Day 13 - Animal Print

WOOOO!!! I'm almost half way through this! WOOOOO AGAIN! I feel like a slacker because it's taking me so long but really... I'm half way through. Well. Anyway, originally I was completely against doing leopard print because I think it's so overdone and corny and just all around awful and not my style. Until, my friend suggested I do Lisa Frank nails. Even then the plan was to do unicorns and all sorts of other awesome Lisa Frank animals but lost motivation half way through so I settled with all leopard print. Sigh.  (I also tried to do cat nails and they turned out miserable). So I started with a gradient on a few fingers and then used the colors in the gradient to do the spots on the other fingers!

I alternated fingers on my right hand. Im vert not left handed
but they still came out pretty alright!

On a whim mani that lasted one day.

So I hung with another one of my polish obsessed friends the other night and this is what I wound up with. I tried to use Essie's magnetic polish and it was awful and absolutely miserable so I put this stripe on them. They chipped later that day so I did the animal print mani for the next day of the challenge that I'll post tomorrow!

Also had no interest in clean up really... Sorry!

Day 12 - Stripes

Hey! I'm back! So my wedding mani was... a joke. To say the least. However, I did find the perfect peach color to go with the wedding colors so that was cool, except it chipped not even two hours later and I didn't have enough time to redo it. Good thing it wasn't my wedding and no one wanted to take a million pictures of my hands! Anyway, so for stripes I decided to take a different route. I was torn between either plaid and gingham, and you can see which way I went. I planned to do this with Orly Boho Bonnet but it is so incredibly sheer I would have had to do 100 coats. So, I started with a base of OPI My Vampire is Buff and hand painted on the stripes using China Glaze Ruby Pumps.

Then I looked at them and could only think of picnic tables so I painted ants on a few nails!

HEY! SORRY!

This is me explaining my absence. One of my best friends is getting married this weekend and my nails have really just fallen by the wayside with everything else going on. Obviously, they're still painted, but nothing post worthy. I'll probably post my wedding mani Friday!

On another note, I bought Honey Ryder out of the Bond Girls collection when it first came out and this is my first time wearing it. Also, my first time wearing a liquid sand polish, and I'm pretty positive I hate it. Anyone up for a trade?

OH! And in the mean time of my absence, check out my bestie's blog HERE!

Day 11 - Polka Dots

Well, if any of you haven't noticed yet... I'm not very girly. And I have to be in the mood for plan polka dots, and I couldn't think of anything clever other than the infamous mermaid nails that I first saw on Little Nails probably last year. I still don't know how she makes her dots so big because I've tried so many things and it never works and they always end up looking muddy. Anyway, I decided to go with mermaid nails for today! These ended up looking like skittles and I loved wearing them!

Right hand making an appearance!

Day 10 - Gradient

HEY GUYS! My life has been relatively boring and normal and have really just been going to school and working, so I don't have anything awesome to report there! So I still don't think I have the complete hang of gradients, and it might have something to do with the fact that I'm not a super crazy fan of them and they kinda bore me. Oh and for some reason putting down a white base coat is so tedious to me so I stay away from them. However, I did decide (obviously) to do one for this challenge day, and like I said before, I'm not great with colors and me attempting to combine them is just a joke usually. So I asked a friend what colors I should use and his response was "do yellow and green, they look cool on gummy worms". However, they do not look so awesome on nails. So I wore this plain gradient for a day. Then couldn't handle it anymore and I painted this weird pattern over it.

Plain gradient. Pre-Clean up.. Sorry!

Somehow my thumb always comes out the best
 even though I always do it first!

Day 9 - Rainbow

I'm back! Sorry for the little hiatus there, life has been a little weird and crazy but here I am! My main problem with nail art is... I'm not creative. (who knew!) So getting inspired and having idea for these challenge days are a little well.. challenging. So for today I just went with straight across rainbow stripes. Although these aren't super special and something you've never seen before, I think I did a pretty alright job in execution.

First two photos are in direct natural light and last is in the shade.