Last Challenge Day!

So, this is where we get to choose one day that we want to recreate. I thought this would be really hard to decide, but I liked the one I did for yesterday's post so much I decided to do that one again. In different colors. Heck yeah! And get this - I went with pink. Because I wanted to use my new pink glitter polish from The Hungry Asian called I Hate Pink. I got the glitters she was selling, and I love them so much! And then, just look how it happened to work out - just look at what today is!

Let's go see how my pink looks!

Oooh, Like, A Whole Month!

So we've come to day 30 of the challenge, a mani inspired by a tutorial. Well, one of the ones I've liked best is this one over at the Indian Makeup & Beauty Blog. This Geometric Nail Art Tutorial is reasonably simple (anybody can do it!), and gorgeous. So why don't we take a peek at how I did?

Supernatural!

No, it's not ghosts, but it is a mani inspired by the supernatural. I wanted to try to find something a little less common, so rather than go with ghosts or haunting kinds of things, I went with something that was way supernatural in the past, but is kinda known nowadays. I chose St. Elmo's Fire, and tried to make it look like it was against the night sky.

St. Elmo’s fire sometimes looks similar to lightning but it is a separate meteorological phenomenon. Although called “fire,” St. Elmo’s fire is a luminous plasma that can glow a bright blue or violet. It can also appear like an eerie fire burning at the top of tall, pointed structures like ship masts or aircraft wings. It has also been reported on leaves, grass, and tips of cattle horns during a stampede.

Unlike the thunderous boom which follows lightning, St. Elmo’s fire can be heard “singing” on an aircraft’s radio, a frying hiss or buzzing sound running up and down the musical scale. It is often as a precursor to a lightning strike.

Sailors would regard St. Elmo’s fire with religious awe, an omen of heavenly intervention. It was named after St. Erasmus of Formiae, the patron saint of sailors. It has been recorded over the centuries, starting with the ancient Greeks, Julius Caesar, Columbus and Magellan. After Benjamin Franklin’s lightning rod, the phenomenon was seen more on land, sparking fear as the ghostly blue flames inspired stories of spirits and hauntings.

If you'd like to read more about it, and see some pictures, then just click on this sentence. Then, I'd love it if you'd check out my interpretation of St. Elmo's Fire on my nails.

Wave Your Flag!

Whoooo! We're up to day 28, and today's mani is one inspired by a flag. I've done American flags a few time, so I didn't want to go with that. I've seen plenty of British flags, and some others, and I kinda didn't want to do those. Finally I settled one one that I thought would be fun, and pretty, and that means something to me. I decided to go with the Czech Republic's flag. It's a clean and simple design. We're using some Czech commands for our dog. I have Czech ancestors in my bloodline. Seems like three is enough, right? You can click on this sentence to see info about the Czech Republic, with a picture of the flag.  So now let's see how I did this on my nails.

Almost Skipped Today's Post!

Since I'm all thinking about Jack and what's going on there, and what I can possibly do to help, I thought about passing over the challenge post, but I figured I'd go ahead and post it. I'll be reminding people until I'm blue in the face about it, and you probably don't know Jack, so you might want to see other stuff here too. But you'll have to click to see the pictures.

It's Becoming A Pattern!

Well, more like I was inspired by a pattern, but who's keeping track of that kinda crap? Not me, that's for sure. So anyway, I was thinking that it would be nice to do something that I love, and I love stained glass. So I chose to be inspired by this pattern:

Seriously, how can you not think that's pretty awesome? So, let's take a peek and my take on this one!

Fashionably Late

Okay, no, I'm not late, but I felt like saying that. Anyway, tonight's challenge mani is supposed to be inspred by fashion! So here is the picture I found and was inspired by.

I attempted to do something similar to the white dress on the left there.

I Love To Read

So, since I love to read, you'd think that it would be so easy for me to come up with a book to inspire some nail art, right? But no, I just kept thinking of books and deciding that I just couldn't manage that one, or I didn't want to try this one, and so on. Finally one came to mind, but I was thinking that it would be ridiculous to use that one. However, after a few hours of not figuring out any other books, that one was still in my mind, so I went with it. What did I choose? Click the link and find out!

Going To The Movies

Today's challenge mani is one inspired by a movie. I've seen all sorts, from Harry Potter to Transformers manis, and those are all awesome, but I wanted to be different, of course. So I chose a movie that I've never seen in nail art. I guess I didn't do TOO badly on it. So, what did I choose? Click the link and find out.

