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Welcome back to my blog!
Today is another prompt for the Neverending Pile Challenge, and its Frost!
Not the most popular of finishes, thats for sure. Luckily I just received the new MLB collection from OPI and there are a couple of frosts in it, so I figured I'd mash them up into a leopard print for todays prompt!
Welcome back to my blog!
Today is another prompt for the Neverending Pile Challenge, and its Frost!
Not the most popular of finishes, thats for sure. Luckily I just received the new MLB collection from OPI and there are a couple of frosts in it, so I figured I'd mash them up into a leopard print for todays prompt!
The Digit-al Dozen Does Texture! Day 1 - Neon
- Monday, April 14, 2014
- By Missy
- 0 Comments
OMG! I feel like it's been near forever since I did Digit-al Dozen week. First I had the NAGG challenge and skipped a month, then I got sick and had to skip another! Talk about slack! But now I'm back on track for our Texture Week! So excited, as you know I love some texture, and with the exception of one day, this week is full of awesome textured polishes!
Nail-Art-A-Go-Go - Day 3 - Warm vs. Cool
- Monday, February 03, 2014
- By Missy
- 0 Comments
Here comes Day 3 of the Nail-Art-A-Go-Go Challenge! As this publishes I am somewhere in Nashville enjoying a concert! Its been like FOREVER since I went to an actual concert and not just a show in a bar - plus its one of my oldest favorite bands, The Pixies. So needless to say, I had to schedule this because we will be home late, I hope we're having fun!
Anyway none of that has to do with today, but you know, I have to have some different intros to these posts from time to time! Let's check out what todays prompt is and what I did!
Anyway none of that has to do with today, but you know, I have to have some different intros to these posts from time to time! Let's check out what todays prompt is and what I did!
Rainbow Leopard Tutorial Featuring Pure Nail Lacquers
- Wednesday, January 15, 2014
- By Missy
- 0 Comments
I'm taking a short break from the Digit-al Dozen this week/today to bring you another in the Pure Tutorials Series I'll be doing here on the blog once a month.
Pure Nail Lacquer sponsors a few bloggers to produce tutorials doing anything we want with any of their polishes - so today I decided to do a pretty easy/everyone can do it type of tutorial - Rainbow Leopard! Truth be told I was a bit at a loss for what to do this month, so Nory of Fierce Makeup & Nails is to thank for this idea!
Pure Nail Lacquer sponsors a few bloggers to produce tutorials doing anything we want with any of their polishes - so today I decided to do a pretty easy/everyone can do it type of tutorial - Rainbow Leopard! Truth be told I was a bit at a loss for what to do this month, so Nory of Fierce Makeup & Nails is to thank for this idea!
Digit-al Dozen September Spectacular - Animals
- Tuesday, September 10, 2013
- By Missy
- 0 Comments
 | Trucking right along - today is our Animals prompt for Digit-al Dozen Does It Again! Obviously, I'm gonna do leopard print. I mean come on. Last time we had this week long theme I did leopard all 5 days. So in true spirit, I HAD to do it again. |
Digital Dozen Goes Animal - Striped Leopards
- Friday, April 12, 2013
- By Missy
- 11 Comments
Digital Dozen Animal Week is now coming to an end.
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These are always fun, and this months challenge was no exception.
So today I did a striping tape mani with some leopard spots.
I've tried to show off different ways you can incorporate nail art trends with prints for something interesting. Let's see this final installment of my crazy leopard week!
Digital Dozen Goes Animal - Hot Lava Leopard
- Thursday, April 11, 2013
- By Missy
- 5 Comments
Perusing through my never-gonna-get-smaller-pile of untrieds, I came across this W7 polish I won in Debbie's giveaway last year.
It's called Lava Flow and its like a Nails Inc/Hard Candy Sprinkles type polish...thought it might make a cool base for some art.
Digital Dozen Goes Animal - Neon Colorblocked Leopard
- Wednesday, April 10, 2013
- By Missy
- 13 Comments
Today is the 3rd day of the Digital Dozen Animal Challenge!
So for today I have a SUPER neon semi-color-blocked design.
Let's jump right in!
Digital Dozen Goes Animal - Gradient Leopard Print
- Tuesday, April 09, 2013
- By Missy
- 26 Comments
Hey all you Tuesday tarts!
Today I'm doing a leopard print mani in a gradient print...which is different than a straight gradient in that I'm gradiating the colors of the spots instead of the base.
I got this idea from the deeply lovely VERY EMILY a few weeks back, couldn't wait to give it a whirl!
Digital Dozen Goes Animal - 80's Leopard
- Monday, April 08, 2013
- By Missy
- 24 Comments
It's another week of the amazingly awesome Digital Dozen challenges.
Our group has grown way past a dozen these days, but it just keeps getting better with age, like me.
