Day 3 Favorite Season

Late spring/ early summer story.

Pinky: first flush of spring (sap is rising :grin:)
Ring: first sprouts
Middle: sky full of stars

Index: first blooms
Thumb: height of summer

I love when my nails tell a story...when I have time, I do this. 

I used Kleancolor - Daisy, Kiss nail art decals 2012 edition & metal enamel hearts.  I thought the yellow of "Daisy" really represented a nice sunny day.

Monday Sept 17, 2012

Day 2 Favorite Animal: Horse

Day 2 challenge nail

Favorite animal: Horse - my favorite animal that isn't cliche but is also not easy to represent in nail art. (was going to choose dogs but the only way I know how to draw a dog didn't translate well to nail art)...and besides that...I'd have wanted to do poodles and, well, my talents don't go that far yet.

Recipe:

SC:
-Innocent & Exotic Green for the "grass"
-Slate for the grey horse on the middle finger
-Nirvana for the brown horse on the ring finger
-Snow Me White for face white
-Black on Black for eyes

LA COLORS:
-Dark Brown for the bay horse on the ring finger

JULEP:
-Isla for the grey horse on the thumb

COVER GIRL:
-Copper-cino for the chestnut horse on the index finger 

Sunday Sept 16th, 2012

Day 1 Favorite Color

OK, I know my favorite color is Silver...but this is the nail color combo that I use THE MOST, so it is my entry for the Day 1 of the 10 Day Nail Art challenge...it is classy and sophisticated enough for pretty much ANY occasion...yet fun enough to make people double-take.  I keep coming back to this color combo time after time, so I figured that this color represents me most.

I call this combo "Goldstone".
Formula:
1. Essie - Angora Cardi x 2
2. OPI - Text Me - Text You x 3-4
3. Seche Vite - Top Coat x 1

Super tame but I've gotten tons of complements on it.  I have used the Text Me on other nail colors and it just doesn't seem to complement other colors...I think the color needs to have a gold-tone to it to begin with but yet dark enough to allow the micro glitter to show.

Do not be surprised if I branch out more as this challenge goes on...I am still stuck in "conservative" nail polish land...but that is slowly changing as I find more and more neat polishes...and the world of Indi polish is drawing me further out of my polish shell...

Here is the link to my entry on her FB wall.  :D
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=357553407666591&set=pb.333558020066130.-2207520000.1347763143&type=1&theater

Saturday Sept 15, 2012

Day before thoughts...

Today is the last day before the challenge and I am all excited and nervous at the same time.  I have been playing with different ideas and I am doing another run on my "favorite animal" nail art...hopefully with real nail brushes this will come out a whole lot better this time.  Need to practice the others over the next few days.  Whoo hoo!  I also had another HUGE haul today...I will have to make up a list of what I have...

Gearing UP...

My first blog!  Bear with me while I learn how to use this thing!

This is the blog to Erica's Nails and More:
http://ericasnailsandmore.blogspot.com/2012/08/ericas-nails-and-more-nail-art.html

The event page on FB is here:
https://www.facebook.com/ical/event.php?eid=376293189110899

Her Facebook page is here:
https://www.facebook.com/EricasNailsAndMore

This lady, Erica MCCabe, is having a nail art challenge starting September 15th.  If she has 20 entrants, she will have a prize at the end of the challenge.  Please be sure and go to her page (or whereever she designates) to vote for my designs!  If I get a link between now and then (or I have links when she posts my designs), I will post them on each days blog.

I decided to post her email here so that I can have direct access to emailing her my photos.
ericamccabe28@gmail.com

Let's hope I can come up with some great designs...this will be my first challenge and I hope I am up to it.  :D  Please keep watching as I add my entries to let me know what you think.