Candy Cane Nails

So here I was, actually planning on doing another nail challenge. During one of the busiest months of the year, too. Isn't that funny?

My challenge of choice was #nailartchallengedec made by @redkoletz and @glamournailart on Instagram.

It started on the 4th day of December with Candy Cane as the theme, so I happily did it and then got happily too busy to continue, ha.

For the candy cane nails I used:

Salon Perfect - He's With Me
Snowman Polish - Green
Kiss White Striper

On my middle fingers I used:

Snowman Polish - Red & Green Glitter

And on the rest of my nails I wanted to try doing a pond mani so I used:

Santee - Peacock Green Glitter
Santee - Fuchsia Glitter
Kiss White Striper with a dotting tool

I used my Sony a5100 for this picture but I gotta admit when it comes to nails, I think I prefer my iPhone 6. I need to get more practice using it and then maybe I'll like it better but so far the iPhone is easier to hold and focuses on more. It's gotta be all in the settings.

Pink For Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Hey guys! It's been awhile. I've been detoxing from the polish fumes after the 31 Day Challenge!

I'm back with pink nails for October's Breast Cancer Awareness month. My family, like so many others, has been affected by this disease, so I thought it was time for me to post my first pink nails.

I used Wet N' Wild Mega Last - Candy-licious and then did different designs using Wet N' Wild Wild Shine - Tickled Pink.

This is a lovely color combo and represents a good cause. What's your favorite pink of all time?

#31DC2014 - Day 23: Inspired By A Movie

I totally stumbled upon these nails, which are inspired by the movie Frozen!

I probably wouldn't have picked Frozen at first, but after looking at this color combo and picturing dots that look like falling snow, it fits.

I used Chameleon - Blue Frost as a base. Perfect name for Frozen nails, right? Then I lightly applied Sinful Colors - Cinderella and dabbed at it with a sponge to blend. I finished it off by dotting on Kleancolor - Pastel Blue and Sinful Colors - Gorgeous.

Of course I had to go find my good friend Olaf and he photobombed me while taking pics. :)

I think these nails are worthy of Princess Elsa, and I could see her rocking these to match her dress.

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#31DC2014 - Day 21: Inspired By A Color

I had to think a little about this day, because the first 10 days were all color themed and I didn't want to do any repeats. Then it hit me, pink wasn't covered during the first 10 days (which I think is actually surprising).

I decided to do pink and what could be more pink than kawaii Hello Kitty nails?

I used Wet N' Wild Mega Last - Candy-licious, Love & Beauty - Ivory, Wet N' Wild Wild Shine - Tickled Pink, Wet N' Wild Chrome - Precious Petals, Salon Perfect - Glow Pink, Sinful Colors - Decadent, and Wet N' Wild Wild Shine - Black Creme for the stamping.

I combined a couple different techniques to do these. I used my Born Pretty Store plate for the Hello Kitty images. The sticker on my ring finger was done doing decal stamping. I actually made the decal a month or two ago when I first heard about decal stamping, and it held up even in the summer heat.

Once again I used my glow in the dark base for the glitter, Glow Pink makes a pretty base anyways for Decadent.

Hello Kitty + bling + polka dots = the perfect nails to be inspired by pink.

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#31DC2014 - Day 11: Polka Dots

These ain't your grandmama's polka dots.

I've done polka dots a few times before, like these and more recently these, so I wanted to do something different.

I ended up with these, and I like them. From far away, it looks like plaid on my nails.

I used Sinful Colors - Bianca for my base color, and then of course, Sinful Colors - Snow Me White and Wet N' Wild Wild Shine - Black Creme for my polka dots.

It's the kickoff of the second set of prompts, and I'm excited for the next few days.

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Polka Dots & Tribals & Cutouts, Oh My!

In my days blogging, I've learned some styles of nail art just stay popular and people seem to like them more than others. Two that always get me a lot of compliments are polka dots and tribal designs. So I decided to combine them and throw in some nude nail cutouts to make it interesting.

Yea, I'm pretty much in love with these.

I love how my right pointer finger kind of looks like a bird face.

I used Wet N' Wild - Tickled Pink for the base and Wet N' Wild - Black Creme and a Kiss Nail Art Striper in black for the designs.

I love doing tribal nails just to play and come up with different designs on each nail. Throw in polka dots and cutouts and you've got the icing AND the cherry!

Black & White & Dots & Stripes

Well hey there. It's been a minute. I'd feel silly if I started this post and just jumped right in to the nail art, but suffice it to say it's been a crazy, busy time. Perhaps some stories will find their way into my posts, but for sure the nail art will.

This is the most recent design I did. Black & white. Simple with a twist.

I used Wet N' Wild - Black Creme, Sinful Colors - Snow Me White, and black & white Kiss nail art stripers. I promise I actually did get some new polishes during my time away but I do love my standbys haha.

And holy crap when I logged in, I was surprised to see this:

16,000 page views? Thanks to all the followers that haven't unfollowed and all the people who actually still take the time to check this blog out. I know I sometimes get emails about people who pin images on Pinterest or follow via Bloglovin' and I really do truly appreciate it!

RAWR - Halloween 2012

Hey guys! I got a hold of some pics from Halloween that my uncle took. I felt so crappy for most of October, but thankfully I felt up to venturing out on Halloween.

If you couldn't guess from my Halloween nails, I dressed up as Catwoman, inspired by Eartha Kitt's costume from the 1960's Batman. Yea, I spent a lot of time in bed watching TV and I caught an episode of it and really liked her costume, more than some of the more modern Catwomans.

Yea I know she didn't have a tail, but my ears came with a tail and I wanted to use it. :]

I had fun with makeup and falsies too.

I used:
Prestige Liquid Eyeliner - Popstar
Prestige Liquid Eyeliner - Fame
M.A.C - Retrospeck Eyeshadow
M.A.C - Blacktrack Fluidline
Jesse's Girl - Starshine Eye Dust
Salon Perfect Perfectly Diva Lashes - Enchanting (fitting name right?)

For my lips:
Wet N' Wild MegaLast Lipstick - Think Pink
Wet N' Wild MegaLast Lipstick - Dollhouse Pink
Love & Beauty Shine Lipgloss - Light Pink (there's no name on it lol)

As for my plans that night? My cousin got back in town so her and my other cousin and I just walked around the neighborhood. We went trick or treating at a few houses cause we wanted to send the candy back to her brother and sisters but overall we didn't get much candy haha.

Polka Dot Dot Dot

Polka dots just might be the cutest and easiest design to do on nails. I did these with (you guessed it) a toothpick. To top it off, I did these while having a cold. I told y'all these were easy!

I used:
Wet N' Wild Wild Shine - Tickled Pink
Sally Hansen Insta-Dri - Espresso
Sally Hansen Insta-Dri - Clearly Quick

I always use Clearly Quick as topcoat but I don't always mention it in posts. I kinda had to now, because just look at that shine. I love it when nails look almost like plastic with a good topcoat. This pink reminds me to Baskin Robbins spoons. :]