I get by with a little help from my friend(s)-Brooke!

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Sing along with me, Ladies!

What would you think if I sang out of tune,

Would you stand up and walk out on me ?

Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song

And I'll try not to sing out of key.

Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends

Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends

Mm, gonna try with a little help from my friends





I love this movie! If you haven't seen it yet- you NEED to! I love the Beatles and this movie just makes the music sooo much better!

Brooke, you really helped me out!

But first...
Let's start with the mani that I did last week: Finger Paints Artist's Sapphire. Mary @ Body and Soul did a post on this np brand and I agree with her, I love it!
This is 2 coats with Nailtek II basecoat and Seche topcoat. It went on smoooooooth! All pics are artificial light.


















Here it is with Nfu-Oh #65 and Konad plate m36. From reading Brooke's post I really learned a lot. I learned to not SCRAPE too hard. This was something that I always did. All you need is a light scrape. I also learned to work quickly, especially when using the holo Nfu-Oh's. This helped prevent my polish applying stringy. I only got 2 that were a little stringy on the ends, which is a great improvement. I also learned that I need to buy some Konad special polishes! I might be able to get away with it for a little while longer :)

These pics are taken pre-cleanup. I had to apply another coat of Artist's Sapphire b/c it was chipping (I had worn it for about 5 days).











What do y'all think? Does it look better?

KOTD: WnW Black Creme and Konad #71 over Nfu-Oh #63 FAIL???

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Idk about this! I keep having so much trouble with Koni's! I used WnW over top of Nfu-Oh #63 pink holo. I started with using Creative VooDoo, but it came out too sheer, which you can kinda see on this next pic. There's a light, faded black underneath this dark black.
The nail that looks the best is the index finger below. Ironically, it was the first nail that I did.
So I decided to use WnW Black Creme. After I stamped the image and I lifted it off the nail, the polish got stringy. Do you know what I mean? Like on the pinky in the above pic. It did not transfer in the middle of the top part of the design b/c it got all stringy and clumpy!


And then, of course, the whole image doesn't transfer! Like the little dots that criss-cross between the bigger dots.
I believe that I read on MUA that WnW black creme is good for Koni's, but I haven't really found a great np brand for Koni's.
I really like this image and I just got a bunch of new Konad IP and I really want them to look great. Some gals at my job said they look awesome and from far away they aren't bad, but just me knowing how bad they are really makes it look bad for me, anyway. (Now I understand the crookedness I will have to work on myself. That I know!)
Any help would be appreciated! Am I being too hard on myself?

NOTD: Misa Radiant topped with Nfu-Oh #50

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So here I give you Misa Radiant topped with Nfu-Oh #52. Sorry I didn't take any pics of Radiant alone. As soon as I finished with Radiant (I think it was three coats and still not opaque), I whipped out #52. Radiant (to me) made my nails look yellow-y. It is a frosted light blue with gold shimmer. The gold part made it look yellow-y. So I topped it off with #52 (2 coats) b/c I really wanted to use it. Here are the pics with artificial light.






As you can see there are some dents and it almost looks 'wavy' with #52 on top? I don't know, not a good color combo. I really don't like sheers and this is def one of 'em.
What do you think? I only wore this for a day. I just couldn't stand it!

NOTD: Blue Sapphire topped with #52, Koni'd with #65

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I got a little bored of my Sephora Blue Sapphire topped with Nfu-Oh #52?! You might be saying 'how could you with all of that flakie, sparkely goodness?' Well I did. So I added some holo koni. # 65 that is! With Konad IP # (will fill this in when I have a look)
It's a Hawaiin-looking flower. Here are the pics, both in some form of artificial light:


What do you think? I'm still getting the hang of koni-ing. It's taking some time...
This is about 3 days after the original painting and it's held up pretty well.










First Nfu-Oh Haul!!! B/c there are more hauls to come for sure!

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Just when I had stopped looking at the tracking...my order arrived!!! Let's just get onto the pics, b/c they are beautiful!!!

With Flash

#63, #65, #61, Lavender Cuticle Oil, #50, #117, #52
Lamp Light



#63, #65, #61


Lavender Cuticle Oil


#50, #117, #52
They are sooo beautiful! I just wish I would have got them when they were $8.50 instead of $10. To learn how to get them for $10 instead of $12.50, see here.
AND to check out my NOTD with #52 and Sephora Blue Sapphire see here.
Thanks for looking!! One more haul comin up!

NOTD: Sephora Blue Sapphire and Nfu-Oh #52

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Since Scrangie and Flavia at Similiar Attraction both reviewed Sephora's Blue Sapphire, I felt I should as well! I did agree that the bottle is teeny-tiny:



as well as the brush. The polish is a dark blue jelly silver sparkles. The formula wasn't the best, it had some dragging to it. I didn't really experience the tip-wear that the other girls did, that's probably because I layered it with Nfu-Oh #52 (scroll down to see the pics!) The color was very pigmented and it only took 2 coats. I'll stop taking, here are the pics! This is preclean-up all taken in Lamp Light.

Then since my Nfu-Oh order came in, I decided to add #52 to it.

I really like #52! It has a sheer base of a dark blue with green flakies! I love Nfu-Oh's more than I ever thought I would!

What do you think, Ladies?

Cool Pic and Site I Found from Nixxy's Nails!

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Really awesome pic I found:

taken from vividnails.com.au
Click for larger awesomeness!

This website I found out about from Nixxy's Nails, here is her post about it.
Vivid Nails is an Australian company that trains Nfu-Oh classes and sells Nfu-Oh. Even though I'm in the US, I think it's cool to check out other country's nail stuff. There is also a blog that goes along with the site.
Just wanted to share!

Fabuloustreet.com discount!

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***ANOTHER UPDATE ON BLOGS TO REFER TO FOR NFU-OH COLORS***

This week Body and Soul is going to show us a different non-flaky Nfu-Oh every day this week!

So check her out!

***ANOTHER UPDATE***

Just purchased:

117

052

050

061

063

065

Cuticle Flower Oil Lavender

Saved $17.10! Totally worth it!

Used vampyblog.vampyvarnish.com, GETCHA NAILS DID, Polish Pixie, and The Nailphile for inspiration on choosing the colors! They seem to be the leaders of the Nfu-Ohs. Just got to their blogs and search for Nfu-Oh.

**UPDATE**

I got 2 e-mails overnight from fabuloustreet.com. One telling me my client ID and password, the other telling me to login and view my discounted prices!

I logged in and the nail lacquers are $10 each!!! It's not $8.50, like it was about 3 weeks ago!

So send her an e-mail and order order ORDER!!!

***Big news from MUA***

If you join fabuloustreet.com by sending an e-mail to sales@fabuloustreet.com with your name and e-mail address that you use for purchasing, they will send you a confirmation e-mail with a discount code of

20% off!!!

Click the above pic to be directed to fabuloustreet.com.

I haven't tried this yet, so I'm not sure if it works. If anyone figures this out let me know. I will update when I get my e-mail.

I just got $ from my dad for my b-day, so I might be able to afford some of the Nfu-Ohs!

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