Jelly Belly Nails

Hello ladies! Today I am doing a combined challenge post. It is the 9th day in the 31 Day challenge which call for "rainbow" nails and it is also the 10th and final day of the My Favorite Things Challenge, it calls for my favorite mani.

Today's mani was inspired by my favorite candy...Jelly Belly Jelly Beans!

Colors used:

Pinky

Wet n Wild Sunny Side Up

Sinful Colors Sugar Sugar

Ring

Sinful Colors Innocent

China Glaze In The Lime Light

Sinful Colors Last Chance

Middle

Sally Hansen Coral Reef

Sinful Colors Cross My Heart

Index

Orly Skinny Dip

Sinful Colors Lavender

Sinful Colors Let's Talk

Thumb

Sally Hansen Mellow Yellow

Milani Dark Coffee

Originally I wanted to do my spun sugar mani for this day but I decided that it had been a while since

I had done a Saran Wrap mani so I opted for that instead. I have only done the Saran Wrap technique once, that time I painted the second color over the first then took the SW to the nail. This time I decided I wanted to try the other way: putting the polish on the SW and dabbing it on top of the base color which would mimic the speckled pattern on the Jelly Beans.

Did I manage to capture the essence of the Jelly Belly?? LOL

I'm glad I chose to do this for my final Favorite Things mani, there are just so many things I love about this! I really enjoyed this challenge and I hope you all did too.

I will still be working on the 31 day challenge for a while still so make sure to check on the future mani's, the best is yet to come!

Don't forget to show off your teal mani's for Ovarian Cancer Awareness on my Facebook Fan Page  for the whole month of September.

Also don't forget that once I get 100 Facebook likes, GFC followers or Twitter followers I will be hosting my first giveaway! And I have super special surprise news about that giveaway...so like and follow, 100 is just around the corner!!!

Check out the other mani's for both of these great challenges!



Kimber at Kimber's Lacquer Korner

-Kat at Hooked On Polish
-Diana at Nails By Diana
-Aly at Wonderland Beauty
-Meredith at Perfectly Polished
-Nicole at The Color Republic
-Kate at The Painted Pony Nails
-Cee at Absolutely Cee
-Sam at Polished Art
-Nail Narcotics
-Nicole at Nicole Gets Nailed
-Shelby at Shelby's Swatches
-Stephanie Louise at All Things Beautiful
-Mixed Mama
-Joanna @ Sweet Polish of Mine
-Patty Greenberg
-Liz and Lisa @ Lozlosa
-Mari at Nailista
-Greta at How Was Your Day?
-Miss L at Beauty by Miss L
-Chameleon Stampede
-Pam at Nail-E-Glance
-Me, Myself, and Polish
-Robin Sparkles

My Favorite Things Challenge: Day 9 "Flowers"

I wasn't sure what to do for this mani, I have several stamp plates with flowers but it seems that every single time I try to stamp for my challenges it turns into a fail. So I decided to just do basic dotting flowers. I hope you all like. =)

 

 

I started with 2 coats of Zoya Kimber.

 

I almost didn't get this color because I was already getting Joy and they are pretty similar, but I am so happy I did. The golden shimmer is so pretty, unfortunately it was hard to capture in my photos.

 

It makes me think of watermelons!

 

Next I used Sinful Colors Easy Going, a very pale pink cream to make my flowers and dots.

 

I decided to layer my dots, it looked a little funky without the layering.

 

Originally I was going to put flowers on all of my fingers but it was too much and looked a bit junkie.

 

Well, only 1day left of this challenge! It went really FAST! Make sure you check back Thursday for the last post in this challenge!

 

 

Make sure you check out the rest of the mani's the other ladies have done!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Favorite Things Day 8: Hearts/Love

This mani did NOT go as I had planned it. It was suppose to be love letters and hearts with kisses and such, but the stupid stamp plate was not cooperating. I am blaming the design because I got several others to work.

I started with 2coats of my brand new Zoya (yay!) Dove. I was so happy to get this because I needed a nice cream gray!

On my thumb and pinkie I applied a coat of China Glaze Full Spectrum, from the Prismatics collection. This one has a pink duochrome very pretty. Then for a bit of extra shimmer I applied a coat of Orly Be Brave. Now I wasn't sure how much I'd like this but after seeing it on my nails! WOW! I love how the glitter changes color...it's pink but flashes the entire rainbow in the light! Simply beautiful. this was part of the FX collection but also part of the Breast Cancer Awareness polishes they released as well.If you can find this get it!

My hearts (and lips) are:

 Pure Ice Iced Merlot & Flirt Alert

L'Oreal Penthouse Pink

Sinful Colors Ruby Ruby

Finger Paints Black Expressionism

Only 2 days left in this challenge! I can't believe how fast it went!

Glitter and Violet

I am now on day 7 for the My Favorite Things Challenge and day 6 for the 31 Day challenge.

So I wanted to come up with something for both in 1 mani since they both fell on the same day.

I decided that I wanted to do a royal colored mani since violet/purple is such a royal color!

