Day 27: Inspired by an Artwork

I wanted to do paint splatters but my girlfriend did that and I didn't want to copy, so I did nails based on this art work:

These are the nails:  

I didn't want to do the same nail over and over especially on smaller nails.  One big problem I had was when pulling the striping tape off (even after I had waited for it to dry) a lot of them pulled so a lot of them look bad.  Anyway the colors were Sinful colors: Black on Black, Snow Me White, China Glaze's Man Hunt, and Happy Go Lucky, and OPI Vodka and Caviar.

Day 26: Inspired by a Pattern

This wan't a very different mani to do, but would have worked much better with either a thinner brush, if I wasn't so heavy handed (I did get better on my right hand) and also if my nails were longer.  The colors I used were Julep's Janel (raspberry), Mackenzie (lime green), OPI Teal the Cows Come Home (blue)

Day 25: Inspired by fashion

So I did these nails awhile back.  I'm so close to finishing I just keep getting nail mail and want to play and I'm just not inspired.  I had this tutorial up on my computer for a month to try and finally found my excuse.

I used all China Glaze for this one: Happy Go Lucky (yellow), Dance Baby (pink) and Westside Warrior (Green)

Nail Challenge Day 24: Inspired by a Book

These were done last week after finishing my third John Green novel, looking for Alaska.

Sorry about the clean up.  I wanted to take a pic before bed in case the got messed up.

This is the hand I liked the best.  I think it was the right one.

These I thought most looked like the book title.

The colors I used were Sinful Colors "Snow Me White" and OPI's "Black Onyx"

Nail Challenge Day 23: Inspired by a Movie

So this post has a lot of picture.  First off, I love Harry Potter and was so excited about this.

I used by my friend's striping tape for the first time.  These are modeled after third year ties.  The stripes are in different directions because they are on both hands and I picked the best ones.  The Ravenclaws were a bitch to do.  And even though I hate Gryffindor those nails turned out amazing.
Four Houses:

                                       Slytherin                                                  Ravenclaw

                                  Hufflepuff                                                      Gryffindor

Golden Snitch (I had one on both hand, but I think the other got messed up before I could take pics so this is the one you get.)

                              Left Hand                                                            Right Hand

What house are you?

Day 22 Nails: Inspired by a song

These nails I did a few weeks ago, but I have been hella busy and have yet to complete day 24 even though I have had bare nails for over a week.

These were inspired by Adam Lambert's song If I Had You

I know the design looks simple, but this song always makes me think of Malec (for those who don't understand read City of Bones by Cassandra Clare).  Magnus and Alec are by far my favorite couple and before the CoB I was dream casting Magnus as Adam Lambert.

Day 21 Nail Challenge: Inspired By a Color

This is going to be the hardest week for polish.  I need to get my inspiration flowing.  I really loved the Water Marbling from the day before so I decided to try it again only this time with a varient of colors.  I was inspired by my favorite colors, pink and blue.  My nails just happened to turn out like baby shower nails.

I forgot to tape up my hand for a couple of the nails.  Oh well lesson learned.  For the pinks I used Orly's "kiss the bride" China Glaze's "Dance Baby" Julep's "Eva" and O.P.I.'s "Kiss Me on my Tulips"  For my blues I used China Glaze's "Frostbite"  Julep's "Annie" and "Melanie" And my only and first Butter London "Scouse" I loved doing these the blue hand gave me a lot of problems.  The polish seemed to dry so much faster than the pinks and so when I tried to make designes I would take away whole colors, but I love how they turned out.

Day 20 Nail challenge: Water Marbling

So I want to get these back log post out of the way and the pics off my desktop before I do my book post so with out further ado these are my water marbling nails.

These were sort of Captain America Shield inspired nails.  My girlfriend showed me how to water marble and tape up my fingers so they wouldn't become a mess.  I really liked the fact the blue and red had a shimmer.  The blue was China Glaze's "Frostbite" and the red Julep's "Sharon"

Day 19 Nail Challenge: Galaxies

Hi everyone!  Sorry I haven't been posting it has been pretty busy.  I have been working and yesterday I spent the whole day reading a very special book (post on that soon!)  I have 4 challenge days worth of material in the back log.  So much for keeping up and finishing on time.  Anyway, I did this mani a quite few days ago and I really like it.

I used two different purples for my hands because I couldn't decide which I liked better.

On the left hand (top) I used O.P.I. "Black Onyx" China Glaze's "Man Hunt"(Blue), "Creative Fantasy" (Purple) and Sinful Color's "Snow Me White"  On the right hand (bottom) I used O.P.I. "Black Onyx" China Glaze's "Man Hunt" Julep's  "Anne"(purple) and Sinful Color's "Snow Me White"  For the top coat of Glitter I used China Glaze Fairy Dust"  I like them both but I think I like the lighter purple because it creates more dynamic.  I should have perhaps used a lighter blue because this one blends in a bit too much for my tastes.

Day 18 challenge: Half-moons

So I totally meant to do a completely different mani, but I forgot and did these... oh well.

So yeah... my cuticles got really really bad. :(  I am trying to fix them...  Anyway the colors I used were chosen by my girlfriend and are Julep's "Morgan" on bottom and "Eva" on top.  They are pretty and the Morgan underneath turned turned the Eva darker than normal I think.  The only problem I had with this mani is I had to put on so much polish.  Each at least was three coats to make opaque.  You can see on my pinkie in the bottom picture the sort of bulbling from the polish.

Day 17 challenge: Glitter

So I procrastinated and put this off till St. Patrick's day because I really wanted to wear my add-on from Julep, "Lucky".

I tried to get this in as many lights as possible.  Lucky is very pretty and not as hard to get off I some glitter polishes I've encountered.  The concept was a leprechaun and his pot of gold which is the silver gold on my pinkie.  The color is Julep's "Sienna"   I really liked these and was glad I could do them for St. Pat's.  Also they were a happy birthday to my Nana.  Sorry about my cuticles they are so dry, and that I didn't get good light for Sienna.  It is amazing.

Day 16 Nail Challenge: Tribal nails

So right now I am all kinds of behind on this challenge.  Today is suppose to be inspired by a movie, but I've been all kinds of busy as a result I am a week behind.  Anyway, I wore the base polish for this design for 2 or 3 days before I could find time to pur the design on and then I only did one hand because that had looked terrible, but here they are:

Before design and as best clean up as I could do.

I used the same sponge technique as my other gradient nails, but this one looks better (so about my cuticles.  They are super dry and ratty lately).

Here's the nails with the design

The colors I used were Julep's "Anne" and "Annie" I love those colors.  And O.P.I. "Black Onyx"

day 15 challenge: Delicate print

So today I did my delicate nails!  They were really cute I thought so I wore them all day.  I meant to do my tribal ones and everything and catch up, however, my nails are getting chipping and flaky so nil treatment time.

Anyway here's the mani:

I just kind of started drawing random designs. this was the left hand.  My ring finger made a face!

Right hand

The colors I used was Julep's "Demi" for the base, "Helen" (After Helen Hunt makes me giggle- NERDFIGHTERS!) And Orly's "Kiss the Bride"

Day 14 Challenge: Flower nails

These nails were actually from this book.  I started trying to do some antique roses but, I didn't like how thick the lines were coming out do I switched and did '80's floral nails instead.

The first two are in sunlight and the last is in artificial light pre-clean up.  These were really fun to do, but took a lot of work, but I'm proud of them.

Colors I used, from left to right: China Glaze, "Custom kicks"; Julep, "Melanie", "Barbara"; O.P.I. ""Black Onyx"; China Glaze "Westside Warrior"