Inspired By: Birthdays: Cupcakes! It's my birthday!

Today is my birthday! Well, not JUST my birthday. I'm a triplet. I have two brothers. We were born in 1981 when triplets were totally a rare thing. My mom carried us for 38 weeks. We were all full term and BIG for triplets (Brother A was born at 9:59 am at 6 pounds 4 oz., Brother B was born at 10:00 am at 5 pounds 9 oz and I was born at 10:01 at 5 pounds 1 oz).  No NICU time for us! We all came home with my mother at 2 days old. Crazy business.  At any rate--it's cupcake day! Hot diggity! I made some super fun Shirley Temple cupcakes to eat AND got my nails did with the same theme!

Happy Birthday to ME!

This was a lot of fun and super easy with a dotting tool! I love it! I kind of wish I hadn't added the flecked topcoat (Sally Hansen Glass Slipper) but who can resist it!?

Pure Ice Love and Super Star!, Revlon Cherries in the Snow, Milani no name, Wet N Wild Everybody Loves redmond and Art Deco Hot Pink. No pictured: Glass Slipper (SH) topcoat.

Pink Wednesday: Pure Ice Love and Excuse Moi!

It's another One Wednesday We Wear Pink! I've been looking for a great bubble gum pink and found Pure Ice Love recently at my Walmart (under $2!). I like the formula--great coverage in 2 coats. But it needed a little something, so I added a top coat of OPI's Excuse Moi for a little glitter kick!

Pure Ice Love in direct light

This was a super simple manicure but so pretty! <3 Love love love.

Pure Ice Love and OPI Excuse Moi

Challenge Monday: Gradient nails

Another challenge! This challenge was to do gradient nails. I'm still new to gradients, so this isn't the best...but I liked the colors together.

Gradient Nails

I did a 2 layers of Finer Paint Sketchy Character and then used a cosmetic sponge and sponged on this no name bronze. It was really pretty in real life.

Finger Paint Sketchy Character and no name bronze

Stamping Sunday: Stars

It's another Stamping Sunday! This week's challenge was "stars"! I was able to get my hands on Matte About You and had to use it!  Here it is:

Star stamping manicure

I did two coats of the lovely Sally Hansen Black Tie (a beautiful duochrome) and then I used Matte About You on MASH plate 11 to add the stars to everything but my ring finger. It was really subtle and pretty.

Matte About You, Sally Hansen Black Tie and Mash plate 11

Pink Wedneday: Lollipop with Busted

It's another Wednesday! My poor computer got a cruddy virus late last night but thankfully I have a really talented IT guy for a brother so he was able to get it back into functioning order in just one day! Woohoo! So, here's Pink Wedneday!

Busted over Lollipop

These two colors together remind me of Miss Piggy. And the 80's. And Everything's Fine! I love them together! This was 3 coats of LA Color Lollipop and one layer of Pure Ice's Busted. Pretty Pretty!

LA Colors Lollipop and Pure Ice Busted

Monday Challenge: Crackle

ANOTHER challenge? Yep. So it seems. This Monday Challenge was to do a crackle mani.  I've never been very good at crackles. Oh well. Here's today's mess:

Boy did that white crackle pick up the pink polish. Bleh. I guess if  I had been LOOKING for a pastel rainbow look this would be fine. At any rate.. it's said and done. I did the rainbow under with a cosmetic sponge.

Hot Magenta, Crushed, Pure Ice Excuse Me, Sa-greena The Teenage Witch, Iced Eggplant and China Glaze crackle White (and a cosmetic sponge)

Stamping Sunday: Under The Sea

It's Stamping Sunday again! I'm a part of a group of nail polish stampers and every Sunday we have a challenge theme or color. Today's theme was Under The Sea. I'm brand new to stamping (like Konad stamping) and only have a handful of stamping plates so these challenges are extra challenging for me! I used MASH plate 11 and tried to make seaweed.  As a California girl, I grew up going to the Bay seeing the crazy looking seaweed that has inflated balls on the end to help it float. So, here's some seaweed. I'm glad it photographed so well. It was very subtle. but I think fulfilled my stamping challenge.

Under the Sea(weed)

I was lucky enough earlier in the week to grab a few Insta-Dri's from CVS that were 75% off. I had heard they were good for stamping and sure enough, it did just fine!

Pure Ice Excuse Me, Xtreme Wear Blue Me Away, Insta-Dri Grape Going, Mash plate 11