#31DC2017: Red....Yes, this is an actual post!

The door creaks open as she slowly enters the room. Dust dances in the sunbeams that break through the dirt stained windows, illuminating her hulking silhouette dragging itself across the floor. Like an injured animal she groans as she picks up the axe, trembling legs barely being able to stand but she uses determination as her drive. Suddenly, a glint of light catches the blade of the axe as she slams it into the door. “HERE’S THEA!”

Wow, so much drama! Can we all just calm the hell down? So I didn’t blog for a while? So I got distracted? So I…Oh my gosh, I missed you guys and my little space so much! Can we all group hug please? Besides, what better way of getting back into blogging by attempting the 31 Day challenge…again! Yeah, apparently I’m a masochist!

So it begins...again...

I really didn’t have much inspiration for today’s mani except that I knew I wanted to use teal with red. I am a sucker for this colour combo so this is what I came up with. I started out by laying down a coat of Color Club French Tip as my base. Using a nail art brush I placed random small blobs of OPI A Oui Bit Of Red, China Glaze Ruby Pumps and OPI Fly on my nails and then just filled in the pattern toward the outside of the nail, interchanging these colours.

I really actually like how this came out. This was honestly just a moment of having fun with the various colors. Time consuming, but fun!

Lots of mad love...

#31DC2015 Blue aka...no! No aka today!

Hi lovelies! Since I'm not really a person for posting on Saturdays I am going to keep todays post very very short and oh so sweet!

#31DC2015: Blue


I love blue! Seriously! It is possibly my spirit animal of nail polish...funnily enough I had NO inspiration whatsoever I got to this prompt. So basically I picked up my nail art brush, some blue polishes that "spoke" to me and I just went to town!

For my base I layed down 2 coats of Sinful Colors Snow Me White. When this was dry I made weird flamey shapes with my trusty nail art brush and Sally Hansen Pacific Blue. To finish the mani off I took a thin striping brush and added the darker blue lines with Zoya Song.

Blue makes me so happy! And I am LOVING Sally Hansen Pacific Blue. I finally know now why people went so nuts when the original color got re-done...dammit, now I need to go dust hunting for back-ups of this polish!

Lots of mad love...

#31DC2015: Orange aka Orange you glad I'm posting again??

Ok yes! My title is SUPER LAME but whatever mkay? Bad jokes and horrible puns are kind of my thing! AND DAMMIT, I SHALL EMBRACE IT!

Anyhoo, on to le good stuff...

#31DC2015: Orange

So I might have been dying to try Ikat nails for quite some time now but when it comes to actually doing my nails, I completely forget about it! So what better time than the #31DC2015 right? I'm not going to describe in detail how I did it but if you want to do Ikat nails you can follow this very easy tutorial by Kayla Shevonne.

For my base I used China Glaze Recycle. For my Ikat pattern I used OPI In My Back Pocket (light orange), Tip Top Nail Chic Solar Flare (darker orange) and my trusty WOW Nail Polish #393 for the black parts.

Easy peasy lemon squeezey! Oh and yay for killing an untried that's been sitting in my polish drawer for over a year! I will definitely be using you again, OPI In My Back Pocket!

Lots of made love...

And so it begins...#31DC2015

Lovelies! Oh my glob, oh my glob, OH MY GLOB, it is finally here! THE 31 Day Challenge 2015!!! Are you spazzing cos I’m spazzing...SO HARD! I am excited and terrified at the same time but you know what? I am going to try my best to finish it! GO TEAM ME! 

I am jumping straight into the challenge today so let’s get to it shall we?

#31DC2015: Red 

I’ll be dead honest. When I open my polish drawers, red doesn’t tend to be the first colour I go for so it didn’t leave me feeling very inspired. Luckily after browsing through some colour combos on Pinterest, I finally found a colour that goes with red that makes me go “squeeeeeeee” and the red...and teal mani was born!

