My First Spring/Easter Nails of the Year

Happy Hump Day Loves,

Hope you are well and that your week is going good.  Mine has been kinda stressful at work so far, nothing major, just some work and scheduling stress, scheduling truly is the most difficult part of my job and boy, can it be a headache.  I work for a security installation company and I schedule jobs and service work and it can really get tricky sometime, gah!!!  I'll be so ready for the weekend and we are off on Friday for Good Friday so I have a short week too at least, whew!!!!

The end of last week I did my first Spring/Easter themed nails.

I started with a base of Essie "Under Where?", then sponged the following polishes on using eyeshadow applicators (I put some polish on a paper plate and dip the applicator into the polish, then sponge it on my nails)  OPI "Gelato On My Mind", Essie "A Crewed Interest", China Glaze "Girls Just Wanna Have Sun", Sally Hansen Diamond Strength "Garter Toss", China Glaze "Tart-y For the Party", China Glaze "For Audrey" and China Glaze "Something Sweet".  I then put a coat of China Glaze "Fairy Dust" on top of the sponged nails and a coat of Pure Ice "Busted" on my pinky and index nails and Candy Laquer "Bunny Lights" for my glitter accent.

I love how springy and Eastery these nails look.  This is an easy sponge technique to do and not a whole lot of clean up either. I am planning on doing a blog post on the different sponge techniques soon too that I do, be on the lookout for that coming up. Hope you enjoy these nails as much as I enjoyed doing them and wearing them.  I love pastels, so, this time of year is one of my favorite times for new polish buying with all the pretty pastels that are out every year :)

 

 

 

 

 

Under Where? on it's own, this is such a pretty color!

 That's all folks for today.  I leave you with kitties, of course, here's Mr. Kitty, Buster, Betty and Dino all on the bed one day, that sure is a bed full of cats, LOL :)  Then there's Mr. Kitty and Gypsy later on this same day cuddling together. Cats, they are so funny and too cute!!!

Have a great rest of Hump Day! I have two other Easter manis done that I'll try to get up tomorrow or Friday and one more planned prior to Easter that I'll post on Easter Sunday.  I have so much fun doing holiday nails, it makes me happy :) Talk to you soon!

Polish & Purrs,

Melly


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Goodbye Winter!!!

It's Monday!!!

How is everyone and I hope you had a good weekend.  I am good, got a lot of stuff done around home this weekend that I wanted to get done, mostly purging and organizing stuff and today, for a Monday it hasn't been so bad today, so, yay :)  Yesterday was the first day of Spring, yay, but, it's been so cold and windy this past weekend and today, however, by the end of this week it's supposed to warm up again and be more spring like weather. I am so done with Winter and it's dreariness and cold.  I hate Winter and the cold so much.  I am so ready for the every day nice and warm weather season to be here regularly.  It was really nice out for about a week a week or so ago and I was able to get my flip flops out and I have not worn shoes since no matter the weather outside.  I just want to be in skirts, dresses and sandals again daily!  I am done with shoes for this year, well, until late Fall/early Winter, that is anyways, LOL :)

So, the nails I have today are the last Wintery themed nails I did a couple weeks ago before Winter was really over, ha.

My base here is OPI "Charged Up Cherry" with Pretty Woman brand "Pink" for the glitter and stamping down with Konad White stamping polish and Born Pretty plate BP-45 and one coat of China Glaze "Fairy Dust" on top of the stamped nails and a Melly Mix on the rest.

Charged Up Cherry on it's own.  This polish is another one of my classic all time favorite polishes.  It's so pretty :)

There you have my final old fart cold nails!! I've done two Easter manis so far that I will post in the next day or so.  I still have a few more planned that I do hope to get in this week since the holiday is this weekend.  Have a great night everyone and I'll talk to you soon.

