Day 25: Inspired by fashion

I am once again behind on posting my nails! I need to get back in the habit of putting these up when I do my nails, not a week later. I'll catch the blog up over the next couple days. First, my nails inspired by a very pretty pair of shoes!

White is Sally Hansen nailgrowth Miracle in "White Tip", and the pink and black are from the monster high set. This was also my first attempt at newspaper nails! I wish I had found a section with smaller print, this was a bit big for what I was doing. All in all though, I like it!

Here's the shoes I used for inspiration:

Day 24: Inspired by a book

I had a bit of trouble with the inspiration for this one. Most of the books that popped into my head couldn't be easily translated to a manicure. Eventually, though, I settled on this design.

The colours are "Perfect Sunset" and "Paradise Pink" by LA Colours, as well as the purple from the monster high nail polish set. Please excuse the bumpiness of my thumb nail, I tore my nail pretty bad so I've patched it up with a piece of a tea bag until it grows out enough I can cut it.

I used Janet Evanovich, one of my favourite authors, as inspiration. She write the Stephanie Plum series, which is some of the funniest books that I have ever read in my life. Doing a plum manicure seemed a little bit dark for summer though, so instead I adapted this cover art into a nail design:

Not my favourite book of hers, but still funny nonetheless. :)

Day 23: Inspired by a movie

There was no question as to which movie I was going to use for this challenge: V for Vendetta. I absolutely adore this movie, and I thought it would make for a good manicure too! I'm not sure it turned out as awesome as I thought it would, but I'm still pretty proud of it overall.

Here's the colours I used for each nail:

Thumb: Sally Hansen nailgrowth miracle in "White Tip", black from Monster High set.

Pointer: black from Monster High set, Art Deco nail art lacquer in red

Middle: black from Monster High set, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in "Golden-I", Art Deco nail art lacquer in red

Ring: Sally Hansen nailgrowth miracle in "White Tip", Art Deco nail art lacquer in red, LA Colours in "Voodoo"

Pinky: black from Monster High set, Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in "Lightening", Art Deco nail art lacquer in red

Unfortunately I couldn't get the red to show up well over the black. If I did this again I would definitely draw it in white first to make the design pop more. Or maybe use acrylic paints.

Here's the poster, for those of you that haven't seen the movie!

Day 22: Inspired by a song

For this challenge, I chose to use a song by one of my favourite artists. His name is Dan Mangan, and the first song I ever heard by him was one called "Robots". The most memorable part of the song comes near the end, where he starts singing that robots need love too. From that line, I came up with this manicure!

The silver is "Queen of Everything" by Sephora by OPI, and the red on the accent nail (which unfortunately doesn't really show well in this picture) is Maybelline Express Finish in "Red Comet". It's a really nice sparkly red, but I wish I'd used a bright pink instead to give it a more obvious colour. As for the eyes on the robot, I accidentally put the polishes away and now I can't remember which ones I used. It's not a great example of the colours anyways.

If I did this manicure again, I think I wouldn't put the colours in the eyes. It looks good here, they remind me of robots from futurama, but I think they looked better with just the white.

Anyways, for anyone interested this is the song that inspired it all! The infamous line starts at 2:44.

Day 21: Inspired by a colour

I had some vague plans for this colour, but as I was rifling through my polishes I found one that my mom had bought and I had yet to try. It looked really pretty, so I changed my plans and tried this instead!

The base colour is LA Colors in "Fiery Orange", and the colour I used to do the stamp with is Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in "Golden-I". I used the Bundle Monster image plate BM21. This was a much more demure look than I usually go for, but it's a nice colour nonetheless!

Day 20: Water Marbled

I'll be honest, this was my first time doing water marbling and I was dreading it. I definitely had a few mishaps along the way and only one nail was truly done right, but it went a lot better than I expected and I definitely want to do this again!

I did a base coat first in Sally Hansen nailgrowth Miracle in "White Tip", then used that white as well as Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in "Mint Sprint" and Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in "Blue Me Away!". I love this colour combo, but using white as a base caused a few problems. I'd love to try this again with the green as a base instead.

Day 19: Galaxies

I've tried the galaxy tutorial from cutepolish before, but I didn't have the right nail polish colours. I think the second time went much better!

The white I used was Sally Hansen nailgrowth miracle in "White Tip", yellow was Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in "Lightening", pink was LA Colors in "Summertime", and blue was LA Colors in "Blue Lagoon". Oddly enough, I can't find my sparkles to tell you what they are. Hm.


Edit: found it! Apparently the brand is Tivoli, and the colour is "NP043". I confess, I got this at the dollar store back when I was first starting my nail polish collection and didn't have a lot of money to do so. It worked well though!