WetPaint Nail Glaze

 WetPaint Lewd over OPI Suzi Says Feng Shui

I saw a Facebook post about The new glazes by Wetpaint Nail Glaze System. I followed the link to their site to check out the products. However, I still wasn't sure how they would actually look over regular polish. I posted a comment mentioning my questions. Rita at WetPaint offered to send me a few to try. I think it shows they have faith in their product by sending it to someone who was openly a little skeptical. The above picture is Lewd layered over the Suzi Says feng Shui. I love that it is not opaque and adds some depth to the finish. I was afraid it would be streaky like other sheer polishes I have tried, but it totally wasn't.

In future posts I will try their nail glazes over other polishes and especially over some glitters. I have a feeling these glazes will make some awesome Jelly Sandwiches! Sorry for the short post but I just had to share my initial swatch of this product. I have Lewd (PurpleZ), Loco (Blue), Anguish (Green), and Willful (Yellow) to swatch.

New thumb rings!





Same polish, different angle of light.

We were out on a family shopping excursion to the other side of the island and I found these rings. It may not seem like a big deal to average sized people. My ring fingers are a size 14 and my thumbs around 15. When I found rings that fit, I was shocked. I didn't even care what they were made of. I used to have a simple gold band that I wore as a thumb ring. It was stolen out of my truck. It is nice to actually have some jewelry again. It sounds silly now, but when I started wearing polish I stopped wearing any of my earrings. I figured if I wore polish and earrings people would think I was trying to dress like a women. Now that I am comfortable with wearing polish all the time, I thought I would start wearing a thumb ring again. At least the new one doesn't have the same baggage as the one that was stolen. My gold one was a match to the one my ex-wife had. They were bought on our anniversary one year. As for the earrings, I am terrible about losing them. Back in the eighties my left ear had 3 lower piercings and one up high through the cartilage. My right ear had one. Over the years most of them have closed up. I think lowest left one is still open and the right one is easy enough to poke through.

I have to balance what I like with how I am perceived. The problem is that the balance changes with my moods! The good part is I am not going to stagnate. As much as people want you to stay the same forever, I think evolving and growing is more interesting.

Butterflies and long nails.

Left Hand

Right Hand

My inspiration from Beaching Nails.

I have currently been wearing my nails that just go past the end of my fingers by about 1mm. They are just long enough to paint easily without making a mess on the end of my finger. I ordered a longer set of nail that are more like 6mm past the end of my fingers. The manufacturer calls them glamour length. I also requested them in french tip. I thought it would be fun to have an extra set that I can try out more extreme or complicated nail art on. I saw the above photo from Beaching Nails and had to try it. I wanted to use a different color scheme that better suited my polish collection. I used Layla Ultraviolet as the base color and then sponged on China Glaze Sci-Fly By to add a gradient of colors. I was real happy with the results. When I was 3/4 done applying the black polish, it dawned on me I should have mirrored the design for the right hand. I didn't bother to redo it since this is a learning mani. If it had been done for someone, I would have redone it to make it right. I also would use the next size down dotting tool.

I decided I couldn't go through all the work without at least wearing them for a day before removing the polish to try another nail art design. I was a bit nervous about wearing these longer nails in combination with such a vibrant in your face design. I decided what the f@#k and put on my new design and wore it to work. Much to my relief and disappointment, NOT ONE person said anything. However, the girls at the nail salon where I went for my pedi tonight really loved it and the cashier at target said she loved my nails. I wouldn't want to wear my nails this long all the time, I have to be way to careful. The shorter ones require minimal thought to avoid pain. I am sure if I left these on for a week, my brain would adapt and it would be less troublesome. Tomorrow I have to do some carpentry or auto work depending on the weather. I will report back on how that went later.

I would like to thank Beaching Nails for making her tutorial picture and allowing me to repost it. Please visit her at http://beachingnails.blogspot.com

Couldn't wait to get my nails on!

