Purple Nails: 31 Day Challenge and Acetone DISASTER!

 

I wanted to do something with glitter and this is what happened. I did purple and not violet nails but oh well. Now this color looks very purple in the bottle and very purple in certain lighting and then very blue in other lighting as you can see in the coming up pictures but I went with it as purple. On top is a lovely goldish bronze glitter from Sinful Colors.

Indoors

Indoors

Outdoors: Looking Blue

 

These were done with Sinful Colors “Lets Talk” and Sinful Colors “All about You”

So another foot note here:

I use pure acetone for clean up and when I stamp.  I use an acetone/glycerin mix to take polish off so that it is not so dry on my hands.  Jeff got me a shot glass a long time ago to use for acetone when I do my nails.  Well on this day I had my acetone/glycerin mix in the shot glass because I was in the process of taking off my nail color.   I knew that I would be doing some stamping so I asked Jeff to get me the acetone.  He got the bottle and told me to grab a containter, so I grabbed one that was close to me.  Now this container was one that I use when I do watermarbling and it works fine… It is not for acetone.  It is not for acetone because it’s PLASTIC.  So not thinking I hand him the container and he pours acetone in it and… nothing happened.  So I went about my merry way until I went to do clean up on my new mani.  I dipped my brush in the pure acetone and it didn’t feel the same.  A big ole glob of goopy plastic come up with the brush.  I went to pour it out and this is what happened, lol.  Needless to say I had to get a new container and I was so upset my man cleaned up my brush for me, lol. 

Nail Life Lesson: Acetone and Plastic = NO GO!

Yes that is melted plastic, lol

 

Holographic Blue Water: 31 Day Challenge

So the story behind these nails… I had a job interview and did not want really crazy nails so I did a classic French manicure.  After the interview I had the next four days off due to the Labor Day holiday here in the US and we had planned to go the Lake.  Well I can’t stand to have the same manicure for more than about three days.  Halfway through the Lake trip I got antsy.  We had gone to the Mall and I visited Sephora.  I got three new polishes.  I got Sephora by OPI “opalescent blasted”, Sephora by OPI “Cartwheels on the Catwalk” and Nails, Inc Holographic topcoat. 

I have a horrible habit of picking at my nail polish if it starts to chip.  Usually it doesn’t happen because I am at home and can just take off a peeling polish but stuck up at the Lake I didn’t have any of my things.  So when the color began to peel I started to take it off.  The next day… dun dun dun… I broke a nail.  So I decided to take them all shorter and start over. 

I did a coat of the lovely dusty blue that makes me think of robin’s eggs.  It says it’s supposed to be a green but I didn’t see green at all.  I then put the holographic topcoat on top of it.  When I got home at the end of the trip I stamped on it with my new Red Angel plates.  (I love these plates, really cute full nail designs.) 

Indoors

Blurry for sparkle

Sunlight

Side Note:

I absolutely love the Nails, Inc holographic top coat.  It is not a linear holographic it is a scatter but what it lacks in linear it makes up in shine.  This holographic shows up in almost all lighting; Indoors, shade, outdoors, the Sun. It is so pretty.  I love holographic nail polishes but I get disappointed when they are only really sparkly in the sunlight.  I work indoors and I want some glitter at work too.  So I must say this was a good buy. 

Glitter indoors

These were done with Sephora by OPI “Cartwheels on the Catwalk”, Nails, Inc Holographic topcoat, Pure Ice “Celestial”, and RA 106

Green Geometric Nails: 31 Day Challenge

I love green it is such a great color.  My man, Jeff’s, favorite color is green and I’m pretty sure he loves China Glaze’s “Cha cha cha” due to an inside joke.  So when it came to green I knew what color I wanted to use.  I stamped a geometric print on them and wore them like that for a while.  After a few days I wanted to change them but still liked the green and the green geometric French happened.  I really like taking a full manicure design into a French.  It is so super easy and I think the results are usually always really great. 

How do you guys change a manicure design? 

 

Sorry for the blurry image but this is the only full green picture that I took.

Indoors

Indoors

Outdoors

 

These were done with China Glaze “Cha Cha Cha”, Konad Black, and BM 203

Yellow Nails: 31 Day Challenge

I love yellow I really do but when I came to Yellow nails on the 31 day challenge I had nothing.  I was uninspired again. Sad day let me tell you.  So I went with a bright and shiny yellow as a base coat and sat on it for a little bit.  We had a dinner to go to with some friends and I didn’t want to just have yellow nails so I thought I’d stamp something on them.  Here is the result. 

Sunlight

I rushed the stamping which you can obviously see and the blue mixed with yellow to make a strange green tinge…Which being an art minor and an artist I should have anticpated but I’m ashamed to say that I didn’t. When we went to dinner my friend asked why I put yellowish green on my nails…. Lol. I just told her wait until tomorrow and the next time you see me they will be different as always, lol.

Indoors

 

These were done with Barielle “Lemondrops”, Pure Ice “Celestial”, and BM 213

Orange Nails: 31 Day Challenge

Here is a quick post of my second day nails. The color was orange and usually I absolutely love orange but inspiration was not with me that day. I chose a soft orange color that reminds me of creamsicle. I thought the simple stamping would look pretty. So here are my not inspired orange nails. I do not know what was going on but the orange and yellow nails of this challenge were not my friends, lol.

Sunlight

These were done with Wet N’ Wild “Sunny Side Up”, Konad White and BM 314

Red Nails: 31 Day Challenge "Red Asian Manicure"

Red Nails: 31 Day Challenge

 So I decided to try the 31 day challenge.  I know a lot of other bloggers have done it and are doing right now.  I wanted to partake of the fun too.  I don’t know how anyone could post every single day… I think that is amazing and props to anyone that does.  So I’m just going to take my sweet time with it.  This manicure was done a few days ago but I’ve been so busy with work, interviews, and going away to the Lake for the weekend.

I started with bright red nails and wanted to stamp on them.  I wanted a grey stamp and when my man chose China Glaze “Stone Cold” I thought yeah why not… UM… yeah that didn’t work.  Like most of you know Stone Cold is a matte polish.  Which means it dries in an instant… which equals NO STAMPING.  Yeah don’t even try… super frustrating until I figured out duh it’s a matte. 

So I figured I’d do something different. I used hole protectors to make a kind of half moon mani on both sides of the nail.  My man said, “hey I got an idea.”  He then dug through my image plates and came back with some of the Chinese symbols.  He wanted to do the stamping and viola… really awesome mani design.  I told him that they look like Chinese lanterns. 

Sunlight



Sunlight

Indoor

Hole Protector Magic

 

These were done with Pure Ice “Siren”, China Glaze “Stone Cold”, Konad “White”, and BM 203 and 221