31 Day Challenge (v.2!) Day 21: Inspired By A Color

Good Morning Ladies! Welcome to Day 21 of the challenge! And, it's Friday!!! Woohoo!!! In my world, it's also payday, which means that I ordered more A England Polishes last night!

Today's challenge prompt is Inspired By A Color. I don't know about you guys, but I felt that left things open to interpretation in a big way. Since this is a nail art challenge, I decided to use the name of a polish color for this mani.

I chose Wet N Wild Megalast in Candy-licious, a medium candy pink creme as my base color. Since the name is Candy-licious, I decided that I would do something candy related. I created candy coated nails!

This is 2 coats of Candy-licious, a thick coat of Seche Vite, then I dipped my nails in Pink Candy Crystals and topped with a bit of SV to hold the crystals together. This mani is nowhere near practical, and it's pretty bulky and made my nails look really wide, but it was some serious fun!

I love the color of this mani, but this isn't something I would wear for long. Strangely enough, it had more staying power than expected - none of the crystals came off when I touched them or used my hands and due to the SV over the top, they didn't melt when I washed my hands.  Once I got near them with acetone though? They disintegrated in record time! I was expecting a PITA removal, but this was the fastest removal ever!

Be sure to check out all the Varnished Vixens and their Inspired By A Color Manicures!

Kimber at Kimber's Lacquer Korner
-Kat at Hooked On Polish
-Diana at Nails By Diana
-Aly at Wonderland Beauty
-Meredith at Perfectly Polished
-Nicole at The Color Republic
-Kate at The Painted Pony Nails
-Cee at Absolutely Cee
-Sam at Polished Art
-Nail Narcotics
-Nicole at Nicole Gets Nailed
-Shelby at Shelby's Swatches
-Stephanie Louise at All Things Beautiful
-Mixed Mama
-Joanna @ Sweet Polish of Mine
-Patty Greenberg
-Liz and Lisa @ Lozlosa 
-Mari at Nailista
-Miss L at Beauty by Miss L 
-Gini at Sassy Paints
-Chameleon Stampede 
-Pam at Nail-E-Glance
-Me, Myself, and Polish 
- Robin Sparkles  

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to check back on Monday for Inspired By A Song!

Happy Polishing!
-Kimber

31 Day Challenge, Day 21: Inspired by a Color - A day Late cause my router sucks!

Inspired By A Color & A foray into really bad photography! (AKA Stupid Good Camera died again!)

So Sorry this is a late post. My router was having issues again yesterday and I could not get this to post to save my life! So today is a 3 post day. Fun!!

So, this "Inspired by a color"? Yeah, this one sucked. It took me a very long time to be inspired by anything. Inspired by a color could mean so many things. In the end, I grabbed a new color (Nicole By OPI Khloe Had a Little Lam-Lam from the Kardashian Collection) and took my inspiration from the name of the color. It's just too bad I am not a great freehand nail artist! It was still fun to create, and the result isnt half as bad as I had expected. So, without further Adieu, I give you: Sheep!!

For this mani I used Khloe Had A Little Lam-Lam as my base color. I dig this color, even if it is a bit dark for the little sheep's legs to show. It's a very dark, dusky teal creme that leans toward a forest green depending on the light. It has a fabulous formula, nice and smooth. I used 2 coats here, but it is so opaque that only 1 was necessary. It is a stainer though, so make sure to use a good base coat. And if it gets anywhere near your cuticles? Clean that up immediately. Otherwise you'll have ovely green tinted cuticles for a bit.

I used a tutorial by Chalkboard Nails to make the sheep. Obviously her sheep are much much better than mine, but I tried! Well, in all honestly I did these in about 5 minutes since my son was clinging to my leg and I was tired and grumpy. :)

Phew! Glad that one is over! By far the hardest challenge for me yet. Not just because I wasn't that inspired, but also because it's really hard to do nail art and take pics with a toddler swinging from your leg! ;)

Happy Polishing!
-Kimber