But seriously...the challenge was ANIMAL and somehow I ended up thinking it was animal PRINT. I was going to re-do most of my mani's until some of the ladies said they were also doing prints, so yay. Crisis averted!
Instead of being creative, I decided, you know what? I love leopard print. So I'm going to do 5 days of different ways to wear a leopard mani.
30/31 Day Challenge: Day 8 - Metallic
- Saturday, September 08, 2012
- By Missy
- 4 Comments
Here we go with Day 8 of the Challenge - Metallic!
I'm gonna go ahead and apologize now for my nubbies (I broke a nail so down they went) and for the fact that my pictures are not clickable for this. I accidentally had my camera set on tiny pictures for something else and forgot to switch it back, so these are lesser quality than I would like!
Thanks for swinging by - make sure and visit these ladies who are also chuggin' through the challenge as well:
I'm gonna go ahead and apologize now for my nubbies (I broke a nail so down they went) and for the fact that my pictures are not clickable for this. I accidentally had my camera set on tiny pictures for something else and forgot to switch it back, so these are lesser quality than I would like!
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| For this mani I used a base of Milani Silver Dazzle One Coat Glitter. It actually is best at 2 coats but is totally awesome and full of black grey and silver depth. I love it so much. |
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| The silver designs were made using Essie No Place Like Chrome from their new metallic polish line. |
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| Topped with Gelous and Coloc Club Vivid Top Coat. |
Thanks for swinging by - make sure and visit these ladies who are also chuggin' through the challenge as well:
Teal Tuesdays - Funky French!
- Tuesday, August 28, 2012
- By Missy
- 20 Comments
Typically, a funky french is a twist on the standard French Manicure. And it's pretty easy to twist it but still keep it "Frenchy".
I took this opportunity to try out some Flocked Leopard Black and Gold 'Fluffy' Nail Stickers that I received from KKCenterHk to review.
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| The stickers come packaged in a cute little blue and clear package with a ziplock tab at the top. You get 2 styles, oval and square/squoval, 10 of each style in varying sizes for pinky to thumb. Essentially - 1 sticker for each finger in 2 different styles. 2 full manicures worth. |
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| The stickers peel back easily but are thin, so be careful not to fold them under themselves and get them stuck. The adhesive on these SEEMS non-existent and doesn't feel sticky at all. But once they get on your nail, they are pretty immoveable! |
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| I used the stickers over a mani of Forever 21's Love & Beauty in Teal. A polish I recently acquired in a 3 pack of Blues through Copious for yet again, only a PENNY! |
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| The leopard nail stickers are a gold metallic fabric with a flocked black leopard print. Very 3D and wicked awesome. Because they are a fabric material, they do have spots where the polish below will show through. It is more apparent in these macro shots than it is in real life, but I like how they incorporate some of your polish shade into them. And the metallic gold is super blingy! |
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| The squoval shape is the one I did for these and it was the perfect shape for my nails. I would also like to add that no top coat was used on these. I simply applied them on top of polish that had about 15 minutes of dry time. |
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| As you can see in this side view of my nails, the stickers are pretty skinny. I would not suggest these for anyone with wide nail beds, but for mine they were nearly perfect. I didn't do a side cleanup with acetone as I normally would so you could see how they just slightly didn't reach the edges of my nails. But if I had done my cleanup they would have looked perfect! Of course again, as these are macro/close up pictures, the gap is much more obvious here than in real life! |
I was THOROUGHLY pleased with these nail stickers. They went on with ease and they stuck so well!
Seriously, after this dried, I tried really hard to peel them off and it was harder to get these off than my actual polish they were stuck to! But they came off with ease when I used some acetone on them.
They retail for $2.90 for the pack you see here - which will give you 2 full manicures if you use both shapes. You can also cut them to a different shape if need be or use them on a friend!
Make sure to check out all my other Teal lovin' ladies participating in Teal Tuesdays:
Rhonda Nail Polish Marbury - http://nailsbeautiqued.blogspot.com
Kirsten - http://geekyowl.blogspot.com
Amanda Murphy - http://mandyspolish.blogspot.com
Alyssa Botello - http://fancyphalanges.blogspot.com
ColorSplash Nails - http://colorsplashnails.blogspot.com
Simple-and-Beautiful - http://simple-and-beautiful.blogspot.com
Ana_Cherries Sweets http://cherriessweets.blogspot.com.es/
Ariane/The Frenzied Polisher http://thefrenziedpolisher.blogspot.sg
Caitlin - www.caitlinscreativecorner.com
Kia~LacqueredLibra - http://lacqueredlibra.blogspot.com/
Belén - http://nailpolishlane.blogspot.com/
Jess/Once Upon a Polish... - http://gafforama.blogspot.com
Jasmin/Subtletyisoverrated - http://subtletyisoverrated.wordpress.com/
Elysse/Elyssian Bauty - http://elyssianbeauty.blogspot.com/
Gisselle/Ms.Meow - http://msmeowsnails.blogspot.com/
Allison/ Love In A Bottle- https://www.facebook.com/lovethypolish?ref=hl
Arielle/Klutzy Hands Nail - http://nailsbyaklutz.blogspot.com/
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It's Tuesday and I'm SOO late this week!
