Llama Nails: M is for... Minnie Mouse

       Happy Monday!  Today I have for you my weekly installment for the ABCs of nail art challenge in the Facebook group, Llama Nails.  Each week we have to do nail art related to a specific letter and this week's letter is M.  I decided to do Minnie Mouse.  I couldn't be happier with the way this turned out.  I tried a new base coat with this mani and it lasted two days!  My manicures never last this long.  I picked up the Fiberized Ridge Filler from the Pro FX line.  I got it at WalMart and a 2.5 fluid oz. bottle cost me right around five dollars.  I am so glad that I picked this up because I used it on this mani and the one I did yesterday, and my mani's have never stayed on my nails better!

Base coat: Fiberized Ridge Filler from Pro FX

Base color: Red Red from Wet N Wild - 1 coat.  UMM CAN YOU BELIEVE ONE COAT?!?!  YEAH, ME NEITHER.  OK, done freaking out about that.

White on the Spot from Milani -2 coats

White dots: Superstar from Pure Ice

Minnie Mouse: All acrylic paint is from Artist's Loft that I bought at Michaels

Black-Lamp Black

Face-Titanium White, Burnt Sienna, and Yellow Ochre

Bow-Crimson Red and Titanium White for the dots

Tongue-Crimson Red mixed with Titanium White

Top coat: Seche Vite

I used a dotting tool to apply all the polka dots that are not on my accent nail.  I used my smallest brush for all of Minnie except for the eyelashes; I used my striping brush for that.

You can check out these other "M" challenge's using the codes below.  I hope you enjoyed my Minnie Mouse mani.

SassyNails Nail-Aween Nail Art Challenge: Day 9- Pumpkins

       It is almost Halloween and for some of you it may even be Halloween.  Do you have any big plans?  I am going to go Trick-Or-Treating with my friends and their kids.  I love seeing how excited kids get around this time of the year!  Today's challenge in the self paced nail art challenge being put on by SassyNails is pumpkins.  I suffered the same dilemma as I did with the last challenge in that I had already done this pumpkin mani for the Crumpet's Nail Tarts Halloween Challenge and my creativity was as a standstill.  Can you guess where I looked for inspiration?  If you guessed Robin Moses, you would be correct.  I know I say this every time, but I love that she teaches us how to do what looks impossible!  If you are looking to learn how to work with acrylic paints on your nails, I recommend no other than her.  Here is the link to her video that I used for this mani.

     I mixed all of my own colors for this mani with Artist's Loft acrylic paints.  For the darkest orange, almost a brown, I mixed Crimson Red, Lemon Yellow and a dab of Lamp Black.  For the pumpkin color I used the same mixture as the dark orange, minus the black.  For the yellowish highlights I used the same orange base plus a little bit of Titanium White to lighten it up a little.  For the dark green that is on the stem and leaves I used Lemon Yellow and Ultramarine Blue and for the lighter green I just used some of the Titanium White to lighten it a little.  For the grass that I did on the bottom I would dab my brush in black on one side and then the dark green on the other to give it that mixed texture look.  I am super happy with how these turned out.

Base coat: Sally Hansen Triple Strong Advanced Gel Nail Fortifier

Base color: Skulls and Glossbones from OPI - 2 coats

Top coat: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Anti-Chip Top coat

All were taken inside without the flash

I added this one because you can see the highlighting towards the top of each pumpkin.

I just really like how the grass and the curly-q turned out on my thumb so I thought I would add it.

I hope you guys like this!  Who do you go to when you are running short on ideas and need some inspiration?

SassyNails Nail-Aween Nail Art Challenge: Day 8 - Witches

     Good afternoon everyone.  I hope that everyone is having a great day.  And to everyone living on the east coast, I am praying for your safety.  I can not believe that Atlantic City is underground.  That is so scary to me!  Today is day eight of the SassyNails Nail-Aween Nail Art Challenge and the topic for today's mani is witches.  I was a little stumped on what to do as I had already used all my creative witch inspiration on this mani I did a few weeks ago, so off to YouTube I went.

