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Christy

Couldn't make up my mind

Good Morning Ladies!

Last night I finally made a few minutes time to mess around with that polish I've been sporting for a few days now, which is Sinful Color's "I Miss You", for those that are wondering.  But as I sat down and took out my Konad plates and started to sort thru them, I just couldn't decide what I wanted to do!  Nothing was really jumping out at me screaming "Pick me Pick me!!!"  So I thought I'd have some fun and play around instead.  I used a different image on each finger. 
So here we go:

On the pinky I added a coat of Essie's Matte About You, to see what it would look like.

For the other fingers plates used from left to right are:

M40, M63, M65 and M63 again

On this hand, from thumb to pinky I used:

M64, S06, M73, M70, and M70 again.

My favorite is the Index finger of my left hand.

Whats yours?

Also I have the names of the polishes for ya!

Left to Right:

Call You Later, I Miss You, 2 loose glitters from Wet&Wild, See You Soon, and I Love You.

After taking pics last night I decided to take the polish off real quick, so I could slap a coat of what I wanted to Konad over tomorrow.  So I grab my Acetone and get to work.  WOW, was it ever work.  This polish was IMPOSSIBLE to remove.  I went thru 2 textured cotton pads soaked thru per finger and still had to take a filing block out to get rid of stubborn bits.  It took so much acetone and scraping with the pads that 4 of my nails wound up so thin that I had to take out my acrylic stuff and add to the nails.  They would have cracked today if I hadn't.

So I came to work with bare fingers, got here early and laid down my polish.  I will Konad over them tonight at Mom's.  Let's all say a prayer that I won't spill polish this time!

Thanks for visiting!

I hope your day is FANTASTIC!

{{{Hugs}}}

Christy

Racin' Haulin' and Braggin' !

Good Morning Ladies!

Prepare to be overwhelmed with Pics!!!

First of all here are a few pics from the race this weekend:

 Remember me telling you about my favorite cars, the Top Fuel Dragsters?  And how they go 0 to 100mph in under 1second, while traveling 60 feet, well I took a pic for you guys just so you could see the distance for yourself.  The green arrow is the start line, you can see the car is just about staged.  By the time they get to the Red arrow, 1 second later, they are going over 100mph!

At night you can see the flames shooting out of the headers!

My Husband's favorite class is the Pro-Stock class.  Here's our favorite competitor, Robert Patrick!

And a few other interesting cars:

 

Saturday, as I said, it rained.  So once it was all called off, we went and grabbed early dinner at Captain Billy's, our favorite local seafood place that is AWESOME.  Before heading back to the camper, I asked if we could run into Walgreens, and I decided these babies just HAD to come home with me!

Don't mind the tape,  I dropped the bottle in the store and the cap cracked, so I had to tape it shut! But just look at that HOLO:

Those glitters will be showing up in some Frankens very soon!

I decided to do a full mani with my new Sinful Colors (I'll add the name later, forgot to write it down)

Just Look at that glitter, silver and magenta tiny specks of glitter with bigger holo hex's:

Thursday night, the day before we left,  I ran into Sally's to see if Fortune Teller had come in, they didn't think it had, but know that the Crazy China Glaze woman(that's me) MUST HAVE THEM ALL!!! So they dug around and, look what I brought home:

Glacier and Fortune Teller!

They also has Dreamsicle, but it looked terrible with my skintone.

Yesterday I got in to work to discover I had received my OC Nailart order.

I placed 2 orders for 1 plate each and used the Code "Dusty" to get a free dusty on top of a 25% discount.  It ends 9/30 so run and use it if you like dusties!  And can I just say Kathleen ROCKS!  That girl has superpowers.   I had a tracking number 1hr 20min after placing my order! I will never shop with anyone but her, ever again!

Here are the Dusties I got:

 

a Pinkish Glitter and Blue Sparrow.  But hey, that Glitter looks familiar...

