And no...rest assured, we don't live under rocks -- we've both been on Pinterest for some time but just now decided to make a joint one for the blog. That is all :) Let us know your Pinterest accounts too and we'll be sure to follow you!
Saturday, July 7, 2012
Follow us on Pinterest!
Just created a Pinterest account for the blog, if you'd like to, go ahead and follow us! We'll be pinning butt loads of sweet nail designs :)
And no...rest assured, we don't live under rocks -- we've both been on Pinterest for some time but just now decided to make a joint one for the blog. That is all :) Let us know your Pinterest accounts too and we'll be sure to follow you!
And no...rest assured, we don't live under rocks -- we've both been on Pinterest for some time but just now decided to make a joint one for the blog. That is all :) Let us know your Pinterest accounts too and we'll be sure to follow you!
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Nautical Nails
Hello ladies!
I've wanted to do nautical nails for a long time, and when I had some free time on Sunday I sat down to do them!
I started with a base of Sally Hansen Lavender Cloud on my pinky, middle, and pointer fingers, and a base of China Glaze First Mate (how appropriate!) on my thumb and ring fingers. I put a coat of China Glaze Skyscraper on the ring fingers for a little BLING! I love Skyscraper and I think it works perfectly with this color scheme!
I freehanded the anchors with a small paintbrush and white acrylic paint and made the stripes with tinyyyy pieces of scotch tape (more on that below). Painted over the tape with First Mate and made little gold buttons with China Glaze Midnight Kiss!
The major difficulty I had with these was getting the nautical stripes to be the same width. It took me a while to cut the strips of tape and they all were varying widths. And I had some leaking under the tape, but I think I managed to paint over it pretty well! They could be a little crisper but I do still like it.
That's all for today, hope you guys have a great day!
I've wanted to do nautical nails for a long time, and when I had some free time on Sunday I sat down to do them!
I started with a base of Sally Hansen Lavender Cloud on my pinky, middle, and pointer fingers, and a base of China Glaze First Mate (how appropriate!) on my thumb and ring fingers. I put a coat of China Glaze Skyscraper on the ring fingers for a little BLING! I love Skyscraper and I think it works perfectly with this color scheme!
I freehanded the anchors with a small paintbrush and white acrylic paint and made the stripes with tinyyyy pieces of scotch tape (more on that below). Painted over the tape with First Mate and made little gold buttons with China Glaze Midnight Kiss!
The major difficulty I had with these was getting the nautical stripes to be the same width. It took me a while to cut the strips of tape and they all were varying widths. And I had some leaking under the tape, but I think I managed to paint over it pretty well! They could be a little crisper but I do still like it.
That's all for today, hope you guys have a great day!
Saturday, June 23, 2012
China Glaze Electric Beat Chevron Mani
Hi ladies! Phew...what a relief that we're back up and running!
Today I have a chevron mani to show you guys! I've never done one of these before, but I saw this mani by Chalkboard Nails and decided I wanted to try it!
Guys, let me tell you. NOT as easy as Sarah makes it look. Sarah, I bow down to you, you nail goddess, because that was way more difficult than I was expecting! My nails aren't very wide, so I found it difficult to get a good, even point on the chevrons, especially because those damn Sally Hansen brushes are SO wide! It does look cute though, it just ended up making the tips of my nails very thick.
The colors I used for this are China Glaze Electric Beat, Sally Hansen Lavender Cloud, and China Glaze Make Some Noise.
Do you ladies have any fun weekend plans? They're having a festival down at the park in my neighborhood this weekend so the bf and I are going to go to that :)
Hope you have a great weekend!
Today I have a chevron mani to show you guys! I've never done one of these before, but I saw this mani by Chalkboard Nails and decided I wanted to try it!
Guys, let me tell you. NOT as easy as Sarah makes it look. Sarah, I bow down to you, you nail goddess, because that was way more difficult than I was expecting! My nails aren't very wide, so I found it difficult to get a good, even point on the chevrons, especially because those damn Sally Hansen brushes are SO wide! It does look cute though, it just ended up making the tips of my nails very thick.
The colors I used for this are China Glaze Electric Beat, Sally Hansen Lavender Cloud, and China Glaze Make Some Noise.
Do you ladies have any fun weekend plans? They're having a festival down at the park in my neighborhood this weekend so the bf and I are going to go to that :)
Hope you have a great weekend!
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Welcome Summer!
This is a manicure I did over the weekend because I wanted something with a little ZING to really shine in the sunlight. We haven't had many summery days here in Boston - I actually find myself missing those 90 degree days from Indiana! Oh - and it's supposed to be 97F today here in Boston. Wish I could go to the beach instead of work!!
I started with a base of Zoya Charisma, which is a beautiful neon magenta color. The pictures make it look pink, but it's actually a deeper red violet color. Charisma is lovely on her own and will be featured again in an upcoming mani I have planned. Over the top of Charisma I applied 2 full coats of Orly Bubbly Bombshell.
OBB is a clear base packed full of small magenta colored glitter. Take her out into the sunshine and she burns your retinas with her glow! The depth of this glitter is really unique too. Bubbly Bombshell has been sitting in my stash unused for months and I'm glad I finally took her for a test drive!
I started with a base of Zoya Charisma, which is a beautiful neon magenta color. The pictures make it look pink, but it's actually a deeper red violet color. Charisma is lovely on her own and will be featured again in an upcoming mani I have planned. Over the top of Charisma I applied 2 full coats of Orly Bubbly Bombshell.
OBB is a clear base packed full of small magenta colored glitter. Take her out into the sunshine and she burns your retinas with her glow! The depth of this glitter is really unique too. Bubbly Bombshell has been sitting in my stash unused for months and I'm glad I finally took her for a test drive!
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
We're Live Again! Malware Warning is Gone :)
Just a heads up :)
So for those of you wondering - what happened? Basically a site on our blogroll was hacked with malicious content; and because we had a link to that site on our blog, Google flagged our blog as potentially dangerous. The owner of the site that was hacked had no idea she was hacked and is currently working on repairing her site. So if you happened to click on a link to Kiss My Acetone in the last few days you may want to run a virus and malware scan. Hopefully Dori can fix her site and get it up and running again soon so we can enjoy her manis too - please send a lot of good vibes out there to her. Dori - we love ya!
Unfortunately, we had to delete our entire blogroll to get our clean bill of health back as well as all the java scripts we had in our sidebar.
So we'd like to put a request out there that if your site was on our blogroll please email us at mad.manis@yahoo(dot)com with your URL so we can rebuild it. (I've modified the email addy there to prevent us getting innundated with spam).
Oh, and - hackers suck.
So for those of you wondering - what happened? Basically a site on our blogroll was hacked with malicious content; and because we had a link to that site on our blog, Google flagged our blog as potentially dangerous. The owner of the site that was hacked had no idea she was hacked and is currently working on repairing her site. So if you happened to click on a link to Kiss My Acetone in the last few days you may want to run a virus and malware scan. Hopefully Dori can fix her site and get it up and running again soon so we can enjoy her manis too - please send a lot of good vibes out there to her. Dori - we love ya!
Unfortunately, we had to delete our entire blogroll to get our clean bill of health back as well as all the java scripts we had in our sidebar.
So we'd like to put a request out there that if your site was on our blogroll please email us at mad.manis@yahoo(dot)com with your URL so we can rebuild it. (I've modified the email addy there to prevent us getting innundated with spam).
Oh, and - hackers suck.
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