Mish Mash Challenge: Seasons

Welcome to the final installment of the Mish Mash Challenge! This has been a super fun challenge and has definitely challenged me with my nail art.

I was talking with my hubby about the theme for this week, which is seasons, and I was asking him what he thought I should do for it. Well he came up with an awesome idea then asked if he could paint them too, and I was like sure! His idea was to paint each nail to reflect a different season. He did all of my nails free handed!

On my index finger he painted a flower to represent spring. On my middle finger he did a beach with a palm tree to represent summer. On my ring finger he did a tree with all the colored leaves to represent fall. And last but not least on my little finger he did a snow scene for winter.

He said he didn't like the way it came out, but I think he did a really great job for all of it to be free handed and him being a nail novice! What do you think?

Be sure to stop by the other ladies and check out what the did for seasons!

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Mish Mash Challenge: Black and White

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The moment I received this snowflake stamping plate from Born Pretty Store I knew I wanted to use it for this weeks challenge, I was thinking night time snow! I love how my mani turned out and the plate worked great! I used my Konad scraper and stamper with the plate and the scrapper did cause the plate to get some scratches, I should really use a gift card, but I feel like I don't get as clean of a scrape with the gift card. The stamps came out really clear on my nails, I'm quite impressed with this plate and see myself getting a lot of use from it.

I used Pure Ice Blackout as my base color and used Snow Me White from Sinful Colors to stamp with. Snow Me White is my all time favorite white stamping polish, it works so good and does not seem to smear/smudge when I apply my top coat.

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Now let's check out what the ladies did for Black and White!

Mish Mash Challenge Week 28: Animated Movie or TV Show

Truthfully I was going to skip out on the challenge this week because I had no clue what I could do for Animated Movie or TV Show. I pondered on it a while and thought I could do Minions from Despicable Me, then I thought I can't do that it won't turn out good. Well I sucked it up and did Minions anyway, how can I get better at nail art if I don't do it, right? I am quite please with the way my Minions turned out, they are not great but they are not horrible either.

I used NYC Lexington Yellow for my base, I used 3 coats. For the Blue I mixed Sinful Colors Snow Me White with Sally Hansen Blue It. I also used Creative Fantasy from China Glaze to add some purple dots to represent the purple Minions from Despicable Me 2.

Have a look at what the other challenge ladies did this week:

Mish Mash Challenge Week 27: Green

Happy Wednesday to you and welcome to week 27 of the Mish Mash Challenge! This week our theme was Green, I have a couple of green polishes, but I just wasn't really feeling either one of them, so I went to one of my untried polishes that had the word green in the name, NYC Python Green. This is a polish that I picked up on one of my Big Lots trips for $1

I'm kinda on the fence about this polish, I think I was expecting something more from it. It's not really green, more like an olive brown with some gold shimmer. The formula on this was a little thin too, it wasn't running into my cuticles thin, but thinner than what I'm used too. I applied 2 coats, wish I would have used 3 as you can still see my nail line. I'm wonder if this would looked good layered over black?

Let's check out what the other ladies did for Green!

Mish Mash Challenge: Favorite Nail Art Technique

Welcome to week 26 of the Mish Mash Challenge! I had a little bit of a hard time picking my favorite nail art technique since there are three that I love, water marbling, gradients and stamping. I opted to go with stamping for three reasons, it's the least messy in my opinion, I got some new polishes that I wanted to use for stamping and because stamping was really the first nail art technique that I tried out.

I used Klean Colors Sea Ice for my base color, and no matter what I tried I could not get my camera to capture the accurate color, it's a beautiful dark yet bright blue cream. I then used Metallic Navy, also from Klean Color, to stamp with. I used plate M57 from Konad.

I really love how this came out, even my hubby said it looked really pretty! The two colors go together like peanut butter and jelly.

Mish Mash Challenge Week 25

Why hello there! Have you been missing me the past few Wednesdays? I have missed doing the challenge, but I've been challenged the last couple of months with some health issues (under control now) and the bitter cold this past week causing frozen pipes. But I'm here today and I have, in my opinion, a really cool manicure!

This week our theme/prompt was two colors we wouldn't normally pair together. Can I just say I have a hard enough time deciding on one color I actually want to wear, so I knew there was not hope of me finding two colors that I wouldn't pair together on a normal day, so I had my hubby go to my polish shelves and grab me two polishes :) I think he did a great job! He chose Wild Thing from Pure Ice and Why Not from Sinful Colors, definitely not two I would have picked for a manicure. The colors are not quite accurate, I took the photos indoors at night.

I decided to do a diagonal mani and accent (cover up the line) with some rhinestones. I really like the way this came out, but it's not functional. I could not use a topcoat because it makes the stones look cloudy so I lost 2 stones about 30 minutes after I finished them. Luckily I got the photos prior to that.

I'm really excited to see what the ladies did for this week! Check them out below.

Year in Review: Favorite Manicures

Today in part two of my year in review I will be sharing my top 10 favorite manicures from 2013! I was a part of two nail art challenges last year, one of which is still going on, that really challenged me with great prompts for some awesome nail art results, so 8 of the 10 come from the challenges. Let's take a look at my favorite 10:

1. My first ever fan brush manicure. I have tried recreating this look with different colors, but can't not get it to look like this one to save my life.