 

 

First I started off with Sally Hansen Golden-I

 

Then on my ring finger and thumb I applied Orly Sashay My Way

 

Next I attempted a ruffian look by adding e.l.f Royal Purple

 

Now I should have stopped here but for some reason I didn't...

 

I'm not too crazy about the rhinestones but I wanted to see how it would look.

Now I know. LOL

 

 

I also attemped a purple camo per my husbands request. It turned out better than I thought it would.

I just couldn't get it to photograph well for some reason.

 

 

Those were the best 2 out of about 30 so I gave up. LOL

 

Now I am going to start swatching...Dollish Polish will be first and on my next post! Yay!

So check back for that!

 

And as always, Go check out the other ladies in these two challenges!

 

 

 

Cee:Absolutely Cee

Stephanie Louise:All Things Beautiful

Miss L:Beauty by Miss L

Mandy:Chameleon Stampede

Kat: Hooked On Polish

Kimber: Kimber's Lacquer Korner

Liz: Lozlosa

Lariesa: Me, Myself & Polish

Mixed Mama:Mixed Mama

Mari:Nailista

Diana: Nails By Diana

Pam:Nail-E-Glance

Becca:Nail Narcotics

Nicole:Nicole Gets Nailed
Patty: Patty and Goldie's Day Off

Meredith:Perfectly Polished

Sam:Polished Art

Gini:Sassy Paints

Shelby:Shelby's Swatches

Joanna:Sweet Polish of Mine
Nicole:The Color Republic
Kate: The Painted Pony Nails

Aly: Wonderland Beauty

My Favorite Things Challenge Day 5...

Polka Dots...

I'm rushing to get this done. I actually did a mani last night for this challenge but after I looked at it I hated it. It was POO! I spent all day staring at it and loathing it but I couldn't change it because I was keeping my grandpa company while my grandma was having her eye surgery.

As soon as I got home I had to change it! I'm still not very happy with what I have...It looks great but it doesn't want to photograph well at all!

 

 

 

Left to right:

Snow Me White, Let's Talk, Dream On, 24/7 

 

The problem I am having with this mani is that all the colors are true except Let's Talk.

 

It looks kind of blue in these pictures but it's really purple,

one that I can only describe as electric purple.

 

Maybe it's just me. I don't know. Either way...this is my polka dot mani! I hope everyone is having a good week so far! I'll be back tomorrow with a green mani and a new technique, if all goes as planned! Later gaters! ;)

 

 

Don't forget to check out what the other talented ladies have done with their polka dots!!!

 

 



2 Challenges 1 Post, Cheater, Cheater, Orange Eater!

Well hello all! I decided, after much debate, to do just one post for both of the challenges that I have homework due for today...My Favorite Food for the My Favorite Things Challenge by Ooh La La Polish and the Color Orange for the 31 Day Challenge by Kimber's Lacquer Korner. I was going to go with Sushi but lets face it I just didn't feel up to drawing/painting all those little rolls and sashimi pieces...I know, I suck! So I went with one of my favorite fruits. I know I went easy, but who really doesn't like oranges???? They ARE amazing! Hello!

For this post I used an array of orange hues.

D&R Apothecary Clownin Around

and Sinful Colors Pull Over, Clementine and Citrine.

I started off with 2 coats of Pull Over. (Don't mind the oops on my middle finger, it disappears once I get to the next step) Now I am fairly sure this color is a dupe for China Glaze Sun Worshiper which I used fairly recently. I may need to do a comparison post soon because application was completely different on these 2 brands. Anyway...

I decided on a sponged gradient look. Don't mind my polish encrusted water glass there, I use it for my water marbling and for sponging so it gets a bit  gookie.

See, no more oops on my middle finger! =)

This was 2 sponged applications. ^^^

I then used Sinful Colors Snow Me White with BM-308 to stamp on my oranges.

I had a horrible stamping night with this look. It took me like a million and one tries before I finally just said foooook it and just left them all jacked up! I was fed up, I don't care!

And applied a coat of D&R Apothecary Clownin Around.

I have used a few of D&R's polishes now and this one is probably my least favorite. It has a nice shimmery orange base and a TON of multi colored, sized and shaped glitters but it was almost impossible to get the glitter out of the bottle. No matter how hard and how long I shook it they mostly stuck to the side and bottom of the bottle.

So here is my orange orange challenge mani....thank god this one was finished!

Make sure to check out the other girls in both of these challenges!



31 Day Challenge



-Kimber at Kimber's Lacquer Korner

-Kat at Hooked On Polish
-Diana at Nails By Diana
-Aly at Wonderland Beauty
-Meredith at Perfectly Polished
-Nicole at The Color Republic
-Kate at The Painted Pony Nails
-Cee at Absolutely Cee
-Sam at Polished Art
-Nail Narcotics
-Nicole at Nicole Gets Nailed
-Shelby at Shelby's Swatches
-Stephanie Louise at All Things Beautiful
-Mixed Mama
-Joanna @ Sweet Polish of Mine-Patty Greenberg
-Liz and Lisa @ Lozlosa
-Mari at Nailista
-Greta at How Was Your Day?
-Miss L at Beauty by Miss L
-Chameleon Stampede
-Pam at Nail-E-Glance

My Favorite Things Challenge