dress your nails for the occasion with ModCloth!

How do you like to do your nails when you're dressing up for a party? Bold colors, sparkle fo' days, or maybe go marvelously matchy-matchy with your fabulous frock?
The fine folks at ModCloth decided to round up some bloggers for a challenge to highlight ways you can perfectly pair your 10 best accessories with the dresses of the season!

You may already be familiar with ModCloth's adorable Nail Klub posts on their blog. They created two matching dress'n'nails designs here and asked us to use those for inspiration, pick a dress, and go for it! Here's what I came up with.

Did I nail it, or what?! I don't think the color could have possibly matched better.
I used China Glaze - Four Leaf Clover and accented it with black tips and a black lace stamp from Konad plate m71.

Doing the research to pick a dress was clearly a very difficult task... (Not.) The dress is the stunning Drumroll, Please dress from ModCloth. I decided I wanted something green because I wanted to choose a dress I know I would love wearing! With my red hair, I find green dresses to be really flattering. Like a mermaid, obviously. And now I totally want the dress!

What do you guys think of my design? I hope you liked it!
Keep an eye on the ModCloth blog because they'll be rounding up some of their favorites in a post later on. I can't wait to see what other cool nail designs people came up with when checking out all the beautiful dresses!

Nail-Venturous - Evil Barbie

I teased you guys yesterday with a closeup of this polish... And now it's time to reveal it!
This polish is very special to me because I'm one of a few lucky people who own it!

Nail-Venturous - Evil Barbie
I've said this two or three times before, but I'll say it again! Amy from I'm Feeling Nail-Venturous is one of the sweetest people ever. Who makes some of the most awesome polishes ever. And she sent me this one.
Just look at that amazing creation! Hot pink with black glitter! Ooooh, Evil Barbie, how I love you.

You could wear this on its own but I wanted to conserve polish so I layered it over China Glaze Dance Baby which was such a good choice, because it let the base color of Evil Barbie really pop!

Here's a super awful messy picture, but I wanted to quickly show you just how bright the base of Barbie is! That's one very thin coat over Dance Baby, versus Dance Baby alone.
I layered it over a few pinks on a nail wheel to decide what to use, and this one is just perfect.

Beyond the great pink color and the awesome black glitters, there is also a beautiful shimmer!

I just looooooooooove love love it. Thank you SO much Amy! You are a doll!

I decided that this polish needed some matching stamping... which finally gave me a reason to use the Barbie stamp!

I thought this mani was pretty clever!

The Barbie image is from Konad m71.
The skull image is from an unnamed plate from eBay.
The chains image is from Bundle Monster BM12.

I love that little skull!

What do you guys think of this great polish and the matching mani?
I hope you love it as much as I do!

31 Day Challenge: Day 22

Good morning!

Today's theme is Inspired by a Song.
As you might remember, I have previously done nails inspired by Nicki Minaj's Super Bass video, so I knew I wanted to do another type of video-inspired nails for this challenge.

I landed on this one, my guilty pleasure song:



S&M - Rihanna.
This video is crazy. And probably should be PG-13. Or higher.
There are some interesting patterns and scenes in the video, and I chose to do skittles based on 5 of the patterns you see in the video!

They don't match at all but I love the way they look! Crazy and random, like the video.

Here's what I used:
Sally Hansen Insta-Dri - Whirlwind White
Wet N Wild - Black Creme
Nail Art Diva - Daffodil (yellow)
Wet N Wild - Tickled Pink (light pink)
Sally Hansen Insta-Dri - Presto Pink (darker pink)
H&M - Coral Summer (blue)
China Glaze - Recycle (gray)

The lace pattern is Konad m57 and 71 together.
The chains image comes from Bundle Monster BM12.
The zebra image comes from Bundle Monster BM16.

I took some screenshots from the video to show where the nails came from!

The zebra inspiration is easy to see!

So is the blue with X's.

