Day 9 - Recreate your favorite - Erica's Nails and More February Challenge

Here it is everyone, we are finally (sadly) at the last day of the challenge. I really enjoy doing nail art challenges and get kind of sad once they are over. All good things must come to an end though. 

So today's theme is pretty wide open - recreate your favorite. I knew right away I wanted to recreate someone else's manicure during the challenge and not my own. I was stuck between a few of them - there were that many great ones!

 I ultimately decided to recreate Polished Potential's half moon manicure and added a twist of my own. You can check out her awesome half moon manicure here.

I love, love, love how these turned out! I will be doing it again for sure! I have gotten so many compliments on it so far.

I used:

Sinful Colors - Mint Apple

Sinful Colors - Snow Me White (Half moon and stamping)

Mash - 42 Stamping Plate

Check out the other amazing manicures below!




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Here Fishy, Fishy!

Whenever I go fishing you will always hear me call out "here fishy,fishy" I don't know why but it works for me! Last week I was browsing through and saw that Pure Ice was doing a nail art contest called Pure Ice My City! You had to come up with a manicure that is inspired by your city, or state. 

Since I have not lived in Rochester very long I decided to stick with Minnesota. I knew right away I wanted to do something with lakes. Minnesota is known as Land of 10,000 lakes. I love the water! I love to swim, go boating, fish etc. I decided to make my manicure about ice fishing. I thought it was going to be a lot easier to do than it was. In the end I am pretty proud of it. All was done freehand.

I was really inspired by the whole snowman connected nail I just knew right away I was going to have a line go down both nails and a fish at the end. It was my mother in law's idea to add the ice shack. I had a really fun time creating this! 

If you are interested in learning more about the contest you can visit Pure Ice's facebook page for details. You might want to hurry though! Contest closes Friday (tomorrow) morning! 


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Night Before Christmas - SMYTC Holiday Challenge Day 12

It's Christmas Eve! I wanted to post this tonight so it could really be the Night before Christmas but we are going to Daniel's dad's for Christmas Eve and I have no idea when we will be home.

I was kind of stumped for awhile on what I could do but I made up my own version and it's taking pieces of things I have done in this challenge.

My thought process was - Rudolph brings Santa to houses to deliver the presents under the tree every night before Christmas! 

I used :

China Glaze - Ruby Pumps

Sinful Colors - Nirvana

Sally Hansen - White On

Pure Ice - Black Rage

Wet n Wild - Scarlet Red

China Glaze - For Audrey

Wet n Wild - SaGreena the Teenage Witch

Sinful Colors - Let's Meet

China Glaze - Creative Fantasy 

HK Girl - Top Coat

I hope everyone has a safe and wonderful Holidays! I am so glad I participated in this challenge it was so much fun!

Check out the other night before Christmas nails down below!

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Holly - SMYTC Holiday Challenge Day 9

Real quick here is day 9. Had a busy day of holiday baking and only made a small dent in my to do list. 

 I tried to do stamping but I don't think I have a good green stamping polish and I didn't want to make black holly leaves so I free handed it.

 Here it is

Sorry about the awkwardness of this photo-the hubs took these pictures because I had a bunch of lotion on!

 I used Sally Hansen White On - Wet n Wild SaGreena the Teenage Witch - China Glaze Ruby Pumps and lastly Finger Paints Sparkle and Snowflake.

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Snowman - SMYTC Holiday Challenge Day 7

Hey everyone!

Does anyone do holiday baking? I love doing holiday baking but I really took a lot on this year. We have an island and it is completely full of baking and candy making supplies. I feel so overwhelmed! I spent 5 hours today dipping pretzels and making cookies. The sad thing is I still have lots more dipping, candy making, and cookie making to do. Christmas is coming way too fast!

So I did my snowman manicure yesterday just in case I would have to redo it. I am proud to say that I think I nailed it. I have to say I think this has probably been my favorite holiday manicure to date. 

Isn't he cute? 

I am not done.... I was searching online for snowman inspiration and I ran across a snowman manicure I just fell in love with over at The Nailasaurus. I just had to attempt it for myself....

Wait for it....

Bam! I nailed it! I am really proud of this manicure! 

I used Sinful Colors - Rain Storm for the base color 

Stamped on snowflakes with China Glaze - For Audrey

Sally Hansen - White On (For Mr. Snowman)

Sally Hansen - Grass Slipper (For the scarf and color on the hat)

Wet n Wild - 9.0.2.1.Orange (For the nose)

Pure Ice - Black Rage (For the buttons, hat, arms, eyes, mouth, and scarf)

HK Girl - Top coat

Here is what is left of the Challenge

Check out the other snowman designs by the ladies of Show Me Your Top Coats

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Christmas Tree - SMYTC Holiday Challenge Day 6

Hey everyone!

