Kell's DIY Nails

Where have I been... I went crazy. Not like clinically insane but I kinda put a little too much on my plate. I think I'm having a bit of a 'What am I doing with my life?' crisis. Is that also known as a mid-life crisis? I don't know because I'm only 35. Could 35 be mid-life crisis time? Someone please let me know. I've slacked a bit on my nails because I either don't feel like doing them (Gasp!) or I just don't have time. I've been really pushing myself on some other projects of mine so some things had to fall by the way-side. Towards the end of June and through the beginning of July I did these really cool 'Mermaid' looking nails. Both of these glitters are by Barielle ; from the Bling-It-On Collection . The Teal with large gold hexagons is called Sea Urchin . It's a frost and the formula is a little thick but I didn't have any application issues. It also has a duo chrome shift to gold. The other hexagon glitters are teal ...

What do you think of my play on words, there? On my Index & Middle: China Glaze, But Of Corpse . A metallic green apple or lime green. On my Ring & Pinkie: China Glaze, I Love Your Guts . A metallic berry pink. This complimentary pair of polishes are from the Apocalypse Of Color Collection and they are quite unique. I'm not sure if you would call them frosts, metallics, textures, or glitters. The base is a frosty metallic loaded with fine black glitters. They are gritty glitters that give a very unique finish to the polish. It's textured but not as heavily as most textured polishes. A few notes on the formula: These thicken quite quickly as you polish your nails and I found thinner coats worked best. If I applied a coat too thick it would crack much like a Crackle Type polish. Otherwise I found the formula to be fine, not spectacular, but fine. These also dried quickly. I applied a coat of ACI's In A Hurry Air Dry Top Coat and surprisingly it still kept it's t...

Today I have a polish from China Glaze's Apocalypse Of Color with an accent nail from the All Aboard Collection. These two just seemed to scream out at me as a cool combo. No Top Coat. Getting To Gnaw You is from the Apocalypse Of Color Collection and it reminds me a lot of Wet n Wild's Cougar Attack from years ago except GTGY has a much more opaque and black base. If you missed out on Cougar Attack and are still kicking yourself I would highly recommend this one. I like it better. It only took two coats and dried very quickly like a texture polish. In fact you could rock this as a texture or your could top coat it. Formula was very easy to work with. On my accent nail I have Stop That Train! from the All Aboard Collection . This frosty orange is pretty enough but as you can see this shows brush strokes. I love orange polish but this left me a bit bored. I used 2 easy coats; formula was quite easy to work with.  With Illamasqua Matte Top Coat. I read about a trick (I belie...

Stamping with Lilacquer, Zorg Industries. Bundle Monster Plate 315 Base Color: Nina Ultra Pro, Sailor I always experiement with stamping on old manis so please excuse the condition of this one...  I received my two lovely Lilacquer polishes in the mail (Zorg Industries and Roo-Bee Rhod!) while I was wearing Nina Ultra Pro, Sailor. I immediately thought Zorg Industries would look great stamped on top of it. As I shuffled through my Bundle Monster plates I zeroed in on this paisley design stamp. This attempt went much smoother and I was able to keep a pretty uniform stamp on most of my nails. I did notice that Zorg Industries dried really quickly on the stamping plate so a few times I stamped without any transfer; but I think this could be due to the hot weather. You can find Lilacquer on Etsy HERE . I really like the effect Zorg Industries created; it’s very subtle but still noticeable. The few mistakes (lack of transfer on areas of the nail) a...