Nail Polish Challenge Week 19: Galaxies!

It's Galaxy Nail Week!

           Hey everyone! I'm back for this weeks nails challenge and the theme as you could already tell is Galaxies! Galaxy nails are really pretty, but I have to say a little tedious. This was my first attempt at trying galaxy nails and I'm pretty happy with the results. I just wish my glitter would show up in the pictures. I need a new camera... Anyways here is how it all turned out.

        For the base coat instead of using a matte black like most people I decided to use my China Glaze Smoke And Ashes polish from the Hunger Games Collection. I like that it looks mostly black but when you see it up close and in person you see these tiny micro-flecks of green and teal glitter. With a small torn off piece of a make-up sponge I first used Avon's French Tip White and then layered on Avon's Sunshine followed by Avon's Viva Pink to create the galaxy gradient. After it had fully dried I added on Pure Ice's Don't You Wish which is just a clear coat that has lots of really fine raibow colored micro-glitter in it. I wish you could see the glitter in the pictures because it really adds that pop effect when the light hits it and makes it look like stars. 

\And another view...

       In the end I am really satsified with how it all turned out. I was honestly expecting a huge mess, but it wasn't that bad or that hard to create. I have a feeling when this nail polish challenge is over I will be wearing a lot of galaxy nails, playing with different colors and glitters. Anywho that's it for this week's nail polish challenge. I hope you enjoyed it and look forward next Monday for the next one. Bye guys!

Nail Polish Challenge Week 16: Tribal Print!

Nope, Its Monday again...

              Hello again everyone. Sadly the weekend is over and Monday has once again arrived to torment us all. Why is Monday never a good day? Anyways this week's theme is tribal print which is another form of nail art I had never tried before. I looked at a lot of reference photos online and then looked at my own nail polish collection and made do with what I had. Overall I'm actually quite happy with it since I figured it would turn out much worse than it did. So here is how it turned out.

Shown with me holding a NYC top coat.

And another for a better look.

        So for the blue base coat I used Zoya's Tahlula which actually turned out a tad bit darker than I had expected but still turned out pretty good I think. Then for my thumb and half of my middle finger I used China Glaze's Harvest Moon from the Hunger Games Collection. Then for the black detailing I just used LA Color's Art Deco nail striper in black and for the white details I just used my cheap dollar store white nail striper. To top it all off I used my always present NYC Long Wearing Extra Shiny Top Coat. Tribal prints can really range to so much but given my level of nail art talent (or lack there of) I decided to keep it simple with mainly stripes and dots patterns. I also stuck to just two colors instead of a lot more like I see alot of people do. It's nothing too fancy but I'm proud of myself for trying it and what I had accomplished when I put my mind to it. That's all for this week. Next week's challenge will be Glitter!! Now the hard part is to pick which glitter polish I want to wear. Seriously about 70 percent of my nail polish collection is juts plain glitter. Anyways see you guys next week!




Nail Polish Challenge Week 7: Black & White

This week is Jack Skellington inspired!

        Welcome back internet pals did you enjoy your weekend? I spent mine cleaning and getting ready for Thanksgiving since I wont have time to do it later this week because I work everyday until Thursday. I still have to go to the store and stock up for the Thanksgiving feast, although feast isn't really the right term since it will probably be just my parents and me. My oldest brother has to work and his wife and my niece are going to her mom's house for dinner and my other brother is going to his girlfriend's for Thanksgiving so it's just going to be us three more than likely. Still that means more food for me in the end. Anyways it's Monday again so that means another installment of the Nail Polish Challenge. Can you believe we are already on week seven? It doesn't feel like I've been doing this for seven weeks.

       The theme for this week is Black & White so I decided to try a Jack Skellington pinstripe motiffe. The Nightmare Before Christmas has always been one of my all time favorite movies and since the holiday season is right around the corner I thought this would be a neat idea. Here I painted my nails two coats of China Glaze's Liquid Leather and I just took a cheap white nail art polish that I bought at the Dollar Store and added verticle stripes. It isn't as clean as I would have liked, but it still came out alright I think. As always I just sealed it with NYC's Long Wearing Extra Shiny Top Coat. So that's it for this post. Check back next Monday for the Metallic Challenge also I have a winter Fortune Cookie Soaps haul and review coming up so look forward to that too. Until then guys!

The 31 Week Nail Polish Challenge!



          Good after noon everybody! It's a beautiful sunny fall day here in the midwest. As most of you already know by now I am an active member of the Candles By Victoria message board The Pouring Pot. And they had a thread for the 31 Day Nail Polish Challenge, well a few other girls and I loved the idea, but being practical there was no way we had the time to do and redo our nails everyday so we decided to turn it into a 31 Week Nail Polish Challenge. So I thought I would also keep track of the weeks on here. These are the categories for the 31 weeks. 
Week 1 10/8-10/14: Red
Week 2 10/15-10/21: Orange 
Week 3 10/22-10/28: Yellow
Week 4 10/29-11/4: Green
Week 5 11/5-11/11: Blue 
Week 6 11/12-11/18: Violet
Week 7 11/19-11/25: Black & White
Week 8 11/26-12/2: Metallic 
Week 9 12/3-12/9: Rainbow
Week 10 12/10- 12/16: Gradient
Week 11 12/17-12/23: Polkadots 
Week 12 12/24-12/30: Stripes
Week 13 12/31-1/6: Animal Print 
Week 14 1/7-1/13: Flowers
Week 15 1/14-1/20: Delicate Print
Week 16 1/21-1/27: Tribal Print 
Week 17 1/28-2/3: Glitter
Week 18 2/4-2/10: Half Moons
Week 19 2/11-2/17: Galaxies
Week 20 2/18-2/24: Water Marbled 
Week 21 2/25-3/3: Inspired by a Color
Week 22 3/4-3/10: Inspired by a Song 
Week 23 3/11-3/17: Inspired by a Movie
Week 24 3/18-3/24: Inspired by a Book
Week 25 3/25-3/31: Fashion
Week 26 4/1-4/7: A Pattern
Week 27 4/8-414: Artwork
Week 28 4/15-4/21: A Flag
Week 29 4/22-4/28 The Supernatural
Week 30 4/29-5/5: A Tutorial
Week 31 5/6-5/12: Re-create your favorite challenge!

      I know this is a long term commitment so we will see how long I can keep it up. Since this week's challenge was red I decided to do a True Blood inspired simple nail look. I used Zoya's Sooki for the top which is a gorgeous bold blue based red and then on the inside of my tips I painted them black in China Glaze's Liquid Leather. Thought I'd give it a simple edge with the black tips since it is October after all.  

Such a pretty red!

And the inside tips are black and red.

     Well that is it for this post. Please look forward each week for the next challenge pictures. Also I have another new Fortune Cookie Soap haul and review on their Halloween Soap Box coming up so come back soon if you are interested in that. Hope you all are having a wonderful day and I will see you guys next time. Bye! 

Buh Bye!