Doing two mani's in one day is hard work, even when I don't do them on the same day!
I almost skipped this, but I feel so bad when I don't do a TT challenge, I feel like a hypocrite!
So anyway, this week our challenge is COPYCAT.
Copy a mani you like, using teal!
Well..the mani I chose to copy already had teal in it, but mine is different!
HERE is the mani I am recreating today!
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| Here I've used a base of Color Club's Rule Breaker. |
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| Then I taped it off down the middle and painted the other half with Sinful Colors Slate. |
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| Added leopard print on the grey side using Rule Breaker and Black polish. |
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| Then I finished it all off with a coat of Out the Door Top Coat. |
Hope you enjoyed my Teal Tuesday Copycat Mani!
Check out the other fancy ladies who do Teal Tuesdays with me:
Missy/Gnarly Gnails - http://gnarlygnails.blogspot.com
Rhonda Nail Polish Marbury - http://nailsbeautiqued.blogspot.com
Kirsten - http://geekyowl.blogspot.com
Amanda Murphy - http://mandyspolish.blogspot.com
Alyssa Botello - http://fancyphalanges.blogspot.com
ColorSplash Nails - http://colorsplashnails.blogspot.com
Simple-and-Beautiful - http://simple-and-beautiful.blogspot.com
Ana_Cherries Sweets http://cherriessweets.blogspot.com.es/
Ariane/The Frenzied Polisher http://thefrenziedpolisher.blogspot.sg
Caitlin - www.caitlinscreativecorner.com
Kia~LacqueredLibra - http://lacqueredlibra.blogspot.com/
Belén - http://nailpolishlane.blogspot.com/
Jess/Once Upon a Polish... - http://gafforama.blogspot.com
Jasmin/Subtletyisoverrated - http://subtletyisoverrated.wordpress.com/
Elysse/Elyssian Bauty - http://elyssianbeauty.blogspot.com/
Don't forget to enter the Gnarly Gnails 500 Follower Giveaway!
Ends 9.01.2012 and is open Internationally!
Rockabilly Luau Theme - Leopard Print
- Saturday, July 14, 2012
- By Missy
- 6 Comments
Welcome to the 3rd Mani in my Rockabilly Luau Theme Week!
I was contacted by Rockabilly Luau asking if I could come up with some Luau themed nails they could show the ladies attending the event as inspiration. I was so excited I decided to dedicate an entire week (or more) to it!
Most of the manicures you will see for this theme will include tutorials, I imagine a lot of people viewing these won't be familiar with some terms and techniques, so I am going to try and break it down as best as I can for everyone, and not just my regular readers.
To see all of the manicures in this theme - click here!
To see all of the manicures in this theme - click here!
So let's get started on these leopard print nails!
Here is what you will be achieving:
This look is so simple and easy! You will need the following:
A gold polish, a medium brown polish and a black polish.
(For this I wanted some extra sparkle, so my black is actually a black with gold shimmer)
You will also need a dotting tool/bobby pin for best results.
Paint your nails with the gold until they are opaque.
Next, get your brown (you can use acrylic paint in lieu of polish if necessary) and your dotting tool. Drop some color on a piece of paper so it's easier to dip your tool into.
Make random dots of different sizes on all of your nails like so. These have a little bit of a dark outline because I started with a brown that was way too dark! Make sure you brown isn't so dark you can't tell it apart from your black!
After you have dotted all of the brown, go in with your black (paint or polish) and outline around the dots haphazardly, in C shapes, in parentheses shapes and make some extra little spots in there too where you might have some bald spaces of gold background showing through.
Lookin' good. Now you have this and you will need to clean up any bits of paint/polish around your cuticles. Take a concealer brush or paintbrush, dip it in acetone and wipe around the edges of your nail to remove the excess polish. This is my go to method for clean up, q-tips are good too but sometimes they leave cotton fibers behind.
You're all done! Wait until it is COMPLETELY dry and add your top coat. Add it on thick so it covers up the spots and lays flat, also laying it on thick will help to avoid any streaking of your art.
Products Used:
Sephora by OPI Never Enough Shoes
Sinful Colors Nirvana
Femme Couture Golden Honey
Hope you enjoyed this tutorial!
For more information on the Rockabilly Luau - please visit their website at rockabillyluau.com - the event is August 4, 2012 in Atlanta, GA.
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