The Nail Challenge Collaborative Presents - Inspired By A Tutorial - Week 4

Today I am back with my last January Nail Challenge Collaborative mani! I really liked this theme because I finally was able to try some looks that I had been meaning to try out when I saw some of my favorite bloggers creating them :)

This look is inspired by Paulina's Passions Roses Nail Art Tutorial. You can see her tutorial post HERE. In my opinion, Paulina's roses are famous! She loves creating them and they are always absolutely gorgeous!

Here is my look:

Polishes Used:
-Nailtiques - Formula 2 Plus
-KB Shimmer - I'd Rather Be With Blue
-Sinful Colors - Orange Cream
-Sinful Colors - Hazard
-Essie - Plumberry
-Revlon - Emerald
-Out The Door

Although my roses aren't perfect, these are the best that I have ever done so I am so happy with them! Paulina's tutorial was really easy to follow and I also recently got a tiny striper brush in the hopes of improving my nail art skills and I think it may be working; lol. I decided to use oranges and reds against the blue background to change up Paulina's look and create this as my own.

Have you seen Paulina's tutorial? Have you tried it out yourself?

Golden Oldie Thursday - Pink

I have decided to join another challenge, this is going to be it for me for the first quarter because I don't want to sign up for too many. The Golden Oldie Challenge was created by Debbie over at The Crumpet (you can see her post on it here) but it gives us a chance to use some of the older polishes in our stashes.

Today's theme is pink, which is SUPER perfect for me, probably most girls started off with pink polishes when they were younger, I know I did, so I had a handful of older polishes. Here are the shades that I used.

As you can see from the bottles, they are all pretty worn and you can see definite fill lines on all the bottles, look at that Revlon!

Polishes Used:
-OPI - Nail Envy
-Sally Hansen - Flashy Fuchsia
-Nina Ulta Pro - Fuchsia Rage
-Revlon - Twinkled Pink
-Mary Kay - Natural Pink
-Out The Door

With the exception of possibly the Sally Hansen, I have definitely had these polishes since I was in college, if not earlier, so most of them are at least 6 years old. LOL. This is a fun and simple ombre look.

Are you participating in the GOT Challenge? Was your first nail polish a pink one?

Crumpet's Nail Tarts Christmas Winter Challenge - Winter Characters

I hope everyone had a nice Christmas yesterday, for those who don't celebrate Christmas, I hope you had a nice Wednesday! Today's theme in the CNTCWC is "Winter Characters".

And here is my mani:

Polishes Used:
-Sally Hansen - Pacific Blue
-OPI - Alpine Snow
-Revlon - Radient
-Konad - White
-Cheeky Jumbo Plate 6 - Happy Holidays

I went with something super simple for this look, in blue and white. I think this mani is OK but I have to say I'm not in love with it, just sort of blah to me today.

Since I didn't post yesterday, here is a nice photo of my Christmas Day.

And don't forget to check out the other Winter Character looks that the ladies created!

Crumpet's Nail Tarts Christmas Winter Challenge - Winter Nature

Happy Sunday!!! Today I am back with my second mani in the Crumpet's Nail Tarts Christmas Winter Challenge. This look is, Winter Nature.

I had something in mind for this look and I really love how it was executed on the nail :)

Polishes Used:
-OPI - Nail Envy
-NOPI - Midnight Madness
-Revlon - Emerald
-Maybelline - Bold Gold
-Hard Candy - Matte-ly in Love
-Cheeky Jumbo Plate 6 - Happy Holidays

Originally I had planned on just doing gold trees overtop of a green base, however, I decided that adding the dark shimmerly blue with the green in a Saran Wrap mani would give more of the "at night" illusion to this look. Ulitmatley, after stamping I decided it would look good matte; and I loved how the final look turned out! Christmas Trees outside at night!

What do you think? Does this fit with the Winter Nature theme?

Don't forget to check out what the other Nail Tarts did with this theme below!

Adventures in Stamping - Jelly Sandwich

Happy Sunday!! I have not participated in an AIS challenge for a while and I just happened to have time last night to get a mani together for this week! The theme is Jelly Sandwich; hmmm, so this required me to have a jelly polish and I don't have too many that don't have glitter in them, but I do have one so I used it for this look.

Polishes Used:
-Essie - Where's My Chauffeur
-Revlon - Sheer Seafoam
-Konad - White
-Cheeky - Jumbo Plate 8 - Princess Charming

Sheer Seafoam is soooooo sheer; like almost clear, so I needed to use the Essie base before I started. Once I had two coats of Where's My Chauffeur, I stamped with my Cheeky Plate, topped that with two coats of Sheer Seafoam and then stamped one more time. As you can see, there is barely a color difference in the stamping above and below the jelly, but that's ok, it s a nice subtle look.

I also, loved this color on me! I haven't been wearing many seafoam shades at the moment since it's winter but this is a really great shade and I should be wearing more of it.

