31DC2013 Day 14

Hello everyone!  Todays theme is flowers, and I am super excited to share mine with you all!!!!  After what I consider to be 2 disapointing manis I was determined to get back on track with this one.  I have always loved the vintage stripes with flowers that everyone does, but have never done it.  So, I decided to give it a go.  I found this tutorial on YouTube by Simple Nail Art Designs.  I used all Zoya colors for this mani, the colors I used are Jaqueline, Purity, Willow, & Wednesday.  I also used my favorite green polish, China Glaze Gaga For Green.  I don't have many polishes that you can physically see a usage line in, but my faithful Gaga For Green has a nice little dent in it! ;)  I painted my nails with Jacqueline as a base and then used striping tape for lines with Wednesday.  It took a few tries to get the roses, I used my off hand for practice.  I finally got into a groove with dabbing a bit of Willow on straight from the brush, then took my smallest dotting tool and got some Purity on it and swirled it around with the Willow to make it look like a rose.  I am super pumped about how this came out!  I found that I can use either a toothpick or a small dotting tool for a lot more than dotting with this mani!  Now I wish I would have known that with the animal print!  I am totally doing another animal print by hand when this challenge is over.  I hope you all are having a great weekend and I will see you tomorrow for some delicate print! :)

31DC2013 Day 6

Hey, hey, hey!  Its Friday!  Soooo...yesterday was supposed to be blue day, but  I was unable to prepare a post in time because I was celebrating my mother in-law's birthday!  Instead I got to get some good grub and spend time with the family!  I did originally try to paint my nails blue in the morning with the idea that I would dash home, stamp, and photograph them but of course other obligations called my name again and I didn't have time.  So, there I was sitting with a blank blue canvas when I decided to add some purple stamping on top.  Its kind of like day 5 (Blue) and day 6 (Purple) all in one!  If you have glanced down at the photos your probably saying; "That is not blue with purple, that is blue with blue!"  I would totally agree if I didn't paint them myself.  I've noticed my camera has had problems with certain colors in the past, I guess this is just another.  Both colors look much darker than they actually are, I suppose I should try to figure out why that it.   The colors I used are Essie Bikini So Teeny and Pure Ice Jail Bait. I tried to find swatches of Pure Ice Jail Bait online, but all I found were bottle shots.  However, you can clearly see it is technically purple!  That all being said, I love how it turned out!  The stamp I used is BM 306.