Off to the Emerald City

Dreaming of summer, longing for color, and also headed to WA again for the weekend - these poppies on my pinterest were just speaking to me.

I love the colors, the whimsy, and I wish I had the tools to capture the look better.   The nails:

 

 the inspiration:

So, if you blur your eyes real good or get smashing drunk, I'm sure it looks SO GOOD!  LOL, I am honestly pretty happy with it considering I have no nail art brushes, but I will probably redo it when I have the proper tools someday.

Minicure Monday: Shatter my world

So, the shatter/crackle trend has officially taken over.  All it took was this:  the color purple.  See, my little princess has a certain obsession with purple (followed only by her obsession with pink, and topped only by her sweet tooth.)

We were over at Mommy Does Her Nails' house, so we stole a few of her colors for this one.  On the bottom is Zoya "Apple", a blue LA Color Glaze glitter polish, and then China Glaze Fault Line crackle. 

 So, for mommy's matching manicure, I pulled out my China Glaze "Cracked Medallion" and slapped it on over Sally Hansen "Crushed".  It's wild, and a totally perfect look for summertime.  Hope you enjoy!

Friendly Friday and mani theme of the week...

My dear girlfriends and I ( including my sister-blog, Mommy Does Her Nails) get together ever week, and among other things, we pool our polishes and nail art supplies to pretty up for the weekend.  I forgot to grab my camera so here's the results of this week, courtesy of Mommy Does Her Nails:

I redid my favorite theme of this week, because my earlier version (pictured below) got ruined by my dear darling monsters children before the topcoat set.  :)

 Expert eyes might spot that this was done with Sally Hansen "Crushed" and Zoya "Jancyn".  I love the bright, summery way these colors play off each other, so I knew I'd be revisiting them again soon - which I did, on Friday. 
I added some stamping with Zoya "Kimmy" which stamped surprisingly well!  Finished off the look with the gold - based Northern Lights Hologram topcoat, which gives it this amazing sparkle: