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2010 Favorites: A Manicure Retrospective

Hello ladies,

I put together a collection of looks from 2010. These were composed of reader favorites, experiments with technique and simply manicures I enjoyed creating. The manicures are shown in order of how they were posted, from January through December 2010.

Below each picture is a link to each original post. You can travel there to see more photos or gather information about how to recreate the look at home. I hope you enjoy the retrospective.
Pearl, sea and sky: Nubar Sky Sparkle
Accessorize: Color Club Who Are You Wearing?
Red sugar, pink icing, candy hearts: Color Club She's So Glam, Art of Seduction
Peacock blue: Color Club Gossip Column
Strawberry Milkshake: Essie Pop Art Pink
Bite and scratch: Nubar Lustful Red, ManGlaze Hot Mess, Matte is Murder
Business time: Nubar Enchanting Red, ManGlaze Matte is Murder
Bluebirds, golden light: Hard Candy Splendid, Sugar Daddy
Opalescent stripes: Nubar Stormhold, Nfu #50
Ingenue: Diamond Cosmetics Gypsy Red
Wedgwood Blue: Diamond Cosmetics Tranquility
Gold dust: Revlon Cotton Candy, Color Club Sultry Diva
Starry garden pinks: Hard Candy Pretty in Punk, Hot Pants
Exotic plumes: Hard Candy Frenzy, Date Night and Sweet P
Treasure in a deep sea cave: Hard Candy Envy, Break Up
Love and stilettos: Hard Candy The End, Hypnotic and Sugar Daddy
Grape glam: s-he stylezone 464, China Glaze Octa Gone Wild, Tickle My Triangle, Sexagon
Butterflies aglow: P2
Carnival of flowers: Brucci Emmi and Olli Go Bananas
Bejeweled grapes: Diamond Cosmetics Pelican Peak Purple
Des bijoux et des fleurs: BB Couture Ceremony
Watermelon Tourmaline: Nubar Twilight Matte, Petunia Sparkle, Meadow Sparkle, 2010
Night blooming flowers: Nubar Midnight Matte
Flower circlets: Nubar Reef Green
White Peacock: Nubar Pasadena Purple
The sea of stars: Nubar Mali Blue
All aflutter: Color Club Almost Famous
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Peacock in pink

Hello ladies,

Today I am wearing Roberta's Green Garden, a neon green polish from Brucci. This color is vivid and, like most neons, extremely difficult to capture. I will ask you to call forth your creative Muse and visualize this green as being about two shades brighter.

The stylized feather image is from Bundle Monster plate BM01. For stamping, I used Konad special polish in violet pearl. Applied over the neon green, the metallic shimmer in the purple stamping polish showed much more prominently than the base color. It really looks like gold on the nail with the slightest hint of purple. I added magenta rhinestones to the center of each feather. The manicure makes me think of peacocks.








Two coats will bring opacity, but I found three to appear a little brighter on the nail. I tend towards applying thinner coats. Depending on your technique, you may be satisfied with two. Top coat altered the color slightly. It made Roberta's Green Garden appear more grassy than the bright spearmint shade in the bottle.

For a chance to win four Brucci nail polishes along with an assortment of Spring beauty items, please visit the contest post to enter.

Happy painting, ladies!


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Sky lilies

Hello ladies,

Today I am wearing Brucci Typhoon Lagoon, a lovely purple with pale green and blue duochrome shimmer. One of my favorite bits of whimsy is to imagine things that grow from the earth to exist in the sky as well. I think the white lilies on my fingernails would be beautiful as clouds.

I stamped the lilies from the Bundle Monster fauxnad plate BM 15 using white Konad special polish. I added tiny metallic spheres in sage green.






This strange little creature is a hummingbird moth. It's wings mimic the constant motion of a hummingbird. I was both startled and delighted by it's appearance. Have any of you ever seen a hummingbird moth in person?

Typhoon Lagoon needed three coats for opacity. The color was so beautiful as I added more coats, I could have painted away the afternoon.

I received my set of 21 design plates from Bundle Monster yesterday and this was my first experience with them. I found that I needed to work much faster transferring the image from the stamper to my nail to make the design adhere fully. I also needed to press down more firmly with the stamper. Once I found the right speed and pressure, I had no further issues.

For a beginner, I would recommend starting with Konad plates. The appeal of the Bundle Monster pack is the variety of the designs. I started out with a simple image that would be forgiving to stamp. There are some really lovely designs. I purchased the set solely for the peacock image. I am also smitten with the chandelier and French poodle.

I added on the 5 pack of nail art wheels. While the contents are useful, the packaging doesn't properly contain them. What I ended up with is a lot of mixing between the compartments. It's a shame because I appreciate the variety of components. There are miniature metallic spheres that I used in this manicure. Included are circle, square, heart, comma, flower and teardrop rhinestones. There are also iridescent plastic cutouts shaped like hearts, flowers, teardrops, hexagons and stars. However, I don't think the hot pink playboy bunny emblem will be finding it's way onto my nails anytime soon.

Brucci Typhoon Lagoon is one of the offerings in the Spring Beauty, Spring Cleaning prize package. Please visit the contest post to enter.

Happy painting, ladies!
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