Summertime Skittle

Hey dolls!  I hope everyone had a great holiday weekend.  I enjoyed mine very much.  Time spent with loved ones is always a good time.  I even did some nail art for the weekend.  Instead of doing a red, white and blue Independence Day themed design,  I did a summer skittle.

Here's a list of the polishes I used for this manicure:

Essie Bikini So Teeny

Revlon Spirit

Wet n Wild Candy-licious

Sephora by OPI It's Totally Karma

Revlon Black Magic

L.A. Girl Extra Extra

It's been a while since I've done my nails like this.  Would it be weird to say my nails put me in a good mood? No?  Okay, it did.  Don't judge.  I'm actually inspired to start doing my nails regularly.   Or it could be the new nail treatment I'm using, Nail Tek Strengthener.   My nails have been weak and peeling for months.  I can't get them to grow long and stay long.  Do any of you have this problem?  If so, what did you use or are using to combat it?   I hope this one works because Nail Envy failed me.  I'll keep you posted.

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Winter Wonderland

Hola Senoritas, What's up?  Did any of you see Frozen yet?  The fam and I went to see it Wednesday and ermagerd it's so amazing!  I'm completely obsessed with it, everyone should see it. It needs to hurry up and come out on Blu-Ray so I can watch it EVERYDAY haha. By complete coincidence my nails for today's post matched the wintery wonder of the movie.

I just love this time of year.  The colder weather, snow (if we ever get any in New York), cozy time with a cup of hot chocolate, the holidays, scarves and sweaters.  I just had to put that winter love into a nail design.

I really love how these came out.  It looks exactly as I thought in my head (that is not always the case lol).  Is it weird that my favorite design is the thumb? Lol, I can be so boring.  I wanted to do matte white polka dots on naked nails since I saw it on Marie of Pretty Project.

Which is your favorite nail? The snowy gradient, the snowflakes or the snowballs? :-D

Polishes Used:
Revlon Spirit
China Glaze Frostbite
All That Glitters Spotty Dottie Light
Finger Paints Santa's Magic
New York Color Matte Me Crazy

31 Day Challenge 2.0 Day 24

Oh my goodness, 2 posts in one day? Complete madness, nah I just really need to catch up with the challenge.  I'm back again today with Day 24: Inspired by a Book.  My novel of choice is by The Misters favorite author Terry Pratchett.

A Discworld novel called Feet of Clay.  The whole Discworld Series is awesome and I've been meaning to pick up where I left off.  But I can't find a moment in my day or night to just chillax with a great book.

Honestly I can't remember if I read this one yet.   I pretty much just went through The Misters vast collection of Terry Pratchett novels looking for a cover that would make for beautiful nail art.  Feet of Clay won!

Then I got to the feet and started regretting my decision :(.  Trying to draw feet on your nails is hard enough.  A foot with 6 toes IMPOSSIBLE haha.  Did my best and got 4 toes on there lol.

The bubbles are definitely my favorite.  It's why I chose this book.  For this design all I used were dotting tools, the ends of some of my brushes and my favorite homemade nail art brush.  Homemade? You ask.  It's just an old liquid eyeliner brush I cleaned and cut a tiny bit of girth off of.  WHAT!!?!! Lol Do you have any nifty handmade nail art tools?

Polishes Used:

• Essie Mesmerize
• Wet n Wild Black Creme
• Wet n Wild Red Red
• Sinful Colors Pull Over

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31 Day Challenge 2.0 Day 21

Happy Friday!!! Any big plans this weekend? Me? Nothing big, but I do have a date with 2 of my favorite chicas tonight.  Looking forward to seeing them.  Before I get into todays nails I guess I have a little disclaimer/warning, I don't know what to call it haha. 
Any woot, at this present time they are doing construction on the outside of my building.  It's been going on since probably June.  There is scaffolding around the whole building, I'm on the first floor :(.  That being said my natural lighting for my photos has been murdered.  Sometimes I'm able to get enough light but today not so much.  They started blocking my windows with boards during the day.  I'm working on making a light box but for now I'm trying to make my in house lighting work for me.  Please let me know if you feel the photos suck lol and what you think I should do, thank you in advance ;). Now back to our regularly scheduled program.
Lets talk about todays theme.  It's the first of the Inspired By themes of the challenge and it's A Color.  I was just as annoyed/confused by this one as I was last year.  Last year I stole Sarah of Chalkboard Nails idea of being inspired by the name of a nail polish color.  For example I chose Maybelline Autumn Leaves so I drew leaves, SEE! :) Wasn't feeling doing that again.  I decided to pick a color that wasn't a part of the Color Themes and go with what that color makes me think of.

I chose the color pink and the first thing I thought of was Uniqua.  She's a character from one of my sons favorite shows (I'm not going to lie I love the show too) The Backyardigans. 

I love the way they came out.  It was super easy to do.  I thought I was going to need tape.  I had it all set up but didn't bother.  I feel like tape just gives me more work haha.

I bet you're wondering how I did the big polka dots, huh? :) I just used the end of my clean up brush.  Anything can be a dotting tool.  Just don't clean it like one :/

Polishes Used:

• Sinful Colors Dressed to Kill
• Maybelline Posy Pink

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31 Day Challenge 2.0 Day 11

Hey guys!! It's Day 11, the first day of the Pattern themes.  Todays theme is the ever classic Polka Dots.  I don't do a lot polka dot nails, for some reason I'm not that great at it haha.  Crazy I know, but I always seem to mess something up.  With these nails I think I did pretty good.  Maybe it's because I didn't do a basic polka dot design.  I did strawberries, or strawboobies as my son would call them lol.

These were inspired by my kitchen hand towel.  Everytime I would have it in the kitchen I think 'Oh it's so pretty I should put them on my nails' and I finally did.  I love how they came out, super ca-yute! 

Here I am again using my favorite colors Black and White haha.  Maybe that's why I have so many Untrieds smh.  Well you would be proud of me, this was my first time using the yellow base color.  It's Milani Yellow Whiz, the fast dry one coat formula polish.  I don't know what I did wrong but I needed 2 coats :(. Either 1 coat or 2 coats it's still a gorgeous yellow creme and now 1 of my FAVORITE yellow polishes!

For the strawberries I used a black striper, New York Color French White Tip, which I should retire to my stamping polish pile, and New York Color Sidewalkers.  I'm going to put these nails on my tutorials to do list.  I really enjoyed doing the Watercolor Rainbow Roses picture tutorial.  So I definitely plan on doing more for you guys.

Polishes Used:

• Milani Yellow Whiz
• New York Color French White Tip
• New York Color Sidewalkers
• Absolute! Nail Art Paint Black

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