Tri Polish Challenge April #3

For the third challenge I tried another new design for me. I actually think I got a winner! Very pretty and very clean. This is a mani I can leave on for a few days!

Tri Color Polish Challenge April #2

Yet again a major fail. I'm trying to branch out and try mani's I've either never done or need more practice with so I went with water marbling. For some reason, I just can't get it to look the way I've seen online. It ends up either too light or a mushy thick mess. Too bad I don't have time to do a new one to get it in for the Thursday deadline.

Tri Color Challenge April

So I wanted to try the ombre effect for nails for this first Tri Color Challenge. The colors I used are: Revlon Eclectic, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Sun Kissed, and Orly Lola. It didn't turn out at all like I wanted it to, but such is life for a first try. :)

Tri color challenge day 4

For this day I wanted to try my hand at brush marbling. I think it turned out alright.

Tri color challenge day 3

For this challenge I went for fun with a dotting tool and made cute flowers for Easter!

Tri color challenge 2

So I didn't like the first one, and I don't like this one either, but I thought I should post it anyway. I was going for rosebuds for the first day of spring.

Tri Color challenge 1

For the first tri color challenge. Using Color Club Twiggie, Orly Lola, and Urban Outfitters Bandeau. It's a fun dotting design!

G is for Ghostly patterns

Again, G is a tough letter for Doctor Who, so I went with an artistic view of ghosts. Instead of painting little white blobs that go booooooooooo, I started with a simple Revlon black (I think it's called Knockout) and then dotted on a matte top coat for the ghostly pattern. On my accent finger I used a Revlon glitter (I think it's called Mischievous) and then covered that with the matte top coat. I love this look and will probably keep it on through the weekend.

F is for fairies

I am sooooooo behind! I had a wedding this past weekend, then a crisis at work...no excuses. Ok...so I'm finding it really hard to keep up with the ABCs of Doctor Who. I had to branch off to Torchwood for this one. There's an episode that deals with "fairies" (they're much worse and pretty evil little things). For this I used Sinful Colors Cinderella and stamped on some little bursts in Sally Hansen's White On. I then used a silver pen for accents. I also totally destroyed the mani because I knocked my hand into my purse. :(

Tiffany's

So I've had this idea for a mani for awhile, but I've been looking for the right blue. I think I found it in Color Show Shocking Seas. I wanted to do a Tiffany's inspired mani with diamond ring accents. I think it turned out pretty well.

So behind! Letters D&E for ABC's of Doctor Who Challenge

So I'm totes behind, but here are the photos from the ABCs of Doctor Who Challenge. D was for Dalek, obvsiously.

I used Orly Luxe and then glued on some studs to look like the bottom of the Dalek creature. E is for Earth. I couldn't think of anything else. It's well known that The Doctor is very protective of Earth, so that's the best I could come up with.

I used Loreal The Queen's Ambition for the black, Color Show Shocking Seas for the blue of the Earth, Color Club Twiggy for the Green and Wet N Wild The Wonder Yellows for the Sun. I did everything with my dotting tool. Woot. Not sure at all what I'll come up with for the letter F.

Guess what I got!!

So I found a dotting tool at Bartell's for $3! I am in love! It's such a fun simple tool to make really cool manicures! Here are the two I've done so far:

Here's to the future of my dotting skills!

New Color Swatch

This week I bought the Sinfully Magnetic polish in Stuck on You. I've never tried a magnetic polish before, and I have to say I'm not impressed. It's supposed to have a star pattern, but it just ended up looking weird.

Overall impression of magnetic color: not worth the money.

Legally Blonde!

My best friend Mike is in a production of Legally Blonde right now, so of course I needed to have a great pink manicure for the show! I used Sinful Colors in Daredevil then frosted the tips with Revlon's Stunning. It turned out great! And I got a ton of compliments! OMG You Guys!

ABC challenge: C is for Cybermen

What else could the C of Doctor Who be for?

To do this design I used Sally Hansen Xtreme wear in Celeb City then I used a black nail art pen to draw the Cybermen faces. Pretty easy!

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B is for Bad Wolf

Here's the next letter for the ABC Challenge from Llama Nails! I decided to continue with my ABC's of Doctor Who theme and went with B is for Bad Wolf. *Spoiler Alert* During the first season, in order to save the world and save the Doctor, Rose looks into the eye of the TARDIS and becomes the entity of Bad Wolf. Her eyes give off this awesome golden/yellow glow and I decided to model my mani after that. Here's what Rose looked like in the episode.