Keep an eye out for other jelly sandwich stamped manis today!

Blue Babyshower Waterfall Mani

Today I went to the baby shower of my best friend from High School. We have been friends for 13 years now and even though she lives a couple states away, whenever she comes back to visit her family, we pick up as if she never left. Don't you love friends like that?

As I mentioned, today was her babyshower for her first baby, a boy whom they will be naming Levi; I can't wait for him to arrive. Unfortunately I had the time wrong in my phone for the shower so I arrived a little late. Thankfully, I only missed the "mingling" at the beginning and a few little games but made it for everything else.

Anyway, I wanted to do something cute with my nails so I went to my favorite easy mani, waterfall mani, in a combination of blues for baby Levi.

 

Polishes Used:
-OPI - Alpine Snow
-China Glaze - Man Hunt
-China Glaze - Electric Beat
-Kiss - Soft Blue
-Revlon - Radiant
-Hard Candy - Matte-ly In Love

I started with my white base, added the blue stripes, and topped those off with random stripes of the glitters in Radiant. I love how glitters look mattified and I think that this look is great. I got a couple compliments on these nails at the shower too so that's always nice.

Here is a picture of the pretty mom to be, Colleen and myself from the shower. (IDK why I'm cheesin' so bad lol)

Congrats Colleen!!

Crumpet's Nail Tarts: Tri-Polish Challenge

Happy August Tri-Polish Challenge! This months colors are red, yellow and green. lol. NOT my favorite color combination, but I thought I would still give it a go :)

These are the colors that I decided to use this month, OPI - On Collins Ave, Color Club - Almost Famous and Revlon - Emerald.

For this first mani, I decided to go ahead and use all three colors in a brushed fan mani.

In addition to the three color choices, I used a base of OPI - My Boyfriend Scales Walls, then brushed on the colors with a fan brush and topped it all off with Out The Door. This was my first time trying this technique and I don't really think I did it right lol. The lines were a little thicker than I was hoping they would be and I don't really think the colors compliment each other that well. LOL. 

Overall, this reminds me of a little kids finger painting. haha.

Don't forget to check out what all the other ladies did for their mani's below. 

Summer Mani Challenge - Summer Glitter

Today I have my Week 2 mani in the Summer Mani Challenge, this week's theme is Summer Glitter. Last summer I purchased the Sweet Summertime Collection from GlitterFest, I thought that one of these polishes, Juicy Watermelon, would be a good polish to use for this theme.

Here are my Juicy Watermelon Summer Glitter Nails!

Polishes Used:
-GlitterFest - Juicy Watermelon
-Revlon - Emerald
-Finger Paints - Hue Gotta Be Kidding

I am pretty sure that last time I wore Juicy Watermelon it was a little "Juicier" lol. This watermelon doesn't look too ripe. But that's OK, make sure to check out what the other ladies did for their Summer Glitter manis :)

Joyful Noise Cosmetics - Rainbow Fish, Whisper Down Delainie & Garden Party

Today I have three glitter toppers from Joyful Noise Cosmetics to share with you; Rainbow Fish, Whisper Down Delainie & Garden Party.

First up, Rainbow Fish:

Laura describes this shade as "Rainbow Fish is one of my new favorites- a color explosion of satin matte hex glitters swimming in a fine holographic shimmer base! Named after a favorite children's book of mine (at least, that's what I called it when I was a kid!) you can't miss this beauty! At any event, wear this and you are sure to shine!!"

This is really a lovely topper to any color polish, I wore it over Almost Famous, topped with Hard Candy Matte-ly In Love, but it would also looks awesome over white, black, any primary or secondary color and you have an awesome combo. I love the look of glitter toppers mattified. 

Next up we have Whisper Down Delainie:

Laura describes this topper as "An array of pink, teal, and green holographic glitters in small and medium sizes, it is named for Miss Delainie of Dee's Polish www.deespolish.com/ Delainie donated to my Indiegogo Campaign back in January, and chose the "Name a Product After Me" perk! I have to tell you, I'm pretty tickled with this name!!"

I am wearing one coat of WDD over Wet 'n Wild  Through The Grapevine, topped with Poshe. I love all the colored glitters in this polish and think it's very fun that Delanie got to name this polish. I was able to snag all of these polishes from Joyful Noise Cosmetics during Laura's Indiegogo campaign as well!

Last but not least, we have Garden Party:

Laura describes Garden Party as "Fine neon green, and square neon pink glitters, punctuated with black holographic hexes!"

I am wearing one coat of Garden Party over Revlon Emerald and topped with Poshe. Neon glitters are very on trend right now and I can't seem to get enough. I used this over a darker polish but it would also look good over a lighter green, such as my go to Sally Hansen - Parrot.

What do you think of these toppers? They are all currently available on the Joyful Noise Cosmetics Etsy Site; and don't forget to LIKE the Joyful Noise Cosmetics Facebook Page to get the latest information on restocks.