4th of July

Ok, so first off to all my followers, and anyone who checks out my page. I am truly sorry for not having posted anything in sooo long. I actually have done a few manis since my last post, but I have been to busy to post it. So I figure here is a good one.

One or more of the groups that I an in on fb, are doing a  4th of July challenge, I am not, but I decided after seeing a number of the other posts, that I would like to do one. I also figured since I was going to be out all day with the fam doing 4th type things this would be nice.

First of when choosing what to do, I didn't want to do something that was over the top. I wanted something that was subtle, and elegant. So I hope you like my little tribute to the nation of my birth!

Colors used:

Base Color: "Superstar!" by Pure Ice

Stripes Stamp Color: "Crawford's Wine" by Orly

Stars Stamp Color: "Saved by the Blue" by Wet n Wild (fastdry)

Stripes Image Plate: "Mash-40" by Mash Nails

Stars Image Plate: "CH24" by Cheeky

Welcome Fall!

Well I figured that I should probably get out a fall mani before starting the huge endeavor of Halloween challenges (read more later). I do plan on doing some more before Thanksgiving, but figured that as we are now officially in fall, that this would be appropriate.

I had meant to get this done on Saturday, but unfortunately was unable to because of time, but I did do it yesterday!

If you haven't been able to tell from my previous posts, I really like french tips... be it a true french with just white, or be it a colored tip, stamped or not... this is a new version as the tip is done on the naked nail (for the most part) so the tip is the stamp itself. This is simple, but I think a really pretty mani, hope you enjoy!



Colors used:

Base Coat: "Mademoiselle" by Essie

Stamp Color: "Hot for Chocolate" by Revlon

Image Plate: "Mash-27" by Mash Nails

ABC's Week 1 - 'A'

Before this challenge started, the creator of the challenge was fabulous and put out a list of what letter was on which day, and also had some ideas listed for each letter. For me this is super helpful as sometimes (and I blame this on lack of IQ from kids) I just can not think of creative things without help.

Often what I do is think of an idea, and then do a search on the Internet for examples. Sometimes I feel like this is cheating, but I don't copy what I see, it just helps me come up with what I will do. And that is just what I did this time. I started out by seeing the idea of Abstract on the master list, and did a search of that.

So for my first mani of this challenge, I decided to do an ABSTRACT design using a polish that also started with A: ATHENS.  Well this is what I came up with, hope you like it, I sure do. I think this one came out Great! Simple but nice.

Colors used:

Base Color: "Mademoiselle" by Essie

Tip Color: "Athens" by Sinful Colors

Stamp Color: "French White Creme" by Wet n Wild (wild shine)

Image Plate: "RA-116" by Red Angel

Day 31 - Inspired By A Challenge

We made it!!!

For this final challenge, a number of us in the group who were doing the 31 day challenge, decided that instead of redoing one of our own past challenges, we would pick one from someone else in the group and redo that mani.

For my redo of a fellow challenger, I chose the Delicate Print challenge, done by Cristina from The Clockwise Nail Polish. You can view her original mani HERE.

I liked this mani, because it was very delicate, and pretty. I hate to admit it, but I have kind of been waiting for the challenge to end so that I could finally have a mani for more than a day. Also since I have a party to go to tonight (well its really more of a group of us who get together once a month for food, drinks, and games), I figured this would be a nice mani to have.

So without further ado, here is my final mani of this challenge. I will worn that there are like 6 pictures because luckily they all came out non fuzzy, and I really like how this came out, so you get to see both hands, enjoy!

Colors used:

Background: "Rose Petals" by OPI

Pink Sparkle Color: "Princesses Rule" by OPI

Stamp Color: "French White Creme" by Wet n Wild (wild shine)

Image Plate: "BM 11" by Bundle Monster

Hex Glitter Taken From A Purple "Bon Bons" These Don't Seem To Have Names

Day 21 - Inspired By A Color

Today's challenge was a little vague. So figure it is just one that you can do what ever you want.

So if you can't tell from my blog, I LOVE PURPLE!!! (but it has to be the deep royal purple) Anyways if we have the option of doing any nail art, you can bet I will use my favorite color and do purple nails.

Now the biggest problem was trying to decide what to do, unfortunately once again I didn't have tons of time, and a little one wouldn't stay out of my lap, so I decided to do a purple french, with a purple glitter being the french tip.

I don't know what it is about my camera, but every time I do purple, they always come out as more of a blue then the true color, unless I do the picture inside under a crappy lamp. So the first picture is outside in the natural light (which is what I usually choose) and the second is showing the true color, but I look orange! Hope you like it!

Colors used:

Base: "Lets Talk" by Sinful Colors

Tips: "not sure of the number (812011?)" by Sally Girl

Day 15 - Delicate Print

Welcome new followers!

So I have to admit that I did not put much into today's mani. I am having a bunch of people over to my house on Sunday, and have a bunch of cleaning to do. Unfortunately I will be working for the next two days so I will be unable to clean then, so it is today and Saturday that I have. With two little kids in the house, I have a lot to clean. so as I said I did not spend as much time with today's mani.

To make matters worse, I broke a nail this morning as I finished building my new nail polish rack (this will be another blog post). To tell the truth I didn't even take the time to fix my nail before doing my mani for today (I will take the time to do that this evening after the kids are asleep), as you will see in my photos, so please forgive me on that one.

For a delicate print, I knew from the start that I wanted to do some form of lace, because for me, when I think delicate I also think dainty. That makes me think of women from like the 1890s that would be decked out in these dresses that were bussled with frills, poofs, and lace out the wazoo. So I think lace! Now since I am not the best at doing free hand work yet, since I did just start getting into nail art, I took a look at my stamping plates (sorry for doing so many stamped manis lately), and this is what I came up with, hope you like it!

Colors used:

Background: "Nude Shimmer" by Sally Hansen

Stamp Color: "French White Creme" by Wet n Wild (wild shine)

Image Plate: "BM-323" by Bundle Monster

Day 12 - Stripes

So once again I didn't know what to do, not surprising... well anyways I went out last night and bought a few more nail polishes (woo hoo!) and the went to work.

So the first thing I came up with was AWESOME! Absolutely loved it, but... it would have been cheating... you see it wasn't really stripes, it was more like diamonds... I tried to talk my self into this being ok, as it was two sets of stripes that crossed... well I asked my husband, and he was like NO, that doesn't work. So I had to redo it, and did one with stripes. I do like this one to so I am not totally bummed.

First I will show you the original one with the diamonds.



Awesome right? Well anyways here is the one that actually works for this challenge, but believe me I will be doing this one again!

Not bad, but not as nice as the first one, or at least in my opinion, let me know what you think.



Colors used:

Background: "Mademouselle" by Essie

Pink Tips: "Tickled Pink" by Wet n Wild (wild shine)

Stamp Color: "Mod Squad" by Essie

Image Plate (diamonds): "BM-315" by Bundle Monster

Image Plate (Stripes): "BM-301" by Bundle Monster

Day 7 - Black and White

When I think of black and white, I think simple, wedding, black tie, and elegance.

For today's challenge, I chose to mend those together along with how black and white go together in a form of marrage. They are often found together, and always go together well.

The mani that I came up with for today's challenge is one that I realy like. This is one that if I wasn't already married, I would have done for my wedding. Hope you like my pictures of today's challenge.



Colors used:

Tips and White Stamp: "449C (french white)" by Wet n Wild (wild shine)

Black Stamp: "229C (Ebony Hates Chris)" by Wet n Wild (fastdry)

Image Plate: "BM 17" by Bundle Monster