So fresh, so clean!

I've decided that the new year is the time to take on some new challenges and make some changes. You know, new year, new me ;)

Among some of the changes and challenges I'm going to be doing I think it's about time for another nail polish challenge. I love doing challenges because it really gets my creative juices flowing, I find it especially helpful when I'm feeling decidedly uninspired. This challenge is pretty laid back which I'm excited about and it was created by @californails on instagram. The first day of the challenge was actually yesterday but hey, better late then never! 

Anyways the first challenge is fresh. Whenever I think of fresh I think of mint so I knew I wanted to incorporate it in my mani somehow. Other then that though I struggled coming up with an idea for this one and then it hit me, what's fresher then a old school white french manicure?! 

I started this design by painting the tips of my nails with OPI Alpine Snow. Then I cleaned up the smile line with a cleanup brush and some acetone. After everything was dry I layered two coats of OPI Bubble Bath and then I added three dots of Orly Gumdrop up the side of each nail. To finish the design up I added some Poshe for top coat to give it that super shiny look! 

Here's a picture of the challenge so you guys have an idea of what's coming up next! ;) 

So what do you think? Is it fresh enough?! What would you have done for this challenge, I really struggled with an idea so I'd love to hear your thoughts! And who knows... maybe I'll decide to recreate some! ;) 

Thanks darlings :) 

12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge!

Hello again all you lovely readers!

If you read my previous post you'll know that Lorene over at Over Polished and myself have created a Christmas Nail Art Challenge and would LOVE for all you guys to join in!! Who wants to do 12 days of Christmas nails awesome-ness?! I know I do! ;)

And the Christmas season wouldn't be complete without gifts! That's why we are offering an awesome prize pack to one lucky person who completes the challenge with us! Will it be YOU? Well you gotta sign up and be down for the challenge with us to find out!! ;) 

Take a look at the challenge days!

Major props to Lorene who created this AMAZING graphic!
 I mean seriously look at that fabulousness!!! 

CHALLENGE POSTS

In the graphic above you can see the date and theme for challenge. There are 3 challenges every week for 4 weeks. The first three weeks have the challenges spread across the entire week. For Christmas week, the challenges are three consecutive days ending on Christmas Day

Please publish your challenge on the date specified. You should include the Inlinkz code that we provide you via email at the bottom of your post. You’ll also need to add the link to your post to the Inlinkz collection.

If for some reason you can’t complete the challenge on that date, don’t worry. We’ll leave our Inlinkz collections open to submissions until the end of December. You will be emailed a different Inlinkz collection code for each challenge day.

SIGN UP

Please add your website to the Inlinkz collection below to join our challenge. Make sure you enter the correct email or you will not receive the inlinkz embed codes for each challenge.

PRIZES

If you complete all 12 challenges by December 26, 2012 you will be entered to win a New Year's Nail Polish Prize Pack (details coming soon!). You must sign up and post all challenges to the provided Inlinkz collections in order to be eligible. We will randomly select one winner. Winners outside of the US will be responsible for any import duties or taxes on the prize.

Feel free to download and repost the Challenge Graphic above or use this side bar graphic.

QUESTIONS??

Please leave a comment below and we'll try to answer it for you.

TIHC Day 19: Bats

Good morning all!

So get ready for two posts today because both of my challenges have challenge days today woo!!! Ok so number one is the "This is Halloween" Nail Art Challenge hosted by Lacquer Dreams and it's bats... sound familiar?? Well my last challenge day for the other challenge was bats but don't worry! I did something completely different for this challenge :) Granted I'm still not really crazy about it, I don't know what it is about bats but they apparently don't seem to like me in the nail art area -_- Anyways check out what I did this time! :) 

Colors used:
- All Polished Up Dark Blue
- Sally Hansen Hard Lemonade
- Sally Hansen Heart of Stone
- Milani Mr. Sandman
- China Glaze Fast Track
- Black Acrylic Paint
- White Acrylic Paint

So take two at the ruffian attempt... yep it's still a pain in the butt -_- I really need to watch some youtube tutorials to see if I'm doing it wrong :) 

So as you guys can see I did bats flying in front of the moon for three of my fingers and a cute little bat on my ring finger. Does that even look like a bat? I'm not even sure but I think he's cute :) So not a complete fail right? :) 

What do you guys think?