Look how similar!  So since I just bought a near Dupe of that and I have Blue Sparrow already, I'll be stashing these away for a giveaway once I reach 100 Followers!

And now the braggin'...

My Husband is Super talented.  And Super creative.  He makes me jewelry!  Check it out:

My Kick-Butt V8 necklace!  I've gotten so many compliments on this it's ridiculous!

And I know it looks dingy but I like it discolored like that, it looks more blue/purple in real life.  Like Chrome Headers get after they are super hot!

 

Fuel Injection Nozzles out of an Alcohol-Injected, Blown Hemi.

Sweet!

So I kinda lost my wedding ring, and my engagement ring.  I've looked everywhere.  I'm distraught.  See I was almost 60 pounds heavier when we got married.  So my rings don't fit anymore.  I could have my engagement ring sized, but my band is Titanium with a White Gold stripe in the center.  So while Rob could cut a chunk out and weld it back if it were just Titanium, it would have to get so hot that the Gold would melt!  So I can't have it sized.  So I have been wearing them for over a year with athletic tape wrapped around the underside, and taped together( I swap out the tape once a week minimum).  I have to take it off when I cook or shower because it will get gross and wet and wet stuff against your skin for a long time is never good.  So I took it off at my father in laws Tuesday of last week, to cook.  That's the last time I saw it.

When I went to pick Rob up from work yesterday, (we ride in together, cause we like being around each other, and it saves gas), he had this waiting for me:

HE MADE ME A NEW WEDDING RING!!!!

Is that not the sweetest thing ever!  I absolutely love it!  It's nice and chunky, just like I like it!  I like chunky jewelry!  It doesn't say "I'm Married"  it says "I'm Married!!!" I mean seriously, my wedding ring was made by my husband, too cool!

So yeah, he's basically the best ever. 

So I'm done assaulting you with pics!  Are your eyes worn out yet?

Hehehehe

That's all I have for today ladies!  I will be back to Konading tomorrow, I hope!

Thanks for visiting today, I hope you have a fantastic day!!!

{{{Hugs}}}

Christy

Loooooong weekend and a vault pic!

Good Morning Lovely Ladies!

Wow, this weekend sooooooo did NOT go as planed.
Friday was great!  Got to play with a basset hound puppy at the track which pretty much made it an awesome day!  There ain't nothing like getting chewed on by a puppy!
Saturday started good, got to see a few rounds, but of all slower stuff.  Just before the top dragsters were set to come out...here comes the rain.  So we cooked lunch, rain stopped and track drying began.  about 15 minutes before they woulda been done, it started raining again.  This cycle went on 2 more times before they finally called it off for the day!
So rather than leave to come home bright and early Sunday morning, we stayed at the track 'til 5pm so we could actually watch some racing!

We got home alittle after 8pm.  But by the time all the animals were fed, stuff was unpacked, laundry was started and showers were taken (you get pretty grungy at the track!), it was after 10 and I was strugglin'.

So, tomorrow I will have some sweet track pics for you, as well as pics of what I got when we decided to go kill some time during the rain!

But for today I'll pull one outta the vault for ya! (I gotta get to paintin' I'm runnin out of vault pics!!!)

This was a base of an Avon bubble gum pink.  When I went to use it I discovered the cap was defective, so after I managed to get this on, I had to throw the rest of it away.

After the base I used Special Black polish to stamp M57 all over, then added the tip using M19.

This was back when I was using Poshe Top Coat.  You can see why I switched to Seche.  I got streaking pretty regularly with Poshe.

Well that's all for today.

Thanks for visiting, and have a great day!

{{{Hugs}}}

Christy

The Race and a side note

Good Morning Lovely Ladies!

