Mombo Monday!

Last Mombo Monday of January 2013 already? Sheesh! This month just flew right on by. It's just about time for all those fancy red and pink, lovey-dovey heart filled Valentine's day manicures! hehe  For now though, I have some more awesome manis done by the amazing Mombo, aka my mom! ;) I keep seeing her nails all over the place and I get so excited "those are my Mom's nails!" But sometimes there is no credit to my mom (and yes, sometimes it is her own fault for not watermarking her older photos) and that just makes my blood boil a bit. Still, it's exciting that people are also in love with my Mombo's nails! lol  Anyway.... here are some more to drool over! ;)

Fricking fan-tabulous!  Love this!  She used Orly Space Cadet, Konad Black and stamped with DRK-A

The new OPI Liquid Sand Get Your Number  I just loooooove the look of this!! I know I don't normally show her manis of just one color, but I had to show this because I heart it so much! haha  Plus, how great does it look on those Custom Nail Solution nails??

Yet another FAB water marble! Argh! (No, I'm not a pirate, lol) Love the color on this marble, and the swirlies!  She used SH White, Sinful Colors Amethyst and China Glaze Light as Air
Why the $@#%* can't mine do this? I am just blaming it on the temperature in the house. ;) haha

I don't think I will be around much this week as there has been a death in my husband's family and both of my kids are in separate productions, one play and one musical and both have practices all week after work times. My son has the lead in his musical and his schedule will keep us quite busy running around and my daughter's play is actually wrapping up soon.  It is now almost to dress rehearsal so that makes it quite busy since it's wrapping up all the loose ends and the long practice times start, too! Yuck!

Anyway... I want to get some of my mani pics up, too, as soon as my gross dry cuticles become ungross! LOL  For now, I wish you all an amazing week!

*HUGS*

Mombo Monday **Special Edition - Road Trip**

It's Mombo Monday time! This week it's a special edition because Mombo and I took a road trip with Cara aka Fox Claws and Dani from our Nail Group to do some shopping in Racine, WI! So besides seeing some fabulous nail pics from Mombo, you also get a few fun pics from the road trip! ;)

I just want to say that when Dani first posted that there was a store with Kleancolor polish 5 for $3.99 I was totes jealous and immediately thought ROAD TRIP! When I posted: "Cara, should we take a road trip this weekend?" I did not expect that it would actually happen, but I am SO happy it did! We had sooooo much fun! Once Cara, Dani and I were in and Dani had found the store and place to meet, I called Mombo and she was "pondering" the idea. That didn't take long though and she was in shortly after. Mombo picked me up, then we picked Cara up and talked like maniacs the whole way to the mall. Then we were like teenagers in the mall with the polish, not to mention messing around in Claire's (which you see below in the pics). Such a blast, I would do it again tomorrow if I could, minus the 40-50 mph wind gusts the entire drive that made Mombo's arms and hands hurt!

We all got lots of goodies. Mombo ended up with 50 bottles of polish! Dani and Cara didn't get quite as many bottles as we did, but Cara did clean out Burlington of the peppermint bark that was left! haha  I had a total count of 27 bottles. I also got a new coat, 2 sweaters, a pair of shoes 5 bottles of scented polish for my daughter (not counted in my 27), and some random stuff like polish remover, cotton balls, etc.

Here's some pics and then some awesome mani's! :)

Road Trip Mani's!

(L) Cara, (Top) Me, (R) Mombo, (Bottom) Dani

Being goofy in Claire's!

(L to R) Dani, Me, Cara aka Fox Claws

(L to R) Dani, Mombo, Cara aka Fox Claws

Onto Mombo's Mani's!! :)

Layla Flash Black stamped with "10" Professional The Little Black Dress - DRK-A
This is what she wore on our road trip, Love it!

Stamped with Hits Mari Moon Unconventional over Metro Too Chic
I love that stamp and the colors are super pretty! Great with her skin tones, too!

Mentality Antisocial stamped and mattified! This looks great matte, doesn't it?  I love the look!  This polish is SO hard to remove though, oh my goodness is it a pain in the buns! lol A good one for that glue trick for sure! ;)

So that's the Mombo Monday special edition! I hope you liked this weeks goofy pics from the road trip!
Have a great week!

*HUGS*

Mombo Monday!!

