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!

The Digit-al Dozen Does Stamping: Day 2

Day 2: Negative Space

A pretty simple look today, but has a fun "peek-a-boo" element!

The Digit-al Dozen Does All That Glitters: Day 3

The Digit-al Dozen Does All That Glitters: Day 3
Hooray for Day 3! I don't have much actual glitter, but still think I'm in the sparkly ball park with these..

Swatch & Art: Tonic Polish - Ninja Pumpkin

Welcome back for another swatch post featuring a Tonic Polish - this time it's Ninja Pumpkin!

#THELACQUERRING: Burnt Orange

Today's post is for The Lacquer Ring's first prompt for September - Burnt Orange.

#31DC2016Weekly: Metallic v2

I've got another black and gold mani to show today. And it's another Game of Thrones inspired one! Anyone a Greyjoy fan?

Does it count to have two entries for #31DC2016Weekly in one week to make up for not participating in a different color? Heh...yellow is still haunting me.

#31DC2016Weekly: Metallic

I've got another mani for #31DC2016Weekly challenge - this week's prompt is metallic. I ended up with this molten gold looking smoosh. My friend said they look like fancy granite counter tops and now that's all I can think about when I look at them! 

#31DC2016Weekly: Black & White

I feel like I've done all the color prompts for the #31DC2016Weekly challenge but have not actually posted them all on the blog...oops. Week 8 is Black & White and I was looking forward to this one. I am  really excited to share today's nail art as it signifies my favorite show returning! I've combined stamping and a waterslide decal to get my finished result and love it!

Any guesses what the theme today is? Click to find out!

#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: Coffee

Hello and welcome to another Stamping Saturday! This one is special, as it's the first time I'm doing a twin mani.

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Beatrice, Art of Polish on IG, loves coffee, probably way more than me! When we came across a coffee stamping plate she needed to have it asap! Of course, shipping, live and coordination meant we didn't get to do twin manis for some time, but here they are!

Stamping Saturday: Vday Skittlette

Welcome to Stamping Saturday! I have a short post and a simple look to share today :)

Stamping Saturday: Lanterns

Happy Stamping Saturday! I shortened my nails a little bit, so whatever vday themed design I had in mind would need a little more canvas space than what I go at the moment, so those will hopefully make an appearance soon!

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This look is inspired by Nails by Cassis - she made a Chinese lantern design a little while back and I really wanted to recreate it!

Stamping Saturday: Glamorous Mermaid

Welcome to the first post of 2016! It's still winter outside and we even have our first snow day, but I wanted something a bit more sparkly on my tips, and there's a polish that's been begging to come out of my helmer to play, so I obliged and the end result is pretty nice! I'm going to say it's part of my Stamping Saturday series of posts even though it's late..but things get busy over the holidays!

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Doesn't it look like realistic mermaid scales?

Stamping Saturday: Fall Foliage

I couldn't get a post up on Saturday but my nails weren't naked! I'm trying to get to all my fall design ideas before Christmas colors start drawing me in! I went with metallic leaves for this one.

  

Stamping Saturday: Plaid

 As much fun as I had with all the Halloween manis in October, I was anticipating the start of November when I could continue fall designs. I was looking forward to do "sweater nails" and pawing through my plates, but got distracted by a plaid print. So that's what I got to show for Stamping Saturday.  And I got a new plaid shirt last week, so everyone at work was commenting on how matchy matchy I was :)

  

I really liked how they turned out. I went back and fort with color combos of red & white and red & black, but hubby suggested combining all three and it really pulled the look together!

Gone Batty

October is here! And immediately Halloween manis started popping up! One of the popular monthly challenges on IG is #clairestelle8challenge and the first prompt for this month is Bats. I have not participated in this challenge before, and after the move and lacking internet, I think I'll hold off on challenges until November-ish. But seeing so many batty manis in my feed and in other places on social medial, I felt compelled to have a festive mani too.

Black and orange are pretty typical colors this time of year, right? 

HPB Presents & 30 Days of Colour: Autumn

 I've joined a great group on FB recently - Hobby Polish Bloggers (HPB for short) and although I'm still lurking and not posting, I wanted to participate for the first time in their themed linkups - and the theme is Autumn/Fall! Of course there'd be a prompt like that in the 30 Days of Colour Challenge too, for Day 22.

As soon as I saw the inspiration and the first swatch of Frenzy Polish Apple Picking, it had to be mine, and I had to stamp leaves on it. It was decided on first sight! 

Red, White and Blue - Memorial Day

 I just wanted to share my mani for Memorial Day - unfortunately no sunshine  to show off the holo, but this is such a patriotic color combo that it works well even without the special effect holo would add. Red, White and Blue!

#Stamping Saturday: Fair Maiden Kitty

My weekend is short-lived, as I have to go to work on a Sunday..not too thrilled about that, but that just means I have a better excuse for playing with polish on Saturday. Instead of..you know..doing something useful with my day off, haha :D

Bloody Nails -Game of Thrones Returns

Game of Thrones is back on, and of course I had to do a mani for the occasion. I still have my mini bottle of The North Remembers by Novel Nail Polish and I was happy to discover the thermal pigments still work. For the blood splatters I used SH Insta-Dri Wined Up and the plate is one of Y plates from Aliexpress. The direwolf of course is from MyOnlineShop Jr-2.