31DC2013: Day 31 Recreate Your Favourite

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Afternoon loves!

WOW! We did it! We finished another year of the 31 Day Challenge. It's been a rough month, but we got through it and I am reaaaalllly proud of some of the manicures I came up with. You can check them all out tomorrow in my challenge round up post. It has also been really fun checking out the rest of the bloggers participating this month in the challenge. I especially enjoyed reading through my blog list this month!

Today I had to choose which one of Emily's manicures I was going to recreate. It was a tough job as so many of her manicures rocked this month. Emily also has an awesomely distinct nail art style and I was afraid I wouldn't be able to do her manicures justice! I eventually settled on her Day 26 Inspired by a Pattern because her wood grain idea was genius!

I did not have the same base colour as Emily, so I decided to use one of the only cool browns that I have piCture pOlish Demeter as my base. Then I used my It's So Easy Stripe Rite Black to draw on the wood grain pattern.

These were super cute and fun to do and although mine is a tad darker than Emily's original creation I still think the overall look is similar! It is a genius idea !!

WOOOOW now I am officially done the challenge! I'm still shaking my head that it has gone by this quickly. You can check out Emily's original post here and make sure you head over to see what manicure of mine she recreated! I LOVE IT!

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Stripey Stripes

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Good Morning friends!

Today I have some cute striped nails to share with you. I did these awhile back when I was still on crutches and needed something quick and easy because all I wanted to do was lay in bed :P

Even though these were simple I was a tad obsessed with them! I started off with a nude base, using Revlon Bare Bones. I wanted the colours to pop, but not be insanely neon like if I had put them over white.

The stripes were created using my Colour Club Art Club Brights Set and the purple, green and blue stripers. I just opened up all three and started with one stripe in the middle of my nail ans kept alternating going out until my nail was covered in stripes! I alternated what colour I started with in the middle of my nail to keep a little more visual interest.

Striped looks are easy to do and so much fun to wear I think! For me they are simple enough to easily replicate on both hands without and cursing involved ;) I wore these for a few days and quite enjoyed the look!

What do you think of my stripey stripes mani?! Hope you are all having a fabulous Friday!!

Green Floral Dress

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Morning!

Today I have some semi abstract floral nails to share with you. Pure Ice has recently made its way into Canadian Wal-Marts and I just haaaaad to pick up a few and I got to use two in this manicure!

I was watching What Not To Wear the other day and saw this dress that was lime green with huge bright purple flowers all over it and I thought, that would look gorgeous on nails! One of the Pure Ice polishes I picked up was the fabulous chartreuse Pure Ice Wild Thing. I knew this would be the perfect base for this dress inspired manicure.

Using a striping brush I used Cult Nails Tempest to create the largest parts of my flowers. Then I took the same brush and Pure Ice No Means No and made the next layer of my flowers. Finally I took Rimmel Night Before and created the centers. Then while it was still tacky I took a dotting tool and pressed into the centers of the flowers to give the centers a little texture.

I love florals in the spring and this was a tad on the abstract side which is totally cool to me. I didn't quite capture the dress, but I still like this none the less!

Do you like the floral print on top of the ugly pretty base? Hope you're having a wonderful day!

Pink, Gold and White

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Afternoon friends!

Everything is still crazy busy with me and blogging is getting pushed to the backburner. In a few days I'll be moved into my new place for the summer and hopefully be getting back into a better routine! Today is another post from the vault for you guys. It's simple but I quite liked the finished look.

I wanted something light and girly so I pulled out OPI I Theodora You and painted my thumb, index and pinky nails. I really love this pink crelly on myself even though I normally gravitate towards crazier colours and styles. There is something refreshing about it!

Then I added a white creme on my middle nail and added some black zig zags using my It's So Easy Stripe Rite Black. I had originally planned on doing this on both my middle and ring nails, but for some reason I thought this mani needed a little gold so I grabbed Essence The Huntsman from the Snow White Collection which I was given by my friend Amanda! I put it over my bare nail, but the next time I use it I will probably put down a base colour first.

This mani is by no means perfect, but I'm kind of liking the small imperfections.

What do you think of this? Do you ever need something soft to cleanse your palette from all the bright manis!? Hope you're having a great day :)

The Digit-al Dozen Does Animal Week: Dyeing Poison Dart Frog

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Afternoon everyone! This morning I had my last undergraduate class ever! Yay! It was mega stressful as we had to do a 45 minute presentation and one of our group members overslept and didn't show up until we were already halfway though! It was intense, but I'm really glad that it's over :D

This week the Digit-al Dozen is doing Animal Week! Once I started looking into all sorts of different animals I got so many ideas and I'm sad this week is only 5 days long! For my first mani of the week I decided to do the Dyeing Poison Dart Frog!

I started searching for all types of different poison dart frogs looking for one that was bright and colourful to replicate on my nails. I came across this site and immediately fell in love with the contrasting colours in the Dyeing Poison Dart Frog.

