Thursday, October 4, 2012

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. :-)





 


 
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Wednesday, October 3, 2012

D is for... Daddy's Girl

     It's Wednesday again and that means it is time for another installment in the ABC's of Nails Challenge, hosted by Llama Nails on Facebook.  Today's letter is D.  I have been baffled all week as to what to do for this mani and then I remembered that I had this polish in my "untried" stash for a long time.  When I say untried, I mean that I haven't shown it on my blog.  I have worn it a few times and I love it!
     Other then the name, I love everything about this polish.  Daddy's Girl is a beautiful purple jelly with pink/purple micro glitters that turn this into a shimmery finish.  Thank God, because I am not a fan of jelly finishes.  Because of the jelly finish I needed to do three coats.  I decided that I couldn't just wear the polish alone so I added a simple shooting star stamp to each nail.

Base coat: Sally Hansen Diamond Strength Hardener
Base color: Daddy's Girl from Sinful Colors - 3 coats
Top coat: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Anti-Chip Top Coat
Stamping color: Silver Sweep from Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Fast Dry Nail Color
Stamping plate: Mash 33


Here is the finished product.  Taken inside without the flash.



Taken inside without flash



Taken outside in indirect light.



Taken upclose.  So pretty.

Please check out the other "D" mani's with the links below.

Are you a fan of jelly polishes?














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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Sassy Nails Nailaween Art Challenge: Day 1 - Water Marble

     Today marks day one of my second Halloween nail challenge.  I am involved in two Halloween challenges, Adventures In Stamping on Sunday's, MSMD Monday's, and also in an ABC's of nails on Wednesdays.  I have my work cut out for me this month.  If all goes as planned I should have a new post for you every single day this month.  *Not really sure how I got myself into this* :-)
Here are the rules for this challenge taken directly from Sassy Nail's Facebook page:

Nail-Aween Nail Art Challenge will be from October 1-31st. 

Rules of this challenge:
-Complete it during the month of October, so you have 31 days to do all 10 challenges.

-Add list of Nail-Aween Nail Artists so we can all be linked up. There will be a post with additional information on Sep 30th. Link will be shared here, so dont worry. 
***This is at the bottom of my post***
Disclosure: This is a self paced challenge. You will set up your own schedule at your own pace. 

WooHoo and Happy Halloween!

*Update. I am taking blogs and FB pages until October 10th.


     I cringed when i saw that today's mani was a water marble.  They are so stinking messy and I hate having stuff on my hands.  I know, I'm weird.  I have this thing about anything, (water, lotion, food, anything) being on my hands.  *Hangs head in shame***  I think that I was high from all the fumes by the time that I was done with this.  I think it turned out OK.  My favorite nail has to be my pointer finger.

Base coat: Sally Hansen Diamond Strength Hardener
Base color: Sunrise, Sunset from Sally Hansen Diamond Strength - 1 coat
Water marble colors: Clementine from Sinful Colors and Black Creme from Wet N' Wild 
Top coat: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Anti-Chip Top Coat











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Monday, October 1, 2012

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?








 




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Sunday, September 30, 2012

AIS: Stamping With Mash Plate 29 Over The One That Got Away from O.P.I.

     Today's challenge in the Facebook group, Adventures In Stamping, was for us to use a french tip image.  I have a hard time using the french tip images because a, they are really hard to place straight, and b, my nails are so short that they take up half of my nail.  I decided to use the star image on the Mash 29 plate because I hadn't used it before and it was a smaller tip design in the fact that it wouldn't take up half of my nail.  I am pretty pleased with the turn out of this mani.  I only had to redo two of the images due to crooked placement.
     The base color for this mani is new to me.  I received it from one of my friends and fell in love with it a few days ago when I wore it by its self.  This color was released in the Katy Perry line from O.P.I. in January of 2011, before I became addicted to polish.  I am surprised to say though that I almost have this entire collection.  I just keep acquiring them through random journeys.  I do have to say that this is my favorite color from the line so far.  The One That Got Away is a BEAUTIFUL raspberry red with a glass fleck finish.  Due to this it can look different in different lights.  That is why I have so many pictures in this post today.  I really want you guys to see how wonderful this color is.

Base coat: Sally Hansen Diamond Strength Hardener
Base color: The One That Got Away from O.P.I. - 2 coats
Stamping plate: Mash 29
Stamping color: Silver Sweep from Sally Hansen Insta-Dri
Top coat:  Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Anti-Chip Top coat



This was taken inside under fluorescent lighting without the flash



Taken inside without flash



Taken inside without flash



Taken outside in indirect light



Taken outside in indirect light



Do you guys have problems when it comes to stamping on a tip image?  How have you overcome this battle?













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