I started out by laying down 2 coats of OPI Fly as my base. When this was dry, I went in with my nail art brush and made cloudy type shapes using Sinful Colors Snow Me White. I then used the same brush and made random round blobs with Hean City Fashion #156 over the white. Finally, I went in with my striping brush and just added white circles around the blobs to round them off.

  

I was pretty happy with this mani. I did realise though that I need to invest in some good acrylic paints so I can paint things like circles...well, more circley! But Day 1 down, ammaright?? Only 30 more prompts to go!

Lots of mad love... 

#PPSANailChallenge Traffic aka Whaaaaat??

Ladies! Lovelies! Whassup?? Not much here except for I am PSYCHED homies! It is long weekend so no work on Monday! *throws confetti* Today I am continuing with my epic journey to finish the #PPSANailChallenge. SO LET’S BANG IT!

 

Traffic

Honestly, who came up with this prompt?? Traffic? Really?? Oh wait, it was Briget from Because I Can...lady, we’re you high on carbon dioxide fumes?? Brigets be crazy! Only way I can explain it. Anyhoo...after pretty much splitting my head open to try and figure out what the heck I’m going to do *side eyes Briget* I was squizzing through Instagram and found this epic mani by Oh My Gosh Polish and BOOM! An idea slapped some sense into me! So if you’re like me and love roadtrips, this might be right up your alley!

I started by laying down 2 coats of OPI Suzi Says Feng Shui (oh my glob, and what glorious coats they were! Will definitely be swatching this baby soon!). When this was dry I used THIS tutorial from Oh My Gosh Polish and made my trees and moon with WOW Nail Polish #393 and Sinful Colors Snow Me White. Lastly I made my road on my middle finger also using WOW Nail Polish #393 and Sinful Colors Snow Me White.

I love the idea behind the trees! They are so versatile! Halloween, sunset gradient, mystic forest...you can use them for so many things! I absolutely can not wait to try them again!

Lots of mad love... 

#PPSAnailchallenge - Red aka "I'm such a drip!"

Yo! Stop the press! Two posts in a day?? Yip, that's how I roll homie...also known as "I'M SO BEHIND! GOTTA POST POST POST!!!". But I am going to do every single post in this challenge even if I only make it by a few hours. That I promise myself! So let's get to it shall we?

Red

I was actually busy swatching this red when I realized I had to use it in this theme. It is glorious and shiny and just...hmmm....SEXY! And then I went and covered it up with drips. Hence why I'm a big ass drip. But it's nail art!

I started out by laying down 2 coats of Hean City Fashion #156. When it was dry I made the drip shapes using my trusty thin nail art brush and filled it up with a thicker brush and WOW Nail Polish #393.

As you can see, this art was pretty damn easy but it still looks kinda cool. I am very sad it covered a lot of Hean City Fashion #156 but so you learn. I will have a swatch up in the coming week of this beautiful red with some more art though, so definitely keep an eye out for that. She is sooo worth it!

Lots of mad love...

An InLinkz Link-up

#PPSAnailchallenge - Unicorn aka "Big girls, you are beautiful!"

*Sings* Yes, I do, I believe, that one day I will be, where I was, right there, right next to you! And it’s hard, the days just seems so dark, the moon, the stars are nothing without you! *sing sobs* Thank you! Thank you! (And thank you Sam Smith for the heart string pulling lyrics) I’ll be here all week!...I just missed you guys mkaay?? And my lil space! *hugs blog* hello babeh...anyhoo, to the mucho fun stuff. The #PPSAnailchallenge! If you haven’t heard about it yet, it’s a challenge that the admin ladies (Ooh! Oooh! I’m one!) of the Polished Pretties South Africa group on Facebook put together for the month on June to get our creativity flowing. It is a challenge that is open to absolutely ANYONE, even the smexy international beings. All you have to do is make a mani according the theme and tag it using #PPSAnailchallenge. Le easy!

