Shiny stripes

I've seen many fellow bloggers do designs that involve both shiny and matte topcoats, and I think they always look simple but very elegant. I decided to try my hand at it, and it turned out pretty well! Unfortunately, painting these nails turned out to be a lot easier than photographing them, so I've taken a couple in hopes that between the two you can get a good idea of what it looks like. I apologize in advance for the chipping and such, I had to wait a day to take the pictures and in that time I managed to damage three different nails.

The black is from the Monster High Nail Polish set, the shiny topcoat is by Sally Hansen Salon Manicure, and the matte topcoat is by Sephora by OPI. The first picture is in natural light, and the second picture is using the lighting in my bedroom. I'm so sad that it's already starting to get damaged, hopefully I can make it last until Friday!

Day 31: Recreate your favourite challenge

When I first learned I had to do water marbles for this challenge I was dreading it. It looked complicated and messy and frustrating. Although my first attempt was less than stellar, I found it to be much easier than I was imagining and I fell in love with the look. So, for the last day of this challenge I decided to try and perfect the technique. I still need to improve a bit, but I'm really happy with how it turned out.

The white is "White Tip" by Sally Hansen Nailgrowth Miracle, and the yellow and red are both by Art Deco Nail Polish. I wanted to make them look like one of these popsicles, I think I needed to swirl the design a little bit more but other than that I'm super happy with the results!

It's weird to think that I'm done the 31 day challenge. Now I have to come up with my own inspiration, but I'm a little out of practice. Off to google I go!

Day 30: Inspired by a tutorial

For quite some time now I've been trying to find a tutorial for peacock nails that fit with what I wanted to do and my ability levels. After much searching, I finally found one from Nails by Kayla Shevonne that was exactly what I was looking for! I loved how it turned out too.

The colours are "Golden-I" by Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear, "Ocean Breeze" by Revlon, "Perfect Plum" by LA Colors, and Art Deco nail polish in blue. From a distance these looked more like stained glass than peacock feathers, but they still were absolutely gorgeous!

Day 29: Inspired by the supernatural

This was a hard one for me. I had no clue what to do, and even looking around at what other people had done didn't give me much inspiration. Then, in the eleventh hour, I found this post by Talonted that gave me an idea for what to do. Here's the result!

Black polish is from a Monster High set, white is Konad Special Nail Polish, and red is Art Deco Nail Polish. I apologize for the terrible picture, it was hard to get the red to show up.

Day 28: Inspired by a flag

I'm getting this post up a few days late for all the festivities, but the flag inspiration fell at exactly the right time for pride week! So I decided to show my support on my nails. :)

I did a layer of Sally Hansen nailgrowth Miracle in "White Tip", then used Art Deco nail art polishes to make the stripes. The only exception for that is the orange, which is "Perfect Sunset" by LA Colors. Finally, I used the white Konad Special Nail Polish to do the heart. This was a really fun and colourful manicure, I got a lot of comments on it.

I doubt it's needed, but here's the pride flag.

Day 27: Inspired by artwork

I flip-flopped a lot on what kind of art I wanted to do for this manicure. After searching around a bit, I finally found something that would work! I got a lot of compliments on this mani too.

The yellow is Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in "Lightening", the blue is Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in "Blue Me Away", and the white is Sally Hansen nailgrowth Miracle in "White Tip". Unfortunately I don't remember which red I used because I've taken too long to post it! But you can't really see it anyways, so I suppose it doesn't really matter. Last but not least, the stamping plate I used to do the dots is BM19.

Here's the picture I used as inspiration:

Day 26: Inspired by a pattern.

I really wanted to do argyle for this one, but apparently I'm not quite good enough for that yet. Instead, I ended up doing fish scales!

I love love LOVE this colour! It's "Sea Siren" by LA Colors. Sometimes it looks more blue, sometimes it looks more green, and all the time it looks gorgeous. Plus it goes on beautifully in one coat. The gold is, of course, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in "Golden-I".