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Beauty Tips for Women: Tropical Manicure (2)/ Sally Hansen Plum Power

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Here is my second go at another tropical themed manicure for Hukilau.

I started off with two coats of Sally Hansen Plum Power.  This is an amazing purple that shimmers.  No issues with the formula.  Opacity was reached with one coat but for good measure I went for two.  I totally forgot to take a picture before stamping. 

I decided to stamp with Konad plate M29 using Konad white.  I love this plate.  It was the first plate I purchased.  To finish the manicure I used Seche Vite top coat.

I don’t necessarily believe that your manicure and pedicure need to match but I loved the color so much that I went ahead and did my feet.  I’m not big on feet pictures but once in a while is ok.

This was a very simple and fast manicure.

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Beauty Tips for Women: Tropical Manicure (1)/ Essie First Timer

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I’m trying to come up with some tropical themed manicures for Hukilau 2013 happening in June.  Hukilau is a Tiki festival that occurs in Florida.

I started off with two coats of Essie First Timer.  First Timer is a lovely mint green.  I didn’t have any problems with the formula.  It truly is a wonderful summer color.

To further make this manicure pop I decided I would stamp and add some glitter.  I used Cheeky Jumbo Plate 2 – Tropical Holiday and Cheeky CH7.

I applied Sally Hansen Teal-y Cool on my ring finger.  I stamped the images with Konad white polish.  I finished with Sech Vite.

I was very happy with how it turned out.

Beauty tips for Women: Halloween Nail Art 2

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Here is my second Halloween nail art manicure.  My girls have been going crazy asking for candy corn and I finally purchased some.  This was inspiration for my festive candy corn Halloween nail art manicure.

Here is a picture of the polishes I used for the manicure:

Konad Special Polish – Black
Seche Vite – Dry Fast Top Coat
Sally Hansen – Yellow Kitty
Sally Hansen – Parrot
Wet n’ Wild – Sunny Side
Wet n’ Wild – French White Crème
Essence – Wake Up
Color Club – Clear Coat

I started off by doing a gradient using the French White Crème, Sunny Side and Yellow Kitty.  I did three coats of the gradient because the yellow and orange colors where just two light and I wanted it a bit more richer in color.  Once I got the colors the way I wanted, I applied a clear coat to blend the colors.  I waited for it to dry then started applying random dots in Parrot, Wake Up, and French White Crème.  Once that dried up, I thought some stamping would be cute.  I used Bundle Monster – BM225 Skull image on the thumb.  The cat and witch used on the index and middle finger are from Shany – SH02.  The ring finger skull is Bundle Monster – BM211 and pinky finger is Bundle Monster – BM222.  Topped everything off with Sech Vite.

Here are the pictures of my festive candy corn Halloween manicure: