Day 4 - Green Nails

So for this challenge, which should be so simple, I had a little trouble. I couldn't figure out if I wanted to use a dark green, or a light green, or a yellow green, etc. I went with my favorite green even though it's not a typical green. After looking at the pictures I realized it looks a lot more like a blue on my nails. But I swear it's green in the bottle lol. I went with Essie - Mint Candy Apple. I absolutely LOVE this color. It's a pale green. Perfect for spring time and the summer. It looks great with a tan. It's extremely opaque and for some reason I have a little difficulty working with really opaque colors from Essie. I don't know if it's just me or if anyone else feels that way. 

Day 3 - Yellow Nails

So Day 3 is yellow nails! I love yellow nails! I think they're perfect for summer. So fun and bright :) As much as I love yellow nails, I only have one yellow nail polish. I used Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Mellow Yellow.  Again I'm using a Sally Hansen polish. I think they're great for a reasonable price. When I put my Seche Vite top coat on I guess there was some orange on the brush from my previous manicure and it got on my yellow nails. You can see it on my pinky and ring finger. I actually thinks it looks kind of cool. I was too lazy to re-do those nails so I just left it.

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Day 2 - Orange Nails

So Day 2 is Orange Nails - another color I have never worn. I like neon orange but only in the summer & even that I've probably only wore once. Orange just isn't my thing. But this challenge made me use a nail polish I bought a while ago that I never wore. I put this color on just one finger & took it right off. I didn't give it a chance. It's Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Sun Kissed. I'm a big fan of Sally Hansen, they're not as expensive as Essie and OPI and the nail polishes work just as well. You need two coats of this color to make it opaque, the first coat was pretty sheer. I hate sheer nail polishes, bleh! 

I thought the color was going to be a lot brighter. This is definitely a color for summer and would look so much better if you had a tan. But now I'm going to use this color in the summer. I'm glad I used this for the challenge. It was the only orange I had to so I had to. How do you guys feel about orange nails?

Day 1 - Red Nails

If you know me, you know I absolutely HATE red nails. I know, I know - shocking right? Who hates red nails? I don't know what it is about them but I hate the way they look on my nails. BUT! Thanks to this challenge I used a nail polish I've had for the longest time that I never used. I actually had to open the bottle using my teeth because it's been that long. I didn't even care if I ruined my teeth that's how much I only care about my nails. Just kidding. I probably would've cried, but at least my nails would've looked nice :) So for this manicure I used a red from the OPI Alice in Wonderland Collection. When this came out I was obsessed with the colors. Don't ask my why because there's two reds in it and I don't wear red. I loved the glitters though. And I love Alice in Wonderland. So my sweet boyfriend who feeds into my obsession bought me the mini collection. And this is the first time I'm using it. I had to have had this for maybe 2 years. I don't even remember when it came out.

I could NOT get a perfect picture of this color. These pictures do the color no justice. How cute is the wittle bottle? I love. I thought maybe I would be able to get a good picture of the color from the bottle, but NOPE. It's a shimmery, dark red. It looks like silk or foil. I think it's perfect for Christmas time too. Now I wish I would've tried this color when the collection came out so I could've bought the bigger bottle. I guess I'll have to check Amazon or Ebay. Oh, I almost forgot. The color of this nail polish is called 'Thanks so Muchness'

31 Day Nail Challenge

So I decided today I'm going to do the 31 day nail challenge! It looks like too much fun to pass up & it's giving me incentive to use some nail polishes that I never used before. Here is what the 31 day challenge is: 

Colorful French

This is another one of my favorite designs. I love a regular french tip - it's classy and elegant.. but why not put some color into it? For this design I used the same colors I used for the shatter design. See how many different things you can do with just a couple of colors? You don't need a million nail polishes.

For the base coat I used Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in #150 Petal Pusher. The pink is from Forever 21 Love & Beauty - Pink, the purple is from Color Club but the sticker isn't on the bottom anymore so I have no idea what the name of the color is, the yellow is from Sally Hansen - Mellow  Yellow, and the blue is from Brucci - Gianna's "Rockin" Blue. (Please excuse my cuticles, they're a mess right now.) I tried using tape for this design because I've been reading a lot of other blogs that say they use tape and they came out perfect, but obviously they didn't for mine. I didn't try to perfect this either, I just wanted to show you how cool this french design is.