The Nail Challenge Collaborative Presents: Spring Flowers - Look 4

This post is really cutting it close for the May Nail Challenge Collaborative, lol, Last Day!!!

Anyway, for my final look I went with a monochromic purple flower creation using nail stickers.

I must admit and it's pretty obvious that this was a last minute look; although I have to say that nail stickers are a super easy way to add a little something extra to a simple mani without needing any nail art skills at all or if you're short on time.

Let's check out how the other ladies are wrapping up their spring floral looks below!

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-Stephanie 

The Nail Challenge Collaborative Presents: Spring Flowers - Look 3

Yesterday I showed you the China Glaze Desert Escape Collection and today I decided to use the colors from that collection to create my third Nail Challenge Collaborative Spring Flowers look.

Polishes Used:
-China Glaze - Rain Dance The Night Away
-China Glaze - What's She Dune?
-China Glaze - Don't Mesa With My Heart
-China Glaze - Don't Desert Me

If this print looks familiar, it may be because I did this same floral technique in April for a Digital Dozen look (check it out HERE); but even then I said that I loved it and would do it again in different colors, and here you go!

No joke I am so obsessed with this technique; it is ridiculously easy if you have any sort of dotting tools, bobby pins, toothpicks, etc. The colors in this mani are perfect for spring too! I am loving everything about this one.

Let's check out what the other ladies have created for their third Spring Floral looks!

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-Stephanie 

The Nail Challenge Collaborative Presents: Spring Flowers - Look 2

TGIF! I love Fridays, and this one is all that much better because it's right before a long weekend with Memorial Day! Woohoo!

Polishes Used:
-China Glaze - Shore Enuff
-China Glaze - Glow with the Flow
-China Glaze - X-ta-sea
-Cheeky Jumbo Plate 2 - Tropical Holiday

I loved these nails!! These feel so summery and tropical, which usually isn't a vibe that I go with my nails, but I just felt like I was ready for a beach vacation with these or something! Also, I don't normally do too many gradients because they aren't my strong suit, but I love how this one turned out! What I loved even more is that I did these on natural nails (as opposed to a white base) and the colors came out much better than I was expecting. Love it.

Let's see how the other girls are rocking their spring flowers!

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-Stephanie

The Nail Challenge Collaborative Presents: Spring Flowers - Look 1

I may be getting a bit of a late start this month, but I am really looking forward to this floral theme so stay tuned to what I have in store. For my first look I decided to go with a satin stamping look!

Polishes Used:
-Zoya -Veruschka
-Color Club - Kismet
-Bundle Monster Stamping Plate - BM-618

OK, so I am not sure that this is actually very "springy" but it is floral and these were the colors that I was feeling like using! I love how subtle this is and the feel of it on the satin finish polish is so classy and smooth.

I was also curious to see how this would look shiny, and I am so glad I took the original satin finish photos because I don't really like how it looked shiny. It looked a bit of a shiny/holo mess, lol.

Let's see what the other ladies put together for their first spring flower manis!

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-Stephanie

The Digit-al Dozen Does: Nature - Look 3

I think that everyone this week was concerned with not doing a week of florals, myself included. However, today is going to be the obligatory floral mani for Nature week. lol.

I went really simple with this look, a white background, with a gold flake topper and the black flower pattern. It also sort of reminds me of a topographical pattern for some reason as well. I love classic black and white looks, so this one was right up my ally.

I wonder how many of the other ladies decided to rock a floral mani today? Check them out below :)

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-Stephanie

The Digit-al Dozen Does: Patterns on Patterns - Look 4

For my fourth look I went a little "wild" with a Zebra and floral print. Let's get started:

Polishes Used:
-Zoya - Sailor
-China Glaze - Too Yacht to Handle
-China Glaze - Wait n' Sea
-Konad - White

The bottom pattern on this look is Zebra and the top is studded floral (obviously). I really liked the color scheme with this; it wasn't traditional zebra or traditional floral and it sort of feels slightly nautical too, lol.

Be sure to check out what the other lovely ladies had in store today:

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-Stephanie

The Digit-al Dozen Does: Patterns on Patterns - Look 2

For my second Pattern on Pattern look, I decided to do something new to me, inspired by fellow DD gal, Emily from The Lacquerologist.

