Gnarly Gnails: Pattern: Chevron

Easter/Spring Skittle Tutorial

Sunday, March 30, 2014
By Missy
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Hi guys!!!
Its supposed to be spring now, which is weird to me given we had flurries the other day! But in getting in that spring spirit, today I have a SPRING/EASTER Skittle TUTORIAL for you! Nory and I are doing our monthly video on Easter manicures, so make sure and check hers out too!

Brand: American Apparel

33DC - Chevrons

Wednesday, October 09, 2013
By Missy
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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.

Brand: Color Club

Digit-al Dozen September Spectacular - Tape

Friday, September 13, 2013
By Missy
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Wow! Tomorrow is our last day of this challenge...so sad.
It's been a blast - but rest assured, there will be a short break and then I will be doing ANOTHER nail art challenge!

Anyway, we're still doing this one, so let's talk about it. It's the Tape Prompt today for Digit-al Dozen Does It Again - and you know I love some tape!

Brand: Essence

Golden Arrowheads

Friday, February 15, 2013
By Missy
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Well...this is my first post from my tablet...its a little weird.
Hopefully there won't be any hiccups with it!
Today I'm showing you some goldish chevrons I did using my bare nail as the base...might be the first time you've seen me naked now that I think about it!

For this Mani I placed a chevron shaped nail guide on the nail and painted the gold area over my bare nail. Bare meaning just a base coat. If you don't have Chevron guides you can just cut a piece of tape and use the right angle/corner of it to make the same design.

After I did the gold polish I plopped on a coat of quick dry top coat.

Once the polish was dry, repeat the chevron/tape process again for the tips using a blackened gold shimmer polish.

Again, finish with a quick dry top coat and you're all set!

These are the polishes I used for this manicure:

Topshop Solar

Essence Front Row or Backstage

Brand: Catrice

30/31 Day Challenge: Day 30 - A Tutorial

Sunday, September 30, 2012
By Missy
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Todays prompt for the 31 Day Challenge is 'A Tutorial'
This can be to make one, to follow one or...I dunno, something with a tutorial!
I had grand ideas to recreate my Glitterfish mani today with a tutorial, alot of people had asked me for one so I really wanted to do this, since Day 1 of this Challenge.
But as is the case most of the days of MY life, this goal was not meant to see fruition.
I simply don't have a memory card large enough in my camera to film a lengthy tutorial. So I decided I would try to film one on my webcam. After an hour of creating the mani and filming it, waiting for polishes to dry, etc...I replayed it and it was just a mess.
So....long story short, today I am following someone else's tutorial.
I found this on the Dazzle Dry Facebook page a few days ago and figured I'd give it a go:

http://nailingitdown.blogspot.com/2012/09/layered-sweetheart-nails-with-dazzle-dry.html

So here is my version:

For this heart chevron design, I started with a base of Catrice Steel My Soul. It s a stunning greige with golden shimmer. Then I taped that off with reinforcement dots like in the tutorial and painted on the second color - Catrice Steel My Soul. A gorgeous taupe with blue and pink flecks. Both of the Catrice Steel polishes have a brushed metal texture - even after top coat you can still see it's texture in these photos. They were one coaters too!

Once dry, I taped my final section and painted the tips with China Glaze Midtown Magic. A reddish brown with gold and red shimmer.

Finished the manicure off with Butter London Quick Dry Topcoat.

I ADORE this color combination!

Feel free to visit the rest of the ladies participating in this challenge and see their tutorial versions:

Blogger: Top Coat It

It's Monkey See Monkey Do Monday!

Monday, April 23, 2012
By Missy
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I apologize in advance that I had every intention of doing the "Homage Month" that was going around Tumblr at the beginning of the month. Unfortunately I lost my computer and had issues getting pics uploaded and next thing I knew the month was more than half over and it was not worth it. Lo and behold, some of the exceptional ladies at the Purple Crumpet Fairy group had devised Monkey See Monkey Do Mondays, which is essentially the same thing, only done once a week! I love it!

Here is my inspiration for this week:

This awesome mani and tutorial can be found HERE.

Hope I did it justice, I've been obsessed with the idea of black and nude lately, and when I saw this mani I knew I wanted to recreate it in those colors...

I used Color Club Nomad Nude, Fingerpaints Black Expressionism and Hard Candy Matte Top Coat.

Check out these other Monkeys!
Dressed Up Digits
The Crumpet
LeSamowen
The Clockwise Nail Polish
The Manicured Monkey
Follow The Yellow Polish Road
Maquiclub Girl
Macabre Manicures
Polish Crazed
Toxic Vanity
Beauty Bumbles
The (mis)Adventures of a Wanna Be Martha
Polish Lover
Geeky Owl
Angelina's Nails & More
Tales of Knit and Nails
PishPosh and Polish
Fanning the Fumes

Challenge: Adventures in Stamping Sundays

Adventures in Stamping Sunday - Valentine's Mani!

Thursday, February 09, 2012
By Missy
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This weeks Adventures in Stamping challenge was a Valentine's Day Mani (stamped, of course!)...So after a total fail mani, I managed to pull this one out - which is currently my most favorite mani I've ever done on myself!