Here We Go! Mish Mash Challenge, Week 1 - Purple Fan Brush Nail Art

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Hello Lovelies! Today marks the beginning of a new nail art challenge for us ladies, and I am so thrilled! I tend to do a lot of Indie Polish swatches, which I love, but I miss nail art. These challenges give me an opportunity to squeeze some in, and to hang out (virtually anyway!) with all of the awesome bloggers that join in these challenges.

This mani is late, but hey, it's my Mom's Birthday, and also one of my busiest days in weeks. I was running around like a chicken on speed all day. Now I am about ready to fall over, but I have swatching to do. And it's important. I MUST show you more of the Fandom Cosmetics Daft Punk Collection. I simply must!

This week's challenge is..dun dun dun! PURPLE! Now there's a color I can get behind. I swear, it would have been yellow I may have curled up under my polish table and hid. As much as I love yellow, yellow nail art is the bain of my existence. Anyway, it's purple, which is awesome.

For this mani I decided that I wanted to play around a bit. I love Fan Brush Nails, but they seem to be everywhere lately. The last Fan Brush Nails I created (way back at the end of the 31 Day Challenge) came out so awesome that I knew I wanted to do it again, but I wanted to see if I could blend the colors a bit more to create more a slab-o-marble type effect.

I started with a base of Nail Pattern Boldness Elle La Vend Aire, a gorgeous Lilac Crelly. Then I grabbed my trusty (yet incredibly cheap) Fan Brush and used OPI Vant To Bite My Neck for the first set of stripes. Then, while Vant To Bite My Neck was still wet,  I used Orly Wild Wisteria, brushing the polish on a little heavier with the fan brush and using the bristles to blend that in with VTBMN. I repeated with Orly Charged Up. The result was fun, but was lacking some pop, so I added Essie The Girls Are Out, a bright but darker Pink with silver flecks for some color. I liked that more, but...well, you know me. I just can't leave anything alone. Plus it just seemed kinda flat. I grabbed some Fuschsia rhinestones and added a simple row down the center of each nail , topped it all off with a coat od Glossy Glam and Voila! It's not perfect, and certainly not rocket science, but it's fun and a neat effect. I must have done something right since while I was out and about today I had a good 15 people asking how I did it. That's a good sign, right?

Ok, so it's not *exactly* like a slab of marble, but I do dig the effect. The big downside for me is the spots between and next to the rhinestones where the top coat settled. Thankfully not as evident in IRL.

What do you guys think of this mani? Do you prefer the usual Fan Brush Technique or with some blending?

Don't forget to check out all my awesome polish sistah's and their Week One Purple Nails!

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I'll be be back tomorrow with some Fandom Cosmetics! I also have more from Love Angeline, Luscious Potion, and Gypsyanna Polish coming up!

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Polishing!
-Kimber




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ABC Challenge: "W" is for Weak Water Marble

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Hello Lovelies! Check it out - I managed to post again before midnight! Woohoo!

Today is another ABC Challenge day! This challenge has flown by. I can't believe we're already at "W"!

For today's challenge I decided to water marble, which was a bad idea since I am so out of practice. The last time I marbled was for the 31 day challenge, which was at least 6 months ago. I need to bone up on my marbling skills since I love water marbles and can pull off some pretty cool manis when I'm doing them regularly.

I suppose It's not all that bad, especially since this is another 4 am manicure. My biggest issue was that the polishes I chose were not great for marbling, but I am stubborn and decided to force them to work. Yeah, not my best idea. But at 4 am, the last thing I wanted to do was go through my stash to find the good marbling polishes in the right colors.

For this mani, I chose Sally Hansen White On as my base ( my fave white to marble with) and used Orly Wild Wisteria and Nina Ultra Pro Lilac-ing Discipline for my purples. I added the white dots to try to offset how bad this is, but it didn't help. Neither did my attempt at small flower petals since my nails are fairly short. My pinky also came out very light, which was odd since I used the same exact number of drops and the same pattern. Meh.

Here is my weak water marble:

So not epic, but not a complete fail. I hope. I'll definitely be marbling more often to get back into the swing of things though!

Don't forget to check out my polish sistahs and their W manicures. I guarantee they're way less weak than mine is!

Are you a fan of water marbles? Would you like to see more marbling manis?

I'll be back tomorrow with a new Indie Brand that you'll love, so check back!

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Polishing!
-Kimber




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Purple Dotticure!

Hello ladies! First of all, thank you all so much for your feedback on yesterday's post. It means the world to me that you like what I do here! I also enjoy an eclectic mix when I read blogs, so I'm definitely keeping it that way. :)

Now, onto the polish!

Today I'm sharing a dotticure I wore while my BFF was in town last weekend. I used Sally Hansen Lacey Lilac as my base color (ugh! The formula on this girl was another nightmare! Gloppy, gooey and downright not pleasant. The color, however, is just gorgeous, so I suppose it was worth it!), and then used several sized dotting tools and random shades of purple for the dots. I love the randomness of the pattern. Just some dots hanging on the side of my nails. No rhyme or reason, but they still look fab! I loved wearing this and so many people commented on it. I swear if I could get away with it, I'd wear dots all the time! ;)

Details:

1 coat OPI Nail Envy Matte
2 coats Sally Hansen Lacey Lilac
1 coat Seche Vite
Dots: CG VIII, Orly Wild Wisteria, Spoiled 2 Weeks Sober
1 coat SV

I don't want to sound conceited, but I love this mani!! Not bad for a 5 minute dotting job, right? I did manage to get a random polish string on my pinky, but that wasn't really noticable IRL, so no big.

What do you think of dotticures? Something you'd wear?

Thanks for dropping by and as always, Happy Polishing!

-Kimber