Summer Fun Challenge, Hot Hot Hot!!!

Hey guys! Today I have post 4 of the Summer Fun nail art Challenge from Lindsey over at Neverland Nail Blog. I just like last time had an idea that I ended up changing because well, it would have been pretty much impossible since I don't have a mirror polish lol

So for today's challenge I did started with a base coat of white, and did a gradient from yellow to red, the red turned out more pink because of the white base, but I'm okay with that! Yellow I used Zoya Pippa, Orange I used Essie Orange It's Obvious, and the Red is OPI The Color of Minnie. I then used one coat of OPI DS Shimmer (my pointer ended up with a thicker coat) to make my hot gradient sparkle!

I then used ManGlaze Matte is Murder with a nail art brush to draw on the flames, and filled it in with a dotting tool, hence why it's kind of lumpy. I wanted this contrast because I thought it would be awesome! Holo flames and matte black mmmm.

What do you guys think?

Until next time! Happy painting!

Summer Fun Challenge, Pool Party!

Hey guys! Back with post 3 of the Neverland Nail Blog's summer fun challenge! This time it's pool party! This had a few idea running through my mind, of course the first being the water, but since I didn't think I could do it, and then Michelle from Sonoma Nail Art did some water like I planned so I changed it up again!!

Since I just went through all of my polish this weekend (those of you that have liked my FB page probably already knew that) I had all my colors separated out on my table which made it easy to find blues that I was interested in using. My original plan was to do a yellow polka dot bikini, a duck floatie, and a beach ball on the blues...but once again changed my mind!

I used China Glaze custom kicks, Finger Paints blue raspberry taffy and Deborah Lippmann let's hear it for the boy, as well as a generic white to do a water marble and boy oh boy am I happy with it! I then used the same white, Zoya Meg, Kimber and Carly on the beach ball. I at first didn't have it outlined and me thinking "oh let's try and make it better!" didn't improve it lol...it looked better without the black outline but I think you can still tell what it is!

Onto the pics! Sorry about the lack of my light box, there is still polish all over my nail table!

What do you guys think?

Until next time! Happy painting!

One Year Blog Anniversary Giveaway! ***closed***

Hey guys!!! My one year blog anniversary is fast approaching (July 5th) so I wanted to do a thank you giveaway to my followers. In one year I've learned so much, and met so many amazing people, some of which I consider great friends. I never realized how big the nail polish community really is! I have a lot of fun playing with my nails and have gone from a stash of nothing to almost 600 in a year.

There will be two prizes for this giveaway, first is two Deborah Lippmann polishes from the Footloose collection, Dancing in the Sheets and Let's Hear it for the Boy. Dancing in the sheets is a beautiful dark blurple shimmer, and Let's Hear it for the Boy is a light blue. (Swatches are from my own two bottles)

Second prize is two sets of Sally Hansen spring 2012 nail strips, one has multi-colored little birds, and the other is multi-colored butterflies, and a nail file with the same butterflies. They are both adorable and from what I've seen can't be bought anymore.

Rules for this giveaway are simple.

1. Be a GFC follower
2. Enter with the Rafflecopter widget below
3. Open internationally
4. Good luck and thanks!!

This giveaway is not sponsored by anyone including the companies the prizes are from. All items were bought by myself, all are brand new unused and unopened.

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Summer Fun Challenge, Summer Lovin!

Hey guys! Here today with post 2 of Lindsey from Neverland Nail Blogs summer fun challenge! Each of these is called a "day" but it will be all spaced out over a few weeks time :)

So "day 2" is summer lovin, anything lovey dovey type stuff, but I wanted to go just a little bit of a different route with the same theme. I googled images to find my inspiration, and when I saw the picture (will be down below) I just it was what I *had* to do!!

So colors, once again I used Deborah Lippmann's Let's Hear it for the Boy as my blue base, I then sponged Zoya Zuza randomly over it to give some dimensions like the sky, followed by white for the clouds. The dark green of my watermelon rind is Julep Emilie, the lightest green of the rind is OPI Who the Shrek Are You? and the middle green is the two mixed together. For the pink I used OPI If You Moust You Moust, and sponged just a little bit of OPI The Color of Minnie over it once again just for some dimension, and finally the brown for the seeds is Kleancolor Espresso.

At the end I only had the heart in the watermelon (I used a dotting tool to make the outline of it then just filled in the outside), and I wanted more hearts that weren't so obvious. Both my pinky and my pointer already had the outlines of hearts just from how I sponged (no I didn't plan it lol) so I just added a little more to define the heart just a bit more with a dotting tool, and tada I was done!

I am seriously in love with this mani, summer love!! Everyone knows watermelon is a yummy summer treat that most people love, and who doesn't love a blue sky with fluffy white clouds?

So what do you guys think?

Until next time! Happy painting!