Day 18, Half Moons

Did I say I wasn't going to do half moons? Well apparently I lied. I got some stuff to use for blocking off the appropriate areas today and decided to do the half moons I said I wasn't going to do. Tee-hee-hee?

I used two colors and did a simple, standard half moon. The polishes used were SinfulColors Rich in Heart and SinfulColors Dancing Nails.

So I really like how it came out for my FIRST half moons ever. I am really looking forward to doing more of these sometime after the challenge.

Day 17, Glitter & Day 18, Half Moons

Well first off I hate glitter usually, wanna know why? Because of my inability to apply it evenly. You thought I was going to say because it is so hard to get off the finger nails huh? Well that is true but mostly my application issues is where my hatred stems from.

For day 17 I chose green and black glitter polish, namely China Glaze's Graffiti Glitter, applied over a dusty green base, Finger Paint's Be-Leaf It Or Not. As usual with me and glitter we were not nice to each other. I won't go into details but I think the Graffiti Glitter may be seeing a therapist for all the verbal abuse I gave it.

Here is how it looks:

It's a great glitter, with bars, and hexes and dots, so pretty! But not when I use it.

Day 18 I'm going to have to skip. Sorry all. I don't have the supplies to do half moons. I can TRY, but I am so scared of failure that I really don't want to. Maybe next year!

Day 16, Tribal

So this was more fun and less stress than I thought it would be. I did a google search for "simple tribal nails" to get inspiration because I don't trust my ability to do complicated tribal styles. Anyway I found a couple and then had a bit of fun. Here is the result:

First was a base coat, then the base color which is Wet-n-Wild Wild Shine Bijou Blue, two coats. The green stripe came next, took three layers of that to get the contrast I wanted, it is Wet-n-Wild Wild Shine Caribbean Frost. After they were dry I used a So Easy Stripe Rite Nail art bottle/brush for the lines. Finally used Pure Ice Black Out and a dotting tool for the dots. Topped with Seche Vite.

I lovelovelove how it turned out for my first try! Very happy. Yep.

How's everyone else's challenge month going so far?

Days 14&15, Floral and Delicate.

So once again time got away from me. So I doubled up. Flowers and delicate in one paint job. Hooray for work ethic! Or cutting corners ya know whatever works.... Anyway here they are:

I started with a none too fancy base coat, then used Salon Perfect Baby Blues for the base color and stamped with Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Lacey Lilac, topped with Seche Vite. The stamp plates were Mash-42 for the fingers and Mash-40 on my thumb. As you can see I am picking at and chewing my thumb a lot again... sorry for the unsightliness of it.

The Lacey Lilac was pretty bad for stamping with it wanted to stick to the stamper when I needed it to transfer to my nails, resulting in my rocking the stamper which smeared it a bit on my index and middle fingers. It also resulted in incomplete stamp transfer in other areas but my index and middle finger bugged me the most. So probably won't be using it for stamping again. Which is sad because it is very pretty.

Honestly? I only painted the one hand due to being so cranky with the stamping failure. :C

Anyway, look forward to my tribal later today, it turned out pretty rad for my first try at tribal prints! 8D

Days 12 & 13: Stripes and Animal Print

The last two days have been pretty strange. I've been sleeping most of the time and when not sleeping I have felt so drained that I didn't want to do anything but be a vegetable with my Netflix and Hulu documentaries. So when I finally mustered up the energy to do my nails Thursday night and realized I had two days worth of nails to do.... I decided to combine them into one.

So here they are:

As you can see, I chose to use a stamp. And the stamp did not like my tired and somewhat lazy application. But I am content with the result considering how I have been feeling lately.

I used SinfulColors Hot Spot as a base and for the stamps I used Sally Hansen White On.

Brief Apology

Sorry I have not posted day 12 and 13 of the challenge yet, been a bit under the weather and chewing my fingers from stress so my thumbs look awful.

I opted to combine 12 and 13 today so that I don't have to stress over them as much. I didn't do my nails at ALL yesterday because I was in bed all day. Got up twice to eat and use the bathroom then sacked out again. Hopefully whatever caused that is out of my system. Pictures of today's nails will be coming in later today once I get them cleaned up as bit more and figure out a good way to hide my chewed up thumbs.

Sorry errybody.

Day 11, Polka Dots

I am not a super fan of dots, mostly because I can never get them spread out evenly when I want them to be. So I was expecting today to be super annoying to get done. Well I was wrong thank goodness! I did a simple "dotted tips" design and I love how it turned out.

The two colors I used were SinfulColors Opening Night for the base color and then SinfulColors Gorgeous for the dots. I almost used SinfulColors Rich in Heart for the dots but decided I wanted something lighter and more complementary to the base color. Rich in Heart is a very dark red. To top it all off I used Seche Vite, which, unlike some top coats I've used that make some colors fade into each other, actually made them contrast more. Which was great, the more I use it the more I see why people are so crazy for Seche Vite.

And as a crazy random bonus my nails look really nice with my 3DS!