Week 11: St. Patty's Day!

So here's my green mani. I raided my stash for all my greens, and added Argo from China Glaze Colors from the Capitol collection, as well as Stone Cold (I'll talk more about that in my next haul post). I wanted to do a cool needle marble I saw on youtube, but it wasn't working out. So i whipped out a makeup sponge and sponged all the colors on.

This is one careful coat of China Glaze Stone Cold, sponged with Revlon Emerald City, Gosh Golden Dragon, China Glaze Agro, and Julep Leah. It needed 2 coats of topcoat to get it smooth because it was a little bumpy from the sponging.
Next time I'll have a haul post for you.
Until then!
-Lynnette

Dragon Lady and a Hubbycure

First up, Gosh Golden Dragon by itself in it's beauty.

 This is a but more yellow-toned in real life and the gold shimmer really comes alive. A great color, but yellow and yellow-green doesn't play well with my skin all the time. So after a few days I did another layer.

This is with a layer of Julep Melissa on top. This made it more blue/jade/teal-ish....much more of a "Lynnette" color. However, with so many layers of polish it quickly peeled off (hence the naked first finger!).

My hubby saw the green, and said the next mani should be blue and yellow (his team colors). Since I don't own a proper yellow, I went with gold. This is 2 coats of Professional 10 Old Hollywood, stamped with Julep Marisa.

I let my hubby pick the stamping design.....he almost always picks this design lol! You get my right hand for this pic because it has longer/nicer nails....for the moment. Since this mani was designed by my husband, I call it a Hubbycure instead of a manicure :)

As a side note, I'm going to switch challenge weeks. I really don't want to do something for St. Patty's this far out , and I'm not digging another green mani so close to the last one.

Until next time!
-Lynnette

Recent Nail Mail

If I remember right, BOTH of my packages came late Thursday, or Friday....my days blur together and I can't remember what came when lol. I guess as long as they came right?

First up is my first contest win Gosh Golden Dragon, courtesy of the polish insomniac. I still can't believe I won lol. On to bottle shots....

All that pretty golden shimmer! This is what I'm going to wear next.

Then my mail carrier came back to my house, this time with my Julep Maven box!

From top to bottom: Julep Charlotte, Melissa, and Jodie. Kinda sad that Jodie came with that smear on the bottle, but the rest of the box was fine.
Hooray for nail mail! Now off to use Golden Dragon!
-Lynnette

Coming soon!

Coming soon to this blog:
-Swatches of Icing's Lemme see your Peacock (plus a mani featuring this)
-Nail Mail: Gosh Golden Dragon (my first contest win!)
-Nail Mail: March's Julep box
Yay! Hopefully I get the nail mail soon.....the mail carriers like to skip my house for some odd reason.
It's just too late to post the swatches tonight. Heck the mani might have to wait.....the horror of going to work with bare nails lol!

Well off to bed! Work will come around much too early....
-Lynnette