Pure Ice French Kiss

TGIF everyone! I only work mon-fri so I basically live for the weekends! 😀 You too?

It’s day 19 of the Oh Mon Dieu! Nail Challenge and today is all about GLITTER! Normally I don’t wear a lot of glitter… not sure why. But I have some real gems that I’ve been wanting to try like my new bottle of POLKA.COM by OPI! It’s lovely purple, blue and magenta glitters became the inspiration for today’s color combo:

This was one of the quickest manis that I’ve done in a while! The colors I chose were great and I only needed one coat of most of them. Here’s what I’m wearing-

Blue ♥ Pure Ice French Kiss– one coat on each nail

Magenta Glitter ♥ Sinful Colors Star Dust– on thumb, pointer and pinkie

Magenta Stripes ♥ no-name Stripe Rite striping polish on middle and ring fingers

Black Strips ♥ NYC Black Lace Creme on middle and ring fingers

Multicolor Glitter ♥ OPI Polka.com on middle and ring fingers

I had a little hiccup with this manicure and I’m surprised it didn’t get totally ruined. Ya see it’s been EXTREMELY hot and humid in New York this summer and it’s really hard to do any photography outside. My camera fogs up when I take it outside, so if I plan to use natural light- I have to place my camera outside a few minutes before I take pics so it can adjust to the heat to help eliminate fogging of my lens. Ok, so I did that last nite- thinking I covered all my bases. Well, once I walked outside to take some shots my whole mani wrinkled up and got all distorted. What the heck????? I thought it was ruined. My seche vite was on for about 5 minutes at that time, which means it was mostly dry… I can’t believe the top coat shrunk like that!! So I went back inside to try some pics indoors and to my surprise, the mani bounced back and looked normal again! I can’t say that I’ve ever had that happen to me before. Lessen learned- Stay inside Jacqui. It’s just too damn hot out there! I hope you’re having some tolerable weather in your corner of the world!

See you all soon for 3-D day! I have no idea what I’m doing- but I’m sure I’ll think of something! Maybe some embellishments that stick up off my nail…or maybe I can paint some 3-Dish looking nail art? We shall see! Ciao loves!

19. Glitter :

I have a quick post today for day 4 of our OMD Challenge…. It’s the Fourth of July in the US and I have plans to continue the celebration with some wine spritzers and cheeseburgers. 😀 I’ll make sure to keep my wits about me though- I still wanna squeeze in time for my next OMD mani later tonite!

The day 4 theme of our challenge is Black & White and I went with a dreamcatcher design. I love dreamcatchers and I own a zillion of them… but it wasn’t until I saw the Polish Alcoholic’s dreamcatcher tutorial a few weeks ago that I became truly inspired to try it out! Here’s what I used:

OPI Alpine Snow ♥ as my white base color

NYC Black Lace Creme ♥ with a detail brush for the dreamcatcher design

Zoya Carmen (red) ♥ with a dotting tool to make the ‘beads’

Pure Ice French Kiss (blue) ♥ with a dotting tool to make the ‘beads’

(I had to add a hint of red white n blue for the holiday!)

Hard Candy Black Tie Optional ♥ as a black n white glitter topper for my other nails