Sara’s Weekly Whatever, still crying inside after the Super Bowl edition

I know it’s been almost a week, but there’s a part of me that’s still crying inside. WHY WOULDN’T YOU BEAST IT?!?!! Anyways, back to the star of the show, Sara.

Super Bowl nails may have been my first use of tape, was a pain in the ass, but I Hate giving up, so I invented this design just to do a second attempt at tape. It worked well!

red : New York Color Long wearing nail enamel Broadway Burgundy Frost

green : Sinful Colors Professional nail color Last Chance

Scotch tape

For this design I cut blocks and strips of tape

Tape nails first!

Use a strip to cover full tip (area covered will determine how thick the finished tips are)

Place a block piece of tape, making certain to center nail laterally and, this piece of tape extends to cover full lateral half of nail. A bit redundant, but results are worth it. It helps stabilize the small tip strip so it doesn’t wiggle or other “fun” things.

At this point, you should have a bare squarish shape on each nail.

Paint the bare area green.

For mostly straight, sometimes jagged edges, wait about 15 seconds, peel tape Slowly, the bits that stretch and are stringy are the jagged edges.

For crisp clean lines, allow green to dry then slowly remove tape.

You have a blocky green shape on otherwise bare nails.

At this point, if you want to neaten the green, do it before final step.

Final step is to just carefully paint the tips, and you’re done.

And some bracelets to go with the design.

Sara’s Weekly Whatever, Gotta beat the Panthers edition

In the famous words of the Seahawks esteemed quarterback, GO HAWKS!

This design is for the fellow Twelves out there! We are loud and proud.

Seattle Seahawks Twelve nails

Painted nails laterally in half with L.A. Girl Magnetic nail polish , it has no name for the color , but its a deep metallic ocean blue. Used three coats.

For other lateral half I used three layers of Pure Ice’s Lucky Charming, a bright cheery sparkly green.

I then used L. A. Colors Color Craze’s Live, a vibrant silver to tip nails.

Using a white by 4 East Cosmetics, I drew a 12 with a toothpick on each nail.

A close up of the design.

Bracelets My usual quartet paired with leaves in green and frost accented by a strand with dark blue pearls.

Sara’s Weekly Whatever, Holy Crap It’s Been Awhile Edition

So, if anyone wants to give Sara crap for not doing this for a week or two….come after me. It’s all my fault. This is actually 3 posts in one, but I was working on getting my book formatted and yada yada, excuse, excuse. So, please don’t judge her for my slacker ways. Oh, and if you like the way the bracelets look, you’re more than welcome to contact us about custom made ones.

Last week’s game against the rams I wore this design, so nice, did it twice.

Applied two coats of L.A. Girl Magnetic nail polish in a dark stormy blue. Layered over it a highly saturated fine glittery cobalt blue polish that shifts to deep purples(L.A.Girl Rock Star nail lacquer).Used three coats to get that sparkle. Selecting Pure Ice’s Lucky Charming, I drew a thin line horizontally along each nail flattening the brush first before using it. Finished with a silver accent using L.A. Colors color craze’s Live .

 

 

New Year’s nail art. I liked the seahawks vs rams design so much I amped it up for the holiday.

 

The white is the product of careful layering. I painted what I wanted white with silver first, layering Pure Ice’s Glow in the dark over it. Effectively transforming L.A. Colors’ Live into a shimmery winter white. Did this for the base, stripes and accent dots. As an added bonus, my work paid off and I was rewarded with glowing nails in a fun distinctive pattern. Mostly came up with this winter shimmer white because I don’t like plain white, it’s boring and reminds me of White Out correction fluid. I’ve yet to find a shimmery white with a high fine glitter content that is in my budget.

On thumbs and pinkies : base is three coats of Sinful Colors Professional in Starry Night. I picked out the big pieces of glitter for a polished look.  Drew a thin line horizontally across nail with L.A. Colors color craze’s Live, carefully layered Pure Ice’s Glow in the dark over it, finished with a red accent dot in Sinful Colors Professional’s Sugar sugar.

For ring and index fingers:  Base is two coats of Sinful Colors Professional’s Sugar sugar. A thin stripe of Starry Night, accented with a dot of winter white.

Middle fingers: Two coats of L.A. Colors color craze’s Live. Three coats of Pure Ice’s Glow in the dark, being careful to wait til dry between coats of glow. Horizontal red stripe in Sinful Colors Professional’s Sugar sugar. Topped with a black accent dot using Sinful Colors Professional’s Starry Night.

Bracelets worn with New Year’s nails.

Black, some rainbow patina, and stone. Red segments, accents and leaves. Frosted bands and leaves too

 

 

New Year’s makeup. Eyes: High Intensity Pigments metallic shadow duo in Platinum. This pair is a very metallic silver paired with a dark inky black that has shimmery flecks. Used the silver, making and filling the shape shown, also applied it under bottom eyelashes. Lined top and bottom eyelashes with Jordana Glitter Rocks retractable eye liner pencil in Glam Rock Green. Used generous swipes of Hard Candy 1,000 Lashes fiberized lash weave mascara in Green on upper and lower eyelashes, also used it to subtly color my eyebrows. Lips : Revlon Just Bitten Lipstain in Gothic.

