Christmas 2015: Candy Canes

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I loved these so much when I did them last year, I decided to do them again!

White: OPI Alpine Snow
Red: China Glaze Peppermint to Be
Silver: Essie No Place Like Chrome

I used nail vinyls to create the stripes and chevrons. This year, I did smaller chevrons than last year, and I think I like this look better. I also used a shimmery red, instead of just a cream red. I was really happy with how these turned out! It makes me want to redo them again next year, but I also want to experiment with more candy cane looks.

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Christmas 2015: Elf Nails

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For this look, I wanted to do something fun instead of all elf faces and elf suits. I decided dots matched well with the elf and suit, so I put those on a couple of nails.

White: OPI Alpine Snow
Black: Zoya Willa
Green: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri I-rush Luck
Red: OPI Amore At The Grand Canal
Gold: Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear Golden-I
Yellow: Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear Mellow Yellow
Nude: Essie Brides to Be
Pink: Orly Color Blast Princess Ping

For the red dots, I went with the sort of more scattered and random look to add to it. I made some changes to the elf face nail, and the changes were inspired by @PrincessLexiii on Instagram.

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Christmas 2015: Christmas Lights

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My first Christmas nails of the year! I was so excited about these, and I am so happy with how they turned out!

White: Zoya Purity
Black: It's So Easy Stripe Rite Striper Black
Red: Revlon Revlon Red
Green: Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear Tan Lime
Yellow: Zoya Darcy
Blue: Orly Color Blast A Happy...Puddle

These were really easy to do, but they did take a bit of time. The longest part was drawing the string, because I wanted them to look perfect for it! So I went over the black a couple times in places to even it out and make it smoother.

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Thanksgiving 2015: Watermarble Turkey

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These cute watermarble turkeys were 100% inspired by @banicured_ on Instagram! She did such a good job, I really wanted to try. Last time I did water marble, it actually worked out really well, so I was actually excited to try again!

Red: China Glaze Tip Your Hat

Orange: China Glaze Stoked to Be Soaked

Yellow: Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear Mellow Yellow

Brown: Essie Partner in Crime

White: Salon Perfect Sugar Cube

Black: Salon Perfect Oil Slick

I am so happy with how these turned out! The turkey and water marble were complimented a lot, and my sister loved the dots so much I had to do the same thing on her in Christmas colors!

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Fall China Glaze Dotticure

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I know, it has been forever! I've been bad about doing my nails this month anything, what with the holidays, and I've been really busy in school, and just with life. I've been so exhausted it's been hard to motivate myself to paint my nails period. But I have painted them several times, but then I haven't posted about them! So, it's catch-up night!

Gray: China Glaze Change Your Altitude
Green: China Glaze S'More Fun
Blue: China Glaze Sleeping Under the Stars
Glitter: China Glaze Let's Dew It

I absolutely loved this manicure! I loved how the nail covered in dots has the green dots thrown in. I feel like I placed them perfectly, and it doesn't have a pattern, which is exactly what I was going for!

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Wet 'n Wild Fall Dotticure

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I got most of the Wet 'n Wild Fall 2015 polishes a while ago, and I decided to use most of them in a manicure!

White: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri OMGhost
Red: Wet 'n Wild Megalast Stop and Mel-the-Roses
Blue: Wet 'n Wild Megalast Pop-Up Bluetique
Charcoal: Wet 'n Wild Megalast Keep Vinyl Alive
Dark Plum: Wet 'n Wild Megalast Gettin' Inked

This was so simple to do and didn't take very long! I did dots on four of my nails using different sized dotting tools, and for my ring finger, I used the plastic bag method!

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Halloween 2015: Haunted House Accent

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Today I did my first very Halloween-y manicure! I really wanted to do a plastic bag nail, so I used that and a simple dotticure so I could feature my haunted house on my index finger.

White: China Glaze White On White
Black: China Glaze Liquid Leather
Orange: China Glaze Home Sweet House Music
Gold: Pure Ice Studette

This was really simple to do. I used a medium-small sized dotting tool for the middle finger dotticure, and a nail art brush from Winstonia to paint the haunted house on my index finger. The ring finger and thumb were the plastic bag method!

