Mish Mash Challenge: Book

Gifted To Me

Hi loves! Today's Mish Mash Challenge post is going to be short, sweet and to the point. I'm super swamped and going off of only an hour and a half of sleep. Yes I'm still having troubles sleeping, boo to insomnia! For this day of the challenge I knew exactly want I wanted to do as soon as I received an awesome birthday gift from my polish sista! 

Mish Mash Challenge: Triangle

Purchased By Me

Hey, hey, hey!! I know I haven't done a Mish Mash Challenge post in several weeks but I'm hoping to keep up with it on a more regular basis from here on out. 

This week we are supposed to do a "Triangle" mani and I actually had a couple things in mind, one of them I just couldn't shake. I have wanted to do a Harry Potter inspired mani since I started blogging but I never find the time or I feel discouraged at my lack of skill in the free hand art department so I give up before I even get started. Once this idea came to me I knew it was perfect and would be simple enough for me to pull off. I took my inspiration from the last book in the HP series; The Deathly Hallows. 

Happy 4th!

Press Sample/Purchased By Me

Just wanted to say Happy 4th to all my US followers and Happy Thursday to all my International followers!! Here is what I am wearing on my nails for the next few days:

 Zoya Chyna, Wing Dust Day Dreamer and Zoya Liberty.

M is for Minion!

Press Sample

Welcome back to another day of the ABC Challenge hosted by the ever so sweet and one of my polish BFF’s Kimber from Kimber’s Lacquer Korner! (Who is also having and AWESOME giveaway right now so go forth and enter away!!! I did and I am keeping my fingers crossed!) I know I’m a day late with my post but my internet went kaput yesterday, I think it’s the modem, so I am now waiting for someone to check the connections/modem. Oh well, gives me an excuse to get out and go to Starbucks and get a Cinnamon Dolce Chiai Tea Latte! YUM! Anyway, I was feeling very uninspired for the letter M. I had thought maybe I’ll just slop some polish on and say here ya go, a Messy Mani, until I started to watch Despicable Me. I have watched that movie about a hundred million times, and every time I tell my husband that I want a Minion! LOL Since he hasn’t delivered on that request I decided to create my own Minions!

Happy Easter!

Purchased By Me

No reviews or long worded posts tonight! I just wanted to show you what I wore on my nails today! 

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

A few weeks ago my lovely niece, Nani, asked me if I was planning on doing any St Patrick's Day nails. I normally plan an art mani out and then get so busy with my reviews I just end up sayin fudge it and scrap the whole idea. This time was different since Nani requested that I turn her concept into art on my nails. She is probably one of the most artistic people I will ever meet. This little girl, (young woman? Nah she's still my baby! LOL) can turn some of the most random pieces of scrap into a work of art. Paintings or jewelry, full outfits made of paper to building her own doll house from scratch, that the cat now sleeps in by the way, she is a true artist, in mind, eye and attitude  I only hope that as she grows up that creativity grows with her and she won't let adolescence take away that artistic side! So this mani is for my Nani Bear! (She's going to kill me for writing that!)

All the pretty colors I used!

My "Nail" Year Resolutions

Happy Wednesday all my Sassy Painters! I hope everyone is surviving what I'm sure is the first day back to work for most of you. I am working on a post right now for a little later on today. I really have got to get to crankin' these swatches out! I have LOTS of Indies to show you, some never before seen collections and some that have been out for a little while and should really be given a second look if you haven't gotten them already! Before I post my review post for today I have a few things I wanted to tell you all. I have been thinking about quality content for my readers and how to better utilize my time for the blog. So I have come up with a few things that are kind of my resolutions for the blog over the next year.

Ugly Christmas Nails!

Hi! It's me again! Yes 2 posts in 1 day! Crazy right!? I really wanted to do some nail art and I feel like all I have been doing is review swatches lately. Don't get me wrong, I love reviewing, but sometimes it's nice to just do something goofy! I still have a few things I need to do to finish up my 31 day challenge album...I know it's been over for a long time now but I will have all 31 days in that album if it kills me! So for today's post I decided to go with the Holiday theme and do something silly. So here are my ugly Christmas nails! 

