It's been awhile!

I went on a little bit of a hiatus for the past couple of weeks while I was house-sitting, at the Ohio State Fair (seeing my new boyfriend Blake Shelton, omg) and seeing Poison and Motley Crue (which was an AMAZING show) and doing some running around. I'm back now though and even though I wasn't posting, I didn't forget to take pictures of anything that I did on my nails so now there's going to be a post flood!

So I've been getting the hang of this Konad thing. One of my favorite stamps is the little bow so it shows up on a lot of my manis. I also got a pretty nice polish haul for the end of summer and wanted to play with as many of those as I could. This one features my new Essie polishes, Nice is Nice (a great creme lilac) and Mint Candy Apple (a minty creme)

Now, I'd been having a problem with my nails that I couldn't figure out for like a week, it was ridiculous. If I did a light colored polish (which had been mostly blues) I would get these dark blue streaks around the tips and I thought it was my top coats smearing when they dried or something. I tried different top coats, no top coat, but whatever I did, I still got these streaks. I was going crazy until I realized what it was. I had just gotten my hair done and the for some reason, the color was transferring to my hands, nails and all over my neck. My hair is a blue-black base color with thin highlights of bright blue. My neck was blue when I pulled my hair up, I had blue stains between my fingers, my brush bristles turned bright blue, but it wasn't transferring to my clothes or my pillow cases, so I guess it wasn't too bad but was it ever irritating. I rarely wear my hair up unless I haven't washed it in a day and eventually it stopped transferring... just in time for me to have to get it redone on Monday. So my new manis are going to be dark colors while I ride out the staining period.

Bonus! I did my toes with my Konad stamps as well! 

I also bought Essie's Matte About You so I wanted to test it out. I was obviously on a blue kick so I went with OPI Ogre the Top Blue and made it matte, added some zebra stripes and silver glitter accents.