31 Day Challenge: Inspired by a Book

YIKES!!!!

 

I totally skipped this challenge and realized that I had to get it in before day 31.  I had such a hard time picking a book. I've even tried some but they all turned out nasty! Instead of using inspiration from a particular book I chose to go with the look of books. 

My mom has  a bunch of really old books.  They usually tend to be that reddish leather with the gold leaf lining. I'm never quite sure if the book started out brown or dark burgundy. Either way they have both colours on them 100 years later :oP  I tried to recreate that and It actually looks quite similar.  My choice to not use a top coat was purely for the effect of the leather.  This mani did not last long though.

 

Hope you like! See you tomorrow for the final challenge!

 

 



31 Day Challenge: Inspired by a Tutorial

It's the second last day of the 31 Day Challenge.   Time sure does fly.

I'm posting later then usual today.  I took the day off work to go see my nearly 2 year old nephew at gymnastics. Let me tell ya it's the funniest thing ever!

On to the nails. I searched  YouTube and came across this cute little mani by Arcadia Nail Art.  I was looking for something that could be done on short nails.  Now that I look at my nails they aren't too short.
Hope you enjoy my version of  'Cute Under the Sea Nail Art Tutorial on Short Nails'. You can go take a look at the video  here.

 

I decided to go with just the starfish. I was scared I would mess it up so I stopped while I was ahead.  I will definitely try this look again though. Too cute

 

 

Make sure to check out my buddies nails

-Kimber at Kimber's Lacquer Korner
-Kat at Hooked On Polish
-Diana at Nails By Diana
-Aly at Wonderland Beauty
-Meredith at Perfectly Polished
-Nicole at The Color Republic
-Kate at The Painted Pony Nails
-Cee at Absolutely Cee
-Sam at Polished Art
-Nail Narcotics
-Nicole at Nicole Gets Nailed
-Shelby at Shelby's Swatches
-Stephanie Louise at All Things Beautiful
-Mixed Mama
-Joanna @ Sweet Polish of Mine
-Patty Greenberg
-Liz and Lisa @ Lozlosa
-Mari at Nailista
-Greta at How Was Your Day?
-Miss L at Beauty by Miss L
-Gini at Sassy Paints
-Chameleon Stampede
-Pam at Nail-E-Glance
-Me, Myself, and Polish
-Robin Sparkles

31 Day Challenge: Inspired by Supernatural

  So you're probably thinking 'Huh?'  right about now.  How does the supernatural and bright rainbow colours have anything to do with each other?  Well I will explain

I thought it would be a great idea to base the nails on one of my own experiences.  This popped into my head right away.  It's colourful and happy, so perfect for a mani.  We've all had experiences whether we know it or not.  This particular one was not crazy or over the top but it makes me happy for some reason.  Simple story...Some years ago I was at work talking with a co-worker.  Behind him a way I saw what I am assuming is like an aura or spirit.  It was these exact colours in the same sequence.  Pink on top, green in the middle and blue on the bottom.  Apparently my attention went straight to it because my co-worker asked what I saw.  I was a little scared to tell him but once I did it was like he knew.  He said he knew by the way I looked that I had to of seen something. No one else has ever been around when I've felt or seen something so it was great reassurance that I'm not crazy.  That's probably why it sticks out in my mind


I'd also like to add a  'YAYYYY ME!'.  I have struggled with gradients forever. Finally I was able to create one I can say I'm proud of.  This is the first success I had but it did not last long because I was itching to try another.  Yesterdays post In Flanders fields was my second.  I didn't think it was very appropriate to add the 'YAYYYY ME' in that post though.

The pink is Revlon's 'Bubble Gum'
The green is Sally Hansen's Complete Salon Manicure in 'Grass Slipper'
The blue is Sally Hansen's Xtreme Wear in 'Blue Me Away'

I had to post more than one picture.  What do you guys think?  Proud of me????? I even took the pictures inside!!!

