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!

Thanks for reading <3

#NailArtJan Day 11

Welcome back!

The Nail Art January challenge, hosted by @Californails, continues. The prompt for Day 11 was "recreation."

January is a month full of birthdays for my family. Mine is the 9th, followed by my nephew, boyfriend, sister and my boyfriend's mother, all within the next week. For the recreation prompt, I decided to take it a little different direction than most people did. Most people that I saw recreated someone else's nail art. I had just done that for Day 08, though, so I decided to recreate my own manicure! I had done a similar manicure a year ago for my birthday, and the year before for my birthday.

I used all Nicole by OPI polishes for this, mostly ones from the Fall in Line collection. I wanted the colors to go together better than in the past, where they have usually been a jumble. The white was Yoga-Then-Yogurt, the turquoise was Poised for Turquoise, the purple was Did He Wink At Me?, and the pinky berry was Berry the Hatchet. I also used Please Red-cycle for the candles on the cake, but I wish I would have just used the berry color for it.

Just for fun, here is the picture from last year.

Thanks for reading! <3

Birthday Nail Ideas

Hey guys! I just love doing nail art, and I love birthdays, too! Last year, my birthday nails was sort of the kick off to my "picture nail art" and just simple nail art obsession. I found how fun it was, and I loved coming up with different designs!

I did all of the basic birthday icons that you can think of; cake, party hat, present, cupcake, and balloons. These were by far much better than last year, which just goes to show...practice makes perfect!!

Hope you guys enjoy!!

Thanks for reading <3

31 Day Nail Challenge: Day 23

Day Twenty-Three: Inspired by a Movie

For the Sky: Essie in Mint Candy Apple

For the House: Essie in Little Brown Dress

          OPI in San Tan-tonio

For the Clouds: Sinful Colors in Snow Me White

For the Balloons: NYC in Big Apple Red

          Wet 'n Wild Wild Shine in Sunny Side Up

          Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Yellow Mellow

          Pure Ice in Free Spirit

          Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Blue It

          Salon Perfect in Electric Grape

          Sinful Colors in Cotton Candy

          Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Black Out

I was trying to decide on a movie, and figured this one was easy!

*I did not purposely copy anyone else. I thought of this on my own, but I may have unintentionally gotten an idea from something that I saw on Pinterest.

I have never done a nail art design that was a whole picture, spread out over several nails! I like the way that it turned out!

Thanks for reading <3