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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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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Christmas 2015: Packages and Bows

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I wanted to sort of recreate my present nails from last year. My favorite thing about them was the 3D aspect when I incorporated a bow stud on some of the presents. I did more this year, and did presents on every nail.

White: Essence Colour & Go Wild White Ways

Gold: Wet 'n Wild Megalast Pot of Gold

Blue: Pure Ice I Pledge Naillegiance

Red: Pure Ice Lady Liberty

Green: Spoiled by Wet 'n Wild Green to be Heard

Black: Essence Colour & Go Black is Back

Silver: Wet 'n Wild Megalast Strobe Light Stunner

Black Bow: KISS Nail Art 3D Stud kit
Silver Bows: Sally Beauty (discontinued item)

The black bow comes off very easily, because of how large it is, and it isn't touching the nail at all points. The silver ones stay on longer, because they are flatter against the nail, and touch in more places, because they have a slight curve, like the nail.

These definitely aren't practical in every situation, but they are fun for maybe a party, or somewhere you won't be using your hands a lot.

One great thing about these particular polishes are that no polish cost more than $2.00! I like using cheaper polishes sometimes, because then it is easier to duplicate, because you can more easily purchase the polishes.

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Christmas 2015: Pink-ified Christmas Cheer

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I love red and green together, don't get me wrong. And I especially love them together at Christmas time. But after doing my nails nearly every day and with the same colors every time, I felt like I was running out of polishes to use, and I wanted to do something different. Then when I was looking around on Instagram and Pinterest, I saw several options for pink Christmas nails! These were inspired by @gabbysnailart on Instagram.

White: Essence Wild White Ways

Light Pink: Orly Color Blast Winter Blush

Dark Pink: Orly Color Blast Magical Voice

Silver Glitter: Pure Ice Pure Icicles

The glitter was actually painted on like regular polish here. The tree was done using a tape to create the shape, and then a fan brush and both pinks. The thumb has a snowflake over a gradient, which I did using a sponge. I used nail vinyls to create the lines for the candy cane stripes.

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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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