I used a base coat of Sally Hansen Xtreme White On, then layered Wet n' Wild Fast Dry The Wonder Yellows over for a creamy yellow, then sponged on a stripe of Orly Luxe for a golden shimmer. Topped it off with Out the Door top coat. I loved this mani, but it took forever and I didn't let it dry completely before I went out and ended up ruining it. Sad day.

New Color Swatches

So recently Bartell's Drug store was having a 3 for $5 sale on Sinful Colors, so of course I picked up some new polish. I did swatches of each of the colors. All around I really like each color. The only ones I had some issue with were HD Nails (the non glitter green) and Call You Later (the glitter green not pictured.) HD nails was an awesome color, but when I removed it, it left my nails with a weird yellow tint. I haven't repainted my nails for 2 days since I took the green off and still they are stained yellow. An unfortunate side effect from a really nice color. The Call You Later glitter would simply not come off. I soaked in acetone and scrubbed with a sponge and cotton ball to no success. I had used it as the tips of a french mani and unfortunately had a performance that night that I needed to remove it for, so I ended up having to cut the tips off because it wouldn't come off. It was an awesome green glitter, with a very sad end. The other colors I bought were Let Me Go (an iridescent light purple), Cinderella (a light blue with gold shimmer) and Daredevil (a neon hot pink). I loved every single one of these colors. Also, I didn't do any cleanup after I painted them as they were just swatches, so please ignore the sloppy edges. Here are the swatches!

Cinderella

HD Nails

Not sure how well you can see, but this is the yellow aftermath of HD nails.

Daredevil

Let Me Go

A is for Angel (Weeping Angels that is)

So I've joined another challenge with Llama Nails, check them out on Facebook here . Essentially, each week we do a design inspired by a letter in the alphabet. I've decided to challenge myself one step further and do alphabetical and Doctor Who inspired nails. So for the first week I present A is for Angel. In Doctor Who there are these terrifying villains called the Weeping Angels. Basically if you are looking at them they are stone and harmless. Once you blink or turn your back they attack. Scary... Anyway, I immediately thought of stone and have wanted to try water marbling for a while so why not give creepy dark marbling a try? It did not turn out well. I'm not sure what I did wrong, but it was a disaster. See photos.

After cleaning up that mess I thought I'd try a simpler marbling technique by sponge painting my nails and then free handing some folded angel wings onto the edges. These turned out much better.

One of these days I'll have enough time to clean up my nails before I take pictures and I'll use a better camera. For now, this is what we get. Anyway, check out any of the other folks doing this challenge here: Check in next week for the letter B.

Monkey See Monkey Do Monday: Galaxy Nails with my own Geeky Twist

So for the Monkey See Monkey Do Mondays from Crumpet Nail Tarts I decided to copy another design I've seen everywhere, but specifically used the tutorial on http://polishandpearls.com/how-to-galaxy-nails/ the Galaxy nail. I am in love with this design!! It's so simple and easy and looks amazing! I then added a bit of my own geeky flair to the accent nail. I've recently started watching Doctor Who (I'm on Season 3 don't give me any spoilers. And I'm crushed about Rose and dislike Martha with a passion.) Anyhoo...I decided what better thing to have floating around in the galaxy then a TARDIS!! I started by painting all by the accent nail with Revlon's Knockout, then sponged on 3 colors from SinfulColors (Bartels was having a 2 for $3 sale!) I started with Cinderella for the light blue with a bit of sparkle, then Daredevil for the hot pink center of the nebula, then Let Me Go for the iridescent purple/green. I then topped those with Revlon's Stunning for a simple glitter to add some stars. For the TARDIS accent nail I used Revlon's Mysterious (an excellent bright blue) and freehanded the doors and windows with black and white nail pens. This mani's staying on for a while!

Rainbow Nails

So after I completed the Summer Sunset challenge with Crumpet Tarts, I needed something new to do. I came up with my rainbow nail design by painting my whole nail with Sally Hansen's White Off then dipping a Q tip in each of the colors of the rainbow and rolling it on. I got tons of compliments and really loved this mani!