Dandelion - Day 5 - Blue Nails!

After I had already done this, I thought "Damn, I should have saved this design for the "delicate print" day.  Oh well, it was already done and I wasn't about to do another blue mani at 1am.

When I first saw someone do this dandelion mani I completely fell in love.  I was totally smitten!  I kept putting it off, until now of course!  I have to say, I'm completely infatuated with my own nails.  I just keep staring at them.  I love how dainty it looks.

I used Claire's - Secret Garden as the base here.  I mixed a little green and black to get the stem color right and then thinned some white polish for the flower part.

I should have been more careful when I applied my top coat of Seche because it shrunk the polish up in some weird spots.  I was just getting careless because it was super late when I finished up.

Jelly Sandwich - Day 4 - Green Nails!

Jelly Sandwich time!  I love this green, unfortunately I can't tell you what it's called.  I got it in a Christmas pack of 3 minis from Icing.  In natural light it almost glows,  it totally reminds me of Slimer from "Ghostbusters".  I just used the green polish and sandwiched some Sally Girl silver glitter between the layers.  I need more jellies and glitter,  I love jelly sandwiches!

My co-worker's comment was "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!"  I think that fits pretty well!

Ruffles - Day 3 - Yellow Nails

I'm totally diggin' yellow polish lately so I was quite happy to do this one!

I used Hard Candy - Splendid and I drew the design on with a Sharpie.  Sharpies aren't really the best thing to do nail art with, sometimes you can get a top coat on just fine and sometimes it doesn't work out.  This was one of the times it didn't work out.  It looks fine in the picture because I didn't put top coat on it.  Which also meant that I couldn't really wear it very long without the design rubbing off and possibly getting all over my face if I had an itch!

Now that I think about it, I think the Sharpie would have worked out better if I hadn't applied a first layer of top coat before I drew the design on.  Oh well, I'll experiment with that idea later.

Here is Day 3 - Yellow

Oh, the dots were done with polish and a dotting tool btw.

Tape Mani - Day 2 - Orange Nails

Oh how I wish I had a better camera!  I loved the way this mani looked in person but it just didn't want to photograph very well.  The mattified polish came out looking fuzzy.  Oh well, I'll post it anyway since its part of the challenge!

I did a simple tape mani with the serrated edge of the tape dispenser.  I used Wet&Wild - Blazed and NYC -Fuchsia Shock then mattified it with Hard Candy - Matte-ly In Love.

Tomorrow is YELLOW!  I'm totally into yellow nail polish right now!

Shasta Inspired - Day 1 - Red Nails!

Red Nails, sounds simple enough right?  Of course it does...but what else, what else could I do with red?  Only EVERYTHING! All kinds of things popped into my head; Minnie & Mickey theme, flowers, a simple black design...hearts?!  I couldn't decide and it was driving me crazy.  Then I went to grab a drink and BAM!  Inspired by a bottle of Shasta Cola.  Not sure about posting a picture of a companies product here so if you want to see what inspired me, just Google "Shasta Cola".

For this one I used NYC - Big Apple Red (base), Revlon - Raven Red (dots) & a silver striper from Claire's for the star.  Topped with Seche.  Gotta love that shine!

31 Day Nail Challenge

So, I am doing a 31 Day Nail Challenge!  I've seen this before and always wanted to try to see what I could come up with but didn't want to do it alone.  I was super excited to see that PaintingOutsideTheLines was going to be hosting the challenge on her Facebook page! It actually started yesterday so this post is a tad late but I was enjoying some time with my boyfriend watching "Supernatural" and I never got around to it! 

Here is the Challenge list! 

MANIMANIA!

Okay so the title sounds like this post should be more exciting, like I will be showing all kinds of swatches, nail art and good stuff.  However, there can be only one mani pic here!  I should have posted this Sunday night but...I've been totally slacking on my blog!  (Work and video games REALLY get in the way!)

Some of you might be into wrestling, some of you might think it's dumb and some of you probably never gave it a thought!  I, on the other hand do indeed enjoy some pro-wrestling!  I mean, I get to watch some pretty sexy half naked men...what's not to like?  It's like a non-girly soap opera!

Anyway, Sunday was Wrestlemania for those of you who have no interest in the subject.  I decided to do a pretty simple mani to celebrate and honor the dead man (Undertaker) because he was going to have an epic match with Triple H.  I won't ramble on about what happened, unless you ask me to.  I'll just show you the goods!

Purple and black are classic Undertaker colors and that is his symbol!

This pic is pretty much the same but I added it anyway!

I used Spoiled-2 Weeks Sober and drew the symbol on with one of those really fine tipped Sharpies.  Then I topped it off with Seche but decided to mattify it with  Hard Candy Matte-ly In Love.  A shiny top coat didn't see appropriate for this mani!

Yes, I'm a big nerd to watches wrestling!