Make sure to check out the other ladies inspirations.  Only two days left of the challenge!!!

Kimber at Kimber's Lacquer Korner

-Kat at Hooked On Polish

-Diana at Nails By Diana

-Aly at Wonderland Beauty

-Meredith at Perfectly Polished

-Nicole at The Color Republic

-Kate at The Painted Pony Nails

-Cee at Absolutely Cee

-Sam at Polished Art

-Nail Narcotics

-Nicole at Nicole Gets Nailed

-Shelby at Shelby's Swatches

-Stephanie Louise at All Things Beautiful 

-Mixed Mama

-Joanna @ Sweet Polish of Mine

-Patty Greenberg

-Liz and Lisa @ Lozlosa 

-Mari at Nailista 

-Miss L at Beauty by Miss L 

-Gini at Sassy Paints 

-Chameleon Stampede 

-Pam at Nail-E-Glance

-Me, Myself, and Polish 

- Robin Sparkles  

31 Day Challenge: Inspired by a Flag

I'm pretty impressed with myself.  I have a challenge post on the actual day it's due.  What's this world coming to!

Today's challenge is 'Inspired by a Flag'.  This is always so difficult.  There is no way I can create a maple leaf on my nail for the Canadian flag. I'm very proud to be Canadian so it kind of sucks.  Someone needs to come out with a maple leaf stamp.  So instead of doing my Country's flag I decided on my Province.....Ontario.

I've posted the picture of the Ontario flag below the picture of my nails.   If your wondering why the Union Jack is in there it's because Canada is part of the Commonwealth of Nations (which is mainly comprised of former British colonies that are now independent states).  If your interested Wikipedia can help you out.  The Queen is on all of our coins and our 20 dollar bill.

Anywhoo enough history.  Once again I went with the 'inspired by' technique.  I used parts of the Union Jack on all my nails.   For the accent nail I chose to use the the three golden maple leafs from the Ontario Shield of Arms.  I figured it would be okay to use the dotter to make these as it was so small.

Although this may not be the best it was all freehand. No tape, no nothing.  :)

Make sure to check out the other ladies flag inspirations!

Kimber at Kimber's Lacquer Korner

-Kat at Hooked On Polish

-Diana at Nails By Diana

-Aly at Wonderland Beauty

-Meredith at Perfectly Polished

-Nicole at The Color Republic

-Kate at The Painted Pony Nails

-Cee at Absolutely Cee

-Sam at Polished Art

-Nail Narcotics

-Nicole at Nicole Gets Nailed

-Shelby at Shelby's Swatches

-Stephanie Louise at All Things Beautiful 

-Mixed Mama

-Joanna @ Sweet Polish of Mine

-Patty Greenberg

-Liz and Lisa @ Lozlosa 

-Mari at Nailista 

-Miss L at Beauty by Miss L 

-Gini at Sassy Paints 

-Chameleon Stampede 

-Pam at Nail-E-Glance

-Me, Myself, and Polish 

- Robin Sparkles  

31 Day Challenge: Inspired by Art

The key word is 'INSPIRED'.  I've seen alot of Starry Night inspired nails. I'm not very talented at the free hand and replicating exact pictures so I basically tried to recreate the technique of the painting.

 Van Gogh's Starry Night is one of my favourites.  It's all about the sky and the itty bitty brush strokes.  I recreated this by using lots of dots in different shades of blue, grey and white.  I then used my pin to swirl them all together.  I wasn't going to add the moon but figured this is a challenge so I best try.  I'm not totally disappointed with it but not too impressed either.  I definitely want to try this again when I have more time and patience.  (I lack in the patience department)

Hope you like my nubbins! They were even shorter but thank goodness my nails grow fast.

