12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge | Day 10 | Ugly Christmas Sweater

I have been excited about today's theme of the Challenge Your Nail Art 12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge since all the themes were posted. I am a huge fan of PANC (Polish Addict Nail Color) nail polishes and I've been waiting for a reason to use Ugly Christmas Sweater. What better time then now.

My camera made some of the colors a little brighter then they were.

Items Used: 

Pure Ice - Kiss Me Here

PANC - Ugly Christmas Sweater

White, Black, Green, Red, Turquoise, Pink, and Lime Green Acrylic Paint

Wet N Wild Matte Top Coat

I tried to incorporate as many colors into the actual nail art that I could find in the glitter. The lime green acrylic paint actually appears to be yellow in the pictures. I will be trying Ugly Christmas Sweater nail art again next year because I love how these turned out and cant wait to try them when my art has improved.

Here's what is next!

An InLinkz Link-up

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 4 | Santa and Elves | 100th Post

Yippeeeeee! Did you read the title? Did you read it all the way through? Yup you read right! Its my 100th blog post. I cant believe it either. I am a horrible writer so I never imagined I would make it to 10 post let alone 100 posts. Anyways, the reason you are here.

It is day 4 of the Challenge Your Nail Art groups 12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge. Today's theme is Santa and/or Elves. Of course I went all out and did them both. My Aunt posted a Santa minion nail art tutorial to me on Facebook a few days ago and I decided that was what I would do. So everyone say thanks to my Aunt for these. Oh and I want to mention that I had a snag on my index finger and forgot before I washed my hair and it snapped so I had to cut them down some.

Items Used:

Pure Ice - Vintage Glam

LA Colors - Live

Green, Red, Black, and White Acrylic Paints

LA Colors Rapid Dry

Oh how I love these little guys. I was sad to take them off. Well I hope you enjoyed my Santa and Elf minions along with my 100th post. Take a look at whats coming up next.

An InLinkz Link-up

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 | 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 | Haunted House

Have you ever been to a haunted house at Halloween time. Last time I went to one, I got the (insert your own word here) scared out of me. Don't get me wrong, I love all things horror, but there is something about a man running after you with a chainsaw after you have already watched way to many scary movies and crime shows that just doesn't sit well with me. Feel free to tell your haunted house stories in the comments below.

Items Used:

Pure Ice - Kiss Me Here

Apple Barrel Acrylic Paints in Black and Bright Yellow

Wet N Wild Matte Top Coat


I have entered these into a Pure Ice contest, so if you wouldn't mind clicking the link and voting I would appreciate it. You can vote Here

More 13 days of Halloween to come.

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.

Valentines Nail Art

Valentines Day is tomorrow so I figured I'd share some valentines looks that I did. There are 3 different designs I'm going to show, one of those being an Anti Valentines for those who just aren't  a valentines person.

Polishes Used:

Wet N Wild Wild Shine-French White Creme

LA Colors-Wisteria 

Wet N Wild Megalast-Young N' Cheeky

Pink and White acrylic paints

Topped with Nail Tek Quicken

Polishes Used:

Wet N Wild Wild Shine-French White Creme

Pure Ice-Silver Mercedes

Broadway Nails-Gunmetal

Black and White acrylic paints

Topped with Nail Tek Quicken

Polishes Used:

Sinful Color-Unicorn

Sinful Colors-Island Coral

Sinful Colors-Cinderella

Sinful Colors-Tempest

Red Acrylic Paint

Topped with Nail Tek Quicken

I hope you liked all the valentines nail art.

-Ashley-

Let It Snow Challenge | Day 18 | Tribal | With Tutorial

Today's Let It Snow challenge post is tribal. This was my first attempt at tribal nail art and I went a little simple. I also did a tutorial on how I did this tribal art. I will add what polishes I used at the end of the post. Hope you like.

Start of with a base coat to protect your nails.

Paint your base color and let that dry.

With a gold polish (or color of your choice) and a nail art brush, make two lines down the center of your nail and fill that in.

Take a black striping polish or black acrylic paint and a striping brush and make diagonal line down the center of your gold stripe.

Using a dotting tool or a toothpick, make a dot in between each triangle you just created.

Again, with your black striping polish or acrylic paint and striping brush, make a black line on either side of the gold polish.

Clean up if needed and apply a top coat and your finished!

 Polishes Used:

Fingerpaints- You Yacht To Know Better

Pure Ice- Get Low

Topped with Nail Tek Quicken

Black acrylic paint

Tools Used:

Nail art brush

Dotting Tool

If you decide to create this design feel free to share it with me on my Facebook Page.

See what others did for their tribal design by following the links below.

Let It Snow Challenge | Day 15 | Winter Hats, Mittens and Scarfs

Day 15 of the Let it Snow Challenge theme is Winter Hats, Mittens and Scarfs. I sat on this idea for a while and was going to try and incorporate all 3 into my nail art. Nope, didn't happen. I chose to go with mittens. This turned out horrible. I have one that looks sort of like a mitten and the other looks like an oven mitt. Oh well, that's the point of a challenge. Right? I challenged myself to something I hadn't done, and failed. Which means this will be a try again mani. Well hope you like it more than I do.

I forgot to mention that as soon as I top coated it smeared in areas. The one time I don't use my acrylic paints and this happens. 

Polishes Used:

Wet N Wild Wild Shine: Who is Ultra Violet

Wet N Wild Megalast: On a Trip

Wet N Wild Megalast: Tahitian Pearl

Pure Ice: Black Out

Sinful Colors: Stardust

Topped with Nail Tek Quicken

Tools Used:

Nail Art Brushes

I will at some point be redoing this mani. It has great potential.

To see what others did, use the links below.

Black and Silver Glitter Gradient with Pure Ice

I decided to try one of the things on my Upcoming 2014 list, which you can find at the top of my blog. I went with Glitter Gradient. I love how simple this was and I think it turned out great.

 

I used Pure Ice polishes in Black Out and Dazzle Me.

What do you think of my first try at a glitter gradient? Let me know in the comments below and if you decide to try it go ahead and show me what you did on my facebook page.

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 10 | New Years!

I hope everyone has had a great Christmas! Are you all ready to start a new year? 2014! Wow a year goes by pretty fast. Here is Day 10 of the Let it Snow Challenge with the theme of...well what else? New Years! Hope you enjoy.

Polish Used:

Sinful Colors-Silver Screen

Sinful Colors-Queen of Beauty

Sinful Colors-Ice Dream

LA Colors-Wired

Pure Ice Super Star

Topped with Glossy Glam by Rica

Tools Used:

Gals Stamping Plates-GA44, GA14, GA40, GA39

You can see other New Years designs 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 4 | Galaxies

We are already up to day 4 of the Let It Snow Challenge. Todays theme is galaxies. This is my 2nd time attempting galaxy nails and I still cant get the hang of it. Altogether though, I really like how they turned out. Hope you like them.

This one accidentally got blurred when I took the picture but I love the way it shows off the true sparkle.

 

Polishes used:

Pure Ice-Black Out

Revlon-Fuchsia Fever

Revlon-Midnight affair

Wet N Wild-French White Creme

Claire's-Midnight Express (Accent nail)

Hard Candy-Black Tie Optional (Main and Accent nails)

China Glaze-Fairy Dust

Topped with Glossy Glam by Rica

Tools Used:

Makeup Sponge

Make sure to check out the other Galaxy nails by following the links below.