Snowflakes in a Pond of Blue. . .Presents

This winter I decided to recreate one of my favorite nail art looks of last year, Snowflakes in a Pond of Blue, with a little twist - hand painted red ribbons and bows to look like wrapped presents! hehe. I did enter this in the #celebratewithpueen contest on instagram; but it was on my to do list before I knew about the contest. I've also been putting off posting this because it didn't quite live up to my expectations; but the Polish Party prompt this month is stamping with a three color gradient -  pond gradient in this case ;) - so I thought that must be my wake up call to stop hoarding and start sharing!

Delicate Feathered Pedicure

I've still got some back tracking to do, but I figured I might as well bring you today's prompt for Chalkboard Nails 31 Day Challenge 2014, some delicate. After racking my brain for over a week on what would be simply nail art for my toe nails that would require as little effort as possible it occurred to me, "Stamping." I was thinking flowers, twirly lines, etc.; and then I saw the prompt delicate and decided to go to my plates with only that in mind. The ending result, feathers!

Zebras be Clowning Around

I know I've skipped a few days of Chalkboard Nails 31 Day Challenge 2014 - honestly, I need to upload images from my camera and do all the work that goes along with making the posts. Alas, I'm here with day 13 where I've added a little something to my day 9 look; thus, creating a fun and funky Zebra!

Clowning Around at Lillibet's Jubilee

Day 9 of Chalkboard Nails 31 Day Challenge 2014 adds a little something to my day 8 look - Rainbow glitter.

Lillibet's 18K Gold Jubilee

Day 8 of Chalkboard Nails 31 Day Challenge 2014 features Metallic. I know I'm a day late in posting, but I did actually paint my nails on the correct day. ;u)

Purple Pedicure

So technically I'm a day late for Chalkboard Nails 31 Day Challenge 2014 featuring violet/purple; but yesterday was jam packed and my energy was expended far too quickly for me to even attempt posting before now. With that in mind, this post is going to be very light on photos.

The French Come to Bed Red

Can you believe today marks Day 1, Red, of Chalkboard Nails 31 Day Challenge 2014? I know I can't! I'm going to try my best to finish the change, even if I need to create a few twists or extensions of my own.

Sinful Colors Anchors Away Swatches

Hello all. Today I have some swatches of Sinful Colors Anchors Away from my Surf's Up Vox Box samples courtesy of Influenster.

Spring Into Watercolor Flowers

I am really excited about today's post. I have been wanting to do a floral watercolor design for a while and with spring officially here, it seemed like the perfect time. I decided to go for a doodled wallpaper design, which came out just as I had hoped. If you like these nails, please follow my link to vote for them in the Nailpolis Spring Contest by March 31st.

Green Nimbus Nails

For this weeks GOT Challenge I have concocted gorgeous, green nimbus nails! I haven't used this technique much since I started my blog, but I'm so happy I'm revisiting it!

French Dotticure

I'm really excited to share this manicure with you all today. For the Lacquer Legion's Reinvention challenge I knew I wanted to visit one of my first nail art inspirations, dotting (all of) my polishes on my nails - now I know it's a dotticure - because one or two was never enough. It just so happened the GOT (Golden Oldie Thursday) Challenge for this week is dots; hence they were meant to be paired together!

Watercolor Seashell Nails

Hello all! Today I bring you day 31 of The Crumpet's 33 Day Challenge, which features artwork with my three favorite colors--butter LONDON HRH and Molly -Coddled, and OPI A Grape Fit! I found this fun seashell art by Artdestiny, which I themed my design around.

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.

OPI Black Spotted Returns To Altantis

Day 7 of The Crumpet's 33 Day Challenge is here with "artwork featuring your oldest untried," i.e. Mary Capan's Return to Atlantis featuring OPI's Black Spotted (yes, I know, how have I not tried this for so long...heh). As you can guess, the hardest part was finding artwork that had a black spotted effect-but I did, and loosely recreated it into my own nail art.

31DC2013 : Sleepy Hollow Nails (+Tutorial)

Day 29 of Chalkboard Nails 31 Day Challenge 2013 is a Supernatural theme. I instantly knew I wanted to do some sort of legend, whether it be mermaids or unicorns, etc.; but then thought I could make it a Halloween themed design as well. I then happened upon this mystical tree image and knew I wanted to do Sleepy Hollow nails.

Sleepy Hollow Image.

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.

31DC2013 : Feathered Nails

Today I have day 25  of Chalkboard Nails 31 Day Challenge 2013 and day 2 of The Crumpet's 33 Day Challenge. Sorry I'm bringing this to you a day late, but between work and filming (I'm working on the set of a movie base off of the book Love Finds You In Sugarcreek, OH) I couldn't fit in a post yesterday. Anywho, today I have another nail design from my archives that fortunately I could match with both challenges (fashion and my most used color is OPI A Grape Fit!).

Dress.

31DC2013 : Pretty In Pink Pedicure

Day 22 of Chalkboard Nails 31 Day Challenge 2013 is here with nails inspired by The Psychedelic Furs "Pretty in Pink". When I did these nails a while back this song and Pretty In Pink (the movie it was written for) were my inspiration. Throughout the movie Molly Righwald's character Andie wears a lot of soft pinks with neutral accents, and I wanted to emulate that in my pedicure.

31DC2013 : Water Marble Nails

Day 20 of Chalkboard Nails 31 Day Challenge 2013 is here with Water Marble nails. 

31DC2013 : Gold Iron Ore Textured (Half Moon) Vintage Manicure

For day 18 of Chalkboard Nails 31 Day Challenge 2013 I bring you a textured vintage, half moon manicure. I really enjoy vintage inspired manicures and I tend to do a matte versus sheen with my half moon. This time my inspiration was gold in iron ore so I choice to mix sheen and texture. I then added a gradient for a little something extra. I hope you like it.