Glitter Daze Birthday Cupcake with Stamping

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Hi everyone! I wanted to show you a really fun polish from Glitter Daze, but only have a few moments for the post. So, here it is.

June's Mini Mani: Softest White with polka dots

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This month my little girl allowed me to give her a bit of nail art. She said that her favorite colors of the moment were purple and white. She decided on a white base with purple decoration. I don't expect perfection when I do a four year old's fingernails, just something that is colorful and not smudged all over the furniture . . . Mission accomplished. This is Orly Softest White with Revlon ColorStay Amethyst.

I like to do cute stamped art on her nails, but I didn't think that she would sit for me once for the base color and again for the stamping the other day. So she got polka dots instead. She chose her right thumb as an accent nail. I think it came out cute, but the purple bled a little into the white with the application of fast drying topcoat even though I gave the polish plenty of time to set up.

Do you ever have color bleeding problems when doing nail art over light colors? How do you combat it? Do you ever do nail art for mini nails?





I'm joining up with Rachael 's monthly blog hop for the very first time today. If you have not checked out her blog, you should. She is beyond adorable and her posts full of beauty and humor. Enjoy!

~Alexis

A Wine-Tasting Fairy Princess

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Hello. I hope that you all are doing well today. I have lots of pictures for you today. I was wearing this really fun manicure for a really fun wine-tasting bachelorette party. I love the little grapes on the shimmery background of Sonia Kashuk Fairy Princess. Fairy Princess was a very thick and hard to apply. I actually got frustrated and added three drops of nail polish thinner to the bottle and that fixed the application problems completely, but you can see my middle finger in the picture above is not as smooth as I would have liked. The middle finger was painted before thinning the polish and the ring finger was painted after thinning the polish. I added a coat of Melissa to my ring fingers which just gave a bit of a frosty, shimmery green finish to those nails.

I stamped all nails with bornprettystore plate m71, a floral pattern in Revlon Minted and stamped over that with the grape pattern from bornprettystore plate M71 using Revlon ColorStay Amethyst and Sally Hansen Emerald City. I have been very pleased with the performance of ColorStay polishes for stamping lately.

With my nails ready to face a day full of wineries, I hit the road with a bunch of my favorite girls. I loved the view from this winery, the grape vines and then the lake in the background. It was an absolutely beautiful day in every way!

Noble Winery, Westfield, NY

I removed the polish after five days of wearing it, one day after the wine tour. You can see that there is one big chip on the middle finger and some chipping on my index finger, but the manicure quickly deteriorated after taking this picture. I spent the day at the beach, finding sea glass in the sand with my daughter.

Day 5

Sunset at Lake Erie

I am wearing a very traditional, pretty manicure right now, Julep Kelly. It is pretty beat, so I'll post about it in a day or two.

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What do you think of coordinating your manicure with a special event or holiday? If you've done it, what was the event and what did your manicure look like?

~Alexis