Peppermint Taffy

The boutique I work in is a little bit out of town and is right next to a shop called the Christmas Garden and as the name says its full of Christmas-y things and is open all year round. 

One of the things the Christmas garden is famous for here is their considerable variety of taffy caramels that come in many tastes and colors.

I try not to go in there so often because the caramels call to me, they tell me to eat them all (!!!!), but for rare special occasions when I want to treat myself  I go and buy a (mountain of them) a few I and always think to myself that they are perfect nail art inspiration and if I can contain myself and won't eat them all at once, I could do a series of taffy inspired nail art. What do you think? Good idea? 

But anyway, on to the nail art.

Here's the first one, peppermint taffy.

Polishes used:

OPI - Alpine Snow

Essie - Peach Daiquiri

I'm eating the caramel as I'm writing this, it's heavenly!

Leaves In The Snow

I had a feeling about this, everything is covered in snow, it's beautiful to see the snow cover the bright autumn colors and I wanted to try to interpret that on my nails.

Polishes used:

OPI - Alpine Snow

E.L.F. - Pot Of Gold

Barry M - Huckleburry

BK Polishes No. 07

The New Black - Black Striper

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Juicy Tomatoes

After the September-challenge craziness I'm trying to set myself blogging goals and actually following them through, this is not the first time I finish a challenge and then fall into a blogging rut, don't know what to blog about and what to paint on my nails, also up until now I've only posted sporadically, whenever the mood strikes or I do a pretty manicure, but now I want to put a little more effort into it and see how that goes.

For starters I've started several inspiration books where I can write things like prompts and themes, color schemes and trying to plan ahead for Christmas, Halloween, future challenges and such or if I don't know what to do I can look into my inspiration books and find something I like and want to try.

Well we'll see how that goes.

These are juicy tomatoes, I actually don't like tomatoes that much, the texture or something, I'm not sure, doesn't go well with me but I like these I did on my nails.

Are tomatoes fruits or vegetables?

Polishes used:

OPI - Alpine Snow

OPI - Cajun Shrimp

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31DC2014 Day 26 - Inspired By A Pattern

There are too many patterns in the world!!!
Choosing was so hard, I wanted to do something simple as I'm a little short on time these days, also patterns intimidate me, I'm much more of an abstract artist than anything else, at least when it comes to nail art. But I found this really pretty print on Pinterest which I like a lot.

The best thing about it is that it gives me room to be a little messy ;)

Polishes used:

OPI - Alpine Snow

OPI - I Just Can't Cope-acabana

OPI - Sorry I'm Fizzy Today

Black striper from The New Black

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31DC2014 Day 23 - Inspired By A Movie

I was a little uninspired when I was looking for inspiration for this one.

One of my favorite movies it The Fall, it's really beautiful, colorful scenes and a lovely story.

When I went looking though pictures of this film on Google I came across this one.

And decided that this would be my inspiration.

I'm not extremely happy with how this turned out, I used a lighter red and a darker red to give the design more depth but that got totally lost on the pics.

Polishes used:

OPI - Alpine Snow

OPI - Coca-Cola Red

OPI - Red Hot Rio

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31DC2014 Day 9 - Rainbow Nails

I saw this tutorial over at The Nailasaurus she calls it nimbus nail art and I wanted to see if I could recreate that somehow in rainbow colors, it didn't go exactly as planned because I hadn't even practiced it before I started on my nails but I think it went well.

Polishes used:

OPI - Alpine Snow

OPI - Coca-Cola Red

OPI - Toucan Do It If You Try

OPI - I Just Can't Cope-acabana

OPI - You Are So Outta Lime!

OPI - No Room For The Blues

OPI - Do You Have This Color In Stock-holm?

You know you're addicted to a nail polish brand when you can make a rainbow out of just that one brand ;)

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31DC2013 Day 29 - Inspired by the Supernatural

Did something super simple for this one.

Ghosts, one of them is crying ;(

Polishes used:

OPI - Alpine Snow

Alessandro - Midnight Black

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31DC2013 Day 7- B&W Nails

The manicure I did today is considered a BIG fail in my books...

I didn't have time to do another one so I just decided to show you the failed experiment.

Polishes used:

OPI - Alpine Show

Alessandro - Midnight Black

E.L.F. - Metal Madness

L'Oreal - Diamond Carat

I'm not happy with OPI's Rapi Dry Topcoat, it smears every design I have done since I got it, even if I wait an hour for the polish to dry before I put the topcoat.

Phew, not a good day today, nail wise.

OMD 31 Day Challenge Day 22 - Animal Themed

Tiger Stripes, hear me roar!!

This is my first time trying this, I had a little problem with smearing when I put the topcoat on.

Polishes Used:

OPI - Alpine Snow

Alessandro - Cashmere Touch

Alessandro - Long Island Ice Tea

Alessandro - Midnight Black

OMD 31 Day Challenge, Day 4 - Black And White

The forth day in the Oh Mon Dieu! It's the Rather Awesome 31 day Challenge

And today's theme is Black and White.

Polishes Used:

OPI - Alpine Snow

L'oreal - Confetti Top Coat

Unnamed Black in a skull bottle.

I learned a valuable lesson while doing this manicure, Always put top coat first on white nails then on black nails or else you can get black streaks on the white color.

I have never posted before 4 days in a row so it's kinda hard to try to write about something other than nail related topics, my life just isn't that exciting to write about...

So what should I write about?

>.<

Step Into Summer Challenge - Inspired by a Bathing Suit

Inspired by my bikini, it's bright pink with white polka dots!

Polishes used: OPI - Alpine Snow and a pink polish in a skull shaped bottle, doesn't have any name.

I've been meaning for a long time to do nail art inspired by my bathing suit so when I saw it in the challenge I gladly went for it :)

I'm going to participate in another challenge in July which is a 31 day challenge, but of course I'm still going to finish this one. I'm not that good at posting day after day, I need my own schedule but I want to try this and see how long I will last ;)

Four down, four to go :)