The Fancy Side

Stamping Saturday: Butterflies in the Garden

Saturday, March 15, 2014 3/15/2014 02:11:00 PM

I think after this week I have a tie for my new favorite stamped look. My current favorite has been this look mainly because I think it turned out AMAZEBALLS. This weeks look ties with it purely because the polish I stamped over is AH-MAY-ZING! (I may be out of control here people, somebody stop me!)

The base for today's Stamping Saturday is the much coveted Emily de Molly Monet's Garden. Look at this squishy jelly sandwich in a bottle.

This was two coats and it was fully opaque. Each brushstroke was filled with squeals of glee because of the pretty. I'm 98% certain the future hubby had thought I'd finally lost my mind. I mean, look how freaking pretty it is.

Next I stamped on some butterfly wings using Nail Craze NC-02 and Konad Black polish. I love how well it stamps, but Konad Black is a bitch to clean up. Ugh.

Finally I used a dotting tool and Seche Snapdragon to add the dots on the wings. I wanted to have dots in a complimentary color, and you see those little flashes of pink in the base polish, so pink dots it is.

What do you think of my butterfly wings? Don't forget to check out all the other ladies who stamped, links are below.

Enjoy & until next time, Amy Lee

*all products mentioned in this post were purchased by me

An InLinkz Link-up

Textured Tuesday: Textured Leopard Print

Tuesday, March 11, 2014 3/11/2014 09:00:00 AM

Hello all! Welcome to round two of Textured Tuesdays. If you don't remember from last week, this is a link up party that is welcome to all to show off textured manis. It's really a way for me to push myself to create more looks with my textured polishes and if you want to play, you are more than welcome to join in.

For today's look I started with a base of Zoya Tomoko. This color is gorgeous! As usual, with Zoya Pixie Dusts, I applied two thin coats and it dried quickly.

Then using OPI Make Him Mine and OPI What Wizardry is this? I created leopard spots on the sides of my nails. I really enjoyed how this look came together, especially because all the polishes really compliment one another.

Don't forget to link up your post below! I can't wait to see what everyone else came up with!

Enjoy & until next time, Amy Lee

*all polishes featured in this post were purchased by me

An InLinkz Link-up

Am I in Purgatory?

Monday, March 10, 2014 3/10/2014 09:36:00 PM

Or am I wearing Purgatory? I Love Nailpolish Purgatory to be exact. ;-) Purgatory is part of the ILNP Rich Effect collection and it has a deep teal base filled with duochrome navy/teal sparkles. I recently saw this youtube tutorial by Mr.Candiipants where she teaches how to do the design on my accent nail. I decided that I wanted to practice my line work and give it a try. Pretty much it turned out horrible, but yeah, still thought I would show you. I used all ILNP polishes to fill in the colors they are: purple - Grape Aliciousness, pink - Molly, blue - Exodus. The stripes were done with my Orly Instant Artist striper in White.

What do you think of this color? I thought I would love it more than I actually did. It's probably because it stained the crap out of my skin.

Enjoy & until next time, Amy Lee

*all products featured in this post were purchased by me

Stamping Saturdays: Mixed Designs

Saturday, March 8, 2014 3/08/2014 05:06:00 PM

Hello All!! Welcome to Stamping Saturday #10. I cannot believe we have officially been doing this for 10 weeks now. I look forward to Saturday every week because I love seeing everyone's stamped links. It is so fun.

For my base color, I started off with OPI's Amaz-on Amaz-off. If y'all know me at all you know I LOVE teal colors and I just can't resist them. Let's take a look at it here.

I then stamped over it using several designs taken from the MoYou London Plate, Artist Collection 07.

I used 5 different areas of the plate and stamped on 5 different designs in Konad White.

I think my favorite design is on my pointer finger. It is so pretty. What do you think of this look? Be sure to check out the other ladies who are participating below.

Enjoy & until next time, Amy Lee

*all products featured in this post were purchased by me

An InLinkz Link-up

Cirque Cypress and Tribal Nail Art

Friday, March 7, 2014 3/07/2014 06:52:00 PM

Hi all! I meant to post this yesterday, but I've been opening all week so I was completely wiped out when I got home. So instead I have it for you today.

Cypress was my gateway drug to the Cirque brand. It's this gorgeous nude holographic polish that is stunning in sunlight and indirect lighting. Here you can see two easy coats that applied like butter. Seriously, those rainbows!

After wearing it on its own for a few days, I decided I wanted to try some nail art over it. I became obsessed with pairing it with a cobalt blue, so I got out my Orly Nail Artist striper and played around. The beauty of these are they are water based so if you mess up, you can swipe it off with a wet paper towel and then start over.

It's not the best job I've ever done, but seeing as I was just playing around it was good enough.

What do you think?

Enjoy & until tomorrow, Amy Lee

*all products featured in this post were purchased by me

Textured Tuesday: Mardi Gras

Tuesday, March 4, 2014 3/04/2014 05:23:00 PM

Not to long ago, I asked on Facebook and Twitter if anyone would be interested in doing a Textured Tuesday weekly thing with me? A few people responded saying it sounded fun, so I'm starting it. The premise is that I have way to many textured polishes, because I love them, so I want to push myself to use them more. So join me, just to show off a pretty textured polish or if you want to do some textured nail art, bring it on. Anything goes. Feel free to link your own textured manis below. The link-up will remain open until the next Textured Tuesday.

So let's take a look at my mani for the first Textured Tuesday.

I started with a base of L'Oreal's Hidden Gems. This polish had me really excited because in the bottle it has a duochrome look to it. Sadly that is lost on the nail so it's just a blackened base filled with teal microglitter and silver hexes. It's pretty, but I really wanted that duochrome in a texture polish. That would have been bad ass.

AND...because today is Fat Tuesday aka MARDI GRAS, I did some nail art. This features OPI Honey Ryder (gold), OPI My Current Crush (purple) and Zoya Chita (green).

Will you be participating in Textured Tuesday? I can't see what you all come up with.

Enjoy & until next time, Amy Lee

*all polishes featured in this post were purchased by me

An InLinkz Link-up

Stamping Saturday: Silver Rainbows

Sunday, March 2, 2014 3/02/2014 12:21:00 AM

Uhhh...so I think I missed the Saturday deadline by like minutes, but I'm still calling this good. I had a crazy busy day and of course I decided to do a super ambitious look for today's post. The good news is that I really love how this came together and I cannot stop staring at my nails. So lets just get down to business.

For the base of my manicure I decided I wanted to do a pastel rainbow. I used all 7 Lime Crime polishes just sponging them randomly on my nails. If you want to know a specific color please ask, but I'm to lazy to list them all out. I love how the Lime Crime polishes are bright pastels, which makes no sense, but that is the best way to describe them.

Because I'm a sucker for holographic sparkles I decided to top that with China Glaze Fairy Dust.

Finally I stamped a full coverage design from BM-408 in Sally Hansen Insta Dri Silver Sweep. The full coverage design lets the rainbows and sparkles peek through making a really neat look, that is fun to view from all angles.