Day 29 | Inspired By a Blogger with Watermelon Nails

Today’s manicure was incredibly hard to decide on as there are so many wonderful nail artists out there with beautiful nail creations. I chose one that I have been wanting to try for a long time and matched a green dress I was wearing that day! I decided to try my hand at a Waki Laki watermelon design that I thought was adorable!

As a base, I used two coats of Julep-Jackie and created the tips using a neon green, silver and white striper polish from Art Deco. I should have used striping tape to create more crisp tips, but I thought I would be a hot shot and do it freehand. For the watermelon “seeds”, I used L.A. Girl Glitter Addict–Uninhibited and China Glaze-Fairy Dust for some extra sparkle.

Day 28 | Inspired By Your Favourite Colour–PINK!

When it comes to nail polish, it is VERY hard to choose a favourite colour, but if someone was threatening to destroy all of my nail polish if I didn’t make a decision, I guess I would have to say, it’s PINK! As much as I love blues and greens, pink always resonates well in any environment and with everyone. I started off with two coats of this absolutely GORGEOUS polish from Born Pretty that goes by the name of BK Fashion Nail Color in 24. This could have been a one coater, the opacity and formula were both amazing.

Day 27-Mani Inspired By You

For today’s manicure, I too decided to re-create my very first attempt at nail art based on a tutorial by cutepolish from about 2 years ago. Forgive the blurry picture, I think we all have humble beginnings when it comes to taking pictures of our nails! To be honest, I think I may have done a better job the first time around! To create this look, I used China Glaze – Too Yacht to Handle, which I am currently in love with, Sally Hansen XTremeWear – Celeb City and Art Deco-Silver Glitter.

Review | NCLA Nail Wraps

I’m going to start by saying that nail wraps are not my friend. I have tried a couple of different brands and by the end of it, I just wish I had painted my nails instead. So far, I’ve tried Sally Hansen, OPI, and Perl and no luck. Sometimes the strips were too thin other times, too thick. Out of those three fails, the Sally Hansen ones were the best, so when I was offered the opportunity to review some NCLA nail wraps from Nail Polish Canada I really had nothing to lose.

NCLA has some of the edgiest and funkiest nail wrap designs I have ever seen! The designs are unapologetically loud and attention-grabbing and I was praying that these would work with my incredibly C-curved nails.

May | 2013 Favourites

May was a bit funny for me with favourites because I was under so much stress that my lips started to completely freak out and became itchy, red and numb which meant living off Vaseline as I couldn’t wear anything else! So, while my lips were undergoing some much needed TLC, I focused on products for everywhere else instead!

Day 26-Inspired by Your Country or Canadian Stereotype Nails!

I haven’t given up the 31 Day Nail Challenge yet! I am determined to finish with my teammates so without further ado, Day 26 is all about being inspired by your country and so I thought I’d have a little Canadian fun and showcase our very good sense of humour ;-)

We say “Eh?” and apologize all the time so of course that had to make it on to my nails! We also love our Royal Canadian Mounties, hockey and live in igloos! I would actually love to try living in an igloo. It seems quite cozy. The only polishes I really used were OPI-My Boyfriend Scales Walls, Cult Nails-Evil Queen and sponged on China Glaze-For Audrey for my thumb. The rest of this design was done in acrylic paint.

Close up of the igloo which I am quite proud of!

Be sure to check out the other wonderful ladies also participating in this challenge!

Naomi @ Bellezza

Traci @ drinkcitra

Masha @ Lost in Lacquer