#31dc2013 day10

31 day challenge update-

Ok haven't given up completely, it's just gonna take me more than 31 days to complete! Which is ok with me, I don't like feeling rushed- it makes for ugly nails!

I also don't think I'm doing my best because I know that it's just gonna come off the next day... So I've decided to just take my time with the rest of challenge.  

Anyways here's one from last week...

Day 10 catchup ~ gradients 

Hmm don't totally luv any of these, the middle finger is cool, and I like the idea of the pinky finger- just didn't come out very clean. Anyways I had no idea what I was going to do when I started painting, been using a lot of purples lately, so strange, I normally don't use purple for anything. Hmmmm!

In other news I got my new iphone5s..

It's supposed to have a better camera, so we'll see if my pics come out any better from now on.. Yay! 

#31dc2013

Tribal Nails! 

I have never attempted this type of design before- so I was a little nervous. 

I would like to try them again with different colors and shapes.

The pictures look awful, again- becuz I paint my nails at night and there's no good lighting in my house. . . 

 I'm trying to just keep up now- and once I have some free time I will go back and do the ones I missed. 

Here's my first attempt at day 16:

They look much cooler in person, but still not my favorite. A little messy. Thats what happens when you are forced to throw toys for your dog while painting your nails. I will definitely be trying this again soon. :) 

Day 16✔ 

#31dc2013 day 13 animal print

Skipped a few but will get back to that soon! 

Here's day 13's animal print nails. 

I wanted to try something besides my usual cheetah print... 

Zebra print is harder than it looks. Too thin, too thick, vertical or horizontal,  its hard to get a good balance...

Despite the fact that I do my nails while in bed- on top of zebra print sheets- I still kept gettin lost on the design. 

I went crazy at Walmart and bought some cool glitters- seen on the ring finger. The directions state to paint ur nail then dip into the small cup- so I did, without thinking, next thing I know I'm overflowing the lil cup and glitters everywhere! All over my bed- awesome! 

Day 13✔ 

Will be going back to do rainbow, gradient and striped nails later tonite or Sunday. Excited to try floral nails again! 

#31dc2013 day 7 black and white

Black & White... 

Doobie nails :) my doobie dog! Inspiration for day 7.... 

Pretty plain... But here's another pic of doobs :) 

Day 7✔

#31dc2013 Catching up, day 6

Day 6: violet!

Trying to catch up here, got put behind a couple of more  days... 

Here's the nails. 

Glitter, gradients, & lines, oh my! 

#31dc2013 day 5

Blue Nails for day 5.

Slowing catching up here! 

 

Not much  to say not in a good mood, which I guess goes with the theme here: Blue!

 I had to chase a mouse around my kitchen for an hr with my roommate, who finally smashed it with a dustpan. (We tried to shop-vac the lil guy which worked great to get him outta the cupboard but once the vacuum was off he climbed back out the hose! Not okay with this, and also not okay with Jake screaming louder then me becuz of a tiny lil mouse. Lol. 

Onto the nails- I'm tired and too lazy to do more cleanup- especially since they'll be off tomorrow anyways. Bummer. Also terrible lighting and picture quality! 

Blah blah, feeling blue. Re do this again later! 

Day 5✔

Day4 re do!

 Couldn't sleep putting out such boring nails for day 4 of the 31 day challenge. Had to re-do! And no- "hop" nails still have not happened. 

Ninja Turtles!! Yessssss! Totally rad dude!

Here's something I made to post to IG, after learning my roommate (only two yrs younger) didn't know the ninja turtles theme song- or all their names!! Jeez I guess I'm gettin old! ;) or I'm just a dork.

 Also decided I'm going to be a ninja turtle for Halloween, (not sure i can make that into a "slutty" costume, but I'm getting too old and flabby for that anyways). 

Anyways it'll be perfect, I always have to work Halloween & I work at a pizza spot- how awesome is that. If u don't know why,  then yeaah ur either too young or too old for me bro! ;) 

Day 4✔✔ 
 

#31dc2013 day 4

GREEN! felt way to rushed to do anything creative :(  I did attempt a hop design but it didn't pan out. 

