Man oh man are my nails in bad shape. This post and the next, my nails are all sorts of different lengths. I needed to keep some longer for the next post. Trust I will be cutting them down to tiny nubs later today. I have several cracked ones held together by polish and some that just won't grow. I hate when nails are not all the same length.
Enough griping about that! This is going to be a quick post today. The sun has not been out in days and I was in a hurry to get this mani done. It's not one of my better ones, but the end result is pretty cool.
When I went to find the bottles for this post, one was missing and I couldn't find it. Finally, under a dresser there it was. One of my cats, and I'm sure it was Checkers, decided it would make a fun toy.
Here is the silly bottle shot.
This is Joe Fresh Khaki and Caramel, Finger Paints Flecked and Rescue Beauty Lounge Moxie.
I started with alternating Khaki and Caramel, kind of a palette cleanser for me. Here are the starting shots.
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Ignore the bumps and dents! Next I added a layer of Moxie, which I have never tried before. Didn't realize it would cover this base so much. It's a golden shimmer. Here is that step.
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You can still tell this is caramel and green, but had I known, I would have used something else. No matter. I'd forgotten all about my flakies and recently a lot of blogs have been showing them again. So I grabbed out Flecked and added two layers to this. Here is that step.
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This Moxie completely changes the color of Flecked. In the bottle, you see green flakies, this looks pinkish green to me and I find this very cool indeed. I topped it off with my funky in the original base color. Here are the results.
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I am loving how these flakies look! I thought I had ruined this with the layer of Moxie, but I didn't. How awesome and simple is this?
Now let me go cry as I chop my nails off.
Until next time people. Any thoughts out there?