2. Even though it's messy and tedious, I love doing water marbles. One of my favorites from last year was my black and orange one from Halloween.

3. I call this my Minnie Mouse manicure, it is the mani I did for the letter I in the ABC Nail Challenge.

MIsh Mash Challenge Week 19: Around the World

I'm back after taking an unwanted week off from blogging with week 19 of the Mish Mash Challenge. Our theme this week was Around the World, and I have been hanging on to some Fing'rs Heart 2 Art nail tattoos that are maps just for this weeks challenge. If I had not ran across these at Walmart sometime ago I really don't know what I would have done for this weeks challenge.

Today you get a rare look at my right hand! I had two different sets of map tattoo papers, but I like the kind that I put on my right hand better, so that is what I went with. Also please do not pay any attention to the shape of my fingers, that is what cold weather, being sick and not taking care of your nails and cuticles will get you :/

This was a really simple nail look to get, I painted my nails with Sinful Colors Snow Me White and applied the tattoo paper. Easy Peasy :)

I am really excited to see what the other ladies did for Around the World! Be sure to stop by and check them out too.

Mish Mash Challenge Week 17: Grey

Happy Wednesday! This weeks Mish Mash Challenge theme was Grey. I was feeling a bit uninspired this week so I headed over to Pinterest, I had remembered pinning a nail look from fellow Mish Masher Simona over at Light Your Nails that I have been dying to try out!

For this look I used Seduce Me Strawberry from Avon as my base, because I needed a little color and topped it off with Status Update from Color Club, for this weeks Grey color :)

Please excuse my 2 nubs, as they had an unfortunate accident.

Mish Mash Challenge Week 16: Faux Stone

Happy Wednesday and welcome to another installment of the Mish Mash Challenge! This week our theme was Faux Stone, so I headed over to Google to search out some stones. I decided to try and do Turquoise one because I seen a really cool tutorial on it and two because it is one of my favorite stones!

I started out with 2 coats of Wet n Wild's I need a Refresh-Mint, then I used a black cream to do a Water Spotting to get the veins of the turquoise and lastly I took Milani's Signature Gold on some plastic wrap and 'sponged' some gold on each of my nails.

My index and middle fingers are my favorite from this mani and my little finger is my least favorite because I got too much black on it. Overall though I really like this mani, it's different from any thing I've done before.

Mish Mash Challenge Week 15: Holographic

Woo Hoo is Mish Mash Challenge day! This weeks theme was Holographic, I don't have too many holographic nail polishes. I have one Linear and 4 scattered. I went with one of the scattered, it's from Avon's Cosmic Collection and is called Celestial. It is a very pretty light blue with a very scattered holographic effect.

This is 3 coats with no top coat.

Trying to capture a holographic nail polish with a camera is tricky business LOL

Let's take a look at what the Ladies did for Holographic week!

Mish Mash Challenge Week 14: Pink

Welcome to week 14 of the Mish Mash Challenge! This week our theme was Pink and I actually did two nail looks because I did not like the first one all that much, it was a stamping mani. The one I decided to go with is a water marble using Sinful Colors Snow Me White, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Bubblegum Pink and Pure Ice Gossip.

Today you also get to see both my hands LOL they each came out so different I wanted to share them both. I think I like my left hand better though :)

Left Hand

Right Hand

Mish Mash Challenge Week 13: Rainbow

This week of the Mish Mash Challenge was a lot of fun for me because I got to try out a really, in my opinion, cool nail look.

I first applied a Sally Hansen base coat, once that was dry I applied a white crackle polish from Avon and let that dry completely. Then I used 6 different colors to make a 'rainbow' of colors on my nails over the crackle. I had around 25 polishes on my little polishing table trying to figure out which ones were sheer enough to let the crackle come through after trial and error I found my 6.

I used Sinful Colors Forget Now, Wet n Wild Sunny Side Up, Spoiled Mind Your Own Beeswax, Pure Ice Monte Carlo, Neon Green no name from L.A. Colors, and Sally Hansen Blizzard Blue.

I really like the way this came out and I plan on trying it again with just one color.

Mish Mash Challenge Week 12: Flower

I had a plan that I was going with that I seen on Pinterest, click the link to see the look I was going for and if anyone knows how to embed a pin in a blog, please let me know. I have tried copying and pasting the link that they provide when I click on embed, but I can not get them to work to save my life. Once I started on the dotticure flowers it went downhill. So I kept most of that look, but instead of dotticure flowers I used Mash stamping plate #42 and that turned out much better.

For my nail look I used Sally Hansen Blue Me Away! on my little finger and for the stamping. For my ring finger I used Ruffled Sheets topped with Beware, both from Pure Ice. For my other 2 fingers and my thumb I used Sinful Colors Snow Me White. I also added a rhinestone to each little finger, those I got from Avon. Never did a look like this before, but I really like it, something fun and different for me.

