First nail art challenge!

Hello to my readers!  Just kidding, I know this is more like a diary right now, but hopefully I will have readers one day! :)  I am doing my first nail art challenge, and I bet you can guess what kind it is.  Halloween!  Yay!  I chose to do the This is Halloween challenge from Lacquer Dreams.  I didn't find out about it until 2 days ago, so I missed the first day.  But I did do the water marble yesterday!  I spent around 5 hours figuring out my method.  It was my second time doing water marble, but first time with dark colors.  I originally tried black, purple, and orange, but I couldn't figure out the base coat.  Finally I got it down to the purple and the orange.  For the orange I used Wet n Wild Orange, and for the purple I used Ulta Femme Fatale.  By the time I was finished it was 9:00 PM and obviously the sun was down.  So I waited until today to photograph it.

I have a little side story I have to share with you.  My husband installs satellites and took me to work with him today because there is a Rite Aid in the town where he was going.  I have been wanting to see the pumpkin polishes I keep hearing about, but my drug stores don't carry them.  So I tagged along.  We went to the Rite Aid in the town where his job was but there selection was kinda sad.  I called it a bust, but he suggested going to another Rite Aid 16 miles away.  How sweet!  We drove to the other one and they did have more selection!  I also scouted around the other polishes just incase they had anything special.  I have been obsessed with a discontinued polish by L'Oreal called Owl's Night.  It is this awesome brown shimmery color, and the only place I can find it is on Ebay for around $16.00.  I am not paying that because....today I found it!!!!  In the second Rite Aid, I thought I would look at the names of the polishes just incase, and there it was!!!  Yippie!  So I got my Owl's Night along with a pumpkin polish and some others!  It was well worth riding along with my husband today!

This is my Halloween challenge water marble.  It looks more orange in person.

My other hand with the water marble!

This is the orange I used for this.  When I started the bottle was full.  Yeah.

This is Owl's Night!  Love it!!!

Here We Go!

Hi there!  I have never had a blog before, so please bear with me as I figure this out.  My name is Kristina, I love nail polish and want to share my journey through the world of nail art with you.  I have always had a liking for nail polish, but didn't really get into the whole "nail art" thing until February of 2012.  I finally found my hobby!

My collection was contained in 2 cosmetic bags and quickly began to grow, until it was 3 overflowing cosmetic bags.  This is when I decided I needed a nail polish rack!  My husband agreed to help me and we built it together.  Pictures are below.  When I was thinking of building a rack I was constantly searching for photos of other peoples nail polish racks.  There were not many polish racks out there to look at.  This is what ignited the idea to start my own blog.  I want to share my experiences with other polish lovers out there.  My FB friends may "like" my polish rack, but they wont appreciate it like other polish lovers will!

I hope to use this blog as a way to document my progress through the world of nail art.  I can look back at photos from only 6 months ago and see a dramatic improvement in the quality of my work, and hope I can continue to grow.  More than anything I want to share my photos with other polish lovers.  There have been times when I have searched for a polish swatch online, only to find nothing.   I want to be able to take a photo and share it with anyone who is looking for that same color swatch.  I look forward to sharing my polishes, progress, and lessons learned with anyone who reads this!  Comments are very much welcomed!!!

This is the nail polish rack.  It was pretty simple to put together.  My husband and I went to the hardware store and bought some cheap wood, screws, and wood stain.  He put it together while I was at work one day, and I stained it!  It really was quite easy, and cost around $40.00.  My tip would be to give your self some room to grow, which I thought I did, but am not sure....

This is the rack finished.  I realize now that I did not document the building of it as well as I could have.  However, I could see myself outgrowing it within the next year or two, so I will make sure to do better next time!

This is a top down shot.  We put risers on each shelf so I could fit two rows of polish on each shelf.  The riser turned out to be a great idea, if I had not included it I would have quickly run out of room!