Super Nubbins! Stamping with Spoiled Black Mamba and Pure Ice Outrageous

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Hi Ladies! Hope you all enjoyed your weekend! This post is very late due to Saturday being my daughter's birthday and she had a sleepover, rendering me pretty much useless outside of providing snacks and transportation for a couple of tween girls.

Anyway, these are the super nubbins I've been crying about lately. Thankfully they have already grown enough that I'm no longer totally miserable over them. Although in all honesty, I still have yet to forgive the toaster oven for tearing my nail down to the quick and forcing me to super duper nubbinize.

I wore this mani about a week ago, and loved it, despite the super nubbins. I chose Spoiled by Wet N Wild Black Mamba as my color and stamped using one of my Mash plates and Pure Ice Outrageous. I love Pure Ice polish anyway (so many great colors, low low price, and you can find them anywhere), but their metallics are amazing for stamping. Right up there with the CG Romantique Collection IMO. I love this particular pink, and really wanted to pair it with a Charcoal Grey. Black Mamba is a lovely Charcoal shade with an abundance of Silver fleck. It's a fabulous polish, but again....the brush. Thankfully I now have 2 brand new brushes (thanks Julep!) that I plan on using with my Spoiled polishes, so you won't have to deal with my complaining about the brushes anymore! ;) The polishes themselves are pretty awesome, and Black Mamba was no exception. The only issues I had were application problems due to super short nubbins. I cannot tell how how frustrating it is to try and wrap your tips when you have negative free edge (yes, I wrap them when they're short. I had to go back to wrapping my tips at least partially since I couldn't handle how fast they chip otherwise)! Thank god my nails grow fast and they're already looking like normal nubbins instead of super duper nubs! They're almost at the point where I can work on the shape again, since my nails grow kind of sideways so when I nubbinize they're totally uneven for a bit until I get some free edge back.  My poor traumatized cuticles are healing up nicely as well. Still a bit dry and scraggly, but after being attacked by evil, unwanted shrubbery what did I expect? Note to self: Buy welding gloves for the pointy, stabby weeds! The worst part of the nubbins has been the dry skin that was under my nails. Unsightly!! Ick! So embarrassing. It's hard to post pics with my hands like this! But here we go.....

Details:
1 coat OPI Nail Envy Matte
1 coat Orly Bonder
2 coats Spoiled Black Mamba
Stamping with Pure Ice Outrageous
1 coat Seche Vite

I do really love this combo! I loved this enough that I wore it for 3 days, which is a record when I have nubbins. I think I had maybe one chip when I removed this, which was pretty impressive! I really do dig Spoiled polishes. Great colors, great price. Now if they could just fix that brush!! ;)

Hope you're all break-free and thanks for stopping by!

Happy Polishing!
-Kimber