Z is for Zebra

Happy Monday everyone!  This week is the last week of the ABC Nail Art Challenge!  I can't believe 26 weeks have come and gone already, time flies when you are having fun :D

Today I have for you my "Z" mani!

Z is for Zebra

Christmas Sweater Nails

Merry Christmas Eve everybody!!  I am so excited that Christmas is (finally) here!  This is my favourite time of the year :D

Today I have my "official" Christmas nails for you - these are going to have to last over the next few days because I will be spending time at family get togethers and I think that I will get some funny looks if I whip out a bottle of polish and all my tools :P

I'm pretty proud of this mani if I do say so myself.  This is mostly for my cousins who love having "ugly Christmas sweater parties".

Pretty sweet, eh?!  For this I used Julep Delaunay as my base colour and then with Konad Special Polish in White and stamping plates M69 (snowflake) and M71 (lace patterns).  Then, to make it more "sweatery" I topped it off with Essie Matte About You top coat.

I am of proud of these, and unfortunately they took longer than I was anticipating (and a lot of q-tips) so I really hope they last until at least the 27th.

What is your favourite Christmas mani you have done this year?  Mine is this one, and my "Santa's Sleigh" nails from yesterday.

I also want to take this time to wish all my readers a Very Merry Christmas!  I will be away from the computer until the 27th at the earliest.  I do have a scheduled post for you tomorrow though, in case any of you have a couple minutes to log on ;)  I hope Santa's good to everybody, and be safe!

XOXO

NOTD: Avon Orchid Splash with Konad Stamping

Good morning gang!  I hope everyone's had a wonderful weekend.  Today's my last day in London visiting my sister :(  I don't want to go home, lol!

What has everyone been up to this weekend?  The weather was perfect here in southern Ontario for all sorts of outside activities :D  For me that consisted of... taking Owen outside on a leash to pee, lol!  My sister lives in an apartment, so it's a big change for baby Owen -- he's used to being able to roam where he wants in a backyard without a leash on.

As promised, I did some nail stamping over top of Avon Orchid Splash for you today.  I had a hard time choosing something, but decided on this abstract design :)  I think it's really interesting to look at and it turned out great!

I used Konad's special polish in White to stamp this design onto my nails.  I used plate # M65.  The only thing I don't like about the full-nail designs for nail stamping is that you have to make sure to get it lined up 100% on the edge of your nails so that there are no blank spots, but if you have nail beds that are a little wider, the design doesn't cover your whole nail.

What do you think of this nail art?  Fun and funky or a little too much?

NOTD: Daphne Stamping Nail Art

Happy hump day everybody!  I hope your week has been good so far, we're more than half way done (well, except me, my last day of work for the week is tomorrow :D).

I have some nail art stamping over yesterday's Daphne to show you :)  I just didn't feel right taking Daphne off after spending only one day with her :)  So I got out my nail art stamping kit and went to work.  This is what I came up with :D

I used Konad Special Polish to stamp the designs in White and Pastel Pink.  I used "Kaynig" nail art stamping plates (a knock off of the Konad plates from Amazon.ca) M69 and M78.  These correspond with the Konad plate numbers.  The Kaynig plates aren't as finely detailed as the Konad, but they do the job :)

At first I just stamped on the white design and then thought it would look really cute with little butterflies on my ring finger and thumb nails :)  I was right!  Let me know what you think :D