    Inspiration for this mani came from this YouTube video by IHaveACupcake.  I just discovered her last week and this is the second one of her tutorials I have followed.  I am not too sure how I feel about the outcome of this one.  I tried to do Hello Kitty four times before finally leaving her the way she is and the bat on my pointer finger looks more like a sting ray.  I am so jealous of how easily she can use her dotting tools.  I always try to use them like she does and end up resorting to a brush.  One of the reasons the bat on my pointer finger looks more like a sting ray is because I first painted it grey and it was too dark.  So I painted white over it, lightened the grey and then applied it again and it was still to dark.  Lightening it one more time allowed me to finally see it.  I tried to clean it up a little but the wings came out pointy instead of round and by the time I got to this point I was ready to be done.  I didn't really even clean up around my cuticles.

Base coat: Sally Hansen Triple Strong Advanced Gel Nail Fortifier

Base color: Smooth Sailing from Essie - 2 coats

Top coat: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Anti-Chip Top Coat

All artwork was done with Artist's Loft acrylic paint

White: Titanium White

Yellow: Lemon Yellow and Titanium White

Red: Crimson Red

Black: Lamp Black

Grey: Lamp Black and Titanium White

Taken inside without flash

Well, I hope that you like my attempt at this mani.  Please feel free to comment below.  Comments make us bloggers feel the love.  :-)

SassyNails Nail-Aween Nail Art Challenge: Day 7 - Spiders

       Well, if you have been reading my blog for the last month you will know that I started out this month by doing two Halloween challenges.  This one, which is a self paced one, and another one for the Facebook group, Crumpet's Nail Tarts.  I can't express how crazy it has been to be doing nail art every single day.  It is hard to get everything done.  Much respect to those who can do it.  I decided yesterday that I am not going to finish the one for Crumpet's Nail Tarts.  The main reason is because the next challenge I had to do was inspired by a scary movie.  I DO NOT watch scary movies and I don't really want to spend 3 hours doing intense nail art and then take it right back off.  Blood, guts, and creepy movies are not my thing.  

     On to today's mani, spiders.  I really don't like spiders, but this mani turned out pretty cute.  I received some Sally Girl mini polishes in a swap last week and they were perfect for this one.  As with most neons, I layered Amped over a white base to make the neon color really pop.  Unfortunately this resulted in easy chipping.  I didn't even do anything except sweep and mop last night and it was chipped.  :-(  I applied the spider webs and legs of the spiders with a small nail art brush and the bodies of the spiders with a dotting tool.  I hope you like these.

Base coat: Sally Hansen Triple Strong Advanced Gel Nail Fortifier

Base color: Orange - Amped (812161) from Sally Girl - 2 coats over 2 coats of Superstar! from Pure Ice

                   Black -  Poser (812051) from Sally Girl - 2 coats

Nail Art is done with Artist's Loft Acrylic paint in Titanium White and Lamp Black

Top Coat: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Anti-Chip Top Coat

Taken inside without the flash

G is for... Garfield

     Happy Thursday everyone.  This week is going by so slow!!!!  Is anyone else having a long week?  I took a break from doing my nails on Tuesday night and just did a bunch of blog reading so I didn't have this mani done until last night.  On Wednesday night's, my husband and I go over to our best friends for dinner so I didn't have time to post this until today.  Today's mani is for the ABC's of Nails Challenge that we are doing in the Facebook group, Llama Nails.  We are going week by week through the alphabet, in alphabetical order, and doing a manicure that coincides with that letter.  I was going to settle with glitter for this week because I am really brain dead from all of these Halloween challenges, but someone had posted a Garfield comic on my Facebook and an idea clicked.  I am so happy with the outcome of this, so I really hope you like it as well.  Enjoy!

Base coat: Sally Hansen Triple Strong Advanced Gel Nail Fortifier

Base color: Sun Kissed from Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear - 2 coats

*All artwork was done with Artist's Loft acrylic paint*

Black-Lamp Black

Pink- a mix of Titanium White and Crimson Red

Yellow- Lemon Yellow layered over Titanium White

Top coat: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Anti-Chip Top Coat

Taken inside without flash

I must apologize for my crusty cuticle's.  Winter hit hard last week and I did not take care of my cuticles.  I am all over it now though.  Don't you fret.

