Stained Glass Nail Art

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Hi everyone! Today I have my first attempt at doing colored jellies over a holo base. I've wanted to do this after seeing these fabulous manis from my pals Emily from Very Emily and Valesha from Peachy Polish (I miss seeing both of their posts so much!).  I don't think mine was quite as amazing as theirs, but it's an OK first attempt. Basically, you achieve this look by applying a silver glitter base and then randomly blobbing colored jelly polishes on top to create a sort of "stained glass" look. Then you finish off with some intricate black stamping. It was easy to do...just give it a try! The most difficult part is waiting for the layers to dry before stamping! I was glad to finish off the design using a collaboration plate from yet another one of my Paint All the Nails! buddies, Lucie from Lucy's Stash!

Polishes Used:

KBShimmer Alloy Matey (Silver Glitter Base)
OPI Y'all Come Back, Ya Hear? (Orange)
OPI Too Hot Pink to Hold 'Em (Pink)
OPI Houston, We Have a Purple (Purple)
OPI Landscape Artist (Green)
OPI Primarily Yellow (Yellow)
Misa Pour Me Something Tall and Strong (Blue)
Rica Blackout (Black Stamping Polish)
BM-XL 209 Collaboration Plate Bundle Monster + Lucy's Stash (Stamping Plate)

Happy New Year Mani Featuring Paint Box Polish Poppin Bottles

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Hi everyone and Happy New Year! I didn't do much to celebrate this year, but I was okay with that. I had a long week and I was perfectly happy just chilling at home with my hubby and my dog. It seems as thought I'm going to start out the new year with a new car since mine was declared totaled after a car accident right before Christmas, so that's fun :/  Also, I've done a ton of holiday cooking/baking/washing dishes over the past few weeks and my nails finally all decided to break in protest, so I'm ringing in the new year with shorties. They've either been in a plain creme or naked all week, but I decided I would jazz them up a bit for the occasion.

Paint All the Nails Presents: Gilded

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Hi everyone! I've been a bit quiet lately, but I'm back today with another edition of Paint All the Nails. This month's theme is Gilded, so we have all of beautiful golden accented manis to share with you! I love adding gold to my manis in the fall, so I have an autumnal gilded mani to share with you today.

31DC2016 - Half Moons - Orange Explosion Half Moons

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Hi everyone! The prompt for the 31 Day Challenge today is Half Moons and I also decided to be inspired by a color! I know "Inspired by a Color" day is coming up, but I'm doing a different color for that day so I had to squeeze in some more orange love somewhere! Let's check out the mani!

31DC2016 - Geometric - Distressed Shapes

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Hi everyone! For Geometric day in the 31 Day Challenge I did some fun colors and used a pretty hehe plate for something that ended up looking sort of 90's. Let's check out today's mani!

31DC2016 - Delicate Print - Madame de Pompadour Inspired

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Hi everyone! For my Delicate Print in the 31 Day Challenge, I decided to revisit my favorite brocade stamping plate from MoYou-London! I have a Doctor Who design that I have meant to do for awhile (ever since I bought this base polish) and I finally did it!

31DC2016 - Gradient - Subtle Metallic Gradient

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Hi everyone! I got a bit behind this weekend because I've had a cold AND I had to go out of town for a wedding, so I'm just getting to Gradient nails today in the 31 Day Challenge. I wanted something sort of neutral since I've been doing a lot of colors so far, so let's see what I came up with.

31DC2016 - Metallic - Stamped Magnetic

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Hi everyone! Today we are on to Metallic nails in the 31 Day Challenge, and I decided to use an old polish that is apparently right on with the current magnetic trend right now (plus a little stamping, of course!).

31DC2016 - Black and White - Damask Tile

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Hi everyone! Now that we are done with the colors of the rainbow, now we have moved on to Black and White for the 31 Day Challenge! For this design, I went for something classic and beautiful...all while using my favorite stamping plate!

31DC2016 - Violet - Subtle Layered Swirls

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Hi everyone! We are chugging right along with the 31 Day Challenge and we are completing the ROYGBIV portion of the challenge (we left out indigo), so Violet is what's on the menu today. Let's see what I came up with for the challenge!

31DC2016 - Green - Jungle Vines

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Hi everyone! It's day 4 of the 31 Day Challenge and today is one of my favorite colors...GREEN! Since I'm a green lover, I knew I had to use as many shades of green in my design as possible...and holo of course! Let's take a look at what I came up with.