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31 Day Challenge: Day 22

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Prompt: Inspired by a Song

Red: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Rapid Red
Orange: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Pumpkin Queen
Yellow: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Sizzlin' Saffron
Green: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri I-rush Luck
Light Blue: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Blue Away
Dark Blue: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri In Prompt Blue
Purple: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Lively Lilac
White: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri OMGhost
Gray: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Show Steel-er
Black: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Night Fright
Gold: Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear Golden-I

Song Inspiration: Long Live by Taylor Swift

In case no one has noticed from the past challenges, I love Taylor Swift! I was listening to this song and I just had this image of nail art, and this is what I got! I know it's a lot of polishes, but that's because of the confetti. So, the lines of the song I got this from, starting at the index finger...

Dragon: "I had the time of my life fighting dragons with you."
Crowns: "We are the kings and the queens / You traded your baseball cap for a crown."
Confetti: "Hold on to spinning around / Confetti falls to the ground"

And that's it! Check back tomorrow for more nail art! <3

31 Day Challenge: Day 18

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Prompt: Half Moon

Gray: OPI I Cannoli Wear OPI
Dark Puple: OPI O Suzi Mio
Light Purple: OPI Purple Palazzo Pants
Blue: OPI Gelato On My Mind

So, I originally did different nails for today. But I hated them. They did not look right, so I changed it up this morning, and I love these. These are a slightly different sort of half moon, but I love the way they turned out! All of the polishes that I used were from the OPI Venice Collection. All it took for this look was a dotting tool, which is awesome because most half moon manicures take a sticker, so you have to wait forever for them to dry! These were quick, and they are so cute!

Check back tomorrow for more nail art! <3

31 Day Challenge: Day 11

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Prompt: Polka Dots

Today starts a new category in the 31 Day Challenge! This category/section is "styles." This is probably my favorite section, because of the prompts. It makes me more creative, but gives me enough direction that I'm not lost or stuck. Hopefully after today, you'll be done seeing dots from me for a while! Sorry for all of the dotticures, but moving sucks!

White: China Glaze White On White

Purple: China Glaze Wanderlust

Light Pink: China Glaze Pack Lightly

Dark Pink: China Glaze Pinking Out the Window

I used about three different sized dotting tools for this. They can be found here!

Check back tomorrow for more nail art! <3

31 Day Challenge: Day 9

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Today's Prompt: Rainbow

Silver: OPI Colorpaints Silver Canvas

Green: OPI Colorpaints Landscape Artist

Blue: OPI Colorpaints Turquoise Aesthetic

Purple: OPI Colorpaints Purple Perspective

Pink: OPI Colorpaints Pen & Pink

Magenta: OPI Colorpaints Magenta Muse

I kept it pretty simple, again, but I like this one alright. I used the color paints collection, because I thought they were supposed to blend really well. They blended alright, but not great. I used five different sized dotting tools to create the dots in different colors and sizes, starting with the smallest and getting larger toward the tip of the nail. I worked in sort of a rainbow order for this.

Check back tomorrow for more nail art <3

31 Day Challenge: Day 7

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Today's Prompt: Black & White

Black: OPI Black Onyx
White: OPI Alpine Snow

I kept it really simple, because I was exhausted from it being moving day for me, and I was in a hotel again for the night. I just wanted to get something cute and simple though, anyway, because I usually do something crazy on this day for some reason!

I really like the way this turned out, though! It's simple, but it's also sort of classy. I know there are some places that don't like black nail polish, but I do, and I think with some accents, it is totally acceptable! All I used for this was the nail polish and a dotting tool with a large end and a medium end.