 

For these game day nails (Seahawks Vs. Cardinals) I started with two layers of L. A. Colors color craze’s Wired. I then used Live (silver) being careful to leave a blue border. Keeping a silver border, I applied another layer of Wired inside the silver, making certain to stay in the middle. Finished it off by adding Pure Ice’s Lucky Charming (sparkly green) at cuticles.

 

These are the bracelets I paired with it.

It’s time for Sara’s Weekly Whatever!

I never should have started her on this, now she bugs me to do it! What kind of a monster have I created?!?! One of these days I’m going to have to quit slacking with her blog. Oh well, at least she’s a loving woman, full of beauty and hot tempered enough to challenge a Jalapeño. So here ya go, the star of the show, Sara!

Falling leaves

reds, oranges,

browns and greens

cascading, flowing, twirling

in a late september breeze

Bracelets

A motley of warm ambers, frosted clear whites,and cranberries accented with bronze and striated red leaves.

Nails

First applied two layers of Super Shine Naturistics in Peach Bum on full nails. I then tipped them in two coats of NYC Long Wearing nail enamel in Plaza Plumberry for an autumnal take on the french manicure.

Makeup

I used a Milani quad of eyeshadows, Autumn Earth. This iridescent quad features ivory, copper, brick red, and a festive green.

I first applied ivory over whole eyelid and browbone to achieve a softer less saturated pigmentation of finished design. I split my eyelid in half. Used the brick red on the outer half of both eyelids and browbone Then I lightly layered the copper on the center of lids, browbones slightly over some of the red leaving about a quarter of space near eyeducts ivory. I reapplied ivory there for a better fade in to copper. Under the lower lashes I applied brick red to outer half, then finished rest with the copper.

To complete this look I coated my eyelashes in Hard Candy’s 1,000 Lashes Fiberized lash weave mascara in Lush Green.

For my lips , it’s another Milani product, a lipstick in Black Cherry. Lipstick doesn’t last very long on me (about 2 hrs) so I’m hoping to purchase some lipstain in a few colors in the upcoming weeks, and maybe get a hold of some special effects for gamedays and other festive occasions. Stuff for hair would be nice too.

Fossils

This is a trio of very old cephalopod fossils. Bought them at the Puyallup Fair for a good price. Highly detailed pieces, very intricate. If you look closely on the largest , you’ll notice minuscule crystals in some of its chambers and larger ones in others. These ammonites scooted along in our oceans 260– 65 million years ago. Appearing first in the Devonian Age. At one point in time these creatures were apex predators feasting on other living cephalopods, mollusks, and various fish. Some grew to amazing sizes,varying from centimeters to a few feet in diameter. They were wiped out during the Cretaceous Paleogene extinction event, a mass extinction of a great quantity of life both terrestrial and marine. (great stuff to read about) The nautilus is one of their closest living relations, octopi are another.

Sara’s weekly whenever! I made her procrastinate on it.

Been trying to think of what I’m going to do, now that I’ve posted my book up. Probably keep going on the GTA story here, and maybe introduce a health conscious thing. I mean, I have lost 110 lbs in just a year. But today isn’t about me, it’s Sara’s Weekly Whatever! I’ll move to the side, so the star can enter stage left.

I’m Far, far from being a ‘star’. I’m just a person, no need to glorify what isn’t there.(She’s blinded and doesn’t see it!)

I was inspired by my socks. They’re cheetah print over neon green, pink, and blue.
I paired them and the bracelets with a long sleeved chartreuse green shirt and black slacks.

All my nails are painted with three coats of NYC Long Wearing Nail Enamel in Broadway Burgundy Frost

I was bored and started to play around with a blue color called Candid Cameron, its Nicole by Opi Modern Family Collection. I used Supershine Naturistics in Peach Bum for the throat of the flower. For the leaf and stem, I used two greens that I mixed.

You can click on the images for bigger pictures!

She threatened to beat me with a skillet if I didn’t let her do this!

Haha! Told you all I’d get the woman more involved! She even came to me wanting to do this, and I encourage her. She needs to get out of her shell and quit being antisocial.

Bracelets Sara Made

Riley is a lying Shithead…he’s forcing me to do this….well, bribing me, actually. -.-
hand pic : Normally I don’t partake in fads, but today’s bracelet grouping influenced me to try the ‘accent nail trend’ especially since the selected nail polishes coordinate with the bracelets.
Both colors are Pure Ice, the metallic pastel purple is New Lilac. Green with golden shimmer dust is Lucky Charming. Wearing two coats of the purple, three of the green. Green is very sheer as a single layer so i added two more to achieve a saturated sparkly nail.

bracelet pic:I’m wearing these today. Made all, save for the flowered one, which was a gift. Beads are a motley of glass, pearls and plastic bound by elastic cord
~SLW~