If you would like to see some more G inspired maicure's, look at these other posts below.

SassyNails Nail-Aween Nail Art Challenge: Day 6 - Frankenstein

       On Facebook SassyNails is hosting a self paced Nail-Aween Nail Art Challenge.  Today I have the sixth day of that challenge for you.  Our topic was Frankenstein.  I really wanted to do something than just a Frankenstein face and my mind wandered off to a new movie entitled, Frankenweenie.  In my opinion the Tim Burton movies are a little to creepy for me, so I won't be seeing this one, but I didn't mind doing this on my nails.  I think he looks more like a rat on my nails, but oh well.  At least I tried, right?!

Base coat: Sally Hansen Triple Strong Advanced Gel Nail Fortifier

Base coat: Tangy from Zoya - 2 coats

*All the artwork was done with Lamp Black and Titanium White acrylic paint from Artist's Loft.  Frankenweenie's body is a franken, lol, of the black and white.  I know, cheesy, but I had to.

These were taken inside without flash.

Here is the movie poster so you can see how I compare. 

This image is from Wikipedia.

So, what do you guys think, does he at least look some what close to the original?

CNT Halloween Nail Art Challenge: Pumpkins

       It is time to post another mani for the Halloween Nail Art Challenge that is being put on by the Facebook group, Crumpet's Nail Tarts.  I threw this mani together at the last minute last night so I don't really have too much to say about it except that I really like the way that it turned out!  I think it is very simple, cute, and different.  All though I haven't looked at everyone else's manis so I could be wrong about the unique look.  I did forget to leave my accent nail blank while painting the orange, so the Black Creme is over a layer of orange, but Wet N Wild's Black Creme is opaque in one coat anyways.  :-)  Napping before mani-ing is dangerous.  ;-)

Base coat: Sally Hansen Triple Strong Advanced Gel Nail Fortifier

Base color: Citrine from Sinful Colors - 1 coat, Black Creme from Wet N Wild - 1 coat

Over Citrine I layered one Layer of Serena and Chloe from Sinful Colors.  I wanted to do both layers in Serena and Chloe but I was afraid it would photograph more red than orange.

Pumpkins:  A mixture of Crimson Red, Lemon Yellow, and Titanium White acrylic paint from Artist's Loft applied with a dotting tool

Stems: A mixture of Viridian acrylic paint from Artist's loft and my franken orange, applied with a small detail brush

Face: Lamp Black acrylic paint from Artist's Loft, applied with a small detail brush

Top coat: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Anti-Chip Top Coat

Taken inside without flash

Thanks for stopping by and do feel free to leave some comment love, or creative criticism.

Check out the other pumpkin nails below!

 

SassyNails Nail-Aween Nail Art Challenge: Day 5 - Ghosts and Goblins

     Hey everyone.  It has been a few days since I have posted anything, but for good reason.  On Friday my friends and I took their kids out to a pumpkin patch close by and they do this corn maze every year.  This is one of the things I really look forward to every fall.  Escpecially since this year they did a Pac Man maze!  I love Pac Man!  Whenever I go to our local bowling alley I play Pac Man and Centipede for ever.  But really, who can resist those awesome, classic arcade games?!   

     The inspiration for these ghosts came from another YouTube video from IHaveACupcake.  Here is a link to the video.  I just thought these were so cute and I knew there was no way I would be able to do a goblin so I went with these.

     Unfortunately, I went a little to thick on my base color and never let it fully dry before applying the glow in the dark layers an it chipped off rather quick at work the next day.  :-(  Oh well. 

Base coat: Sally Hansen Diamond Strength Hardener

Base color: Ibiza from Zoya - 1 thick coat followed by Go With The Glow from Wet N' Wild Fantasy Makers - 3 coats

Ghosts: Titanium White acrylic paint from Artist's Loft and Lamp Black (eyes)

Top coat: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Anti-Chip Top Coat

Taken inside without flash

Taken inside with flash

I tried so hard to get a picute of these glowing in the dark but my camera is part of my phone and the light from the screen would cancel out the glow in the dark and only take black pictures.  :-(  Just know that it was really cute.

