NOTD: Coffee Break with Navy Blue Konad Tips

I decided to do something fancy but still kinda simplistic today, so I went for a nude base with a navy blue stamped french tip :) Some of the designs ended up being a little crooked but I'm still getting used to stamping!

Used:

Essie Feed Me Basecoat

Orly Coffee Break (2 coats)

Sally Hansen Insta-dri Blazing Blue (which their website says is now discontinued...)

Seche Vite Top Coat

As a side note, the Sally Hansen Insta-dri nail polishes are perfect for stamping because they tend to get very thick and goopy after about 1 year of first being opened... so they are just the perfect thickness for stamping at that point.



And the beautiful blue half-moon manicure I had on before this one that I never got any good pictures of (I ended up peeling this one off finger-by-finger in class because I was bored)

Used:

Essie Feed Me Base Coat

OPI Go On Green (4 coats)

Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure Thinking of Blue (1 coat)

Seche Vite Top Coat

How do you like your nails; 1 colour at a time or covered in nail art?

Hope everyone's great!

Asylum Explosion

My Sally's had the new Fingerpaints Special Effects collection out when I went yesterday! But they were already sold out of Twisted... on the first official day of selling... Go figure!

I'm not giving you any official swatches today, by the end of the week I will. Today I just added an accent nail to my Orly Coffee Break (which I'm still absolutely in love with). The accent is done with Sally Hansen Midnight in NY with Fingerpaints Asylum on top. Beautifulll.
Excuse my cuticles. My hands are so dry from the coldddd.

Orly Coffee Break Swatch

I told a friend that I had been looking for the perfect nude nail polish at Christmas, and it turns out she knew me better than I knew myself. All the ones I had looked at previously were very clearly too light for my skin tone, but she found the perfect one. Orly Coffee Break is a perfect nude, a little on the darker side and may even have a pink undertone to it (plus, the name first perfectly because we're coworkers at a coffee shop ;) ).

This is 2 coats of Coffee Break with 1 coat of Seche Vite.

And finally, here's a webcam picture from New Years Eve. You can't really see my makeup but it's the best I had!

Happy New Years to everyone - I wish you all the best in 2012.