Showing posts with label 31 Day Challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 31 Day Challenge. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

31 Day Challenge: DAY 31!!! Re-create Your Favorite Challenge

I made it! I am here! YES!!!!!!! IT IS DONE! I stretched this out waaaaaayyy past 31 days and I am so happy I have reached the end! Each day was fun and I enjoyed doing the challenges. It's great knowing I finished all 31 days!

For the final day, I re-created my black and white look from Day 7. Before telling anyone today what the inspiration was, I had a friend say, "they look like little butlers!". I saw this design on YouTube a while ago and it works perfect for today. I made the black matte and used white and silver, just like my first tuxedo design. There are little clear rhinestones under the french tip that I decided to go over with the matte. On my little finger, the rhinestone popped off and sadly, I do not have any more clear stones. I made a white dot to replace it, you can't really tell in the pictures. (Maybe you can a little). This is also going to kick off my winter and Christmas themed nail art, coming soon!

Nail Polish Used:
NYC "Black Lace"
Pure Ice "Beware"
Diamond Cosmetics in white
Hard Candy "Matte-ly in Love"
+ mini clear rhinestones







Inspired by:  KlairedelysArt


Sunday, December 2, 2012

Day 16: Tribal

I skipped this day because I do not like doing tribal prints, that is until I found the Ikat. Ikat is not what I think of when I think tribal but after doing some research, I think it goes in that category! I see it everywhere and the print is just so interesting and fun to do. This is one of my favorite design and I am sure to do it again.

Polish Used:
Wet n Wild "Rain Check"
Diamond Cosmetics in "Frosty Pink", white and black





right hand


Inspired by: MissJenFABULOUS 

Friday, November 30, 2012

Day 30: Inspired by a Tutorial

I love Bollywood movies. I just can't get enough! (My favorite Indian actor is Shahrukh Khan, just in case you were wondering). I was on ye ol' YouTube and found this Bollywood inspired look! I decided to use it for today's challenge.
My nails couldn't handle the full design so I simplified it just a tad. Here is the original video:

By: Dollface22772

I was taking a Culture of India class at my local public library and I learned how to write some things in Sanskrit. I decided to include a little extra something at the bottom of this post. If you like Henna, I have a post about some that my friend did on my hands.

Polish Used:
Sally Hansen "Blue Me Away!" (Thank you so much Kristen for letting me have this)
Sinful Colors "Flower Girl"

Glitters:
Pink Glitter
Large gold hexagonal glitter
5mm yellow rhinestones
Mini rhinestones in pink and clear






5mm

mini stones

Karen written in none other than, nail polish!

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Day 29: Inspired by the Supernatural/ Sci-Fi

I am going to switch up the name of this day to Sci-Fi. I did Doctor Who nails and I realllllly wanted to do them for this day but he is not exactly supernatural. I decided that I could do what ever the heck I wanted on my blog, so, I altered the day just a tiny bit.

These were based off of the seasons with Matt Smith in them. I did his little bow-tie and suspenders, a red Dalek , his little green sonic screwdriver, a Tardis, and the DW logo. Thank you to my brother who let me borrow his sonic screwdriver as a prop.

Polish Used:
Pure Ice "Celestial"
NYC "Big Apple Red", "Black Lace", "French White Tip"
Revlon "Gold Coin"
Diamond Cosmetics lime, white, and black
Art Deco in red and silver glitter
Bon Bon's in copper







thumb 


index finger



middle finger
ring finger



little finger


my brother's sonic screwdriver




Inspired by: Colorgrl101




Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Day 28: Inspired by a Flag

I was going to do the American flag but again, I did not want to go for the expected. I also thought about doing the Kansas flag (where I live) but, it is a bit too complicated. My next idea was flag semaphore flags and from there I decided to use signal flags that stand for letters and spell out my name. I added a picture of the letter flags so you can see where I got the patterns.

Polish Used:
NYC "Big Apple Red"
Pure Ice "Celestial"
Art Deco in yellow
Diamond cosmetics in white 


 


K-A-R-E-N


Sunday, November 25, 2012

Day 27: Inspired by Artwork

I was inspired by Vidal Sassoon's hairstyles. It counts as artwork I think! If you don't know who Vidal is, I linked information about him on his name. I found my favorite styles and tried to translate them into nail art. I only did three but then made his glasses and a pair of scissors on my ring and little finger. I created a white, grey, and dark grey gradient because the pictures I found were in black and white. I thought it was simple and created a neat look.
I saw a documentary about his life that I randomly checked out from the library, that is how I found out about him.

Here is a quote said by him I like:

"If you get hold of a head of hair on somebody you've never seen before, cut beautiful shapes, cut beautiful architectural angles and she walks out looking so different - I think that's masterful. "Vidal Sassoon 


Nail Polish Used:
NYC "French White Tip"
Pure Ice "Kiss Me Here"
NYC "Bowery Black"





Hairstyles I was inspired by:


thumb
index

middle

Vidal's glasses


Saturday, November 24, 2012

Day 26: Inspired by a Pattern

For this I was trying to think outside of the box and break free from the traditional lines, dots, and squares. I was looking on some website a while ago and remembered an idea for this day! They were rainbow nails with black crackle on top. I thought that with rainbows on each finger that go different ways could be a kind of pattern.  The crackle on it would add to a pattern like idea. My black crackle unfortunately was dried up beyond the point of nail polish thinner rescue so I had to use my gold crackle. I have to say after wearing this around I like it even more than the black crackle.

Polish Used:
Sally Hansen Crackle "Antiqued Gold"
Art Deco in orange, yellow, and purple
Sinful Colors "Sunny Day"
Diamond Cosmetics "Lime"
NYC "Water Street Blue"