I'm just gonna start this post off with a giant HEHEHEHEHEHEHE!!! Today is Animals day for 33DC. Now let me start by saying I almost blew it off. I had a long week of getting behind on blog stuff and I kind of just wanted to scrap this prompt, but then I remembered that I had really wanted to do THIS mani since the summertime. So...in true Missy fashion, I put on my big girl pants and I got out my paint and got to work. So let's go look at my favorite Foodimal - Barry the Strawberry.
It's another day of the Crumpets Nail Tarts' 33DC (aka the 33 Day Challenge...not to be confused with the Pepsi Challenge, and certainly not to be confused with omg I feel old for saying that). Todays prompt is abstract. And for the record, after yesterdays massive photo editing session to get the OPI Holiday Collection up to show you guys, I was too pooped to polish....so I kind of phoned this prompt in by showing you a mani I had originally done for last weeks Skittles theme, but scrapped it for something else...it's still worthy of a look though because it's a gorgeous polish!
Oh - heeeey!
Today I have another prompt for the 33DC Challenge. Today is Chinese. I got really swamped over the weekend and didn't even finish this mani until about 15 minutes ago. It is really unlike me to wait til the last minute to do a challenge mani, and it shows, because I hate this one!
This one is interesting - 33DC today with the prompt 'Pattern in your home'
Well...geez I don't have many patterns. I dont like a lot of crazy design patterns everywhere, I tend to like bold solids mixed in with leopard print, but who wants to see another leopard print from me, right?
So..instead I decided to pattern after the art in my home.
Hey there. So let me get this out of the way now...there is going to be a TON of nail art on the blog this week.
I have 33DC, the Digit-al Dozen and BCA Pink Week all this week. So a few days there will be three posts a day!
3 nail arts per day!? Holy molies. I don't even know how I found the time.
Hiiiii!!!! Today is the Indian prompt for the #33DC and boy, at first I was like uh what the heck am I gonna do for this!? But then...inspiration struck and here we are...
So...I'm late. But still... Last week we had a Mexico prompt for the 33DC but I was struggling and having a crap day, so I threw mine out. Over the weekend I decided to re-do it and try to keep moving forward. Its pretty generic, but I love the Day of the Dead so I HAD to.
It's Chevron Day!
33DC calls for the Chevron design today, I always like this one. Not to be confused with a Zig Zag which is kind of different, if you're getting technical.
I almost DID do a zig zag today and then I was like DUH.
Hello!!! Back to the grind...I had a nice relaxing Sunday watching a bunch of Netflix with the boyfriend and cuddling with my kittie, and now it's back to the business! Today is a new week of 33DC Challenges! Today we have 'Art With Your Oldest Untried' - I dug up one of my absolute oldest, Spoiled - Ants in My Pants
I am back to the 33DC after Wednesdays minor hiccup - today we are talking Texture. Oh yeah, Missy loves the texture! I had JUST gotten these two amazing NEON textures a week or so back - so I was all over using them for this challenge!
Hidey ho! Another day, another challenge! Today in the 33DC we are doing Tribals. Can you hear me groaning from there? Yeah, I almost hate tribal designs. They're up there with those ikat designs in that I just don't dig 'em. They can be cool, and I actually kind of liked the ones I did today, but you can bet if I'm not doing them for a challenge, I'm just not doing them period.
33 Day Challenge - today is Tape! Sometimes it gets hard to think of new ways to do a tape mani - and I give it up to the people who can really get intricate and ingenius with it. I usually choose to go the easier, less amount of tape, less psychotic overdose of impatience route...
For this tape mani I am using 2 of my new matte polishes from Mentality.
During one of our random afternoon conversations, Miss Debbie Crumpet mentioned I should check these out. Next thing I knew I had like 7 of them in my shopping cart. I picked a bunch of awesome, rich fall tones too, so expect to see those throughout this season/challenge.
This was super super basic. I just threw on a base coat, in this case I used Butter London Nail Foundation to give a slight tint and then when it was dry I put on my tapes in criss-cross pattern formation.
Then I just did a loose/messy gradient using the two matte polishes, Resilience and Hope, they are easy one coaters so this was pretty snappy - but I think I sponged down colors about 3 times before I pulled the tape up.
I also took pictures of this glossy but I thought this way looked so much better that I just threw them away.
This is with no top coat at all - and I think the texture of the matte and the ridges from the tape give it a pretty interesting appearance.
Here are the prompts for the challenge - jump in and catch up if you wanna! Or just start on the next one! You can go HERE to join the group and chime in on the conversation/get the gallery codes.
Sometimes on these prompts you have to draw your own conclusions, so this could be a shade, or a specific polish? Why not both!?
