Inspired by a tutorial - Erica's Nails and More February Challenge

Hey everyone!

Tonight I have for you day 7 of the challenge which is inspired by a tutorial. I was not sure what I wanted to do for this one so I just hopped on google and browsed through pictures. I ended up falling in love with a cupcake manicure I saw. You can find the tutorial here. 

Since Walgreens is offering Sinful Colors for 99 cents with coupon I picked up 6 of the new Sugar Rush collection and I knew right away this would be perfect. I love the colors so much and I thought I would hate pastels on me - boy was I wrong! I am planning on going back and picking up the 2 other polishes I missed out of the collection.

Here are my cupcake nails!

I don't have any nail art brushes and I think I need to invest in some. I made my stripes with a dotting tool so they are a little jagged looking. I still think they are adorable though.

I used:

Sinful Colors - Unicorn

Sinful Colors - Sugar N' Spice

Sinful Colors - Candy Coated

Sally Hansen - White On

HK Girl Top Coat

Here is what is left! We are getting close to the end! It really flew by and as always I get sad when a challenge is over!

P.S. I am not kidding if you have not entered the giveaway you really want to do so HERE, we are getting down the wire! Who is going to take home some amazing prizes? 

Check out below the other awesome manicures!

Valentine's Day Nails - Erica's Nails and More February Challenge

Happy Valentine's Day!

I am spending the night watching The Vampire Diaries and Glee with my furbabies! Hubby works from 5pm until 3:30am. So there goes all plans out the window. Maybe we will catch a movie this weekend.

Here is my Valentine's Day inspired manicure. It turned out ok.

I used:

Essie Marshmallow

Orly Close Your Eyes

Sally Hansen Black Out

Wet n Wild Metallica 

L to R the plates I used:

BM-317

BM-311

QA6

QA6

Tomorrow I will upload my other Valentine's Day manicure - I missed out on daylight before I could finish my manicure so the lighting just won't show the manicure very well.

P.S. Make sure you enter the Epic giveaway I am involved in. Time is running out and the prizes are pretty amazing!

Half Moon - Erica's February Challenge Day 2

Hey guys! I hope everyone had a great weekend! Mine was pretty laid back, got some cleaning done and had game night over at my sister in law's. So tonight I have for you half moons. I don't know why I don't do these more often. They are fairly simple to do if you are patient - I was not this time. I used the hole reinforcement stickers and I had terrible placement so I had to freehand to try and get them all even. They are a good starting guide but I can never get them to be even.

I wanted a color combo that would really pop and I think that I chose well. I am not sure I will do the black on top again because I feel like it shows my flaws in my different shaped nails - but that's just my personal preference. 

I used:

China Glaze - Naked

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear - Black Out

HK Girl Top Coat

Check out what is to come this month and below that check out all the other half moon manicures out there! They are looking great!

P.S If you haven't already don't forget to enter the Epic Multi Blogger giveaway I am involved in. You can go enter HERE!

Galaxy Nails - February Challenge

So if you have not read the post below this one. I will clue you in. I decided that I love nail art challenges so much I decided to join not just one challenge but two challenges this month! I have to really say thank you to Erica for hosting this challenge! It was her November challenge that got me really into nail art - so of course I am going to join her February challenge. From my understanding this is the largest amount of participants to date for her challenges so yay! Here is what you can expect to see in the next month! 

I attempted my first Galaxy nails in the last challenge Erica had back in November. I liked how it looked but to me it was too busy! Not bad for my first time. This time I wanted to keep it dark and mysterious! You can still see the colors but I like how subtle the galaxy nails look!

I used:

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear - Black Out

Nicole OPI - Prized Possession Purple

Wet n Wild Fast Dry - Grey's Anatomy 

Finger Paints - Sparkle and Snowflake 

Hope you like it!!!! 

Zebra Stamping Manicure

I first want to say welcome new followers! I am glad you are here :) 

Tonight I have a manicure for you that I absolutely love! I did this manicure last week and I did not want to take it off! I have a feeling I will be repeating this manicure in the future! It's also really quick and easy! I am a sucker for dark colors and black is one of my go to shades so I feel extremely comfortable with this look!

I used:

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear - Black Out

Finger Paints - Sparkle and Snowflake

Mash - 41

HK Girl Top Coat

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! 


#PureIceMyCity

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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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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Inspired by a Holiday Movie - SMYTC Holiday Challenge Day 8

Hey everyone! Sorry I have been MIA I had to brave the stores to get all our Christmas shopping done. I only have 2 small things left to get and I am done. I cannot believe how fast the days are coming and we are almost just a week away from Christmas.

So today's challenge was Inspired by a holiday movie. I was stumped at first about what I could do in the beginning. Well I wanted to get these cute water decals for Christmas so I ordered the Grinch. I thought this would be perfect for today's challenge. I started with a white and green saran wrap mani but it was too much green and the grinch could not be seen so I had to change it up. 

Here they are!

I used Sally Hansen White On and HK Girl top coat. Simple!

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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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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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Snowflakes - SMYTC Holiday Challenge Day 3

So today is day 3 of the holiday challenge. I decided to try the stamping thing again. This summer my sister in law and I both picked up a little kit at Walmart that had a few plates, stamping polish, stamper, and scraper. We tried over and over to get it to work and no luck. So the plates just sat. I decided to try again this time with Sally Hansen White On and it worked! I used the Fingrs Flirt Stamping kit and plate B17.

Since no two snowflakes are alike I reflected this on my nails. Some are partial snowflakes and I like it that way!

I used Orly Royal Blue which I picked up this weekend at Sally Beauty Supply with my coupon. It's a very gorgeous eye catching blue with some shimmer to it. I had full coverage in 2 coats! I am very pleased with the polish.

Here are my day 3 of the challenge nails - Snowflakes

I really want stamping plates now! I think this could become very addicting! 

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Candy Canes - SMYTC Holiday Challenge Day 2

Hey everyone! 

So here is day two - candy canes. I think it's quite funny that in my last challenge I participated in I had no problems doing stripes. This one - gave me a headache needless to say. I re did my mani about 5 times. I tried freehand,  tape, water marble, dotting tools like I said nightmare. I ended up keeping the last mani and had tape. There are a few spots where I had to freehand fix it up (which can be seen) so here it is

I used China Glaze Ruby Pumps and Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear White On. Topped with HK Girl 

Here is a preview of what is to come in this challenge!

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November Nail Art Challenge - Day 4

This challenge was really hard for me. I don't have any stamping plates that work - and I couldn't get down the delicate thing freehand. So I ended up using nail decals. I think I need to order some decent plates and do a redo at the end of this challenge. 

Here is my day 4 nails:

At least the pink is delicate... I used Sally Hansen - Pretty Petunia

Here is the lineup of the remaining challenge days