24 Days of Christmas Challenge, Day 6: Penguins

I have both hands to show you today.

Here's my left hand (the one you normally see).

Male penguin

Sorry for the cuticles on this one. They looked cleaned up better in person. Also, that's not tip wear on the penguin but pulling from Seche Vite.

I used Wet N Wild Black Creme, Finger Paints Paper Mache (white), Wet N Wild Sunny Side Up (nose & feet), O.P.I. Cuckoo For This Color (bow tie and stamping), and Bundle Monster plate BM201

This is my right hand. It's not nearly as good as the other. The female penguin looks wonky, plus my stamping is a bit off, and half my nails are broken. Poor right hand.

I used the same colors as listed above except I used CQ Crimson Pearl for the stamping and hair bow.

Here's some others who are also participating in the challenge:

Paint That Nail

Obsessed With Glitter

Nails and Stuff

Red Hair and Black Nail Polish

Base Coat Top Coat

KK Nails

Me, Myself, and Nail Polish

My Polish Stash

Finger Painted

Polish, and Makeup, and Cars, Oh my!

My Wet Nails

24 Days of Christmas Challenge, Day 5: Snowman Face

Just a quick post today.

Colors used:

Finger Paints Paper Mache (3) -- white

Wet n Wild Black Creme

Wet n Wild Sunny Side Up (nose)

L.A. Colors Art Deco 24K Glitter

Here's some others who are also participating:

Paint That Nail

Obsessed With Glitter

Nails and Stuff

Red Hair and Black Nail Polish

Base Coat Top Coat

KK Nails

Me, Myself, and Nail Polish

My Polish Stash

Finger Painted

Polish, and Makeup, and Cars, Oh my!

My Wet Nails

24 Days of Christmas Challenge, Day 4: Snowman

 For the base, I used Rimmel Chill and 2 coats. It worked out better for me than the last time I used it.

 Then I put on 1 coat of Wet N Wild Blue Wants to be a Millionaire to add some glitter to background. Besides, who doesn't like glitter?

I added in all the details with a variety of colors, stamping tools, and a tiny brush.

Here's some others who are also participating:

Kristyn at Paint That Nail

Kaki at Obsessed With Glitter

Shannara at Nails and Stuff

Theodora R. at Red Hair and Black Nail Polish

Kelly at Base Coat Top Coat

Krishten at KK Nails

Steffi at Me, Myself, and Nail Polish

Sabine at My Polish Stash

24 Days of Christmas, Day 3: Icicles

I was having a hard time trying to figure out what I wanted to do for this since I really didn't think I could draw them very well.  Well, I decided to try this idea done by Practice with Polish. I think I did a really good job!

First, I used a base of Finger Paints Sparkle Top Coat to add shimmer and cover up my nail bed a bit. Then I used Rimmel French White Nail Tip Liner to free hand some french tips. It was really easy with this!

To do the actual icicles, I used a dotting tool, but you could also used a toothpick or a bobby pin. I placed a small dot on the end of the white and pulled it down toward my cuticle. I swiggled some to make sure they were imperfect.

Next, I used a small brush to put glitter over the icicles to add some shine like when the sun shines on them. The color is Sinful Colors Queen of Beauty. I followed it up with Seche Vite.

It's not my favorite design, but I think I pulled it off!

Plus, here's some other bloggers doing the challenge.

Kristyn at Paint That Nail

Kaki at Obsessed With Glitter

Shannara at Nails and Stuff

Theodora R. at Red Hair and Black Nail Polish

Kelly at Base Coat Top Coat

Krishten at KK Nails

Steffi at Me, Myself, and Nail Polish

Sabine at My Polish Stash

24 Days of Christmas, Day 2: Snowflakes

I really love the way this manicure turned out!  My right hand, of course, is not as nice but still looks pretty good. My husband said I should hide that hand. Jerk.

After my base coat, I used two coats of China Glaze Sea Spray. I really like the color, but my bottle is pretty thin so it's fairly easy to flood the cuticles.

Then I used a coat of Finger Paints Sparkle Top Coat to add some nice subtle shininess.

Then I used my white Migi nail art pen to draw on the snowflakes. You can put them all in the middle of your nail, but I choose to make them off center.

I added small dots of clear coat on the nail and put light blue rhinestones on there.

Finally, I topped it all off with 2 thick coats of Seche Vite.

