31 Day Challenge 2.0 Lookbook

Hey there everyone, happy Monday! I hope you all enjoyed your weekend. I had a nice relaxing weekend with my fam.  Those are my favorite weekends ;). 
Here is my 31 Day Challenge 2.0 Lookbook, a quick glance of each challenge and their links.

Day 1: Red                 Day 2: Orange

Day 3: Yellow            Day 4: Green

Day 5: Blue                    Day 6: Violet

Day 7: Black & White   Day 8: Metallic

Day 9: Rainbow            Day 10: Gradient

Day 11: Polka Dots      Day 12: Stripes

Day 13: Animal Print Day 14: Flowers

Day 15: Delicate          Day 16: Tribal Print

Day 17: Glitter            Day 18: Half Moons

Day 19: Galaxy           Day 20: Water Marble

Day 21: A Color          Day 22: A Song

Day 23: A Movie        Day 24: A Book

Day 25: Fashion         Day 26: Pattern

Day 27: Artwork        Day 28: A Flag

Day 29: SupernaturalDay 30: Tutorial

Day 31: Redo Favorite Challenge

I really had a lot of fun doing the challenge.  It pushed me creatively and I tried out a lot of new techniques.  I'm very proud of every manicure I did pats self on back haha.  Now that the challenge is over I have more time to explore different types of posts.  Such as, makeup looks, beauty reviews,  and polyvore sets.  Last but not least I just want to say THANK YOU so much for being a reader, commenting and showing me so much love.   

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31 Day Challenge 2.0 Day 31

It took forever but I finally made it.  Day 31 of the challenge is here, yay.  Sad to see the challenge end but so happy it's over.  Todays theme was to recreate your favorite nail art, I assume from another nail artist.  I honestly couldn't think of anything.  There are a lot of designs I love from so many nail artists.  I just wasn't in the mental state to recreate any of it, ya know?  Instead I redid a challenge theme, I went with Day 17: Glitter!

Funny, I did the glitter theme twice last year as well.  What can I say? I'm a Glitter Gal. Sparkles run through my veins hehe.  This base is definitely my favorite glitter of ALL TIME!!

Look at all that holo goodness :D.  This is actually a franken, one that you can definitely do yourself.  I got the idea from @adri_doll on Instagram.  She mixed the Wet n Wild Confetti Glitz, that just came out for Halloween, into a bottle of clear nail polish.  It's so packed full of glittery sexiness I only needed 2 coats, if you add more confetti 1 coat will be good.  It reminds me of Models Own Juicy Jules but I would need at least 3 or 4 thick coats for this much coverage.

On top of the glitter I tried out the Sugar Spun technique.  After seeing my girlies Sarah of Chalkboard Nails and Emmie of Just Tis Ems sugar spun nails I NEEDED to try it out.  I used this tutorial and Emmies tutorial to find out how it's done.  It's a bit tricky and you have to practice a little just to get a feel of it.  It's a lot like water marble.  You need to figure out which polishes work and you need patience ;).

I can't believe my 31 Day Challenge is over! I had so much fun with it.  Yeah I took longer than 31 days but you can't control life and feeling like crap haha.  I'm going to work on a Challenge Summary post, hopefully I'll have that for you tomorrow.  See you soon beautiful!

Polishes Used:

• Starlicious Lacquer- Starlite Approved
• LA Girl Turntable
• Wet n Wild Candy-licious

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31 Day Challenge Day 2.0 30

Oh my goodness I'm exhausted.  Damn Revenge and 666 Park Avenue, making me want to stay up late watching you!  Lets not even talk about my slight OCD with these swatchicles smh.  I can't stop, I want to get it done.  I did manage to pull myself away from the glue gun to do my next challenge manicure, inspired by a tutorial.
I chose this spray bottle splatter tutorial by Manicurator.  My close boo Emily of Very Emily shared this tutorial with me last week, click her name to see her gorgeous spray bottle nail art.  I knew right away I wanted to use it for todays challenge.

I started off with 2 coats of H&M Beauty Bandit after it dried I put 1 thick coat of Sally Hansen Pumping Iron and I used a sponge to lift off the excess.  That alone was so gorgeous, loved the color effect. 

For the splatter I used Wet n Wild How I Met Your Magenta.  It's already a thin polish and I had 2 bottles.  Yeah you noticed the past tense? I killed the whole bottle :(.  I poured it in my empty makeup brush cleaner spray bottle and added nail polish thinner.  I spritzed it from a distance on each nail, too close and it would just look like a splash.  It's a different and very subtle splatter, I actually love that.  I'm happy it didn't come out exactly like a typical splatter, just done in a different way.

