Well, it's not technically my first Konad, but the first one I'm blogging about :) Still, I'm relatively new to the world of Konad-ing. You could call me a Konad-virgin, but I'd prefer you call me Laura.
Aaaanyway, I thought I'd first show you the polish I used for the base. I've used it several times as part of other designs, but never on its own. It's so pretty! I love whites. As I've stated before, I dislike black polish (unless it's part of a design), so white is kind of perfect for me. This is a really good one, it's aaaaalmost opaque in one layer.
OPI Alpine Snow, one coat, outdoors, evening.
And now for the Konad!
Actually, wait a little longer. Most people don't know what Konad-ing is, so I'll educate you. You have this stampy thing and these image plates, and you put nail polish into the engraved image, scrape the excess off, roll your stamp over it, and then plomp it in your nail.
Okay so that explanation sucked. I would go take a picture of all my Konad stuff now to show you, but since I already took the little memory card out of the camera and plugged it into the computer, I don't really feel like doing it now. I'll show you tomorrow, how about that?
Okay, NOW you can see my nails.
Yeah, so this looked better in real life at a slight distance. My poor little pinky either has a birth defect, or is the Wicked Witch of the West. (I'm meeeeeeeltiiiiiing!) I haven't quite mastered the technique, so bear with me. I don't know what image plate this is, either, so I'll just edit it into the post tomorrow when I go Konad-crazy. I know, I'm lazy. Deal with it.
This looked better in real life than it does in the picture. That sounds bad, I know. It's like when you're super excited to show your friend a really cute guy, and you're all "OMG THERE HE IS!!!" and they're like "Who, him? Yeah, he's hot." and you say "No, HIM!" and they go "Oh........... um yeah he's okay I guess." and they're all mumbly and weird and you can tell your friend thinks the guy looks like a mangled gorilla and then you try to pretend you never thought he was hot in the first place, and you're like "Uh, yeah, it was kinda low lighting when I saw him, I guess not..." but secretly you still think he's like your personal Johnny Depp or something.
Anywho. That's kind of how I feel about these nails.
- Laura
Confused? Good.
JK, BFFs! OMG, like I'm TTLY like RFLING, you guys. You're like WTF and I'm like LOL!
Even more confused? Awesome. Sometimes I get carried away.
Anyway, if you didn't get it, the title is the Lion King song, because today's polish reminds me of the Lion King.
I did this on the camping trip as well. It's Sally Hansen Salon Nail Lacquer in Dawn to Earth.
It's really the name that gets me. Dawn to Earth. It makes me think of that scene where the crazy baboon lifts Simba up to the sky and it's all powerful and stuff.
I'm preeeeetty sure this is three coats. This is actually a really crappy picture of it :\ It was much prettier in real life, it had just sliiiightly pinkish undertones. I honestly don't know how to describe it. It was kind of nude, but not. I don't know, I'm freakishly pale, so maybe it would be nude on other people. Anyhow, it was super pretty, and application was unremarkable.
So, how do you feel about nudes? The polishes, not the people, though I suppose those would be nudists. I just didn't want any confusion, because that would be bad. Not that I have anything against nudists, it's just an interesting lifestyle choice...
ANYWAY, that's all I've got for you today. See you tomorrow (I hope)!
- Laura
I did this before my camping escapades and completely forgot about it. Oops. It's Claire's Mood Changing Polish in Excited/Bored.
Voila.
This is "bored." It's about a shade lighter in real life.
Aaaand this is "excited." It looked a lot different in real life, about two shades darker.
This polish seemed kind of backwards. I had to go stick my hand in the ice maker to get it to turn "excited," which was weird. Shouldn't the hotter temperature be darker? Whatever, I guess Claire's is run by a bunch of demonic robots who don't understand human temperatures and emotions. You have to admit they're a little creepy, what with all their fluffy tiaras and tacky bling.
As for the polish, I did three coats. The first coat was really patchy, the second coat was better, but it took three coats to make it even. It dried satiny/matte, which is how I hear most mood polishes dry. I kinda liked it, it was interesting since all I've ever used is shiny polishes. The change wasn't really too noticeable, but it was a nice color anyway. I love hot pinks/corals :)
So, have any of you ever tried mood changing polish? Have you ever witnessed any of the Claire's robots? I'd love to hear about it, so drop me a comment!
- Laura