Today, when I get off work at 4, I will begin running around like a chicken with my head cut off!  We are leaving in the morning for the President's Cup, a HUGE race that we go to every year.  It...is...AWESOME!  and that's an understatement!  I LOVE inviting people who have never been to a big race, or seen the fast cars, like top fuel dragsters and funny cars.  Once it gets dark and the dragsters have their turn, I always watch the guest instead of the cars, the first pass.  They are so loud the sound reverberates through your whole body, you can feel your lungs shaking!  and at night you can see the flames that shoot out of the exhaust.  We are talking cars that go 320mph in 4.5seconds!  They go from 0 to 100mph in under 1second, while traveling less than 60 feet!!!  Go ahead, I'll wait, read that again, let it sink in.....Incredible.

So anyway, I decided I needed a fast manicure for the weekend.
So I started with a base of 2 coats of CG Liquid Leather.
Than I promptly dropped my bottle on my moms carpet and ruined those two coats tryin to snatch it up before it leaked the whole bottle out.
SORRY MOM!!!!
Luckily, she was getting ready to get a new rug anyway :::whew:::
So redid the base, then attacked it with my Red Stripe Rite nail art brush.
I needed to do two coats of the red so it was completely opaque, then topped it with 2 coats of Seche to smooth it all out.

Racing Stripes!

Racing stripes make stuff fast....right.....RIGHT????

I was just gonna drop The whole Zoya thing, but wanted to respond to a few comments 

It bothers me that people don't understand my motive.  I'm sharing this experience simply because I would want others to do the same for me, and alot of bloggers share things like this so others can be warned.  Polish Addict is one who does this and I've always appreciated it.  My ONLY problem with them is that I was lied to.  I have never and will never think of myself or claim I am even close to on the same level as Scrangie.  I'm not even sure where someone got that from really.  I don't feel like I should get stuff early either, it would be nice, I'd love to share things with my readers, but I know I'm not a vet like Scrangie or Brooke.  I don't however think that it should matter whether I am Scrangie or a homeless bum when it comes to the customer service I receive.  I placed 3 orders in the span of  3 weeks.  All 3, including the Zoya order were delayed for various reasons.  ALL of the other vendors contacted me IMMEDIATELY to say there was a problem, and asked what I wanted to do.  My problem is that when I asked, they didn't come clean, which I would have had 100% NO PROBLEM with.  Honesty is always the best policy.  I can handle pretty much anything, as long as it is the truth.

Hope that all makes since.
I will not speak of the incident again, so don't worry.
I'm 100% over it, I just wanted to address the comments since it hurts me that people don't know me and don't know my heart, and are therefore making assumptions that just aren't true.

The 1 thing I hate about the internet is that people don't see or understand my personality.  They don't understand my meaning.  I had the best intentions in sharing this with you.  I wasn't trying to be nasty or hateful, or get their attention.  I'm not a picky person.  I'm the one that doesn't complain in restaurants unless there's a hair in my food, and then I apologize for complaining while bringing it to their attention is the sweetest most un-accusatory way possible.
I have always been in customer service, so it's just something I'm passionate about.  I don't ask for anything I myself have not provided to my customers

I won't be updating again until Monday, Sorry!

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Thanks for visiting!

{{{Hugs}}}

Christy

Pink and Black French

Good Morning Ladies!

Today I have my current mani for ya!

I hadn't done a french in a while so I decided to go that route.  But hey, this is me we are talkin about here, so its obviously not gonna be normal!

I started with 3 coats of Sally Insta-Dri in Petal Pusher.  Still tryin to find a good color to use as a base for frenches, this will do for now though.

Ok, here's where it starts getting complicated.
-Next I stamped a french tip using Pure Ice (will update with name later, but its a chrome Rose color) and M19.
-Then I stamped another french tip over this, about a 16th of an inch closer to the edge of the nail, using Special Polish in Black.
-Then I went back to the chrome rose color and stamped my favorite viney/floral design on M73 over the black tip.  I know I know, Just walk away from the viney/floral Christy!  I will I promise!!!
-Finally I added the pretty leafy vine pattern from M36 with Special Polish in Black.

