My First REAL Stamping Success!

I am so excited to post this that it's 2:35 am and I don't even care! I've bought some cheap stamping plates before, and every time I tried them, I have gotten terrible results. But when I saw some Bundle Monster plates on a blog sale, I snatched up the ones I wanted immediately! I got bm315, 301, 305 and 31, all ones I had wanted badly!

So I sat down tonight and had a play, and I am STOKED with the result!

(again, still trying to work out the best lighting position for my lightbox :/)

I used 2 coats of Revlon Royal, my first time using it and I am in love! Everyone needs this one! And then I stamped on the lightning bolts on my ring finger with BM 305 and Orly Dazzle. I was so nervous that I actually squealed a little when it worked! And for the rest of the mani, I used a sponge and sponged on Dazzle to the tips. Topped it all off with Seche Vite and voila! My first success!

Now, I need to work on my lighting! Any suggestions?

Until Next Time!

<3 Bec

TIHC: Bats!

It's no secret that I love bats. I have clothing, jewellery, and even a bat implanted in my chest. Yes seriously ;p. It's a bit of hand-carved silicon that I had inserted into my chest.

I'm Batman! ;)

Any way! My mani! I was super keen for this one and had my inspiration and idea very early on! I took inspiration for this t-shirt from Sourpuss that I have (photo is not mine!)

Little bats! I used 3 coats of China Glaze Recycle as a base and then painted the bats on with a tiny brush and Ulta3 Black Satin.

I just got my lightbox, so I apologize for my crappy looking picture! I'm trying to work out the lighting still!

Until Next Time!

<3 Bec

TIHC: Zombiiiiiies!

Hello hello! Another This Is Halloween Challenge day today, and this one, I was looking forward too!

Last weekend, my state's capital city had its annual Zombie Walk, were thousands of people zombie-fy themselves and walk through the city. I went with a couple of friends and had a blast, but unfortunately, I'm yet to find any pictures of myself even though there were photographers everywhere! But I know my nails had to look awesome, so I came up with this...

I LOVED it! I started with a base of Ulta3 Allure, then sponged on OPI William Tell Me About OPI, and a bit of Ulta3 Black Satin and topped it off with NYC Matte Me Crazy. I was originally going to clean up my fingers, but a few people told me to leave it, so I sponged on a bit more of the OPI on my fingers!

What do you think? Awesome or gross? haha!

Until Next time,

<3 Bec

TIHC: Jack O Lanterns

I'm 2 days late with this one, my bad! I had a vision of how I wanted my mani to turn out, but no matter what, it looked like crap. So I rage quit, and ended up with this guy!

I used 2 coats of Ulta3 Frog Prince for the base, and then used the saran wrap technique and OPI Green-Wich Village. The vine is OPI Gargantuan Green Grape Matte, and the happy little pumpkin is OPI In My Back Pocket (apparently, I had to use OPI's with long names!). The black is my trusty 2 way nail art pen, and I topped it all off with Seche Vite.

So, it's not what I wanted, but hey. It's cute, and fun!

I am SOOOO excited to show my Zombie nails tomorrow, I did them last weekend for an event and loved them!

Until Next Time,

<3 Bec

TIHC: Ghosts!

I'm a day late in posting this, and I hate it, but I had very little time and had to do a mani! The theme for this installment of the This Is Halloween Challenge is Ghosts. I chose to do a mani that matched the name of the Challenge itself, a Nightmare Before Christmas one!

It's Zero! Jack Skellingtons little ghost dog! I used 2 coats of Gloss n Sparkle Purpetual Darkness as a base- let me tell you, that is one STUNNING polish! I will have a proper review up tomorrow! I used a 2-Way Nail Art Pen to do all the white detailing.

I wasn't happy with this mani at all, but it'll pass. I think what I hated the most is that I now, do indeed, have nubbins. :( 5 breaks in 3 days, I had to cut the rest down in fear of more breakage!


Until Next Time!

<3 Bec

Bleh...

So, I haven't posted my water marble today, and I won't be. It's been a rough week. I have a respiratory tract infection, my asthma's not agreeing with that, I'm losing sleep because of it, and worst of all, I have broken five nails this week. FIVE. I had to seriously nubbify all my nails to avoid any more breaks. And what's preventing me from water marbling is that my left pinkie, when it broke, it broke badly and my fingers is red, and swollen.

I will catch up and post it on monday with my next challenge. I will have a new InLinkz code to email out over the weekend, so if you want the codes, PLEASE EMAIL ME. My email is becdawber@hotmail.com. There is one code per week, and I will send them to those who email/ed me.

So, that's my little ramble!

Until Next Time,

<3 Bec

TIHC: Day 1: Horror Movies!

Hey there! Remember that Halloween challenge I made last week?

Well, it starts today!  I am VERY excited for todays mani, I LOVE horror movies and I struggled to narrow it down to just one. So, I picked my 4 favourite horror icons and painted one of each!

From index to pinky, Freddy Kruger (Nightmare on Elm St), Michale Myers (Halloween), Pinhead (Hellraiser) and Jason (Friday the 13th).

I'm not going to list what polished I used, because I used 16 of them! These four nails alone took me almost 3 hours to do, and I am VERY happy with the results!

If you want to join in, feel free too!

Until Next Time!

<3 Bec