Music!

So tonight I'm posting the mani inspired by a song. Hopefully we are safely home by now, although the weather reports were a bit scary, so we shall see. Anyway, I scheduled this just in case, so that I wouldn't miss out on a challenge post. I've only barely missed the deadline once, otherwise I've been getting these done every night. Pretty cool! So, let's see what song I chose to be inspired by, and how I worked that into nail art.

Oh Look, Color Inspiration!

Today we start looking at the manis inspired by things, and the first is one inspired by a color! Well, I thought for a while, and since I'm really wanting this to happen, I got inspired by the color of snow!

So let's see how I did!

It's Day Twenty!

And the challenge for today was doing a water marble! Since I had my new Cult Nails colors handy, I used the "bad" Devious Nature (Deviant Nature muahaha), and Tied up. I mean, what better pair can YOU think of? Tee hee. Let's hurry up and take a peek.

Galaxy!

Welcome to day 19 of the challenge, galaxies! I kinda made this an extra layered mani, just going all out on adding all sorts of things that might make it look like a galaxy or five. Muahahaha! Let's jump right in and see what I did.

When The Moon Hits Your Eye...

Nah, I'm not gonna sing it, but today's challenge post is the half-moon mani, and I liked it. I'm pretty busy for the next few days, so this will be short and sweet. Let's get right to the pictures.

An AWESOME Day!

Why is it so awesome? Because today's challenge was GLITTER, and y'all know by now I love me some BLINGAGE! Also, it's kinda sorta pink, so you know what that means!

So why don't we jump on in and see how it looks?

Sixteen Tons

Now, who among you starting thinking, "You load sixteen tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt."? If you did, then, you're welcome. Hee. So anyway, here we are at day 16 of the challenge, and it's the tribal print. I saw a picture on Tumblr that I thought was a good tribal print, and so I kind of tried to copy it. Not so sure I did a great job, but it was fun to try. Let's see how it turned out.

A Delicate Matter

Naw, not anything serious or whatnot, just that today's challenge is a 'delicate print', and I think I did okay on it. I'm still pretty wiped out from the excitement of the holiday, and stuffed full of leftovers. We went ahead and ordered the Bob Evans Holiday Feast To Go so that we wouldn't have to stand around cooking all day for just the two of us. It's a touch spendy (something like $75), but when you figure that it provides us with something like 4-5 full meals, it's not bad. We would spend more buying everything to make our meal anyway. It comes with a ham or turkey entree, corn, potatoes and gravy, rolls, cranberries, green beans, stuffing, pumpkin bread, a pie, and maybe another dish or so. We added carrots to ours, because their carrots are soooo good. You place your order ahead of time, and the day before the holiday (or a few days before if you plan it that way) you just bop on in and pick it up. Then all you have to do for the holiday is heat things up and eat! I add my own sweet potato casserole dishes, and any snacks we want to have on hand and we're all set. Once we've stuffed ourselves for a couple of days, I take some inexpensive plastic divided containers, and freeze the leftovers in meal-sized portions for reheating later. Then when I'm not feeling like cooking, we have some "tv dinners" that aren't so yucky.

So, back to the nail polish challenge. I liked this one enough to leave it on for two days, which I don't do very often. Let's see what it looks like!

HAPPY HAPPY HOLIDAY!

Real quick-like I'm dropping in to post my challenge mani, and to tell you all that I hope you are having an extremely happy holiday, whatever you celebrate. And if you're not celebrating anything, then I hope you're having a wonderful day.

Lions And Tigers And Bears... Oh, Just Tigers.

So, I chose to go with tiger stripes for my animal print challenge day. It's day 13, and it's also National Chocolate Day and National Egg Nog Day. I can get behind those! Heck, I can combine them and have chocolate egg nog! And if I drink enough of it, I'll have some realllllllly interesting posts. Muahaha. Nah, I really don't drink that much, and I doubt I'll have more than a cup anyway. So let's take a peek at the nails, and then we can all get back to holiday celebrations!

I'm Earning My Stripes

Okay, so don't ask me what I'm doing to earn them, I just remembered that phrase and used it. Hee. So, anyway, today's challenge post involved stripes, and I had a blast with it. Let's take a peek.