NOTD Green gels with stamps over it

A quick NOTD

I have Red Carpet Manicure gels on in a fluorescent green called "Show Me The Money". The color glows in black light. It glowed under the LED light, too. See blow:

I then stamped an OPI black polish called "Onyx" with a Konad style stamp over the tops of the nails, pressing the color on the top and bottom of the nail instead of placing the entire stamp over the entire nail. This way, it appears to look like lace on the edges of the nails.

I top coated the nails with Seche Vite. The wear on these are great, the gels do not budge at all and the wear of the OPI is slight. The edges look kind of rubbed off after 6 days of wear.

 

The gel polishes do really help to extend the war of your regular polishes on top, since your nails are not as flexible when you have the gel, your regular polish is less likely to chip or wear down.

When you like to change your colors more often, try placing two layers of clear base coat gel and one coat of gel topcoat, then polish over those. You'll be amazed at your wear time. AND you can change your colors out at will, using non-acetone polish remover won't affect the gel. Very cool.

Share your polish or gel tips with me in the comments. Any questions? Leave them there, too.

Carol's Daughter - Month 1

I have been using Carol's Daughter Monoi shampoo, conditioner and mask for one month. I have super baby-fine hair so I wondered if this product would be too much for me. To my amazement, it is so lovely! My hair has never been shinier. I even see new growth coming up, it looks like I have a lot of hairs coming in all around. I usually have a few baby hairs sticking up around my hairline, but now I have hundreds more. I have not colored my hair yet. I am concerned that I will lose these baby hairs from the coloring process. I will keep you posted about that. When I purchased the bottles, I got the full sizes. I think they are about 10 oz. or so. I have used about ½ a bottle of shampoo, a ⅓-½ bottle of conditioner and a smidge out of the hair mask. I use the shampoo daily, the conditioner 5 days a week and the mask 2 times per week. I keep track by using the mask on my days off from my full-time job. Sometimes, I have to do the hair mask 2 days in a row for the week. My hair is not affected in a bad way by doing this. I like the way the mask feels in my hair rather than the conditioner anyway. It's smoother, softer, silkier and tangle free. When I use the conditioner, I need more than I think I should, otherwise the hair feels drier and more tangly.

This has such a wonderful scent as well. It first smells like gardenia or magnolia. After the flower scent wears off it smells like coconut. Almost like a summer tan lotion, but fresher.

I'm giving this product an A++. I emailed the company when I first started using this product line. I wondered if it would be OK to use this product as my everyday shampoo, and could I use it long term? The answers were YES. They want me to use these products daily for at least 6 months for minimal results. I was concerned because this is considered a reparative product line. Some, you cannot use daily or long term or your hair feels straw-like. The Carol's Daughter rep said that the product does not build up like stronger protein shampoo so I should not be concerned about product build-up.

Monoi Oil products are for all hair types. They have other products for coarse, very texturized hair types and would be too heavy for my hair. I have tried the Black Vanilla conditioning spray. It's OK, but not enough detangler in it for me. It smells so good, I use it for the scent.

Any questions? Have you tried any Carol's Daughter products? Which ones, and what did you think? Let me know by commenting on my post.

Off Topic - Venus

Venus passing between the Earth and The Sun. Won't see this again for over 100 Earth years!

We used a pair of old binoculars, faced them backwards towards The Sun and shone the image it cast on a piece of pink paper to capture the image. Here's a pic of us getting the set up.

I have another glimpse that came out ok.

Pretty cool, huh?