This challenge is being put on by SassyNails and it is a self paced challenge.  We have until the end of October to create our ten manicures.

Check out all of the NailAween Nail Art Artists!

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Sassy Paints 
Nicole gets Nailed 
Wicked Tips 
Fancy Schmancy Nails
Delight In Nails
Polish Groupie 
My Nail Journey 
Get Polished Up! 
Just A Girl and Her Polish
Spellbound Nails
Le nail's corner d'Alex
Hello.Lacquer
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Cutie Cuticles (nail art by Laraib) 
Wacky Laki 
Nail-Aween Nail Art Challenge October 1-31st, 2012 
GLAMOROUS NAILS 
Over The Topcoat 
Polish Gone Crazy 
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Susy In Color
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CNT Halloween Nail Art Challenge: Things That Go Bump In The Night

     If you're confused with the topic for today's challenge, don't worry, I was too.  Off to the side it said monsters and my brain isn't very creative so I was set on doing something with monsters.  I really wanted to do Monsters, Inc. Sulley and Mike, but as I watching a YouTube tutorial on One Stroke Petals another tutorial cought my eye. 

I am now in love with IHaveACupcake's YouTube channel.  If you are ever low on inspiration, please check her channel out!

     This mani was so easy to re-create and I am so happy with how it turned out.  I hope that you guys like it as well.

*All acrylic paint is from Artist's Loft*

*All black, unless otherwise specified, is Lamp Black acrylic paint*

*All white, unless otherwise specified, is Platinum White acrylic paint*

Base coat: Sally Hansen Diamond Strength Hardener

Top coat: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Anti-Chip Top Coat

Pinky: face - Black Cream from Wet N' Wild - 1 coat

            yellow: Lemon Yellow acrylic paint

            pink: My own creation using Platinum White and Crimson Red acrylic paint

Ring finger: French White Tip from NYC - 3 coats

                     bow: same mixture as used for the cat nose

Middle finger: Black Creme from Wet N' Wild - 2 coats

                        green: a mixture of Viridian, Platinum White, and Lemon Yellow acrylic paint

Pointer finger: Sassy from Revlong - 2 coats

                        eyeball: Cobalt Blue acrylic paint

Thumb: Wet Cement from Wet N' Wild - 3 coats

Taken inside with flash

If you would like to see what the other ladies in this group are doing, please check out their blogs using the thumbnails below.

Thanks for stopping by and please feel free to comment.  I love hearing from you gals and guys.

 

CNT Halloween Nail Art Challenge: Free Style

     Today in the Facebook group,Crumpet's Nail Tarts, our challenge topic is free style.  I took this to mean we could do whatever we wanted.  I saw this candy corn tutorial over on Nail Wish's blog a few weeks ago and I have been dying to try it out.  I wish mine looked as good as hers!  But as we all know, practice, practice, practice.  It's funny how good you can think something is until you see it next to a master's work! :-)

Base coat: Sally Hansen Diamond Strenght Hardener

Base color: Black Creme - 1 coat

Candy corns: Artist's Loft acrylic paint in Titanium White, Lemon Yellow, and I made the orange out of Lemon Yellow, Crimson Red, and a touch of Titanium White

Top coat: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Ant-Chip Top Coat

Taken inside with the flash

Check out these other free style manicures that are sure to impress!

SassyNail Nail-Aween Nail Art Challenge: Day 4 Mummy Nails FAIL!!!

     I decided to skip MSMD (Monkey See, Monkey Do) Monday's again this week so that I could get past my mummy nail challenge hurdle.  I have been putting this off for far to long and I knew that since the month was half way over today I just needed to buck up and do this.  See, my problem is that I don't like to do the same type of thing as everyone else.  I like to be a little different.  (Funny because I spent my entire childhood trying to be like everyone else, but that is an entirely different issue :-))  Everyone in the challenge came up with awesome mummy mani's and I thought mine would be just as creative, but alas, it is not.  My husband thought it was a gingerbread man!!!  See, fail!  Lol.  I don't even want to show you guys this but I promised myself when I started my blog that I would post the good, the bad, and the ugly.  I don't think I knew what I was getting myself into.

