Day 2: Rainbow Fish Nails!

Good morning! I am excited for Day 2 of this Challenge. It is Favorite Children's Book Nail Art. Since I recently did The Very Hungry Caterpillar nails, I had to go through Hailey's books to find another that would make cute nails. The Rainbow Fish won, especially after some googling came up with this post from Spektor's Nails.

Get ready for a zillion pictures lol:

It's incredibly hard to get a picture of everynail!

Please click on these to see them bigger:

I used: my biggest dotting tool and these colors to make overlapping dots into "scales" :

 Zoya Phoebe

 Zoya Savita

 China Glaze Traffic Jam

 Essence Chuck

 Sally Hansen Going Green

 Nubar Star Sparkle

For my thumb, I used OPI Alpine Snow and Wet n Wild Ink Well for the eye. The lips are Orly Lemonade

What do you think? The most time consuming part of this mani was the cleanup since the dots overlapped onto my finger skin. Zoya Phoebe even stained some of my fingers. But overall, I am in love with this mani! 

Don't forget this the challenge I'm participating in. Please join in! Thanks for reading!

Also, a side note, I added some polishes to my Blogsale tab! Please check them out!!

New 14 Day Challenge! Day 1

Hello readers! My friend Casandra at The Mani-louges came up with a fun 14 day nail art challenge and I'm joining in! It's based off of when you were a kid or you kids now if you are a parent! And 14 days straight is a lot easier to keep up with than a 30 day challenge.

Today is Day 1: Color That Reminds You Of Your Child

My daughter, Hailey, will be 4 in a couple of months and she will tell ANYONE that asks that her favorite color is purple. I knew that I had to pick one of my zillion purples for today's challenge and decided to try out my new Zoya Dannii that arrived yesterday from bloom.com! It's a girly and shimmery purple and I think it definitely reminds me of Hailey.

I had another break yesterday, so short nails will be around for a while!

I used:

Base Coat of Cult Nails Get It On

2 coats of Zoya Dannii

Top coat of Zoya Wicked Fast

As you can see, I had great coverage with only 2 coats needed! I just love the shimmer in this polish, like teeny silver flecks or something? 

Since this is a post with something that reminds me of Hailey, I wanted to share her latest picture! Last night she sat at the kitchen table(with a placemat to protect the table!) and painted skittle nails on her own. This is her picture when she came to show them to me! :)

Think you want to join in on the new challege? Here is the image listing the 14 days of challenges! Please click to enlarge and read better!

What do you think of Zoya Dannii or the new challenge? Thanks for reading!

St. Patrick's Day Nails!

Hello readers! I am really loving these nails and just had to get on and share them as soon as I took pictures! There is a St. Patrick's Day nail design contest on Facebook so this is what I came up with for my entry! I saw something very similar done by Laurie at Dressed Up Digits here and I knew I wanted to try it out!

First of all, I need to tell you how amazingly beautiful Zoya Ivanka is. I am so sad that the gorgeous gold glass flecks don't show in my sun pictures. Indoors, it is such an amazing color. This has made me realize that Zoya Charla, Mimi, and Ivanka are in the top favorite polishes in my entire stash. Glass flecks are apparently my weakness. Way to go, Zoya!

Ivanka is even more green than these pictures are showing. Imagine a much golder tint to it. I could only adjust my photo temperature so much before I had orange fingers, so just take my word for it.

I used:

Base coat of Cult Nails Get It On

3 coats of Zoya Ivanka

Rainbow stripes with a striper and these polishes:

 Zoya Posh

 OPI In My Back Pocket

 Orly Lemonade

 Ulta Limelight

 Zoya Phoebe

 Zoya Savita

China Glaze Passion and a dotter for the clover

Wet n Wild Ink Well and a striper for the pot of gold
Gold buillon beads for the "gold coins"

2 coats of Cult Nails Wicked Fast

What do you think? I'm hoping to leave this mani on as long as I can. It's just too cute! Thanks for reading!

On Monday, He Ate Through One Apple...

Hello readers! Hope you've all had an amazing weekend! We did on my end! On Friday we took a spontaneous day trip up to Charleston to go to the aquarium and had a yummy dinner downtown! We decided to check out the tiny Savannah aquarium here on Saturday with some good friends and then went to Outback for lunch. Today has pretty much been a lazy Sunday and I'm loving it!

I decided to take some of that free lazy time today and use it to finally make my entry into the Chalkboard Nails dotting tool nail art contest! You can still enter your manis until tomorrow night, go check it out!

The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a HUGE favorite in our house and I've been wanting to do nails inspired by it for a long time. I did this entirely with dotting tools! Hailey was so excited when she woke up from her nap and saw my nails!

I used:

Base coat of Orly Nail Armor

3 coats of OPI Alpine Snow

1 coat of CND Gold Sparkling Effect

CND Just Red for the apple, head, and hair

China Glaze Starboard for the body and eyes

China Glaze Secret Peri-wink-le for the antennae and hair

Orly Lemonade for the eye outline

OPI Wooden Shoe Like To Know? for the feet and apple stem

1 coat of Cult Nails Wicked Fast

Large dotting tool for the head, body bumps, and apple

Tiny dotting tool for the feet and apple stem

Small dotting tool for the apple bite, eyes, nose, and antennae

Sewing pin for the hair

What do you think? I am loving how they turned out and am happy I can finally mark this off of my "nail art to do list." Thanks for reading!

I Lie For...Only You

Hello readers! I've been having some computer troubles lately so I may not get posts up that often. I was happy I had it working well enough to write this post for you!

I have a fun polish to show you, today! My friend Cassandra started making her own polishes recently, FEVERlacquer, and I have one of her limited edition polishes for you today! Unfortunately, you can't buy this one anymore as the stock was limited and has since been sold out. I actually shattered my original bottle of this and Cassandra was so sweet and mailed me a surprise replacement bottle so now there really aren't any more bottles available! How awesome is she??

Anyway, on to the polish! This is called I Lie For...Only You and it's a gorgeous blue jelly polish packed with tiny holo shimmers and some black hexagon glitters throughout. This is 3 coats, as it is a jelly, and I wanted to get it fairly opaque. I just love jelly polishes that have glitters, it's like a built in jelly sandwich!

This is purposely out of focus to really show you some of that gorgeous holo shimmer!

The black glitters weren't too difficult to get out, I like to turn my bottles upside down for a few minutes before I paint my nails and that brings a lot of larger glitters down for you to have easy access. This applied amazingly and dried SO fast for a jelly, I was impressed! And hardly any cleanup was needed. Just a lovely polish!

As I said before, you can't get this polish anymore, but she is almost ready to release 2 new polishes that have flakies!! Check out the FEVERlacquer Facebook page here for recent updates on how you can get her new polishes! Tell her I sent you! 

Thanks for reading!