Week 28 - Gradient

Monochrome
Heat and mosquitoes rushed me on this one, but I want to try this again soon...love this glitter.

Essence Colour and Go - Nude It

Nude Lobster?
My fingers look so red here...this color is a lot more flattering in real life, I promise.

Week 23 - Ombre

Peas?
I'm still here!!! I thought I had only missed one challenge, but I've missed two now...oops! Anyway, here are my pea-green ombre nails!

Week 22 - Splatter

Oops.
Only an Instagram photo because I took it off right away - too many layers, too little patience.  As you can see, this isn't a splatter manicure, but the straws were giving me a hard time.  I'll try again when I'm not hanging out by a fountain in humid nail polish bubbling weather.  The colors here are:
Wet N' Wild - French White Creme
Sinful Colors - Rise and Shine
Sally Girl - Epic
Essence Colour and Go - Nude It


Okay, see you soon! Crossing my fingers on that.  Not posting is wasteful.

Week 19 - Floral

Uninspiration
At least I'm caught up again! So many things I could have done with floral! I had prints from a shirt and dress that I wanted to recreate, but it just wasn't happening.  So...I pulled out the Konad, since it has been neglected.

Week 18 - Cartoon

Bunnies and Immaturity
I was going to do a whole hand of them, but they look scary! I know this isn't technically a cartoon, but I have a lot of these stuffed bunnies called Fumofumosan? Apparently they're cute little things that live in clouds...I want to find a cat one someday! Yes I know...I'm 22.  Go ahead and judge.

Week 17 - Earth Day

Earrrrrrthy.
I know I just posted last week's challenge yesterday, but it's Earth Day! Did everybody do their Zoya Earth Day exchange? I'm putting in an order tonight. :)

Week 16 - Dotticure

Sorry!

I meant to have this post up Wednesday, but I had problems with pictures and internet and sleeping...but here it is! Here is dotticure, along with his friends rainbow and stripes! "What do you mean, stripes?" You'll see.

Sinful Sunday - Innocent and Blogger Appreciation Award

Is this an innocent color?
I don't really get the name on this one.  Anyway, my internet's been on the fritz so here's yesterday's Sinful Colors swatch and a blog award!

Week 15 - Easter

Simple.
Not really feeling the functionality of this blog lately, but while I contemplate, I should dish out the posts I've been hoarding.  Here's my update on Unicorn from this past Sinful Sunday! Plus...a bunny?

Sinful Sunday - Timbleberry and Pinterest

If you hate toes, I'm sorry I didn't warn you.

I don't like feet.  Why would I show them to the internet? I Don't know.  I actually have very paintable toenails, but my toes are weird! Or at least they feel weird.  My toes are seriously curly, and make pretty shoes hurt my feet.  Anyway, I used a heavily effect-ed phone photo of this ever popular shade to try to keep everybody's eyes in their sockets.

Revlon - Whimsical and Essence - A Lovely Secret

A Lovely Whimsical Secret
Don't yell at me, I know this isn't a Franken Friday! In my last haul post, I showed you these pretty babies from Ulta.  I love both of these! Next I want to try Whimsical over a hot pink jelly - except I don't have one.

Franken Friday: 1

Disappearing Glitter
Starting a Franken Friday because I figure it can make up for slacking on Sinful Sundays and vice versa.  No, I am not Adele...I used to name songs I'd write by letters before I gave them real names, so why not do something like that with frankens? This isn't my first franken, but it's the first one I'm really posting about here.  It's also the first one I've actually felt like wearing! Yay!

Week 12 - Skittle

Feeling Fall!
No art this week, sorry! This is actually just me testing out colors at the store, but I thought they looked nice together.  It's a very angsty fall palette, but hey that's me!

Tutorial and Week 11 - St. Patrick's Day

Simple Clover Nail Art Tutorial!
Again, no nail art brushes or dotting tools needed! Using the same techniques as last time, in the Simple Heart Nail Art Tutorial, you can make a festive St. Patrick's day manicure.  Step-by-step after the jump:

Week 10 - Polka Dot

Has this challenge become a burden?
Don't get me wrong, I still love nails! I've just been spending more effort on buying, organizing, and stalking lately.  I don't find that the challenges are overlapping with ideas I have at the time.  I just did this while testing new colors, and wiped it off.  Is that wasteful? These are two of my favorite recent acquisitions, I'll show you the rest in a haul post soon!

Week 9 - Vintage

Please don't buy this polish + EL Adventures
After 5-6 days of wear.  I'm doing a really bad job in terms of effort on this 52-week challenge...Since it was 3 AM at the time, I just threw on some vintage colors and accented with stamps from M57 again.  I wanted to do something more, but I've been out of town for the past week.  The good news is that I picked up a TON of polish to show you very soon!

Tutorial: Simple Heart Nail Art

"I can't do nail art! I just can't!"
If this is how you feel, prepare to be wrong.  Adapted from Nailside's Freehand Cloud Design, here's a step-by-step on how I achieved possibly the simplest nail art heart in the world.  No mess, no nail art brushes, no dotting tools, no fuss!

Week 7 - Valentine's Day

<3<3<3<3<3
Yay, hearts! EEAASSYY!

Week 6 - Half-Moon

Being Valentiney
Instead of using reinforcers or tip guides, I decided to go with an inconsistent look.  Actually, its kind of hard to tell in this photo..but it's random, I swear! I'm really digging this dainty polish lately...yay!