Here's some others who are also participating:

Kristyn at Paint That Nail

Kaki at Obsessed With Glitter

Shannara at Nails and Stuff

Theodora R. at Red Hair and Black Nail Polish

Kelly at Base Coat Top Coat

Krishten at KK Nails

Steffi at Me, Myself, and Nail Polish

Sabine at My Polish Stash

24 Days of Christmas Challenge, Day 1: Snowfall

This is a great challenge that Paint That Nail came up with!

I normally don't do challenges, but I thought I would do this one was I have soooo many ideas that I want to do for Christmas so this would give me the chance to showcase all of them!

I'm not sure who is all participating (other than Paint That Nail) but I'll link to others as soon as I find out.

I only have 1 picture because it was dark when I took the pictures, and even my DSLR was having a hard time.

Snowfall

I used several different colors for this. Base is 2 coats of Revlon Blue Lagoon. Then I used Sally Hansen Ice Queen to add some sparkle. Next, I sponged on some Finger Paints Paper Mache with a cosmetic sponge, dabbed on some with a Q-tip to give texture, and added some dots for snowflakes falling.  Finally I sponged on some Finger Paints Sparkle Top Coat just over the accumulated snow to add more sparkle.

This didn't turn out quite like I planned it, but I still really like it!


Here's some others who are also participating:

Kristyn at Paint That Nail

Kaki at Obsessed With Glitter

Shannara at Nails and Stuff

Theodora R. at Red Hair and Black Nail Polish

Ally-Rose at The Only Way is Nails

Kelly at Base Coat Top Coat

Krishten at KK Nails

Steffi at Me, Myself, and Nail Polish

Sabine at My Polish Stash

24 Days of Christmas Challenge

Kristyn at Paint That Nail has come up with a great idea! She has thought up a new challenge, this time centered around Christmas! The challenge is only 24 days since most of us won't want to do designs on Christmas Day.  This is the first challenge I've participated in, and I'm excited!

Here's the list:

Anyone else going to particpate?

Monday Mani: Fierce Accent

This week's Monday Mani as decided at Polish-aholics Anonymous is . . . Fierce Accent!

I took this to mean bling, bling, and more bling!

With flash

 On every finger but my ring, I used Milani One Coat Glitter Purple Gleam. It actually need 2 coats to cover fully, but it looks amazing.

I followed it up on the ring finger with 2 coats of China Glaze Blonde Bombshell to make it super sparkly and to prevent bald spots. Then I put on Milani Jewel FX Gold over that. I put on one coat of this and then blobbed it on the to cover up the rest. It covers really well, actually!

With flash

Both of these pictures are without top coat. This picture shows the major bling the best. The purple looks gritty here, but it's not that bad. I really should have put on a top coat though.

First time stamping

So I ordered some MASH stamping plates on Amazon. They were cheap, and I've wanted to try stamping. I don't have any pictures of the actual plates though. They have a nice paper backing (I've heard Konad are like this) and no sharp edges (I've also heard that other stamping plates have this).

They are etched fairly well.

I do have a major complaint though, the full size image plates are tiny! I have small hands/nail beds and they didn't cover my nails. They were cheap and had plenty of smaller images that work well. I guess I'll just buy some Konad plates for their full images.

Rimmel London Sunset Orange with Mash plate M01

 After my base coat, I used 2 coats of Rimmel London Sunset Orange. Then I used Mash plate M01 and Sinful Colors Black on Black and Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Whirlwind White to stamp.

Rimmel London Sunset Orange with Mash plate M01

I'm still practicing my stamping and really need to work on it. I've got the basic idea of it down, but I need to work on speed and placement.

Happy Thanksgiving!

I know this is a bit late, but I'm not celebrating Thanksgiving until Saturday (my husband works every year on the actual day) so....  : P

Turkey nails! I made them like the hand turkeys we used to do when we were kids. This idea is from several other bloggers/nail people.

Whole turkey

 I'm not going to name the colors I used because I used tons including layering some to get the colors that I wanted.

Close up of turkey

 I tried to make a waddle on the turkey face, but I think it turned out a bit funny.

Turkey feathers

These are my favorite part of this mani. The orange smeared a bit because it just wouldn't dry! I did it one time with Sally Hansen Insta-dri and then the second time with Seche Vite...and this is what still happened. Ugh.

Well, enjoy the rest of your Thanksgiving holiday! As for me, I'm leaving shortly to head out to do some Black Friday shopping!