Nail Art - More Autumn Layering

**Now with "Step by Step"!**


My husband felt that my last manicure wasn't "autumnal" enough... *blows a raspberry at him*
And since I can't back down from a good challenge I had to re-do my last nail art using lighter and warmer colors...  So, here it is:

(sorry for the uber glare... I'm not sure what that's all about.)

Step #1:

Base: Seche Ridge Filler

Wet n Wild - Gold and the Beautiful

Top Coat: Out the Door

 Step #2:

(On top of Gold/Beautiful)

2/3  OPI - Rising Star

3/3 (tip)  OPI - Take the Stage

Top Coat: Out the Door

(Side note: the TONALITY of Gold/Beautiful and Rising Star is almost dupe,

however, RS has far more foil sparkle to it.)

Step #3:

Fauxnad:

Bundle Monster Plate #bm04

Konad Special Polish - Burnt Orange

(Just fyi: this stuff stamps weirdly.)

Step #4:

(pictured above)

Added accent details with L.A. Colors Nail Art Brush:

Red, Yellow, and Neon Orange

Lots and lots of Seche!!  

^_^

PS:  I want to thank everyone who has commented on and/or read my blogs.  I really appreciate it!  And I'm sorry if I don't always respond or comment on yours, but as most of you with your own blogs know... it's HARD to do BOTH!!!  But really, those little morsels of encouragement are what keep us motivated and our blogs going so please don't stop!!  

-hannagrrl<3

Take The Stage!

I really like this color. It's not my favorite kind of formula... I had to be super careful with application, and when I wasn't there was drag... (what a drag!) and I had a hard time getting it to go down over the free edges.  Removal is fine, but cuticle edge cleanup is challenging.
Three coats evened everything out to my satisfaction.  I'd say that it is bottle opaque. 
Also, the color reminds me a lot of Wet N Wild's Inferno and Goldmine. 

Here are some pics.
Enjoy! 

Rant and Review - Wet n' Wild Rain Check

Alright.  Let's get this started.

First off, let me tell you, I bought this as an impulse.  I saw it, I needed to buy something, so I grabbed it.  I thought, "hey, $.99, I can afford that. AND it's pretty!  Almost periwinkle." [I've had some major Periwinkle envy lately.]  I immediately swatched it on one of my fingers.  Aside from the near "goopyness" of the polish, I became instantly enamored.  I love this shade.  I love this shade so much that I bragged about it all day before I even got home to apply it.  I had already decided that I was going to cut the goopyness down with a healthy dose of thinner.

....Got home, added thinner.  By the time I could thin the polish to a consistency that I felt comfortable working with, I ended up applying FOUR coats on my nails to get Bottle Opacity.  [I'm wondering why I even bothered.]

It bubbled.  A little bit.  But they mostly disappeared after the polish settled for a while and I topcoated with my bff Seche.

I'm a bit disappointed - it chipped - overnight - as you can see on the inside tip of my middle finger. And it has just gotten worse as the day has worn on.  Granted, I didn't use a base coat of any kind... But I'm still in LOVE with this shade!  OMG do I love it!  Some times it's dusty grey-blue!  Sometimes it's a frosty periwinkle!  Seriously, IN LOVE. 

[Actual shade is somewhere in between both of the comparison photos.]

(sample jpg from wnwbeauty.com)

Now, if I could just make it work....   :-*