Top with a coat of Seche Vite and there ya have it!

And now for some exciting news!!!

I was running thru Walmart picking up odds and ends for a big race we are going to this weekend, when my peripheral vision picked up something and started screaming at my brain to turn me around!!!  What on earth did I see???

 

WALMART SELLS HARD CANDY COSMETICS NOW!!!!

:::dies:::

I was good, I only got this one, Envy.  SOOOO PRETTYYYYYY.

I tried to do a quick and dirty swatch on my pinky for you guys last night but the green shimmer just wouldn't show up, it just looked like black polish in all the pics.

So run to Walmart!!!!  get Hard Candy!

Thanks for visiting, hope you all have a wonderful day!

{{{Hugs}}}

Christy

Idea Fail and Zoya Responds!!!

Good Morning Lovely Ladies!

Today I have the idea I tried originally about a week ago, then tried again, a different way Friday night.  It looked pretty good, just not like I saw in my minds eye.  I have 1 more way to try it, so I will show you then what my inspiration was.

For now here is what went down Friday.

I decided to do the base using water marbling.  I started with my left hand using all China Glaze.  Rich and Famous, Spontaneous, Turned Up Turquoise, and In the Lime Light.  That wound up being too light, so I decided to try different colors on my right hand to see if it was closer to what I was aiming for.  So for the right hand I used CG Caribbean Temptation, CG Spontaneous, CG Sexy in the City and Pure Ice Wild Thing.  When I dripped the colors for my middle nail on my right hand the colors didn't dissipate as much as they had been, and the color came out almost perfect.  I have watched the china glaze video on water marbling and my polish dissipates WAY WAY more then it does in the video.  In the video it spreads but there's still a gap between the bowl and the polish edge, and the polish edge is much more uniform and dense.  I have tried cool water, warm water, room temp water, bottled water, tap water,  I don't know why mine wont work right.
But anyway.  I then took M63 and stamped it in Black over the design.

The finished product reminds me of a cross between tie dye and old school comic books, because of the colors!

 

I also cant for the life of me, figure out why my Konad design streaked.  I used the same bottle of Special Polish and the same bottle of Seche Vite I always use, and yet, STREAKS!  grrrrrr!

Ok on to Zoya....So skip if you don't care :)

I got a call yesterday afternoon from a very sweet girl, saying she got my message online and was very concerned that my Zoya transaction had left me unhappy.  I explained to her that when I had no shipping confirmation the day after the ship date I got concerned that maybe there was something wrong with the order, so I called and was told it would ship out within the next week.  I explained that I totally understood that things happen, no biggie, but that I really had a problem when I discovered that evening that their website suddenly said "Ships 9/30", and because of that I felt I was lied to by the associate I spoke with.  She apologized and said she had no idea why I was told that and explained that apparently their web design department had gotten their dates mixed up.  9/15 was the Zoya insider and Blogger early release date.  Everyone else gets theirs shipped out 9/30.  She also said that they hope to have them out before then, but it just depended on when the corrected green came in.  I thanked her for the call and explained that that's all I really wanted in the first place and we hung up.

I was satisfied.

Then I got on Twitter today and Zoya had this update yesterday afternoon: "Just wanted to let everyone know that we are 10 days behind on shipping the Matte Winter shades. We know everyone is excited.....we are filling them as fast as we can. No ones account has been charged until the colors ship. Sorry for the delay."

Ok, so does that mean I was lied to yesterday and it really WAS supposed to be released on 9/15, or does that mean that the Bloggers and Insiders are having to wait (because Scrangie and others certainly have theirs already) or does that mean that us "average Joes" have to wait 10 more days past the 30th?

I'm so confused.

All I wanna know now is....

How do I get on their Blogger list???

I want stuff early!

Thanks for visiting, I hope everyone has a fantastic day!

{{{Hugs}}}

Christy