I've also come to grips with the fact that during the winter 75% of my pictures will be indoors because it's dark out in the evening.  I hate how its hard to capture the details and proper colouring but what can ya do :oP

Make sure to check out the other ladies work that actually did it in time

-Kimber at Kimber's Lacquer Korner

-Kat at Hooked On Polish
-Diana at Nails By Diana
-Aly at Wonderland Beauty
-Meredith at Perfectly Polished
-Nicole at The Color Republic
-Kate at The Painted Pony Nails
-Cee at Absolutely Cee
-Sam at Polished Art
-Nail Narcotics
-Nicole at Nicole Gets Nailed
-Shelby at Shelby's Swatches
-Stephanie Louise at All Things Beautiful 
-Mixed Mama
-Joanna @ Sweet Polish of Mine
-Patty Greenberg
-Liz and Lisa @ Lozlosa 
-Mari at Nailista
 -Greta at How Was Your Day?
-Miss L at Beauty by Miss L 
-Gini at Sassy Paints
-Chameleon Stampede 
-Pam at Nail-E-Glance
-Me, Myself, and Polish
-Robin Sparkles 

31 Day Challenge: Inspired by a Pattern

I was really looking forward to this day on the challenge.  I had so many different ideas of what to do. Everything changed after I saw Nicole Gets Nailed pajama pattern inspired nails.  At that moment I knew I had to do my pattern mani based on my pajamas. 

She did a much better......more detailed...... amazing job than me..... buuuttttt.....MY PAJAMAS ARE CUTER!!!  Haha Sucka!!!! ;)
 If you haven't seen her insanely perfectly detailed mani check it out here here.

I kept each nail to a design on the wiener dogs.  Looking at my pants now though I think a grey and white polka dot mani is in the near future

My Pajamas! Sorry about the wrinkliness but I just took them off for the photo ;)

Be sure to check out my other buddies inspirations!


Kimber at Kimber's Lacquer Korner
-Kat at Hooked On Polish
-Diana at Nails By Diana
-Aly at Wonderland Beauty
-Meredith at Perfectly Polished
-Nicole at The Color Republic
-Kate at The Painted Pony Nails
-Cee at Absolutely Cee
-Sam at Polished Art
-Nail Narcotics
-Nicole at Nicole Gets Nailed
-Shelby at Shelby's Swatches
-Stephanie Louise at All Things Beautiful
-Mixed Mama
-Joanna @ Sweet Polish of Mine
-Patty Greenberg
-Liz and Lisa @ Lozlosa
-Mari at Nailista
-Miss L at Beauty by Miss L
-Gini at Sassy Paints
-Chameleon Stampede
-Pam at Nail-E-Glance
-Me, Myself, and Polish
- Robin Sparkles 

31 Day Challenge: Inspired by Fashion

Hi All!

I feel like I've been neglecting my blog......or should I say others.  After such a rough weekend I've been all over the place but things are finally going back to normal. No more seizures!!!  I have many of your blogs to catch up on.  I'll have all day at work tomorrow to do that ;)

I lucked out with this design.  Not just because I had a stamp of it but also a shirt.  I thought this design was called herringbone but apparently not.  Any body else know? 

I don't have the plate number on me right now but it is Bundle Monster and hopefully I will remember to add it later

Don't forget to check out the other ladies fashion inspired nails

Kimber at Kimber's Lacquer Korner
-Kat at Hooked On Polish
-Diana at Nails By Diana
-Aly at Wonderland Beauty
-Meredith at Perfectly Polished
-Nicole at The Color Republic
-Kate at The Painted Pony Nails
-Cee at Absolutely Cee
-Sam at Polished Art
-Nail Narcotics
-Nicole at Nicole Gets Nailed
-Shelby at Shelby's Swatches
-Stephanie Louise at All Things Beautiful
-Mixed Mama
-Joanna @ Sweet Polish of Mine
-Patty Greenberg
-Liz and Lisa @ Lozlosa
-Mari at Nailista
-Miss L at Beauty by Miss L
-Gini at Sassy Paints
-Chameleon Stampede
-Pam at Nail-E-Glance
-Me, Myself, and Polish
- Robin Sparkles 

31 Day Challenge: Inspired by a Movie

Morning all!

