NOTD: Groundhog Day Nails!

Happy Groundhog Day! Phil says we are going to have an early Spring! Sweet! :D
Here are my nails in celebration of this fun day! I have a Winter scene, a Spring scene, then a cute groundhog!
For the Winter scene I created a blue gradient then painted the whole thing over with white. I then took plastic wrap and dabbed it over the wet white nail polish to make it look frosty. Pretty cool, huh!?

Nail Polish Used:

Nicole "Stand by Your Manny"
Wet n Wild "Rain Check"
Nicole "A Lit-Teal Bit of Love"
Sinful Colors "Snow Me White"
Diamond Cosmetics in white, black,  cocoa, lime, and frosty pink
Revlon "Hot for Chocolate"
Art Deco in purple
Sinful Colors "Sunny Day"

his arms are a little funky, haha

Winter

Spring

Groundhog

Frosty Trees Inspired by: ProfessionalDQ

NOTD: Animal Print Fun

What a colorful animal print!! I tried this two in one look and spiced it up even more with some rhinestones. I loved doing the tiger stripes, they just look so cool! I painted on the pink and then the orange. I took the orange's brush and made it so it would be a little gradient. It is a fun pop of color in the winter.
Nail Polish Used:
Revlon "Always Flaunting"
Sinful Colors "Cloud 9"
Pure Ice "Platinum"
Diamond Cosmetics in black
Art Deco in purple
Bon Bon's glitter

+ gold, dark pink, and purple rhinestones

Inspired by: PinkFlyingCow87

NOTD: Holly Leaves in the Snow

I did this last year around Christmas and wanted to try it again because of how much I loved it before! I looked at a picture I took of my last one and let me tell you, this is waaaayy better. I gave up on trying to do the holly leaves and just put little blob lines last time. HAHA! I also added somethings to the snow on the other nails.

For the snow, all I did was sponge it on, and add some glitter polish. I then put even more glitter on it with the white loose glitter. For the berries and leaves I put on some gold to make them stand out more. I mixed my own green for the leaves with the lime, black, and bright green nail art polishes.

Polish used:
Nails Inc "Charing Cross"
Pure Ice "Don't You Wish"
Sinful Colors "Flower Girl"
Art Deco in bright green
Diamond Cosmetics in lime and black
+ white loose glitter

Inspired by: camysh

NOTD: Christmas Trees

I have been looking at several different Christmas tree nail art designs and this is a mash of several that I liked. I mixed my own green and the off white-grey color on the tree.I put a light green stripe down the side of the tree to give it some highlights. With my handy-dandy nail art mini bottles I created tree lights and a star on top! It matches my Christmas tree vest perfectly!

Nail Polish used:
Nails Inc "Charing Cross"
Art Deco in "Bright Green"
Diamond Cosmetics in lime and white
Wet n Wild "Silvivor"

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

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

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"

NOTD: Happy Thanksgiving!

I did turkey nails to be festive for the holiday! I put the little Tom on my ring finger then painted feathers on the others. I also picked up a new  hobby, painting nail polish rings! I will be doing a post next all about it. I created a little turkey ring to match the manicure. So cute! I went outside today to take pictures, it's a beautiful day for Thanksgiving!

Nail Polish Used:
NYC "French White Tip"
Revlon "Hot for Chocolate"
Art Deco in red, yellow, and orange
Diamond Cosmetics "Cocoa"
Not pictured: NYC "Black Lace" I forgot to take a picture of this but decided it wasn't worth taking one.

Inspired by: MissJenFABULOUS

Day 24: Inspired by a Book

My class just got done reading the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, so I chose to use it as my inspiration! The book cover had this really neat water marble like pattern but I forgot about it until after I did this design. Oh well!! I put the "A" on my middle finger then made the swirly gold and red lines around it and on my other fingers.

Polish Used:
Maybelline "Twilight Rays"
Sinful Colors "Flower Girl"
Art Deco in red

NOTD: FFA

Today I had an FFA competition called job interview! I decided I wanted to make a lucky  nail art design, FFA inspired. Even though this is very simple, it makes me happy to have FFA on my fingers. I got 2nd place today and qualified to go onto state! Maybe I will start doing more FFA nail art when I go to events!

Here are my links to my other FFA nail art ideas:  National FFA Week
                                                                                FFA and 4-H
                                                                                Blue and Gold Elegant
                                                                                Kansas FFA Convention, Cows
                                                                                My FFA Officer Team
Nail Polish Used:
Pure Ice "Celestial"
Wet n' Wild "The Wonder Yellows"
NYC "French White Tip"
Art Deco in yellow