Polka dots are always cute!

If you look closely you'll see that I tried to do the newspaper nail trick but it just didn't work very strongly so I added the chains image to those nails for a better look.

The lace nail doesn't come from one particular scene but there is lots of lace going on in the video!

What do you guys think? Do they suit the video?
:)

31 Day Challenge: Day 15

Hi guys! Before I start my nails post for today I'm going to talk a little about my Hello Kitty cake that I showed you yesterday:

I got a bunch of emails and comments regarding how I did this cake.
It is so much more simple than you think - Wilton makes a Hello Kitty Cake Pan.
You bake the cake, and you frost it following instructions that come with the pan.
You can buy the pan here on amazon for less than $14 or you can buy it in craft stores or baking specialty stores.
I got mine in Canada at a Bulk Barn for $16.

It is really easy to do but does take patience. Good luck to those of you who try it!

Now, nails!
First of all - I apologize for the state of my cuticles in these photos. I did these nails very quickly this morning before leaving for university and I clearly did not take the time to make sure I removed all traces of yesterday's neon fuchsia!
Just pretend you can't see it :)

Today's theme is Delicate Print which is a bit of a strange description, I guess it could be all sorts of things but I decided to go with a lacey print from a Konad plate.

I started with 2 coats of Zoya - Caitlin which is a beautiful dusty gray with blue-purple tones. Sometimes it looks purpley, sometimes it looks bluey. I don't know what to really call it!
(I forgot to take a picture of this before I stamped my left hand so you get an awkward right hand photo!)

Bam! Delicate print. Pretty lacey image from Konad m71, stamped using a Nail Art Diva stamping polish called Ice Blue.

As you can see, depending on the angle, the stamping is either very subtle or very bright and shimmery.
I love this sort of stamping combo.

I really like this image, and I want to use it again when this challenge is over so I can wear it for more than one day! Haha.

I hope I can complete the challenge - my schoolwork this semester seems to be more intense than ever, so I'm really hoping to be able to keep up with doing my nails/posting every day, but I apologize in advance if I end up having to slow down my posting routine.

lacey

Today I'm going to post the art I did over my nude polish, L.A. Girl Secret.
I've seen this design around a lot and I've been itching to try it, but never had the nude to do it!
(I tried it once with silver over black...not so nice.)

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I love this!
As I said, the base is L.A. Girl Secret, and I stamped with Wild Shine Black Creme, from Konad plates m71 (lacey pattern) and m57 (fishnet) to create the faux-lace look.
It sorta reminds me of the Sally Hansen strip things in "Laced Up" which coincidentally Kayla Shevonne reviewed this week.

In other news... oops...

My exceptions to lent came into play yesterday. I found out that a salon near me still had some Crackle, so I picked up these 2. And then bf gave me the other 2 as part of a belated-valentines-day present.
HD Byte and Essie Jamaica Me Crazy!
Here is a close up of Jamaica Me Crazy in the bottle.

I still have my lacey design on 9/10 nails. (One started chipping last night at a coat check I worked, so I picked it all off. I made $150 in four hours. That extra money will make lent hard. Usually when I get some extra cash besides what I make at work I drop a little on polish!)
So because I had one naked nail, I tried on my very first Essie.

Quick and messy, but I didn't want to go find my remover/brush.
This is so pretty! Dark pink, shimmery, 2-coater. Dried quick too!
Looking forward to using this in a full mani.

Because I used my lent exceptions on only the third day, I'll go 3 days longer :P

nails of the day!

I did this mani yesterday, and I think it is super cute so I'm just going to post them now instead of using another older one! (Please ignore the nasty cut on my middle finger cuticle. Somehow, I did it opening a ketchup bottle...)

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This is Joe Fresh's Faded Violet. I stamped a lace image from m71 onto all nails with the large bow from m3 on my thumbs. 

I think it is dainty and cute for winter!

Quick post today because of homework :(

So long!