31 Day Challenge - Day 23 - Inspired by a movie

I just wanted an excuse for Pokémon nails. Pokémon movies definitely do exist; I watched one with my cousin (in Japanese probably not the wisest move). I watched the TV series when I was younger and it was seriously amazing. But now the series is full of different characters and craziness. Bring Misty back!!!!! But anyway here are my Pokémon nails.

           (Pikachu, Jigglypuff, Togepi and Squirtle, not the toughest pokemon to guess ;))

I looked up some images on Google for inspiration. I really wanted to do a Togepi nail, I watched the Togepi episode a lot, and Togepi is SO cute!!! ^_^ I got a new white nail polish. Unfortunately it’s a jelly :’( It’s really hard to tell with a full bottle, oh well it will be great for jelly sandwiches. I really wanted Jigglypuff to be a paler pink but I don’t have one, so I just had to make do. I probably could do endless amounts of Pokémon nails and never be bored of it, Pokémon are SO cute (even though I know I think many things are cute, Pokémon are above those, well some of them :L).

Colours used:

White: No7 – Snowflake (such a cute name), Natural Collection – White (no name) and Sally Hansen – French White Tip

Red: OPI – Dutch Tulips

Black: Lovely Me:Ex – Black

Yellow: Barry M – Lemon Ice Cream

Pink: Barry M – Strawberry Ice Cream

Blue: Barry M – Blueberry Ice Cream

Pale Yellow: w7 – Sheer Lemon

Pale Blue: Barry M – Blue Moon

Brown: w7 – Brownie

Hot Pink – H&M – Check Me Out

Equipment used:

Toothpicks

Bobby pins

31 Day Challenge - Day 22 - Inspired by a song

I got stuck. I had tons of songs just no ideas of how to translate them onto my nails. Finally I thought of “Anchor” by Mindy Gledhill.  Automatically an idea came into my head. I adore the album “Anchor”; some of my favourite songs are on that album. I like the song, but compared to the other songs on the album I don’t like it that much. 

“When all the world is spinning round like a red balloon way up in the clouds. And my feet will not stay on the ground, you anchor me back down.”

The anchor is so off centered.  It has a Snoopy vibe to it, which makes me want to do Snoopy nails. Oo future idea!!! :D In general it’s ok and I quite like it.

Colours used:

Blue: Barry M – Blue Moon

Peach: w7 – Sheer Peach

White: Natural Collection – White and Sally Hansen – French White Tip

Red: OPI – Dutch Tulips

Black: Lovely Me:Ex – Black

Equipment used:

Toothpick

31 Day Challenge - Day 21 - Inspired by a colour

It’s again a little vague. But like rebecca likes nails and Chalkboard nails, I’m doing inspired by a nail polish colour.  Obviously it had to be Essie Tart Deco, it’s my current favourite. My favourite has not changed for a while; it was Barry M Blue Moon, which I used for this as well. But Blue Moon has been gloopy and running out so I’ve been trying to use it sparingly. I still love it though.

A tart (as in the dessert) and art deco. Wow I’m a genius, never would’ve thought of that from Tart Deco :P I tried copying the design from the Chrysler building, but that failed, but I think it looks like a funky French manicure. The tart looks more like a pie, but it’s still cute!!! :3 I was desperate to use pink somewhere as fuchsia looks really good with Tart Deco.

                                               (A more true colour representation of Tart Deco)

Colours used:

Orange Coral: Essie – Tart Deco

Dark Blue: Barry M – Indigo

Shimmer on dark blue: w7 – Polar Bare

Black: Lovely Me:Ex – Black

White: Natural Collection – White

Brown: The Face Shop – GL112

Light Blue: Barry M – Blue Moon

Dark Brown: w7 – Brownie

Pink: Per Una – Fuchsia

Equipment used:

Toothpicks

31 Day Challenge - Day 20 - Water Marbled

This is a long post guys, just a warning… :P This was my first water marbling attempt. I was ready for water marbling… Until I looked up some tips and heard the horror stories, of the polish not spreading, the time and waste, the water marbles that got messed up etc. The list went on and on. I still proceeded.

I unfortunately forgot to leave some water overnight; therefore the water was too cold. But I work with what I’ve got.  Otherwise I was over prepared, I made sure I had my equipment ready and nothing was forgotten. My white nail polish is a gloopy disaster, so my base colour had to be mint (China Glaze Re-Fresh Mint). It’s pastel and light so that’s what I used.

I had my water in a muller rice cup with my three polishes ready to go.

Left Hand

Colours:

Pink: No7 – Me! Me! Me!

Blue: Revlon – Dreamer

Green Blue: Topshop – Green Room

When the first drop actually spread (you’ll be hearing a lot about polish spreading. Or not in my case), I already thought things were already looking good. By the time I got to the fourth drop… It didn’t spread; I continued to make my design.

