Chinese New Year Nail Art aka Sunday Stamping on a Thursday?!

Hey there!  Chinese New Year is the theme of this week's Sunday stamping challenge so technically I should post these on Sunday but that's way less fun than posting them on the special day.  I was bound and determined to do some sort of Chinese/Lunar New Year nail art.  Tomorrow brings us the year of the horse and I was born in the year of the horse.  Sounds perfect, right?!  Nope, according to my Chinese co-worker, it's actually bad luck.  So I'll wear some red, have my red nails and I even bought new towels and put on clean sheets (other superstitions taught to me by another Chinese friend).  Honestly, the last couple years have been pretty tough ones for me so I'm throwing away all my scientific sensibilities and following superstition, just in case...

Holographic Snakeskin Nail Stamping

Hey there!  Last weekend I was severely lacking in nail art ideas so I asked on my Facebook page if there was anything anybody wanted to see.  I received a couple of very welcome ideas, one of which was snakeskin.  I'd been wanting to use the MoYou London snakeskin image so I jumped on that idea right away!

Sunday Stamping - Mani using 3 purples

Hey there!  I hope everyone is having a fantastic weekend so far.  I'm finally not writing up a Sunday Stamping post at quarter to midnight.  Hooray!  Instead I'm writing it very late on Saturday night which technically makes it Sunday.  This week's Adventures In Stamping theme was a "mani using 3 purples" and here's what I came up with.  Here is a Picture Polish gradient with Vivid Lacquer stamping.

The Neighbourhood/The NBHD Nail Art

Hey guys!  I meant to post this yesterday but then I got distracted (by cleaning, of all things...) and didn't get around to it.  At least now I have a clean place to live in for the weekend!  Anyways, I wanted to share some nail art I did last weekend inspired by the album cover of The Neighbourhood's I Love You.  This album was released in April but I only discovered it last month after I found I had Shazamed the same song twice which seemed like a good enough reason to buy the album.

Birds on a Wire Stamping - Inspired by Messy Mansion

Hey there!  Today I want to share some almost "copycat" nails I did after seeing this picture on Messy Mansion's Instagram.  She did a cool blue-white gradient but, since I wasn't in the mood to clean up the mess I make when I gradient my nails, I sponged on some easy clouds instead.  

Sunday Stamping - Inspired by fabric

Hey there!  First of all I want to thank anyone who has been involved with the Facebook Share the Love movement.  It was started by Maria at NailNation3000 in celebration for her hitting 100K Likes.  She's having a huge giveaway and started sharing bloggers/indie brand's Facebook pages.  Others followed suit and many nail polish pages are getting lots of love.  Personally mine has grown by over 7000 likes which is so freaking crazy to me!  Honestly I started this blog 4 months ago because I truly love nail polish/nail art, not for popularity but, I'm not going to lie, it feels really nice to see people interested in what I have to show and it couldn't have come at a better time.  My personal life kind of went in the toilet this weekend so all the new love did a lot of lighten my mood.

Now onto Adventures in Stamping's Sunday challenge.  For those of you who don't know, there's a Facebook group dedicated to stamping that announces a new theme each Wednesday with the manicures to be posted on Sunday.  This week's theme was "inspired by fabric".  So I looked around my place and realized that I'm so not fashionable and the only patterns I have are all stripes.  But that's a little boring so I dug this dress out of my closet and found a stamp that best matched it.

Broken Mirror Nail Stamping & OPI Push and Shove Swatch

Hey guys!  I have a love of metallic nail polishes, particularly silver ones (maybe) I secretly want to be a robot) so when I saw posts showing OPI's chrome polish, Push & Shove, from the Gwen Stefani collection I knew I had to have it.  I was so excited when I received my Nail Polish Canada order a couple of days ago!  And I just happened to receive my order of the new Winstonia stamping plates the same day and, of course, I couldn't leave those untried.  So here is Push & Shove with an image from Winstonia W206 that came out looking like a broken mirror to me.