31DC2016 - Yellow - Sunflower Nails

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Hi everyone! For day 3 of the 31 Day Challenge the theme is Yellow. I was particularly pleased with how this beautiful mani came together, so let's get on to it!

31DC2016 - Red - Black Lace Stamping

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Hi everyone! I've decided to jump on the crazy train and join in on the 31 Day Challenge! I've really felt blah lately and I need something to jump-start my creativity. Challenges always seem to inspire me, so I'm going for it! I don't know if I will be able to post every single day, but I'm going to do as many as I can. I'm excited to get started!

Paint All the Nails Presents Animal Print

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Hi everyone! Long time, no see. I've been taking a break from blogging for a bit because I was very stressed out with stuff in my life and blogging was stressing me out even more! My husband pretty much insisted that I needed to put it down for a bit and take a break, and I did just that. Even though I was pretty stubborn for months about doing it, in the end he was right and it's given me a chance to recharge. I'm probably going to shake things up a bit going forward and try to get back to my roots by incorporating more nail art and pulling oldies from my collection to share more often. I have several different collections to share with you that are long overdue over the next week, but today I'm going to start with a link-up with some of my favorite ladies from Paint All the Nails!

Paint All the Nails Presents Monochrome

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Hi everyone! It's time for another link-up from the ladies of Paint All the Nails and today we are presenting Monochrome manis! Now monochrome can mean doing all of any color family, but for our purposes this week we chose to stay to greyscale.

Paint All the Nails: Secret Santa Edition

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Hi everyone! Today we have a very special edition of Paint All the Nails...Secret Santas! For this link-up, we were all randomly assigned a Secret Santa and instead of a gift we recreated one of their nail art looks! I was super excited to get the fabulous Lucie from Lucy's Stash as my Secret Santa and I had a blast looking through her nail art looks! There were SO many fabulous things to choose from because Lucie is a nail art master. I decided focus on her winter/Christmas designs because I have barely been able to do nail art for the season so far this year and I fell in love with two of her designs...so I did them both!

Double Stamp All the Nails!

Hi everyone! Today Paint All the Nails is doing double stamping! I love double stamping and I'm often inspired by the double stamping looks that Deborah from Love Varnish is famous for doing because they are always so elegant! Today, I decided not to go for a traditional elegant double stamping look, but instead went for a Halloween spin.

For my mani, I started out with a base of China Glaze Lady and the Vamp (which has such a weird name because I'm imagining a vampy red) and then I put Sally Hansen Jack-O-Lantern over it for a little old school glittery goodness. Then I used the MoYou-London Festive plate 16 and Pretty Serious Presence to stamp on the spider webs. Next I stamped on some spiders from the same plate using Konad Black to stamp. It was a very cliche Halloween mani, but I really enjoyed it. I love the depth that double stamping adds to a manicure...you can almost make something that looks like a decal using the technique.

Gradient All the Nails!

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Hi everyone! Today I have another link-up with the ladies from Paint All the Nails! This month's theme is gradients, so I chose to do a gradient stamping design. I originally did a holo gradient which I intended to look sunny and bright, but somehow along the way it ended up looking like candy corn. It's still beautiful, but I think I will save that one for closer to Halloween. ;)

For this mani, I started off with a base of Darling Diva Polish Peekablue, which is AMAZING and you need it (nuff said)! It was so mermaidy, that I was inspired to pull out my trusty MoYou-London Sailor plate 05 and I picked out a pretty scalloped/shell design. For my gradient stamping, I used two polishes from a new to me brand, Hit the Bottle. They make super opaque stamping polishes in an array of stunning colors, and for this design I used Green Around the Gills (green) and Blue-tiful (blue) for my mani. Hit the Bottle is an Australian indie brand, but they are available from US e-tailer, Beautometry. I just love how this one turned out! Sometimes my favorite looks happen by chance.

Be sure to check out what all of the other crazy talented ladies are doing for their gradient manis! Thanks for looking everyone!

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Guest Post at Ida Nails It!

Hi everyone! I've got my third and final guest post for the week up at Ida Nails It! Ida is one of my very best blogger pals and I had so much fun doing this mani that was inspired by one of her looks from ages ago that I've always loved (and was inspired by our mutual love for a certain TV show).

Check out my post here!

Thanks for looking everyone!

Guest Post at Love Varnish

Hi everyone! Another day, another guest post...and that's not even the last one this week! ;) This time I've got a fun nail art post for the lovely and talented Deborah at Love Varnish! Do you know how awesome it is to be guest posting for all of my nail crushes this week? I'm just ecstatic about it!

Please check out my post here!

Thanks for looking everyone!