     There is a silver lining to this mani though, well actually, two.  I did NO cleanup and I got to use my first ever China Glaze polish!!!  I just bought it the other day when I was shopping for my nail polish buddy and got uber jealous of the beauties I was purchasing for her!  I'm Not Lion was just released as part of China Glaze's On Safari collection.  I only wanted two of the polishes from the collection, and this was one of them!

Base coat: Sally Hansen Diamond Strength Hardener

Base color: I'm Not Lion from China Glaze - 3 coats

White base color: White On The Spot from Milani - 1 thick coat

Mummy/gingerbread man ;-): Black acrylic paint from Artist's Loft

Top coat: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Anti-Chip Top Coat

Taken inside my truck with the flash because I don't care how the picture turned out!

You can check out the original image here.  Trust me, it's much better looking than mine.  

This challenge is being put on by SassyNails over on Facebook.  If you're not a Facebook person you can check out her blog here.

If you want to see some much better mummy manicure's please check out these other lovely ladies blogs!

datyorkLOVES

Erica's Nails and More

DreamyMM Nails & Make Up

 Tes Did It Nails
Sassy Paints 
Nicole gets Nailed 
Wicked Tips 
Fancy Schmancy Nails
Delight In Nails
Polish Groupie 
My Nail Journey 
Get Polished Up! 
Just A Girl and Her Polish
Spellbound Nails
Le nail's corner d'Alex
Hello.Lacquer
Color the world with polish
Cutie Cuticles (nail art by Laraib) 
Wacky Laki 
Nail-Aween Nail Art Challenge October 1-31st, 2012 
GLAMOROUS NAILS 
Over The Topcoat 
Polish Gone Crazy 
tragedystipsandtreats
Susy In Color
Countess Nails 
(List includes blogs and FB pages)

 

CNT Sat-ART-Day: The 50's

     Ok, so for most of you it is Sunday, but the great advantage of living on the West Coast of the United States is that we are way behind everyone else!  I still have four hours left to post this.  :-)  I am not going to lie, I am very pleased with how this turned out.  Are you getting curious?  Good!

     Today's mani comes from two things.  I brain stormed this mani this morning with the assistance of Google.  I did a search for 50's fashion and stumble upon Marilyn Monroe.  I'm sure most of you know she is from the 50's and I hate to admit that I had no idea.  I didn't even know she was an actress until I saw a video at my girlfriends house the other day, (that of course I can not find on YouTube for the life of me right now! (I had a very sheltered childhood. ))  In 1953 Marilyn played in Gentleman Prefer Blonds.  In this movie she preforms the song, "Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend" in a beautiful yet shocking (for the times) pink dress.  This is where the inspiration for the pink half moons came.

     I then remembered the first Robin Moses video I saw.  In this video Robin shows us how to do a beautiful Marilyn manicure.  When I saw this for the first time I thought there would never be a day that I would be able to do something like this.  Well, Robin's advice of practice, practice, practice paid off.  

     I am a little dissapointed with the bubbling that occured.  My top coat is basically gone and I tried to be a cheapskate and get the last little bit out.  I wish I would have just opened my new bottle.  Does anyone know why polish companies don't let the brushed extend further into the bottle?  I feel like it is such a waste of polish once you get half way through the bottle.

Base coat: Sally Hansen Diamond Strength Hardener

Pink: Lavendar Pearlescent from Wet N' Wild Wild Shine - 3 coats

White: White on the Spot from Milani - 1 coat

Marilyn: Black acrylic paint

Top coat: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Anti-Chip Top Coat

Well, what do you think?

If you want to check out some more 50's inspired manicures, check out these other blogs!

