The totally doable I have a life challenge! - Ikat monster

Hey there fine fellows, I have the final bonus part of the challenge today as this was one of the ones I missed in the early stages of the challenge and of course I wouldn't pass up a good ikat. I really like how they look!! I did want to do something a little different from your regular ikat, and this is what came of that.

Hopefully you can see the angry, not amused face on the 3 fingers in the middle. It's a monster. The thumb and pinky have spiky claw-like ikat print. This is how I do different. Yeah it's not my cutest look which is a reason why I'm not in love with it. But I'm happy with my branching out, trying something new!! Also with the glitter I included for this look; it looks great matte.

So I freehanded the white part with the brush of the polish. Actually I did the whole coloured bit with the brushes of polishes as I got too lazy to use the toothpick. I tried to do artistic strokes (like I've been doing a lot recently) and finally I used my black pen for the outlines and evil eyes and sad faces. Maybe I should've made it angrier.

Sorry for the slight blur

Purple: OPI - Plum & Get It, Models Own - Indian Ocean and OPI - Polka.com
White: Barry M - Matt White
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
Yellow: American Apparel - Neon Yellow
Orange: Models Own - Beach Party
Pink: Barry M - Superdrug Summer LE 2013 A
Green: Barry M - Greenberry
Blue: Essie - Lots Of Lux
Red: Barry M - Carousel

This is the conclusion of this challenge and I had fun with the prompts and messing with them. I came up with some pretty wacky stuff sometimes. It's nice to do a challenge for once, as it may be a while 'til I do another one :/ Always busy I am. Thank you for reading and I hope you have a cool day!! :)

31DC2013: Day 23 - Inspired by a movie

Oh hi there guys!! The long week is over, and it was rather long for me with hints of extreme excitement. But I don't think everyone is feeling the same as me. When it came to inspired by a movie I knew right away. I was so in love with this movie when I saw it this summer and seriously it sky-rocketed to the top of my favourite PIXAR films list (and I LOVE Pixar films). Obviously it's Monsters University.

Eeeeeeee!!! I chose to paint the members of Oozma Kappa, I was originally going to just paint Mike and Sulley, but I thought that was rather Monsters Inc (which I also love) and I wanted to challenge myself. So all the Oozma Kappa members it was. I actually love them all, they are such a fun bunch and as the movie portrays for monsters, they really aren't all that scary. 

This definitely was a challenge, just getting everything looking right, and I used the actual animation pictures for reference so I had to cartoon them myself. Also there are 6 members of Oozma Kappa and I have 5 nails for this design so some liberties had to be made, I think I compromised well though. So we've got Sulley, Terri and Terry, Art, Don Carlton, Mike and Squishy. I really don't think I can pick a favourite character out of them as they were all fantastic. 

At first I wasn't so impressed with my painting, but as I've worn this just the rag-tag group of them make me so HAPPY!! The film gave me ultimate happy vibes in general. 

I want this film on DVD so bad so I can watch it ALL. THE. TIME. Clearly I'm not the only one who feels this way as these nails went down a storm at school. I've been thinking of making a Monsters University nail art series, as so many scenes from the movie inspired me (and as you know I LOVED the film) and more excuses to declare my love for this film are never bad things.

Painting wise I did the colours of the characters then did the black and white. That white pen smudges so badly but I covered it up as you do.

White: Barry M - Matt White and Lovely Me:Ex - White (for details)

Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black

Purple: Illamasqua - Jo'Mina

Light Brown: Ciate - Cookies & Cream

Green: Illasmaqua - Nomad

Dark Green: OPI - Jade Is The New Black

Dark Brown: w7 - Brownie

Pink: Essie - Your Hut Or Mine?

Additional Colours

Sulley: Blue: Barry M - Blueberry Ice Cream 

Terri and Terry: Orange: Models Own - Beach Party

Art: Dark Purple: OPI - Plum & Get It

Ron Carlton: Pink: Essie - Your Hut Or Mine? 

Mike: Blue: Nails Inc - Baker Street 

Squishy: Peach: w7 - Linen 

Thank you so very very much for reading (watch Monsters University, just do it, even if you're seen it before, watch it again. I'm intending to watch it another load of times) and I hope you have a wonderful weekend!! :D

Little Frankenstein

Hello there. I've got some halloween nail art, oh yeah, oh yeah :P Reiterating my point about CUTE halloween nail art, cause there's too much scary nail art (and scariness in general) out there. Joking aside, I do have this nail art and on my other hand I had a contrasting design, which will be put up soon. Oh and I should've taken better pictures, my camera battery was dying and I got twitchy and tried to take my pictures quickly and carefully that obviously didn't work. Well they're still alright :)

It wasn't originally meant to be Frankenstein, but it just kind of happened. Inspiration struck when I was sitting beside a girl who drew a little face on her book and I thought it was adorable and decided to incorporate it into a design. So kudos to her (I don't have a clue what kudos is, or are). I made slight alterations to her design and voila, my little bit of halloween nail art. My gradient was slightly too crazy, but I wanted something simple on the other nails and obviously that means "PILE ON THE GLITTER".
Green: Rimmel - Misty Jade
Dark Green: OPI - Jade Is The New Black
Sparkly Black: Topshop - Gypsy Night 
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black (no name)
White: Models Own - Snow White
Glitter: Barry M - Silver Glitter and China Glaze - Luxe and Lush (which you can't really see)
I have now truly seen how awesome Gypsy Night is, it's really the holographic glitter within that I love.

Cookie Monster

Hello there!!!! This is a little mani that I've wanted to do for a while. I don't really remember Sesame Street that well, but the characters are ultra cute, therefore this mani came to submission (not sure if that made sense :P).

Hehe I think it's cute. I wasn't sure if I wanted to do another Cookie Monster on my thumb but I thought "Are there more cookies or Cookie Monsters?". Problem solved. Wasn't too sure of the "bites"out of the cookies but I guess it makes it slightly more interesting.
Brown: The Face Shop - GL112
Dark Brown: w7 - Brownie
Blue: Nails Inc. - Baker Street
White: Models Own - Snow White
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black

Here is an extremely tilted right hand picture, but Cookie Monster is still being awesome :P Omnomnomnomnom.