Day 30: Inspired by a tutorial (Happy Birthday Joe Joe!)

Today isn't really a challenge day, it's actually tomorrow, nor is this mani actually inspired by a tutorial.The search of a certain tutorial was inspired by a little person. See, today is my nephews birthday. He is 5 years old today. I don't have any children of my own (and don't plan on any either!), I do have a stepdaughter, 2 nieces and my nephew. While I absolutely adore my stepdaughter and my nieces, my little man holds a very special place in my heart. The day that tiny little angel was born I knew what true love felt like for the first time. So even though he isn't mine I have a very special bond with him and he is the closest thing I will ever have when it comes to children. So this mani was inspired by the love of my life, my dear sweet nephew. 

Happy birthday Joe Joe!

 (Gizzle you better show him what I created for him! It took a lot of patience! LOL)

Day 17 "Glitter"

Yes I am a day late on my day 17 post, but I have a good excuse! My wedding anniversary is on the 15th and my hubby surprised me Saturday with a few things, one of them was tickets to the Cardinals 1st game of the NLDS against the Washington Nationals!! Hubby wanted me to do Red October nails for the game, so he bought me Orly Rockets Red Glare (along with some other goodies) to make it happen!

 

I decided to do a red and white gradient then then add glitter to it.

 

 

Then with white acrylic paint I added the STL logo and my favorite players jersey number, 4 for Yadier Molina the best catcher in baseball!!

 

 

Colors used left to right:

Orly Dayglow

Sinful Colors Ruby Ruby

Orly Rockets Red Glare

 

So those are my glitter/Red October nails! I was so happy to go to the game I just wish we would have won, especially since we froze our asses off! Oh well they're kickin but right now so far!

 

Well ladies I'm going to go make a pumpkin roll for the the hubby then work on a few review manis!  Don't forget to check out the other ladies, who were probably on time with their glitter manis!

 

 

-Kimber at Kimber's Lacquer Korner
-Kat at Hooked On Polish
-Diana at Nails By Diana
-Aly at Wonderland Beauty
-Meredith at Perfectly Polished
-Nicole at The Color Republic
-Kate at The Painted Pony Nails
-Cee at Absolutely Cee
-Sam at Polished Art
-Nail Narcotics
-Nicole at Nicole Gets Nailed
-Shelby at Shelby's Swatches
-Stephanie Louise at All Things Beautiful
-Mixed Mama
-Joanna @ Sweet Polish of Mine
-Patty Greenberg
-Liz and Lisa @ Lozlosa
-Mari at Nailista
-Miss L at Beauty by Miss L
-Chameleon Stampede
-Pam at Nail-E-Glance
-Me, Myself, and Polish
- Robin Sparkles

 

 

Grey's Anatomy

Just a quick late night post here! I had planned on getting this up much earlier but I got wrapped up in some house work and then the season premiere of Grey's Anatomy came on! I just wanted to do show you gals my Grey's Anatomy mani!

 

 

I applied 3 coats of Wet n Wild  Gray's Anatomy

 

I have seen this color in the store about a million times and never bothered getting it because it didn't really wow me. But while I was at CVS the other day the girl at check out said that there was a bin that had a bunch of polishes for $.20! Yes twenty cents! So I grabbed every color they had in that bin, and Gray's Anatomy was one of them!

 

I actually like this so much more than I originally thought! This just goes to show that you can't judge a bottle by its color! Swatches are so important! It looks way better on my hand than in the bottle.

 

I really like the how the color shifts from gray to lavender to green!

 

 

Then I drew some hearts with Sinful Colors Sugar Sugar on my middle finger and stamped the rest of the nails with Finger Paints Black Expressionism using my Mash plate M-38.

 

Did anyone else watch the Grey's Anatomy premier tonight? If so, did you cry like a GIANT baby? No? Well...um neither did I. LOL! Yes I'm a crier!

 



Gothic Fairy Wings

 

I'm sorry for such a late post, I'm getting ready to head off to bed, but I just wanted to show you guys a few pictures of my first attempt at these Gothic Fairy Wings. I saw these once before on pinterest or something, if anyone knows where let me know so I can credit!

