Black and Gold Stripes - Pittsburgh Themed Nails

Today is the 3rd game in the NLDS and the Pirates are battling the Cards at home. Since the series is currently tied 1-1, and I am pretty much still down and out with this flu (Saturday literally all I did was run to Target to get medicine and slept all day) we ended up selling our tickets to today's game. We will be attending tomorrow's game and hopefully it will be the last of the series with the Pirates winning and moving on to the NLCS; we shall see.

Anyway, I wore these nails last Thursday and got lots of compliments on them. It was a Pirates and  Penguins day so these were multi-purpose.

For this look I simply used OPI Alpine Snow as a base and then added black and gold stripes with my striping polishes! It was super easy to create, although the more I thought about it it probably would have been easier to just use a gold glittery base and only have to add the black stripes. Oh well.

Since I wore this mani to the Pen's game, here is a photo of my friend Amanda and I before the game started. It was their home opener and we made it onto the big-screen!!

Abstract Floral

Yesterday when I was reading through all the blogs that I follow, I saw this post on Little Nails and fell in love. She was participating in Day 30 of the 31DC and was inspired by a tutorial. So of course I took a look at the tutorial that she was inspired by, and it was that of MrCandiipants on YouTube.

Anyway, I knew I had to try this look for myself and loved the color pallet that Little Nails used so I went with something similar. I don't normally look at YouTube for tutorials, but I may just have to start, however, once I watched this tutorial, I of course had to watch more and more and ended up showering like an hour and a half later than I had planned on. hahah.

Here's my mani:

Polished Used (I used a lot lol):
-OPI - Nail Envy
-OPI - My Vampire is Buff
-OPI - I Think in Pink
-OPI - Kiss Me on my Tulips
-Wet 'n Wild - Through the Grapevine
-Zoya - Pippa
-LA Colors - Gold Glitter
-Sinful Colors - Last Chance
-Sally Hansen - Parrot
-Out The Door

You should definitely take a chance to look at the tutorial for this but basically I just used my striper brush and added dots of all colors to represent flowers. I really love how these turned out; and since they are abstract, there is really no right or wrong. I actually did my right hand as well (which I don't always do with nail art) and it doesn't look too bad; yay for abstract art when you're not ambidextrous.

Do you watch YouTube tutorials? Have you done mani's inspired by MrCandiipants?

The Nail Challenge Collaborative Presents - Technique Month - Week 3

TGIF!!! This week has been super busy at work and I loved and hated it. lol, so this weekend is very welcome. The technique that I decided to try for my 3rd Technique this month is.... FRAMED NAILS!

Polishes Used:
-OPI - Nail Envy
-OPI - My Boyfriend Scales Walls
-LA Colors - Gold Glitter
-Glisten & Glow - HK Girl Topcoat

This is a super simple look but it was actually the first time that I tried framed nails. I was inspired by this look from Cristina over at Let Them Have Polish. I used a different set of colors but the theme is very similar. I wore these to work and actually got a ton of compliments. It is something so simple and easy but elegant with the plain colors and glittery outline.

What do you think? Have you tried this technique? I feel like my techniques have been sort of lame/easy and I had wanted to try to push myself to do more freehand nail art with this theme but it just wasn't happening, maybe next week!

Make sure to check out what all the other ladies did this week!

Girly-Girl Challenge - Day 7: Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice

First off, I want to say, "YAY, 50 followers!" Thanks for everyone who is following! Hope you enjoy my posts!!

Today's challenge is "Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice". Here is the list:

I was talking to one of my girlfriends at work about the challenge and she mentioned doing something candy related since that's sugary; then on the way to the grocery store after work, I thought, why not add sprinkles?! So here we go:

Polished Used:
-LA Colors - SuperStrength Nail Builder (2 coats)
-Revlon - Twinkled Pink (2 coats)
-Out The Door TopCoat (1 coat)
-SPRINKLES!

You can't get too much more sugary and sweet than this :) I tried to do something sort of "studded" with the sprinkles but I just ended up going crazy and putting lots on. Maybe something to try in the future with the "caviar" look, but with real nail supplies. (Not sure what is going to happen when I wash my hands!!)

Hope you enjoy my Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice look, and don't forget to check out the other ladies creations.

Lindsey of Neverland Nail Blog
Ashley of Follow The Yellow Polish Road
Kelly of Devilish Polish
Jodi of Captivating Claws
Danielle of RockNPolish
Elly of Polishable
Olivia of Unprofessional Nails
Kate of This Charming Kate
Bethany of Plethora of Nails
Lizzy of The Do It Yourself Lady
Eugenia of Talon-Ted
Johanna of Neues vom Kellerkind
Amanda of Nox Nails
Ashley of Smashley Sparkles
Sarah of See Sarah Swatch
Emily of The Laquerologist
Jess of LuvMyLacquer
Tressa of O'Natur Nail
ChiChi of I'm Just Me...ChiChi
CR of Color Me Silly
Amanda of Berry Polished
Robin, Erin and Anna of Polished Cousins
Bonny of Overstuffed
Taylor of Rejoice
Jess of Nearly Natural Nails

See you on Thursday for the final Girly Girl Challenge - I can't believe it's almost over :-(