How cool is it that the frogs body is yellow with a shimmery cobalt blue for its legs. This was pretty much begging to be put on my nails.

I used NYC Lexington Yellow on my accent nails and then used black creme and a dotting tool and my medium length striping brush to create the black pattern on those nails. Then I used Sally Hansen Co-Balt Blue to represent my cobalt legs and black creme and a dotting tool to create my spots.

I love accent nails so this type of manicure was right up my sleeve. There are so many amazing animals to pull inspiration from in nature. I created this super handy pinable image with the Dyeing Poison Dart Frog so you all can know what my inspiration was!

What do you all think of my Dyeing Poison Dart Frog nails? Would you ever wear something like this?

I'm super happy to be back participating in the Digit-al Dozen Week! I'm super excited to see what the rest of my buddies have come up with. Make sure you check out the links below!

Nude 'n Rainbows

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Hey Everyone!

How are you all doing today? It's still been snowing here, which is terrible for me as my landlord has not come by to remove the snow yet and I'm having a hell of a time getting in and out of my house with my crutches. Needless to say I am unimpressed. He'll be getting another call from me soon lol.

I've got another from the vault post to share with you. I did these when I wanted something quick and dirty but wanted it to have a little bit of flair as well. I pulled out OPI Did You 'Ear About Van Gogh and painted all my nails with 2 easy coats.

Then I took out my Art Club Stripers Brites Set and used all 7 of those stripers to create my rainbow on my ring and thumb as accent nails! It was bright and fun enough to cheer me up out of the dreary winter weather. I know it said it yesterday, but please can the snow melt and spring come! Also so I don't have to be terrified of leaving my house and slipping on more ice... lol

Is the weather still dreary where you are? Do you use fun colours on your nails to cheer yourself up when it is so crappy out?

Hope you guys are having a good day!

The Digit-al Dozen Does Love: Valentines Skittles

Morning Guys! Ok so I'm a tad behind right now, this post was supposed to go up yesterday and my Geometric Challenge nails were supposed to be up at 6:30AM this morning. I completely crashed last night and totally forgot about both of these. SO here are the last day of the Digit-al Dozen Week, and my challenge nails will be up as soon as I can edit the pictures :)

Since I love my skittles so much I figured that I needed to get one in that was Valentine's Day themed. I didn't really have any inspiration for these, I just grabbed a gradient of red to light pink and some gold glitter and went for it!

These were so glittery and fun. I actually wore these through last weekend when I was working on my term paper and every time I would get discouraged I just looked at how sparkly and happy my nails were and I got another wind. Pretty nails totally help in that department :D

The polishes I used to create this fun skittle are,
Deborah Lippmann Shape of My Heart
Essie Knockout Pout
Essie Cute As a Button
Essie Watermelon
Julie Big Red Bow
Color Club Gingerbread For my thumb I started with Deborah Lippmann Shape of My Heart then did stripes with my medium length striper using all the polishes. My index is a base of Essie Cute As a Button then I randomly dotted the shape of a heart and went back and added some glitter at the end. My middle nail is a base of Color Club Gingerbread and then a dotted pink gradient. My ring nail is random spongling of pinks then I sponged some glitter on the end. Finally my pinky is Color Club Gingerbread with a striped heart using all my pinks and reds!

I loved these sparkly skittles and really enjoyed wearing them! My nails are much shorter because one nail chipped right off so I went as short as I could. Who says you can't rock shorties? ;)

Hope you all had a great V-Day and are enjoying your weekend! I'll see you all later with my Bent nails!! :D

Geometric Challenge Day 5: Straight

Morning! Back today with Day 5 in the Geometric Challenge! Can't believe we've reached the halfway point already. It seems like it's flyyyying by. Today's prompt is straight. I didn't really have a set idea when I sat down to do these, but I just started drawing straight lines and this is what I came up with.

I was feeling like pulling out an untried when I did these so I reached for Finger Paints Go Van Gogh! which I got way back in August. It's actually a really pretty green! I'm sad I didn't try it until now, you can bet I'll pull it out for some nail art soon times. Then I felt like keeping this one pretty subtle after my super rainbow mani so I reached for Sally Hansen Ion a white gregie and Wet n Wild I Need a Refresh-Mint a beautiful robins egg blue.

I took my striper brush and just started drawing straight lines. I didn't really think while I was doing it, I just let the lines flow! I always paint thumb to pinky when doing nail art and came up with my pinky's design last. I think I like that design best and will have to do a full mani like it soon in new colours!

Which nail do you like best? I also felt it was fitting to add in a skittle mani since my Skittles Nail Art Contest is ending soon! You have until Sunday to get in your designs! I really hope you enter :D

I'm looking forward to seeing what the rest of my challenge buddies have come up with! I'm sure they are straight-tacular ;)

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