Franken Fail

I made a Franken the other night and in the bottle it looks like this

Notice the pink/purple shift you can see even in the picture

On the nail not so impressive

Sadly not even the slightest duochrome hint when on the nail

I think I used too much pigment in that tiny bottle. lol

I will try again to see if I can get my dreamy blue.

P.S. Posts might be a little spars the next couple of weeks as I am in the

midst of changing hosts for Evil Shades and my current host has it set so you cannot transfer anything.

So I will not only be manually transferring data, pictures and info but learning how to use cpanel and setting up a much better shopping cart....if I can figure it out. lol  I am not tech savvy at all so I will try to post between screaming fits of frustration! :o)

Don't judge Coral

I grabbed an oldie but a perfect summer goodie!

China Glaze No Morals Coral

Oh the chemical goodness that once was

Glass flecks, pink shimmer, coral base and pure gorgeous!

(No Morals coral has always been impossible for me to get a color accurate picture)

It's not nearly as orange as the pictures look but a perfect coral with a subtle pink shimmer mixed with glass fleck

This picture is closer to accurate

I adore this color and even though it is not B3F I love it and don't mind her immoral nature! :o)

Happy nails? Nail art sort of

I was trying to decide what color to do my nails and I looked down

at my naked little nubbins and started laughing. (Hubby looks at me like I'm nuts)

I noticed that my short nails looked like they had a crew cut...really they do and I'll prove it...

See told you!

I used just my regular base coat, different colors of striping polish for the colorful crew cuts and a few of the rub on decals I made for my kids then a coat of Seche Vite.



It's a Pirate Party!

I figured while my nails are so short I should play with glitter

(Glitter turns to concrete on my nails and is painful to remove, even with the foil method & pure acetone so when my nails are long I rarely wear it)

I used OPI Skull and Glossbones as my base and 2 un named glitters

I added an accent of one of my little skull and crossbones decals and we have a Pirate Party!

Sadly we had no sun to get full bling pictures

I did 2 coats of Skull & Glossbones and one coat of each of the glitters followed with a thick coat of seche Vite

Yes it was a pita to remove but I loved it anyway!

Fotolia stock picture fun

I had the opportunity to try fotolia and I wanted to share my thoughts with you.

At first I thought I really wouldn't use "stock photos" but figured I would

go look around and at least see what it was all about. Now call me hooked!

Now for BNP&LG I obviously use my own pictures and the same for Evil Shades, but after checking out

fotolia I found a great use that I hadn't thought of....Banners, Header, Backgrounds and buttons!

Here is the first use I made of a stock photo from the site

I used a stock picture (the background with the picture frame) and added the wording,

pictures of some of their jewelry and some tweaks in Gimp and made a fancy banner for Whimsy Beading to add to my sidebar. (You can see it on the left sidebar)

I think it turned out very nice for my being far from a pro & just starting to

figure out Gimp. I will definitely be using more from fotolia for a new header here and maybe a link button.

I have a few 2 week free trial codes if anyone wants to give it a whirl, just email me and I'll send you one.

(First come first served on the codes, I will add a note when they are gone)

There are so many pictures and useful backgrounds etc that I think I will have to become a paying member!