The Digit-al Dozen does Decades: 1980's Negative Space Stripes

The Digit-al Dozen Does Fairy Tales: Poisoned Apple

My third DD mani for the week was one of the first that came to mind when I started thinking about what I could do. Initially, I thought doing the poisoned apple from Snow White, while it is being dipped in the poison, and the liquid dripping off of it forms a skull, would look neat! So I took to Google and found these images to use as inspiration:

And the mani:

The Warden Threw a Party in the County Jail

The prison band was there and they began to wail. The band was jumpin' and the joint began to swing. You should've heard those knocked out jailbirds sing.

Anyway.... You know what yesterday was, right? Because if not, I don't think we can be friends anymore.

I'll give you a hint: Blue Suede Shoes. No? How about Heartbreak Hotel? Okay, okay! At Nails Like Lace, we are celebrating the birth of the king: Elvis Presley! And in true NLL style - with an Elvis mani!

I've done Elvis nails before, back when I first started this crazy nail art journey, but I've long since deleted them from existence because they were just insulting. Like, I feel I need to go to Graceland, grovel and beg for forgiveness, and apologize directly to Elvis' grave. They were horrific to say the least.

Now I'm not saying today's nails are fantastic by any means! But I did spend a good two hours on this mani, and have years more of practice since my last attempt at artistically honoring the king. So they're a tad more post-worthy. :)

Twinsie Tuesday - I keep meaning to....

Today's Twinsie Tuesday theme entails marking something (anything - a certain style, color, brand, etc.) off the polish to-do list. Something I have been wanting to try is the scaled gradient, so that's what I went with today!

Rainbow Palm Tree Print Nails

I organized an Instagram collab to do rainbow palm tree print manis inspired by a shirt. It was quite a while ago, but I have finally found time to do a blog post on the nails.

Twinsie Tuesday - Accent Nail

For this week's mani, I used two Milani polishes: Pink Hottie and Gold Glitz.

OPI You're so Vain-illa + Vanilla Flower

With vanilla in the name, and being the absolute perfect vanilla shade, I wanted to try my hand at a vanilla flower using OPI You're so Vain-illa.

For my first shot, I was fairly pleased with the result.

Primary Colors/Colombian-Inspired Water Marble

About a month ago, when I did my animal print American Flag nails, one of my Instagram followers @paisitalove15 requested Colombian themed nail art.

I got them done and have finally found a chance to post them!

Owl Notebook-Inspired Bestie Twin Nails

I can't even count the number of times I have done collab manis and bestie twin nails on Instagram! Well, today I have another one! This time, I teamed up with @c_michaelangelo again, and we used my owl notebook as inspiration.

Twinsie Tuesday - Inspired by a Book

It's that time of the week again! Twinsie Tuesday. This week, we did manicures based on a book. Since my library consists of Biology 101, Intro to Psychology, SPA 300: Spanish Literature, and so on and so forth, clearly I wasn't excited to drone through for inspiration. Instead, I hit up Madison's bookshelf and discovered Elmo's Read Along Story about Little Boy Blue. It was the first book I grabbed, so I just went with it.

Twinsie Tuesday - Stripes

This week's TT theme is stripes. Back in February, when I did my "Textured Rays" mani, I absolutely loved it and wanted to try that look out again, so that's what I did today.

Animal Print American Flag - Bestie Twin Nails with Peace, Love & Polish

I wanted to do something different for the Fourth of July this year, and for some reason I had animal print on my mind, so this is what I came up with!

Twinsie Tuesday - Skittles

Since it is in just a few days, I decided to do some Fourth of July celebratory nails to fulfill today's TT theme!

Milani Gold Label - Textured Glitter Toppers 2014

I have to start by first throwing out the False Advertisement flag. I saw this set at CVS and was automatically intrigued when I saw "textured nail lacquer" on all the labels. You know I am a sucker for textured polishes. I know I am a sucker for textured polishes. We all know it, so let's move on, shall we?

Naturally I snatched up all six of these babies! With all the different glitter shapes and sizes, I thought they were going to be extra bad ass textures!

Well....

Valentine's Day Instagram Collaboration Mani - Neon Rainbow Leopard Heart Print

I have this thing for doing nail collabs on Instagram, they are addicting! Last weekend, I co-hosted a Valentine's Day themed collab with Heather! Here was my contribution to the collage:

Salon Effects Ruffian

If you're like me, you easily get bored with the same ole, same ole. I wanted to wear a set of the Sally Hansen Salon Effects in Tweed-le Dee, but wanted to do something different with them. So I got into my untrieds box and randomly pulled out Milani Beach Front to wear along with them.

Optical Illusion Mani

I've tried multiple times to get the hang of this tessellation type of design, and finally, after watching JauntyJuli's tutorial, I was able to pull it off!

Camo Cupcake Birthday Nails

I can't believe it, I am married to an old man! My hubby turns 30 this month so I painted special birthday nails for him! I knew I wanted to do camo (he's of the redneck gene, so I had to somehow incorporate camo), but I wanted to do something birthday-ish too. So I decided on camo cupcakes!

This is another one of those 'jumping on the bandwagon' manis

I went from this:

Taste the Rainbow

A week or so ago, ProfessionalDQ posted this video on YouTube and it inspired me to do these nails.

What? All this for one mani?! Yup! Including a red acrylic paint that didn't make it into the picture!! ^.^