My next post is coming in a few seconds! Make sure you check out all of the other challengers!! :)

TIHC Day 5: Watermarble :)

Hey all!

So today is Day 5 for the "This is Halloween" Nail Art Challenge by Lacquer Dreams and it's watermarble! To be honest I was actually really excited for today's challenge because I love the way watermarble looks even if it is a reall pain in the butt to do. And I haven't done one in a really long time. I'm pretty proud of the way these turned out! So take a look guys :)

Colors used:
- Sally Hansen Black Out
- Sally Hansen Crushed

And here's a list of the rest of the challenge...

What do you guys think? 

Don't forget to check out the rest of the challengers there down here somewhere :)

Thanks for reading! :)

HNAC Day 1! Halloween Pumpkins

Hi again!

Ok short post since I basically explained everything in the post right before this, my second challenge Halloween Nail Art Challenge by Glitter Obsession day 1 is halloween pumpkins... so does this mean jack-o-lanterns or just pumpkins? Hmmmm I took it as jack-o-lanterns so here you go :)

Colors used:
- Sally Hansen Black Out
- Sally Hansen Crushed
- Wet n Wild SaGreena the Teenage Witch (fitting right??)
- Black Acrylic Paint

So cute right?? I love how the pumpkins came out! I have a feeling me and Sally Hansen's Black Out are going to be seeing a lot of each other during these two challenges good thing I picked up two more black polishes :)
So what do you guys think??

Thanks for reading again guys I hope you have a great October 1st :)

*Update!* I've got the links there right below here :)

TIHC Day 1: Horror Movies!

Hello and good morning on this lovely October 1st day!

Hopefully you guys remember that I posted that I was doing two challenges this October and they both start today!! Yayy! Ok challenge number one "This is Halloween" Nail Art Challenge is Horror Movies! I have to confess I'm kind of a weenie and don't watch that many horror movies :( I hope you all know and Freddy vs. Jason because thats what I did! Take a look...

Ok I used quite a few colors here let's see if I remember them all...
- Sally Hansen Black Out
- Finger Paints Paper Mache
- Pure Ice Gold Dust
- China Glaze You Move Me
- China Glaze Hook and Line
- Sally Hansen Nearly Nude Naturel Pink
- Ms. Pedicure Red
- White Acrylic Paint
- Black Acrylic Paint
I think that's all of them!

So this challenge is definitely going to make my free hand nail art much better if the prompts keep going like this lol! 
What do you guys think?

Thanks for reading the second challenge is coming up next :)
And here are the other challengers add your link if you wanna join! 

I'm in trouble....

Hello all!

Yes you read it right I'm in trouble..... dun, dun, DUNNNNNN!!! Lol so yesterday I posted that I was doing a Halloween Nail Art Challenge and I was so excited and I still am! But... I was perusing some of the blogs that I follow and I noticed that Glitter Obsession just posted tonight about a Halloween nail art challenge that a bunch of people are doing and I just couldn't resist! I have no self control I know -_- But the picture was just so pretty and the challenges looked like so much fun I just HAD to do it! 

Seriously guys how could I resist that?? So I might be in over my head doing TWO challenges in October but oh well!! I am so excited! This means you guys will be seeing a lot of posts from me next month I hope your as excited as I am! Oh and if any of you want to join this challenge, click here and let them know! 

Thanks for reading everyone :)

Halloween Nail Art Challenge!

Hi guys!

I just wanted to let you know I'm going to be doing my first ever nail art challege! Woohoo I'm so excited :) I'm going to be doing the "This is Halloween" Nail Art Challenge and it's being hosted by Lacquer Dreams so make sure you guys check her site during the challenge to see all of the participant's awesome nail designs!

Hopefully everything will run smoothly since I've never done one of these before :)

Check back in a little while to see some awesome nail polishes!!
Thanks for reading everyone :)