The Digit-al Dozen Does Skittles: Neon, Nude and Studded

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Good Morning friends!

This week is yet another Digit-al Dozen Week here on Sincerely Stephanie and we are welcoming some new members this week! This week is also very exciting because I chose the theme this week, and it is my absolute favourite kind of nail art, SKITTLES!! If you are looking for more information as to just what skittles are you can check out my post on The Digit-al Dozen blog here.

My post is a day late starting as yesterday was a holiday here in Canada and I was finishing up spending time with my family and boyfriend whom I won't see again for over a month, so please excuse the late start!

For this manicure I started off with OPI My Vampire is Buff on all my nails except my index nail. I then grabbed my favourite small cut down nail art brush and some gold studs from Born Pretty Store and started skittling. Yup I just made that a verb.

The gold glitter on my index nail is OPI Liquid Sand Honey Ryder and all the neon line work was done with China Glaze Sun of a Peach. The neon looks really washed out here, but it was soooo bright in person and the contrast was fantastic. I think my favourite nail is the gold cross, what do you think?

I can't wait to see what everyone else is coming up with! Hope you are all having a lovely start to your week :)

31DC2013: Day 22 Inspired by a Song

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Morning friends!

Today I have some nail art that I am very excited to share with you. I'm pretty much doing these nails day by day right now and I didn't have time to even start these nails until last night around 11pm. I was only supposed to work until 9, but ended up having to stay until 10:30pm so by the time I got home I had very little energy to think about what song I was possibly going to be inspired by. So I texted my boyfriend and said I need a song, pick me one! He immediately said Roar by Katy Perry as he had juuust heard it on the radio as he was coming home from work!

I absolutely love this song and am super thrilled that I created nail art based on it! As soon as my boyfriend said Roar I watched the video and I was instantly hit with inspiration! Check out the embedded video below. It is such a happy, feel good song!



Let's get back to looking at the nail art, because well I love it! :D

My thumb is from the opening scene in the music video, it starts off graphically saying, A Motion Theory Adventure Filmed in Junglescope with ROAR in big orange letters. My index nail is another scene from the music video where Katy is scared in the dark and can see all the eyes staring out at her. My middle nail is my favourite!! It is the tiger ROARING! I'm rather proud of how he came out :D My ring nail is pink and yellow flowers with green leaves quite like the flowers on Katy's grass skirt in the second half of the video. My pinky nail is leopard print to represent the scarf she's wearing that magically turns into a fab bralet lol.

I used waaaaay too many polishes and spent waaay too long on these nails, but I mean come on? They were worth it right? I must sound so full of myself right now! I used 24 polishes and pretty much every colour on my nail was custom mixed to get the right shade that I wanted. If you have any questions about a particular colour leave a comment below and I will let you know :)

I was sure these nails were going to be a giant fail because I was tired after work coming home, but listening to Roar on youtube like 5 times for sure put me in an awesome mood!

What are your thoughts on my Katy Perry nails?! Do these seem roar appropriate to you? Yes I make bad puns when I write posts at 2am :P

Be sure to stop by The Lacquerologist to see what song inspired Emily today! Also be sure to ENTER OUR GIVEAWAY!
Check out last years inspired by a song nails here!

31DC2013: Day 19 Galaxies

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Good Morning loves!

Today's challenge prompt is Galaxies. The usual route of galaxy nails involves sponging on a mixture of colours until it looks like a galaxy and then adding in some stars so it is a very far away perspective. I like galaxy nails, but decided to go for a more 'close up' perspective.

Our Solar System!! I know nails like these have been done before, but I had much more fun making these than I would have doing classic galaxy nails. The base of this manicure is the beautiful Essence Jacob's Protection. This is a deep navy jelly with green and turquoise micro glitter that I thought would mimic stars in the distance.

Pretty much every colour was custom mixed so I will list all the polishes I used below. All the work was done with my smallest cut down nail art brush :D Here are all the polishes used
Sally Hansen Lightening (yellow)
Sally Hansen Rapid Red (red)
Revlon Sorbet (light orange)
Essence Wake Up! (dark orange)
China Glaze Sunday Funday (light blue)
Essie Pretty Edgy (green)
Essie Marshmallow (white jelly)
NYC Sidewalkers (gray)
Sinful Colors In The Mist (green gray)
Pure Ice Bikini (light blue)
Revlon Bare Bones (nude)
China Glaze Desert Sun (brown)
Essie Bulter Plese (cobalt blue)
Sally Hansen Ion (grey white)

SUPER love these and have been showing them to all my friends :D I don't want to take them off today to do watermarble nails. Bleh. Another least favourite :P Do you like my galaxy nails?!

Be sure to stop by The Lacquerologist to see Emily's galaxy nails!
Check out last years galaxy nails here!

The Digit-al Dozen September Spectacular: Tape

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Good Afternoon my friends!

I hope you are having a great Friday! I am back for another Digit-al Dozen September Spectacular post, with this time recreating Tape Week! I have to say I am not a fan of tape manicures, only because they are a pain in the butt to try and get right! I even have a little mistake on this one, but I'm willing to let it slide because I love the final look :D In the original tape week in July Emma of Manicurity posted this stunningly amazing manicure and I knew that I had to do my own version of it for this day!

I absolutely love this look! It was time intensive and a huge pain, but the final outcome was totally worth it in my opinion! For this manicure I started out with China Glaze Highlight of My Summer and then using the polish brush of the following polishes I wiped off essentially all the polish and then did random brushstrokes to create a really neat effect! The polishes used for this were, China Glaze Sun of a Peach, China Glaze Bottoms Up, China Glaze Are You Jelly? and China Glaze Shell-O. Here is what the base looked like before I added tape.

