The Digit-al Dozen Presents - Recreation: Day 1

The Digit-al Dozen Presents - Recreation: Day 1

Welcome to another Digit-al Dozen week! Our theme for September is "Recreating Your First Blog Posts" and I will admit, I was mentally cringing just thinking about opening up those first posts to see what I've done. But I summoned my courage and dug around for the polishes and stamping plates to get the job done!

Bee's Knees Lacquer - August PPU Contribution

Bee's Knee's Lacquer - See It All Connects!

Hello & Welcome! I've got a few new polishes to share - soon to be releasing from Bee's Knees Lacquer - so let's start with one today!

Art: Tonic Polish - Unicorn Pee Collection

Tonic Polish - Unicorn Pee Collection - the nail art portion!
If you haven't see the swatches already, then please take a look at my post here! In this post I will focus on the nail art I did with these polishes because I wanted to keep it separate from the main swatches. Hope you enjoy!

Swatch & Review: Nvr Enuff Polish - Mary's Garden of Wishes

Hello & Welcome!! I'm pretty excited about new polishes I've got to swatch from Nvr Enuff Polish, so lets jump in!

Swatch & Art: Nvr Enuff Polish - Olivanders Wandlore

Hello and welcome to yet another blog post! Sorry that I've been quiet this week, I've been working on getting some polished swatched and ready to show, so I've had a few things up on Instagram, but it's time to tie them all in. And here it is!

Nvr Enuff Polish - Olivanders Wandlore collection (third Harry Potter related collection from NEP) - focusing on magical creatures (and their properties and use in the making of wands!) I've got 4 polishes and nail art for each one, so check it out!

Swatch & Art: Tonic Polish - Lunar Lust

Welcome back to yet another blog post! It's been a while since I wrote anything here, but I've posted a few things on Instagram lately - just didn't have the energy to blog. I got a snow day today so I was able to stay home and play with some polishes and have this beauty to share today!

This shifts into so many colors that I don't think I'm able to capture them all, even with a dozen pictures!

Stamping Saturday: Fall Sweater

Welcome back to another Stamping Saturday post! I've missed the last couple ones so I'm trying to catch up. I did an obligatory sweater print mani this time and wish I had one like this for myself, haha

Swatch & Art: Tonic Polish - Poison Rose

Welcome back to yet another installment of a beautiful Tonic Polish from the upcoming collection- this time it's Poison Rose.

Just a couple more days until the collection goes live (10/2) so take a look at what's coming!

Stamping Saturday: It's Good to be Queen

Hello and welcome to another Stamping Saturday post! Sorry the blog has been quiet this week - I managed to get sick and am just coming back to life now. This mani got a bit grown out by the time I got to taking pictures, but I couldn't bear to just take it off without documenting it, so here it is!

HPB Presents: Goldfish

Hobby Polish Bloggers picked "goldfish" as the theme for the August link up, so I just gave to participate this time around! Maybe even more than once if I'm feeling ambitious!

Read more to see how this all started!

#31DC2016Weekly: Red - Fire & Blood

I am taking up a new challenge to participate in - #31DC2016Weekly. This was started by Amy of Polich Etc as a way for normal-ish people to participate in the yearly challenge, but making it much more feasible by stretching it out over 31 weeks. The original challenge happens in the fall and all prompts are completed during one month. I am hoping to stick to it, so please check back weekly and remind me if I start slacking!

Week 1 is RED - and here's what I came up with! This is a new to me technique of foil stamping and this will not be my last attempt at it!! Take a look after the jump for more pics & info on the nails and the challenge.

Stamping Saturday: Sweater Weather

Stamping Saturday is here again and I wanted to show off my "sweater nails"

Stamping Saturday: Ultra Chrome Flowers

 Stamping Saturday is here! And I'm excited to be able to show the mani I'm been wearing pretty much all week, lol. With having moved into the house, we won't have internet for almost a month so I'm anxious about getting an actual blog post written up (on the plus side, no broken nails so far!) But I think I'll make it with some workarounds ;)  So here are my ultra chrome flowers!