Unicorn 

When I saw this prompt I was over the moon because cmooon, frakking Unicorns! What is not to love?? Uuuumm...well when it came to the actual mani my brain pulled the mother of all blanks. I had zero and I mean ZERO ideas. And then it hit me like the beautiful flick of a majestic Unicorn tail. With all this positive body imagery going on nowadays and people learning to love themselves and embrace their imperfections, why not celebrate the more fuller, fun loving, donut eating Unicorns?? Oh they exist! Where do you think cupcake sprinkles come from?

I started out by laying down 2 coats of Sinful Colors Snow Me White as the base for my mani. When this was dry I cut a makeup triangle into smaller blocks and sponged on randomly over my nails using Essence Free Hugs, Essence Love Is In Air, Color Club Twiggie, Sinful Colors Sail La Vie, OPI Do You Lilac It, and China Glaze For Audrey. To add a bit of sparkle I added a coat of China Glaze Fairy Dust over the sponged base. To make my donuts I used a thin nail art brush, Essence Wanna Say Hello, Essence Free Hugs Color Club Twiggie, OPI Do You Lilac It and Sinful Colors Snow Me White. For the hearts I used my thin art brush and Sinful Colors Folly. Lastly I made my fuller figured unicorn using OPI Fly, Tip Top Nail Chic Melting Marshmallow, Sinful Colors Folly and WOW Nail Polish #393.

I kinda like how this came out! It’s not 100% like I imagined in my head but it’s still cute and happy-feeling, which is what I was going for. To me that is mission accomplished right?!

Lots of mad love...

An InLinkz Link-up

Out the vault: Skulls and Roses V.2

Hi lovelies! Frak me, it is hot as Hades here at the moment but you know what?? I’m not going to complain! This summer can keep its sweet hot butt around for as long as possible. When I’m on honeymoon I want plenty of sun and sea! So no, I will embrace this sweaty goodness I am living in at the moment and day dream of ice cold pin-coladas...Hmmmm...okay, it’s not working. I need an air conditioner!

Today I’m showing off some nails that have been floating around in my vault for a while now but since my nail break on my “pretty” hand (pretty dumb if you ask me) is growing at the slowest pace EVER, I have no choice but to resort to some of my older works.

I started out by laying down a good coat of WOW Nail Polish #393 as my base. With my thin nail art brush and Sinful Colors Snow Me White I then made the shape of a skull on my ring finger and filled in the details with WOW Nail Polish #393, a dotting tool and again my thin nail art brush. The roses and leafs on all my fingers I did using Tip Top Nail Addict Secret Road, Tip Top Nail Chic Red Rendezvous, Sinful Colors Pistache and China Glaze Starboard.

I really hope you guys like this look. I really am drawn to it but I might be biased because SKULLS! Hopefully my lil nail will be grown a bit better soon and I can show some fresh material. I am DYING to do some proper nail art again.

Lots of mad love...

#31DC2014 - Day 9: Rainbow Nails aka SO MUCH COLOR IN YOUR FACE!

Good morning lovelies! After today there is only one prompt left for the “Colors” section of the #31DC2014 people! Exciting stuff! But for today, let’s enjoy the colorful prompt of Rainbow Nails.

Day 9: Rainbow Nails
 
Today’s prompt was quite a bit of a head scratcher to me. Rainbow nails...how many things can you actually do with that? Yes, the color possibilities are probably endless but of course my boxed in human brain got stuck at rainbow. I definitely wanted a rainbow in there somewhere. And then it hit me! Well, two things hit me! 1. I’ve been dying to use my Lush Lacquer (now better known as Polish Me Silly) Freckles. And 2. I love meme’s. Grumpy cat, Overly Attached Girlfriend, Socially Awkward Penguin...you name it, I LOVE IT! Some of my favorite meme’s are the Rage Comics. They consist of a whole lot of awesomely badly drawn characters like Forever Alone Guy, Cereal Guy, Troll face and of course...PUKING RAINBOWS!