 

E is for... Eeyore

     Hey everyone.  Today am I posting my mani that was supposed to posted on Wednesday but I decided to nap instead.  Luckily we have from Wednesday to Tuesday to post our mani for the week.  I mixed most of the colors for Eeyore myself and I think that they came pretty close to the original color.  For Eeyore's face and ears and I mixed Crimson Red, Platinum White, and Ultramarine Blue in Artist's Loft acrylic paint.  For his nose I mixed Burnt Sienna and Platinum White and for his ears and bow I mixed Crimson Red with Platinum White. I should have gone a little darker on the ears, but I didn't realize that they were a little to sheer until after I was finished.  I hope that you like this.

Base coat: Sally Hansen Diamond Strength Hardener
Base color: Smooth Sailing from Essie - 2 coats
                   White On The Spot from Milani - 1 thick coat
Top coat: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Anti-Chip Top Coat

CNT Halloween Nail Challenge: Witches

     Today in the Facebook group, Crumpet's Nail Tarts, our challenge is witches.  As with all these challenge post's I never have any idea what the heck I am going to do.  All I knew is that I wanted to use Scandalous from Revlon as the base.  Scandalous is a black base with purple hex and micro glitter.  This formula dried very fast on me and is opaque in two coats.  I am a sucker for a dark color and this seemed perfect for a Halloween mani.  I was going to use a dark purple creme for my accent nail but then figured my witch design wouldn't show well against a dark base.  Then I saw Essie's Pretty Edgy and knew that this was the perfect accent color.  A beautiful green that would be perfect for a witches face.  And the rest is history from there!

Base coat: Sally Hansen Diamond Strength Hardener

Base color: Scandalous from Revlon -2 coats

Accent color: Pretty Edgy from Essie - 2 coats

Witch colors: Lamp Black and Lemon Yellow from Artist's Loft acrylic paint

Top coat: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Anti-Chip Top Coat

I hope you enjoy my witch!  If you want to check out some crazy, awesome witch manis check out these ladies blogs who are also doing this challenge.

CNT Halloween Challenge Day 3: Zombies

     Today in Crumpet's Nail Tarts Halloween Challenge we are supposed to do Zombies.  Now, let me start off by saying, I am not a fan of zombies.  Don't like them, don't watch them, don't know what they look like, don't want anything to do with them.  Off to Google I went... (Does this sound familiar?  I love Google).  I searched "cute zombies" and found this image.  It was the cutest one I could find and I figured that I could re-create it.  I think I did a pretty good job.  

     After I painted Ibiza on my ring finger I painted the entire zombie in white acrylic paint so that when I added the color it would pop.  

Base coat: Sally Hansen Diamond Strength Hardener

Base color:

  accent nail: Ibiza from Zoya - 1 coat

  other nails: Night Prowl from Wet N' Wild - 2 coats - How ironic, right!  Perfect name.

Zombie attire:

  face and hand: San Tan-Tonio from O.P.I.

  brain: The One That Got Away from O.P.I. mixed with white acrylic paint

  shirt: I Need A Refresh-Mint from Wet N' Wild

  pants: Why Not from Sinful Colors

  heart: The One That Got Away from O.P.I.

  outline: Lamp Black from Artist's Loft acrylic paint

Top coat: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Anti-Chip Top Coat      

AND a close up of my cute little zombie...

I hope you guys like my take on the zombie mani.  If you are interested in more gorey zombies, check out the other manis from this challenge.

SassyNails NailAween Nail Art Challenge: Day 3 - Bloody Nails

     Hey everyone!  Today I am skipping MSMD Monday to get along with one of my nail art challenges.  This one is hosted by SassyNails on Facebook.  I am on day three and today's challenge was bloody nails.  Now, I'm sure you all have seen  bloody nails around, especially around this time of year, and they all seem to be the same to me.  Now this is ok but I really wanted to do something different, so I came up with this idea.

     After I painted a white base on my nails and it dried, I painted on some red acrylic paint, waited about 30 seconds for it to dry a little and then rolled my finger through it to create a bloody finger print effect.  I think that this turned out pretty cool.  I went to clean up the mani but decided it looked much bloodier if I didn't.  What do you guys think?

Base coat: Sally Hansen Diamond Strength Hardener

Base color: Superstar from Pure Ice - 2 coats

Acrylic paint: Crimson Red from Artist's Loft

Top coat: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Anti-Chip Top Coat

These were taken with the flash because it picked up the red the best

I hope you like these!

