Fourth and final day of The Nail Challenge Collaborative Presents Recreate Your First Four Nail Designs! And today I give you Green as I am still following my 2012 version of the 31 Day Challenge.
I started out with one coat of Catrice King of Greens (got to love Catrice and their amazing formulas!). I did two coats of Rainbow Polish Yo-Duh. So pretty and so shimmery! I love it! But I was curious.......
Wow! Adding Essie Matte About You makes the Catrice polish look like those OPI Suedes! For the Win! I love love love this! Ready for the 2012 31 Day Challenge Green Nails?
Focus! Who knew my camera was so bad? But still do love this mani, so pretty and green! :)
Phew! I made it! Finished the theme with barely enough time! Next month I hope to be better!
Don't forget to see what the others recreated for their day 4 posts!
Day 4 of Metals Week for The Digit-al Dozen. Today I attempted to re-create a mani by Missy over at Gnarly Gnails! (turns out hers is a re-creation too!)
Started out with Catrice Steel My Soul (see what I did there? Steel.....metal....). I then attempted the tape mani portion (and failed big time!). I used Catrice Steel My Heart (another one, steel.....metal.... get it?) and followed with L'Oreal Owl's Night. I sealed it with Poshe Top Coat. I don't believe I did this mani of Missy's justice. But really, can anyone recreate one of her great masterpieces successfully?
In this one you can see more of the contrast (lack thereof?) of Owl's Night (brown/gold on tips) and Steel My Heart (darker purple in the middle).
The tape mani has won again. Grrr! Curse you tape manis! I'll get you next time!
Don't forget to check out the other ladies and their post for Day 4!
"The Dust Bowl of the 1930s, sometimes referred to as
the "Dirty Thirties” lasted about a decade. This was a period of
severe dust storms which caused major agricultural damage to American
and Canadian prairie lands, primarily from 1930 to 1936, but in some
areas, until 1940. It was caused by severe drought and decades of
extensive farming without crop rotation." -source
To see photos from this decade are heart breaking: the Dirty Thirties and The Great Depression in one ten year span. So many suffered and so many survived with a strong will.
I used BarryM Lychee as my base. I then sponged on Catrice Lost in Mud and OPI It's All San Andreas's Fault. I used an Essence Nail Art black pen for the numbers and Essie Matte About You to give it an earthy feel.
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Today's prompt for the Never Ending Pile Challenge where we use up our untried polish, is Pastel. I love Catrice polish. A lot! I wish we had them here in the United States. There are some online stores that can get them to us, but it's not easy. Thankfully I have a few friends that I can call on to get me some!
I used Catrice Mint Me Up and Catrice Lilactric to create a simple dotticure. Both of these Catrice polishes are two coats and applied flawlessly! I love the shimmers in both of these polishes too! I topped it ff with HK Girl Top Coat. This mani lasted almost an entire week without much chipping, like only the free edge tips of my nails were showing where I had wrapped them! Love Catrice polish!
Don't forget to check out what the other Pirates are doing for their pastel prompt! Wanna join? Click on the prompt list above!
Last day of The Digit-al Dozen Does Monochromatic Week. And today I tried teal. These colors were so similar that the stamp almost doesn't show up, but I love the effect of it all!
I used Catrice San Francisco as my base and stamped using A England Saint George using Emily De Molly EDM04 plate. I also used HK Girl Top Coat. They are peacock feathers, just in case you can't tell.
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Welcome to the first Digit-al Dozen Week of 2014! And we are doing monochromatic! Today I choose to do neutrals to go along with my Neutral Mondays that I have been doing. I was inspired by TopCoatIt: Chocolate Mountains, mine are just grey! :)
A reason to break out a ton of grey? Yes please! And this isn't even a pinch of my greys! Mmmm, I love me greys! So calming and purdy!
I started out with Essence Romeo as my base (best grey ever!) Then I used Catrice London's Weather Forecast, followed by Duri Gin Greyhound, and then Revlon Iconic. I topped it off with my fabulous grey glitter that I had custom made by Dragon Lacquer called: Geeky Owl! :)
Topped it off with NYC In a New York Minute. I love how this turned out. Simple but very neat.
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Wow! Can you believe it? The Digit-al Dozen is celebrating it's one year anniversary by going through all 12 themes again! This is The Digit-al Dozen Does It Again! 12 full days of Digit-al Dozen nail art! Plus our September Spectacular Giveaway (click link or visit badge on sidebar to enter).
Now onto some nail art! Please excuse the nubbins, stress and anxiety lead me to file my nails down.
This time around I am trying new-to-me techniques! So this is a needle marble, well, a toothpick marble to precise. :) Very fun and very easy, will have to try it again!
I used OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls as my base with OPI Unfor-Greta-Bly Blue (the gorgeous shimmery one), and Catrice No Snow Petrol. Topped off with HK Girl Top Coat.
I added more polish on my ring finger to create more of an accent nail and to let Unfor-Greta-Bly Blue to really shine! It's gorgeous!
Have you tried this technique before?
Don't forget to check out the other ladies and their blue manis! Also, don't forget to enter our September Spectacular Giveaway! (badge on the sidebar)
Today is a haul post! I haven't done one in awhile and I got some really nice polishes that I had to share! :)
Bring on the Catrice! I got these from Jewli at Fanning the Fumes! Thank you Jewli! I love them all! (l-r) The Effect Maker, In The Armee Glow, Lilactric, and Petropolitan.
More Catrice from Jewli! (l-r) Mint Me Up, Purple Reign, The Monkey Gets Funky, and Squeeze Me.
