Day 28 - Inspired By A Flag

Happy December 1st!!
I thought this manicure would be easy. I decided to go with the Italian flag to support my roots!

It started out red base with white tips...looking like a candy cane.

The I added a green tip over the white tips....now looking like Christmas.

Then I added some black accent dots...finally looking like a watermelon!

Ug, really! Nothing ever looks the way I expect. 

So here are my Italian Flag Candy Cane Christmas Watermelon nails! YAY!

The finished product:

The products I used:

*2 coats NYC Madison Ave

*French Tip Dip Bright White tips

*Wet N' Wild Fast Dry SeGreena the Teenage Witch tips

*Wet N' Wild Black cream dots

Before the tips:

My inspiration and more pics:

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~24 Days to Christmas~

Day 3 - Yellow Nails

Yellow is not my most  favorite color. But I did have a super cute design in mind for this challenge.

Bummer part is that I'm a horrible steady-hand so my lines are awful.

Hopefully tomorrows will be better :-)

Here is my tribute to Bumble Bee (Transformers of course, because the Camero is

such a sexy car!)

*2 coats French Tip Dip bright white (to help the yellow pop)

*2 coats NYC taxi yellow cream

*Sinful Colors black on black for stripes

No flash

Flash

 Really, could this car be any more awesome?? Of course it could!
If I was behind the wheel!!! :-)

Day 2 - Orange Nails

Day 2 of the challenge and I caught myself thinking all day of what design I would do.

Now I know most gals are doing solid colors for this part of the challenge but I'm not most girls.

I find myself getting bored with plain colored nails. 

Mine need spice! So here's my day 2 : Flamage!

*2 coats French Tip Dip miami sunrise (south beach collection)

*1 strip NYC times square tangerine cream #112

*1 strip Avon Matte red velvet (tips and flames)

I should have snagged a pic before I put the top coat on because the Avon Matte looked amazing!

Still a kick-butt mani though!

Orange nails, no flash

Nails with design, flash used

Design with no flash

I watched this tutorial, by Robin Moses, as a guide. Mine is no where near as amazing as hers but that's because I'm not a pro!

Angry Birds!

Was feeling a little angry hehehe.
Another 2 hour polish job that isn't too bad for me being awful at art :-)
I had bought a nail art brush set including a dotting tool last night so I had fun testing them all out.
Not too shabby for being freehand, I must say.

*CG breakin' for all beaks
*French Tip Dip bright white for all eyes
*Wet N' Wild black for brows and stripes

From pinky to thumb:
*CG carribean blue base
*FTD bright white under NYC taxi yellow for base
*Sinful Colors black on black base
*Avon grey cement matte for belly and eye base
*CG breaking and Sally X grey area mixed for brows
*Petites rockin red for base
*Pure Ice free spirit for base
*Sally Hansen green with envy for nose

Give Me Something Good To Eat

My attempt at candy corn nails!

*1 coat French Tip Dip bright white
*3 coat NYC taxi yellow cream (very splotchy)
*1 strip China Glaze breakin' for the tip
*1 strip Kiss nail art paint in white

This was my first time using nail art paint brushes and it was hard to keep a steady hand.