Sally's Visit - Skittle Mani with Gradient Accent

So I just renewed my Sally's Card (YAY!)  They sent me my monthly flyer reminding me that it was about to expire and there was a coupon on the back for 15% off and a free Ion or Silk Elements product!  I  ended up being good and just bought some Seche, renewed my card and got a free Ion Conditioner for just a little over 10 bucks!  I think their card is a great deal.  If you don't have one, GET ONE.  I know you might be thinking you don't want to spend the 5 bucks for a card but you get a $5 off coupon for your next visit and there is no set amount that you have to spend to use it.  You can just buy $5 worth of product if you want to.  You also get discounts on just about everything and sometimes it's a pretty good discount.  Just browse around the store and look for the Beauty Club price.  You can save a lot of cash! 

The next day I went back (since I had my $5 coupon) and bought some of the Sally Girl polishes and a bottle of the Beauty Secrets brand thinner.  I used to have the Orly Thinner and let me tell you, the Beauty Secrets brand works just as well!  The bottle is bigger and a little less expensive.  The only down side is the bottle design.  The Orly Thinner has a really nice squeeze bottle top and it's very easy to dispense just a drop or 2.  The Beauty Secrets brand thinner has a flip up spout.  It doesn't just spill out but it's easy to get carried away.  Aside from that, it's great!  I accidentally left a bottle of polish partially open and didn't realize it for a long time.  It was all but completely dried up.  I poured a good deal of thinner in there, mixed it up with an orange stick and then shook the hell out of it!  It totally saved my polish.

Anyway, I didn't intend to ramble on like that but I really love that card and wanted to tell you about the more frugal option of thinner!  What I really wanted to do was show you the mani I did later that night with my Sally Girl minis! (plus one Spoiled)

Unfortunately I can't positively remember the name of the pink on my index finger!  It might be Blink Of Pink but I can't find it on the site. However the rest (middle to pinkie) are Chillax, Epic and Spoiled 2 Weeks Sober. Chillax is more blue then it looks in this picture.

I love the Sally Girl polishes, they always apply really well and dry quickly for me!  Have you tried them?  What did you think?

Challenge Catch-Up - Day 6 - Day 9

Okay, time to catch up with the 31 Day Nail Challenge!  I've been doing my nails and posting them to Painting Outside The Lines' FB page but I haven't been posting them here.  Sorry, just been a little busy and I was doing my nails super late!

Anyway, I'm going to catch up in one post now.

 Day 6 - Violet Nails

I couldn't stop thinking "Fish heads, fish heads.  Roly poly fish heads.  Fish heads, fish heads.  Eat them up, YUM!"  Remember that song?  Great, now it's stuck in my head again!

This was Spoiled - 2 Weeks Sober as the base and a thinned white to paint on the fishies!

Day 7 - Black & White Nails

I love splatter painting but it's sooo messy.

NYC - French White & Claire's - Black Hole

Day 8 - Metallic Nails

Finger Paints - Easel Come, Easel Go! Accent nail is silver craft glitter over the base color. 

Day 9 - Rainbow Nails

Okay, now the colors in rainbow order are:

NYC - Big Apple Red
Sally Hansen - Sun Kissed
Hard Candy- Splendid
Icing - Unnamed Green
Folk Acrylic Paint - True Blue
Spoiled - 2 Weeks Sober
NYC - French White as my base
 
I thinned all the colors (except the acrylic paint) so they wouldn't dry up too fast while dotting.

So that's it, hopefully I find time to post the rest of the days as they come and not have to do another catch-up! 

MANIMANIA!

Okay so the title sounds like this post should be more exciting, like I will be showing all kinds of swatches, nail art and good stuff.  However, there can be only one mani pic here!  I should have posted this Sunday night but...I've been totally slacking on my blog!  (Work and video games REALLY get in the way!)

Some of you might be into wrestling, some of you might think it's dumb and some of you probably never gave it a thought!  I, on the other hand do indeed enjoy some pro-wrestling!  I mean, I get to watch some pretty sexy half naked men...what's not to like?  It's like a non-girly soap opera!

Anyway, Sunday was Wrestlemania for those of you who have no interest in the subject.  I decided to do a pretty simple mani to celebrate and honor the dead man (Undertaker) because he was going to have an epic match with Triple H.  I won't ramble on about what happened, unless you ask me to.  I'll just show you the goods!

Purple and black are classic Undertaker colors and that is his symbol!

This pic is pretty much the same but I added it anyway!

I used Spoiled-2 Weeks Sober and drew the symbol on with one of those really fine tipped Sharpies.  Then I topped it off with Seche but decided to mattify it with  Hard Candy Matte-ly In Love.  A shiny top coat didn't see appropriate for this mani!

Yes, I'm a big nerd to watches wrestling!