aaaaaand then....

Lots of real life craziness these days, so I haven't been as diligent as I'd hoped I'd be on here about getting pictures taken and put up... a few designs passed on without ever being photographed... (the horror!!!)  Anywho... onward and upward...

The first picture for today is from the AIS over a yellow base challenge from a few weeks back, I decal-ed these and painted with acrylic paint, however I got in a bit of a hurry and tried to put them on before they were dry... so there is a bit of smudging... still I thought these came out fun...

Picture two... was a kind of boring one but I realized I could have used this one for a color combo you've never tried, except I was a week early (that one is next coincidentally) Not much to say peachy breeze and blue...

And then, here is the official untried combo (that I didn't get even posted on the challenge because I took pictures but didn't do anything with them for a while... I think it has a 70's vibe

This next one almost didn't see the light of day because I was finding myself not liking it, however I was too tired (Lazy) to do another whole design, and don't you know I got lots of compliments since I had said I don't like them... ;) 

Vacation etc...

Ok so we made it out on our vacation and back and I'm just now getting back to downloading photos!! So there were a couple more vacation themed manis... and then a few since I've been back... so lengthy post ahead!!

This first one was a yummy china glaze "pool party" that I ended up making into a gradient using SH Lightening and SC Picante... it was stamped with my Cheeky tropical holiday that got a lot of use lately! The accent nail is a laser printer decal (which I talked about last post and have really had a lot of fun with!)

This next one was the actual one that I wore there, unfortunately it didn't last very long but I had some backup polish with me... the coolest part is that the base was a funky fingers Solar polish (surfs up) and changed colors in the sun... which would have been even cooler had I taken pictures of said change... but alas... (and yes I did have a thumbnail incident and have an odd angle till it grows out)

There were two more quick polish changes with Decals that I did while actually on vacation, but I didn't get good pics... 

So when I got home I did a super cute rainbow shattered mani that apparently I didn't take pictures of (super sad face!)  So when it started peeling/chipping I went with this hot pink, black and silver number... Pink Base is SH Flashy Fuchsia , stamped with Black Konad... Black is Revlon Black Magic, stamped with SH Silver sweep and silver is SH Celeb City.

So after the rainbow one I found on pinterest that I copied and loved I went in search of more on pinterest and found this chevron using a similar technique ((http://slightlynailpolished.blogspot.com/2014/03/stamping-rainbow-gradient-chevrons.html))... I love it... it was a bit of a pain though because I couldn't get my chevrons to sit straight so I did decals to make it easier to place (the polish ones not the printer ones) anyway they are a bit mudgey in some spots but still I'm super happy with them!