GUEST POST: Gold and Purple Studs

Hello All! I'm Amy and I blog over at The Fancy Side. I'm so happy Katherine is having me on her corner of the internet today. We belong to the same polish bloggers group on FB and she recently asked for guest posters. I love making new friends, so here I am! If you don't know me, I'm a midwestern girl who has recently relocated to the Big Apple. It's a crazy city but my little family and I like it. ;-)

For the look I created for you all, I started with a base of OPI Dutch Ya' Just Love OPI? This is a beautiful dark berry purple polish that is filled with the most amazing copper shimmer. That shimmer was hard to capture, but it's amazing out in the sun light.

Valentine Heart Mosaic

 Hi y'all! Today I have some more Valentines Day nail art to share with you as well as a video that you can find up on my facebook page. This look includes hearts, stripes, and naked nail showing though. Oh and a stained glass/mosaic pattern nail. 

Orange and blue dot look!

Hi y'all! I finally have another post for you guys! I've been a little lacking on the posts lately, I've been doing a look and actually wearing it for nearly a week, and leaving my nails somewhat natural for a few days in between. GASP. Shocking for a nail blogger to do that, I know. But it's nice having a break from the challenges and just posting at my own pace right now. I'm thinking I'll be back in challenge mode by october though because I definitely want to find or host a good halloween challenge. Love halloween so much. 

Anyways, today I have this simple dotted look for you. I did this using mostly just the wet n wild pop art craze polishes. I used The Clock Strikes Orange for the base and Listening To Blue Reed, and Teal Slowly And See for the blues. I just dotted over randomly with both colors, and on the accent nail I used striping tape in a quilted pattern and just filled in some of the diamonds with the blues. I topped the whole thing with China Glaze Fairy dust and learned that one coat of that stuff is plenty. What you see here is two coats. Not my best idea. But I really like how these came out overall! I didn't think I would, when I do random dotting over the nail like this, it rarely comes out right, but this all came together nicely and I love it. I'm sad actually that it'll have to come off soon.

Let me know in the comments below what you think of this look!

Arrrg Matey! Pirate nail art.

Arrrg Matey! I've got some Pirate sort of inspired nail art for you all today. It was actually inspired by a conversation me and my cousin had a few days ago about getting gold and needing a pirate ship. We then decided all the women of the ship would be captains and run they're own little section, and any of the men that tried to argue and do things their way would be made to walk the plank! Yes, we're a little bit crazy, but oh well. 

ANYWAYS, this nail art came from that conversation. We need some good nails to match our ship right? Right! I used Sinful Colors Rich In Heart which is the dark nearly black with red shimmer color, and LA Colors Festive (Which is the red) for this look. All the other colors are acrylic paint and freehanding on with striping brushes, dotting tools, and toothpicks. The accent nails I used striping tape and the darker color was sponged on over the red for the background of the skulls.

What did you all think of these nails? Let me know in the comments below! 

Extra relaxed 31 day challenge day 6: violet nails

Already to day (Week?) 6 of the extra laid back 31 day challenge. Today's prompt is violet nails, so I picked out my favorite purple polish I own (Which isn't a lot by the way,) and got to work.

These are the nails I came up with for today. Keep reading to find out more.

Gradient tape Mani

This was what boredom came up with. haha. All I did was start with la colors pink bubbles as a base color, and once that was dry, I places pieces of striping tape randomly and then used a make up sponge and meadow, and daisy, from la colors as well, and made a gradient over the top of the pink and tape. Then took off the tape and TADAA. I then added a coat of la colors cocktail glitter and then topped it off with sally hansen insta-dri 

And yes, there is a reason I'm hiding my pinky in the pictures. As shown here. I finished all all up, waited a few minutes after top coating, then went to put lotion on. Next thing I know my pinky is totally smeared and unsalvageable. There was no fixing that without completely redoing it! And well... I just wasn't about to do that. I don't even understand how they were all just as wet, and one gets messed up by rubbing lotion into my hands. Why weren't the all messed up like that? Sigh. I'm glad only one was messed up still. :) 

What do you guys think of this look? Or the color combination? I love the colors together personally, and I love how simple and easy getting this look was (Minus the little pinky oops but ah well, we all have those moments right?) Let me know what you think in the comments!

Nightmare before Christmas nails

This is one of my favorite movies, ever. I'll watch it all the time. I love Tim Burton in general, but I grew up watching nightmare before christmas, and after seeing these I just HAD to give them a try and see what would happen.

I started out with my base colors, going from index to pinky we have china glaze re-fresh mint, an la colors silery gray colors, la colors mini in white, and sinful colors rain storm. i just painted the thumb a black.

I did all of my details with acrylic paint, sponges, striping brushes, and detailing brushes. Then for the thumb I used striping tape to get more precise lines. and striped with black and white. 

For the other hand, I only did the black and white stripes and Jacks face on the ring finger. It took long enough to do this hand like this, and with all the details, i wasn't even about to try doing both hands.