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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#NailArtJan Day 11

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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.

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#NailArtJan Day 08

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Day 08's prompt was "animal." Since it was the day before my birthday, I chose to recreate a design that I saw done by Christabellnails on Instagram. Her Youtube channel can be found here.

For the base color on the penguin, and the bows on the packages, I used OPI Suzi Has a Swede Tooth. The polka dot looking nails were done using Essie She Said Yes and Salon Perfect Flower Power. I put down two layers of the Essie, and then a couple of dabbed on layers of Flower Power. To finish it, I did a coat of She Said Yes again.

The penguin and balloons were done using different stripers by Salon Perfect and Sally Hansen.

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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!!

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