12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge | Day 12 | Freestyle!

Today's theme for the Challenge Your Nail Art 12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge is freestyle. I have thought about this from the beginning. What is one to do when given a freestyle challenge. So many possibilities right? Well I decided to go with 2 different things for this theme. Check it out.

Items Used:

China Glaze - White on White

Red, White, Black, Light Brown, and Dark Brown Acrylic Paint

NYC - Broadway Burgundy Frost

Salon Perfect - One Love

LA Colors Rapid Dry

Striping Brush

Detail Brush

I think these are by far my favorite of the whole challenge. Isn't Rudolph adorable? Well that's the end of the 12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge. I'll be back in a couple days with a round up post. 

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12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge | Day 7 | Red and Green

The first thing that came to mind when I saw the theme for day 7 of the Challenge Your Nail Art 12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge was candy canes. Up until I actually did them I saw candy cane swirls. I was originally going to do a water marble but the only bottle of water I have at the moment is way to cold to work. So instead I went with a dry marble and couldn't be happier. I will be dry marbling a lot from now on.

Forgive the upside down watermark. I forgot to flip the picture before adding it.

  Items Used:

China Glaze - White on White

Pure Ice - Siren

Pure Ice - Free Spirit

LA Colors Rapid Dry

Toothpick

I absolutely love how these turned out. They are so christmas-y. I am now a new fan of dry marble. I loved them so much that I wanted to get a third picture of them. 

Whats coming up next?

An InLinkz Link-up

12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge | Day 6 | 12 Days of Christmas Song

Today's theme for the Challenge Your Nail Art's 12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge is any line from the 12 Days of Christmas Song. I struggled with this one from the beginning on what to do. Then when I decided, It didn't go as planned. I choose to go with "7 Swans a Swimming."  My initial idea was to hand paint 7 swans which actually would have ended up as more of a valentines designs. Wrong month!!!! So as I was going through my stamping plates I found a cute little swan stamp. Let me just say that stamping hates me. When I got my first set of stamping plates my boyfriend actually stamped better than I did. Shhhh! Don't tell him I told you that. Anyways, I'm not at all happy with how these turned out but I wanted to share them anyways. Hope you like them more than I do.

Items Used:

Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure - Wedding Glitters

China Glaze - White on White

Sally Hansen Hard as Nails - Cold as Ice

Gals Stamping Plate GA3 from the Princess Set

LA Colors Rapid Dry

The only thing I love about these? I actually stamped!!!! I was excited that they actually looked the way the plate looked. That's never happened before. Small steps I guess.

Still to come....

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12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge | Day 5 | Ice Blue and White

Today is day 5 of the Challenge Your Nail Art 12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge. The theme is Ice Blue and White colors. I knew from day 1 what I wanted to do for this theme. I choose to go with icicles on an icy blue background. So here they are.

Items Used:

Nabi - Sky Blue

Nabi - Abysis 

Sally Hansen Hard as Nails - Frozen Solid

White Acrylic Paint

China Glaze - Fairy Dust

LA Colors Rapid Dry

I love how these turned out. It looks exactly how it did when I pictured it in my head. 

Check out whats coming up!

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13 days of Halloween | Nightmare Before Christmas

Sadly it is the last day of the 13 days of Halloween. My obsession with nail polish and nail art began 2 years ago today when I saw somewhere online that you could paint Jack Skellington on your nails. Who would have thought, Right? I had to try it out. I had about 4 bottles of nail polish and 2 striping polishes at the time. I wont scare you at the beginning of this post with a throwback picture of that failed attempt at nail art, however, I will post it at the end. I will also mention that at that time I had just found out that I had Psyriosis which had severely affected my skin especially parts of my hands. So when It comes to the last picture of this post, please excuse my skin. So lets get into day 13 with some Nightmare Before Christmas nail art.

 

 

You'll have to excuse the Sally pattern. I had taken pictures shortly before going to bed and when I had woken up the next day to start editing the pictures, they were gone. So over night Sally had gotten a little squished. :(

Items Used:

China Glaze - White on White

ELF - Dark Navy

LA Colors Rapid Dry

Apple Barrel Acrylic Paints:

White

Black

Mosaic Blue

Apricot

Pink Eraser

Bright Yellow

Laguna

Now for the throwback. Please remember these were two years ago when I had NO IDEA what I was doing and looking back still have NO IDEA what I was going for. At the time I thought they were the greatest things since sliced bread. Boy was I wrong!

Looking back at this picture I would have never thought that 2 years later I would go from 4 nail polishes to over 700 nail polishes and still be doing this. You can definitely see the improvement. If I only knew then what I know now :).

Well that's it for the 13 days of Halloween series for 2014. I've had so much fun that I plan on doing it again next year. Hope you all enjoyed. Have a great and safe Halloween!

13 days of Halloween | Sugar Skulls

We've almost come to an end of the 13 days of Halloween. Its already day 12 and I have sugar skulls for you today. I will say that I wanted these to turn out differently but my mouth was in a lot of pain from having my teeth pulled only a few days before I did these. So I did my best not to mention these were my first time doing sugar skull nails.

