40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Nude + Color

Hey there!  I'm writing this from the past since I want to make sure I don't break my perfect track record for the 40 Great Nail Art Ideas posts so I'm actually scheduling a post (I'm not usually organized enough to do that).  This week we're doing Nude + Color so I broke out the pipe dream polish Mellowed Out Cremes since the collection includes a nude and a bunch of color.  I had the personal prompt of swirls so I did a swirly water marble and then stamped even more swirls on top of it.  I hope you like it!

The Digit-al Dozen does Fashion - Tribal Leggings

Hey there!  I've been saying all week that my last couple Digit-al Dozen Fashion week posts weren't my favourite ever and we've hit that point.  If I remember correctly, both me and my sister thought these tights would make for some good nail art so I did some stamping loosely based on it.  I know there's some ladies out there who would rock this pattern freehand but I am so not that girl!  The biggest issue is that I obviously thought the tights were more neon than they were so my colors don't match at all.  Oh well, that why we call these things "inspired by" instead of "perfect recreations" right?

Manis for Rose from Manicured & Marvelous

Hey there!  Today's post is meant to send my fellow Digit-al Dozen-er, Rose of Manicured & Marvelous, all sorts of good feels and healing vibes as she's dealing with some pretty crappy health stuff.  Jessica of Be Happy Buy Polish put together a group of us to recreate some of Rose's designs to cheer her up.  I'm such a big fan of Rose's nail art that it was really fun to go back through her Instagram feed and see all her looks.  Seriously, her nails and her art practically make me drool!  I picked a sexy dotticure from over two years ago to recreate.

HPB Presents Neutrals & Neons

Hey there!  A second Sunday post?  Yes!  I've been feeling like a slacking blogger lately so I decided to write up another post today while I'm just hanging out watching Netflix.  This month, the lovely group of ladies known as the Hobby Polish Bloggers is having a link up with a Neutrals & Neons theme.  I love neons and I'm lucky enough to have snagged the pipe dream polish ANIVC collection before it was discontinued and the newest collection, Mellowed Out Cremes, which happens to have a neutral creme in it called unwind so I mixed up the two collections here.  I can't decide which of my designs worked out better that both combined these colors, the Uber Mat and some striping tape so I'm posting two.  You can decide which you like better :-)

The Digit-al Dozen does Whimsy/40 Great Nail Art Ideas does Neon

Hey there!  Today's post is a triple (almost quadruple) theme combo - these are always nice and challenging.  If you've been following along this week, you'll know that The Digit-al Dozen's theme all week has been Whimsy.  There's been a long running suggestion (longer than I've been around) in the group of doing a unicorn silhouette week that sounds like it came from a reader suggestion.  A lot of us have jumped on that idea because there's been quite a few unicorns flying about this week.  So that's the first 1.5 themes.  For the other two, we have the neon theme from 40 Great Nail Art Ideas where I had the personal prompt of splatter.  So I've combined the whole bunch and did this neon unicorn stamping with splatter accents.  AND it works extra well because I used pipe dream polish ANIVC and there's always been a lot of unicorn chatter in the pipe dream polish Facebook group.  Maybe one of you can help me with how that started...

UberChic Beauty Mini Itty Bitty Icons Stamping Plate and XL Clear Stamper Review

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Hey there!  Be prepared because today I have the cutest post I've ever done.  How, you ask?  Because my adorable 5 year old niece is being featured (with her and her mother's permission, of course).  When Brittany from UberChic Beauty told me she had designed a mini plate with small images and that I'd get to try one, I knew I had the perfect model.  Though this plate is designed with kids in mind, this plate isn't just for kids.  I easily came up with two ideas for my adult nails that I'm showing today, in addition to how my niece's nails turned out.  I also have the XL Clear Stamper to review today.  All the stamping I did for these was done with this stamper and it's specifics can be found at the end of this post.

My Vacation Nails with pipe dream polish SCC and UberChic Beauty

Hey there!  I've mentioned a few times that I was on vacation to New Orleans a couple weeks ago so I thought it was about time that I finally showed what I wore on my nails for my trip..at least the first part of it.  I figured, since I knew I'd be wearing it for days, that it would be worth the effort of doing a water marble.  And since I also knew I'd be meeting Brittany of UberChic Beauty, of course I had to stamp with an UberChic image!

The Digit-al Dozen does Nail Heroes - Clairestelle8, pipe dream polish and China Glaze

Hey there!  For Day 2 of The Digit-al Dozens week celebrating our nail heroes, I wanted to re-do a mani from one of my favourite instagrammers, @clairestelle8.  There's a couple of reasons why I love Claire's account so much.  Not only is she an amazing nail artist but she tends to use a lot of bright colors, all at once (which I LOVE) AND she's absolutely hilarious.  If you've never come across her account before, seriously, go read her captions.  They never fail to make me laugh out loud!  Since Claire's accounts are filled with neon, I used it as an opportunity to also celebrate a couple of my favourite neon polish makers - pipe dream polish and China Glaze.

The Digit-al Dozen does Traditions - Day 4 Christmas Tree

Hey there!  It's Day 4 of The Digit-al Dozen's Traditions week and my mani today is a pretty standard tradition I think - a Christmas tree and gifts!  I'm a giant big kid and I still love Christmas morning, though now it's more to give gifts than to receive them.  Maybe it's our consumerist culture but I still get excited seeing the tree at my parents house with the Christmas gifts around it.  So excited that I did a version of it on my nails, albeit a much more neon version than we've ever had in real life.