So I went  3 days of no posts! I'm feeling pretty darn guilty about it too.  My plan was to dedicate a lot of my time yesterday to my nails and take pictures.  That didn't work out. :(
I had a seizure yesterday(I have epilepsy) and that pretty much screws me for the rest of the day.  My body was so sore and worn out.  Were talking barely able to move.  My mom took care of me for awhile so that really helped. I still have an insanely bad headache tonight and my neck hurts like hell. 
I'm not sure what will happen these next couple days as far as posts.  The weather is still extremely dark for photos and I'm having troubles looking down to see my nails.  Fun stuff eh?!


On to the nails....Finding Nemo!!!! Yayyyy  Can you guess what nail is based on which character?

31 Day Challenge: Inspired by Song 'Sexy and I Know It'

'I'M SEXY AND I KNOW IT'

I think most people around the world know this song.  Even before this challenge I wanted to do nails inspired by one of LMFAO's songs.  There outfits are crazy colourful and I knew I could do a lot with it.  Most of all though they are my little nearly two year old nephew's favourite band.  He's been shaking his baby booty to there songs before he was even a year.  You always know he wants to listen to the song when he walks around going 'ah, ah'. He's pretty freakin cute!

My index finger is the box head guy. Not really sure what his position in the band is other than the box head.  I used glitter for the middle of his eyes to represent the red lights.  I had to look at still photos for the the skimpy speedo swimsuits.  It was a great time to pull out my studs for the red pair.  The leopard was a little more tricky as far as the colours and effect.  I used my Essie 'Shine of the Times'  to bring out the pinkish sheen to the speedos.   I went through the video looking for some inspiration for my pinky but could not find anything else that really stood out.  Finally I figured I would use the white sunglasses.  It meant using more studs!!


Hope you guys like it. It was a lot of fun to recreate!

Make sure you check out the other fine ladies song inspiration

Kimber at Kimber's Lacquer Korner
-Kat at Hooked On Polish
-Diana at Nails By Diana
-Aly at Wonderland Beauty
-Meredith at Perfectly Polished
-Nicole at The Color Republic
-Kate at The Painted Pony Nails
-Cee at Absolutely Cee
-Sam at Polished Art
-Nail Narcotics
-Nicole at Nicole Gets Nailed
-Shelby at Shelby's Swatches
-Stephanie Louise at All Things Beautiful
-Mixed Mama
-Joanna @ Sweet Polish of Mine
-Patty Greenberg
-Liz and Lisa @ Lozlosa
-Mari at Nailista
-Greta at How Was Your Day?
-Miss L at Beauty by Miss L
-Gini at Sassy Paints
-Chameleon Stampede
-Pam at Nail-E-Glance
-Me, Myself, and Polish
-Robin Sparkles

31 Day Nail Challenge: Water Marble

Hi All! Hope your having a nice relaxing Saturday.

I'm very much overdue on my water marble challenge.  This attempt was one quarter successful.  I'm not very impressed though.   It's time to put away the filtered water and tape for awhile.  When there is no pressure to do water marble I don't mind giving it at try.  This time I wanted to face punch it!!! ;oP

It wouldn't really be fair if I didn't post it so here ya go.  I think the polish ended up being to think on the surface so that's why some parts are a little smushy.

Make sure to take a look at my other buddies work!