Items Used:

China Glaze - White on White

LA Colors Rapid Dry

Apple Barrel Acrylic Paints in:

Black

Apricot

Kiwi

Bimini Blue

Mosaic Blue

Fuchsia

Bright Yellow

Flower fimo slices

Tomorrow is the last day of the 13 days of Halloween and then its off to Fall nail art. I'll see you back tomorrow with the final Halloween design.

13 days of Halloween | Horror Movies!

I love horror movies so I had to do some horror movie monster nails for day 11 of the 13 days of Halloween. I have monsters from 4 different movies and I love how these turned out. I was sad to take them off.

Items Used:

Index Finger (Sam from Trick R Treat)

ELF - Smokey Brown

Apple Barrel Acrylic Paints in Black, Nutmeg Brown and Pewter Grey

Middle Finger (Jason from Friday the 13th)

China Glaze - White on White

Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint in Black

 

Ring Finger (Jigsaw from Saw)

China Glaze - White on White

Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint in Flag Red, Black and White

 

Pinky Finger (Freddy from Nightmare on Elm Street)

Sinful Colors - All About You

Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint in Flag Red and Lite Mocha

 

Pure Ice - Siren was used for the blood splatter

LA Colors Rapid Dry

 

 

2 days left until Halloween. What are your costume or nail art ideas for Halloween?

13 days of Halloween | Monsters

Today's post for the 13 days of Halloween is actually 4 nail art ideas in one. Sometimes you can just never decided on one thing to do, so why not choose them all. Its day 8 and I have monsters for you.

We have Frankenstein, a Vampire, Frankenstein's wife, and a Mummy.

Items Used:

Wet N Wild - Ghoul time

China Glaze - White on White

LA Colors - Whipped

Apple Barrel Acrylic Paints - Black, White, Fuchsia

LA Colors Rapid Dry

How cute is Frankenstein's wife with her little bow. Of course I had to add a cute factor to all those monsters. Stay tuned for the rest of the 13 days of Halloween.

13 days of Halloween | Candy Corn

I decided to go with something rather simple for day 7 of the 13 days of Halloween. Today we have candy corns. I went with candy corn for the simple fact that I have not done them before and I love doing gradients. Not to mention, who can go without candy corn around Halloween?

 

Items Used:

China Glaze - White on White

Pure Ice - Drive me Crazy

Pure Ice - Showstopper

LA Colors Rapid Dry

We are halfway through the 13 days of Halloween. Who's still with me, there is plenty more to come.

13 days of Halloween | Patchwork/Stitches

Day 6 of the 13 days of Halloween is one of my favorites so far. These were inspired by The Nailasaurus which I found on Pinterest Here. I love the color combination so I decided to recreate them.

Items Used:

China Glaze - White on White

Wet N Wild - Stand the Test of Lime

Wet N Wild - Who is Ultra Violet

Pure Ice - Drive me Crazy

Apple Barrel Black Acrylic Paint

Wet N Wild Matte Top Coat

There is still more 13 days of Halloween to come. Hope you are enjoying them.

13 days of Halloween | Blood Splatter

For day 3 of the 13 days of Halloween I decided to go with blood splatter. I did blood splatter and paint splatter some time last year and had a lot of fun with it, so I figured I would give it a go again. If you haven't tried paint/blood splatter you should definitely give it a try. Last year when I did blood splatter, I had left all the excess nail polish on my skin to give it a more realistic feel. Kind of a bad idea depending on the polish you used. After leaving it on last years design, when I went to take it off....It had stained my skin. Big Uh Oh. So i decided against it this time.

Items Used:

China Glaze - White on White

Pure Ice - Siren

Topped with LA Colors Rapid Dry

Stay tuned for the rest of the 13 days of Halloween.

Pastel Watermarble

I have not water marbled for close to a year. I decided to give it a go today. I think Ive still got it even though this picture turned out awful. Hope you enjoy.

The colors are pastel, I promise. My camera didnt want to cooperate well today. I think it has to do with the fact that my walls are BRIGHT PINK and it puts a funky color into my light box. I may have to change where I take my photos.

Items Used:

Duri Rejuvocote

China Glaze-White on White

Nabi-Angel Peach

Nabi-Pastel Green

Beauty Secrets Top Coat

I am super happy with how the Nabi polishes worked in the water. I was concerned at first, but they actually work very well.

Stay tuned, sometime this week I have some items from Winstonia to review.

Neon Flowers and Rhinestones

It's been a while since I've had nail art to post. You ever had one of those periods of time where you just dont want to. Well I finally got around to doing my nails today. I'm somewhat ok with how these turned out however due to the heat my polish would not dry at all. So as soon as i took the pictures I had to make supper and they basically melted off. Every thing I touched would pull the polish in all sort of funky directions, so I ended up taking it off. All but the accent nail.

I wish I could have captured the neon better than I did. It was so bright.