Here's my too cute cutie patootie kitty, Miss Betty. She's my very favorite.  I love them all, but, this little one just have my whole entire heart, I love her so much, she's so coddled by Mommy and just such a sweet little snuggle bug and a total momma's girl too, she's my baby, look at that cute.  I heart her so hard :)

Polish & Purrs,

Melly

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Luck 'o da Irish

Top 'o Da' Mornin' to you Lasses & Lads, 

Happy everything is green today, including beer :)  I hope today finds you well on this Happy St. Paddy's Day.  I myself don't have any Irish in me I don't think, but, I love St. Paddy's Day anyways. It's a fun Irish cultural day and I love so much about Ireland and the Irish customs in general so I do look forward to it every year and the music, I LOVE Celtic/Irish music, so, today is always an awesome day to listen to radio, I LOVE Irish music in case I didn't say that already :) And, sexy Irish men in kilts is never a bad thing either, LOL :) 

So, of course, for today I did some green themed St. Paddy's Day nails and they even have some green beer on them too.  Check them out below.  I did a base on all nails of OPI "I'm So Swamped" (this is out now in stores in the Spring New Orleans collection and boy, is this ever the perfect swamp green, it's so ugly, I love it).  I put a coat of Pretty Woman "Green" glitter on my index finger and a coat of China Glaze "Angel Wings" on my ring finger.  I stamped the beer on my middle finger using Winstonia plate W105 and Sinful Colors "Snow Me White" and did the gold glitter beer "foam" with Finger Paints "Masked Beauty" and a coat of China Glaze "Golden Enchantment" on top.  I then put a coat of Jesse's Girl "Fire Fly" on my pinky and thumb nails to finish this mani off.  I really like the way these turned out, so simple yet so festive too!

 

 

And, there you have my green beer nails for the holiday today. 

Of course what's a post of mine without kitty pics too, it's rare indeed!!!!  Here's Miss Betty and Buster being buds together and Miss Betty and Mr. Kitty catlaxing together on the couch.  I love my babies so much.  They truly do bring me such joy and love and I can't ever imagine a life without kitties in it!  A life without kitties in it is not a life I want to be in!!! 

Miss Betty and Buster 

Buster being sweet to his sister and washing her head :) 

Mr. Kitty and Miss Betty taking up most of the couch, per usual :) 

That's it for today.  Enjoy your day and St. Paddy's Day if you recognize it as a holiday.  Drink some green beer if you get a chance, listen to some fun and snappy Irish music and hug an Irish person today.  Have a great day and I'll talk to you all soon :)

Polish & Purrs,

Melly

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Horse Expo Nails

Happy Monday Loves,

Hope you are well on this fine Monday, well, not really, it's been dreary and rainy here all day and chilly too, but, it's another day, I am alive and in good health and that is always a plus for a fine day :) Last weekend my Mom, sister and I had a date at the Horse Expo that was in town and we went to see a show called Theatre Equus which is basically performance art with horses and it was a lot of fun, really well trained and pretty horses and we really enjoyed it.  My Mom and I had gone before in the past but this was my sister's first time and she loved it.  Next year we plan on going again and making this an annual thing from now on.  I'll be looking forward to it next year too!!

So, of course, for that night I did some horses on my nails and here's what I did below, but, first, enjoy two pics of my own horse, Dusty Bucks!  I didn't take any pics at the expo, I didn't have my camera, will try to remember that next year for sure and since I don't have a fancy phone, no pics to be taken on my phone either, LOL :)  Here's Dusty, he's my bud, such a cool horse and just a good boy all around.

This is one of my favorite pics ever of Dusty and me, he's so handsome :)

Dusty Bucks being Dusty :)

For these horsey nails I did a base of Orly "Lollipop" with an unknown cheapie glitter from a beauty supply store for my glitter accent and decals for the horse and flower, then I used a pink glitter Stripe Rite striper for the pink "grass" the horse is on.  I put one coat of China Glaze "Fairy Dust" on top of the decal nails and one coat of an NOPI sparkle top coat that I don't know the name of cuz' the label fell off of it. I love these nails and love these decals.  There also are black horses on the sheets I got, I think I got these off of Amazon several years ago.