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31 Day Challenge: Day 6

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Today's Prompt: Violet

White: Zoya Purity
Purple: Orly Color Blast Olaf You A Lot

I don't know if this polish is technically violet, but it's purple, and to me, violet and purple are the same. I had to do these nails in a hotel room, and all of my nail art stuff is packed, so it was slim pickins'. I used a bobby pin to do the accent nail. It's supposed to look like confetti! I think it's fun no matter what. It was vaguely based off a manicure I saw done by Chalkboard Nails. Her post can be found here.

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31 Day Challenge: Day 3

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Today's Prompt: Yellow

Today I had a different plan originally. I even did it…and it failed. I pushed it up to the last minute, so I didn't have time to redo what I planned, so I did something different, which I actually really like!

Yellow: China Glaze Sun's Up, Top Down
White: China Glaze White On White

For the accent nail, I just used a dotting tool and created a "border" around my nail with dots! I actually really like the way it turned out. I think it's really fun and different, but a twist on a dotticure!

Check back tomorrow for more nail art! <3

31 Day Challenge 2015: Day 1

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It's the first day of the 31 Day Challenge! I'm so excited to take this on again this year, and do even better than last year!

Today's Prompt: Red

Red: Essie Happy Wife, Happy Life
White: Essie Blanc

These were super simple nails to get this challenge started, but I really like the way they turned out! I used a small and large dotting tool for the accent nails on the ring finger and thumb.

Check in tomorrow for a new challenge!

Wet 'n Wild Summer Mix & Match

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Today I wanted to share the nails I painted for the other day! I wanted to finally use some of the Wet 'n Wild summer polishes that I had laying around, so I picked out three of them that went well together and did a sort of mix & match! I've been loving mix & match nails lately, because they are so much fun! I just like how there is something for everybody in them.

Pink: Wet 'n Wild Re: In Carnation
Orange: Wet 'n Wild Sun Settle Down
Yellow: Wet 'n Wild Bee-U-Tiful
White: OPI Alpine Snow

I wasn't crazy about this manicure in general. It was alright, but my least favorite thing was the middle finger. I just didn't care for the lightning bolt with this set of nails. It's not awful, but it could've gone better with something else, for sure.

The pointer finger was sponged on using a latex free cosmetic sponge, and the dot flower was done using some basic dotting tools. For the middle finger lightning bolt, I used the tip of the sponge to try to fade the orange up into not much of the yellow.

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Dry Brush and Polka Dots

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I recreated a manicure I did a little while ago but with a different blue this time! You can find the original here.

Blue: Essie Garden Variety

White: Essie Blanc

Black: Essie Licorice

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Green Polka Dot Gel Nails

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Today I wanted to share my nails that I wore for over a week while I was on vacation in Ireland! I've never had gel nails before, but I did them myself because I had my own kit that I bought a while back when it was on clearance. I plan to do a post on the process for doing them, and one for the removal, so this is just going to be the colors and pictures!

Green: FingerPaints Gel Polish Paint Me Oh-So-Modern!

White: FingerPaints Gel Polish Stay True To The Art

I painted a green base on all nails and then used the white for dots! In retrospect, I wish I would have done at least one nail white with green dots. Something to try next time!

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Mani By Annie: Fourth of July: Dots and Stripes

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Today, I painted one of my friends nails for the Fourth of July! Here's what I did.

Red: Sinful Shine Mirror Mirror

White: Essie Urban Jungle

Blue: Essie Style Cartel

Silver: Essie No Place Like Chrome

Glitter: Essie Set In Stone

For the stripe nails, I painted white, then used super skinny straight Nail Vinyls. I used a dotting tool for the polka dots, and then tape that I cut out in the shape of a heart to make the silver accent nail. It's hard to see the heart, but it's there. <3

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Fourth of July: Dotted American Flag

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Today I finally have some Fourth of July nails for you! These are inspired by the flag, but I did dots instead of stars!

Red: Sally Hansen Patent Gloss Moto

White: Pop•arazzi Icing on the Cake

Blue: Sinful Colors Blue Persuassion

Silver Glitter: Sephora by OPI Flurry Up!

The blue polish was textured, and I used Nail Vinyls to make the stripes. The silver was done using the glitter sponging method.

Thanks for reading <3