Lacquered Lover Giveaway!

There is an amazing giveaway going on for the entire Beach and Surf collection (one winner for Beach and one for Surf) from Zoya over at Lacquered Lover!

Check it out here!

It's Aliiiiive!

Another oldie... I used China Glaze - Westside Warrior as a base and taped off some China Glaze - It's Alive. One coat of this glitter (if you use a base) creates some amazing results. Two coats by itself will get you opacity. 

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Day 15 - Delicate Print

Ahhh the half way point... feels good, man!

I promise this stamping was actually very pretty, the pictures just didn't turn out very well.

The purple also didn't seem to photograph very well. The base purple is American Apparel - Imperial Purple and I stamped with a Wet N Wild silver. This is the first stamping I've done about which I literally have no complaints. I just wish the photos showed it better!!

I think it's mainly my cuticles that are making me hate my photos. But honestly I have no idea what more I can do for the little jerks. They just want to be dry and peel-y! 

I was REALLLLLY happy with Imperial Purple. It was actually fun to apply! 

I got some nail art wheels in from Born Pretty Store, so I'll be having fun with those for awhile. Small complaint: They are super hard to do nail art on if you're not incredibly careful. I was not careful. I ended up removing all of the designs I did, even the ones I was happy with, because I screwed up the good designs while working on the other ones. 

Sorry this seemed like such a whiny post! Thanks for reading :)

Snake eyes (Kinda?)

This is an old manicure. You can tell by my awesomely not-nubbin-like nails! I started with a base of Revlon's Sheer Nude then did some taping with Jordana's Rich Green.

Flash

Then came the part that made me want call it snake eyes... a simple stripe of Jordana's black crackle:

I have heard many say crackle is over done and just so last year, but this is one of my first experiences with it. This is probably one of my favorite things I have ever done to my nails. The nude base must be utilized more. It's just one step closer to negative space nails which are amazing. 

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Day 14 - Flowers

First I tried to do this whole one-stroke situation that will literally always elude me, then I remembered the wonderful Katy at NailedIt did this fantastic tutorial on super cute pansy nails. I wasn't as happy with the results as I wanted to be, but two nails did come out pretty well.

The base is Kleancolor - Pastel Purple and the dark purple is American Apparel - Imperial Purple. The yellow is Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear - Mellow Yellow.

Other than my ever-ravaged cuticles, those two fingers please me. I feel bad that I didn't do this awesome design justice, but I'm sure I'll be trying it again with new colors :)

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Day 13 - Animal Print

After seeing the Girls In Pearls display from Sinful Colors, I immediately fell in love with all but one. I only grabbed one, but it is certain that the rest need to be obtained very soon. The one I did pick up is called Morning Star and it's almost similar to O.P.I's I Have a Herring Problem. It has more purple than Herring and has a little less obvious shimmer. My camera made the color lighter than it actually is, of course. These pics are a few swipes of Morning Star on the side of some (perhaps awesome?) leopard print. The leopard spots definitely needed more glitter, but other than that I'm pretty satisfied.

Before the addition of Morning Star

Before I grabbed Morning Star I had planned on doing this design with neons a la Algae Veronica, but I just had to try this polish immediately!

Don't forget to enter my giveaway!

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NailNoise's First Giveaway!

I had planned on having a giveaway as soon as I reached 50 followers, but I reached 50 on tumblr awhile back so that's close enough! 

Open Internationally!!!

The prizes are:

Sinful Colors - San Francisco

Kleancolor - Chunky Holo Clover

Nubar - White Polka Dot

Julep - Megan 

The SC and Kleancolor, I think, would look great together. Also, the Julep and Nubar would probably look awesome together as well!

The giveaway begins 3/27 at 12:01 AM and ends 4/17 at 12:01 AM. Times are eastern. 

Good Luck!!

EDIT: It says following on GFC is mandatory, but if you don't use that just use your tumblr name or leave your blog address. It'll all work out!

EDIT 2: Please do not submit your tumblr reblog twice. You can use that once, and a reblog elsewhere once for another two entries. I'm sorry if I wasn't clear about that! I have removed those entries so you will still have a chance!

Day 12 - Stripes and failure

Yesterday I had some terrible computer issues and could not connect to the internet at all, so these are yesterday's nails! I tried two things, I hated them both. It wasn't so much the ideas that I hated, but the execution. Stripes are supposed to be easy, dammit!

The base pink is a Wet N Wild the other stuff was done with stripers

These are Kleancolor pastels

So I'm really just going to have to say this day in nail art was a total failure. I was pretty excited to try out my new Kleancolor shipment from BeautyJoint, but one of the bottles was broken. The formulas weren't very awesome to work with, either. I know pastels can sometimes be finicky, so I won't be too whiny. Especially because of the other two polishes I got in addition to the pastels! A really awesome glitter called Mix Signal and Chunky Holo Clover which will actually be in my giveaway! Yes, a giveaway! I'm using a separate post for that for organization purposes so stay tuned :D

Be a Dahlia Won't You? -- and do a sweet gradient

I took a break in between challenges and game up with what I think was a pretty wonderful gradient. I started with two coats of O.P.I. - Be a Dahlia Won't You? and then did tapering layers of with Petites - Craze. I do recommend enlarging these photos to see the true awesomeness.

Not being able to leave this alone, I added a few coats of Nubar - Black Polka Dot

Click to enlarge the last two or they just look weird

I'll be back to posting for the challenge later in the day! Thanks for reading :)

Day 11 - Dots

I remember seeing a design similar to this floating around on the internet, but I cannot recall the name of the original artist. Any help would be appreciated! These colors came out unintentionally Easter-like, but that's ok because it is Easter/Spring time after all.

For the base I used Confetti - Belle of the Ball - it really is a wonderful color. Well, if you like purple as much as I do! 

The dark blue is Cynthia by Zoya, the green is Innocent by Sinful Colors, the yellow Sally Hansen's Mellow Yellow, and the pink is a no name no brand situation I got in a big pack from Ross. The generic, weird-smelling polishes actually work really well for bases or nail art as long as you have a good top coat. I've definitely seen worse formulas. 

I am pretty happy with the way this turned out - what do you think?
Thanks for reading :)