52 Week Pick n Mix Challenge - Skittles + Red and Pink

Happy Friday everyone! I am so ready for the weekend, oh my goodness. For this week's challenge, I combined the prompts again. As much as I would love to post every day, it is just not happening for me, so here I am only posting 2-3 times a week. Oh well, it could be worse I suppose. Since I didn't want my mani to look to Valentine's Day-esque, I decided to throw some black in there too. It gave me a reason to play with a glitter I haven't used yet, too!

I started off with Nicole by OPI Be Ama-Zing! for my base. On my pinky, I added two coats of Maybelline Color Show At Heart. It is various sizes and shapes of red and black glitters. The red polish I used, is from the same set: Nicole by OPI Challenge Red-y. I used striping tape for the designs on my middle and ring fingers and the stamp I used on my thumb is from Bundle Monster plate BM-412. I stamped in red, then used Pure Ice Black Rage to dot on little accents. I feel like I haven't quite mastered the skittle. I always feel like mine look awkward...haha.

Here is what Nicole by OPI Be Ama-Zing! looks like on it's own. It's a lovely pink cream with blue undertones, and is very opaque. This is two coats, plus a coat of Seche Vite.

Thank you so much for looking, and have a safe and happy 4th of July! I'll be back Sunday with something new to show off. :)

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The Neverending Pile Challenge - Skittles

I have three untried polishes for you today in this skittle mani. These are all pretty recent purchases - I bought them all around my birthday to celebrate turning yet another year older. I didn't really have anything in mind when I did this mani. I just sort of started and this is how it turned out.

I used Zoya Rebel and Piaf, and Piggy Polish Finger Fireworks is the glitter. It turned out to be a pretty bright, springy manicure. I like it.

Here is Zoya Rebel and Piaf on their own. They were both super awesome - great formula, beautiful color, and just...awesome.

Well that's all I've got for you, so have a great night everyone! Make sure you have a look at what everyone else did!

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Golden Oldie Thursday Two-fer! - Purple & Skittle

I'm really getting to be quite terrible at blogging. I swear I blogged more when I was juggling school on top of everything. Now I have no school...and no excuse to be neglecting my baby blog and my nails!! Ah well, maybe I just have a case of the winter blahs. Spring will be here soon...right?! I better keep this brief or I will miss yet another deadline! Ok, so first up is my purple mani for this week.

The base is Zoya Areetha, which was a purchase I almost instantly regretted when I realized that it was a chrome/frost polish. I can't stand seeing brushstrokes on my nails and this polish was terrible for that.. I bought it and then never used it...until this week. On top of that, I added China Glaze CG In The City. This is the first bottle of China Glaze that I ever purchased, and then NEVER tried. I did a random design with striping tape and tried to keep it simple so I could finish this post on time. :)

Here is Areetha by herself. Ugh I hate the streaks! It is such a shame because the color is gorgeous. I got a few compliments on it too. Those people didn't look at it up close, like I have been...

Haha, ok next we have my skittle. This is 4 untrieds/loaded into one mani! I started with COS BAR (an unnamed dark bronze. I did my nail art with Bath & Boddy works Copper, Townley Mochachino (these two colors are both over 10 years old!), and Sally Hansen Snappy Sprinkles. Snappy Sprinkles is another glitter I bought years ago and then didn't really know what to do with.

Here is COS BAR's Bronze all by itself. It's not bad. It's actually a pretty good fall/winter color.

Thanks for looking and make sure you look at what everyone else did!

New Year's Eve Mani!

Well, another year is coming to a close. I can hardly believe it - it feels like time is just flying by! A lot has changed this past year. Some changes were good and others were difficult and sad, but we made it through and I have a good feeling about 2014. Here is a quick recap of my year - it seems like many of these things just happened recently, too.

• I graduated from college - woo!
• I just bought my first brand-new car!
• My husband and I celebrated our 11th wedding anniversary!
• My best friend finally got hitched! ;)
• My sister-in-law got married, too!
• I traveled from the east coast to the west coast within a month of eachother
• I got a melmer and filled it...I may need to buy another!
• I reached 100 followers on my blog and hosted my first giveaway!

I'm sure there are many more things, but that is enough for now. I feel like I accomplished a lot this year and I am looking forward to another year of successes.

 Here is my manicure dedicated to this evening!

This is Zoya Dream for the base and the nail art is done in China Glaze I'm Not Lion. So much fabulous sparkle! I love it! I hope you all have a great night and stay safe!
 

Laid-Back NEW31DC Day 27 - A Mani Inspired By You

A mani inspired by me...what does that mean, exactly? Well, I decided to interpret it as a mani that showcases the things that I like. So, I did just that. I tried to do a nice skittle mani to show off the things that make me, well, me. Of course, I can't encompass my entire being on 5 nails, but I tried to include some of the things that I love and enjoy - video games, animals, nail art, love (and my husband), and flowers.

I used three of my new China Glaze Holographic polishes, a new polish I got from Butter London, and an old favorite from Nubar. I used Konad Special White to stamp and freehand the designs on my nails.

On my index finger, I used China Glaze Not In This Galaxy, and on my middle finger, I used China Glaze Get Outta My Space. My ring finger has China Glaze Take A Trek, on my pinky I used Nubar Reclaim, and then on my thumb,  I used Butter London Fishwife. Oh my, holo rainbow goodness! Here is a pic with these fabulous five before I added my stamping and nail art.

And an outdoor shot! Oh my!!

Make sure to look at what the others did for this challenge!

Laid-Back NEW31DC Day 7 - Ombre or Skittle

For this challenge, I have decided to do a skittle mani, since I have never done one before. I was really excited to try this out and spent quite a while trying to come up with a nice design. Take a look!

I started out with Julep Eva, then added silver & glitter accents.On my thumb, I used a pretty flakie - Zoya Chloe, and for my index finger, I used Julep Harley to stamp from BM19. On my middle finger, I did a gradient with Eva and Pure Ice Beware, then on my ring finger, I used a dotting tool to add dots, then did stamping using BM20 on my pinkie using Julep Harley again for both.

Here's a pic of my thumb when the sun randomly peeked out. Pardon the dry skin - I couldn't pass up the opportunity for sunshine for a lack of moisturizer! LOVE these flakies!

Thanks for looking and be sure to check out what everyone else did.