I have my day 6 entry for the holiday challenge. I cannot believe we are already half way though! Today was Christmas Tree. I went back and forth on if I wanted to do tree's on all nails or just the accent and I went with just the accent. I had fun doing this one and the hubby picked out all the colors.

Here is a picture of all that I used

Butter London - West End Wonderland, China Glaze - For Audrey, Sinful Colors - Nirvana, Wet N Wild - SaGreena the Teenage Witch, Sally Hansen - White On, Wet N Wild - Scarlet Red, China Glaze - Dorthy Who? and last but not least Sinful Colors - Let's Meet

So here are my tree nails!

Here are the remaining days left

Check out what the other ladies have done!

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Bells - SMYTC Holiday Challenge Day 4

So I have for you day 4 of the Show Me Your Top Coats Holiday Challenge. Day 4 was bells. I was not thrilled about this one because I don't have any plates that have bells on them so I knew I was going to have to freehand it. There really is not a whole lot of inspiration online so I was stumped. I almost skipped today but talked myself out of it. I think it turned out pretty nice for freehand. I only did one bell and that's good enough for me!

Here they are

I used China Glaze Long Kiss for the base color. Then I used Butter London West End Wonderland for the tips and the bell (Which is a gorgeous glittery gold btw). Lastly I did the green bow in Wet n Wild Fast Dry SaGreena the Teenage Witch. I topped it off with HK Girl shiny fast drying top coat! I am really glad I purchased the big bottle of that stuff! 

I hope you like it!

Here is a reminder of the upcoming challenge days we have left!

Also check out what the other ladies have done for day 4!!!

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Red and Green - SMYTC Holiday Challenge

Happy December everyone!! I can't believe it's already December and Christmas is right around the corner. I still have to do my Christmas shopping for everyone! 

So I decided to try and squeeze this challenge in this month along with all the other busy things in December. I decided to join because I had so much fun in the last challenge and I wanted to try my hand at holiday nail art. Christmas is one of my favorite holidays so this just made sense to me.

Today's theme is Red and Green. I decided to do semi half moons on my nails because I didn't want to cover all the beauty China Glaze's Ruby Pumps produced on my nails. I can't believe this is my first time using it! I usually don't like red on my nails but I fell in LOVE!

So here is day 1

I think it looks a little funny over green because the accent nail is so much deeper red then the other nails but oh well! I still really like it!

I used China Glaze Ruby Pumps and Wet n Wild Fast Dry SaGreena The Teenage Witch. Top coat was HK Girl fast dry shiny top coat! Which I love by the way!

Here is a preview of the rest of the challenge days!

Have a great weekend everyone! 

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November Nail Art Challenge - Day 10

Well it is the last day! I feel this challenge flew by! Thank you Erica for hosting this challenge!

 Looking back I can see definite improvements from my first post. I feel that this time I stayed in my comfort zone although I did try a bunch of new techniques but I have decided the next challenge I do I am going to branch out and really try new things and step outside the box a bit. Ladies you all did a terrific job and I really enjoyed looking at each of the posts!

Once I did my polka dot mani for the first time ever in this challenge I knew I wanted to recreate it for day 10. I was looking back at my very first challenge entry and I thought the rainbow was just pitiful so I was going to redo the rainbow one but I decided to do the best of both world's. I decided to do a rainbow polka dot mani.

So here is my last entry for this challenge. I hope you enjoy!

November Nail Art Challenge - Day 9

Hello everyone!

I can't believe we are already at day 9 this challenge really flew by. I was really not looking forward to doing water marble nails because I have tried 3 or 4 times in the past year and have failed each time. I think these turned out fairly well. I would have liked to redo them but I am sick with a nasty cold. Not fun! It took so much motivation to get this done.

Here are my day 9 nails

I was going for a red, white, and green holiday theme but the green ended up being a very light minty color. I didn't try and do a pattern so they are all different types of water marbling. 

November Nail Art Challenge Day 7 and 8

Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving! I have had nothing but problems while on vacation, I had my post scheduled to post automatically but low and behold it did not. I am still new to blogger and I am not sure what happened but the post was  missing. I am going to make this short and sweet and show the pictures because we are about to hit the road and come home and the internet is very spotty out at my mom's.

So here are my day 7 and 8 nails!