My second nail was the same story of Green Room not spreading and just going on anyway.

Do you see Dreamer? Yeah neither do I. I changed the polishes after. Those colours were giving me random blob shapes. I thought they were ok, but time to move on.

Colours:

Pink: OPI – Japanese Rose Garden

Orange: Bourjois – Tangerine Fatal

Yellow: w7 – Sheer Lemon

I tried Essie Lilacism and Turquoise and Caicos, but it was far too sheer and I used the other colours (listed above) over it.

Middle finger failed, and same went for the ring finger I drew my design badly for that nail and it showed. My pinky nail worked until when I was cleaning up the polish I smacked the toothpick into that nail and that created a dent and the excess polish went on the nail too. Turns out Sheer Lemon really is sheer.

The amount of times the polish just wouldn’t spread or the toothpick would lift all the polish off making me have to start again and again. I failed my left hand but I was kind of proud of my first attempt at water marbling. It smelt awful, I understood what people said about waste, so much polish not used. Since I’d failed my left hand I was determined to do my right hand right.

Right hand

Colours:

Pink: OPI – Japanese Rose Garden

Purple: Barry M – Berry Ice Cream

Light Pink: Chilli Pepper – Light Pink (no name)

Japanese Rose Garden really was the star, so I kept using that; SO many polishes just wouldn’t spread. I tested so many, that was my main problem. Finding colours that actually spread on the water, it was so hard to guess which ones would. Some would spread but it would be far too sheer, a white base would’ve been better but if it doesn’t show up on the mint it won’t be great on white. Looking at my collection I couldn’t see many that I thought would spread. New nail polish is the time for water marbling. 

Now THAT is more like it. I really like every finger apart from my ring finger. There’s a random hole in it!!! I used w7 Golden Sands for my index finger but it wouldn’t spread that well, but it worked for that finger, it might be my favourite of them all. I loved the pinky, I really just wanted to finish by that point but it turned out really cool. Thank goodness. The light pink from Chilli Pepper spread amazing, even though it’s completely sheer. I thought the orange from there would work the same. It kind of did but left a hole, so I went back to my winning combination, listed above. Once I realized that combination worked, that was it I stuck to it.

I found clean up pretty good. As long as you tape up your fingers well, you’re good to go.

Even after the frustration and effort of water marbling. I would definitely do it again, its fun and so many different colours and patterns to try. Of course when I get new nail polish, the spreading issue really was the bane of my water marbling existence.

Equipment used:

Toothpicks (many toothpicks)

31 Day Challenge - Day 19 - Galaxies

This was so easy. I’ve never done galaxy nails before; the look just never appealed to me, now I think it looks really cool. It definitely grew on me. It was pretty fun and looked way nicer than I thought it would.

I did it as basic as I could but less is more sometimes. I kind of messed up my left hand as I left the excess white polish from sponging it on, on a piece of paper for too long (it got gloopy basically). So when I dipped my toothpick in the polish the small circles were all deformed. I fixed it but I still prefer the galaxies on my right hand. I didn’t realize how simple it was, and even if you’re messy it will work perfectly. Hologram Hexagrams made it special obviously (love that polish). Gypsy Night was a good base for this as there were already sparkles in that polish. 

                                                   (Left hand, I preferred it on my right hand)

It's out of this world!!! (-_- sorry that was awful, but I couldn’t help it :P)

Colours used: 

Black: Topshop – Gypsy Night

White: Natural Collection – White (no name). (The Sally Hansen one got ridiculously gloopy, so this is another old white polish that’s gloopy, but not as gloopy).

Yellow: Barry M – Lemon Ice Cream

Pink: Per Una – Pink (no name)

Chunky Glitter: Barry M – Hologram Hexagrams

Equipment used:

Toothpick

Makeup sponge

31 Day Challenge - Day 18 - Half Moons

This challenge is going awfully fast. This is another design from the beauty department. When I first saw it my first thoughts were “Oh my goodness, this is SO cute”. I had to do it. The beauty department has such cute and simple nail designs. 

Oh it is cute :3 It looks better on the beauty department. They're Peter Pan collars. I used blue instead of black, as I thought blue could work better also I don’t have a solid black. My friend had brought me the Mister Maker sticker book but somehow I lost it 4 days after she gave it to me, so I just used the stickers from the French manicure set again. I also didn’t have studs so I used Barry M’s Hologram Hexagrams (which I love so much, it jazzes up manicures), putting the chunky glitter on my nails. It was so easy to place them, since there’s clear nail polish already there, I could put it on a toothpick and place it on.  Some fell off, but this was without a topcoat so I think they did well. I think the blue and the silver go together nicely. 

