Peach and Pink Gradient

Hi everyone! Sorry about the brief break in posting, I headed up to Edmonton for a few days to spend some time with my Grandparents. This is one of the designs that I did before we left for our little trip but forgot my memory card at home and couldn't post it! You guys have probably noticed how much I love gradients and now that I'm home with my entire polish collection I just have the urge to make gradients with every combination I see.

The two colours I used for this springy peach and pink gradient are Zoya Lara and Barry M Peach Melba, topped with some OPI Top Coat. Notice those weird little bumps on the manicure? The sponge that I used to create the gradient look shed a little bit - oops!

Here's a look in the shade. For some reason the blending looks a little better in the shade picture, agreed?

It's been such nice weather where I live lately, I am loving using bright spring and summer colours on my nails, especially pinks. What nail trends have you been hooked on lately?

Rainbow Sherbert Chevrons

Hi everyone! Today I have a nice little nail art look for you using a colour combination that I fell in love with when I dumped out my polishes on my bedroom floor and saw these four next to each other. It reminds me of some sort of Rainbow Sherbert ice cream - yum!

The colours I used were Zoya Lara, OPI Do You Lilac It?, China Glaze Secret Peri-winkle, and Barry M Peach Melba. 

These colours are very springy and I'm loving wearing this manicure.

Have you tried free hand chevrons before? What are some of your favourite colour combinations for spring?

Gradient + Connect the Dots

Hello everyone! Today I have a fun gradient manicure that I took to the next level by adding one of my favourite and most versatile polishes - Lynnderella Connect the Dots. When I was picking the base colours something just stood out about the combination of peach and purple. I later realized that I had just been swooning over this manicure by Rebecca Likes Nails, so I credit her with the inspiration for the colour scheme.

The two colours I used for the base were Barry M Peach Melba and Zoya Megan. I photographed this a few days after applying it and you can see that the Seche Vite has done a number on it, look at that shrinkage around the tips!

I love Connect the Dots. I love Lynnderella polishes in general. I can't wait until I can afford to buy some more.

Blue Stamping

Hi guys! Today I have another one of those manicures that I actually did a few months ago and am just getting around to posting now...oops!

The base of this manicure is Zoya Wednesday, with stamping using Barry M Cobalt Blue and the dots are Revlon Metallic.

The plate that this design is on is Konad m63. If this manicure looks familiar to you, that's because it is. A little less than a year ago I did almost the same thing but using pink! I really like spicing up a stamping manicure with a dotting tool.

Have you tried this technique for yourselves? I actually haven't done any stamping manicure in a while..

Barry M Peach Melba

Morning everyone! Today I have another one of the polishes that my friend brought me from England - Barry M Peach Melba. I'm embarrassed to say I had to look up quickly what peach melba is, for anyone who's interested it's a dessert. I was immediately reminded of Melba Toast - anyone else? Apparently they were created by the same chef for the same lady...lucky girl!

I am in love with this colour, it is the best peach polish I have ever had the joy of wearing. Barry M is always spot on with their formula in my experience and this is no difference, Peach Melba is a must have if you're looking for a colour like this. I decided to add some detail to the tips using a black striping polish.

I love this colour, it's the perfect shade of peach - not too much like a bandaid but not too pink.

What are some of your favourite peach nail polishes? Is this a colour you can see yourself wearing this spring and summer?

Day 29 - Inspired by the Supernatural

Today's theme was without a doubt the one that I struggled most with throughout the challenge, I had a really difficult time coming up with something supernatural. I finally decided on something that I haven't played in a while, but definitely haven't forgotten - SkiFree. That's right, my supernatural being is the 8-bit Abominable Snow Monster from SkiFree.

To create this look I used OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, OPI Red Lights Ahead...Where?, OPI Green-wich Village, OPI Jade is the New Black, OPI No Spain No Gain, China Glaze Happy Go Lucky, China Glaze Sunset Sail, China Glaze Pelican Grey, China Glaze Liquid Leather, and Barry M Cobalt Blue.

I like these! They are supposed to be a little messy, I mean, the game wasn't the best quality.

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I shouldn't have stressed so much about Day 29, it wasn't that difficult after all. Check out what the other ladies did to celebrate the supernatural!

Day 25 - Inspired by Fashion

Hi everyone! Today's post is inspired by fashion, and I'll be the first to admit, I don't really follow fashion that closely. Luckily for me I do work at American Eagle as some of you may know, and so I do get some information about current trends. I decided to do skittles on my nails representing the different washes of coloured and patterned skinny jeans and jeggings that we have in store for Fall.

Here are my nails, and below are photos of the jeans themselves!

Would you wear any of these jeans? I'm skeptical about those ones with the leaves..

For this manicure I used OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, Kiss Me on my Tulips, Do You Lilac It?, Pink Friday, Berlin There Done That, Zoya Wednesday, Zoya Kristen, Essie Mojito Madness, Essie A Crewed Interest, China Glaze Liquid Leather, China Glaze Flip Flop Fantasy, and Barry M Cobalt Blue.

These were pretty fun to do! The floral nail is my favourite, which one is yours?

I love to see everyone's manicures and today is no exception, please take a moment to check out the blogs of the lovely ladies below!

Day 21 - Inspired by a Colour

Good evening everyone! I am not too happy about today's post, really, what does this theme even mean? I went along the lines of "inspired by the name of a nail polish colour" and I chose OPI The Thrill of Brazil.

