thinking my maternal grandmother hated me because I heard it from my parents.  There was an incident that happened with two of my cousins and I was blamed.  So, if my aunts hated me it reinforced my thoughts.  Then I started to remember that every St. Paddy's Day my grandmother made sure she gave me something, money, candy, or a little piece of jewelry and when I was 16 she gave me a Bulova watch.  She had saved for two years for it.  Then my aunt told me she gave one to her daughter also.  She died a year later.  At the funeral, I found out she never gave my cousin a watch.  I did not know who to believe and did not care by this time.  I just loved my grandmother and now I know she loved me.  She always remembered St. Paddy's day, she taught me and only me how to crochet, and she took care of me when no one else could but alas it took too long for me to find out.  So, I dedicate this post  to my beautiful grandmother.  The cute old lady with the rosy cheeks and eyes like the sky.  

Ciao bellas,

Patty

Kimber’s Challenge “A-Z” Letter J

 For my "J" I used Just Add Milk by whimsical ideas by Pam.  I love her polishes when I first showed it I did not know much about using underpants.  This time around I used Nubar's Marshmallow.  Just one coat let it dry and then a coat of Seche Vite that way it would stay in place.  Then two coats of Just Add Milk and I used Nubar's top coat.  I really like their top coat better than Seche Vite because it does dry fast and hard as a rock.  I used to despise jellies but once you learn to work with them you can have a wonderful turnout.

Ciao for now, 

Patty

Review GALS Stamping plates.

I love getting new stamping plates usually spend a whole day playing with them and then there came the GALS plates.  I had seen the review Ginasoguesswhat11, my favorite you tuber , review the plates and ordered them.  I guess seeing them together made me realize I made a mistake.  If you like geometric shapes, these plates are for you the good thing is that I think 3 plates have a frilly design which suits me fine.  But too many geometric designs.   I ordered the Wistonia Plates and those should be here this week.  They do look a lot better but with a name like GALS Princess Plates I accepted something more frilly.

Here is a plate not too geometric.

This one is ok it has some frill to it.

 geometric

 geometric

 geometric

They are all like this. The little designs are ok but I am just not into having a whole set of plates with nothing but geometric designs for some people that is their thing.  That is fine.  This set was made for you.  I want frill and flowers and butterflies.

Now, there is one plate in this set that is a little disturbing. 

Does anyone know what the middle design is?  I think it is a vagina.  Many people have seen it some say it is one thing or another but on my end the consensus is vagina.  I don't want to display my vagina on my fingers.  So, if you know for sure what it is will you let me know.  Otherwise it is going to be in the WTF file.  I already got the opinions of the girls from Adventures in stamping and a little more than half agreed.   There were some funny comments.  So, know I share it with you to try to figure it out.  Please help let me know what you think it is nothing is out off limits in the comments section.

Ciao for now,

Patty

A vagina.  I don't want a vagina on my nails.

Stamping Sunday

On Sunday’s I do belong to a group called Adventures in Stamping.  Our Challenge this week was to use any plate with the number 6.  So, since I got my new GALS plates on Friday and have been playing with them.  So I used GAL plate 6.  I one of Color Club’s holo’s in Beyond and stamped with Harp on It I was surprised that it came out so easy.  It is usually hard to get a color to stamp on black but this one worked just fine.  I will be reviewing the GALS plates tomorrow.  There are a lot of plates to photograph and cropping so while I was busy doing that my nieces and nephew showed up and they are so cute I got side tracked.  So, I’ll finish it tomorrow.  If you are a stamper it is will be worth the read.

  So till tomorrow.

 

Ciao Bellas,

Patty

China Glaze Balancing Act

 Hi,
I hope everyone is doing well today.  I am so behind in showing swatches it isn't even funny.  More polish comes in and not enough time to swatch and do posts.
This is Balancing Act from the Cirque de Soliel China Glaze collection.  It is a turquoisey blue.  I felt like it had a bit of a rubbery finish, which I am still up in the air about.  Not sure if I like it or don't.  I used only one coat of top coat for this polish

















One thing I do often is recycle my manicure.  I kind of do it all the time it gives me time to enjoy the actual polish then change it up.  So here what I did was add a coat of whirled away.   It reminds me a lot of Lynnderella's Connect the Dots which I have not put together to compare.  I will do that in a future post.  I liked whirled way.  It was a really nice fast dry glitter polish.  The glitters are black and white bar and dot glitters.  It dried nicely and took a top coat without moving.