Boo. Will have to re visit this prompt later on. Also another day behind, stupid job interview today- didn't think green or blue nails would be very professional.. So will be doing blue and purple tomorrow and get all caught up for the weekend. 

Here's the green: 

Pretty boring I know! Oh well!! 

Day 4 ✔

Green Polish

Working on my day 4 design for the #31dc2013 had to just share the crazy amounts of green nail polishes I have. 

This is becoming a very eye opening experience as I go thru my bottles and see exactly what I have for each challenge. Woah. 

That is about 32 shades of green. 

So very unnecessary. Yet totally awesome!!! ;) lol. Also this probably isn't even all of them seeing as how there's bottles everywhere in my life- purses, the car, other people's houses, the couch cushions, etc. well gotta get to using some of these now.... 

#31dc2013 day 3

Yellow!!!

Normally I would be happy to do something with yellow- but I felt rushed and uninspired... After searching thru all the hashtags on IG, I still couldn't come up with anything. A lot of people did bees- which is cute but I don't like bees, I'm allergic and I really don't care for honey, so I didn't even try that. 

I attempted polka dots, stripes, gradients, flowers- pretty much everything- couldn't stick with anything, as 12:30am rolled around I finally just said screw it more cheetah print!! :)

I promise to not do cheetahs on the animal print day!  So yeah here they are 

I have a ridiculous amount of yellow nail polish btw, I'll upload a picture later.

This first week of color challenges is if nothing else giving me a chance to sort thru and organize my polish by colors- they haven't been organized or stored properly in ages! So that's good! 

For the green day (which is today) I'm really hoping to do something very original- something I haven't seen a million times. I hope to make up a hop design :) When thinking about this I came across this awesome website!! Two of my favorite things!

http://nailsandales.com 

I haven't yet searched her entire site to see if she's done a hop design already, I could use a lil inspiration so I hope so! 

  

31DC2013 Day 2

Day 2 orange!

I have so many orange nailpolishes its crazy! Like many of my bottles, I rarely ever use them so this challenge is a great chance to bust out the old and neglected... Here's a few that I played with today, followed by the nails I finally painted. 

Notice how I have two of all of them- that's craaaazzzy!! :) 

Here's what I came up with~

Colors used: 

Thumb: Sinful Colors "Summer Peach"

Pointer: Sally Hansen's Fuzzy Coat "Peach Fuzz"

Middle: O.P.I "Ya'll come back ya hear?"

Ring: two unnamed colors from Claire's. and Sinful Color's "Summer Peach" all topped with Revlon's "Gold Coast". (A shear glittery orange) 

Pinky: Wet n Wilds "Sunny Side Up" mixed with NYC "Taxi Yellow Creme" topped with an unnamed chunky glitter. 

All topped with Nutra Nail Speed Dry Top Coat. 

Day 2✔

#31dc2013 Day 1.

Day One: Red! 

Ok so I'm not usually a big fan of red, but  I apparently own about 6+ shades of red including 2 shades by O.P.I. (Don't have many in my collection). They must have been gifted to me, I can somehow justify buying eight $1.00 bottles but not usually  one $8.00 

 

The shade I chose is called "Red Lights Ahead...Where?" 

I couldn't decide on one particular look so I did a mismatch of different red designs. 

Terrible lighting- will retake some photos tomorrow before trying orange. 

If I have extra time I may even retry this I really like the pinky finger- would look cool on all 10!  Yay day one✔

#31dc2013 

#31dc2013

31 day challenge 2013!

Ok here we go, finally going to try! 

I am already a day late, but better late than never! 

Here are the prompts:

Thanks to Sarah @ chalkboardnails.com for the image.

I'm excited to give it a serious try!

I'm most afraid of the galaxy and water marble dates. I have never produced  a good water marble, but have tried many times- such a messy hassle. I've never really cared much for the galaxy look so that might not be as fun. Either way I hope I make it through, and glad to be pretty much starting along with a bunch of other amazing blogs! Maybe I'll even gain a follower hahahahaa!