I'm back!! Mombo Monday today and tomorrow I will be back again with some swatches of some awesome new releases from Maya Cosmetics! I wanted to post them Sunday, but after swatching, taking pictures, not being happy with lighting and then ultimately with the pictures, and putting the watermarks on it was 10:00pm by the time I was finished. :( So Tuesday is the day.  Although I did put them up on facebook! ;)

I wanted to mention that it seems like some people that come to the blog think the Mombo Monday mani's are mine... understandable if you just look and don't read I guess. But I want Mombo to get credit for her mani's! Maybe this will help? I found this cute pic of me and my Mombo from the Bon Jovi concert we went to in 2011. Pay no attention to the guy in the background, we were snapping pics like crazy he was probably talking about the crazy ladies in front of them! haha

Mombo and me! :)


So back to the matter at hand!  Mombo Monday has been missed and I am excited to be back with my fun nod to my Mombo! She had a lot to choose from over the past few weeks I have missed, so here are 3 for you all today! :)

First up is another ah-mazing water marble! Mombo can still rock it out! ;) hehe

She used Butter London Bossy Boots and OPI -Uh Oh Roll Down The Window. (That name is hilarious!)
Love the green and the trippy drippy water marble swoops! hehe

This was Mombo's New Years mani, and she called this a fail?!? She cray-cray! I love this!

Julep Michelle, one coat of Orly Shine On Crazy Diamond, and used the firework image from MM02 with Studio M Magic Attraction
I think this looks totes awesome! Like fireworks! Love!!!

Last but not least, another fricking awesome water marble! I need to practice so I can try to catch up to her highness! LOL  This was before Christmas, hence the Christmas colors...

Essie Forever Yummy and Sinful Rise and Shine; over white base
I love my Mombo! Although, she is the one to blame for my nail polish obsession. The reason that I spent almost every penny of my Christmas money on nail polish. The reason I have 3 shelves of polish filled and no room for another so now my desk now has polish lined up all over it as well. She is the reason I have to continuously buy nail polish remover and acetone, orange sticks, cuticle oil, hand cream, etc.. haha I still love her to pieces.  Ask my hubby if he still loves her as much and you may get a different answer! HAHA! (Just kidding, he doesn't blame you at all, he only blames me! He's such a brat!) Anyway... I'm glad Mombo Monday is back and I hope you all are too! ;)

Have a great week everyone!

*HUGS*

A Snowy Mombo Monday!

Woke up to lots of snow this morning but not enough to put any delays on the morning! Nothing like the delays my head put on the weekend. :( Migraine city. In fact, the bathroom is without a faucet still because I couldn't get out of bed to go pick one out since the one we had already chosen wasn't going to work. I still have a slight migraine, but it is livable now at least. The computer monitor light is a killer though and my head does not like it at ALL so work is difficult and so is this! So I am going to quickly post my Mombo's manis and shut this thing down! I apologize SO much for not getting Featured Artist Friday up and for being absent so much lately. I am sure after the holidays it will be a little easier!

Here's Mombo's awesome mani's!

Supa cute, Mombo!! She used Pure Ice Taupe Drawer stamped with China Glaze Admire

Love this color!  Mombo used OPI Warm and Fozzie for this mani!

This is my fave for the week!

A England St. George dabbed with L'Oreal The Queen's Ambition

That's all for now folks, I need this light away from my eyes to save my noggin! :(

Have a great week everyone!
*HUGS*

Mombo Monday!

Monday again, already? I wish weekends didn't go by so quickly. We got a lot done this weekend though! Christmas tree is up, decorations are up, tile is ready to be laid in the bathroom tomorrow and the house is as clean as it's going to get for now! No sense in cleaning the den with everything from the bathroom in it right now, lol!  Besides getting all that done, I am still battling whatever this nasty virus is and I am feeling like crud. I can only hope it is going away soon. The only thing keeping me going is knowing that I have it NOW rather than at Christmas. So let's cross our fingers it is gone soon! :(
As I write this, Mombo is in Vegas... Hmfph.... :P lol  Want to see what she's sporting on her nails while she's there??  Here you go:

Of course it's a "Mombo Marble"! haha  OPI I Break for Manicures, Zoya Caitlin and Megan, topcoated with Spectraflair
Perfect, as usual... Love all the pretty shades of purple!!  Also, she got another new set of custom nails from Custom Nail Solutions, this set is glamour length.  Pretty nice, right??

Here's another fun one! She must be on a purple kick this week! hehe

Sinful Colors Amethyst stamped with Color Club Fashion Addict
I always love this stamp when I see it on a mani, but I have never used it!

Last but not least, using a color I am totes in love with (I am the Walrus by Enchanted Polish)...

Not sure what color she used to stamp with, and I am not going to bother her while she's in Vegas, but I love this mani! I neeeeeeed the whole Enchanted Polish Beatles collection.  For those of you that don't know me well enough, I have a slight obsession with The Beatles. ;) I love them, and I love this polish and all the rest in the collection... but they are totes not in my budget now or probs not in the near future unfortunately. :(

That's all for this Mombo Monday!  Back to work for the week and hopefully back to healthy super soon!

