Roguish Red & Black Stripes

Hi there :)

So sorry this is late!!

The other day when the weather was finally starting to get nice, on the way to and from taking Hubby to work I saw like at least 10 Dodge Chargers or Challengers ( I am honestly not sure what type of car it was just one of those ) They were all this Tomato soup red color with black stripes. I saw 1 or 2 others with white stripes... I liked the black stripes better.

My mani today is inspired by those pretty cars !!

I seriously love this red color. I was wanting to use it after The Presidential Fundraiser or the Inauguration when Beyonce wore that really pretty red dress. It's so bad that I don't even know what event it was. I just remember seeing it..

After I put the stripes on, I realized that I didn't really like it. I might have maybe just put it on like my middle finger instead of every finger. I think that would have looked much nicer than how it turned out. The lines really sucked which kind of frustrated me but its ok! I used Wet n Wild Black Crémé for the stripes.

The stripes looked much better on the car, but I had fun doing this.

Thank you for reading! I hope you enjoy!

xxooo
Pan

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

First I just want to say whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or another holiday, I hope that you have a wonderful holiday and wonderful memories with your families!

Happy Holidays from us ladies at My Nail Polish Is Poppin'!

Alright, so down to business. My parents decided to take my kids for the night, so I got a chance to do my nails again!! WOO! 

 I recently participated in a secret Santa event with one of the Facebook nail polish swap groups I am in. The gift had to be between $5 and $15. My secret Santa sent me some supplies that she sells in her Etsy store which can be found HERE! I received a packet of Christmas colored glitter, some copper colored striping tape, some tiny gems, also some snowflake earrings! I had never tried striping tape before, so I was really excited to get it because I've been really wanting to try it! So today being Christmas Eve I wanted to do one more Christmas nail and try the striping tape out.

Started out with a base coat of clear, then used Sinful Colors: Show me the way. I thought because it looks so thick and dark in the bottle that it would go on that way. One coat and you could still see my nail, so I put a few coats.

After that I wanted to add sparkle because I'm obsessed with glitter. I think the ratio of solids to glitters in my collection of polishes is definitely in favor of the glitter. Anyways... I used Sinful Colors: Call you later. OMG its such a beautiful green glitter!

It's kinda hard to see in this picture. I wasn't sure how to use the striping tape, so I looked up a few different ways to use it. Decided to just lay it over top of glitter. I laid the strips in all different directions for each nail.  Then for the accent nail I wanted to do something different and originally had tried to the other striping tape technique I had discovered, but it didn't turn out so well. I tried to lay the tape down, then paint over it with red so the sparkly green showed thru, but I don't think I let things dry correctly, so I gave up on that idea.

For the accent nail I just decided to it with Milani's 23A Ruby Jewels. I keep using this color because I just love it so much. It's probably my favorite red glitter polish that I have. It goes on perfect and its just gorgeous! Finished off with a top coat to help seal in the strips.

Took this pic yesterday of my 3 year old. He has so much emotion, he cracks me up!

Hope that everyone enjoyed this post! Have a wonderful day!!

xoxoLeah

PS. Decided to do my toe nails too. Used Milani: 23A Ruby Jewels and Essie's Beyond Cozy! Thought they looked pretty awesome. Don't mind my ugly feet though! haha

Another Halloween inspired post

Alright, well Halloween is coming quickly! I wanted to do another Halloween inspired nail post before Halloween actually gets here, but last night I got the WORST headache ever. So I started doing individual designs on my nails and then just gave up. I still like how they turned out, they're just sloppy, but I hope everyone enjoys them anyways!

Started off by putting on 2 coats of Wet n Wild: Fast Dry in Orange (Orange is all they could come up with for a name? lol). I am not really into orange polish, but I needed some for Halloween, so I bought it. I ended up LOVING it!! It has just the right amount of sparkle in it and its the perfect shade!

Then I was starting to do a different design on each nail, but like I said, the headache pretty much took over and I wasn't feeling like doing anything. So instead of starting over on the two nails I started, I just did something else on the rest and kept the two random nails. lol

 Since my headache was so bad, I didn't do the spiderweb and pumpkin nail on the other hand, I just stuck with the green, black, and orange on the other hand.

Here are the other two colors used. Wet n Wild: Fast Dry in Ebony Hates Chris. The green is Sinful Colors in Innocent. All the green and black was free hand. I really need to get some good tape and patience. I tried to do some stripes on my nails before with scotch tape and it turned out terrible. lol I didn't let the base color dry long enough and the scotch tape peeled off half the paint. Some things are fairly easy to do free hand, you just need the right brushes! I almost forgot to mention, I finished off with a clear coat of Super Dry by Diamond Cosmetics.  Forgot to take a pic, so I just googled it.

Sorry that this post was so short, but I hope that you enjoyed it! Please feel free to share your Halloween designs with us!

                                                                              Happy Halloween!!
                                                                                               xo Leah