The Fancy Side

Here's the bicycle part. Are you ready? I used the adorable bike pattern from It Girl Nail Art IG-111 and stamped it on with Mundo de Unas Aqua. What is is about this color combo? It's always so good together.





Don't forget the great news!! Nicole is running a special from now until Aug. 7. This release happens to coincide with her 1 year anniversary (CONGRATS!), hence the deal. As mentioned the deal ends August 7, but from now until then you can choose any 3 plates for $33. I've got more looks to come using these plates and polishes. Stay tuned!!

Enjoy & until next time, Amy Lee

I then taped off and latexed off my fingers (I still made a huge mess, big surprise!) and used the Alcohol Water Marbling technique with Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure All Fired Up to create the patterns.




And there you have it. I think this is my favorite design from the challenge so far. Tomorrow is flower nails. Can't wait!


Enjoy & until next time, Amy Lee

Hey all TLR is back for October. Normally for our second prompt every month, we pick a theme. This month we are being inspired by our sweet friend Frosso from Lacquer Me Silly, so that is our theme. She recently announced her retirement from blogging, as life has gotten to busy and other things are taking priority. As a founding member of #TLR and #StampingSaturday she will be missed. However I think she might pop in from time to time on Instagram, because I just don't think she can go cold turkey. I've chosen to be inspired by one of Fross' Halloween manis. She's always had great Halloween mani's and one of my favorites is FrakenGlam.

For my base I started with China Glaze Running in Circles. I love this green. It's filled with tiny glitter that makes for a super shiny green.





Lets look at the side by side comparison of the original and my version, what do you think? Did I do Fross' original look justice?

How is everyone today? I know I've touched on this before, but sometimes with nail art you can burn out, so it's nice to take a break and get down to the basics. This is one of those manis. I wanted something simple for a few days and landed on this mani.

Do you ever get an idea in your head for a mani and walk around thinking about it till you can execute? That was me, prepping for this mani. I'm happy to report that it came out exactly like I wanted it to. Mani success!!




I can't wait to show you all what I'm working on for the blog. Let's just say it involves a lot of swatching and begins with Sep and ends with X. ;-)

Enjoy and until next time, Amy Lee

Today I have the first installment in the China Mani series. When we were in Beijing we visited the Great Wall. The Great Wall is certainly great. It's amazing and breathtaking. We climbed to the very top of the section we were at, and gawd, it was hard. It was like the worst StairMaster workout ever. None of the stairs are the same height, so it isn't like walking up normal steps.

Here are two of the pictures I took, that I used as my inspiration for my mani.




What do you think? Does it look like the Great Wall? Just to see, I added a Matte Top Coat.



I actually preferred the matte version. I can't wait to show you some of the other pictures and the inspired manis from our trip.

Polishes used: Base (Sky) China Glaze Kinetic Candy, Clouds Sally Hansen Nail Art Pen in White, Mountains Essie Shake Your $$ Maker, Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure Green Tea, China Glaze Gaga for Green, Wall China Glaze Elephant Walk and Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure Evening Fog.

Enjoy & until next time, Amy Lee

Today I have a look for you with a new Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure Polish. This is Coat of Arms, which is a Prabal Gurung for Sally Hansen. He collaborated with Sally Hansen for their 2013 collection. This was the only one that really spoke to me, so I picked it up.



This is a weird shade as it's not quite a true silver (even though my pictures look that way). I'm going to call it White Gold as thats what it looks like to me.

To spice it up, I've used my new Orly Instant Artist stripers in Crisp White, Jet Black, and True Blue to create some fun chevrons.

Day 15 y'all and this time I'm on time. Can I get a whoot? WHOOT! 

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Today's theme for the Untried Polish Challenge is Glitter. I've had this particular glitter for quite some time and as usual, I'm kicking myself for not trying it sooner. I give you Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure in Mermaids Tale. 




Enjoy & until tomorrow, Amy Lee

What drink do you prefer on a hot day? Are you a pink lemonade girl like me?

Be sure to visit the other ladies participating to see what they came up with for todays challenge. You can visit them here:



Enjoy & until next time, Amy Lee