Nabi Magnetic Nail Polish in Cappucino & Moar Supa Nubbins

Hi Ladies! Hope you're all having a great Tuesday!

Today I am sharing a mani I wore a week ago, right after I super nubbinized, even though I am reluctant to post anything until I get some more length going. This is the mani that made me really miss my nails, and I spent all day after applying this wanting to cry like a baby over it. This color, although really cool, just made my poor nubbins look so horrible. It really highlighted just how short they were/are, and all the little imperfections (like where the nail tore on my index finger, the places where the file just couldn't reach to smooth them out, the dry skin from cleaning and pulling weeds), and just made me a sad panda. I've since embraced the nubs again, even though I lost a little of my newly gained length yesterday since they were finally long enough to start shaping.

This little number is Nabi Magnetic Nail Polish in Cappucino, a foily gold polish that changes to a golden pink when the magnet is applied. I'm digging the variety among the Nabi Magnetics. This girl didn't take the pattern as well as Tawny did, but it's still a pretty combo (just not on my nubs!). I did have a very hard time capturing the pink color shift from the magnet - this color really glows in the light!

Details:
1 coat Qtica Natural Nail Growth Stimulator
1 coat Orly Bonder
2 coats Nabi Magnetic Nail Polish in Cappucino
1 coat Seche Vite

This is really a very cool polish and I'm going to have to re-swatch this girl when my nails grow back.  I know alot of people are over Magnetics now, but I still love them. But then again, I also occasionally like crackles still.

Formula:
Cappucino had a fairly decent formula to it. Thick, but not overly gloppy. It does have some serious staying power, so getting this baby off your skin can be a slight pain and it does leave you with glittery cuticles if you do end up needing any kind of clean up. I maintain glittery cuticles are festive! ;) Just like Tawny, Cappucino has that really odd smell - very chemical and kind of sickly sweet. It takes a few minutes to get past it, but if you can, these magnetics are worth it.

Application:
Application was very smooth with no real issues. It did take a pretty thick second coat to get the magnetic effect to appear consistent, and even then it's not as strong as Tawny was. Pretty standard and uneventful. :)

I'm really digging these Nabi Magnetics. For the price, they're fabulous, and the vast selection of colors is awesome. You can find these babies at Walgreens for $4.99.

Thanks for checking out my poor lil supa nubbins and as always - Happy Polishing!
-Kimber

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