Mish Mash Challenge Week 11: Book

Welcome to another installment of the Mish Mash Challenge, this weeks theme was Book. I hope you all have had a good week! I have, I spent the last 2 days running around celebrating my birthday with my Mom and best friend on Monday and Tuesday my Husband took me out shopping and to lunch, since he has to work today, my actual birthday.

Anywho back to my mani which I'm also excited about! I  pondered on this book theme for a long time when I first saw the list of themes for this challenge and I never really came up with a good idea. Well A couple weeks ago I downloaded a book to my Nook from Amazon called Gold Stars, not really enjoying the book thus far, but the cover art inspired my mani today!

I used a couple Color Club mini nail polishes, they don't have names on them. I also used a small gold star stud from as Kiss set.

Here is what the cover looks like:

And my mani:

Please excuse my cuticles, I stopped using my Vitamin E Oil and man can you tell it, I need to remember to use it every day.

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Now let's see what the ladies did for Book, I'm really excited to see!

Mish Mash Challenge Week 10: Triangle

Happy Wendesday and Mish Mash Challenge Day! When I seen triangle was on the list I had no clue what I was going to do, so I took to Pinterest for some inspiration. They had all kinds of triangle nail designs on there, intricate ones and simple ones. Then I happened upon this pin and I was like that's what I'm gonna do!

Hopefully it shows up, if not here is the direct link to the pin: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/79657487132602781/

Anywho, I thought it was such a nice nail look and something I felt I could accomplish :)

I painted my nails using Jesse's Girl Beach Baby, a super bright pink. Used some striping tape and formed a triangle, then I painted over all of that with Status Update (on the bottle it's spelled Uptade) a lovely charcoal gray. I thought this would be a nice transition in to fall type mani, more of the dark color showing with just a hint of bright color. I really like the way this turned out.

Now let's check out what everyone else did for Triangle :)

Mish Mash Challenge Week 9: Blue

I can not believe that we are already on week 9 of the Mish Mash Challenge and that September is almost over! This weeks Mish Mash Challenge theme was Blue and I had all kinds of ideas in my head with little time to execute them, so I went with something pretty simple. I used Maybelline Color Show metallic polish in Navy Narcissist, which is a beautiful royal blue color. Topped that off with Sally Hansen Crackle in Wave Break, which is a beautiful shade of blue with sparkle. Certain ways you turn it, it has a magenta color duo chrome aspect to it. It was some kind of strong crackle, not only did it crackle, but it cracked my base color too! Never had that happen with a crackle polish before, have you?

Be sure to stop by and check out what the ladies did for Blue!

Mish Mash Challenge Week 8: Cold

Sorry I could not resist! Seriously though it is Mish Mash Challenge day! This week our theme was cold. When I think cold, blue automatically comes to my mind, so I decided to do another water marble (I think I may be obsessed with them) using Sally Hansen Blue Me Away and Sinful Colors Snow Me White. I really like how it came out although I smudged my pinkie.

Also as some of you may know, I was at the beach on vacation last week and I love to take pictures and share them, so I thought I would share a few here. If you want to check out all the other pictures I took at the beach, well not all of them because I took around 600, but 150 of the good ones, you can check them out on my Facebook page.

Can't wait do see what everyone else did for cold! Be sure to stop by and check out all the ladies posts.

Mish Mash Challenge Week 7: Least Expensive Polish

Welcome to week seven of the Mish Mash Challenge! This week we are creating manicures with out least expensive polishes in our collection. I went back and forth about which ones were my least expensive, I thought, well the ones I've won or were gifted were free, but I opted to go with a polish that I bought myself, I used Mind Your Own Beeswax from Spoiled. I got this polish when CVS was having their 75% off sale and I only paid $.49 for it!

For this mani I was going to do something different on each finger, but after I did a water marble on each of my ring fingers I liked it so much I just did it to all my fingers. I put down 2 coats of MYOB, then used Black Satin, a cream polish from Rimmel (I also got for 75% off at CVS) and the MYOB to make a nice water marble design. I am very satisfied with how it turned out.

I can't wait to see what everyone's least expensive polish manicures look like. Stop by and check them out.

Mish Mash Challenge Week 5: Music

Welcome to another installment of the Mish Mash Challenge! When I seen the theme for this week was music I had a brilliant idea in my head, paint music notes on my nails, can we say total fail. Y'all it was such a disaster, I tried 3 times to paint them on and it looked terrible each time. So I was thinking what in the world am I going to do for music. My hubby offered to paint them on for me, and I was like okay, but before he got the chance to we went to visit my family and my Niece wanted me to do her nails, and she brought out these nail stickers and guess what was on there, Music Notes! Week 5 Mani saved LOL!

For my base colors I used White on the Spot from Milani and Black Out from Pure Ice. I then placed the stickers my lovely, mani-saver Niece supplied me with on my ring fingers as an accent nail. After I did that I still thought it looked a little plain so I topped my nails with some Color Club glitter polish that I won in a giveaway that the fantastic Liz, from A Mani Maniac, had a few weeks ago.

And here is the end result:

Stop by the other ladies blogs and see what they did for Music Week! I'm still healing from my oral surgery, so it may be later in the week before I get around to every ones blog.