For more NailAween Nail Art mani's feel free to look at these other blogs!

Check out all of the NailAween Nail Art Artists!

datyorkLOVES

Erica's Nails and More

DreamyMM Nails & Make Up

 Tes Did It Nails
Sassy Paints 
Nicole gets Nailed 
glitznglammer
Finger Food 
Wicked Tips 
Fancy Schmancy Nails
Delight In Nails
Polish Groupie 
My Nail Journey 
Get Polished Up! 
Just A Girl and Her Polish
Spellbound Nails
Le nail's corner d'Alex
Hello.Lacquer
 Countess Nails 
Color the world with polish
Nail Crime Nail Art
Coat of Mani Colors
Cutie Cuticles (nail art by Laraib) 
Wacky Laki 
Nail-Aween Nail Art Challenge October 1-31st, 2012 
GLAMOROUS NAILS 
Over The Topcoat 
Polish Gone Crazy 
tragedystipsandtreats
Susy In Color
(List includes blogs and FB pages)

CNT Halloween Nail Art Challenge Day 2: Black Cats

     Today is day 2 of Crumpet's Nail Tarts Challenge.  Our challenge today is, "black cats".  I wasn't quite sure what to do so I decided to Google Robin Moses + cats and was super excited with what I found.

 

Now of course mine isn't as good as the amazing, spectacular, glorious Robin, but I think it is pretty dang good.  I mean, you can tell my cat is a cat, can't you?!

Base coat: Sally Hansen Diamond Strength Hardener

Base color: Audrey from Zoya - 2 coats

Top coat: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Anti-Chip Top Coat

Acrylic paints: Lemon Yellow and Lamp Black from Artist's Loft

How did I do?

Please feel free to check out these other "black cat" manis. :-)

 

 

CNT Halloween Nail Challenge Day 1: Trick or Treat Nails

     It's Monday again and that means two things.  It is MSMD Monday and day one of our Halloween challenge in the facebook group, Crumpet's Nail Tarts.  MSMD, for those of you that are not familiar stands for Monkey See, Monkey Do. We recreate mani's from other bloggers that we like and pay some long due respect to the creators of our inspiration.  I didn't have time to do two manicures so I figured that this would be the perfect opportunity to do a post that killed two birds with one stone.  Today's inspiration came from D'Anna at Not Another Nail Blog.

     I tried out one of the new Fantasy Makers from Wet N' Wild in this mani and I have to say that I am not impressed.  I bought this color because it is a black base with pink and blue micro glitters in it.  Well, they are micro for sure.  I could barely see any of the cute colors shinning through in this polish.  :-(  I had such high expectations.  Oh well.  What can ya do.

Base coat: Sally Hansen Diamond Strength Hardener

Orange base color: Clementine from Sinful Colors - 2 coats

Black base on ring finger: Black Creme from Wet N' Wild - 1 thick coat

Black base on other nails: Nail in the Coffin from Fantasy Makers by Wet N' Wild - 3 coats

Top coat:  Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Anti-Chip Top Coat

Lettering and pumpkin face: White - Titanium White acrylic paint from Artist's Loft

                                               Black- Titanium Black acrylic paint from Artist's Loft

Taken outside without flash

Here is a close up of Nail in the Coffin in direct sunlight

You can see the other Trick or Treat manicures by using the links below!

Have you guys tried any of the Fantasy Makers polishes yet?  Were you impressed?

 

C is for... Cards!

     It's Wednesday again and that means that it is time for another mani in the ABC's of  Nail's Challenge that we are doing in the Facebook group, Llama Nails.  Today's letter is C.  It didn't take me long to decide that I wanted to do cards.  Which is good, because the artwork took forever.  Especially the spades.  This is why I use acrylic paint when I do intense nail art.    If you apply a topcoat to your base color you can then go hog wild with acrylic.  If you screw up you can just dab a cotton ball with rubbing alcohol and it will come right off!  Thank you Robin Moses!  (AKA Nail God!)  I used a dotting tool for the clubs and hearts, and a very tiny, tiny brush to do the spades, numbers, and diamonds.