I hope you all have an amazing week!!!!!!
*HUGS*

Mombo Monday!!

Boo Monday, but YAY for Mombo Monday! haha I truly hate Mondays, but at least Mombo Monday makes it a little happier. ;)  I miss my Mombo a lot right now since I didn't see her (or any of my family) on Thanksgiving this year. This was the first time in my entire life I haven't been with my family for Thanksgiving, but I thought it would be nice to spend it with my husband's family this year. It was very nice, but it didn't change the fact that I missed my family terribly! So yeah, anyway, Mombo is missed! hahaha  I have some super pretty Mombo-manis to show you today!

Here's the first one:

This is Layla Coffee Love (which was also used by Barb in my Featured Artist Friday post HERE) and I really want/need this polish, and stamped with black from an image on the DRK-A plate.  I LOVE this mani, it's immaculate! Love, love, love!

Next up, more stamping perfection:

Thanksgiving mani!  Mombo used OPI Suzi Takes the Wheel and Zoya Toni for this one! I just love when she uses me! Hahaha Yeah, you should all know by now that I am such a big dork! ;)  I do love when she uses that polish though because I gave it to her. :)  I have tried to frame my nails like this like 20 times and I can not seem to do it... ugh!

It probs wouldn't be Mombo Monday without a Mombo Marble, right? LOL!

For this one, Mombo used: *10* Professional black base, Sally Hansen Lustres: Scarab, Plume, Lava, Copperhead and Firefly

She's such a bitchface, right? I mean, why does she get to have perfect water marbles like this all the time while the rest of us struggle? :P *Just kidding, Mombo. You know I love you and you are not really a bitchface (no really, you are, but you aren't... just kidding, just kidding...) but you suck! Your water marbles rock so hard you are causing avalanches in the desert! Jeeeez! I'm just totes jelly, that's all!  haha Love you!*

Anywho... that's all for Mombo Monday this week!! I can't believe there is now less than one month until Christmas!  Yikes! Hope you all are further ahead than I am! haha
Have a great week! :)

*HUGS*

Mombo Monday! :)

Happy Monday! Well, as happy as it can be when my vacation is now officially over! lol Oh well... it couldn't last forever, right? I did get a new blog design accomplished, though! What do you think?

Mombo was a MANIac this past weekend! She was trying out all sorts of different combos for Custom Nail Solutions*. I guess they asked for photos for an online Bridal Guide Magazine. She has been featured in many of their ads so of course she wanted to be in more stuff! haha  Here's a few of the kick buttski mani's from her mani-marathon!

I LOVE this candy cane/snowflakey one!

Mombo used Sinful Colors White and Kleancolor Metallic Red for this one and then Stamped the stripes and snowflakes on!

Crackle-licious!

For this mani, Mombo used Fingerpaints Rise and Shine and Wet N Wild red crackle

I just love matte with a little gloss!

 This beauty is done with Zoya Veruschka and tips are CG Sugar Plums!

There's your dose of Mombo for Monday this week. Hope you enjoyed her nails. :) Gosh I love that Mombo of mine!  It's so fun to be able to feature her up here on my little blog and give her some extra love! 

*HUGS*

Mombo Monday!

Hey Mombo, Mombo Italiano, Hey Mombo... Yeah yeah, I know.. lol I get it stuck in my head so many times when I call my Mom "Mombo" that I just can't help myself sometimes! hehe  I am totes on an AT HOME VACATION this week! Wooooohoooooo! I originally took this week off because my hubby and I were planning a trip to Vegas for our Wedding Anniversary. Our Anniversary is tomorrow... We obvi didn't end up going to Vegas, but we both still had vaca days at work and took the week off anyway. So we both have the week off and just have things around the house to do.  Things such as paint the "remodeling in process" bathroom, clean out our bedroom closet, fall cleaning, etc.  Funny thing is, my Daddio is going to Vegas for the week and we get the lovely task of babysitting his dog for him!  haha  The rest of what we have to do this week is NOT WORK. ;) 

  Today I want to do a shout out to my lil sista to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE GROUND! I love you so much and am so proud of you, Tai! I am so happy Mombo and Daddio made you for me when I was 2 1/2, it was the best present they ever gave me. :) haha
 

Alrighty then, on to what Mondays are really for! MOMBO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Once again, she totes rocked out the mani's this week, so this post is way pic heavy! Yikes! I just couldn't choose because they all rock the casbah!

If any of you read about my winnings in this post, you know that I gave Mombo the Zoya "Toni" that I won because the color just wasn't "me" (even though it is totes the coolest thing eva that it has my name). Well she used it here and it look ah-mazing on her!

