The Digit-al Dozen Does Fashion: Marc Jacobs

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Morning!

I'm still out in Vancouver, hopefully having a great time enjoying the sights and the beauty that I've heard comes with BC! But don't fear I'm on the ball and have scheduled another Digit-al Dozen post for today!

Today's nail art inspiration comes from the lovely Marc Jacobs. I stumbled upon this dress and instantly fell in love. Buuuuuuuuut is is by Marc Jacobs and costs 890, which is approximately $1,150!! Since never in my life I would be able to afford that, I decided to replicate it on my nails instead.

Here is the fabulous dress in all its glory!

I started off with China Glaze Highlight of My Summer, which I am completely obsessed with. Then to replicate the floral gradient on my nails I started off with a white creme and my small cut down nail art brush. I freehanded on the outlines of flowers on all my nails and then added the colour.

Going up my nail I added flowers in China Glaze Passion For Petals and then in China Glaze Snap My Dragon near the top of my nail. I went back and added details in those flowers with black creme and white creme. Finally I added leaves using Essie Pretty Edgy.

I really like the gradient of flowers here. I would totally rock this dress, buuuuut I can never afford it so here's to settling with it on my nails :) What are your thoughts on these Marc Jacobs inspired nails?

Check out the rest of the Digit-al Dozen below!

Mint Manis For Talia Joy

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Goooooood Evening lacquerheads!

I am very excited to let you all know that I am DONE my thesis! YAAAY! This means I am one presentation away from being done my undergrad :) Hopefully this means more time for blogging now :)

Today I am participating in Mint Manis For Talia Joy, honouring the life of the bright, young, amazing girl, Talia Joy Castellano. The idea for the mint mani theme was inspired by Talia's last Instagram posting, which was a mint manicure post featuring the hands of Talia, her mother, and her dear friend Tammy. For those of you that don't know Talia, she was an extremely talented 13-year-old makeup artist and YouTuber, who was battling two kinds of cancer (neuroblastoma and preleukemia) since she was diagnosed at only 7 years old. Despite all this, she still managed to keep upbeat, motivated, and overwhelmingly positive.

I started off with my current mint crush, China Glaze Highlight Of My Summer. I've worn this so much already that I may be needing a back up bottle someday. On my middle nail I started with China Glaze Glistening Snow and on my ring nail I used Cult Nails Tempest.

I freehanded the drips using Highlight Of My Summer and a striping brush then added the details using black and white creme. On my ring nail I first added the stripes with black creme and then added the large and small rhinestones because Talia loved a little bling on her nails.

You can share your mint manis for Talia on Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram, etc. with the hashtags #MintManisforTalia and #TaliasLegacy. You can also add your mani to the Inlinkz collection below. I'm really excited to see what everyone else has come up with in honour of this beautiful and talented young girl who was taken from the world too soon. Keep Talia's family and friends in your prayers! <3

The Digit-al Dozen Does Tape: Cool Gradient

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Morning!

We're gearing up to the end of the week and I have to say I am almost at my tape limit. I'm liking the manicures I'm creating, but the amount of time that they take is insanity! I admire all you ladies that do these on a regular basis, you have a crazy amount of patience!

For these nails I started off with Cult Nails Tempest, I feel like I'm using this all the time, I may need a new bottle soon! After applying topcoat and waiting for it to dry I went back at it with my striping tape. This time I cut pieces in advance to attempt to make it easier on myself. I went one nail at a time and laid down my striping tape on a diagonal.

Starting at the bottom I used a small nail art brush and butter LONDON Fiver for the first space. Then for the second one I mixed two drops of Sweet Color 009 and one drop of Fiver together. For the third one I added one drop of Bondi New York Tavern On The to the previous mixture. For the fourth stripe I used Tavern On The on its own and for the last section I used Pure Ice French Kiss. That was a lot of mixing and explaining! I hope you all understand :) I removed the tape quickly once all the colours had been painted to keep my lines clean.

I think these cool gradient nails are pretty fun! This is my favourite colour combination so it made using the tape slightly more bearable :)

What do you think of these? Remember to check out the rest of the Digit-al Dozen below!

Mint Floral Print

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Gooooood Morning and Happy Saturday!

You saw a sneak peak of these nails in yesterdays post, but I loved them so much that I thought they deserved a whole post to themselves. I was stumbling around the internet and I found this post and immediately knew I had to recreate it at some point.

On my non-accent nails I used Sweet Color 009 from Born Pretty Store. On my floral accent nails I started off with a white creme and then went to work creating my floral pattern.

The pink flowers were done with Pure Ice Flirt Alert and the centers were Pure Ice French Kiss. The yellow flowers were NYC Lexington Yellow and the outlines were a mixture of French Kiss and Sweet Color 009. All the leaves were done with Sweet Color 009 and the outlines were a mixture of that and French Kiss. All of this was done with my small cute down nail art brush.

I actually got s surprising number of compliments on these! When I was at physio the receptionist was convinced they were polish strips, and she ended up pulling out 4 other people and we stood around her computer and they all looked at my blog for about 15 mins. It was quite funny!

I loved these and originally only planned on wearing them for a day, and ended up wearing them for 4! I only took them off when one nail chipped and I couldn't stand looking at the chip any longer lol. What do you think of these mint floral nails?!

Hope you have a wonderful Saturday my loves!!

Overstudded to the Max

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Morning lacquerheads!

Today I have some totally outrageous nail art that I love, love, loved wearing. One day when I was going through my Bloglovin' feed I saw this post by Spektor's Nails and instantly knew I just had to completely recreate her manicure!

