The Digit-al Dozen Presents: Look Up - Day 5

The Digit-al Dozen Presents: Look Up - Day 5

I've got the final mani to share today for the Digit-al Dozen November theme "Look Up". This is another one that benefits from a little backstory ;)

The Digit-al Dozen Presents: Tropical; Day 5

The Digit-al Dozen - Stormy Tropics

I've procrastinated a little on the finale for the Digit-al Dozen week, but here it is! The last mani for the tropical theme!

Watermelon Fluid Nail Art ft. Sinful Colors Redrum

Hello & welcome! After so many swatches going up on the blog, I'm excited to show some bright summery nail art for a change!

The Digit-al Dozen - Inspired by Each Other: Day 5

Hello hello! I almost didn't make it, but I'm wrapping up the 5th mani for the Digital Dozen week, and I wish I didn't have to take it off! So please check it out <3

The Digit-al Dozen - Inspired by Each Other: Day 4

Another day, another Digit-al Dozen manicure - there's drip marble, flowers, unicorn, stamping, neon and holo - oh my! All together it gives me a very whimsical fairytale vibe :)

Swatch & Art: Tonic Polish - Peacock Parade

Hello & Welcome! I got quite a stunning polish to show off today, it's a multichrome, sooooo....prepare for a lot of pictures!

#31DC2017: Day 8 -Metallic

#31DC2017 - Metallic

For this prompt, I did not use a metallic polish for my base color, but I did use it in my art. So lets start at the beginning and look at what's underneath!

#31DC2017: Day 5 - Blue

#31DC2017 - Blue

Welcome back to another color prompt for the #31DC2017 month! Finding a blue is never a challenge in my collection, but I really want to be showing untried ones, so here is one!

#31DC2017: Day 1 - Red

#31DC2017 - Red

Hello & Welcome! Does the title of the post look surprising from my norm? Or do you already know what's about to happen? Or rather...what I'm about to try! 31DC2017 is a 31 day challenge that typically takes place in September every year, and this year I will attempt it! I've tried it before and didn't succeed, but I'm going to stay hopeful. The intention is to post daily with new prompts, and it starts with red!

Swatch & Review: Nvr Enuff Polish - All Tea and No Shade

Welcome to another post featuring some beautiful Nvr Enuff Polish colors! Feels like I was just here writing about Mary's Garden of Wishes...oh, I guess I was..typing stuff at 11  last night, felt like I was back in college, doing a procrastinated essay ahaha But I'm not even close to done, there is more to show today!

Swatch & Art: Dreamland Lacquer -The Search is Over

Welcome! Today's post is of a brand that's new to the blog - Dreamland Lacquer! I fell for this gorgeous purple and had to have it asap - and of course it inspired nail art so I've got a couple designs to add, as well as an awesome jelly sandwich!

Stamping Plate Review: Creative Shop 47

Hello & Welcome! Today's blog post is a bit different than usual - it's a stamping plate review!  If you saw my IG posts this week, then all of these designs won't be new to you, but they're all gathered here.

Source: Creative Shop Stamping

Miscellaneous Nail Art - January 2017

Hello & welcome! A whole month of 2017 already passed and I wanted to try something new, at least as far as the blog goes, so let's dive in.

Swatch & Art: Tonic Polish - Toxic

Saturday is here! And with it, more swatching! This purple number is called Toxic, it's part of Tonic Polish Fall/Halloween collection releasing on 10/2.

Swatch & Art:Tonic Polish - Watcher's Woods

Welcome back to the blog! Today I have another polish to show off from the upcoming Tonic Polish Fall/Halloween collection - Watcher's Woods. This was a hard one to capture, so I hope I did well enough to show what it's capable of!

Swatch & Art: Tonic Polish - Windy City

Hello & Welcome! I apologize for the silence this past week - I got to attend a nail polish conversion in Chicago over the weekend! I'll try to do a post about it, it was such a fun experience! I came back with some polish and am eager to show some pretties!

This gorgeous color is Windy City from Tonic Polish. It will be available for purchase outside of the con, and very soon, so take a look and add it to your wishlist!

Swatch& Art: Nvr Enuff Polish - Dove

Hello and welcome! Today I have a quick swatch and some fun stamping to show you!

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I hope the images are pretty obvious of what the theme is!

Stamping Saturday: Dry brush Art

Hello and welcome to another Stamping Saturday! It's been quiet here on the blog, but on IG I've posted several new designs this week, they just haven't made it on to the blog...I just get caught up with getting the next design on to my nails that I don't take the time to blog about them. I'll try to catch up this week, but for now, here's a design I put together for Stamping Saturday and the dry brush prompt for #clairestelle8july IG challenge.

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To be honest, I was going to skip the dry brush prompt. I noticed I'll often start a challenge/prompt and as soon as I get to something outside of my norm, or not something I can't stamp...I lose interest. The dry brush technique is pretty easy - you just need to wipe off most of the color from the brush and paint away! It even gives a somewhat textured feel if you don't topcoat it. And then I saw this mani by katv865 on IG and was inspired to actually do the dry brush, and add my usual stamping to it, because just a few days prior, I ran into these cool earrings on Etsy and made a mental note to try nail art like that. So it was a perfect combination of inspirations.

I used 3 Bonita polishes for my dry brush base - Santorini's Ocean, My Avatar, and Cocktails in Aruba.

Many of us use silicone mats for nail art, so I put mine to work this time and just dry brushed my design on there. Then a couple days later, I added a clear coat to make a decal and stuck it on my nails. Of course, you can dry brush straight on the nails, but I was wearing a pretty new polish and didn't want to take it off just yet ;) It's debatable if making a decal saves any time in the end, as it needs to be trimmed and cleaned up once on the nail, but I think it's a matter of convenience for me - when I get an idea, I can start part of the process right away and finish up later.

I got to stamp after all! So this fits the whole Stamping Saturday post ;) I used 2 colors and dabbed them randomly onto my stamping plate, to create this design. Gold is Sinful Colors Gold Medal, and the burnt reddish one is a BornPretty Store stamping polish #29 (item #23193) The stamping plate is also from BPS, it's plate BP-L008 (item #17926)

So that's in for this Stamping Saturday look! Thanks for visiting!

An InLinkz Link-up

Drip Marble - no water needed!

Hello and welcome! In my last post I mentioned that I learned about a new nail art technique and would be trying it. It's called drip marble - the results are gorgeous marbled designs without any water! This is what I've been hoping to achieve but wasn't brave enough to try with watermarble.

I think it's best to learn straight from the source, and in this case it's Colette of My Simple Little Pleasures. Check out her video on the process here!

#THELACQUERRING: SEAFOAM

Hello and welcome to June's first #TheLacquerRing post - the color choice is Seafoam! Sorry it's been quiet around the blog - I promise I've been painting my nails, but I got a couple easy peel base coats to play with, and well...they're a little too easy. I end up shedding my manis a lot faster than I expected, and not all of them make it to their photoshoot, lol.

So I got a little ahead of myself and thought the link up was happening last week, and tried to figure out what seafoam is really supposed to look like. 4 seafoam-ish manis later, and I'm still posting a day late! How did that happen?? I guess inspiration didn't find me till the last minute, but let's look at my mani!