40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Halloween

Hey there!  So I did some stamping a few weeks ago for today's 40 Great Nail Art Ideas Halloween prompt of Halloween that I absolutely loved.  Then yesterday I second guessed myself and thought that it really isn't all that Halloween-like so I decided to do a new mani.  However I had plans last night to go for a drink with a friend who is in town this week so this turned into the quickest water marble I've ever done (since I had to do it in between eating dinner and going for beer).  Luckily I have the holy grail of marbling polishes from pipe dream polish so I managed to do these relatively fast.

40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Orange, Purple and Green

Hey there!  It's time for a new color prompt for Crumpet's Nail Tarts 40 Great Nail Art Ideas!  With Halloween coming up, this week's colors are orange, purple and green.  My designated look for this week is ikat.  I've done ikat nails once before but I still had to google what ikat means.  I tried to make these ones a bit more adventurous than my first try but I think I might have gone overboard.  What do you think?

UberChic Beauty Halloween-01 Stamping Plate Review

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Hey there!  Since it's October I'm officially allowing myself to start posting Halloween nails and what better way to start than with a new-ish UberChic Beauty stamping plate made especially for Halloween.  At this time of year people start looking for plates that work for what is a lot of folks' favourite holiday and I personally feel this plate is up to the challenge.  It's got a whole gamut of Halloween images from bats to webs and everything in between.  Keep reading for all the details...

Sunday Stamping - Over A Gold Base

Hey there!  For this week's Sunday Stamping theme, we're doing gold base or gold stamping images in honor of Childhood Cancer Awareness.  I recently did a cancer awareness mani so, instead of doing awareness ribbons again, I thought I'd do something that might appeal to the kids.  So this is me sending the children and their families some love.

The Digit-al Dozen does Re-Creations: Day 1 Lisa Frank Leopard Stamping

Hey there!  This week is going to be so much fun!  This week commemorates the third anniversary of The Digit-al Dozen and to celebrate we're doing re-creations of old DD manis.  I've been a Digit-al Dozen fan since I first started following nail blogs so it was SO hard to pick just 5 manis to recreate.  I narrowed it down by picking manis from the current members since they're the amazing ladies that have been so incredibly welcoming to me in the group.  Sadly, since there's only 5 days in the week, I can't do everyone so I'm can't copycat all of my talented friends.  I think we should do this theme every month, haha!

For my first re-creation I decided to recreate this Lisa Frank mani from Kirsten (aka Geeky Owl) during Childhood week.  It also ended up being a re-creation of Jacki's (from Adventures In Acetone) Decade's mani since I used the similar stamping images as both of them so today is a two-for-one!

Stamping Over Watercolour Nails

Hey there!  This week's 52 Week Pick n Mix Challenge prompts are "watercolour" and "most precious polish".  I did a watercolor mani with my pipedream polish A Night In Vegas Cremes collection.  I know I use these polishes an absolute ton but I would say this collection is probably my most precious because they're pretty hard to get your hands on.  I was lucky and was able to grab them during a restock while they were still announcing them.  Of course then I covered most of it with stamping...because I love me some stamping!

Red, Purple and Aqua Negative Space Water Marble Nails

Hey there!  This week's Crumpet's Nail Tart's 52 Week Pick n Mix Challenge themes were water marble/water spotted and Red/Purple/Aqua.  Since getting the pipedream polish ANIVC's I have learned to love water marbling so that's the option I went with.  Since PDP doesn't have a red, I chose to use Clearwater to make a negative space marble over Lacquistry's Rediculous (because I like my red's sparkly).

UberChic Beauty Stamping Plate 4-02 Review

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Hey there!  For today's post I have another couple of mani's I've done lately with UberChic Beauty's stamping plate 4-02 - two looks that couldn't be more different.  I did some stamping over a bright pipe dream polish water marble because it's still summer and some much more fall-appropriate stamping (because maybe a tiny part of me is looking forward to darker colors).  It's only August but I still feeling like we're already getting ready for a season transition here (the weather is chilly today) which is symbolized here.  Keep reading to find out all the details.

Tie Dye Nails With Stamping

Hey there!  This week's Crumpet's Nail Tarts prompts were "Tie-Dye" and "Fugly".  I wanted to do a neon tie dye look without any fugly colors so I made mine into a cute tie dye mani.  The tie dye part was challenging and didn't come out like traditional tie dye, as you'll see before, so I jazzed it up with a few symbols of the 60's with the stamping.  Then I thought it was pretty adorable.

Orange Swirl Watermarble

Hey there!  I'm actually on holidays this week but I thought I'd schedule at least a few posts so you guys didn't think I disappeared off the face of the earth.  Today's post is for The 52 Week Pick n Mix Challenge.  The themes for this week are Swirls and 3 Shades of Orange/Red.  I knew I wanted to do a swirly water marble but didn't count on how hard it was going to be!  This was the second one I did after the first one was a complete failure.

UberChic Stamping with a Giveaway!

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Hey there!  Today I have an exciting international giveaway to announce from UberChic Beauty co-sponsored by Colores de Carol, some amazing nail artist and yours truly.  I was delighted to be included in this that I just had to do yet another mani with UC 3-01 (previously reviewed here).  Keep reading to see the details on my mani and to enter the giveaway.