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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Skittle Manicure

I have for you tonight a skittle manicure. This is my first one. I had a blast doing it. At first I was unsure how I would like the look of a skittle manicure on me but I have to say I am pleasantly surprised and I have a feeling I will be rocking more of these in the future.  I got my inspiration from Chit Chat Nails. If you have never been to her blog you should check it out! Her photos are amazing!

With this skittle manicure I also tried out my new Bundle Monster plates well just one design but I was very pleased!

From Left to Right I used:

Wet n Wild Wild Shine - Metallica

Essie - Marshmallow BM Plate 317 with Pure Ice - Black Rage

Zoya - Aria

Pure Ice - Black Rage

Sinful Colors - Hot Wired 

Top Coat - HK Girl 

Do you like skittle manicures? Why or why not?

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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Santa - SMYTC Holiday Challenge Day 11

Happy Holidays everyone! We are almost to Christmas and I feel all giddy :) I love Christmas! Tonight I have my Santa nails for you. I was inspired by a pin I found here - it does not link to the original source but back to a pinterest profile. Anyway here is my version! 

I apologize for the hangnail on the pinky. I need to use moisturizer more often knowing it's winter and I am in Minnesota!

I used

 Wet n Wild - Scarlet Red

 Sally Hansen - White On 

Pure Ice - Black Rage

  Pure Ice -Beeware

HK Girl - Top Coat

I will have the "Night Before Christmas" nails up tonight or tomorrow for you. I am going to go work on them now. It will also be my last day of the Holiday challenge! Time flew and I had so much fun!

Check out the other Santa nails here

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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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Reindeer - SMYTC Holiday Challenge Day 5

So today/tonight I have for you my day 5 of the Show Me Your Top Coats Holiday Challenge which is Reindeer's. I was really excited to do this! I did this freehand and I love how these little guys turned out. Definitely a possibility for me to wear to our Christmas gatherings we have this year.

Here they are

I used Sinful Colors - Nirvana, China Glaze - Ruby Pumps, Sally Hansen - White On and lastly Pure Ice - Black Rage

The only thing I wish I would have done differently is waited just a tad longer before putting my top coat on. On my pinky finger it looks like the black ran a little bit after applying top coat. Overall I am really happy with how these turned out. I can't believe how simple they were to do.

I will update in the morning what colors I used - they are in a different bedroom which is being occupied by my sister in law who is here helping me do Christmas baking (yay!) 

I am looking forward to posting my next challenge day for you guys!

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Blue Mani for Diabetes Support!

Hey Everyone! Hope everyone is keeping warm! I am still counting down and getting excited to visit family next week in Indiana. So much to do before we leave though, that's the sucky part of it all. Plus the anticipation makes time move really slow!

 So I did a blue mani today for Diabetes Support! There has been a few close people to me that suffered from diabetes. So I wanted to make sure I did a blue mani for this. 

 Here it is 

 Pure Ice Midnight Blue

This applied really easy. It is in the 2012 collection that Pure Ice released. Velour finish. I love the look and it looks great with a top coat as well! 

November Nail Art Challenge - Day 3

Well today is day 3 of the challenge. Something inspired from a tutorial. At first I was going to do Saran Wrap nails because I really want to try it out, but then decided not to do it.

So off to the Internet I went. Well last night I was going through my pinterest and I was swooning over Essie Starry Starry Night... I pinned that over a year ago thinking oh that's so pretty - one day I have to get it. Well.... come to find out last night - it's like impossible. Well unless one comes on Ebay and your willing to spend some major dollars and I am talking over 100. I just love the look! Anyway so I was looking up dupes and such and came across galaxy nails. I thought ok this should be fun!

So today I decided to try out Galaxy nails. I think mine turned out ok.... I was looking for more of a wow factor and maybe my glitter coat is too much glitter I don't know. Anyway.

I found my tutorial at Beauty by Clara you can check it out and see her wonderful galaxy nails on the link. I did not see any watermarks on her pictures so I decided not to post a picture of hers here.

Here is what I used : 

Pure Ice - Black Rage

Wet n Wild - Metallica 

Wet n Wild - SaGreena the Teenage Witch

Wet n Wild - Buffy the Violet Slayer

Sally Hansen - Hot Magenta

Sally Hansen - Disco Ball

Top Coat - Seche Vite

So here you have it my day 3 nails! I am really not looking forward to day 4. I have no idea what delicate nails are, and from what I have found it's a lot of lace looking nails... well I don't have stamping plates so we shall see how this goes. Day 4 is going to be a challenge for me!