Pittsburgh Pirates Nails!

Today is the Pittsburgh Pirates home opener! I have pretty much been waiting for this day since baseball season ended last year. Last year was an amazing year for the Pirates, they were probably the most notable baseball story of 2013; and I am hoping they have that same kind of season in 2014 as well!

Unfortunately my husband was not able to take off of work today so I am going with one of my girlfriends who also likes baseball, so should be a fun girls day at the game.

Obviously I HAD to do a mani for the game, and I have to say that this is much bolder than I would normally go for a baseball game but it's a special one, the home opener is pretty much a big tailgate all day until the game so I could go a little crazier than normal.

Polishes Used:
-OPI - Alpine Snow
-Zoya - Pippa
-KB Shimmer - Eclipse
-Cover Band Lacquers - Sticks 'n Stones
-Acrylic Paints

This is pretty much the definition of a skittle mani; lol, which is perfect when you can't decide exactly what to do. Obviously I had to do the obligatory "baseball" nail, threw in the team logo and then did misc nails with the team colors black and yellow! My right hand is even skittled up as well. It is exactly the same as this hand with the exception of my middle finger which is black with a white zig-zag on it (no way I was going to be able to freehand the "P" with my non-dominant hand!)

Overall, I think this look is super fun for the home opener and I anticipate to get a handful of comments throughout the day.

Incase you're interested the game will be airing on ESPN and has a 1:05pm EST start time.

P.S. Non-nail related but, here are some pictures from last season

Pittsburgh Sports Themed Nails

Oh my goodness; I don't know if any of my lovely readers are baseball fans, but I know that some of you are Pittsburgh fans. If you have been following my blog, you know that my husband and I are Pittsburgh Pirates season ticket holders, yep, all 81 games. This season has been especially exciting and for the first time in 21 years, my team is in the #Postseason (#buctober, #absobucnlutely, #rtjr)

Anyway, you will be seeing more Pittsburgh themed nails from me in the next couple of weeks, with the Pirates beating the Reds on Tuesday night, we officially are in the first series and I will be rocking black and yellow nails for it! Also, if you like hockey, the Pittsburgh Penguins home opener is tonight and yep, I'm going to be there.

Here are the nails that I was going to wear on Tuesday's wildcard game (although I ended up taking them off and wearing black, since they were calling for a blackout)

Of course I put all my polishes away before I wrote down what I used (if you really want to know the colors, let me know and I will dig them out; sorry, bad blogger). As with the nail art I showed you earlier in the week, these were also inspired by a MrCandiipants youtube tutorial.

Do you like this look? Let me know!

PS. Here is a bonus shot of me at the game :)

Pittsburgh Pirates Nails

Today I am going to my first Pirates Game of the season. I really enjoy going to the baseball games... even if they don't normally win; that's ok! Maybe this will be the year for them.

Polishes Used:
-Nailtiques - Formula 2 Plus
-Zoya - Pippa - (2 coats)
-Kiss Nail Art - Black
-Sally Hansen Diamond Strength - Glass Slipper
-NYC - Matte Me Crazy

If I had to do this mani again I would have used a larger dotting tool for the black outlines. Right now it looks like I just have squiggly lines but it's actually tiny dots.

I heard on the radio that Pittsburgh is the only town that all of the professional sports teams share the same team colors, Black and Gold (Steelers, Pirates, and Penquins). Do you ladies follow sports? What's your favorite team?