OPI Ink with China Glaze No Plain Jane sponged at a diagonal

I went almost two days with out my nails on. For those of you that do not know, I changed from traditional acrylic enhancements to those made by Custom Nail Solutions. Every two to three weeks I take them off and do a manicure, then I put them back on. This time I decided to give my nails and cuticles some TLC and slathered them with cuticle oil three times in the evening before bed. Since I was going to be doing some work on my car, I decided to wait until I was done and all cleaned up for the day to put them back on.

Tomorrow I have a training with other coworkers and managers. I was on the fence as what to do with my nails. I almost didn't put them back on. My nails felt so unprotected with out my CNS nail armor. I decided instead of hiding my nails, I would try and do something they would have to like. I hope the above mani fits the bill.  OPI Ink is a popular polish and the sponging was done to add a little interest. I was going to add some stamping, but I was afraid that it would be too much. Maybe I will stamp them tomorrow night to get another day out of the mani.

Polish demolish!

My mani after working on the car.

 The polish didn't survive but my nails did. It would seem that brake fluid takes off nail polish. This once again proves you can still do typical guy stuff and still enjoy polish and having nails. After I washed my hands I still had some grease in the creases and cracks of my hands, so I decided to wear Manglaze Matte is Murder. I thought the graphite grayish Black looked ok with less than perfectly clean hands.

Manglaze Matte is Murder

I had enough sense to wear sneakers when working on the car. I really like this color on my toes and didn't want it ruined.

My new pedi from my Friday night pedicure.

Saved some green!

BB Couture Studio 54

BB Couture Green Goblin

China Glaze Teal Ombre set

 As you can see, green has been brought front and center with St. Patrick's day this month. Also BB Couture was having a 1/2 price sale on all greens. I am a huge fan of BB Couture polishes. My picture doesn't do Green Goblin justice.  It has been rainy and dreary for a week, so no good sunlight to bring out the color. I think Studio 54 is an awesome green shimmer. It went on so easy, it made me look like I knew what I was doing! I still have one new green to try. With my order, I received a free bottle of BB Couture Blue Christmas. She used a picture I took of the color when I wore it around Christmas. It was discontinued and she has brought it back. Here is a link to my picture Blue-Christmas. It is a favorite of mine and a couple of my daughters friends. Between us the bottle was getting kind of low. The last picture was for a Sunday challenge in Adventure in Stamping group on Facebook. People really liked it.

BB Couture is having a contest for sexy toes (men's and women's), so think about entering the contest to win a provocative T-shirt and their new top coat. I haven't decided what polish to use for my entry. What would be considered a sexy color on a guys toes? Do I go bold and bright or go for a deeper more masculine color. For women that like a guy that wears polish, what would they like. I like just about all colors depending on my mood.

I've been thinking!

Hello,

A fellow polish friend got me thinking about the motivations around my affinity for polish and my recent trend towards longer nails. Maybe that a majority of the pretty pictures we see of polish are on longer well cared for nails may influence my desire to attain that perfection. Also, my love of nail art makes me want to have a better canvass to work with. This has led to me trying different lengths of nails. Real long is fun for painting but has the draw back of being hard to do things and further influences what people think of you. If you stick with short nails painted black or other dark colors, people think you are a musician, goth or just edgy. Once you start trying a wider range of colors, people think you are gay; combine the longer nails and brighter colors and they think you are a gay crossdresser and want to be a women. In my case, it is the desire to fulfill my long term interest in polish and to explore my artistic side. My father was an artist and so is my oldest sister. My dad had longer nails for a guy and used to slice open packing tape with them to open boxes. I have never explored my artist side before. Although, when I used to be a programmer and design circuits someone said there is an art to that. Nail polish and nail art are my first attempts at visual arts. My ex-wife still can't seem to fathom my love of polish. She doesn't understand that I don't care what people may think. I am considering studying to be a nail tech part time. The best thing about that is that if I tell them I am a nail tech, the will be more willing to accept my wearing polish. It really shouldn't matter, but people want to fit you into neat little categories. Bellow is a picture of a mani I did with two China Glaze greens. I thought it was pretty, but it just isn't me. I took it off and put OPI Lincoln Park After Dark on and the world was good again!

Pardon the dirty hands, I was working outside.