Colours used:

Blue: Barry M – Indigo

White: Sally Hansen – French White Tip

Glitter/Sequins (kind of sequins): Barry M – Hologram Hexagrams

Equipment used:

Toothpicks

31 Day Challenge - Day 17 - Glitter

I have been so excited for this; I’ve wanted to use this polish for a while. First off, I LOVE GLITTER O.o Any excuse to glitter I will use it. I don’t care about the removal pains or whatever. It’s glitter. I’ve use the tinfoil technique once. At first was surprised it worked at all, but I love glitter so much I don’t care about the removal. 

                                                              (Artificial Light)

                                                                            (Natural Light)

OPI Excuse Moi! From the Muppets Collection, I have 2 from that collection. Since I also have Rainbow Connection. 

                                                        (Slightly Darker Lighting)

I really like it, as I just adore the little pieces of rainbow glitter within. It’s opaque in 2 coats so it’s different to other glitter nail polishes; the base is pink and not clear. I guess many people would like that, but I love layering so if a glitter nail polish is not opaque by itself I don’t care. The finish was rough, but that’s expected for a glitter polish, 2 layers of topcoat should fix that. But 2 cons for me, the shade of pink is a little strange, kind of pink mixed in with a bit of purple and I don’t really like that. It’s like a dirty pink. Also the rainbow glitter in certain lighting can look really dark (blackish) and I want rainbow. Otherwise it’s lovely and very unique. Also it suits my skin tone!!! :)

31 Day Challenge - Day 16 - Tribal Nails

I think Tribal Print is really funky and cool. I’ve done a tribal print type thing before, but it was the same design for every nail, so it was much simpler. With tribal print there are so many possibilities, and I think that’s just the best thing about tribal print. 

It was a one nail at a time kind of situation. It took me a while but mostly because I just didn’t know what to do for each nail. In practice tribal nails are really easy, but they look more complicated than they actually are. Anyway, I am super proud of my tribal nails, I’m really happy with how they came out. They just scream fierce :P I was trying to use minimum white, as mine is running out. I used 2 lines of white :D  

Yep I love it :P

                                                               (Proud of my right hand)

Colours used:

It goes without saying, but I used quite a lot of colours. 

Thumb:

Orange Coral: Essie – Tart Deco

Dark Blue: Barry M – Indigo

Light Blue: Barry M – Blueberry Ice Cream

White: Sally Hansen – French White Tip (not pictured)

Pink: Per Una – Fuchsia (no name)

Index Finger:

Purple: Essie – Lilacism (looked more blue-toned today :))

Pink: OPI – Japanese Rose Garden

Middle Finger

Pink: H&M – Check Me Out

Purple: Rimmel – Purple Pulse

Green: China Glaze – Re-Fresh Mint

Ring Finger

Blue: Revlon – Dreamer

Purple/Blue Shimmer: Models Own – Indian Ocean (had to try it over blue, and as I thought it’s wonderful :))

Red: OPI – Dutch Tulips

Pinky Finger

Yellow: Barry M – Lemon Ice Cream

Green: Barry M – Mint Green

Pink: Per Una – Pink (no name)

Orange: Bourjois – Tangerine Fatal

 

Black: Lovely Me:Ex – Black

Equipment used:

Toothpick

31 Day Challenge - Day 15 - Delicate Print

Thanks for being vague, I have no clue what delicate print is but I decided to have a stab at it. I had a simple plan, Japanese Rose Garden with the black pen. But I recently got Indian Ocean from Models Own and I had to try it out over the pink. I like it but it would’ve been better without. It looks amazing over purple though and I can’t wait to try it over blue. Anyway my “delicate print” is a wallpaper pattern.

What is that?? I don't even. Slowly I stopped copying the picture and went a little crazy. It looks super strange, its ok I guess. I like the thumb. The shimmer makes it look very purple toned. It’s more “random print” than “delicate print”.

Colours used:

Pink: OPI – Japanese Rose Garden

Blue/Purple Shimmer: Models Own – Indian Ocean

Black: Lovely Me:Ex – Black

31 Day Challenge - Day 14 - Flowers

Out of all the things I love and think are cute (there are a lot of things) flowers are number 1.  Even my blog’s name (Plumeria19), shows my love of flowers. Flowers are just naturally beautiful and full of colour. I have tried these nails many times. Mostly ending in fail. But I keep doing them cause I just love the design. But I watched a tutorial from Copy That Copy Cat (love her blog), and finally it became clear :D

                                                   (I was trying to show it in different lighting)

I cannot express my love for this, simply I love vintage rose designs. Free-handed stripes might not have been the best idea, but it worked surprisingly well. Turquoise and Caicos is the perfect base colour for this. The pink nails looked kind of Barbie-ish but I think that added to it.  Me encanta <3

 Colours used:

Turquoise: Essie – Turquoise and Caicos

Pink: Barry M – Strawberry Ice Cream

White: Sally Hansen Hard As Nails – French White Tip

Hot Pink: No7 – Me! Me! Me!

