Twinsie Tuesday, Stripes

Good evening everyone and happy Tuesday! Sorry I'm late posting today, I just haven't been feeling 100% lately and needed sleep last night. 

For today's prompt we were supposed to do a mani with stripes. I wracked my brain over this one and couldn't come up with anything that interested me except for a mani I did a few months ago but never posted. 

This is the mani that I did for our anniversary weekend back in March. Just over 12 years we've been married, I can't believe how lucky I am sometimes! Mike's favorite polish color is red, so I started with Zoya Sooki. Then I decided to try my hand at the famous "amkuch" mani. (She made this design famous, you should definitely check her out on Instagram, her nails are AMAZING!) On my middle finger I did 2 coats of OPI This Gown Needs a Crown and added In True Stefani Fasion. On my ring finger I used 2 coats of This Gown Needs a Crown and added 1 coat of HK Girl topcoat by Glisten & Glow. Once that was fully dry I used my straight Nail Vinyls from www.nailvinyls.com to add stripes in OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls. Then I freehanded a little heart in Sooki. After everything was dry I gave all of my nails another coat of HK Girl and I was good to go!

I loved this mani so much that I've been saving it in my phone for months waiting for the perfect time to post. This was the perfect time! 

I hope you like this mani! I definitely need to try this again once my poor little teeny ring finger nail is back to a normal length! 

Thanks for reading! Be sure to check out the other Twinsie's blogs linked below to see their stripes!!!

~casey

Alaina at The Little Canvas

Amanda at Amandalandish

Amber at Nails Like Lace

Anna at Going to the Showing

Bridget at A Painted Nail

Casey at CaseyLane Loves Polish

Chelsea at Nailed Blog

ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi

Cordia at Seriously Swatched

Elizabeth at Did My Nails

Erin at Paint Those Piggies

Jessica at Blue Velvet Lacquer

Kelly at Tuxarina

Lakeisha at Refined and Polished

​Lisa at The Polish Playground

​Marisa at Polish Obsession

Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les

Stephanie at A Little Polish

Tiffany at Polished To Precision​

**The products in this post were purchased by me for my own personal use.**

Guest post from McPolish

Good morning everyone! So today's guest post is from the wonderful Amy McPolish!!! Amy and I have been creeping on each other on Instagram for a while. Go check her out, her nails are amazing! 

Lets see what kind of awesomeness she came up with for my little blog. 

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Hi! I'm Amy McG aka McPolish!  I was so honored when my favorite stalker, Casey, asked me to write a guest blog post for her.  Well, a little about me.  I started painting my nails in October 2012.  It all started with a Sally Hansen magnetic polish I saw at Wal-Mart.  I was so intrigued about this crazy concept that I googled it and fell upon a nail polish blog.  Wow!  I was hooked!  I started buying up all the polish (like we all did).  Then in March 2013, I started my Instagram account (www.instagram.com/mcpolish) and got sucked into the nail art and indie polish world.  And down the rabbit hole I went...deeper and deeper.  But I love nail art and indie polish, so I wanted to share them both with you today.

For this guest post, I decided to share a skittlette mani using one of my favorite indie polish makers (and Casey's too!) Pipe Dream Polish!  These two polishes are from April's new fall line.  The gorgeous brown glitter is called "Fall Again" and I layered it over Zoya Flynn on my thumb and pointer finger.  The green polish with gold and brown glitter is called "Time in a Tapestry".  I used two coats alone over my pinky and then punched tiny heart shapes out of it to use over Flynn on my middle and ring finger.  Of course we must matte all the mani's :)

I have used homemade polish decals before by painting polish on a plastic bag then cutting out shapes and strips once it dries.  Well this time I had worn "Time in a Tapestry" with a base coat of Nail Pattern Boldness "Glitter-a-peel", which is an epic peel off base coat.  When I decided to change my mani and popped off my polish, I didn't want to waste that gorgeous glitter!  So I decided to punch some hearts out of the old polish.  Now I can wear my glitter mani's more than once!  Reduce...Recycle...Reuse! Lol!

You can find both Pipe Dream Polish and Nail Pattern Boldness on Etsy!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/pipedreampolish

http://www.etsy.com/shop/nailpatternboldness

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Amy I love this! Anyone who has followed me on here or on Instagram knows how much I love Pipe Dream Polish, so this is perfect. And I love the idea of punching shapes out of peeled off manis! Thank you so much for helping me out with a guest post! 

~casey