Kimber at Kimber's Lacquer Korner
-Kat at Hooked On Polish
-Diana at Nails By Diana
-Aly at Wonderland Beauty
-Meredith at Perfectly Polished
-Nicole at The Color Republic
-Kate at The Painted Pony Nails
-Cee at Absolutely Cee
-Sam at Polished Art
-Nail Narcotics
-Nicole at Nicole Gets Nailed
-Shelby at Shelby's Swatches
-Stephanie Louise at All Things Beautiful
-Mixed Mama
-Joanna @ Sweet Polish of Mine
-Patty Greenberg
-Liz and Lisa @ Lozlosa
-Mari at Nailista
-Greta at How Was Your Day?
-Miss L at Beauty by Miss L
-Gini at Sassy Paints
-Chameleon Stampede
-Pam at Nail-E-Glance
-Me, Myself, and Polish
-Robin Sparkles

31 Day Challenge: Inspired by a Colour

The very first colour that popped into my head was green.  I thought to myself 'what is the most beautiful green thing I've seen?'....well my eyes of course!  Don't you just love me?! :oP

I wanted to do something a little fun and goofy.  Cartoonish eyeballs it was.  For the base I used Revlon's 'Posh'.  I'm close to finishing this bottle.  The colour is beautiful so I think I may have to pick up another bottle soon.  My eyes change shade depending on the day or what I'm wearing.  I pulled out a couple different green's and went from there. 

It was yet another cloudy day for pictures.  I find when it is clouded over I get the shiny top coat look.  I love shiny but not like this. Hopefully I will get some pictures in tomorrow.  Time to catch up on my water marble!

Make sure to check out the other ladies colour inspirations

Kimber at Kimber's Lacquer Korner
-Kat at Hooked On Polish
-Diana at Nails By Diana
-Aly at Wonderland Beauty
-Meredith at Perfectly Polished
-Nicole at The Color Republic
-Kate at The Painted Pony Nails
-Cee at Absolutely Cee
-Sam at Polished Art
-Nail Narcotics
-Nicole at Nicole Gets Nailed
-Shelby at Shelby's Swatches
-Stephanie Louise at All Things Beautiful 
-Mixed Mama
-Joanna @ Sweet Polish of Mine
-Patty Greenberg
-Liz and Lisa @ Lozlosa 
-Mari at Nailista
 -Greta at How Was Your Day?
-Miss L at Beauty by Miss L 
-Gini at Sassy Paints
-Chameleon Stampede 
-Pam at Nail-E-Glance
-Me, Myself, and Polish
-Robin Sparkles 

31 Day Challenge: Galaxy Nails x2

I've been looking forward to this challenge.  Galaxy nails are all over the place and I understand why.....there soooo fun.  Don't get me wrong I still need plenty of practice.  I looked at a couple YouTube videos.  People use all types of different colours.  I tried out two of them.

It actually got quite messy for me and I had a hell of a time cleaning up the black polish

Which one do you guys prefer???

 

Make sure to check out the other ladies out of this world nails ;)

 

 

Kimber at Kimber's Lacquer Korner
-Kat at Hooked On Polish
-Diana at Nails By Diana
-Aly at Wonderland Beauty
-Meredith at Perfectly Polished
-Nicole at The Color Republic
-Kate at The Painted Pony Nails
-Cee at Absolutely Cee
-Sam at Polished Art
-Nail Narcotics
-Nicole at Nicole Gets Nailed
-Shelby at Shelby's Swatches
-Stephanie Louise at All Things Beautiful
-Mixed Mama
-Joanna @ Sweet Polish of Mine
-Patty Greenberg
-Liz and Lisa @ Lozlosa
-Mari at Nailista
-Miss L at Beauty by Miss L
-Gini at Sassy Paints
-Chameleon Stampede
-Pam at Nail-E-Glance
-Me, Myself, and Polish
- Robin Sparkles 

31 Day Challenge: Half moons

So half moons drove me soooo crazy that I just decided to post these that I've held on to forever.

I don't know what the deal was but every attempt bombed.   These nails are using the Orly FX Foil box.  I bought it at Sally Beauty for $2.50.  I figure that's good enough reason on its own to post them.

Promise to put more effort into my Galaxy nails

Forgive me?