 Zoya "Toni" stamped with OPI DS Signature

Remember when I said Mombo is the Queen of water marbles? If you didn't believe me then, do you now? lol WOW! This just blew my mind!

 CG Something Sweet and Essie Skirting the Issue

Next up: Awesome animal print stamping!

Mombo used: Fingerpaints Tough Art to Follow with Pure Ice First Time 
(This stamped really awesome, didn't it? I thought this was a foil before I read that it was a stamp!)

One more awesome marble!!! Geesh, I wish I had the energy to do all these mani's! hahaha

SC Gorgeous and SC Let's Play

Last but not least, the kick ass snakeskin foils!

Well, that's Mombo Monday for the week! I hope you all had your bibs on to catch your drool! ;) hehe


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Have a GREAT week everyone!
*HUGS*

Mombo Monday!

Wowsa! It's Mombo Monday already? I feel like I just posted a Mombo Monday yesterday and I also feel like it can't be November already. How on earth is it already November? I feel like the year is going way too fast, I think someone needs to throw the brakes on because I am not ready for the holidays to be here yet! Ahhhhh  Don't get me wrong, I love the holidays but they are super hectic for us and really stress me out. This year I don't have the day before or the day after Christmas off so I will be wiped right out I am sure. :(

Oh goodness, I am totes getting off track! I am supposed to be talking about Mombo today! ;) Mombo didn't go mad on the mani's this week and since Halloween is over I didn't want to go back to that. So there are only two mani's this time! Weird, right? It's alright though because the first one is really awesome so it should count as two. haha


Here's a perfect storm! I see mani's like this quite often but haven't tried one myself. They are pretty real and pretty cool. ;) lol (Any SNL watchers out there that got that?) I don't have the patience to do all these layers, but Mombo did an awesome job on this mani! WTG Mombo!  :)

Mombo rocked this mani out using:
Base is SC Secret Admirer; sponged on KC Pastel Blue, then WnW Megalast Through the Grapevine, then SH Complete Salon Manicure's Himalayan Blue, then CC no name dark purple.
  
This next one caught me off guard because, ummm, it's the wrong hand!?! Wha? She never shows her right hand! Whoa! How could I not put it on the blog, I mean, it needs to be out here for all to see! Well, all 66 of you! haha!

 Ahhh, magnetic polish. Gotta love it!  This one is Sally Hansen Silver Elements

So there is my "Mombo love" for this week!  Hope you all enjoyed seeing what she was up to with those custom nails!

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Have a GREAT week everyone!
*HUGS*

Mombo Monday!

I am getting the post ready before bed so that it will post in the morning, and I am super tired since I went out for Halloween in my hometown Saturday with my hubby, my little sister and her friend (they went as Milli Vanilli and looked hilariously awesome and took first place in the costume contest, too!). Then my hubby stayed at my dads with the kids and I stayed at Mombo's with my sister and Erica and we had a slumber party! lol Not quite like the old days though, because we used to be able to stay up super late and this time Erica fell asleep in the middle of us telling stories, Tai (my sister) got up and disappeared and then we realized she was in bed. So Mombo and I were the last two standing and she was going to bed. Weird! I was the last one standing and I was still ready to "slumber party" but everyone was sleeping. lol So I went to bed at 4:30am (which is 3:30am my time) and got up at 11. haha Either way, I got to see my fam and that was great! :) BUT, I am tired because I am not used to being out drinking and then staying up late like that!  Am I getting old, or what? :P  At least I didn't get hungover!  So I can't be too old! hahaha

On to Mombo's nails!!!

 This was a new technique for her! Brush stroke ombre. "10" Professional Old Hollywood, SH white, Essie Sew Psyched, SC Leap Flog, OPI Thanks a Windmillion and Fingerpaints Tough Art to Follow
I told her it looked like it was hard and way too much work, and she said it actually wasn't hard at all and was quick! So if you like this look, google a tutorial and do it up! I think it's sweet shiz! ;)

Mombo used "10" Professional in Moonlight and Revlon Colorstay in Blue Slate
Very cool stripey marble!  I don't think I could do it, but I wish I could! I love this look! Although, looking at it, it really makes me feel like she used a LOT of nail polish for that marble! I hate wasting polish, I'm such a nerd...

Gradient! Zoya: Caitlin, Carey and Megan

 Do you know how many times I have tried to do a gradient? For some reason it just doesn't work for me, so I am pretty jealous when I see all the people that can do that. :P Nice, Mombo! 

PS: Glad we got to have a slumber party Saturday, Mombo! It was almost like the old days when I didn't live with you but practically stayed over every night and we stayed up all night watching lame movies and being dorks! hehehe LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!

Hope you all have a great week!

*HUGS*