Nerd Challange

Happy Wednesday! Today I have for you the first of a new challenge I am going to attempt, the Llama Nails Nerd Challenge! It started on Friday, so I'm posting a tad late, but I hope to be able to stay on time and post every Friday from now on. Here is what this challenge is:

So as you can see this week is inspired by math. I decided to attempt stamping again, so this is what I came up with! I used 3 coats of Sinful Colors Snow Me White as the base, and stamped using Sinful Colors Black on Black with BM 311 and used KISS nail art pen in black.

I'm getting a little better at stamping, but I still need practice! The stamping looked better in person and before I topcoated though. Check out below to see what everyone else did!

Halloween Challenge - Scary movie

Todays Halloween challenge theme is Influenced by a Scary Movie. I love scary movies, and one of my favorites is Arachnophobia. So that is what I chose for today. Only problem is I just could not get my polish or stamper and plate to work with me no matter what. The spider shows up decent, but the webs are too faint :( I used 1 coat of Sally Hansen Black Out and stamped BM13 with Wet N Wild Bad For Credit Cards.

Check out the other participants!

Halloween challenge - Pumpkins

Today is pumpkin day for the Halloween Challenge! I had planned to use stamping plates to do them, but then decided to go freehand. I decided to do jack-o-lanterns instead of plain pumpkins. I used 2 coats of Revlon Marmalade and Kiss Nail Art pen to do the faces. I didn't wait long enough for the base to dry I guess, and the pen was dragging the polish, so you can see it is more dotted on than drawn on. The dots are more noticeable in the picture than they were in person, my daughter loved it so thats good enough for me! :)

Check out the other ladies pumpkins!

Sat-ART-Day - reptiles and frogs

Todays Sat-ART-Day challenge is to do reptiles and frogs. I used my BM15 lizard stamp. I did 3 coats of Dollish Polish Baby Gravy for a nice white sandy beach and A England Dragon for the lizards.

Not happy with it, but as I left it to the last minute it will have to do.

Check out the rest of the awesome ladies taking part!

Halloween Challenge!

Todays Halloween challenge is Things That Go Bump in the Night. I have to admit that I don't remember what colors or plate I used, and right now I can't find my notes :(. I will come back and edit this when I find it! Found it! I used 2 coats of Wet N Wild Silvivor and stamped BM05 with Wet N Wild Everybody Loves Redmond. Heres the pic:

Here are the other ladies taking part!

F is for Fire Hydrants

Today is F in the ABC Challenge, and I chose Fire Hydrants. This was actually going to be my D (for dog prints) but once it was done I didn't think you could see the prints enough so I saved it. I used 2 coats of Wet N Wild Everybody Loves Redmond and stamped with Wet N Wild magnetic Bad For Credit Cards using BM306. I like how it turned out (except my pinkie lol), its one of my better ones! I am having fun using my stamping plates and practicing so hopefully I get better and better!

Check out the other ladies!

Halloween Chalenge, freestyle

Today for the Halloween challenge it is Freestyle. Not much to say about this one, I basically used some of my other Halloween image plates that aren't going to be used for the rest of this challenge lol. I used 2 coats of Revlon Starry Eyed and stamped with Wet N Wild Ebony Hates Chris and BM13, BM213 and BM305.

Check out what everyone else did!

Sat-ART-Day - 50s

Todays theme is the 50s. I really like this one, I actually had a few ideas this time! I chose to do a poodle skirt. I used 3 coats of Color Club Blushing Rose, stamped BM04 with Sally Hansen White On and used my Kiss nail art paint. Not the most original idea I admit, I have seen this done before, but I wanted something I could do a little bit of freehand with. Here it is:

Definitely not the worst I have ever done, but I do think I should have used either a darker/brighter pink for the base or stamped/free handed with black. The pale pink and white are both just too light, though you can see it better in person.

Here are the rest of the lovely ladies taking part!

Halloween Challenge, Witches

Today I have a last minute challenge post, I just got done with this about an hour ago! I don't know how todays slipped through the cracks, I thought I was ahead by a couple weeks on everything, oops! So this wasn't my original plan, but I got new polishes in and just had to use one!

I have 4 coats of Whimsical Ideas by Pam Wicked on 3 fingers (full post for this and the other 2 HalloWhimsies to come soon!), and 2 coats of Wet N Wild SaGreena the Teenage Witch (completely coincidentally! lol) stamped with BM209 and Wet N Wild Ebony Hates Chris. I had planned to use a witch flying on her broom stamp, but couldnt get it to work properly so I switched so I could get this done!

Check out the other ladies doing the challenge!

E is for Easter

I'm back today with E, which I must say is a failure :( Try as I might, I just could not get the full images to stamp, and then I went and did them so they photographed upside down lol. I didn't have a chance to try to redo them or do something different, so I am stuck using this. I chose to do Easter for E, and I have Easter Bunnies and Easter Bunnies with Easter Eggs. I used 2 coats of Wet N Wild magnetic Bad For Credits Cards as a base, and I stamped with Wet N Wild Ebony Hates Chris and BM302.

Not happy with this one at all, but I didn't want to skip another day of another challenge!

Here are the other lovely ladies taking part:

Sat-ART-Day presesnts - Tarts!

Today marks the first challenge in the new Sat-ART-Day challenge from Crumpets Nail Tarts! Fittingly, todays theme is tarts. I had such a hard time coming up with any ideas for this, especially since my nail art skills are limited lol. So, here is what I came up with!

Fruit tarts! (sort of lol) I used 2 coats of Orly Glow as my 'pastry colored' base, and stamped the fruit on using BM04 and BM05. The orange is Sally Hansen Sun Kissed, the grapes are China Glaze Grape Pop, the strawberry is Wet N Wild Everybody Loves Redmond and the lemon is Zoya Pippa.

I like the way this turned out, even if it isn't the best interpretation of the theme! I'm really enjoying these challenges I have going on, even if I have no clue what to do for a few of them!

Check out the other fabulous ladies taking part!

Halloween Challenge day 2

Today in the Halloween Challenge is Black Cats, and I have really waited til the last minute to post this! I forgot it was for today, so this is a quick post before bed. Pretty simple mani for this one, I used 2 coats of OPI Deutsch You Want Me Baby? and stamped with Wet N Wild Ebony Hates Chris with BM04 plate, with top coat over it. Not anything too special, but I seem to be improving on my stamping little by little!

Check out what everyone else did!

ABC Challenge - A

Today is the start of the first challenge I am taking part in, the ABC challenge. I'm excited to be getting into challenges, I love to be organized so what better way than knowing what you are going to post ahead of time! We will be posting once a week, on Wednesdays, as we do one letter of the alphabet each week. The only rule is that something in your mani has to start with the letter of the week: polish brand name, polish name, color, style used to create it, anything. I am going to try to be more creative than just using brand name and polish name each week, so I can challenge myself to be better at nail art.

I received all 3 Bundle Monster stamping plate sets for my birthday last week, so I now have those to help me out! So far I love them, the designs are pretty cool. I did notice after my Bundle Monster organizer came in and I was removing the blue film off each plate and putting it in the organizer, that I was missing a plate. I looked all over to be sure it just hadn't fallen, and not finding it I emailed the company. They got back to me right away with a reply saying they were very sorry and that a replacement plate would be shipped out to me right away. Now, I haven't used any of the plates yet but the one for this mani since I just got them, but I can say I can't fault their customer service. Very pleased with that, and I'm looking forward to using the plates a lot in the future!

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