FISHY NAILS???

Darren Garnick is a fellow blogger at the Boston Hearld. He actually gets paid to do what us nail polish bloggers do every day - yes I'm jealous :)

He is a witty writer who contacted me about his post on Pro Obama nail art, he had interviewed Steph from The Polish Addict.

Well he has a new post out about his first fish pedicure. I'm sure you have heard about these, there is a certain fish that will eat the dead skin off your feet - thus a fish pedicure. Please head on over to his blog and find out all the details! And if for nothing else, check out his orange painted toenails! Just like all bloggers, any comments you leave make a bloggers job feel worth while!

Please click the links below for his posts:
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MY FIRST FISH PEDICURE (And why these fish pose no threat to American jobs)
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"Are fish pedicures cruel to the fish?"
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"Did pro-Obama manicures sway the 2008 election?"

TOTALLY "CYNFUL" NAILS

******UPDATE****** Cynthia has told me that YES, all the designs are hand crafted by her directly onto the nails using powder acrylics.

Talent, I tell you, T-A-L-E-N-T!

******update #2 ********* Cynthia is located in Singapore

I came across Cynful Nails yesterday, it is a blog by an at home nail tech. I believe that she is located in Japan. How cute is her blog name??? Her name is Cynthia, I thought it was a very clever little name for her blog. She posts lots of pictures of the nails that she does. And a lot of them are some of the more simpler designs that most women here in the US tend to like.

When I got on her blog today, and saw the cutest Christmas nails she did, I almost DIED! They put my little Christmas themed nails I did last night to shame (more on my Christmas nails post later today)! I just have so much respect for the artistic ability that nail artists have. Please please please if you like jazzed up nails & nail art check out her blog! You can either click on the link I have on the right side of my blog or click here to get a taste of some Cynful nails ;)

Here are her Christmas nails she posted on her blog today:

I believe that all the flowers, stocking, holly and Santa were HANDMADE by Cynthia using powder nail acrylics! I have left a message in her comments asking if that is how they were made, if it is something different I will post an update.

SWIRL NAILS

I rec'd a great request for me to try out some swirl nail art from my fellow blogger Katee from e-polishblog. I tried this out Friday night, and was pretty impressed with the results. I was really trying to get pictures up Sat., but we had some unexpected guests this weekend, so I just waited until Monday morning.

It was fairly easy to do, the technique took a couple of nails for me to get down. I kept mixing the colors instead of swirling them. You can find the tutorial for how to do the swirl nail art here. I tried out two different "sets" of colors on each hand.

For the first set of colors I used all Color Club nail polishes in Limelight (neon green), Power Play (pink) & Screamin Fuchsia (neon pink). I then used one coat of China Glaze - Fairy Dust, a great glitter polish. I thought after I added the Fairy Dust that it made my nails look like sand art! You know the sand art where you picked out a bottle and then added layers of different colored sand in the bottle, well that what it reminded me of.

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THE COLORS I USED:

For the other hand I used Zoya - Delilah (red glitter), Love My Nails - Black Rage (black creme) & Black Radiance - Tease (gold shimmer). These colors didn't seem to swirl as well. It might have been in part because of the black. This black is so watery and clear, it isn't a very good black at all. Also the Black Radiance tends to be a little on the watery side and usually takes at least two coats to get to opaque. However, I was still pleased with the results. I used one coat of China Glaze - Golden Enchantment, which is the gold version of Fairy Dust.

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THE COLORS I USED:

Katee - Thanks for the request. I had alot of fun doing this! I would love to hear if anyone tries this out for them selves and see any pictures you take of it.

If anyone else has any request I would love to hear them and try them out - so please send them my way!

SANTA BABY IS COMING TO TOWN

As promised, I got the pics of Dinky in her Santa outfit!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

COMING UP

Ok ya'll I got some stuff I am working on for you guys. Here is what I have coming up:

First - I have been looking non-stop on the internet about this Japanese Nail Art, and I found some stuff I want to share with you.

Second - My friend Katee over at e-polishblog made a request/suggestion for some swirl nail art that I will be trying out. I hope to have some pics up very soon. Please take a look at Katee's site, she posts some very nice pics of nail polish swatch's almost daily!

Third - Pic's of Dinky in her Santa outfit - only because Olga left a comment on how she really wants to see her in it - lol! (Like I wouldn't have posted the pics anyway :)

That's all I have planned so far, hopefully one of those has sparked an interest in you.

JAPAN NAIL ART

*******UPDATE - Please participate in the poll I have at the top of the page, telling me what you think of this style of nail art.

Look at these cool nails! Nail art in Japan is crazy!! They have taken nail art to a whole different level! I hope it starts spilling over here soon, because I totally LOVE these nails. They have some of the cutest little appliques that I just can't seem to find. From what I could tell from the website that I got these pics from, these are pre-made sets that you pick from and then just apply them to your nails. The website is in Japanese, so of course I wasn't exactly for sure how these work. To me these are little pieces of art work that you wear on your nails.

They even have some for toe nails, lol!


I believe that some of the appliques are hand made, as in the picture above. The two bows and hearts look as though they were made from acrylic. I would love to learn how to do stuff like that. These nails are right up my alley!

I would love to hear from you all! What do you think of nail art like this? Is it for you? Do you like it, just not on you? Do you love it? Do you hate it? Everyone has opinions and I would love to hear yours.

ALSO - If anyone reading this knows more about this style of nail art I would LOVE to hear what you know. I am trying to find out what I can, but most is in Japanese. Please either send me an email or leave the info in the comments section, I check both regularly.

PAJAMMA PARTY

Last night upon entering the house, I immediately scooped up the baby girl, and dressed her as Santa Baby. She even let me put the hat on and everything. However, I didn't capture pictures of it because I had to try on the jammies I got for her. But best believe I will have pictures up very soon of Dinky as Santa Baby. To tide you over, here are her jammie pics.

And just because they look so ridiculous and it cracked me up and had me on the floor laughing, I had to get a pic of the view from behind.

One of the best $22 bucks I have spent in my life!