My Little Secret for Covering Tip Wear..

Ok, let's face it.. I'm a lazy person. I procrastinate pretty much everything. So if I can find a way to make my already chipping mani last a few days longer, I totally will. The best way I have found to do this is, obviously turn any mani into a french!

I upped the ante on yesterday's mani with a double lightning bolt (I literally cannot say "double" anything without thinking of this), using Sinful Colors' Secret Admirer. Once again inspired by Nailside!

This was from a few weeks ago, when I killed my pinky :(

I am thoroughly addicted to this lightning bolt tape technique! I have so many ideas for it. I wish I could come up with a genius scotch tape mani idea like this! I think I'm going to make a trip to Michael's today to pick up a set of scrapbooking scissors I've been wanting for ages, and let the genius flow out of me. hah

Mr. Skull again! hah

What I Used:
Color-Hot Topic "Tidal Wave"
Tips- Wet n' Wild Silvivor

         Sinful Colors Secret Admirer Stamp- Konad Special Polish White
 T/C- Seche Vite

Skulls and Lightning Bolts, make my day! :)

Yay! 50 followers!!! *Happy Dance*
...I think I may need to do a small giveaway now! It's not going to be much, maybe a few bottles of polish but I'll try to make it good regardless. :)

On to nails..
I absolutely love Nailside's blog and her lightning bolt nails are the best! Here's a link to her awesome tutorial here, check out the rest of her blog while you're there! For my first attempt, I of course had to include the skull on m28 from my MASH plates! Lightning bolts and skulls! <3!!!!

I added two little red gems from a rhinestone wheel I got from 88 Beauty with a little top coat, for some extra bling.

I cannot for the life of me stamp the single nail design straight. 

I love these so much, I think I need to do some more skull nail art ASAP! Freehand??..hmmm.. 

I have such a love/hate relationship with Hot Topic nail polishes. I love the satin finish and the colors that they come in. I hate the horrible thick streaky formula, and how it tends to "pop off" before the end of the first day of wear (anyone have any good solutions for this?!? I am having horrible problems with my polishes "popping off" in a sheet, like I'm wearing cheap stick-on falsies). Oh and the lack of names of their polishes..but this does give me a good opportunity to come up with creative, witty polish names, and pretend I own my own polish company. ha I have dubbed this one "Tidal Wave", but I guess I would call it a light aqua-ish blue.

With the background of my beautiful bathroom. ha

What I Used:
Color-Hot Topic "Tidal Wave"
Tips- Wet n' Wild Silvivor
Stamp- Konad Special Polish White
 T/C- Seche Vite

*Ding dong* Delivery!!

Ok, I must admit there was no actual doorbell involved in this delivery but..Oh-em-gee (hehe)you guys, look what literally just arrived in my mailbox!!!

My brand spanking new set of MASH plates! Ok, so I'm not sure how good these are but from some of the reviews I read it seems they are comparable to Bundle Monster. When I was purchasing the new Bundle Monster set, Amazon recommended these to me...and well I'm sucker for those damn recommendations. Daaaamn you Amazon!!!... You know me so well. x_x 

I'm also a (bigger) sucker for a good deal, and 25 plates for $16.99 plus tax and shipping?!

Count me in! 

AND they are all pretty much dupes of Konad plates?!

No friggin way!!! Doubly count me in!!

..OK well not doubly, but you get the idea.

So far this bad boy looks pretty much the same as the Konad version of this plate I have. 

Eek! So excited for this plate!! Been lemming the Konad one forever! What more can you really need than skulls and unicorns?!!?

From just looking these over quickly, they seem pretty decent.

-Clean etching, which seems like it will stamp well. 

-Full size designs look as though they will cover my whole nail

MASH on the left, Konad on the right. (I really need a lightbox)

It's really funny, even the numbers are the same. .. and yeah my Konad plate is a disaster! shhh..
From a quick side by side comparision, it looks like my Konad plate is maybe etched a little deeper than the MASH plates, and that the design is a little cleaner. But for the price come 'on!

I'm clearly, way too overly excited about this at the moment. Hopefully I will be able to do a "Stamping Showdown" between MASH and Konad soon...ooo now I'm really excited for that too. haha