Iridescent Glitter: Barry M – Pink Iridescent

Green: China Glaze – Re-Fresh Mint

Strawberry Ice Cream and the white were extremely gloopy, and strawberry ice cream was just thick, but it’s my only pale pink (and I don’t suit pale pink).

Equipment used:

Bobby pin

Toothpick

31 Day Challenge - Day 13 - Animal Print

My friend asked me to do this a while ago. So this is for her :P She likes cows and that.

The easy route out would’ve been leopard print. I do like leopard but I wanted to do something different. I didn’t have any reinforcement stickers for the half moons and my friend said she would lend me some circle stickers. She did not deliver. They were from the Mister Maker book (I take what I can get). So I had to improvise. My French manicure set’s been getting a lot of use; I just used the rounded sticker for the half moons. I wanted to use a paler pink but it (Barry M Strawberry Ice Cream) has become a gloopy mess (I’ve had it for a while) so I’d prefer not to use it. I’m all about improvisation. 
 

 Cow print is nice, and it looks really interesting, I think it’s nice on my nails.

Colours used:

Pink: Per Una – Pink (no name)

White: Sally Hansen Hard As Nails – French White Tip

Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black

31 Day Challenge - Day 12 - Stripes

Anything nautical is good in my books. Again it’s SO cute. I’ve done nautical nails before but I wanted to do something different. Quickly I ran into a problem, with my white nail polish being difficult. I had to try and use more of the other colours i.e. blue, red. But I searched some pictures on the Internet and this one design kept coming up. It was ultra cute and turns out it was from The Beauty Department (really adorable blog and so informative). 

I was wondering how everyone’s stripes were turning out so perfect, until I read the tutorial. “Use a French manicure kit”, at that moment I realised I had one and ran to get it. I didn’t see any other reasons why I would use it. That French manicure kit has proven immensely useful; I didn’t think I’d use it at all. I spaced some out a bit unevenly but otherwise it’s good. Mildly difficult to cut with scissors, I didn’t have any other fancy tools so scissors had to do. I was careless and got a massive chip on my thumb on my right hand, thankfully the sticker covered it over. I’m loving Radiant so I had to use it to add to the blue. And the hearts just make it adorable. 

 Colours used:

Dark Blue: Barry M – Indigo

Blue Glitter: Revlon – Radiant

White: Sally Hansen Hard As Nails French Manicure Kit stickers and French White Tip

Red: OPI – Dutch Tulips

Equipment used:

Toothpicks

31 Day Challenge - Day 11 - Polka Dot Nails

I love polka dots, they are SO cute ^_^ and pretty much idiot proof (needs to be for someone like me). I could add polka dots to anything and it would turn out cute. I wanted to do a Minnie Mouse-esque polka dot design. I was going to do a French manicure, but I truly think my base coat has died. So I ran into an issue. I now use a different base coat; the problem is it isn’t a base coat, it’s a French manicure over colour thing so it’s super shimmery.

Basically I decided not to do a French manicure.

                                                              (I really like the thumb)

The white was extremely difficult to work with, it did that weird stringy thing and went a bit dry. Always happens with white nail polish but the Sally Hansen one did seem to be working well. I guess that changed today. I especially liked the thumbs, I did my left hand better as I think at that point I  “got in the swing of things” and it went better. I did glitter on the alternate fingers to jazz things up a bit. Although I do prefer it without the glitter. I got a bit overenthusiastic and that’s how the glitter happened.

                                                            (Just the plain polka dots :))

Colours used:

Red: OPI – Dutch Tulips

White: Sally Hansen Hard As Nails – French White Tip

Glitter: Revlon – Belle

Black: Lovely Me:Ex – Black

Equipment used:

Bobby pin

Yay!!! My nails are at the perfect length!!! :D

31 Day Challenge - Day 10 - Gradient Nails

I’ve never been that good at gradients. Out of all the ones I’ve done, I think only one turned out well. I’m just not good at “blending” the colours together. I do quite like this one though. The blue glitter really makes it (glitter makes everything).

I really like the colours; I didn’t know where to start, but random colours does seem to be the theme. I love Tart Deco, SO MUCH. It’s just beautiful. The fuchsia I used somehow made Tart Deco look less bright. My friend said the gradient kind of looked like a sunset, with the blue being the water and the pink and the coral being the sky :)

Colours used:

Orange Coral: Essie – Tart Deco

Fuchsia: Per Una - Fuchsia (no name)

Dark Blue: Barry M – Indigo

Blue Glitter: Revlon – Radiant

Equipment used:

Makeup sponges 

A third of the way through the challenge :D