12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge | Day 1 | Snow Flakes

I recently joined a group on Facebook called Challenge Your Nail Art. I love this group. They have regular short challenges and they are come and go as you please. Meaning you don't have to commit to a full challenge. For the month of December they are doing the 12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge which I am super excited about. If you have followed me for a while you may remember the Let It Snow challenge from last year, which you can find Here. For some reason I love the idea of a challenge which does just that. It challenges you to do things you wouldn't normally go for and also if you are in a mani funk, you always have an idea to go on. So enough chatting. Here is the first day of the 12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge.

For day 1, the theme is Snow Flakes. I've done snow flakes before but I'm loving how these turned out.

Items Used:

Wet N Wild - Listening to Blue Reed
Nabi - White Flake
White Acrylic Paint
LA Colors Rapid Dry
Nail Art Brush

Check out what is to come!

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Veterans Day 2014 | Camouflage Nail Art

Today is Veterans Day so what better nail art is there other than camouflage. My sister is really big into camouflage and I've been wanting to give it a try for a while now. I'm actually pleased with how well they turned out. I will probably be doing these in many other color combinations. Onto the nail art.

Items Used:

Sinful Colors - Beau Khaki

E.L.F - Nude

Wet N Wild - Black Creme

Hard Candy - Jubilee

Wet N Wild Matte Top Coat

I've had Hard Candy Jubilee for quite some time now and I wanted so bad to love it. I do, but I don't. I'm not really sure how I'm feeling about this one. It may just end up in my destash section. 

Well that's it for today's post. Hope you enjoyed.

October 2014 in Review | Monthly Favorites

October was actually a pretty good month for me for several reasons. I started getting all my teeth pulled in preparation for getting dentures which in the long run will help me to feel better since I will no longer have infections in my mouth anymore. I'm excited to keep going with the process of getting myself healthier. 

Also, October was a great month for my blog. I am still not reaching the audience that I would like as I'm not sure very many people actually read my blog but as far as bettering myself as a blogger and my nail art I think I've accomplished a lot this month and I couldn't be happier. So this post is just going to be a recap of some of my favorite things that have happened here on my blog.

October was Breast Cancer Awareness month and I love how these turned out. You can find more details on this mani Here.

I also did a 13 days of Halloween Series which you can find all of those Here, but here are a few of my favorites.

These were day one of the Halloween series and probably one of my favorites. You can find the details Here

I actually surprised myself with how well these patchwork nails turned out. Find out the details on these Here

 

For the last of my monthly favorites for this post are the reason I started doing nail art in the first place. I really love how these turned out and cant believe how far I've come in 2 years since beginning this journey. You can see my progress in this post Here.

So that is my October 2014 review and monthly favorites. I'm going to try and do a post like this from now on every month. For the month of November I plan on swatching my collection along with a few fall manis and of course some Thanksgiving nails. Hope you will all join me!

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 | Skull & Crossbones

Its day 10 of the 13 days of Halloween already. I'm getting sad that its almost over. For today I have Skull & Crossbones. I actually went a little girly and glittery for these.

Items Used:

Sinful Colors - Silver Screen

Sinful Colors - Fantasy

Apple Barrel Acrylic Paints in Black, White and Fuchsia

LA Colors Rapid Dry

Only 3 more days until Halloween. Stay tuned for more.