Items used:

Duri Rejuvacote

China Glaze-White on White

Sinful Colors-24/7

Broadway Nails-Sunshine Disco

Polish Addict Nail Color- Cool Summer

Topped with Beauty Secrets Top Coat

Dotting Tools

Rhinestones

I was hoping the yellow of the flowers would end up more neon but it kind of mixed with the pink making the orange.

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Comic book nails/Born Pretty Store Review

Today I have a 2 in 1 post. Comic book style nail art and a review of born pretty store brushes I received for review. You can find the review for the stamper set and glequins that I did HERE.

Here's what I used for today's nail art

Lets start with the brushes from Born Pretty Store. I had ordered brushes from Winstonia and received those at the same time as the ones to review from Born Pretty Store. The only difference I found in the 2 sets is the bigger brush of the 3. The Born Pretty Store brush is a bit bigger and thicker than the ones I had ordered from Winstonia. Other than that the Born Pretty Store brushes are a really good quality and worked well for the nail art I wanted to achieve today. 

These are the 2 that I used in today

's nail art

After cleaning the brushes in between each color they bounced right back as if I had just opened them. I love how thin and pointed the tips are and the handles are pretty sturdy and not wobbly. I had an issue with a set of brushes I had ordered about a year ago where as soon as I took the little plastic piece off the tip of the brush it had popped off from the handle. No issues with that here.

Close up of the 2 brushes

Overall I would highly recommend these brushes to anyone. Now onto the nail art that these brushes helped create. I also want to point out that I have never made such small and straight lines with other brushes I've had.

Had to pose with the brushes used

Items used for today's post

Duri Rejovacote

China Glaze-White on White

China Glaze- Pool Party

Nail Tek Quicken (Used in between layers)

Wet N Wild Matte Top Coat

Black, White, and yellow acrylic paints

Dotting tools

00 and 000 brush from Born Pretty Store

You can find the brushes from this post by visiting the Born Pretty Store Website or a direct link to the brushes are here. 3 Pc Brush Set

Also dont forget that I have a 10% discount code that you can use when you checkout at the Born Pretty Store. After 10 uses of this code we can have a sponsored giveaway from the Born Pretty Store.

Let It Snow Challenge | Day 19 | Half Moons

The Let It Snow challenge is almost over. I'm a little sad. This has been super fun! Day 19 is Half Moons. I've never done half moons before so this was rather interesting. I know that most people use circle stickers to get the perfect half moon shape. I don't have any circle stickers so I just hand painted my half moons and I added a little extra to them. Hope you like!

Polishes Used:

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear- Razz-Berry

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear-Berry Juicy

LA Girl Metal-Pink Steel

Hard Candy-Glamour Girl

China Glaze-Fairy Dust (which you cant really see, Its over the accent)

Topped with Nail Tek Quicken

Tools Used:

Dotting Tools

Nail Art Brush

To see the other half moon designs check out the links below.

Let It Snow Challenge | Day 13 | Snow Leopard

Today's Let It Snow Challenge theme is Snow Leopards. I was stumped on this one from the beginning because I didn't want to do just leopard print. So I added just a little something to it. Hope you like.

Polishes Used:

Wet N Wild- French White Creme

China Glaze- Fairy Dust

Pure Ice- Silver Mercedes

Topped with Glossy Glam by Rica

Acrylics Used:

White

Black

Bimini Blue

Tools Used:

Dotting Tools

Nail Art Brushes

You can see other snow leopards for this challenge by using the links below

Let It Snow Challenge | Day 9 | Christmas

A day late and a day after Christmas but here is what I did for the Christmas theme of the Let it Snow Challenge. You'll have to ignore the tip wear. I actually did these on Christmas eve and forgot to take pictures.  Hope you like it.

Polish Used:

Pure Ice-Platinum

Wet N Wild Megalast- Darkside of the Blues

Milani 3D Holographic- HD

Sinful Colors- Dancing Nails

China Glaze- Fairy Dust

Jordana Pop Art- The Stylist

Topped With Glossy Glam by Rica

Acrylics Used:

Flag Red

New Shamrock

Black

White

Tools Used:

Nail Art Brushes

Dotting Tools

Check out the other Christmas designs below by using the links.

Let It Snow Challenge | Day 6 | Winter Flowers

I am a little late with this post. This is Day 6 of the Let it snow challenge with the theme of Winter Flowers. I decided to go with Poinsettia's. Hope you like. Please ignore my little boo boo on my finger. With winter being here my Psoriasis is kicking in again. :(

Polished Used:

Wet N Wild Wild Shine- Burgundy Frost

Wet N Wild Wild Shine- Red Red

LA Colors- Seashell

Wet N Wild Fast Dry- The Gold and the Beautiful

Color Concept- Unnamed Gold Glitter

China Glaze- Fairy Dust

Acrylic Paints- Black and New Shamrock 

Topped with Glossy Glam By Rica

Tools Used:

Dotting Tools

Nail Art Brushes

Use the links below to check out other Winter Flowers