Click to read more for polish and plate details :D

30 Days of Colour: Orange & Blue

 Day 6 Orange & Day 7 Blue

Since I like to add nail art to most of my manis, I noticed that what I ended up doing for the orange prompt could double as blue as well - so here's 2 in one! I quite like the idea - I'm already incorporating it into turquoise and magenta, so come back to check that one out in a couple of days ;)

I'm going to say that this is the first official koi design, of hopefully many more to com. As it's the blog name, the koi is present in pretty much every social media account I have, so it's about time I started on the manis :)

30 Days of Colour: Red

30 Days of Colour is happening again and I'm feeling ambitious!! Let's see how long I can make it :D Red it also day 1's prompt in 31DC2015, another month-long challenge. Maybe I can double dip if other days are coinciding or are close enough

Day 1 is RED

 I don't wear red often, but I do have a couple in my collection. I wanted to show off this one - Lacquistry Rediculous. I think on shorter nails this is easily a one-coater. But because I'm hung up about any VNL not showing, I did apply a second coat. It's basically the red version of Amazeballz which is a struggle to describe if you aren't familiar with these polishes - it's like tiny metalic/foil like particles. No issues with removal as it's not glitter.

And a new discovery - Messy Mansion designs now fit my nails pretty much perfectly in terms of length! The rose is from MM20, and the quality is top of the line as far as stamping plates go. Black polish of choice is Ya Qin An from BornPretty Store.

Ta-da! Day 1 is complete, look at all these reds!!

An InLinkz Link-up

#HePicksMyPolish, for the first time...

I'm excited to be joining #HePicksMyPolish this week and taking on the challenge! This isn't the first time I've asked him to help me pick out polish or designs, but usually he responds with "whatever you like" and I'm back to trying to get inspired to do something myself. This time it's official - and he knew it!

"He" is my husband, Sam. And he was really sweet about the challenge. He was heading out to work for an evening shift just as I got home from work, and I told him I was really anxious about work on Friday and stressed out thinking about what I will have to be doing. So he set down his things and went to my polish rack and started picking things our - as I heard the bottles clanking I kept reminding him that it's just 2-3 polishes, not a dozen! He came back downstairs and handed me my polishes, and said I should spend the evening on the challenge to take my mind off work, and to make something elegant. I don't think I got the elegant part, but we both think it's cute :)

Here are my materials:

Julep Kai - baby blue sea salt

Julep Mackenzie - sour apple green frost

Sinful Colors - Black on Black

I've actually never used these Julep colors, which is great because now I had to actually try them. On the other hand, I purchased them because I liked them, but they didn't scream at me "use me now!!" which is why I haven't done anything with them - I didn't have a design  in mind with green and blue. And now he's challenged me to it. I went for my stamping plates right away, and after looking through half of them, I picked MM19.
And this is what I made of it.

Verdict: I think he picked good :)

May 25-31, have him pick your polish!

An InLinkz Link-up

Dragons are coming

Viserion - cream and gold. Drogon - black and red. Rhaegal - green and bronze.  Out of all these, Viserion was the easiest one to do, the stamping colors show up well enough, but the rest of them gave me a hard time, as I tried to use whatever I had, and I do not own any of the lovely MUNDO DE UÑAS polishes (yet.)

Pinkie - Revlon Timeless, Ulta Smoke Screen, stamped with Konad Special Black. MM21.

Ring finger - Julep Nicolette, stamped with Sinful Colors Gold Medal and Konad Special Black. CICI&SISI 02, MM21.

Middle finger - Sinful Colors Secret Admirer, Sinful Colors Unwrap Me, Sinful Colors Casablanca. MM21.

Index Finger - Sephora by OPI Already Famous, Ulta Envy, Konad Special Black. MM21.

Thumb - Julep Cleopatra, Sinful Colors Dancing Nails. JR-2. 

Mermaid Nails (FB Challange)

I got a new Zoya polish, and just as it started to have major tip wear, a "mermaid nails" challenge came up in a facebook group, so I decided to patch them up and do something mermaid-like.