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: Trees

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These trees were a great, cute idea. They were festive, and people thought they were cute. Well, what they saw of them. The only problem is that they came off super quickly, because I wasn't able to top coat due to the flocking powder.

Cream: OPI My Vampire is Buff

Red: OPI Ro-Man-Ce On The Moon

Green: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri I-rush Luck

Glitter: Pure Ice Bling On The Holidays

Flocking Powder: Bundle Monster

Studs: Sally Beauty "Oh So Easy"

Stripping Tape: Amazon

For the trees, I put top coat on top of the base polish, and let it dry completely. Once it was dry, I used two pieces of tape and made a triangle shape. I painted it with a thick coat of green polish, and removed the tape immediately. Before the polish could dry, I dropped some flocking powder on it. To top the trees, I used some studs and stripping tape.

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31 Day Challenge: Day 8

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Today's Prompt: Metallic

Polish: L'Oreal Frieda's Nude

Studs: from Sally Beauty Supply

This was a super simple manicure, because I wasn't really feeling very creative at the time, and I just wanted to keep it simple. All I did was paint my nails with the nude, and then I added one stud to each ring finger.

Check back tomorrow for more nail art! <3

Easter: Baby Chicks

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The other day I decided to do some baby chick nail art! I know I have seen the baby chick hatching before, but I don't know who originally did them!

Yellow: OPI Good Grief!

Yellow Texture: Nicole by OPI Roughless Sand in My Shoe

White: OPI Alpine Snow

Black: OPI Black Onyx

Other Supplies:

B.M.C. Flocking Powder

Icing Nail Wheel

Dotting Tool

Chevron Nail Vinyls

For these nails, I started by painting my thumb, middle and ring fingers with Good Grief!, and then quickly put a layer of the flocking powder on the thumb and ring finger. For the eyes, I used a couple of black round studs. To make the beak, I used a gold diamond stud and cut it in half so I would have a beak for both chicks. I attached them using OPI Top Coat.

On the middle nail, once it and a top coat were dried on there, I used the chevron nail vinyls to create the cracked looking egg. I used a dotting tool to create the eyes.

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#NailArtJan Day 31

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Today was the final day for this challenge, and I successfully completed it! This post is a little late, because I did have to finish The Nail Art Guild prompt for today, too.

The prompt was "silver," and I took it seriously! I used Essie No Place Like Chrome and did a little negative space mani. I used Nail Vinyls from here again, and put them down before any polish, then painted the polish over them. Once I took them off, I put down some rhinestones that were in a nail wheel I got from Icing.

That was it! They were super quick, simple, and unfortunately messy. I like the idea, I just need to be a little neater next time. I think it would be fun to play around with some different colors and studs/rhinestones.

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#NailArtJan Day 25

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Today's prompt was "studs!" I don't own a lot of studs, because I really just don't use them much. I have to use my hands all day at work, and I wash them all the time. I just worry about losing them or having them fall off and I hate the look with top coat on top.

The studs I used were from Sally's Beauty Supply and Icing. The orange-y polish is OPI Can't aFjord Not To from their Nordic collection this past fall. The blue-gray polish is Essie The Perfect Cover Up, also from their fall 2014 collection.

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