Day 28: Inspired By A Flag

Good morning, readers! I was busy yesterday enjoying my hubby's vacation this week and didn't have time to post this mani for you. So this is "yesterday's post" and I'll post "today's post" later on.

I wanted to do something different for the flag inspiration than the American Flag because I had already done an patriotic mani for the 4th Of July. I remembered there was a flag in the new Disney Tangled movie so that was my inspiration.

I used: Color Institute Purple Paradise for the base color
          Color Club Almost famous for the sun
          Orly Lemonade sponged over parts of the sun.
          Top  coat of Out the Door

What do you think? Thanks for reading! Don't forget to check back for another post later!

Day 27: Inspired By Artwork

Good evening, readers!! Thanks for stopping by my blog. I am still trying to figure out if I'll be posting in the evenings or mornings so I'm sorry if the time of day is inconsistent for a little while.

 Today's challenge was Inspired By Artwork and I knew I'd have to do a design based on a M.C. Escher art piece because he is my husband's favorite artist and we have some books of his work on our bookshelf. I asked my husband last night to look through his books and pick out a design for me. He found Circle Limit 3 and I was excited to try it out today!

I used: Base Coat of my Julep Base Coat
Base Color of Essie Blanc
For the design: Wet n Wild Ink Well
                       OPI Conga-line Coral
                       Pure Ice Jaguar
                       Essie Coat Azure
                       Color Institute Spring Fling
                       White Acrylic Paint

What do you think? I had the most trouble with the fish eyes but I do like the end result. It was pretty cool to be able to take that second picture of my nails on the page of the art book! Thanks for reading!

Epic Nail Mail!

Wow, I am very happy with my mailman today for delivering so many awesome things!







First up, we have the entire Katy Perry collection by OPI that my wonderful hubby(who is currently deployed to Afghanistan with the Army) ordered for me on Amazon! I am really excited about these! Left to right we have: Not Like The Movies, Last Friday Night, Teenage Dream, The One That Got Away, and Black Shatter.






Next up are my first online Zoya purchases! They are from the new Smoke And Mirrors Collection. Yara is the olive green and Neeka is the dusty purple. They both have an amazing golden shimmer in them and were my favorites from the new collection. With my purchase, I also received their free bottle of remove +. This promo is still available until July 24th with code ZOYA50K.








Finally, my last nail mail was a box set from Kohl's. I had Kohl's bucks to use and decided to grab this kit and see how I liked The Color Institute polishes that they sell there. The collection is called Avant Garde but the colors are not individually named. It came with a blue, purple, green, clear top coat, and a 4 way nail buffer file.



I can't wait to try these sets out and show them all to you! Thanks for reading! :)