#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...

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Valentines Day Nail Art: Part 2

Hi lovelies! I'm here again with the second round and my official Valentines Day mani. I'm posting this one quite a bit late because that way, I kind of have the best of both worlds time wise. Like I'm not just celebrating Valentines Day with my lovely local people but also people in other countries that are quite a few hours behind us. That way, I am literally stretching my time!

Let's get into the mani, shall we?

I started out by laying down 2 coats of Sinful Colors Snow Me White. When this was dry, I created a water marble pattern using Tip Top Nail Chic Sherbet Angel and Nubar Competition Red. Lastly, I wanted to add a little bit something extra to the mani and stamped over the water marble using Bundle Monster plate BM-411 and Sinful Colors Snow Me White.

So this is a really short and hopefully sweet post but I don't think you want to be spending your Valentines Day reading a silly post, do you? Nah! I hope everybody gets spoiled rotten and has an absolutely beautiful Valentines Day.

If you would like me to swatch any of the colors you saw in today’s post, please let me know via email or drop me a comment below. More than willing to oblige! 

Lots of mad love...  

Valentine's Day Nail Art: Part 1

Hi lovelies! Happy Valentine’s Day! For the un-valentined reader, Happy Being Single Rules day! Hope everybody has an amazing day filled with Belgium chocolate, real roses (I’ve got my eye on you, “tacky plastic rose that smell like cheap cologne” giver!) and cute cuddly teddy bears! I got awesome earrings with dangly skulls and crosses from my fiancé! Isn’t he bad ass?

Enough about that though. This is actually the first of two posts I have lined up for today. I wanted to post this mani yesterday  and edit my main Valentines day mani’s pictures last night, but we had people over so that did not happen. Both will happen today though...hopefully!


 
 
I started by laying down 2 coats of China Glaze Recycle on my ring and middle finger. When this was dry, I made random heart shapes and blotches with OPI Do You Lilac It? and then made leopard print shapes around the blotches using WOW Nail Polish #393. To finish off the look, I layed down 2 coats of Limited Colours Satum (no, this is not a spelling mistake on my part!) on my index and ring finger.


 

Dumb dumb that I am, I only took 2 different hand poses of this mani! *facepalm* But I think it came out cute! I am completely in love with the gray and purple together. Don’t they compliment each other beautifully?

If you would like me to swatch any of the colors you saw in today’s post, please let me know via email or drop me a comment below. More than willing to oblige! 

Lots of mad love...