Some clearance Milanis from Target! (l-r) Fresh Teal, Totally 80s, Pink Hottie, Rapid Orchid, and Violet Dash. Some of these are awesome for stamping and others are pretty sheer but will make interesting jelly sandwiches!
And finally I have these three! KleanColor Fashionista is a gorgeous poop color! Hahaha! I got the Color Club London Calling in my Birchbox. And the Nailtini in Mai Tai I got from my first Ipsy bag! Never tried Nailtini before! :)
Catrice The Effect Maker is one of my newest pretties (8 Catrices total!) that I got by way of Jewli from Fanning the Fumes! Thank you Jewli! I love having polish friends across the great big pond! :)
Just check out that pink shimmer in this nude! I love it! In real life the whole polish color is a bit more pink toned. This is three coats because it is a bit sheer. I also used HK Girl Top Coat.
Day 2 of the Untried Polish Challenge. And today is two colors. How to narrow it down to just two colors! It was so hard to do! So many untried polishes--too little time! Oh the problems of a polish-aholic!
So I finally decided to use Catrice Grey's Kelly and Essence Oh My Glitter. Can I just say that I love both of these brands! Why oh why can't Catrice be found in the US? (Pssst...Ninja Polish carries them now!) And why can't we get more Essence polishes! (Pssst....Ninja Polish carries some too!). Ok, enough crying. I do have some wonderful polish pals that feed my hunger for these polishes when I get the craving (uh-oh feeling a craving coming on!).
I used two coats of each polish. And they both applied like the wonderful dream that they are! Catrice Grey's Kelly is like a creamy chocolate milk that is heaven! And Essence Oh My Glitter shimmers with flakies to the eye's delight! (Sorry as I wax poetic there!)
And then I did this. Not the best but I was at a loss for what to do. Oh and excuse the little nubbin there on the ring finger.....grrrr!
Day 5 (and final day) (so sad to see this week end!) of The Digit-al Does Geek (and still continuing my Indie Month) and it is also TGIF: Thank Goodness, Indy Indie Friday! So I have a fabulous Indie for you: Dollish Polish: It's a Me Mario!
First I started out with two coats of Illamasqua Scorch. Thank you Sephora in JC Penny for having these on sale! Such a pretty white and nice formula!
Here is one coat of Dollish Polish It's a Me Mario. Red and blue glitter with holo stars! How perfect! Now, the red and blue glitter applied very nicely. But I did have to fish for the stars (haha, that's sounds funny!). But you know what, I am not a huge fan of shaped glitter, so I am alright with that! :)
Here is two coats of It's a Me Mario. Oh no, the star I fished out got covered. Have to fish out another! :) But holy cow did I find my 4th of July mani for this year!
I did the same things for the Mario images as I did for my Zelda ones. Printed off small pictures (sized to my nails) and painted over them on a page protector.
I used OPI Candelight and China Glaze Lemon Fizz for the star with Wet N Wild Black Creme and Milani White on the Spot. For the pipe plant I used Catrice King of Greens, China Glaze Starboard, Zoya Sooki, and Milani White on the Spot. For the bullet I used Wet N Wild Black Creme, Zoya Sooki, and Milani White on the Spot.
I just love how this one turned out! So fun, just like the many many games! I remember playing Super Mario Bros when we first got our Nintendo! Had a blast!
Bottle shot of Dollish Polish It's a Me Mario.
You can buy this polish for $8.75 over at Dollish Polish's store.
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And don't forget to check out Emma's TGIF post over at Manicurity, my TGIF partner in crime!
Don't forget to check out the other ladies and their Geek nails! Some of the ladies did owls for me! How awesome are they! Thank you ladies!
Day 3 of The Digit-al Dozen Does Geek (and continuing my Indie Month) we have The Legend of Zelda featuring Dollish Polish Legend of Zelda Duo. I also had to do this mani because Zelda is a huge deal in my family. I remember playing the game (still do) when it first came out on the original Nintendo!
For those of you not blessed of hearing of or playing this game here is a very brief summary of the storyline for the very first game, The Legend of Zelda (taken from Zelda Universe)
Ganon, the King of Evil, breaks free from the Dark World and
captures Hyrule's beloved Princess Zelda. Before she is caught, Zelda
manages to shatter the Triforce of Wisdom and scatter its eight pieces
throughout Hyrule. Link swears to recover the Triforce pieces and rescue
Princess Zelda from Ganon's clutches.
Here is (index finger) two coats of Dollish Polish The Hero of Time over two coats of Catrice King of Greens. I also put two coats of Dollish Polish Hylian Princess over two coats of OPI Steady As She Rose. Look how fabulous the glitter applied! As you can see Hylian Princess is more packed with glitter than The Hero of Time. But both are gorgeous! And both are super easy to apply with no glitter fishing!
I created Zelda images by printing off small pictures (sizing them to my nail size) and then painting over top of them into a page protector. I thought about doing Link's sword but decided against it.
So here we have the iconic Zelda images applied to my nail. For Link's shield I used Diamond Cosmetics Concrete Jungle as the base with China Glaze First Mate, OPI Candlelight, and Zoya Sooki. For the Triforce I used OPI Candlelight and Wet N Wild Black Creme.
Bottle shot of Dollish Polish The Hero of Time
Bottle shot of Dollish Polish Hylian Princess
Hylian Princess is totally unique in my collection. The Hero of Time, I have a few other green/brown glitters but the application/formula of this one is just fabulous! But you can never have too many green/brown glitters in my opinion!
