Nail Art January 2016: Day 11

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Today's Prompt: Recreation

White: Essie Blanc
Black: Essie Licorice
Dark Purple: Essie Haute Tub
Red: Essie Shall We Chalet?
Light Red: Essie Altitude Attitude
Blue: Essie Virgin Snow
Pink: Essie Peak Show
Silver: Essie Apres-chic
Yellow: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Sizzlin' Saffron

Every year for my birthday, I do some birthday nails for my birthday. Last year for this challenge, I redid those nails for this prompt as my recreation day. I decided to do that again this year! Last year, I used a Nicole by OPI collection so all of the colors went together. This year, I used the entire Essie Winter Collection to recreate the manicure. I love the way it turned out! They all went together, but were so much fun!

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Nail Art January 2016: Day 08

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Today's Prompt: Animal

Black Glitter: OPI Center of the You-niverse
White: Zoya Purity
Black: Zoya Willa
Orange: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Pumpkin Queen

These were super simple penguin nails that I did! My favorite animal is a penguin, so I really wanted to do them. If you are worried about work, because you can't wear something like this, you can totally do them without the eyes and beak, and just make it a Ruffian manicure that is inspired by penguins!

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Nail Art January 2016: Day 04

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Today's Prompt: Sparkles

Pink: Essie Peak Show
Blue: Essie Virgin Snow
Glitter: Essie Luxeffects Frilling Me Softly

For this look, I sponged on the glitter on my whole ring finger nail. On the other nails, I used the small end of the sponge and sponged it on at the tip and slightly up. To make the gradient look a little better, I wiped a decent amount off of the brush, and then lightly brushed it toward my cuticle.

This glitter was also another glitter that my friend gave me for Christmas. It was one of the new Essie polishes that they released as part of their Luxeffects line. I loved it!

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Nail Art January 2016: Day 02

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Today's Prompt: Fresh

This starts my second take at Nail Art January, created by Californails. She created this one last year, and I did it then. I decided to try it again, and try to make it a yearly event, kind of like the 31 Day Challenge that I do in September. No one else is really doing it this year, as far as I know. But I like to complete it so I can see how much I improve over a year!

Nude: Essie Brides to Be
White: Essie Blanc
Glitter: Essie Luxeffects A Cut Above

The first prompt, being fresh, made me think that French tips were the best way to go. I ended up doing an accent glitter nail, too, because it makes it more fun.

This glitter is also special to me, because one of my best friends bought it for me for Christmas, so it was the perfect time to use it! I had been considering buying it, and thinking strongly about it, and then she surprised me by getting it for me when I hadn't even told her I thought about it!

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New Year's Day 2016

Happy New Year!

Purple: China Glaze Mix and Mingle

White: China Glaze White on White

Red: China Glaze Wine Down for What?

Glitter: China Glaze Brand Sparkin' New Year

For the past couple of years, I have always done nails like this for the new year. I like to do it to start new for the new year! It also makes my mind have to stop and think and remember what year it is!

I intentionally saved this glitter for this manicure because of the name of it. I love the color combination that I got for this one. It looked great and turned out really well.

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New Year's Eve 2015

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White: Nicole by OPI Yoga-Then-Yogurt
Black: Salon Perfect Oil Slick
Red: Nicole by OPI Please Red-cycle
Shimmery Red: Nicole by OPI Always A Classic Coca-Cola
Blue: Orly Skinny Dip
Green: China Glaze I'm With The Lifeguard
Purple: Salon Perfect Electric Grape
Silver: OPI My Signature is DC
Glitter: China Glaze Dancing & Prancing

These nails took a little bit of time, but I loved them! They were fun and festive, but still look cool and not silly. I like doing nail art like this sometimes, but not all the time, just because they are so different and also time consuming.

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Christmas 2015: Red and Green Galaxies

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I wanted to continue my year-long Galaxy nail series with the Christmas edition!

Black: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Black to Black

White: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri OMGhost

Red: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri-Dri Rapid Red

Green: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri I-Rush Luck

Small Gold Glitter: Avon Gingerbread Scented

Large Glitter: OPI I Reached My Gold

These were so much for me to do! I've always liked galaxy nails, and I made it through a whole year of doing them for every holiday! Well, aside from New Year, or New Year's Eve.

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