I've been wearing these for a couple of days, but...

I've been wearing these for a couple of days, but I've been too busy with animal stuff to get them posted.  I don't know what I was going for when I did these, but Shaun says they look like a TrapperKeeper.  LOL  I could TOTALLY see that.  🙂

They look actually pretty cool in person because I'm wearing a blue / green flaky polish over the green and under the black.  I ❤❤❤ flakies!  🙂  But they just don't photograph well.

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Happy Hump Day! 😃😃😃

Happy Hump Day!  😃😃😃

I'm not really into yellow all that much, but come on - they are smileys!  That was a good enough excuse to wear it.  LOL

Also, I am NOT sure what happened on my thumb... the topcoat just wrinkled up my polish and didn't smooth back out.  🙁  I ❤❤❤ my Seche Vite, but sometimes, shit happens.  *shrugs*

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Damn, the up-close nature of this photo...

Damn, the up-close nature of this photo shows all of the imperfections here. Regardless, I still really like these. I think this is one of those stamps that was intended to look a little messy and wild, but it's nothing you couldn't do with a fine brush or nail art pen.

Also, this color. Got it from Sally's yesterday. Part of the new Orly's. Holy shit, I'm in love! 😃

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GREEN PAISLEY! 😃😃😃

GREEN PAISLEY! 😃😃😃

This was another image on my set of plates that I was really stoked to get. I love how intricate and fine the pattern is, and it transferred so well. Sometimes, the finer images just don't work as well for me.

I love x 1000 this green. It's very close to the color of my living room. When I saw it, I knew I had to get it. I only wish the bottle was bigger. It's one of the new Maybelline's from Wal-Mart. The paisley was stamped with a darker green China Glaze polish. I can get color names if anyone is interested. 🙂

GoGo Green by Maybelline and Westside Warrior by China Glaze;
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Hoot hoot! 🙂

Hoot hoot! 🙂 I have OWLS on my NAILS. Got my new stamping plates yesterday. 😃 😃 😃 There are quite a few designs on there that I'm psyched to use. OWLS WERE #1. No idea what I'm gonna do next.

I like how, up close, you can tells it's owls. And from afar, it just looks like a neat print. 😃

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Well... naked-ish nails. 😛

Well... naked-ish nails. 😛 Since going back to work from vacation on Monday, I've been WIPED OUT. I can't believe how tired I've been. LOL I'm wearing clear polish, but it drives me crazy now to not have SOMETHING neat to look at on there, so I put on one of my decals. Easy and fun. I actually really, really like this. The decal reminds me of a tattoo, so having it on the skin-colored part of my nail kind of goes along with that. 😃

I've been trying to be really careful with base coats and all that to keep my nails from staining, but it's not 100% working. Oh well. I'll keep searching until I find something that works. Also, this is about as long as I can stand for my nails to get. Anything beyond this is asking to be broken off. I can't function with long claws! 😐

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Here is a 2nd go at interlocking dots.

Here is a 2nd go at interlocking dots. At least I did more than one finger this time, and the colors aren't so similar that you can't tell what's going on. LOL I think they turned out ok. The pink is a new polish I got from China Glaze called Rose Among Thorns. The color looked neat in the bottle, but even better than that - without topcoat (which I have to wear after so many layers, usually), but on it's own, it's got this really neat satin finish. Not quite matte, but not shiny. I ❤ that. I'll have to make sure to wear it by itself one day. I guess that wouldn't kill me, now would it? It's been forever since I've done that, I just realized. Wow.

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Oh. my. gosh.

Oh. my. gosh. That ring finger was so. much. trouble. @_@ I would like to do things like this more often, but not on myself. LOL The sheer frustration I put myself through to get one good nail is crazy sometimes, which is one reason why I'm so <3fond<3 of accent nails. I'd pull what little hair I have out if I tried to do all 10 and have them turn out nice. You don't even know. I'm sure it would be much easier to do on someone else.

I'm also sure that the fact that I tried to do my nails in Shaun's man-cave did not help. He keeps the lighting low at his house, and these weren't exactly colors that pop, so I didn't have the easiest time seeing what I was doing. All in all, this shouldn't have been that hard. Put down one color, tape it off, put down another, then dot away! I feel like I will try this again, but with brighter colors. And in brighter light. And when I'm not so tired. LOL I have a bad habit of doing nails right before bed. It kind of relaxes me.

Anyhoo... check it out, Jilanee. More dots! 🙂

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Got a new polish yesterday from Walgreen's.

Got a new polish yesterday from Walgreen's.  It's a Maybelline something or other - one of their denims, which is perfect for a zipper.  I think these are new since I haven't seen them before.  Without topcoat it really does resemble denim, but I had to topcoat these because of the stamping.  Which, btw, I know that my stamping is not great here.  I am wayyy out of practice and not only that, it was like, 3 am when I was working on these.

And I started doing one thing, then Shaun had a good idea, so I scrapped that and started a few nails over, then didn't like them, and did them over AGAIN.  I bet I did each nail twice to get them to even look like they do.  It was an ORDEAL.  I was so frustrated by the time I was done.  😂  I do like how they turned out, though.  And I REALLY like that blue color.  I might have to snag another bottle of it, just in case.

Styled Out by Maybelline;
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My nails are so bright, they gotta wear shades!

My nails are so bright, they gotta wear shades!

Yeah, I might have problem. LOL Three different paint jobs in 3 days. Oh well. I'm on vacation, and this is FUN. FOR. ME. 😛

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Nails for my trip to Lake Hypatia yesterday.

Nails for my trip to Lake Hypatia yesterday. I changed from the Invisible Pink Unicorn to the Atheist Atom. 🙂

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