Mommy Does Her Nails

I found this Fashion Bug polish in a bag of stuff in the garage. I would NEVER have bought this myself but my word I kind of love it! It's called Cocktail Pink:
Yes it's that bright - totally amazing!! The turquoise is Butter London Slapper...but you know me. I just can't leave well enough alone. I have a Pure Ice called Heart Breaker that is SHEER but it paired PERFECTLY with that Butter London:
Shimmer and sizzle you overheated yet? I tried stamping with a Sally Hansen Insta-Dri but it didn't do a very good job sadly.
How do you feel about the neons happening this summer? I didn't think I loved them but when I put them on I MELT from the love I feel.

We went to my father in law's for the weekend. It was a TERRIBLE trip. I know I haven't posted and that's because my laptop bit the dust taking my mani folder with it, and our desktop can't read SD cards. Sooo I've been scrambling to try to figure it all out and came up with a solution today thankfully.
So I've been curious about the Essence Crackle and decided this weekend was the time to buy it! Hubby has been mentioning that he doesn't see me do crackle much anymore so we fixed that. Look at the blue shimmer in it! The formula is AMAZING but the dry time is meh. HOWEVER I would totally pick this over a Sally Hansen crackle anytime. The price is awesome (2.49 at my store).
I decided to toss some stamping and rhinestones in there for a bold but pretty mani. I love doing this combination because it makes for a "quick" nail art manicure.

The base color is Orly Emberstone which is a glass flecked red/orange beauty. The crackle is Essence Crack Me! Blue and I stamped with China Glaze First Mate.

I'm going to start delving into some more color swatching and comparison posts, but plan to stay true to my love of nail art. Hope everyone had a fantastic weekend!

I'm going back through some polishes I bought last year  - it's amazing how many of these I've never even used! Amongst them I found Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Purple Pizzazz. It is purple and it possesses amazing pizzazz!
 Look at that glow!!! *faints from the pure osm happening on the nails*
Now Liesl over at Liesl Loves Pretty Things posted about Wet N' Wild Stars and Stripes and I went out that night to get it. She was totally right; it's a pain in the you know what to apply. BUT after fishing out some stars it looks pretty neat and dries pretty smooth:
Hubby took one look at it and said it looked like a wizard's robe. When I gave him the WTF look he said, "You know like the cheesy ones you see at costume shops?" Thanks babe.

.....but he's right. ;)

So I've been a fan of Julep and have stood by them through all the issues they've had. However I'm a little appalled after the brush incident. To read the first email click here.
So I'm a little confused when I receive nothing but two replacement brushes in the mail. I won't nit pick over the lack of the extra I was PROMISED but I thought the bottles damaged the brushes soooooooo.....well here's my email and their response:

Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 12:48 PM
To: Julep Maven
Subject: RE: Julep Maven Inquiry


Hi Candice,

Emma Thea over at Manicurity coined my last hubby's pick as peekaboo glitter and I like it! So I've got another peekaboo glitter manicure to share:
I chopped my nails back down - they grow sooooo fast now! From base up we have Megan Miller Latte (I buy any polish with a coffee themed name. We all have our quirks), Claire's Bedazzled, Sinful Colors Oh La La, and then Essie Navigate Her.

I have an extreme love of dots!
This weekend I realized some things. I love blogging and being involved in the nail polish world so I just don't want to give it up. I spent some quality time with baby girl and have been spending MUCH less time at the computer. She and I have matching toes which I LOVE. I am feeling much more calm and at peace. Thank you all <3

PS more fuzz!!! The bane of my manicured existence >.<

This set is totally amazing! Forget the neons this summer. What you really need is color shifters like the Exotic Energy Trio from Sassy Lacquer: 

From top to bottom we have Chameleon Charge (a green to gold color shifter), Pegasus Plasma (a red to green color shifter), and Electric Eel (a blue to green color shifter). This is one coat of each over a coat of black. Alone in the bottle they are pretty unimpressive (until they hit sunlight and then WHAM).

 This is two coats of Chameleon Charge:

 The pinky is two coats of Pegasus Plasma: (you can see the gold shift on the middle finger in this shot)
And this is two coats of Electric Eel:
 Then, just to see what would happen, I layered them all. WHOAH AMAZING!!


 Shrinkage was a result of not wrapping my nails when I used my Out The Door topcoat :(

For more information on ordering these gorgeous polishes head over to Sassy Lacquer!

Also here's is this week's hubby's picks:

We have Megan Miller Latter, Essie Navigate Her, Sinful Colors Oh La La, and Claire's Bedazzled. Wish me the best ;)

But not the sort you're probably expecting. As I look back over my blog in the last few months I really feel like I've kind of lost touch with what I was doing. It's gone from fun with others to just painting nails and that makes me sad :( I'm going to be stepping back to try to figure out where I went wrong.

I used to engage a lot with others. I think I've hit a small bout of depression and I don't really know what to do with it. I'm doing incredible in some areas of my life but I feel out of touch with how to be a great mommy and that kind of consumes my thoughts lately. I lurk on blogs but don't comment so much anymore and spend huge amounts of time to do these elaborate manicures and then simply put the pictures up. I've lost the spirit.

I think when my baby girl gets home I'm going to sit and look through all her pretties with her. Maybe I just need to see the world through her eyes...I dunno. I hate this kind of funk - it frustrates me. I started this blog for fun and I feel like I don't even know what the direction for it is now.

I used to dream of doing posts with baby girl when she gets older. Mommy does, Baby Girl does....that sort of thing. We'll see...