Zoya Zuza and Wednesday and a failed Nabi magnetic gradient

Hello my friends!
Today I did my first sponge manicure using two Zoyas: Wednesday and Zuza. These are beautiful seafoam greens (blues?) that I chose because hubby loves seafoam nail polish. At least I think he does since that's what he always suggests. Wednesday is a cream and Zuza is a shimmer that is gorgeous! It has more than just silver shimmer in it, there are tiny little rainbow particles too. Love! I need to wear this as a full mani soon. As usual with Zoya I had no application issues.

However, I tried an accent nail of a magnetic gradient. I've seen a few tutorials on how to do it and it seemed easy enough. I used two Nabi magnetics, for some reason none of my Nabi's have color names on them. One is a dark gray shimmer and the other a light silver. The silver has a few rainbow particles in it as well. So, I applied my magnetics, waited for them to dry then reactivated them with a top coat and put the magnet over. It only worked on the dark gray :( THEN, I put on my usual quick dry top coat and everything turned rust colored! What the fudge? I have not had this happen before so I'm at a loss. It's the strangest thing.




Here is the darker Nabi so you get an idea of what the actual color is:




Any ideas about what happened?
Love,
Tres

elf and Zoya Feifei

Hi my friends!
Today I continue on in the quest of polishes I haven't worn before and go with two I got recently. I saw these cute elf polishes in a basket at Target and couldn't resist this green glitter one. It doesn't seem to have a name :( Until I was taking pictures in the sun I thought it was black with green glitter but I'm more inclined to think it's blackened green with green glitter now. Regardless, on the nail it looks black. This was two coats, and I must say not only was the brush wonky and all splayed out the polish smells AWFUL! Exactly like the Nabi Magnetics smell, a strange plastic/metallic smell. It goes away once the polish is dry though.

My accent finger is Zoya FeiFei. Soooooo pretty! I don't even know how to describe this, it's got green, blue, gold, pink, silver and who knows what else. It leans blueish but all the colors are visible on close inspection. This was three coats because I had some cuticle drag (user error).








I also wanted to address the recent drama in the polish community with the group that is calling themselves the coalition for cuticle clean up. I'm a small fish in a huge pond and I am not the best nail painter. I don't do this for fame or fortune but to share my hobby with others. My pictures probably suck most of the time and often you'll find a bit of polish or shimmer on my cuticles. I do my best but I also have a job, a family, and go to school. I don't think it's up to bigger fish bloggers to determine who has messy cuticles and who doesn't. MOST of us do this because we love it, not for freebies or attention. If you don't like what you see please listen to what your mama said "if you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all" and move along.

Love,
Tres

8 Spooky Nights day 6- Spiders

Well, I'm not sure where my last three blog posts went. Here's my pictures of my spider mani. I don't have pictures of the graveyard or orange and black anymore. It looks like my blog app is eating my posts.



Love,
Tres

8 Spooky Nights Day 5: Witches

Hello my pretties!
Please enjoy my entry for today!




You may notice I have one stiletto nail. That puppy broke off in my sleep last night so I filed it down to a point for today's challenge. As of the time of me writing this it's already broken off so expect some nubbin on that finger. For this I used some crystals I got at the dollar store, painted my nails with my base green, Revlon Street Wear in Drab, then Saran wrapped with Essie Mink Mittens and a Pure Ice I cannot remember the name of. It's similar to Essie Mojito Madness but with a shimmer. I topped my wart with Revlon Espresso. My hubby says they are creepy!






Please go visit my other witchy participants!
Peace Love Lacquer
XO, Noelle
College Polished
PishPosh & Polish
Beauty Dish
Nail By Katie
Jenerally Speaking 
Galactic Lacquer 
Tres' Chic Nails 
charlottes-nails 
Manic Manis
The Life, Time and Lacquers of Lilmoon
Makeup and Nails, Not War
Not Too Polished
Mimi Manicures
Seriously Swatched8 Spooky Nights
Jilltastic Nail Designs

Love,
Tres

8 Spooky Nights day 4: Ghosts

Hello all!

Welcome to my entry for day 4!




I used a base of CG Smoke & Ashes. This is so pretty in the bottle. Doesn't translate to the nail though :( I used Whirlwind White and Wet N Wild Black Crème for the eyes. This reminds me of Scooby Doo for some reason!







Please go visit the other participants in the challenge!

Peace Love Lacquer
XO, Noelle
College Polished
PishPosh & Polish
Beauty Dish
Nail By Katie
Jenerally Speaking 
Galactic Lacquer 
Tres' Chic Nails 
charlottes-nails 
Manic Manis
The Life, Time and Lacquers of Lilmoon
Makeup and Nails, Not War
Not Too Polished
Mimi Manicures
Seriously Swatched8 Spooky Nights
Jilltastic Nail Designs
Love,
Tres

8 Spooky Nights day 3: Candy

Hello all!
Welcome to my challenge entry for today.



I had a ton of fun doing this mani and even made my hubby say "What the eff are you doing?"
For my pointer I used a BM stamp and two random pink and red polishes, middle finger is candy corn (I swapped the colors though, oops!) using OPI Need Sunglasses? and Atomic Orange. My chocolate nail was done with Nubar Milk Chocolate Crème and Essie Mink Muffs using the cling wrap method of blotting. Finally, some real candy sprinkles!






Please check out everyone else doing the challenge as well!
Peace Love Lacquer
XO, Noelle
College Polished
PishPosh & Polish
Beauty Dish
Nail By Katie
Jenerally Speaking 
Galactic Lacquer 
Tres' Chic Nails 
charlottes-nails 
Manic Manis
The Life, Time and Lacquers of Lilmoon
Makeup and Nails, Not War
Not Too Polished
Mimi Manicures
Seriously Swatched8 Spooky Nights
Jilltastic Nail Designs Lilmoon
Makeup and Nails, Not War
Not Too Polished
Mimi Manicures
Seriously Swatched8 Spooky Nights
Jilltastic Nail Designs
Love,
Tres

8 Spooky Nights Nails challenge day 2: Vampire

Boo!
Today is day two of the challenge and it's vampire day!



I tried something that didn't quite work out. I think I need a smaller brush. For my base I used Sally Hansen InstaDry In A Flurry. This was everything I wish CG Smoke and Ashes was. Except it's a bit runny, but not unbearable. Again OPI OPI Red and Whilrwind White for the red and white.







Check out everyone else's entries!
Peace Love Lacquer
XO, Noelle
College Polished
PishPosh & Polish
Beauty Dish
Nail By Katie
Jenerally Speaking 
Galactic Lacquer 
Tres' Chic Nails 
charlottes-nails 
Manic Manis
The Life, Time and Lacquers of Lilmoon
Makeup and Nails, Not War
Not Too Polished
Mimi Manicures
Seriously Swatched8 Spooky Nights
Jilltastic Nail Designs
Love,
Tres