MY BABY..........JUST LIKE MOMMA!!

Today I have kind of a few different things to share with you guys. First up, I know that you all that follow me on social media have seen a TON of pictures of my baby Aubrey, but for those of you that don't this will be your first time getting to meet her.  She takes after me in SOOO many ways, she is bossy and impatient and loves to paint her nails!  She is almost 18 months old and at that stage where we have to watch her every second because she is getting in to something she shouldn't.  Like painting her toe nails while I was taking a nap.  I gotta say though.........she never spilled the bottle and from the looks of it she dunked the brush in there several times to get that much on her foot.  As you can see, she was very proud of herself!  ( I was too a little bit, lol, but don't tell her!)

Next up is a few pics of some misc. mani's I did.  The first set of pics is one I did on my mom and the other two are some I did on me over the holiday weekend.  They chipped or got changed before I could take better pics of them but I loved them both so much I wanted to still share them.  I've added limited details on what I used for these mani's from what I could remember.  Sorry - I'm trying to get back into the swing of things and get my pictures taken right away before I destroy my mani.

 The base color is OPI LE Sally's Beauty 50th Anniversary polish - 50 is the new fabulous.  Stamped in silver using Mo-You London Mother Nature collection plate #02.

The base is a purple gradient stamped in white using Mo-You London Bridal Plate Collection #05 for the rose & #07 for the lace.  LOVE THE LACE PLATE!!!  Then my newest favorite trick to do is to use a OPI sheer tints polish to go over the white stamp to make it match the color of the mani.  This made it look like those plastic lace table cloths, but in a cool way.  I loved this one!

For this I painted my nails black and stamped in white with MO-You London Hipster Plate Collection #05.  Then to add color I did my trick of adding layers of OPI Sheer Tints and I used a few of the Sally Hansen Triple Shine polishes that are like the sheer tints.  Compared the OPI polishes were superior to the Sally Hansen ones though.  The colors were more vibrant and didn't cause dragging/smudge marks when used.

BLUE LAGOON

I did a sponge gradient using blues and greens.  I LOVED the sponge gradient, but after that it kind of went downhill.  This is one of those mani's that I had great idea's in my head, but they never really happened on the nails.  I'm gonna re-do the sponge gradient and just take pics of that, because I really liked that.  I wish I would have done the flowers in white instead of gold too.  So much I would change about this mani, lol.  Anyway - on to the pics!

For the sponge gradient I used Nubar - Blue Raspberry, Diamond Cosmetics - Magens Bay Blue & P2 Color Victim - artful.  Then to stamp I used Sally Hansen Insta-Dri - Brisk Blue and China Glaze - Passion.

Shany Cosmetics - SH 222

Mo-You London Pro Collection XL - # 11

OUT OF THIS WORLD - MATTE

I decided to use China Glaze Matte Magic over my yesterday's NOTD. The base is Ruby Kisses topped with NYX Enchanted Forest.









Then for a little fun and because I wanted to use my new bundle monster plates, I stamped a green star on my nails.

MORE DOLLAR TREE FINDS

A couple more good deals I found at Dollar Tree. Found these weeks ago before my run of bad luck, so not sure if these will still be in Dollar Trees now. The bottles are a different shape than what I usually see these two colors in, and the formulas seem a little less holographic too.

SALLY HANSEN - PROBLEM CHILD

This was the second of the Sally Hansen Tracy Reese Fall 2010 collection that I found. I think I liked this one a little bit better than Sequin Scandal, the flakes showed up a little bit better. This one applied really nice two, only needing 2 coats. This does look really dark though under normal lighting.

ENTER TO WIN YOUR OWN SH SEQUIN SCANDAL

Just wanted to say THANK YOU to all my followers who have stuck with me these last few months, I know my posting has been a bit sporadic. Normally I keep my giveaways open to everyone, but this time I wanted to reward my followers :)

This giveaway is only open for a very short time (5 hours), with the winner to be announced today.

I also added the question of what would you like to see more of on this blog.

Again, thank you for sticking with me :)

*This is a brand new bottle, not the one I swatched with.

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SALLY HANSEN - SEQUIN SCANDAL

Sequin Scandal is a golden olive green polish, with multi colored flakes & maybe even a small smattering of glitter too. This applied nice and was opaque in two coats. This is from the limited edition Sally Hansen Tracy Reese Fall 2010 Collection. I found this at a Walgreens in Missouri along with Problem Child (swatches of that to come). I was surprised to find them and quickly snatched them up :)