Untried Polish Challenge: Most Expensive AND The Digit-al Dozen Does Tape Manis

Welcome to another installment of The Digit-al Dozen! This week our theme is Tape Manis! Oh crap! These are my nemesis! Shoot! How am I going to do this? Five whole days! Seriously? I can barely do one!

Well, I put on my big girl panties and settled in to crank out the manis this week! Some of them I am pretty impressed with; others.......not so much. >_< But I tried and completed all five days! Huzzah! Shall we see day 1?

I also combined this tape mani week with the Untried Polish Challenge that I am currently working through. So today is: Most Expensive.

Here is ManGlaze Santorum. I fell in love with this polish after seeing it on The TraceFace Philes. Here photos of it are stunning! I used some chevron-like nail guide stickers that I got on ebay to create this mani. I love working with matte polishes for tape manis. They dry quicker! :)

Sorry it's a bit blurry but I wanted to show you the stickers I used. And then all I used was HK Girl Top Coat over the glorious matte Santorum!

Look at the sparkle! That is was sold me on this polish!

Here is a swatch shot for you! Isn't it purdy! :) One coat as well! Sa-weet!

As you can see on my pointer I waited a bit too long to pull up the stickers so there are those wispies. Oh well, it really only shows up on camera. Cameras always show things you don't want others to see!

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Don't forget to check out the other ladies and their fabulous Tape Manis!

The Digit-al Dozen Does Animal Week - Jackalope

Day 4 of The Digit-al Dozen Does Animal Week. And today we have the fearsome creature, the Jackalope! A cross between a jackrabbit and an antelope. And today I used all texture/specialty finishes polishes!

Ok, as you can see, texture polishes aren't the easiest to work with. For my grass I used OPI Here Today Aragon Tomorrow Suede (two coats), the sky is Milani Texture in Aqua Splash. The Jackalope itself is ManGlaze Santorum with antlers of Layla Softouch 11 Mudhattan. His ears and nose is OPI La Paz-itively Hot Matte. His eyes and tail are OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls and China Glaze Concrete Catwalk.

So where this isn't my best nail art, it was still fun to try and create using only (almost only: eyes and tail) textures and specialty finishes!

Here it is with a coat of HK Girl Top Coat. Look at all the sparkles that show up in OPI Here Today Aragon Tomorrow and ManGlaze Santorum! Pretty!

Don't forget to check out the other ladies and their animal nails!