The Digit-al Dozen does Holo: Brick Wall with String of Lights

The Digit-al Dozen does All that Glitters: Full-Mani Radial Glitter Placement

Stripey Tip Nails (Waterfall)

These nails are inspired by this mani Heather did a year ago. It has recently been made more popular and named the Waterfall mani, but I originally saw it first, months before everyone went crazy over it, at Peace Love & Polish.

Pink Week: Day 7

Fact Source

Today is the last day of Pink Week, so here's the final Breast Cancer Awareness fact, and a pink mani.

Busy Girl's Summer Nail Art Challenge - Beach

I actually did these nails a little while ago, but I thought they were perfect for this week's challenge, and had to save them for it!

Stamped Pink Gradient

After I wore the gradient I showed you yesterday for a day, I decided to stamp on top using a random design from one of the Bundle Monster plates, and Pixel Marvel-icious.

Subtle Pink Gradient

I chopped my nails off in December. No real reason. I didn't have a break or anything, just felt like it. I usually prefer nails on the shorter side, and I loved them the last time I cut them this short. I'm not so sure this time, though...

Regardless, I have gotten through all of my scheduled posts that got pushed back due to the nail art challenge I completed last month, so now I finally have some fun stuff to show with my new nubbins.

I started off with e.l.f. Light Pink and created a rather subtle gradient using it and e.l.f. Bubble Gum Pink.

Matte and Shiny Zebra Print Combo Fail

It is official: If you have e.l.f.'s matte topcoat, once it gets down to about half, and is all thick and goopy, don't bother with thinner, just throw it out! I used Khloe Had a Little Lam-Lam from NOPI and wanted to create a look that I have yet to do, the matted base color, with a shiny print on top. But oh no, e.l.f. wouldn't stand for that!

 

She tried to hide it by the faded denim clothes she wore...

For Sexual Assault Awareness today, everyone is wearing teal and/or jeans at my school. So... I did denim nails. This was my first ever try at them, so I am fairly happy with how they turned out! ^.^

For this look, I only used one nail polish, and that was as my base color: Sally Hansen's Thinking of Blue.

I sponged, linearly, with dark and light blue acrylic paint to get the semi-cross stitch jean look. I did the dark blue (Apple Barrel's Bright Blue) horizontally, then light blue (Folk Art's Deep Ocean Blue) vertically. I think a more porous sponge would have helped achieve this effect, but I just used a soft makeup sponge.

For the stitching, I mixed yellow paint (Apple Barrel's Bright Yellow) with just a teeny tiny bit of red (Apple Barrel's Bright Red), and an even teenier bit of black (Apple Barrel's Black).

I then finished with, of course, a matte topcoat. e.l.f.'s Matte Finisher, to be exact, to both protect the acrylic paint, and because jeans are not shiny, silly!

Grossly Gorgeous

Baby poop green has been far too long absent from my collection... but that's NO MORE!! ^.^

I took advantage of Zoya's promotion (for 2 free bottles of your choice and you'd just pay shipping) in January and they finally arrived! I got the FedEx tracking/delivery email and immediately went out and circled my house to see which door they left it at! I have 4 exterior doors and for some reason they constantly feel the need to leave packages at the back... That is when they can even find my house, because apparently we don't exist on the UPS/FedEx address radar!! Seriously... Bare with me, I have a tangent...

Rubbery Ruffian

Today I have Mod Mauve to show you. This one is very unique to my collection. It has an almost rubbery, semi-matte finish and I actually like it a lot! This was another surprising 1-coater, so for $1, I approve! =D

Metal Madness

About two weeks ago, I mentioned that I had gotten a set of e.l.f. polishes (and showed you Red Velvet) and Metal Madness was also in the set.

This is a really gorgeous grey almost-metallic shimmer with sparse bits of holo glitter. It was surprisingly opaque in one coat, but took a century to dry, so after 10+ minutes of waiting, I just applied a quick dry top coat. I have no idea how long it would take to dry on its own, but it was still pretty tacky and smooshy after the 10 minutes.

Glitter Badge

I received this great tag from Shannara at Nails and Stuff. Thank you so much!! I do love glitter! =P

Here are the "rules":

- Acknowledge receipt of this award:

- Post a swatch of your favorite glitter polish:

To prove you're deserving, of course :)

- Pass this on to 4 more Glitterati.