I threw on my 4mm silver square BPS studs, because everything is better with studs :). A very messy technique, but I will try it again since I didn't dump the extra out of the bottle.  Have any of you tried or plan on trying this technique out?

Polishes Used:

• H&M Beauty Bandit
• Sally Hansen Pumping Iron
• Wet n Wild How I Met Your Magenta

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31 Day Challenge 2.0 Day 29

Kiss me, kiss me/Infect me with your love and/Fill me with your poison/Take me, take me/Wanna be a victim/Ready for abduction/Boy, you're an alien/Your touch so foreign/It's supernatural/Extraterrestrial

It's day 29 babies!! Happy Saturday, I'm feeling good today.  I went to bed early last night finally got some needed extra sleep.  I got my Milani Cosmetics Fall into Beauty prize in the mail this morning.  I finally have everything I need to work on my swatchicles. Uhhh and mama got a new post for you ;) woot woot. 

My Katy Perry lyrics introduction was a dead give away of my supernatural choice for this challenge...ALIENS!  These were very inspired by the marvelous Madeline Poole.  I saw her nails for American Apparel on Instagram and saw the answer to my, 'what the hell am I going to do for this dang supernatural challenge?' question.

They're so cute and imperfect lol, my little mean green men/women.  Sometimes painting your own nails can be a real b!|¢# haha.  I just couldn't angle my hand right.  So my aliens are a little wonky but still cute ;) and they glow in the dark!!!

OMG the easiest galaxy/nebulae nails I've ever done.  I only used 5 nail polishes and I love how they came out.  Wanna know what I did?  I started with 2 coats of New York Color Skin Tight Denim, a gorgeous midnight blue.  After I let that dry I used the saran wrap technique on a coat of Wet n Wild Black Creme (WAH!?!).  When that was dry I sponged some Wet n Wild French White Creme and Sinful Colors Why Not, finally topped it off with Wet n Wild Coloricon mini holo glitter.  Simple, easy and I love it!  By using the saran wrap technique on the base color it gave it this realistic depth.  I'm going to do this for all my galaxy nails!

Polishes Used:

• Glow in the Dark Pumpkin Enamel Slime Green color
• New York Color Skin Tight Denim
• Wet n Wild Black Creme
• Wet n Wild French White Creme
• Sinful Colors Why Not
• Wet n Wild coloricon mini Holographic Glitter

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31 Day Challenge 2.0 Day 28

It's Day 28...I can't believe just 3 more challenges to go. Very happy that there are only 3 left :). Todays theme is Inspired by a Flag.  Of course I chose my favorite flag, my Jamaican flag!!!  I always have to represent every chance I get.

Since I've done the Jamaican Flag at least twice already, one recently for the Olympics. I decided to not just do the actual flag. I wanted to do something different with it. I chose to go abstract with my black, green and yellow.

Love love love the way these came out. It's not the straight up flag but you know exactly what it is. 

After I finished my nails I realized I kind of did the same thing for last years challenge.  I did the Union Jack but put 1 line on each nail.  Hmmmmm maybe I'll do an abstract Union Jack next :).  How do feel about abstract flags?

Polishes Used:

• Sinful Colors Pull Over
• Sinful Colors Exotic Green
• Wet n Wild Black Creme

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31 Day Challenge 2.0 Day 27

Hi everyone, it's another late post day today :( sorry.  Still feeling a bit under the weather but I couldn't bring myself to not do my next challenge design.  The theme for today is Inspired by Artwork.  I pretty much just googled abstract art to find some inspiration.  I found a couple things but I really liked this graffiti piece in particular.

To successfully transfer the piece into a nail design I visually cut the image up.  This way different parts of the artwork was placed on different nails.  I actually remembered that from Art class in Middle School.  The only difference being, I enlarged a tiny image back then :).
I do love the way they came out, wish I wasn't feeling like crap though.   They could have been better.  I'm so out of it I can't even think of more words to say haha.  So I'm just going to slap another picture here and make the crazy list of polishes I used for this design.  I will see you tomorrow beautiful people!!! 

Polishes Used:

• Wet n Wild French White Creme
• Wet n Wild Black Creme
• Wet n Wild megalast I Need a Refresh-Mint
• New York Color Sidewalkers
• New York Color City Sweets Pink
• Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Brisk Blue
• Essie Navigate Her
• Sinful Colors Go Go Girl
• Milani Jiffy Orange
• Milani Hot Pink Frenzy
• Starlicious Lacquer Franken Mustard Shade (name in progress) 

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