#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! 

Mint Roses on the right hand

The best nail designs usually fail when u realize you are not ambidextrous! And you  usually don't realize this until you are trying to paint with ur non dominant hand~ anyways these didn't turn out thaaaat bad... 

Then again these aren't the best photos, so  either way I lose! Haha.

One thing I didn't like about this mani was that from a distance you couldn't really make out that they were roses. 

All in all I am still happy with the overall outcome and can't wait to try some more designs and to do new things just like these! 

Mint Roses

 I've been wanting to try some floral designs for the longest time, so I finally did. This design is not very original, the whole concept and the colors were definitely inspired by many different other blogs and images on google.  I can't say it was one in particular but I definitely "grew the balls" to try these roses after reading through a tutorial on www.didmynails.com 

Well here you go: 

I'll put up pictures of the right hand later on, I have yet to finish. Also considered doing some polka dots or stripes hit thought it might look a little too busy. 

Products used:

Revlon Minted 

Wet n Wild Candy-licious

Wet n Wild Tickled Pink

The leaves are a mixtures of

Sinful Colors Sinful but Fun & Sally Hansen's Lickety-Split Lime. 

Details done with different sized dotting tools.  

 Enjoy :) 

~look at meeee all posting once a week like a real blogger!! ;)

Red & Gold

Red and gold! I rarely ever use red polish- so this is definitely different then my usual go to shades of pink and glitters. For this design I used Wet n Wilds Red Red, which is super shiny and bright. The gold is from Sinful Colors nail art collection called Flower Girl. For the fine lines I used my 10mm mash brush and for the cheetah print I used a small dotting tool.  :)

She's back!!

Been digging through my polish looking to use some that I haven't in a while or ever! I have a huge amount of blues, turquoise, and teals that I never use! (I think I buy 2 or 3 of these colors every time I go to a SJ Sharks game) anyways this mani is  kinda unfinished, want to add a bit to them still,  but I thought it was kinda cool and different..   

More to come! 

Ahh finally a few finished ones to add: I luved the purple striping tape :))))

Random Ones

Just throwing up some random nail art from the last few weeks, not much else to say but I took pictures of them so I figured I'd share em, even if they're not the best.... I'd have to research every color used, so I wont list em, but I can find out if anybody ever wanted to know, as if there's a million people lookin at this blog...

 

Pink, Gold and White.

Inspired from some nail art I saw on FuckYeahNailArt tumblr, couldn't find the original source- but this is my take on it, super pretty colors together, I luv gold polish and with the pink- so girly.  

 

 

 

 Gold, Black and Glitter Cheetah

I wish I'd taken more photos of these guys, they came out pretty well.

I got a little carried away with the glitter, and maybe a little confused as far as cheetah vs leopard print.

Either way, they were fun, and great practice with striper brush. 

 

 

 Light and Dark Pink Cheetah (or leopard?)

-still confused hahaa-

Another bad quality photo by Anna.

 

First day of school nails, very well received, ok well maybe only my new communications professor actually said something but I knew everyone was lovin' em! ;) Unfortunately I used a crappy top coat that smeared and totally cracked the design by day 2 :(

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pink Ombre

1st Successful Ombre Nails!

 

 

The right hand was tricky.

A little messy still.
 

I've practiced the ombre/gradient look before, but hadn't found the right color combos or technique that worked for me until now. I've tried multiple tutorials online, The Nailasaurus has a great one, but I found the makeup sponge to be messy and time consuming, though does give great results, if you practice it enough.
So I randomly grabbed some colors I hadn't used in awhile:

My longtime favorite Classic Coral Creme, is a sparkly bright pink with an almost sheer finish. I love it! I'm pretty sure I've never used the purple one before, but it's light, sparkly and blended perfectly with NYC's Wall Street, a creamy light pink.  I used a dotting tool for the dots on the accent nails.

Considering I wasn't even planning on doing a gradient look, and only had a limited time to get em done, (happy hr ends at 6,) I think they came out quite well. Oh and btw I did most of my right hand while driving (a stick shift) to Chevy's- Now that's talent. Oh yeah I topped these off with a glittery top coat- Wet n Wild's Hallucination, which actually came off a little chunky and thick, if I'd had more time, I would've searched for an easier to apply glittery finish. This one's gotta be a few years old, and could use some thinner but it did the job. I will say this again, bad photo quality I KNOW, I suck. One day, I will use a real camera! hahaa