Polishes Used:
-OPI - Skull & Glossbones
-China Glaze - Dune Our Thing
-China Glaze - Sea's The Day
-China Glaze - Feel The Breeze

The bottom pattern on this look is a negative space striped pattern, and the flowers on top have sort of a grungy, graffiti sort of vibe. This isn't my favorite look of the week, but I don't really hate it either, lol.

Let's see what the other ladies created for today's Pattern on Pattern look:

An InLinkz Link-up

-Stephanie

Guest Tutorial at AGirl'sGottaSpa!

Happy Saturday! Earlier this week I created a simple floral nail art tutorial for Shannon over at  AGirl'sGottaSpa!

Check it out below:

I created this for anyone who wants something simple, fun and easy to create. It was inspired off of my forth tea party look, which you can see HERE.

Let me know if you create a look based on this tutorial and be sure to check out AGirl'sGottaSpa! for step by step instructions and to find out what polishes I used to create this look!

The Nail Challenge Collaborative Presents - Tea Party - Look 4

I'm back today with my 4th and final August Tea Party look for the Nail Challenge Collaborative, and I am totally in love with this look!

Polishes Used:
-Morgan Taylor - Ahead of the Game
-Morgan Taylor - New Kicks on the Block
-Morgan Taylor - Funny Business
-Morgan Taylor - Mint Chocolate Chip
-Precision Nail Lacquer - Grape Devine
-Seche - Versatile
-Rica - Whiteout
-Hard Candy - Matte-ly in Love

I love this look! I feel like I finished strong this month. The color seem is cheery and the white dots on the yellow feels very country chic for a tea party. The purple flowers sort of remind me of lilac flowers that may be out at a tea party.

Check out how the other ladies are wrapping up their Tea Parties below!

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Guest Post over at Polished to Precision

Today I'm guest posting over at Polished to Precision; here is a sneak peek at my look, but head on over there to see the real pictures and post!

Click the picture to check it out!

The Nail Challenge Collaborative Presents - Tea Party - Look 1

I know that I say it every month, but I cannot believe that it is already August! I haven't been feeling very motivated for posting lately which sort of stinks, I think work is getting to me, and enjoying time doing other activities while the weather is nice. However, I'm hoping that this month's NCC theme will get me back into the swing of things. The August theme is Tea Party! It's such a whimsical theme, tea cups, tea parties, lace, etc.

Polishes Used:
-Orly - White Tips
-Essie - Angora Cardi
-Essie - Plumberry
-Essie - Made to Honor
-Essence - Walk on the Wild Side
-Precision Lacquer - McDreamy
-Maybelline - Bold Gold

So for this look I wanted to re-create the look of a porcelain tea cup with red and pink roses and that signature gold trim. I think this look doesn't look to bad, and gives off a nice pretty appearance. If I didn't have an important meeting at work the next day, I would've worn these the next day too!

On a side note, new month, new logo! Thanks to Katee to updating our banner!

Make sure to see how the other ladies are enjoying their tea party looks:

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Twinsie Tuesday: One Stroke Flowers

Today's Twinsie Tuesday theme is One Stroke Flowers. I love the artistic look of this technique but also knew I would probably have some issues creating it myself.

Well, I know my limits well. haha. My look turned out OK for my first attempt but not as good as I would like. I'm sure if I keep practicing this a bit they will improve. I was trying to decide which of these flowers I liked the best and couldn't pick; they are all sort of meh to me.

I used acrylic paints for the white and red/orange and used Seche Effortlessly Styled for the base.

Let's see if the other ladies had better luck than I did!

Alaina at The Little Canvas

Amanda at Amandalandish

Amber at Nails Like Lace
Anna at Going to the Showing
Bridget at A Painted Nail

Casey at CaseyLane Loves Polish

Chelsea at Nailed Blog

ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi

Cordia at Seriously Swatched

Elizabeth at Did My Nails

Erin at Paint Those Piggies

Jessica at Blue Velvet Lacquer

Kelly at Tuxarina

Lakeisha at Refined and Polished

​Lisa at The Polish Playground

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Marisa at Polish Obsession

Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les

Stephanie at A Little Polish

Tiffany at Polished To Precision​