Erin Fetherston Ready-to-Wear Spring 2015 Nails

I'm finally getting around to posting day 25 of Chalkboard Nails 31 Day Challenge  2014, inspired by fashion. When perusing looks from New York Fashion Weeks Spring/Summer 2015 I came across a gorgeous striped skirt in Erin Fetherston's Ready-to-Wear collection.

JulieG Cruise Collection Gemetric Colorblock Nails

As I continue to work my way through Chalkboard Nails 31 Day Challenge 2014 I have day 16's geometric nails. I wanted to try something a different for me, so I went with simple and quick colorblocking.

Nauti-Roses

After wearing my day 12 nails all day I knew they weren't coming off; therefore, it was time for me to adapt them into my floral day 14 nails in Chalkboard Nails 31 Day Challenge 2014. I love flowers and stripes together, they were even featured together in my very first post. I'd been yearning to do them together again, but just hadn't felt up to the challenge. With the base already on my nails I was half way there...

There's a Kerfuffle over the Herringbone

Now that my picture editor is working (sort of) again I'm backtracking to day 12 of Chalkboard Nails 31 Day Challenge 2014, stripes. Honestly, I drew a complete blank on this one for days because originally I had wanted to do a floral design underneath stripes as if looking through blinds. However, that's too much of an undertaking to put on and remove when I really want to enjoy such labored over nail art. Finally, I settled on nautical stripes with a twist, because I love everything nautical.

Easter Egg Inspired Faux Tape Manicure (+ Tutorial)

Hello lovelies! I'm truly hoping someday soon my health will not hinder my life so much and I can get back to doing more fun & intricate nail art as well as blogging regularly. My beautiful polishes sit in a corner (in addition to boxes under the couch...heh) and get used by my friends more than myself. Today's nail art is from just before Easter. I never got around to posting it because I didn't think it came out quite how I was hoping; but the more I see it and know how much I struggled to sit up and finish the look I feel it needs to be shared, because I was so proud I finished them.

Shamrocks on One Year Blogiversary!

I have a short but sweet post for you all being that it's my One Year Blogiversary! It wasn't until I looked back to my first post that I realized it was on Saint Patrick's Day; so I decided to do quick shamrock look inspired by my first post.

Birds of Paradise Doodles

Hello all! I decided to share a post inspired by my friend Christina and one of my original nail art passions - doodling. This past year she did a beautiful manicure that instantly reminded me of Birds of Paradise and I told myself, "Someday I'm going to do that, too." After applying Cadillacquer Blowfish I knew it was time.

Chevron Thanksgiving Gumdrops

Welcome to another catch up posting day for the The Crumpet's 33 Day Challenge. I'm cheating slightly by posting days 29 and 30 together, since they both are to feature the same pattern-chevron in this case. I used MoYou London Pro Collection plate 02 for my chevron image.

 First up I have my Chevron Thanksgiving nails for day 29, my favorite pattern, using some of my new butter LONDON shades. (Pin-able image, base, then nail art.)

Dotted Lines

So, I'm finally getting caught up on my old challenges for The Crumpet's 33 Day Challenge, and I have day 28's (dotted) lines to share.

Herringbone Nails

Hello all! Today I have some beautiful herringbone nails from my Pinterest board inspired by the lovely Mr. Candiipants for day 26 of The Crumpet's 33 Day Challenge. 

Sugar Spun New York City Lights

Today's prompt for  The Crumpet's 33 Day Challenge is trying something new. I've been wanting to try out the spun sugar technique for a while now, more or less since my stripers started drying out just enough to cause the effect inadvertently. So for this prompt I decided to make the dragging deliberate and pair it with some pin dots. I must say I'm thrilled with the results. I also used a new polish I received in a mystery grab bag from Pretty & Polished called New York City Lights, which I will review for you below.

Chevrons and Lush Lacquer Snow Angel

Day 8 of The Crumpet's 33 Day Challenge is here with a fun chevron skittle featuring Lush Lacquer Snow Angel.

31DC2013 : butter LONDON Rainbow Tape Manicure (+Tutorial)

Today I have day 27  of Chalkboard Nails 31 Day Challenge 2013 and day 3 of The Crumpet's 33 Day Challenge. This is a taped manicure based on fine line quilting (as artwork). I found an outline for a quilt here, sadly I could not find a photo of the final quilt. All the same I new I wanted to make this into nail art.

31DC2013 : Zebra Inspired Nails

Day 26 of Chalkboard Nails 31 Day Challenge 2013 is here with Zebra Pattern Inspired Nails. I decided to spin the meaning and share nail art that I did inspired by my floor mat, heh. 

Colors used: OPI Honk If You Loe OPI; China Glze Whirled Away; and Stripe Rite in black, white, & light blue.

"D" is for Designer Dolce and Gabbana Nails

So, in this post I bring to you my lovely "D" is for Designer Dolce and Gabbana nails inspired by a lovely ensemble seen on both Katy Perry and the 2013 Spring Runway. My colors are not quite to scale, because I wanted to use my"D" polishes, which I'll list below. I have apparently mastered combining two of my challenges into one post (I am now convinced they planned these to align subconsciously): week four of the Girly Girl Challenge hosted by Mani's by Moore, which is "Inspired by the Runway"; and week four of the "ABC" Challenge hosted by Erica's Nails and More, which is the letter "D." If you click on the label for the challenge name you can find challenge details and my other nail designs for said challenge. And here they are..