Mani Monday: Do You Wanna Build a SnowMan? Featuring Olaf from Carpe Noctem Cosmetics and MOAR Drunk Stamping!

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   Hello Lovelies!
   I am back again with another installment of Mani Monday! This time featuring the awesome Limited Edition Group Custom from Carpe Noctem Cosmetics, Olaf!

Yup, that is right this awesome guy right here...

And if you have small children or live anywhere near my house you can automatically hear my youngest bellowing this song...

You know it too.. Cause everyone is singing it..EVERYONE

  So as always I am super excited over any limited edition group custom that Emily from CNC makes however this was super exciting since I will admit that I am a fan as well.

Yup, that's right I am a fan...

   Yup, you read that right that, I am a fan of Frozen. I don't know if am getting soft in my old age and that my cold black gothic heart is thawing. Or the fact that my daughter belts out the songs to this movie like some drunken karaoke goddess who doesn't care if she gets most of the words wrong. She is just loves the singing it damn it and it has chipped away the last slivers of my sanity... But I knew that Olaf had to be mine..

And I danced just like this back from the mail box when I opened it up..

It is a gorgeous pale frozen (yeah, you knew that word was going to be thrown in here somewhere so just let it go...^_~ ) blue with a pink shift and the perfect dash of holo to almost bring it to life on your fingers.  So I wanted to do some magical stamping on it to make it almost as kick ass as Elsa's ice magic. Cause honestly, who wouldn't want that kick ass power? And this is what happened, it isn't as awesome as Elsa, or Olaf, but maybe as cool as Sven...

I used the following products on this mani:

Opi Nail Strengthening Base Coat

Carpe Noctem Cosmetics Olaf Limited Edition Group Custom

Pure Ice Superstar!

Vapid Lacquers Fast Drying Top Coat

Born Pretty Stamping Plate 03 Used Code KLH10 for 10% off your order and free shipping

While my stamping is still left to be wanting, I did get the new Messy Mansion Super Soft Stamping Heads and they are incredible! New Review for them is upcoming as well! 

While Olaf did disappear there is still HOPE!

    The chance to order the group custom Olaf is gone, if you really need it and MUST have it you can still order it as a custom polish option from Carpe Noctem Cosmetics cause Emily is THAT awesome. You can purchase Olaf (as a custom polish only) from Carpe Noctem Cosmetics on Etsy. You can also follow her on Facebook, her Facebook Fan Page and on Instagram! So until next time lovelies stay warm, polish your nails and watch Frozen!

Nail Art of the Day: Adventures in Drunk Nail Stamping..

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Hello Lovelies!
   Welcome to a new series for my blog! As some of my regular followers may know that I have ventured into the world of indie polish and it has rekindled my nail polish obsession (which is a very dangerous thing). So of course like any curious polish newbie, I just thought that blogging about nail polish would be simple. Yeah, that lasted all about 10 seconds after looking at some amazing polish blogs. I quickly learned that....

Yup quickly looked at my mani and realized this..

  Because while these polish artists who could quickly polish their fingers on Youtube and not look like a four year old did them, I could not. I looked like a rabid squirrel with a drug problem painted my nails (my right hand in particular since I am right handed. #thestruggleisreal )So I am now trying to master the art (and it is an art, never doubt that) of the clean up with a brush and acetone around my cuticles which still look like foamy squirrel did my mani but with clean up I am trying to hide that fact. So apparently while attempting to master the clean up the fumes went to my head and I was enchanted or should I say bewitched the the art of nail stamping. They made it look so easy on Youtube! EVEN I could do that...

So I dug out my bundle monster plates, stamping polish and konad stamper determined to make beautiful art on my new polish...Because if it can be mastered on YouTube I can master it too..

So I painted my nails and awesome shade called Hel ,based off the ancient Norse Goddess, from Gothic Gala Lacquers (which is sadly discontinued but she does offer a custom polish option which I am sure that you could request it). It was a creamy pale pink with flecked with black and red glitter. It is a matte polish so I topped it with Seche in order to give it the shine that I wanted. So I was feeling like a boss! I did my first stamp and it stuck to my stamper and I felt invincible! I was going to have amazing stamped nails!

But like in any battle the tides can quickly change..So I was originally going to just do my accent nails and be done with it. The first one came out nice, not perfect but that was understandable since this was my real "first" time attempting stamping. I even did my dreaded "right" hand and it turned out okay. They were pretty but not perfect but it was a learning curve.

See the placement isn't too bad and pops against the polish

Then apparently I got drunk with the power of the stamp and decided to STAMP ALL THE NAILS!  So if I did two really well then with practice all the the rest of my nails will be AMAZING! YEA RIGHT!

Notice the wonky stamping quality... I must have been drunk!

So, the moral of this experience is to not only practice but don't get too cocky and drunk with the power of the stamp. I am sure that there will be more Drunk Stamping Adventures I will be sure to document my struggles through it. Until next time lovelies!