 

 

Nicole by OPI Gilda's Dream, Elixer Lacquers Miss Kitty's Mee-Yow

 

I started with 2 coats of Gilda's Dream then painted my tips with 3 coats of Miss Kitty...

 

I painted 2 lines and the arches on the tips and filled out the rest of the tip with the black...

 

 

I added glitter then painted the jagged parts of the wings and added the dots.

 

The black is acrylic paint as well as the dots.

 

I painted these to enter them into Polish TBH's Instagram fantasy contest.

If you're interested in entering her user name is polish_tbh

Feel free to follow me too  @sassypaints2012

 

I'll see you guys later with my day 11 mani  for the 3 day challenge: polka dots!!! =)

 

Ciao for now!

 

 



Favorite Things Day 8: Hearts/Love

This mani did NOT go as I had planned it. It was suppose to be love letters and hearts with kisses and such, but the stupid stamp plate was not cooperating. I am blaming the design because I got several others to work.

I started with 2coats of my brand new Zoya (yay!) Dove. I was so happy to get this because I needed a nice cream gray!

On my thumb and pinkie I applied a coat of China Glaze Full Spectrum, from the Prismatics collection. This one has a pink duochrome very pretty. Then for a bit of extra shimmer I applied a coat of Orly Be Brave. Now I wasn't sure how much I'd like this but after seeing it on my nails! WOW! I love how the glitter changes color...it's pink but flashes the entire rainbow in the light! Simply beautiful. this was part of the FX collection but also part of the Breast Cancer Awareness polishes they released as well.If you can find this get it!

My hearts (and lips) are:

 Pure Ice Iced Merlot & Flirt Alert

L'Oreal Penthouse Pink

Sinful Colors Ruby Ruby

Finger Paints Black Expressionism

Only 2 days left in this challenge! I can't believe how fast it went!

31 Day Challenge Day 4 "Green"



I'm having a busy week, between the challenges and family thing and now I've started walking with my cousin everyday. ( Gotta get this fat ass in shape! ) But the challenge must go on!

For my green I used China Glaze In The Lime Light

 

 

This is 4 coats, being a neon it is a very thin formula.

 

Then I drew on some leaves? flowers? I don't know what it is. LOL

 

I used Kiss nail art polishes in white and silver then dotted using black over silver.

 

Then I added black rhinestones.

 

I like how this turned out. This wasn't what I had originally planned to do for this part of the challenge. I was suppose to do a snake skin mani using the paper towel technique. Unfortunately that was a Major FAIL! I don't know how that technique can even work, it was quite difficult. Has anyone tried it? If so, do you have any pointers? I'd really like to make it work.

 

Don't forget to check out all the other talented ladies participating in this challenge!

 

 



-Kimber at Kimber's Lacquer Korner
-Kat at Hooked On Polish
-Diana at Nails By Diana
-Aly at Wonderland Beauty
-Meredith at Perfectly Polished
-Nicole at The Color Republic
-Kate at The Painted Pony Nails
-Cee at Absolutely Cee
-Sam at Polished Art
-Nail Narcotics
-Nicole at Nicole Gets Nailed
-Shelby at Shelby's Swatches
-Stephanie Louise at All Things Beautiful
-Mixed Mama
-Joanna @ Sweet Polish of Mine
-Patty Greenberg
-Liz and Lisa @ Lozlosa
-Mari at Nailista
-Greta at How Was Your Day?
-Miss L at Beauty by Miss L
-Chameleon Stampede
-Pam at Nail-E-Glance
-Me, Myself, and Polish

Fang-tastic!!!

It's a very sad day today! It's season finale day for True Blood.

So in honor of one of my favorite shows ending for the next 9 months I decided to try some vampire/blood themed nails.

 

 

I started with 2 coats of Orly Decades Of Dysfunction

 

 

I wasn't sure if I liked this color at first, but it won me over.

 

Next I used Sinful Colors Sugar Sugar to paint my dripping blood. 

 

My lips/fangs and vampire bite were done with acrylic paint.

 

Farewell True Blood, until next season I will be re watching on dvd!

 

And now for your viewing pleasure some Eric Northman (Alexander Skarsgard)

the sexiest vampire ever!

 

 

Hummmmmina humina humina  humina! ;)