I added a coat of Seche Vite and then waited for about 25 minutes to be sure it was 100% dry before I started applying striping tape. I first put three pieces of tape horizontally and then three pieces diagonally both ways, so a total of nine pieces of tape on each nail! I then applied Color Club Beyond a stunning black holographic

I absolutely adored this when Emma did it the first time, and I am so happy I recreated it! I hope you are all having a great Friday and be sure to check out the rest of the Digit-al Dozen's tape manicures below!

31DC2013: Day 9 Rainbow

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Morning friends!

Today's 31 Day Challenge Nails are all about Raaainnboowwsss!! I actually again had a tough time coming up with some interesting nail art for this one, and ended up going for a simpler design.

I started out with Cult Nails Tempest on all my nails and then added a coat of Seche Vite and allowed that to fully dry. From there I proceeded to do the watercolour technique using pure acetone and a medium sized brush. For those of you unfamiliar with the watercolour technique there are some great tutorials on Beauty Geeks and Rebecca Likes Nails.

I used a lot of colours for this manicure! Here they all are listed below,
China Glaze Escaping Reality
China Glaze Splish Splash
China Glaze I'm With The Lifeguard
China Glaze Orange You Hot?
China Glaze Creative Fantasty
NOPI Hit The Lights

Sometimes a simple look is just as striking as nail art that takes forever! I do love the look of this manicure and hope that you all do too!

Make sure to check out Emily of The Lacquerologist's nails to see what she has come up with for Rainbow nails! Also be sure to enter our giveaway for 2 gift cards to Born Pretty Store. Hope you're all having a great Monday!

31DC2013: Day 2 Orange

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Morning friends! Here we are in day two of the 31 Day Challenge 2013 styles and the theme is Orange! I am not usually a huge fan of orange on my nails so coming up with this design took me a bit longer than usual, but I am really loving the final result!

Basically I pulled every orange I had out of my helmer and then just started playing around with them until I had something that I liked. I started off with China Glaze Sun of a Peach from this years Summer Collection. Then using my medium length striping brush I just started striping random oranges on in no particular pattern to get a striped look. The oranges I used were, Pure Ice Can't Stop, China Glaze Orange You Hot? and Revlon Sorbet. At this point most of the finishes were similar and I wasn't loving the mix of orange shades.

Luckily I saw Hard Candy Pinch of Spice which is a fabulous glassfleck giving me the different dimensions I was craving! Then I added the flowers using black and white creme and my cut down brush. I put three black dots in the middle of the flower and then added a few strokes of Pinch of Spice just to give it a little extra pizzaz!

This was one of those manicures that just happens out of nowhere! Do you ever have manicures like that? Are you a fan of this orange look?

Make sure you head over to The Lacquerologist to see what Emily has come up with!

If you want to see last years orange nails you can check them out here!

The Digit-al Dozen Does Fashion: Chevrons and Dots

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Morning ladies and gents!

Here we are in Day 4 of the Digit-al Dozen's Fashion Week and I am back at it today with another outfit inspired post. I stumbled upon the blog Happily Grey and instantly fell in love with her creative style. I found this post and although I don't think I could ever quite pull off the outfit I thought it would make for some wild nail art!

Now it kind of looks random, but check out the outfit,

Blue polka dotted shirt, with some wild black, white and orange pants!

For the 'shirt' nails I started off with China Glaze Splish Spalsh and then added the dots with a small dotting tool and Pure Ice French Kiss. The 'pants' nails were a little harder, I started off with Cult Nails Tempest my favourite white creme. Then using my small cut down nail art brush I started painting on the chevrons with Zoya Kafuda and Wet n Wild Black Creme. I was careful to leave empty white chevrons so I could speckle them after to get the effect of the pattern. Once they were done I added the white strips in the black and orange chevrons. Coat of Seche and I was good to go!

It might seem random, but I'm actually digging how different these prints are next to each other! The contrast is quite interesting, and I think that's what makes it unique. I never would have paired these together without this week so I'm super happy for the challenge!

What are your thoughts on this contrasting nails?! I hope you're having a great end to your week! Check out the rest of the participants below!

The Digit-al Dozen Does Fashion: Neon and Nude Purses

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Gooood Morning friends!

I'm still away on vacation, but I could NOT miss a Digit-al Dozen Week! So this week will be my own posts, but pre scheduled while I'm still away!

We're back with another Digit-al Dozen week, with this theme being Fashion. I am not very fashionable, being a student an all so I turned to Pinterest to help me find some cute fashion trends. I saw these neon and nude purses and instantly knew these would translate perfectly to nail art.

Surprisingly I used tape for this manicure! I started off with one of my favourite nudes, OPI Did You 'Ear About Van Gogh and applied top coat and waited for that to dry completely. Once that was dry I taped off both sides of my nails leaving a strip in the middle for the colour.

Going one nail at a time I taped off the sides and painted using the polish brush. My thumb is Revlon Sorbet, my index is Pure Ice French Kiss, my middle is Nicole by OPI Hit the Lights, my ring nail is Pure Ice Flirt Alert and finally my pinky is Pure Ice Free Spirit. I added four gold studs from Born Pretty Store to replicate the clasp on a purse.

I wore these nails a few weeks back, and these were the nails that my supervisor finally asked me about! Of all the crazy nails I've worn and he's never said a word, these were the ones he finally went, "What's on your nails?" I thought that was pretty funny :)

What are your thoughts on these?! Remember to check out the rest of the Digit-al Dozen below!