Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Summer Challenge Day 13 - Dolphins/Whales or Favorite Water Animal

Day 13 (July 25th) of the Summer Challenge is Dolphins/Whales or Favorite Water Animal. Thank goodness this was toward the end of the challenge because it took me weeks to think of this one! I decided to go with seahorses, because they are always the sea animal that makes me the most excited at the aquarium (mostly because they are just so stinkin cute!). :)

For the background, I used Salon Perfect Blue Raspberry. After that, I painted on my seahorses using NYC Taxi Yellow Creme, Finger Paints chocolate brown, and Avon Gleaming Gold using my new nail art brushes!! My nail art can be so much more detailed now - I am so excited! I added the seaweed along the edges using China Glaze Four Leaf Clover, and used a small dotting tool to add the bubbles using Pure Ice SuperStar!.

  
Here is Salon Perfect Blue Raspberry by itself. This is a super inexpensive polish I found at Walmart. It's not the best polish ever, but it has amazing shine with no topcoat and they have a lot of really pretty colors.


Thank you so much for looking! A full outline of the challenge can be found here. Please be sure to check out the other participants in this challenge, too!

  1. Theodora from Red Hair and Black Nail Polish
  2. Kaki from GlitterObsession
  3. Cuti-CLUE-les
  4. Whimsical Glam
  5. Sue from Creative Nail Design by Sue
  6. Sangy from Lipgloss Affairs
  7. Taya from Taya
  8. Kelly from Adventures in Nail Art
  9. Diana from Nails by Diana
  10. Alexis Leigh from -XOXO Alexis Leigh
  11. Namira from Namira Rahman
  12. Chiro from Nail of This Week
  13. IsaBella at IsaBella's World
  14. Beautilicious Blogger
  15. Nikki from Little Green Heart
  16. Peace Love and Polish

18 comments:

  1. These are so cute! Your sea horses look so much nicer than the one I did! Lol

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    1. Thanks! They were surprisingly difficult to draw on my nails - I didn't realize it would be so hard. I didn't think yours looked bad. And anyway, I liked that you did a few different sea creatures. :) Look at the one on my ring finger - it's snout is all crazy looking. :)

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  2. I'm happy you did seahorse on your nail cause that's also my fav too!!
    And also it's so jealous that you have such a beautiful nail...Can't you clone it for me? :D

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    1. Ha - trust me I have my moments with my nails where they are quite bad. :) Thank you for the compliment. I'm so glad you like them!

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  3. Wow, Jessie, this is so good. I adore your sea horses. Very good job with this manicure.

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    1. Thanks Taya! I admit I love these little guys too!

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  4. Aw these are so cute, I love seahorses too!

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  5. Love the seahorses! I just went to the aquarium wish I knew how to do that!

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    1. Thanks, Linds! If you hang out in the art room as much as Jo and I did in highschool, it'd be a no-brainer! haha - my nails are my new mini canvases. ::)

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  6. jessie, they are so cute and adorable!! I wonder why i didn't think of sea horses *.*

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    1. Thanks! I only thought of it because I was looking through pictures I took at the aquarium, and remembered how much I adore these little guys when I found of photo of them :)

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  7. Ohh SO very very pretty! You're so creative. Very cute mani.

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    1. Thank you - I am loving these nails and have gotten sooo many compliments I can hardly believe it! I don't want to have to remove them for the next challenge - haha. :)

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  8. OMG, love the little sea horses! Such a great idea :)

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