So I dug through my keyword list, which is not 100% accurate because sometimes I can't fit everything in there I would like - but I found that my most used polish was Zoya Dovima, and my most used color was Pink.
So I took Dovima and I paired it with one of my favorite pinks, Nicole by OPI Still Into Pink, which also happens to be the same finish, a sparkly matte. I've also used a MoYou London plate for this mani - Pro Collection 04.
I only used these two polishes, even for the stamping. I wanted to keep the finishes all matching. But you can definitely see how the pink changes when its stamped over black. Most polishes stamp poorly over black though so I was expecting this, I like it, even if it didn't really match the accent nail!
Pretty straightforward - both the roses and the cameo design are off of the same plate - and the mani was finished using Out the Door Top Coat.
Here are the prompts for the challenge so you can see whats coming next:
Hellooooo! It's time for a new challenge! Today kicks off the 33DC created by my dear Debbie and hosted over at Crumpets Nail Tarts. It's a 33 Day Challenge but it only runs Monday, Wednesday and Friday, so it's sweet for those of us not trying to have a heart attack posting massive nail art every single day. The prompts are pretty cool, too.
Here is the prompt list, and like I said, this runs Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays: So for todays manicure, Dots, I used American Apparel polishes in Cotton and Lopez Canyon and the Aqua by Bettina, which I won in a rad giveaway by Nory of Fierce Makeup and Nails. I took this idea from Sarah of Chalkboard Nails, I loved the color palette she used and since I have always wanted to do this random sized dotticure, why not now!? I did change it up and not do all the colors on all the nails like she did, but rather more of a skittle style with an accent. And matte, always matte!
The base here is American Apparel Cotton, which I'd always thought was just straight up white, but it's not! It's actually an off white, kind of like OPI My Vampire is Buff, but less buff. Loved it!
Then I dotted Lopez Canyon on pinky, black polish on middle and Aqua on index finger. I used the backside of a paintbrush that had a thickish handle for the large dots, and then I used standard dotting tools for the other dots.
Then on the ring finger I did a combination of all the colors, just dotting a couple of dots of each color as I was using that shade and then at the end going back in and filling in where needed.
Then seal with a quick dry top coat, give it a couple minutes and go over with a matte top coat (also American Apparel) - so what do you think?
While dots are not my go to, I always love this style on others, so I'm very glad I did it now, I liked it alot, especially this color scheme, so thanks to Sarah for such a great source of inspiration!!
I just wanted to throw this out to you - if you are a blogger or nail art lover looking for something to kickstart your mojo during the fall/winter months, here is a GREAT challenge that myself and quite a few other awesome bloggers will be doing near the end of September (The 23rd of September is when it starts) - and the best part is it's not grueling, its NOT every day, but only 3 days a week. And it has new, current prompts to try out!
See for yourself:
These are all of the prompts - how fun right?
And NOT a water marble or galaxy nails in sight!
And here are the prompts WITH posting dates!
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If you're interested in joining in - just JOIN the Crumpets Nail Tarts FB Group so you can get the inlinkz codes as well as post your own mani's and see everyone else's and get all the latest info on the challenge - I hope to see you aboard!
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Missy has been a nail and beauty blogger since January 2012, residing in South Carolina with her boyfriend and furbaby.
Coloring is MAC NC20.
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Holy Grails
Skin Type - Combination w/Dry Patches
Skin Color - MAC NC20
Every month as I count down my top favorites of the month, I will list whether or not it has taken the place of a previous holy grail product for me. Currently my holy grails are:
Skincare:
Cleanser - Burts Bees Cleansing Oil
Toner - Pixi Glow Tonic
Serum - Ole Henriksen Truth Serum (day) and The Ordinary The Buffet (night)
Moisturizer - Neutrogena Hydro Boost Gel-Cream
Oil - Organic 100% Rosehip Oil
Makeup:
Primer - Dr. Brandt No More Pores
Foundation - Clinique Beyond Perfecting in Creamwhip
Concealer - Maybelline Fit Me in Fair
Setting Powder - Laura Mercier
Finishing Powder - MAC Soft Rose
Blush - Makeup Revolution Nude
Highlight - Pur Cosmetics Afterglow
Bronzer - Physicians Formula Butter Bronzer in Bronzer
Contour - NYX Taupe Blush
Brows - Colourpop Mr. Bing Gel Liner
Eyeshadow Palette - Pur Cosmetics Soiree Diaries
Mascara - Cover Girl Super Sizer + Essence Lash Princess
Eyeliner - Catrice Gel Cushion
Lip Liner - ...
Lipgloss - Tarte Hella
Lipstick - Kat Von D Lovecraft
Liquid Lipstick - Kat Von D Ophelia
