Wavy Gradient

School started today, brand new semester, brand new challenges, looking forward to it.
I also made travel plans, me and my friend are going to meet up in London, she lives in Sweden and I'm here in Iceland, and after a weekend in London I'm going back with her to Sweden and spend Easter with her and her boyfriend. Can't! Wait!

Polishes used:

OPI - La Paz-itively Hot

Kleancolor - Cherry Sky

Cult Nails - Faded

This one is a little bit out of focus but I love how it turned out on the thumb so I had to include it.

Happy New Year!!

Happy new year everyone, hope the new year is treating you well.

I was planning on taking part in a challenge this month but I'm not sure I'll follow through on that, the plan was to use Christmas vacation to brainstorm and maybe do a few designs in advance for the challenge but that didn't happen.

But here is my new years mani.

The photos are a little iffy, had to use flash to get the sparkles to show.

Polishes used:

Color Club - Harp On It

OPI - My Voice Is A Little Norse

OPI - All the sheer tints

Cobwebs and Spiders

This became a one big mess!! I'm investing in a better striping brush today because the ones I own are crap.

I started with the cobwebs and thought that it was going great, then I decide to do a spider, BIG fail.

I still decided to post it, you know, the good, the bad and the ugly ;)

When I get the new striping brushes I'm ordering from Born Pretty Store there will be a point two 

take on this one.

Polishes used:

Alessandro - Ice Cream Bar Lime/Vanilla

OPI - Orange You Stylish!

The New Black - Black Striper

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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Fall Is Almost Over

It started snowing today and I got a little melancholy over it, I'm not a snow person, maybe it has something to do with the fact that I have fibromyalgia and snow means cold, cold means pain.

In my desperation over the snow I got out my fall color polishes and decided I needed to use them before winter starts for real.

This is what I came up with.

Polishes used:

Essie - In Stitches

E.L.F. - Pot Of Gold

E.L.F. - Mod Mauve

American Apparel - Peacock

American Apparel - Crescent Heights

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 31 - Honor Nails You Love

THE LAST DAY AF THE CHALLENGE!!!

Thought this sentence deserved cap locks.

It's been a fun but difficult month filled with empty bottles of polish remover, dirty paintbrushes, lots of scotch tape and headaches over nail polish fumes, but it's over and at the same time I'm so glad it's over I'm also sad because I had so much fun and now I have to go find my own prompts, lol.
I'm giving myself a promise that I'll keep a better schedule (blog vise) now than before the challenge, I just have to stop procrastinating so much and just do things.

For this last one I decided to recreate Glitter Fingersss's Half Moons. I only recently started following her blog but every nail design she does blows me away.

Polishes used:

Cult Nails - Thrive

Kleancolor Nail to Toe striper - Beaming Pink

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31DC2014 Day 29 - Inspired By The Supernatural

What's more supernatural than The Silence from Doctor Who?
For some reason I can't remember doing this manicure ;)

Polishes used:

OPI - You're So Vain-illa

Black striper from The New Black

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31DC2014 Day 27 - Inspired By Artwork

Dots are my favorite kind of nail art, it's easy to do, doesn't take a lot of time and it always comes out looking good.

Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese pop artist who is most famous for her obsession with dots, coincidentally she is one of my favorite artist. Some say her art is shallow and repetitive but I disagree, I think she is showing us her soul, showing the world her twisted imagination, how hard it must be to have spots on your mind all the time. I think she is in an institution for people with mental illness now because she would work on her art until she collapsed - that's a strong obsession.

Here's my inspiration, she calls this pumpkin her alter-ego.

Polishes used:

OPI - Need Sunglasses?

Alessandro - Midnight Black

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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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