31 Day Challenge (v.2!) Day 16: Tribal Print

Hello Ladies! Welcome to day 16 of the 31 Day Challenge!

Today's challene is Tribal Print, and I have to be honest...I love tribal manis on other people. I love looking at them. But they just look weird on me. They just don't fit my personality at all. It probably doesn't help that I live in the Southwest, so everything out here is covered in tribal prints. Thankfully I managed to come up with a variation of tribal print that I think fits me  little better.

I started with a base of Spoiled by Wet N Wild Kickin' The Habit, an awesome fuchsia crelly. Then I taped off my nails and added a stripe down the center with Spoiled Distant Memory. Using Bundle Monster plate BM221, I stamped a tribal design over the top using Konad Black. I have to tell you, once I had the stripe done I really wanted to leave it at that. It looked really cool! But since it's a challenge mani, I kept going. My stamps aren't placed perfectly, but it's really hard to stamp when you're loaded up on albuterol. I have a cold, which means my delicate little lungs needed some extra meds to help stay open and clear, and they make me really shaky. Despite that, I do like how this turned out!

I have to say that I like this much more than last year's tribal mani....I actually took my inspiration from tribal designs hanging on the wall of Outback Steakhouse. I had Outback Nails. Funny, but yeah......

Anyway...enough of my babbling! Dayquil is making me all loopy. Here is my take on Tribal Nails:

Not perfect, but highly passable IRL. Although I really want to wear Kickin The Habit with just the stripe of Distant Memory sometime. This is definitely a more "me" Tribal mani, though. In fact, I haven't bothered to take it off yet! Mostly because I have another darned cold and am slightly miserable. ;)

What do you think of Tribal Manicures?

Be sure to check out all of the Varnished Vixens' Tribal Manis!

 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  

Hopefully I'm feeling up to playing with some Project Runway Polishes over the next day or so. Either way, I'll be back on Sunday with Glitter Nails!

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Polishing!
-Kimber

31 Day Challenge, Day 16: Tribal Nails!

Oh man, was this challenge a tough one for me! I'm not the biggest fan of tribal nails, so I had a very hard time finding inspiration. I spent hours checking out pics of tribal patterns, and nothing really stood out. Finally, while at lunch at Outback Steakhouse yesterday, inspiration struck! While nomming my delicious lunch, I glanced up at the wall behind my hubby, and there were tribal patterns! I figured that was as good as it was gonna get as far as being inspired went, so I took a few pics, and went home to work on my nails.

For this mani I used so many colors that I don't know where to begin.  I've already put them away and am way too lazy to dig them all out, so I'll just say I used a few Sinful Colors, China Glaze Trendsetter, a brick red suede from Revlon, Finger Paint white and Hard Candy Black. I freehanded the lines and weird rectangles and used my dotting tools for the dot patterns. The patterns don't exactly match the pics, but with shorter nails I have less canvas so I had to improvise a bit. Not my favorite mani, but much less traumatic than I had expected!

Here are my inspiration pics:

And here is my Steakhouse Mani (as usual, since I am a dork, forgive the cuticles. I left the remover on a bit long and that caused some issues. That's what happens when your baby poops right as you start a mani!):

Not the worst mani ever, but not my best. But I admit I had fun working on it. I'm actually starting to look forward to inspiration week so that I can translate my own ideas into manis.

Tonight is Glitter, and I am very excited about that mani! I have an awesome new Glitter from the new China Glaze Eye Candy collection to share with you!

Happy Polishing!
-Kimber