BARBIE NAILS

Barbie nails, at least that's what my mom called these yesterday when she saw them. And it is a fitting name. I shortened the talons over the weekend, but still left some length to them. I think I have them at the perfect length for me. However, when I do have longer nails, I tend to do more french mani's with them, so you will be seeing more of that in the next several posts I would assume.

How can you go wrong with a pink funky french?? You can't!!

COLORS USED:
BASE: Milani - Lilly Valley
TIPS: China Glaze - Don't Be A Square











Yup! That's pink kleenex I am posing with, lol :)








Yes, I really took that many pics of this mani. Yes, I really liked it that much!!! :)

NOTD - HOLO TIPS

Some of you wanted to know what I used for my holo french tips I showed you earlier. Evil Angel guessed correctly when she said Revvvolution. Wow, this is my first time to use this color and boy is it a stunner. I now see what all the fuss was about when this color first came out. This polish is super opaque, with only ONE coat used on my tips.

For the base, I used my favorite sheer, Diamond Cosmetics - Angelic. I love this base color. It is one of those colors that make your nails look better than they are, lol. It gives a very natural, healthy look to your nails. When I decided to do colored tips last night, I knew I wanted Angelic to be my base color, I just really love that polish. I only used one coat of Angelic, but I wished I would have used two. Oh well, I still like how this turned out.

I'm loving my super long talons ladies, they are just too much fun. And they have me feeling all nail art creative too! I can't wait to get home and dive headfirst into all my nail stuff.

COULDN'T RESIST THE TALONS

Sometimes I get bit by the long nail bug and just have to satisfy the urge. That's what happened yesterday. First it started by looking at Tartofraises blog. Of course her nails are natural. They are so long and pretty jealous over here!!! Then I was looking at Nail Up & Nail Venus and seeing all these cute nail art designs that I just love but can't do on my shorties.

So I succumbed to the urge and put on some long acrylics last night. I left them super long and today trying to type has been a bit of struggle. Sometimes I do a double take at the screen like what in the hell did I just type! I am making up new words faster than you can say supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! So I might end up shortening them a bit, but for today I am really enjoying my talons!!!

THE CONTENTS OF MY 3RD PACKAGE REVEALED

WOW! I can't believe all the guesses I got on my little skull teaser pic! Thanks to all who took the time to make a guess. And I must say I did have to smile at some of the comments made by my fellow Halloween lovers (JAMIE and NICOLE), lol! I figured it would at least drive them nuts :)

So for those of you who guessed 3-D acrylic moulds, you were correct! I got my moulds from 3D NAIL. These things are just awesome I tell you! This is like acrylic 3D nail art for dummies! And by dummies, I mean people like me! I rec'd five moulds from them. The moulds are a flexible, rubber mould that you fill with acrylic, let dry and then pop out. You then place your newly formed piece of 3D nail art on your nail. Below is a short video for the goldfish mould (which I got, squeeeeee!)




See!! How easy does that look?

Here are the moulds that I got:


You will need to enlarge the image to really see all the cute designs on the moulds. I got: The Goldfish, Skulls, flowers, dragonfly and bee, & butterfly bows. They have almost 100 different moulds, so these five are just a fraction of what they offer. (Including a pumpkin one I was really tempted to get.)

I just had to use one of these last night, so I picked the skull one. I just got a little starter acrylic nail set from Sallys to use, that came with a little brush as well as the acrylic stuff I would need. This is the first time I have ever used this stuff and it was a little difficult to figure out how much liquid I needed on the brush, and it wasn't really picking up a little ball of powder like I have seen when I get my nails done. SO I think I need a little practice as far as that goes. Luckily my kit came with a acrylic nail how to DVD, so I will watch that for some pointers. I also noticed when I was done that I did have a few air bubbles in my disign, so I don't think I packed it into the mould enough either. I only got two skulls done when the BF started whining about the smell, so I stopped. So here is my first attempt:

I was literally squealing with delight over this! When I say I squealed, that's what I did, you should have seen Dinky pop her head up from under the covers and cock it sideways at me, lol! I had to show the BF what was causing all the stink. Who then asked, why did I stop . . . . . blank stare right into his eyes, uh weren't you just going into dramatics over the smell?! I swear, at times like these I could star in the next episode of SNAPPED! So I only have this one to show you today, but I plan on putting these moulds to good use, very soon!

I also wanted to point out that I got excellent, personable service on these! I had a few emails going with King, and he was most helpful to me. He was extremely prompt and very courteous with his responses. These came from Taiwan and were shipped on Thursday Aug. 20th and I received them Wednesday Aug 26th!!! That is like super duper fast!

So tell me ladies, what do you think of these 3D acrylic nail art moulds? Something you would purchase or have purchased? I would love to hear all of your opinions on these.