Base coat: Sally Hansen Diamond Strength Hardener

Base coat: French White Tip from N.Y.C. - 2 coats

Acrylic: Crimson Red and Lamp Black from Artist's Loft

Top coat: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Anti-Chip Top Coat

Taken inside  without flash

I  hope you like this! Please check out my co-challengers posts using the links below!

Buttercup Nails and Stamping With Mash Plate 37

  Todays challenge in the Purple Crumpet Fairy Challenge on Facebook is buttercups.  This is going to be a short and sweet post, even though, it took me a few hours to do this.  :-)  I really hope that you like it because I am pretty pleased with this mani.

Base coat: Nail Envy from OPI and Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Hardener

Base color: Athens from Sinful Colors - 2 coats

Accent nail: Evvie from Zoya - 2 coats

Buttercups: Acrylic paint

Stamping plate: Mash 37

Stamping color: Olympia from Sinful Colors

Top coat: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Anti-Chip Top Coat

Here is an image of a Buttercup that I got from google images.

And here are my nails.  These next two pictures were taken outside in indirect sunlight

And these two were taken outside with out flash

So, what do you think of me recreation of the buttercup?  I hope that you like it.

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  Debbie @ The Crumpet - http://thecrumpet.blogspot.co.uk/

  Neivys - http://maquiclubgirl.blogspot.com/

  Jo @ Northern Nails - http://therockchicksrambles.blogspot.co.uk/

  arlene @ http://euzefelus27-nailart.blogspot.com/

  Helena -

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  Katee - http://www.agirlandherpolish.com 

  Alyssa at Fancy Phalanges - http://fancyphalanges.blogspot.com/

  Sarah - http://www.ynails.blogspot.co.uk/

  bec - http://lacquerdreams.blogspot.com.au/

  Misha - www.enigmatic-rambles.blogspot.com

  Sharon - http://whatcolorismycoat.blogspot.com/http://nailwish.blogspot.com.es/

  Melissa - http://www.misadventuresofawannabemartha.com/

  Laurie http://dressedupdigits.blogspot.com/

  Lucie @ Lucy's Stash www.lucysstash.com

  Emma @  http://manicurity.blogspot.com/

  Caitlin - www.caitlinscreativecorner.blogspot.com

  Jane- http://absolutevarnish.blogspot.com/

  Amber www.nevernakednails.blogspot.com

  Vic @ Glowstars http://glowstars.net

  Jackie- http://memasmanis-jackie.blogspot.com/

  Rychelle @ Colorsplash Nails- http://colorsplashnails.blogspot.com/

  Stella - http://mywetnails.blogspot.com

  Missy @ http://missysmanis.blogspot.co.uk/

  Kim @ http://apolishedaddiction.blogspot.com/

  Christine @ http://lost-in-my-reverie.blogspot.com

  Angie @ http://ourpaintedworld.wordpress.com

  Bazzia @  http://polishmymind.blogspot.se/

  Missy the Manicured Maniac @ http://melissahenderson95.blogspot.com/

  Michelle @ http://lacquerorleaveher.blogspot.com/

  Nikki @ http://www.lilgreenheart.blogspot.com/

  Elizabeth @ http://nailpolishismycrack.blogspot.com/

  Ana Cris @ http://www.estacerradaladrogueria.blogspot.com.es/

  Shayleen @ http://simplyhandyallyear.blogspot.com/ 

  Dina @ http://secretarysnailart.blogspot.no/

  Nayade @ Toxic Vanity http://www.toxicvanity.com

  Karen @ http://nailsbykaybel.blogspot.com

  Kelly (aka Nail Obsessed) @ http://crazynaillady.blogspot.com

  Noniq @ Noniq Diary http://noniq.blogspot.com

  Marce7ina - http://marce7ina.blogspot.com

  Courtney - http://cute-iclechronicles.com

  Chrisie @ http://fingersandtoads.blogspot.com

  Emily @ http://emily-nailtailes.blogspot.com

  Candace @ http://lifeaskandistar.blogspot.ca/