Day 17: Creative Lacquer Challenge Gradient Ombre

I loved my nails so much yesterday, and today's challenge is gradient/ombre, so I did another today. :)

Today's ombre is Pink. :)

I started with a base of Sinful Colors Snow Me White
The pinks used are:
Barry M Strawberry Ice Cream
Color Club Trippie Hippie
Zoya Renee
China Glaze Traffic Jam

Then I stamped with Red Angel plate RA112
with Sally Hansen Insta Dri Silver Sweep

XOX Caitlin

Day 16: Creative Lacquer Challenge: Rainbow

Today's challenge is Rainbows.  I did one mani earlier, that was an EPIC fail, so I had to re-do it to something that was decent to post. :P  This turned out AMAZING.  I absolutely love the way this turned out! Lets just get on to the pictures!

 Isn't that a beauty!

So here is how I created this mani: I used a cosmetic sponge to paint the polish on my nails.  it is as simple as that.

 Here is a photo of the sponge next to my thumb so you can see how the gradient worked itself out.  I literally just put paint lines on the cosmetic sponge and it soaked it all up and when I dabbed it on my nails the colors magically blended together.

and a photo of all the fingers for good measure. :)

I started out with a base polish of white, I used Sinful Colors Snow me White

The colors I used for the gradient are(from base to tip):
Color Club: Pucci-licious
Color Club: Chelcea Girl
Color Club: Twiggie
Color Club: Almost Famous
OPI: Orange mini from the Spookette set
Color Club: Cadillac Red

Stamping: Wet N Wild Black Creme
Cheeky CH5

I love this manicure! What do you think?

XOX Caitlin

Day 15: Creative Lacquer Challenge Favorite Band

Today's nails are a tribute to middle school me.  My favorite band in middle school was AFI.  Over the past two years they have virtually dropped off of the face of the earth unfortunately, because they were my favorite band in middle school.   They have been around since before I was born, and their popular songs include Miss Murder and Love Like Winter from their album Decemberunderground.  Before that their most popular song was Sing the Sorrow from the Sing the Sorrow album.


In this manicure I used Sinful Colors Snow me White as the base and freehanded the bunnies and AFI logo in Wet N Wild Black Creme.

It looked much better before I put the topcoat on, because I put on the Barielle Manicure Extender Top Coat, and it did not play nice with my nail art. :( I should have stuck with my good ol' Seche Vite.  That is why my nails are streaky, because of the topcoat. :(

This is what I was replicating in case you are not familiar with AFI:

The smeary lines kinda make it look like its rusted or something, you know those stains from water?

Anywho, What is your favorite band?

XOX Caitlin

Day 14: Creative Lacquer Challenge Funky French

Ahhhh the Prismatic Collection.  These glitters are the hardest thing in the world to photograph.  I never wanted them from seeing all of the swatches, but when I saw them in person I had to get them. 

I used China Glaze Prism from the Prismatic Collection for the funky french.   I really hate glitters, because they are such a pain to remove.  this one was no exception, it was a pain in the rear to remove, but it is just so pretty it was worth it.
 The stamp used for this funky french is from the Cheeky Set CH23

Do you have any of the Prismatics?

XOX Caitlin

Day 13: Creative Lacquer Challenge Vegas

I knew I would figure out a way to use the naked girls on the red angel plates! lol.  The challenge for today is Vegas nails.  and I did these dancing girls on my nails.   they were supposed to be fairies, but Red Angel didn't print their wings, so they were naked girls on my plates, rendering them useless until today for this mani.  What do you think?

The base is Pewter from Love and Beauty from Forever 21
The red is Color Club Cadillac Red
 the black stamped is Wet N Wild Black Creme
The dancing girls were on the Red Angel Plates RA111, RA112, RA113

XOX Caitlin

Day 12: Creative Lacquer Challenge Neon

 For my nails today I did a brushstroke mani. I don't really know the name of this type of manicure, so I am calling it a brushstroke mani.

I used a fan nail art brush to apply the neon colors to my nails.

I used OPI Skull and Glossbones as the base.
I used a neon yellow from Love & Beauty,
a neon pink from Cosmetic Arts(I believe it is a Color Club Warhol Dupe)
and a neon blue from Cosmetic Arts (I believe it is a Color Club Dupe for Chelcea Girl)

What do you think about this?

XOX Caitlin


*EDIT*  If you would like to see my tutorial on this mani, the link is *here*

Day 10: Creative Lacquer Challenge Superheros

For todays challenge I chose WonderWoman. :)

The Red is Cadillac Red from Color Club. That is my favorite red at the moment. 
The blue is Royal by Revlon.
The stamp is from the Cheeky Set CH4.