I started out by laying down 2 coats of Sinful Colors Snow Me White on all my nails. When this was dry I went in with a thin nail art brush and WOW Nail Polish #393 and painted my little guy in. To create the rainbow I used the thin nail art brush again, Tip Top Nail Chic Walking On Sunshine, Tip Top Nail Chic Jazz Berryblue, Tip Top Nail Chic Sexy Bikini, Tip Top Nail Chic Grape Dance and China Glaze I’m With The Lifeguard. To finish everything off, I added 2 coats of Lush Lacquer Freckles over my index finger and pinky.

YOU GUYS! Look at that neon glitter go! Isn’t Lush Lacquer Freckles just gorgeous?? I really liked how all of this came together. Yes, puking rainbows might be a little weird but I am a little weird and I love it!

Lots of mad love...

 

#31DC2014 - Day 6: Violet Nails aka Cat-urday??

Hi lovelies! I don’t think I have ever posted on a Saturday! And what is this thing outside at freaking 9am on a Saturday morning?? The sun?? I always thought that also slept in on weekends...who knew! 

Day 6: Violet Nails

One of the many loves in my life, besides nail polish, is animation and cartoons. From full on Japanese anime to weird awesome shows like Adventure Time, I love it! Hence, I am crazy about Disney movies! Especially the Classic 2D Disney movies. Little Mermaid, Beauty and The Beast, The Rescuers! *sings* R-E-S-C-U-E, Rescue Aid Society! Hmmmm...happy chills! But I digress! One of my favourite Disney movies is Alice in Wonderland. There is a long and really unnecessary reason behind this that I’m not going to jabber on about right now but it was part of my inspiration for today’s mani. To be precise though, Cheshire Cat was my inspiration! Don’t you just love his menacing smile?

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I started with 2 coats of OPI Do You Lilac It? on all my nails except for my middle finger nail. When this was dry, I layed down some striping tape horizontally over all those nails and layed down a coat of Sinful Colors Amethyst , making sure I pull off the tape immediately after each fingers coat. With my middle finger I started with a base color of Tip Top Nail Chic Fairy Dust and made Cheshire Cat’s facial features using Tip Top Nail Chic Sun Kissed, Sinful Colors Snow Me White, OPI A Oui Bit Of Red and WOW Nail Polish #393.

Hey, it’s not perfect but it isn’t bad right? The stripes look fine to me but I wish I could’ve done a little better with Cheshire Cat’s face. He looks more like a pig than a cat to me but you got to remember, he has had some tough years behind him! Even Disney characters can age and I just captured it mkaay?? That’s my story and I’m sticking to it! 

Lots of mad love...

#31DC2014 - Day 2: Orange Nails aka You don't want to walk on this sunshine!

Hi lovelies! Are you guys ready for some orangey goodness because that is what is on the list for Day 2 of the 31 Day Challenge! LET’S DOOOOOOOO THIS!

Day 2: Orange Nails 

I was a little lost with this prompt but 1 thing I knew for sure was that I definitely wanted to use Tip Top Nail Chic Solar Flare. It is so vibrant and beautiful and I always feel happy when I use it...and then the name hit me. Solar flare...the sun...awesome orange inspiration! And so, this mani was born.

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I started out by laying down 2 coats of Tip Top Nail Chic Sun Kissed on all my nails for a base color. When this was dry I layed down a coat of Tip Top Nail Chic Solar Flare on the nails and using a crumpled up piece of saran wrap, I blotched all over each nail individually to create the suns surface. To finish it off, I made flame patterns using WOW Nail Polish #393 and a thin nail art brush on all the nails and just filled them in. 

I might be really loving this mani! Did my sun come out looking like hot rod flames? Pshh, yeah! Am I even mad? Nope, not at all! I did though realize my idea wasn’t so unique as I found this post by Varnished Valkyrie and because I do follow them (no, the plural isn’t a typo) I’m sure that I have seen this before but might’ve forgotten about it so I feel they deserve full props and credit!

Lots of mad love...