The Nail Challenge Collaborative Presents - Inspired by a Book - Look 3

I'm back with my third November Nail Challenge Collaborative look. This time, I was inspired by The Great Gatsby and the black and gold lavish feel of the parties that Gatsby threw in the book.

Polishes Used:
-Maybelline - Bold Gold
-KB Shimmer - Eclipse

I used striping tape and decals to create this cutout look. I loved the feel of this look and the gold popping through the black felt sort of dramatic.

Let's see what books inspired the other NCC ladies 3rd looks!

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Twinsie Tuesday: Mani Orders from a Friend

This week's Twinsie Tuesday theme is Mani Orders from your Significant Other / Family Member / BFF / etc.; seeing as it's me, my husband, and dog who live at home, my husband got the lucky job of giving me my mani orders. I have to say he was not super interested in participating and after guilting him into it, he said, "do a mani inspired by Orange Is The New Black - orange nails with black stripes for prison bars". I think I mentioned before that we had been catching up on our Netflix after Pirate season was over, and we binge watched OITNB in October, so I wasn't completely surprised by his request.

Polishes Used:
-Barielle - Fire Me Up
-KBShimmer - Eclipse

Well, I showed him the look after I was done and he was not a fan. HAHA. He said, "Ummm I said orange with black stripes; not what you did." To me, this looks like a Halloween look, which I sort of hate, so basically although the execution of the look was completely fine, neither of us were happy with it. LOL. Soooo, this will probably be the last time he gets to be involved in providing "mani orders".

I am looking forward to seeing what the other ladies were "ordered" to do by their friends and families!

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

Marisa at Polish Obsession

Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les

Stephanie at A Little Polish

Tiffany at Polished To Precision​

 

 

Fall Tape Mani

In one of my groups we are doing a fall mani contest with a couple different themes, and one of them is Fall Tape Mani. I enjoy doing simple tape mani's and here is the look that I created.

Polishes Used:
-Zoya - Chantel
-Zoya - Flynn
-Zoya - Louise
-Zoya - Hunter
-Zoya - Pepper
-Zoya - Sailor

I liked how this look turned out! It was fun and fall themed :) The only thing that was odd was that something weird happened when I put on topcoat, and you can see the end of my nails sort of got "foggy". I'm not sure why or what caused that, but I still like this look.

Would you wear a fall tape mani like this one?

The Nail Challenge Collaborative Presents - Geometric - Look 2

Last week I saw THIS look by @hookedondal on Instagram and immediately knew that I had to re-create it for the Nail Challenge Collaborative. (P.S. if you don't follow Dallas on IG already, you should!) There is a simple edginess and geometric feel to this which I loved.

Polishes Used:
-Zoya - Genevieve
-Decals by Lacquer by Lissa

I started with natural nails, used some straight nail decals and applied the grey polish; topped it all off with topcoat and voila! I am completely obsessed with how this turned out; and am still loving the negative space mani trend.

Be sure to check out the looks the other ladies created for their 2nd Geometric Manicures!

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OPI Beach Sandies Nail Art

A couple of Friday's ago I arrived home from work to find a mysterious birthday gift waiting for me. The first time this happened to me (around Christmas) it took me a while to figure out who the gift was from, however, this time I knew right away, my friend Amanda! Amanda and I used to work together and were really close when we were working; she has since found a different job, and although we don't get to hang out as much, she's still a good friend, and super sweet for leaving mystery presents on my doorstep!

This package included a Coach wristlet and the OPI Beach Sandies mini set. Coincidentally, I had been eyeing up this set earlier this year when it came out but never ended up picking it up for myself, so it was perfect that she got this for me.

Is anyone surprised that I decided to do a negative space look? LOL. I'm obsessed lately! The colors included in this look (and the set) include, Samba-dy Loves Purple (purple), I'm Brazil Nuts Over You (pink), What's a Little Rain Forest? (blue), and You're So Flippy Floppy (yellow).

These colors are so bright and vibrant and were perfect for creating this fun summer look, especially since they dry to a textured finish. What do you think? Do you own any of these Beach Sandies?

P.S. Thanks again Amanda!

Negative Space nail art with the Zoya Naturel Deux Collection

Yesterday I showed you my swatches of the Zoya Natural Deux Collection and today I have some simple nail art to show you using those shades as well.

