31 Day Challenge: Day 2: Orange!

Well, it’s day 2! And I’ve learned that I really don’t like orange! haha! I tried THREE manis before this one made the cut, which just goes to show you how bad the other two turned out! First thing, is neons photograph horribly. The second thing is, the two oranges I have are so great on their own that the nail art should be great, well I am not so much great with the nail arts. So, this is what I came up with.

So I took a tons of pics and none really captured what this is all about. That neon just makes my little camera freak out. I used China Glaze Sun Worshipper on my pointer, with Sally Hansen Ring-a-Ding! for the glitter. The rest is Dots Neon Orange. All topped with a matte top coat but you can’t really tell. :/ No matter what, the neon is super eye catching, so still a win in my book. These colors really stained my cuticles, though. Haha and I just spied a piece of spare glitter on my thumb! Yikes! Honestly, sometime I should take a pic when I am in the middle of trying out some nail art because I make a holy hell mess. So no surprise I have glitter in strange places. ;)

Make sure you check out what the other girls did today! I loved the red manis from yesterday – I’m not much of a red nail polish person but maybe that will change. ;)

Kelsie @ www.kelsiesnailfiles.blogspot.com

Steph @ www.alittlepolish.blogspot.com

Amanda @ www.noxnails.blogspot.com
and Jess @ http://nearlynaturalnails.blogspot.com  has joined us as well! Lots of fun manis to look at today! Let's hope they turned out better than mine. :/ 

Thanks for reading!

XOXO

Erin

Queen’s Day: An Adventures in Stamping Post

Good afternoon! Are all of you having as lazy of a Sunday as I have had? Meant to study all day – got two assignments finished then got sucked into My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding – Holy cow! Does anyone else ever watch that?

Anyway, for today’s challenge, the theme was Queen’s Day, which is a Dutch holiday. On this day the Dutch celebrate their Queen by wearing the colors of the flag (red, white, and blue) and orange, the official color of the Queen and I think there is also a big flea market?  I didn’t have a suitable blue for red, white, and blue, and I don’t have any crown stamps. So I went with the orange/celebration/party theme.

(If my understanding/interpretation of the holiday is wrong please tell me!)

The orange is actually a neon but unfortunately is a little camera shy. I stamped using Pure Ice Silver Mercedes with a Shany plate, that looks like confetti-shredded glitter. Then a light coat of WnW Party of Five Glitters. I am trying to stay away from glitters for a few days but couldn’t help myself, I thought glitter was appropriate for this mani.

This was fun to do and I am glad I participated! The Adventures in Stamping group is a great group of ladies and it was fun to celebrate a holiday that means something to someone in another country. So, Happy Queen’s Day! :)

Thanks for reading!

XOXO

Erin

Gradient with Two Stamps: An Adventures in Stamping Post

Good morning! This week was a fun challenge. We had several options this week since the vote was a tie: stamping over gradient nails, or using more than one stamp. I thought all week about what I was going to do, well…..on Friday I got my Zoya polishes in the mail (plus Riveting and Smoke and Ashes from my cousin!), and last night I got my new Shany plates! So all ideas went out the window and I of course had to use some of my new goodies. This isn’t anything original, as I have seen lots of variations of this theme,  but I love it and it screams ‘ME!’ Now I wish I was going on vacation somewhere. :)

There was something BLACK in my cleanup brush so you can see the flubs around my little finger and my thumb…not sure what happened there..!

What I used:

Orly | Top2Bottom, China Glaze | Sun Worshipper, Zoya | Kimber, China Glaze | Riveting, Sally Hansen | Black Out, NYC Top Coat

Plates: SH19 and m26

There was some discussion in the group as to what designs all of us do on our right hands; I usually match my designs but if the image is one that is hard to get centered I usually do something else. For example, for the Cardinals mani I did I just did a skittles mani with the colors I used. For this mani, my right hand is just painted with China Glaze | Riveting – a gorgeous eye catching color! So that’s what I do. What do you guys do?

Thanks for reading!

XOXO

Erin