Leopard Tutorial

 Hey guys, I am back today with Kalahari Kiss for a leopard tutorial! When I first picked up Kalahari Kiss and I Herd That I knew I had to try them together for this print, it was meant to be.

 If you would like to see how to do this design keep reading!

Kalahari Kiss

 Hi everyone! I am trying to get back into a normal posting routine but it has been another busy week for us. We had to move hotels the other day since the A/C died in our first one but on the bright side now we have a pool! Anyways, my pictures will be a bit different for awhile. I don't have my usual set up and I'm chasing natural sunlight to take them at the moment.
 Today I have a polish from the China Glaze On Safari collection for fall. Kalahari Kiss is a light yellow-beige sandy creme. I didn't think I would but I really love this shade. Picture is two coats with top coat. I had a hard time with the formula though, it's thick and hard to work with making it very uneven.

 Do you have a favorite polish that at first you didn't think you would like?

Cherry Blossoms, Geisha, And Newsprint

 Hey guys! I'm back with Did You 'Ear About Van Gogh? today and a design inspired by Robin Moses. She did a geisha with cherry blossoms and newsprint a little while back and it seemed so perfect I had to try it! You can watch her video here. Of course, her design is amazing, as always, and my nails are much shorter than the set Robin did. I had less room and had to change things to fit my nails but I really love it.

 At first my Japanese newspaper did not want to transfer so I went ahead and finished out my nails with the cherry blossoms and the geisha. I was so frustrated with the paper that I whined for a full day. My wonderful husband, tired of me complaining about crappy paper, went to the store down the road and bought a few different ones to try and, happily, they worked. 

 The base is OPI Did You 'Ear About Van Gogh? and the rest is acrylic paint and transferred newsprint. 

 Below is what it looked like before the newsprint. 

 What is one of the most frustrating things for you about doing your own nails?

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OPI Did You 'Ear About Van Gogh?

  Hey everyone! My week has flown by, how about yours?

 Did You 'Ear About Van Gogh? was one of the polishes that I knew I had to have from the Holland collection. It is a nude, bisque sort of grey putty shade. You know the old silly putty that used to come in the plastic egg? It was a nice pink beige color until you started to play with it, transferring newspaper print and then it started to look dingy and dirty? That is what this reminds me of. 

 Picture is two coats. No problems at all with this one, very easy to work with. 

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