The Nail Challenge Collaborative Presents - Music/Movies/TV - Week 3

Today I am back with my third Nail Challenge Collaborative look for April. Today I was once against inspired by TV. As you know, my husband and I recently binge-watched the entire series of Breaking Bad. It is a really good show, if you haven't seen it, set some time aside and get ready for a Netflix Breaking Bad marathon.

Polishes Used:
-Orly - White Tips
-KB Shimmer - I'd Rather Be With Blue

So if you have seen the show, I hope you know what I was going for here; Blue Meth! I wasn't exactly sure how to create the look so I started with a white base and added blue then did the Saran Wrap method. Once that was done, I added some topcoat and sprinkled on some salt (I was going to use sugar but couldn't find any) and voila.

Does it look reminiscent of blue meth? (form the show, not from real life!)

 

An InLinkz Link-up

Don't forget if you are interested in joining the ladies of the Nail Challenge Collaborative, please email me with a link to your blog. You need to be able to commit to posting 4 manis a month, that match the theme of the month.

The Nail Challenge Collaborative Presents - Summer - Week 4

Phew! I managed to sneak this post in at the last second! I am sooo ready for summer and unfortunately they are calling for a huge snowstorm this weekend. (BOO!)

For this look, I created a mani inspired by sailing / water themed, like a summer vacation.

Polishes Used:
-Essie - Coat Azure
-China Glaze - Too Yacht To Handle
-Konad - White
-Cheeky Jumbo Plate 2 - Tropical Holiday

I like how the white boats are showing up on the blue / green base here. I *tried* to do a cute accent nail with a single boat and dolphin but it ended up coming out a little wonky, pretty sure you wouldn't have even known it was a dolphin if I hadn't mentioned it. haha.

If you're longing for summer too, make sure you check out what the other ladies did for their 4th summer mani!

An InLinkz Link-up

Nail Art for Nubs Link-Up

Happy Monday! (haha; I hate Mondays)
Anyway, today I am doing something a little different for the Nail Art for Nubs Link-Up; I did the design on my friend Amanda's nails, she really does have little nubs so it was perfect.

Polishes Used:
-Sinful Colors - Hazard
-Sinful Colors - Nirvana
-Konad - White
-Bundle Monster - BM-H11
-Out The Door

For this look started with a  base of Hazard (Orange) and then added the brown (Nirvana) using the Saran Wrap Method. Once that was dry I stamped overtop of it all with this cute image from the Bundle Monster Holiday Collection. We both thought that these were perfect nails for the fall season. Sometimes people with short nails are worried that the full nail images on stamping plates won't look right, but as you can see here a design like this would look great on nails of all sizes!

Amanda is one of my co-workers and friends and recently she took a job with another company  (sad face for me, happy face for her) but I am hoping that she will be able to continue to come over to get together and to do more manis!

Falling For Nail Art Challenge: Cloudy Skies

Today's theme in the Falling for Nail Art Challenge is Cloudy Skies. Usually in Pittsburgh every fall day (and winter day, and spring day...) is cloudy but this season has been unusually sunny (aka not cloudy every day)

I knew I wanted to do something blue and gray for this look and this that the mani I created captures the theme perfectly.

Polished Used:
-OPI - Nail Envy
-China Glaze - Electric Beat
-Sinful Colors - Slate
-Konad - White
-MASH Plate 37
-Hard Candy - Matte-ly In Love

I started with the blue base of Electric Beat and added the gray Slate with the saran wrap technique. Once that dried, I stamped on the white clouds. Since cloudy days aren't normally shiny, I mattified this look and think it looks perfect like that.

Like I mentioned, this really captured what I was envisioning in my mind, what do you think? Does it look like a cloudy sky to you?

AIS - Over a Saran Wrap Base

Today is Sunday, but it's also my husband's 30th birthday; Happy Birthday Rob!

Anyway, this week's theme in Adventures in Stamping is "Stamping over a Saran Wrap Method Base". I liked this challenge because the Saran Wrap Method always gives fun unique looks.

Polishes Used:
-Nail Tek II
-China Glaze - That's Shore Bright
-OPI - My Boyfriend Scales Walls
-Maybelline - Amethyst Ablaze
-HK Girl Topcoat
-Pueen 15

I chose to use two purples in this, one as the base and one as the stamp and I think that it flows really well together. This is the first time that I have used AA and it is a lot more metallic than I thought, and it's fun!

Ok well it's going to be a short post today but make sure to keep an eye out for all the other Saran Wrap Base mani's online today ;-)

Crumpet's Nail Tarts: Tri-Polish Challenge

Today is the fourth and final mani in April's Tri-Polish Challenge. I will be back with more Tri-Polish mani's during the 3rd and 4th weeks of May!

I hadn't used glitter at all in this month's challenge so I decided to add a glitter accent for this final look :)

For this final mani, I decided to use my pink and orange shades to do a saran wrap technique and added a coat of silver glitter for an accent nail. I love doing saran wrap mani's because they are SOOO easy to do and there is no right or wrong!

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Now let's take a look at the other lovely nail tarts manis:

Saran Wrap Sunset

Fun title huh? lol. So last week in Pittsburgh there was an awesome sunset, pinks, purples, golds, blues, the list goes on and on with all the beautiful colors that were in the sky that night. I was inspired to do a mani once I got home from work and thought that the Saran Wrap technique would be a perfect way to represent the sky that night.

I already posted this mani on my personal FB page so I apologize if you have already seen it, but I wanted to  let me fellow Pittsbughers see it that night :)

Polishes Used:

-OPI - Nail Envy

-China Glaze - Electric Beat

-OPI - I Think In Pink

-Spoiled - Shrimp On The Barbie

-OTD

Here's a pic that I captured on my way home from work:

There is no filter on the picture above. The sky was so vibrant, I was just really drawn to it's beauty. It's funny though because when I was picking out the polish colors for this mani I had bright pinks selected and thought, "no this is going to be too bright" but after I did the mani I was like "I didn't go bright enough!". 

Either way, I really loved the look of this mani and felt like it fit the inspiration well. I hope that you enjoyed seeing a nature inspired mani and will try to take pictures of future inspirations to share with you moving forward. 

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Saran Wrap Mani

I have been wanting to try the Saran Wrap technique for a while. I have seen this on a couple different blogs and websites so I'm not sure who exactly "created" it to credit. Also, I am apologizing ahead of time, my fingers / cuticles have some staining on them because I was tie dying a couple days ago and it's not coming off (grr).

Polishes Used:
-Nailtiques - Formula 2 Plus
-China Glaze - Gothic Lolita
-China Glaze - Electric Beat
-Out The Door - TopCoat

The China Glaze polishes are two of the new polishes that I mentioned Amanda got me for my birthday. They both look great, as most China Glaze's do. I really like this technique. It gives a fun look to your mani and is sooooo easy to do. If you haven't tried it before, you must!