Bet that caught your attention eh? I bet you thought yeah man, I could really use a five second mani. Well once again, I have misled you. Don't you hate me for it????
Recently, my fab friend
Polish Amor got me some of the Hunger Games collection. Can you guess which ones I got? Does the word brown mean anything to you? I'm warning you guys now, I have a LOT of new browns to show you. I'm ecstatic about the prospect.
First up, the silly bottle shot.
This is China Glaze Mahogany Magic and Fast Track.
I started with Mahogany Magic. The second I saw the press release, I knew I had to have this one. Such a pretty medium brown creme, maybe a small hint of red. Here are your shots.
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I really took my time and tried really hard to do a good job polishing with this. Pay homage to the brown as it were. I then tried to stamp with Konad Gold, but it didn't look right, so I removed that and grabbed Konad Special Yellow, plate DRK-A and my funky french with the Fast Track. Here are your shots.
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First I must say, that my stamping came out perfect on this one. I was pretty proud of that. Sometimes the more ornate patterns are hard to do. Again, I tell you that I was really trying hard to make this special. I'm not sure I like the Fast Track as the funky but no matter.
The second I had stamped my last nail, I decided I would try to do a layer of a color changing top coat. I grabbed my BeYu 209 (yes the GOOD one) and swatched my thumb. I always use my thumb, so if it sucks, it won't be in the pictures anyway. Well the BeYu covered the whole stamp pattern. So I tried to remove the BeYu like I had removed the Gold stamp the first time.
This is where it becomes the five second mani. I totally should not have retried to remove the BeYu. It smeared, left huge piles of cotton on my nail and so I thought I could salvage my thumb without ruining the whole mani. Well I was dead wrong! (pause for expletives here!) I was so mad, I had to remove the whole mani and I had worked so hard on it! Of course, I then didn't feel like doing my nails but I couldn't go to work with nakedness.
Has this ever happened to you? Note to self, you can only remove a stamp design on top of a layer of Seche and when you KNOW the mani is dry underneath. It's the only way it works. So I learned something new today. Don't be like me!
Until next time people. Any thoughts out there?