Lollipop on it's own.  This is a fantastic shade for spring and one of my fave colors, purpley pink, yeah, I'll take it :) 

And, there's my horsey horse nails.  I loved these.  I love these particular decals cuz' they are high stepping fancy prancy horses which are my type of horse all the way :)

I do have my last and final, yay, Winter nails for this season to post later and a couple other manis to show too.  I've not been posting to my blog lately like I'd like to be, not sure why that is other than being somewhat busy, still trying to adjust to life without Dad, the weather, just not sure, but, will try to get back into posting around twice a week more even tho' I do enjoy doing my nails roundup posts too and putting several manis in one post.

Have a great rest of the night.  It's Better Call Saul night and I don't have much planned other than some TV, laundry, reading, hanging out with the kitties and Casey and then bed later on.

Talk to you all soon, here's Miss Pebbles, my princess kitty, looking too cute in a basket one day :)

Polish & Purrs,

Melly

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More Nails I've Done

Happy Dead Day Yay!

It's Walking Dead Day, YAY :)  I love my Sundays again since WD is back on, that's for sure.  Can't wait for tonight's episode, it's been good so far since the mid-season premiere.  I am truly such a deadhead, LOL, I do love me some walkers and Walking Dead :)

I have the worst flippin' head cold right now too since this past Thursday and have just been miserable with this, it sucks.  I hate being sick, it's not fun, but, I did go to the horse expo in our area this past Friday night with my Mom and sister and we had a really good time.  We went to see an event called Theatre Equus which is basically performance art with horses, there were lots of really pretty and well trained horses there.  I did do some horse nails for the night that I'll post about later on this week.

For today I have a slew of manis I've done the last few weeks.  I hope you enjoy them.  Now, onto the nails :)

I started with a base of China Glaze "Pink or Swim", then put small blobs of China Glaze "Tart-y For The Party", China Glaze "Escaping Reality" and China Glaze "Electric Beat" on my nails to smoosh, then took one of my stampers and smooshed the colors together on my nails to create the smooshed marbled look.  I then stamped on my middle finger using Born Pretty plate BP29 with Sinful Colors "Black on Black", then put a coat of China Glaze "Fairy Dust" on my smooshed and stamped nails and one coat of Sally Hansen Salon Manicure "Tutu Pretty" on the remaining nails.

Pink Or Swim on it's own, this is from the new China Glaze spring collection and it's a really pretty pink.

Then, for this second mani I did, I used a base of OPI "Super Cute In Pink", then did the glitter accent with Funky Fingers "Saved By The Glitter" and stamped the birds using OPI "Eurso Euro" and Born Pretty plate BPL-025 with a coat of China Glaze "Fairy Dust" on top of the stamped nails and a coat of CND Effects "Sapphire Sparkle" on the non art and glitter nails.

Super Cute In Pink is from the OPI Hello Kitty collection that is out now and this is a super pretty purple orchid type shade, not pink at all, LOL.

For this one I used a base of Essie "Cute As A Button", then dry brushed my accent nails using OPI "Suzi Nails New Orleans", OPI "My Twin Mimmy", China Glaze "Raindance The Night Away", Orly "Be Daring" and OPI "You Are So Outta Lime", then I put one coat of China Glaze "Fairy Dust" on top of the brushed nails and one coat of LA Girl Fruity "Strawberry Delight" on the rest.  To dry brush, wipe pretty much all the polish off of the brush, then lightly brush onto the nail, repeat with as many colors as you want to create this look.  I love the dry brush technique, it's easy and turns out really pretty too I think.

Cute As A Button on it's own.  This is one of my very favorite polishes ever.  I love this color so much and everyone should have it.

 This last mani I started with a base of Essie "Boxer Shorts", then stamped using Born Pretty plate "Childhood Memories" (rocking horse) and MJ Plate "JR-9" (carousel) with Konad black stamping polish.  I then put one coat of China Glaze "Fairy Dust" on top of the stamped nails, with an unknown sheer beauty supply glitter on my ring finger nail and one coat on of Sally Hansen Extreme Wear "Pink Grapefruit" on the others.

Boxer Shorts n it's own, this is such a pretty blue, I love this one too.

That's it for today.  Casey is making dinner right now and then we are just chilling the rest of the night watching WD, yay.  I leave you with cutie Mr. Kitty looking cute.  Talk to you all soon, soon, I promise.  Have a great rest of the night and weekend.

Polish & Purrs,

Melly

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