Beauty Minions Catch-up

What's that, brain?  Did you say joining a group which does bi-weekly assignments will help me blog more consistantly?  Well, that sounds fantastic.  Thanks, brain! 

*Cut to 7 weeks later*

WELL, that was a bust.  Thanks for the lies, brain!  Okay so it wasn't a total bust.  I'm still doing my Beauty Minions assignments I'm just not posting about them!  So I'm here in the wee hours of the morning to catch up.

The second assignment (In celebration of her 2 Year Blogversary) was to do a look inspired by the header/background of  Heather's Blog; My Husband Ate All My Ice Cream. 

Here is my interpretation!  You can see the rest of the entries for this assignment here Beauty Minions V2. I have to admit, I was really excited when I saw my mani as the first picture on the post!

For my base I used Icing - Riviera Romance. The Skull is Finger Paints - Easel Come, Easel Go!  and NYC - Black Creme.  I did the tips with french manicure strips and sprinkled loose silver glitter over clear polish. Yes, there was glitter stuck to everything for days.  Ah yes, glitter; the herpes of crafts! 


Onto assignment 3.  Theme:  HALLOWEEN!  Halloween is my favorite holiday.  I love everything about it so I was really into this one and excited to see everyones creations! 

Here's mine and of course you should check out the other Minions here; Beauty Minions V3.

 

 

I had painted my nails with Revlon Just Tinted - Desire the day before and while thinking about what I wanted to do I thought about how pink is kinda left out of Halloween.  I love pink and decided that it should be included!  I also used NYC - Black Creme and Finger Paints - Easel Come, Easel Go! in this one.

 

Well, that's all for now, folks!  I'm off to make early morning grilled cheese sandwiches or as my boyfriend calls them, gorilla cheese. 

 

Thanks for reading!  See you next time. Same nail time, same nail channel!

 

 

 

 





Bubble City - Day 20 - Water Marble

I love the look of water marble nails but have you tried it?!  It's tricky!  I've had good times and bad times.  This time I had mixed emotions.  I loved the design and colors but as you can see, I had quite a few bubbles!  Look it up on youtube if you have never tried this.  It's fun but it can also be messy and very, very, VERY frustrating!

I'd show you the other fingers but...I didn't do them!  I had already tried this hand about 3 times and I gave up and painted my thumb and my right hand with "True Romance".  If it wasn't so bubbly it would have been perfect!  I used a base of Finger Paints "Easel Come, Easel Go!"  I also used it in the marble along with Claire's "True Romance"  NYC "Empire State Blue"

Roses - Day 14 - Flowers

This 31 day challenge has been just that, a challenge.  However, it has been a welcome challenge and it has been fun.  I've been trying designs that I have wanted to do for a while and trying things I wouldn't normally give a second thought.

This day was one that I've wanted to do for a while.  Simple roses.  I wasn't sure if I could pull them off as well as I'd seen them done but in the end I was extremely happy!  I just kinda dabbed the bottom color on, then added a little detail.  It looks kinda vintage to me and reminds me of Betsy Johnson's design style.  What do you think?

I used Finger Paints - Easel Come, Easel Go!(base) Claire's - True Romance (flower base), Sally Hansen - Ice (rose detail) and my favorite un-named green polish from Icing.

Blue & Silver - Day 10 - Gradient

I have to say that I had never done a gradient mani before.  Well, I guess I have done glitter gradients but those are way easy.  Colored gradients are not my strong point.  That being said, I was rather happy with the way this one turned out.  I wish you could see the glitter in the picture better but hey, what can ya do?  I actually had 2 different ideas for this one, one being a glitter gradient in case the other one didn't work out. I did the glitter gradient first and took a picture so I'll show you both!

First up is the one I actually submitted.  For this one I used Finger Paints - Easel Come, Easel Go!, NYC - Empire State Blue and Claire's - Bright Skies. 

Here is the other idea.  This one is Hello Kitty - Night Sparkle, Claire's - Gold Glitter Topcoat  & Color Club - Take The Stage.

I wish you could see the gold shimmer in the Hello Kitty polish better.  It's so pretty and those bottles are so adorable!  Even my boyfriend thought it was cute...not sure if he would want me to mention that but he isn't reading this!  My fellow polish club member (there's only 2 members) Taylor Tunno   got this one for me and I love it.  I never want to wear it because it looks so cool in the bottle!

Challenge Catch-Up - Day 6 - Day 9

Okay, time to catch up with the 31 Day Nail Challenge!  I've been doing my nails and posting them to Painting Outside The Lines' FB page but I haven't been posting them here.  Sorry, just been a little busy and I was doing my nails super late!

Anyway, I'm going to catch up in one post now.

 Day 6 - Violet Nails

I couldn't stop thinking "Fish heads, fish heads.  Roly poly fish heads.  Fish heads, fish heads.  Eat them up, YUM!"  Remember that song?  Great, now it's stuck in my head again!

This was Spoiled - 2 Weeks Sober as the base and a thinned white to paint on the fishies!

Day 7 - Black & White Nails

I love splatter painting but it's sooo messy.

NYC - French White & Claire's - Black Hole

Day 8 - Metallic Nails

Finger Paints - Easel Come, Easel Go! Accent nail is silver craft glitter over the base color. 

Day 9 - Rainbow Nails

Okay, now the colors in rainbow order are:

NYC - Big Apple Red
Sally Hansen - Sun Kissed
Hard Candy- Splendid
Icing - Unnamed Green
Folk Acrylic Paint - True Blue
Spoiled - 2 Weeks Sober
NYC - French White as my base
 
I thinned all the colors (except the acrylic paint) so they wouldn't dry up too fast while dotting.

So that's it, hopefully I find time to post the rest of the days as they come and not have to do another catch-up!