ABC Challenge: "V" is for Vampy Vintage Inspired Rockabilly Nails!

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Hello lovelies! Phew! I made it - I'm managing to post a challenge mani on the right day! Shocking, right? ;)

Today's post is going to be quick and dirty since this horrible insomnia is really catching up to me and I am hurting today. I think I managed maybe 2 hours of sleep last night, and my body is finally taking over and preparing to force me to sleep. Sad thing is that I love sleep and have never had trouble sleeping in my life, but the past few weeks have been just horrible. In fact, this poor manicure was done between 3 and 5:30 am this morning since I was wide awake and there's nothing else to do at that time of day. I have a feeling bedtime will be coming sooner rather than later tonight.

Today's challenge is letter "V'. Can you believe we're almost at the end already? I know we've been doing this for months now but it doesn't feel all that long. I'll be sad when this challenge ends, but all of the girls have been brainstorming and coming up with ideas for some really awesome new challenges, so I won't have to be sad for long!

Letter V stumped me, lovelies. I have a couple of V polishes, but nothing that was really calling to me. I love all things Vintage and initially thought of trying out some vintage roses, but I wore some roses recently so I nixed that idea. Since I also love Rockabilly Inspired stuffs, I decided to try out a manicure that I've seen a few different variations on - the Retro-Funky Vintage Leopard and Red Mani. I chose to wear mine as half nude leopard and half red, as opposed to the half moon version since I didn't feel like messing with half moons - I'm fairly unmotivated around 4 am, folks!

Considering I wasn't at my best when I worked on this, I'm pretty pleased with how it came out. My only gripe is that I was being lazy and didn't want to deal with tape, so I did the leopard print first, and then went to add the red, and lo and behold! All of my red polishes were way too sheer to cover the print. Thankfully A-England Perceval did the trick, which made me happy since any excuse to wear Perceval is a good one.  I may be the only person to ever attempt this manicure using a shimmer, but it doesn't look as odd as I thought it would. My base color is OPI My Vampire Is Buff, my very fave neutral, and I stamped the leopard print using Red Angel Plate 107 and Konad Black (told ya I was lazy!).

It's not perfect, but it'll do! Actually this is a really fun mani and looks great IRL. I'm always grateful that real life isn't in super-macro mode. This is also a very me kind of manicure, and makes me all sorts of happy. Or maybe that's the sleep deprivation talking. I think I'm starting to hallucinate. ;)

What do you think of Vintage/Rockabilly Inspired manicures?

Don't forget to go forth and check out all my awesome polish sistah's and their letter V manicures!





I'll return tomorrow with an amazing polish from Wingdust. I have Nail Pattern Boldness, Live Life Polished and Polish TBH coming up this week as well as Flakie Friday and more from the new Sally Hansen Collections so be sure to check back!

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Polishing!
-Kimber









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Crumpet's Sat-ART-day club-1950's

Hola!!

Aquí reportándome con el diseño del día de hoy, este es del club de los sábados de un  grupo en el que estoy en facebook, y pues hoy es el segundo sábado del reto, nos toco hacer un Diseño Inspirado en los Años 50's, primero pensé en hacer algo como una rockola, luego cambie de opinión he iba a pintar una chica pin up pero no me convencía la idea ya que eso es lo mas usual, y como me gusta ser un poco diferente se me ocurrió pintar un dibujo de los años 40's o 50's de mickey mouse.

Espero les guste :D, me ocurrió un pequeño accidente al poner el brillo pero ya no tuve tiempo de repararlo

:(.

Vintage Varnish! Maybelline Express Finish in Pile It On Purple!

Hi Ladies! First of all let me say that I am THRILLED that so many of you are joining me in the 31 day challenge! I'm dying to see what everyone comes up with, and I'm over the moon to meet so many new people! Yay!

Today I am sharing one of my Vintage Polishes, Maybelline Express Finish in Pile It On Purple. It was hard to choose a starting point for wearing my Vintage polish, but this color was just too cool to ignore any longer. Pile It On Purple is a Purple leaning Pink jelly with Holo Microglitter. The glitter is tiny and almost impossible to capture on camera (I tried in sunlight as well and it still looks Silver on camera), but trust me, it's teeny holo glitter. So cool!

I was impressed with this girl like crazy. I've had this polish for a good 6-7 years, and it's older than that, so imagine my surprise when it only needed a couple drops of thinner. It was smooth as silk to apply (although I managed to ding them against the table, Yikes!), and the wear was amazing. Not a chip after 3 days! Ahhhhhh, they don't make them like they used to! Must be all those chemicals. ;)

The downside is this color did not look great with my skin tone. I'm naturally a little on the pink side, so this particular shade did nothing for that. I love it anyway, and will definitely be wearing it again. Although sparingly, since it's obviously my only bottle.


Details:
1 coat OPI Nail Envy Matte
3 coats Pile It On Purple
1 coat Seche Vite

Despite it not looking fab on me, I do love this color. I'm starting to wear my Vintage polish a bit at a time. I don't know why I don't wear them more often, other than if I wear them, then they run out that much faster. I have a huge collection of pinks and lighter colors from Maybelline, all of which are at least 10 years old. I love them like crazy, so I guess I should wear them, right?

What do you think of this color? Do you own any Vintage polish?

Thanks for dropping by and as always, Happy Polishing!

-Kimber

Polaroid camera nails/ unias inspiradas en Polaroid

Hola!!

San lunes, para mi no ha sido un dia bueno, mi premio de un giveaway que me gane se devolvio a rio de janeiro!! ni modo todavia sigo de luto por eso jeje, me puede mucho por que eran esmaltes que aqui no se pueden conseguir, pero muchas gracias a juliana de todos modos.

Bueno aunque fue un mal inicio de semana para mi, es un buen inicio para mi blog! por que traigo una manicura que me parece genial!! y esque hace poco estaba viendo en un canal ingles en el cable, un programa que esta padrisimo es sobre los grandes errores de las companias como: hover, polaroid, sunny delight, coca cola, apple, etc... y estaban hablando de las CAMARAS POLAROID antiguas y mostraron una en particular que me gusto asi que me puse a hacer un disenio en torno a esto

Este disenio es un poco ''vintage'' y un poco ''pop art'', les dejo unas fotos que me inspiraron y las del disenio, espero les guste ;D:

Espero les guste!! ciao