GAH! I love this completely over studded look so much! This started off with one of my very first polish purchases, Essie Mint Candy Apple. This blueish mint is heaven, and I have used over 3/4 of my bottle lol. Then I used Essie Good As Gold and some saran wrap to create the texture to go underneath my studs.

Once that was dry I grabbed some nail glue, I didn't want these going anywhere! I started with the strip of square studs down the center of my nail and placed them using my Born Pretty Store Wax Pen. Then one side at a time and using nail glue I added my smaller round studs using the same method. My studs aren't exactly the same colour gold, but this was not as noticeable in real life!

Judith originally did these nails for the Seven Deadly Sins Challenge for the Greed day, with the tagline being More is More, Don't Hold Yourself Back! It totally fit the theme and I absolutely loved wearing these for a weekend! Since I used nail glue the studs held up for about 4 days before I could pick them off. They were held so well in place that for the first 2 days I couldn't pick the off if I tried!

What are your thoughts on these overstudded nails?! Would you ever rock this?!

Fizzy Geometric Cucumbers

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Morning Friends!

Silly blogger was supposed to have this post up last week, but it did not schedule it properly! So better late than never I thought I would share this creation with you.

I actually did these as a guest post for Lisa of Nail Polish Creations while she was vacationing in New York! You can find the original post here :)

My base for these is etoile Polish Fizzy Cucumber which is one of my favourite spring colours and is currently residing on my toes! The black geometric design was done freehand with my It's So Easy Strip Rite Black. I was imitating a sweater I saw a girl on campus wearing one day. The black on my middle nail is Cult Nails Fetish and the square studs are from Born Pretty Store.

I love this combination and geometric prints, well we all know those are my favourite! What do you think of these? Make sure to check out the original post here!

Mrs. P's Nail Potions Gold Digger and Spring Fling

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Afternoon dolls!

Over the next little while I'll be putting a hold on nail art and trying to get through this stack of reviews that I have piling up! The amount of schoolwork I've had this term has been out of this world so I haven't been able to get these up until now. Today I have two really pretty polishes to share with you from a new to me indie brand Mrs. P's Nail Potions. First up I have a wicked colour changing polish, Gold Digger!

This is the polish in it's natural warm state. My nails are pretty short here, but you can see where I have free edge the polish changes from a deep gold to a deeper brown. This is three coats without topcoat. I wanted to capture the colour change first incase top coat affected it.

Here is the polish right after I dunked my nails in cold water. My house was pretty warm so I took this picture right away while my hands were all wet to get the full colour change for you guys.

These are taken as my hands were warming back up. I still had a drop of water on my nails in the first image so the colour stayed darker there. It took about 5+ minutes for the polish to completely change back to it's warm state colour.

I like that the colour change was significant enough that you could really tell the difference, however it was subtle enough that it took on a gradient look over my free edge. I want to wear this again when I have longer nails to really get the gradient look going on. A note on the formula of Gold Digger, the first coat goes on almost translucent and hardly looks like you have any polish on your nails. It will build to this after 3 coats but I was slightly alarmed when I applied my first coat.

The second polish that I have to share with you is Mrs. P's Nail Potions Spring Fling. This is a bright springy polish that is perfect for this dreary time of year up here in Canada. I layered this over Born Pretty Store Sweet Color #009 which has a similar mint base (review coming soon) because in the bottle it looked a little thin, although I do think this could be buildable if you wanted a sheerer look.

I'm totally obsessed with mint right now, ok all the time, so this polish was right up my alley. The glitter does get a little buried in the base and can tend to look a little bumpy so I would recommend a few coats of top coat to smooth everything out. The base is also frosty and lends itself to brushstrokes so be careful during application.

This was my first experience with a colour changing polish and I can see the appeal! You have instant nail art without really trying which is awesome. This goldy-brown colour isn't something I would normally reach for, but it is an interesting colour none the less.

You can purchase Mrs. P's Nail Potions here in her etsy shop for $7.97 USD or $8.00 CAN. Spring Fling is in stock (at time of posting) but Gold Digger is not. Keep up with Mrs. P's Nail Potions on Facebook and Twitter for all the latest news!

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Geometric Challenge Day 2: Round

Morning dolls!

Today is day two in the Geometric Challenge and the task for today is Round. I had a bunch of ideas when I was brainstorming for today, but in the end I think I came up with some of my favourite nail art ever.

GAAAh I love these so much! I started with one of my new favourite polishes butter LONDON Fiver. The perfect icy mint creme. Then with Essie Good As Gold I created a small dot in about the center of my nail and then started drawing circles having them overlap to create a blossom like pattern in the center of my nail. Then in the gaps I drew lines out to the end of my nails to give it a little more visual interest.

I actually did these a few days ago trying to get some done in advance and then couldn't bear to take them off. I wore them for 4 days until one chipped and I was essentially forced to take them off my nails. I won't pimp my own nail art this hard usually, but I mean gah. Geometric designs can be soo pretty.

I used my super small cut down nail art brush to do this because I wanted the lines to be as small as possible to allow for Fiver to show through even where there were multiple circles overlapping.

I adore these round nails. What do you think of them?

Can't wait to see what my fabulous challenge buddies have come up with! Make sure you check them out below!
Victoria of Manicurator
Emily of The Lacquerologist
Whitney of Dressed Up Nails
Lindsey of Neverland Nail Blog
Alexis of XOXO Alexis Leigh
Brittney of Precious Polish