Day 14 - Flowers!

As I have gotten further along in this 31 Day Nail Challenge, the more intricate the challenges get. Because of this I have decided to do my nails every other day, or every few days. Just so I can enjoy my hard works a few days before removing and starting the next challenge.

At this point in the challenge it's safe to say that each challenge from here on out will be a new experience for me. Well besides water marbling, but that was such a fail that I still can't say I have much experience in that one either. Haha. So I took to the web, to research flowers, and how to tutorials. It was NailNerd.com : How to Paint Rose on Your Nails that caught my eye and gave me the know how to do what I had imagined on my nails.

I used Wet n Wild Megalast I need a Re-Fresh Mint as the base coat. Took about 3 coats. I dabbed the flowers on my nails with Pure Ice Gossip! and drew in the details with Sally Hansen, Hard as Nails, Hard-core Party. For the leafs I used Pure Ice Wild Thing, and a un-marked bottle in a grass green color. 

Day 13 - Animal Print!

Hello all. My finger is feeling better, so I was able to remove the stripe nails (Finally!) and move on to animal print. I'm not a huge animal print fan. I like it, but rarely do I wear it. My favorite is leopard, well I also really love peacock feathers if that is considered animal print. Anyway, I am a little more wild when it comes to my nails, in comparison to my wardrobe, so leopard print is actually one of my favorite things to do on my nails (at least at the moment.).

Here's the polishes I used in order.

From left to right: Pure Ice Art in Motion (White), Wet n Wild Megalast Break the Ice, Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear Golden-I, Kiss Nail Art Paint in Black and Silver, and Seche Vite Top Coat.

I used the white as a base coat. Then painted the Wet n Wild Megalast Break the Ice on top, let that dry completely. I painted the  Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear Golden-I  on a cosmetic sponge wedge and "sponged" the tips and mid section of my nail creating a pearl and gold gradient. I used the Kiss Black polish to draw on the spots with a small sized nail dotter, and used the Kiss Silver to fill in the spots. Lastly the Seche Vite Top Coat to finish 'em off. 

Day 12 - Stripes!

Hello All! Like most of these challenges I did not have any experience with painting stripes on my nails. So I decided to wing it.

As the base coat I used Wet n Wild Megalast Wet Cement. Which, by the way, I LOVE. The second color I used was Salon Perfect Sour Apple on every nail but the accent finger, in which I used Wet n Wild Megalast Through the Grapevine. 

Finally I used Kiss Nail Artist Paint & Stencil kit White Polish to draw the white line down the middle.

I'm happy with them, nice and simple. 

Refresh-Mint

As I'm starting to rebuild my nail polish collection, I have been choosing to purchase the more affordable brands, in order to buy more of them. Once I accrue enough polish, I will start buying the pricey better quality polishes. As I mentioned in my first post, I ordered the Konad stamping polish, to better my stamping ability. Until then I wanted to add some sort of stamp to my nails.

 I chose to use the SE22 plate, on my accent fingers with Jordana NP-139 White Pearl polish. Given the fact that it dries incredibly quickly, I think it turned out pretty well. For the base color I used Wet n Wild Megablast, I Need A Refresh-Mint. It comes with a "Mani-Curve Pro Brush" instead of the normal sized brushes nail polish come with. At first I was a little thrown off by the wide, different brush it actually worked out well. For the top coat I used, Sally Hansen's Diamond Strength No Chip Nail Color, in Diamond (Clear). I actually do not care for this polish, it doesn't leave the shine I would like it to, but this time it worked out.


I really do recommend the Wet n Wild Megablast, it's well worth it, and they have a lot of great colors!