I used OPI The Thrill of Brazil on only one nail - to do the sunset gradient on my ring finger. So, my pinky finger is supposed to be inspired by Carnaval. My ring finger is supposed to be a sunset (or sunrise) behind the Cristo Redentor statue that towers above Rio de Janeiro. My middle finger is the back of Thiago Silva's jersey, he is the captain of the Brazilian national soccer team, and finally on my index finger there is an incomplete Brazilian flag.

Yeah, I'm not thrilled with this. :( The colours I used were OPI The Thrill of Brazil, OPI No Spain No Gain, OPI Do You Lilac It?, OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, China Glaze Happy Go Lucky, China Glaze Four Leaf Clover, Barry M Cobalt Blue, and A England Lady of the Lake.

I can't wait for tomorrow's challenge, I've been thinking of this one for quite some time now!

Day 19 - Galaxies

Happy Sunday everyone! The weekend is too short, and since we're coming up on Back to School, I have to work every single day this coming week - no fun! In other news, today I have some awesome nails to show you. I've seen thousands of interpretations of galaxy nails but I've always been intimidated by this type of manicure. After finally facing my fears with today's challenge, I am so happy that I attempted this because they turned out perfectly!

I admit it: I am the new biggest fan of galaxy nails! I am over the moon, pun fully intended. 

The colours I used to create this look were OPI Russian Navy, OPI The Thrill of Brazil, OPI The Show Must Go On, OPI It's My Year, OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, Barry M Cobalt Blue, Zoya Arizona, and China Glaze Happy Go Lucky.

I think my favourite nail is my index finger, what do you guys think? Which is your favourite? I love how different each nail is!

Have you guys done galaxy nails? They are so much easier than I anticipated, they're so much fun. This is definitely a manicure that I'll be doing again and again and again. If you want to try these out and need some inspiration, check out the out-of-this-world manis of the lovely ladies who are accompanying me in this challenge!

Day 16 - Tribal Print

Good morning! To be honest, I was dreading doing tribal nails. They've always seemed so difficult and the one time I attempted to do a tribal design it turned out awfully. Thankfully, I've come a long way with both my nail art skill level, and my patience. I'm pretty excited about today's manicure, I put quite a bit of time into it and I think it's super cute!

The colours I used for this tribal nail art are OPI Don't Talk Bach to Me, OPI A Grape Fit!, OPI Alpine Snow, China Glaze Four Leaf Clover, China Glaze Liquid Leather, Zoya Wednesday, Barry M Cobalt Blue,  and two LA Colors Art Deco stripers in black and white. I love these colours together, they're not something I usually would have paired up but I'm in love!

I took some inspiration from The Nailasaurus' tribal print mani from back when she took on this very same 31 Day Challenge. 

I actually really enjoyed doing tribal nails, and playing around with different colour combinations would be a lot of fun. I love that this challenge is forcing me to try things outside of my usual element, and I'm finding that I love doing them!

I wonder what everyone else created for today's theme, there's really no limits to the possibilities for tribal nails! Take a look!

Day 15 - Delicate Print

Hi everyone! I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to get a post up today, I spent all night throwing up and had to call in sick for work today. Between hanging out eating soup, and watching shows on TLC all day, I found time to do my nails. I hope this isn't too close to yesterday's floral design, but this was one of the only delicate prints I could find around my house, I mean, what does "delicate print" really even mean?

I did a pattern that I found on one of my mom's teacups! For this design I used a base of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, then for the details I used a dotting tool and a tiny striping brush and OPI No Spain No Gain, OPI Call Me Gwen-ever, OPI Don't Talk Bach to Me, China Glaze Pelican Gray, Zoya Wednesday, Barry M Cobalt Blue, and Quo by ORLY Filthy Rich to imitate the rim of the teacup.

Do you think this fits the theme of "delicate print?"

Here's a silly photo that my mom almost killed me when she saw me taking it, not to worry though, I had that cup balanced perfectly.

Oh man, look at what's coming up, this challenge definitely isn't getting any easier! Hopefully once I'm over this little bout of sickness I'll be a little more excited to move on with the designs. I hope you can check out what everyone else came up with for today's difficult theme!

Shades of Blue

Good morning! Today I have another potential entry into Rebecca Likes Nails' nail art contest! Just to remind you, the theme is based upon Rebecca's favourite things: Hello Kitty, gradients, bows, animal print, and dots. I keep trying to fit as many of her favourite things into my manis, and I'm hoping to find a winner to submit!

My genius friend Anisha suggested that instead of trying to combine all five themes on top of each other, like my previous mani, that I put two of them together and make gradient dots! That way it's not so in your face, but it still follows the theme! Anisha also told me that I should try adding ears to my Hello Kitty accent nail. I'm still not sold on the ears.

I've never done gradient polka dots before and I can't get over how nice they look! Although blue is one of the colours I don't wear too often by itself, I had quite a few options and by mixing the colours with white I was able to get a pretty nice gradient.

Keep reading for more photos and to see the colours used.

I Will Hold on Hope

Hey everyone! I have a pretty cool mani to show you today! Although I'm not overly thrilled with how it turned out, it was fun to do.

I did this mani with inspiration coming from a music video, Mumford & Sons' "The Cave." While working at American Eagle this past summer this was my favourite song on the store playlist and the video always caught my eye. Yesterday as I was looking over the submissions page for Sarah from Chalkboard Nails' Dotting Tool contest I came across this pretty entry from ZigZagNails. I put two and two together and voila!

If you should ever be looking for inspiration for nail art I suggest you pop on over to that page. There were some awesome submissions and I love recreating other peoples' manis and adding my own touch!

Here is a screenshot from the video which you can find here. 

Keep reading for more photos!