Nail-Art-A-Go-Go Day 23 - Oils

For today's manicure, I decided to mimic a painting that I have in my living room. It is a print of one of Claude Monet's paintings of the Path at La Cavee Pourville.

Here is how my version turned out. It's no Monet, but I'm pretty happy with this one. I had a lot of fun doing it, too!

I started out with L.A. Colors Mega Watt for my base. It is a good nude for me. It has a slight shimmer to it, too. Since I have never swatched it before, I'll show it now. This is three thin coats.

Thanks so much for looking today. Make sure you take a look at what the others did for today's challenge as well!

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Nail-Art-A-Go-Go Day 16 - Doodles

Good afternoon! Today I have some cutesy doodles for you! I don't have much to say about these...I just grabbed a nail art pen and started doodling so it is all very random. I will say that the base of this manicure is a Hello Kitty polish from Sephora in Minty. I purchased this polish strictly because of the Hello Kitty shaped bottle and was pleasantly surprised when I tried it out. It went on so nice and smooth and was opaque in just two thin coats - nice! The nail art pen I used is from Sally Hansen in Purple Violet. :)

Here is Hello Kitty Minty all by itself. It is a much nicer polish than I expected. Now I wish I had bought all the colors. :( Ah well...

I had fun with this one! And it was quick, too. I really didn't plan it out - I just went for it! Make sure you take a peek at all the other doodles for today!

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Nail-Art-A-Go-Go Challenge Day 9 - Inner Geek

As you all know, when I geek out, it is on video games. But since I don't have a new video game to be inspired by, I decided to go with something else that I have missed these past several years due to school: Books! College kind of ruined reading for me for a while, but now that I am done, I have been enjoying it again. So here's to books! Yay!

The base of the manicure is a new polish I got for Christmas: butter LONDON Cream Tea. The rest of the colors I used are listed below.

The polishes used in this mani were: China Glaze Desert Sun, Exotic Encounters & Prey Tell, Essie Marshmallow, Sephora by OPI What a Broad, and Julep Dendrie. Here is Cream Tea all by itself.

Thanks for looking! Here is what everyone else came up with today!

Nail-Art-A-Go-Go Day 2 = Jewel Tones!

Good evening! I thought I would have this post up earlier, but I kept having to pause my painting to cook up some yummy foods for the big game tonight. I don't care about football AT ALL, but I do care about my husband. Therefore, I made all sorts of yummy game snacks to surprise him and make this day extra special. And, since I get to eat it all too, it makes me happy. :) Anyway, for today's post, I got it in my head that I wanted to do something like stained glass.

It was a lot more time consuming than I first imagined, but I loved the way it turned out. It looks pretty much the way I envisioned it. :) I used the stamping decal method with an image on Cheeky XL Plate D. This is the part that took forever, but it was worth it.

For this mani, I ended up using 12 nail polishes! I'm going to list them out below rather than explain in detail what I did with each one. I just don't have that kind of time today!! I will say that I started out with a white base in the hopes that the colors would look brighter, so for  that, I used Pure Ice SuperStar!, which you all know by now is my favorite white. Here are the rest of the colors I used:

• butter LONDON Knees Up
• essie Sure Shot
• Julep Angela
• Julep Leah
• Julep Marjorie
• Konad Special Black
• L.A. Colors Magnetic Force
• L.A. Colors Wired
• Pure Ice Femme Fatale
• Pure Ice Vintage Glam
• Sally Hansen Pronto Purple

Make sure you check out what all the others did for today's challenge!!!

Nail-Art-A-Go-Go Challenge!

So, I am already dedicated to a few challenges, which means I do not have time to do a manicure every day. BUT, I really love the idea of this challenge that Missy came up with and I want to do it. I have decided that I will participate as I can, and then do the ones that I miss as I have the time once the challenge is over. Yay!

It starts on 2/1 and will run through 2/28. I am planning to pick my favorite one each week (or maybe two!) and do them in accordance with the dates that everyone else will be doing them. I wish I had the time to do all of these, but I just don't.

I'm excited! I can't wait to give some of these a try!