XOX Caitlin

Day 9: Creative Lacquer Challenge: 3D

Today's post is 3D nail art.  I used Striping tape for this mani.  I used the Silver holographic striping tape that i bought off of ebay in a lot of 10 for around $1.50.

For the mani color I used 2 coats of Revlon Royal, 1 coat of Milani Totally Cool, and the striping tape to do the design.

I was thinking about adding rhinestones to the design, but I didn't want it to be too much. 

XOX Caitlin

Day 8 Creative Lacquer Challenge: Cartoons

For today's challenge I did Mickey Mouse.  Isn't he cute? :) I did the old school micky on my middle finger, and did a mickey motif on the other nails.

The colors used are the OPI Mini White from the Spookettes
Wet N Wild Black Creme
Color Club Almost Famous
Color Club Cadillac Red

XOX Caitlin

Day 7: Charity Themed

The Charity I chose is Relay for Life.  Relay for Life.  Here is the Website to Learn more about events in your area!  http://www.relayforlife.org/

XOX Caitlin

Day 6 Creative Lacquer Challenge: Favorite Movie

Since I have already done my favorite movie in a manicure (the Phantom of the Opera nails - here) I decided to do my 2nd favorite movie: Wizard of Oz!

The Wizard of Oz has always had a special place in my heart, which is why it is my number 2 favorite movie(it was number one until i saw phantom.. :P)

I painted the Yellow Brick road,
Dorothys shoes(of course I used Ruby Pumps for those ;) )
The wicked Witch
and the yellow brick road to Oz.

XOX Caitlin

Don't forget to check out Bec's nails over at Lacquer Dreams for her challenge nails!

Day 5: Creative Lacquer Challenge

Inspired by something in your house.

Ok, I'm not going to lie, I did the awesome watermarble nails, and then went on a quest to find something in my house to match so I could use it for todays post.. I know kinda backwards from what we were supposed to do. :P  But I did such an awesome marble and I remembered I had a dress with the same colors, so  I think it should count.  even though I could have done a splatter mani with these colors and made it even closer to my "inspiration."

For this marble I used China Glaze Traffic Jam, Color Club Almost Famous and Color Club Chelcea Girl. I put a layer of white on before I did the marble so that the colors would pop. :)

The Inspiration: A one shoulder "splatter" dress.

XOX Caitlin

Day 4 Creative Lacquer Challenge: An Untried

For my Untried in todays challenge I am going to show you Nails Inc Whitehall.  A MAGNETIC!

This magnetic is fantastic, it is a teal-y color and the magnet gives it black strokes across.  It is so gorgeous!  You may remember where I got this polish... my boyfriend brought it over when he came from the UK to visit me! <3

How pretty! This is in my untrieds because he brought me so many pretties I haven't known what to do with them all!

I will say I have swatched it on my nail swatch sticks, and on my finger I think, but it hasn't been shown on my blog, so I have it for you today. :)

Be sure to check out Bec's blog post for her nails today!

XOX Caitlin

Day 2 Creative Lacquer Challenge: Favourite Color

My all time favorite color is Chartreuse.  I just love the color. I love the name. The color is just vibrant and pops to me! So these are the nails I came up with for the Creative Lacquer Day 2 Challenge:

China Glaze - Electric Pineapple
Accent nail is freehand paisley with Sally Hansen Silver Sweep and Color Club Chelcea Girl

 I like it. :):)

And here is what appears when I google Chartreuse: lol

my nails look a but more yellow than these photos, but I do believe that it is a variation of Chartreuse. 

Don't forget to check out Bec's nails over at Lacquer Dreams!

XOX Caitlin

And a reminder of what is to come:

Day 1: Black and White

the first day of our challenge is Black and White nails! Here are mine. :)

I used OPI spookette mini - the white one, the name escapes me at the moment.
Wet N Wild Black Creme as the dots!
and dotting tools of course. :)

Here is a link to Bec's blog to see what she is doing for black and white!

Just classic polka dots. :)


XOX Caitlin

Here is a reminder of what all we will be doing in this challenge:

21 Day Challenge!

Soooo some Exciting news! My friend Bec from over ant Lacquer Dreams and I are going to do a nail art challenge. 21 days of randomness!! These are what we will be doing! Of course we combined our names for this challenge. ;)

As soon as I post this I am going to upload my day 1 nails: Black and white!

If you care to join shoot me a message so I can check it out and add your blog link to the posts! 

XOX Caitlin