I am back! I had an amazing time visiting my sister and brother-in-law and my sweet baby niece, Evie! She is just about the most precious little baby I have ever seen. I am in love!
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| Evelyn Rose, 17 Days Old |
Here I am holding her, and she is in her "My Auntie Love Me" outfit that I just had to get for her, plus I hat that I knit for her. What a sweetie!
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| I miss this baby so much already. |
I did find time while I was down there to do some nail play as well (in between loving up on my sweet baby and my sister having to feed her often). I tried my best to give Christy some pampering, since as sweet as Evie is she is a bit of a handful and induces sleep deprivation.. haha. So I gave her a manicure and a pedicure. I will share the toes tomorrow; today we have Evelyn Rose inspired nails!
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| Outdoors, partial shade, no flash |
Christy really wanted to use this new rose patterned Konad I had just recently purchased in honor of Evie. And she loved this DS color - another new purchase that I hadn't used yet! I have to say, I loved the DS - the application, the color, the dry time.. it was amazing! I can't wait to use it on myself soon. This is
OPI DS Reserve, and I believe I used two coats (sorry, I can't quite remember, but that sounds right to me). The Konad is plate
m65, using
Nicole by OPI Positive Energy, a really great silver for Konad stamping. By this point, I have also gotten much better at Konad - I had practiced on one more mani on myself the night before (which I will share with you in a couple of days), and practiced just the right scraping pressure to get pretty results. I think I have it mostly down now!
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| Indoors, artificial light, no flash |
I also tried to be a bit cleaner, staying away from the cuticles as much as possible. Still a bit messy, but better - I am getting there! You might also notice a bit of a darker pink on the pinkie finger - we tried stamping over it but it didn't really work out, so that was the only finger that got tried on. :) This was a really sweet manicure, and I really liked the combo of the light pink and the silver. And I LOVE the DS polish - I may have to get me some more of it. Very pretty.
Thanks to all who are following, reading, and commenting! I hope you continue to enjoy my posts!
Omg, she is so so cute! Look at her little nose!
ReplyDeleteIt was nice of you to do your sister's nails. You really gave her a gorgeous mani.
And I don't know if you've seen this (http://polishorperish.blogspot.com/2010/09/how-to-get-that-picture-perfect.html) but it should help a little with the neatness thing.
She is pretty adorable, I have to agree! Glad you like the mani - Christy was really happy with it too and I think she had fun being pampered as well!
ReplyDeleteThat looks like a really helpful site, thanks! I always try to clean up a bit with just cotton rounds, but never thought to use paint brushes. Excellent idea. Thanks so much for pointing it out to me! :)
....the longest lasting manicure that I had all summer.....it still looks respectable (by my standards!) more than a week later! I give credit to the cute artist and the apparently amazing top-coat...from now on, if I go to get my nails done I will bring my own top coat, because clearly this stuff works better than whatever garbage they were using that made the polish practically vanish after 3 days.....then again, that is to their advantage, right? (they want you to come back and have a polish change!)
ReplyDeleteLove you!!