To create this look I used all six shades from the collection. Starting with naturel nails I used striping tape and added the shades in between. This was a really fun look to wear and was actually very subtle on my nails, I could wear something like this to work since the colors themselves are naturel.

What do you think? Would you wear or re-create a look like this?

Salon Perfect: Neon Pop Collection Swatches & Revew - Part 2

Today I am back with 3 more Neon Pop Collection polishes from Salon Perfect:



L to R: Haute Pink, Loopy Lime, Tickled Pink

For today's look, I put all three colors together into one bright mani:



Lightbox with Nikon Camera; with Flash



Lightbox with iphone Camera; no flash



Lightbox with iphone Camera; with flash



Outdoors with iphone Camera; no flash

I am wearing two coats of the Sugar Cube white polish base, two coats of the neons and a final "Crystal Clear" topcoat. I tried to capture the "neon-ness" of the colors but taking pictures in a couple different lights. It is so crazy how some of the color (I'm looking at you Haute Pink) with different lights - it always seems to be the brightest neons that are the hardest to capture.

Which of these shades is your favorite?

Germany Nails - World Cup Champions

I created these nails in celebration of Germany's win in the FIFA World Cup! I have been following the games very closely; we have a contest going on at work where you can win some really cool prizes. There were over 10k people from the company participating worldwide so unfortunately I didn't win but I did score more points than some of my friends, so at least there is a little bragging rights.

 

These were just something simple that I threw together. I used tape for the middle finger and between the black and red polishes, of course I was too impatient for tape between the red and yellow so I freehanded that part, which is why it doesn't look as good as the rest. From afar this will be a fun look to sport at work!

Twinsie Tuesday: Summer Lovin'

Welcome new Twinsie's, Bridget and Jessica!

Today's Twinsie Tuesday theme is Summer Lovin'; I wasn't exactly sure what this theme meant so I just did something that reminded me of summer; neon and skin :-P

Granted I don't wear that much neon or show that much skin anymore, but this seemed kind of summery so I went with it. I have been loving these negative space, striping tape looks lately so that's how this look was born.

For the polishes I used Zoya Paz (pinky), Zoya Tobey (pointer), Dear Rus Venor 5 (ring), and Dear Rus Venor 16 (middle).

Does this look summery to you at all? Would you wear a look like this?

Make sure to see what the other ladies did for their Summer Lovin' looks!

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

Marisa at Polish Obsession

Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les

Stephanie at A Little Polish

Tiffany at Polished To Precision

The Nail Challenge Collaborative Presents - Black & White - Week 1

Welcome to June! I seriously cannot believe that we are already into June. It's good because my Anniversary and Birthday are in June, but it's crazy how fast the year is flying by!

The June theme for the Nail Challenge Collaborative in Black & White; I voted for this theme so am excited to get some looks together. Today my look is Black & White and Neon & On & On. LOL.

Polishes Used:
-China Glaze - Neon & On & On
-Konad - White
-Konad - Black

For this look, I started in probably the most opposite way of having the China Glaze down first. Once that was dry I added the white half; which I really love because I used striping tape and got a nice crisp line. Unfortunately, I free-handed the black because I was impatient and didn't want to wait for the white to dry, you can definitely tell that I freehanded it because it just doesn't look clean. My bad for sure on that one. I also got a little impatient with the topcoat and you can see the result of that on my ring finger. Womp Womp.

Overall, I like this look, but would have loved it if I would have taken the time to properly execute.

Check out how the other ladies were inspired by Black & White for their looks:

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Pastel Rainbow Nails

I recently created some nails and submitted them for the Pastel Rainbow collage that was put together by Nails Like Lace & Peace, Love & Polish on Instagram. I did these nails around Easter so it was perfect for the season.

 

Polishes Used:
-Nails Inc - Bruton Lane (thumb)
-MiniLuxe - Corey (pointer)
-Precision Nail Lacquer - On Cloud 9 (middle)
-Precision Nail Lacquer - McDreamy (ring)
-Precision Nail Lacquer - Walking On Air (pinky)

I thought that this was a really fun look. I don't normally do looks where you can see my bare nail underneath, but I have been seeing a lot of "cutout" manis and figured I might as well try one, and it definitely wasn't as bad as I thought. (I don't like how stained my natural nails can be sometimes which is why I was hesitant)

What do you think of this look? Would you try something like this on your own nails?