Monster High Inspiration

This is officially the third blog that I'm starting. No worries, though, they are all identical. The first blog was started on WordPress, the second one  was started on Tumblr because my bestie has one on there and this one because my nephew has a blog on here, mike-takethecake.blogspot.com. These next few posts are going to be "old" posts from my other 2 blogs but will be catching up soon as I don't blog every day. Cheers and I hope you enjoy!

From time to time on my blogs, I will be referring to "Chloe's Nails," (http://chloesnails.blogspot.com/), a blog that got me inspired to start painting my nails again. That lead to me thinking about blogging. I know nothing of blogging so bear with me. Today I'm posting a pic of a "mani" that I did several...nights ago. (The pause is because of the circumstances leading up to the manicure.) I don't have much patience so its inevitable that I don't use all the items that you are supposed to. Now I slap on a base coat because my nails peel and I hate that. I bought Sally Hansen's Green Tea + Bamboo, which is a nail strengthener. Cool thing is, you can use it as a base and top coat. So 3 uses in one bottle, makes sense to me! I love the way my nails feel and look after using a top coat, all smooth and shiny. Except this last paint job seemed to soak up the top coat and I never got around to putting a second coat on. My inspiration came from "Chloe's Nails". This link should take you straight to the page: http://chloesnails.blogspot.com/2010/11/patchwork-mani-tutorial.html. (Her blog is awesome! I could never do as good.) I used the green tea + bamboo as a base coat, then 2 coats of SH's Hard as Nails White Tip. I taped off each nail and used 2 coats of Claire's Cosmetics True Blue. The first coat seemed to dry pretty quickly, but I think I may have rushed it by putting the second coat on right away. Then I used Five Below's Funky Fingers Manic Flamingo. Right before I had gone to bed, I was on the Chloe's Nails blog. Needless to say, when I went to bed, I wasn't able to sleep, but tossed and turned for a few hours before the adrenaline got me up. So downstairs I went to do my mani, then mani turned out sloppy :( So see, impatience doesn't do any good.(And forgive the poor pics, I'm trying to figure out the best setting on my camera for taking the pics.) I had used the white and was trying to figure out what other colors I wanted. My daughter has the first 3 Monster High books and for Christmas received Monster High earbuds, so the pink and blue made sense. A friend of mine (also my honorary daughter, have known her since she was 14) pointed out that there was no black. Well, nyah to you, Haley. :P I didn't have a nail brush to paint a thin black line.