9 11 Never Forget Nails, Week 37 of the Year of Polish Challenge

So, yes, the Year of Polish is STILL going strong on this blog:)  Week 37 asks us to remember one of the most infamous days in recent American history.  I saw a graphic that used the twin towers motif as the "11" in 9-11 that I thought would translate well into nail art and added an American flag and the words "Never Forget."  Very happy with this mani but it makes me melancholy because I do remember that day...

Hug your loved ones, dear ones...life is so uncertain.

Tape Mani: A Year of Polish Challenge, Week 36

Had to try out Sinful Colors Ocean Side from my recent Walgreens trip.  99 cent polishes are so hard to resist!

Tape manis are not my strong point but this seemed to work out ok.  I was able to pull off the tape to keep it from getting messed up.  One thing I found with this is putting on Seche Vite on top of my base color helps keep the tape from pulling up half dry polish. 

I added dots because, well, I am a dot accent kind of girl!

 

Zombie Cupcake Nails- Week 35 of the Year Polish Challenge

Meh...cupcakes but zombie cupcakes?  Awesome!

Walgreens 99cent Sinfuls...love a good deal!

  

Wet N' Wild Megalast polishes were also on sale and so I picked up Bite the Bullet.

China Glaze Shower Together topped with WnW Fergie Walk of Fame

Wet n Wild Walk of Fame on top of China Glaze Shower Together... I am so hooked on star glitters!

Neon Leopard Nails

Just another set of freehand leopard print nails with a neon base.

I can't get enough of true neons and leopard print!

Claires and Icing Polishes and a quick swatch

Claire's and Icing are having Buy 1, Get 1 50%  off so I went a little wild today!

Radio Superstar on top of imPress nails in Flirt!  Love how these turned out!

 

China Glaze Blue Iguana topped with Crow's Toes Absolum

Just a quick swatch of my one and only Crows Toes polish, Absolum.  I paired it up with China Glaze Blue Iguana.

Stamped Butterfly Wing Nails

I was over my KC It Purple and FP Motley mani and I wanted to try out the butterfly wing stamp on the Vivid Lacquer  002 plate.

It needed a little bit more after that so I applied teal hex glitters and covered them with some L.A. Colors iridescent glitter.

I have to say, this butterfly wing mani was WAY easier than the freehand version.  The wing image is a little large and I beleive that Vivid Lacquer added a smaller wing image on her newest plates.

Anyway...what's better than glittery, sparkly butterfly wings?  Nothing!

A Belated week 32 of the Year of Polish Challenge: Neon Watermarble Manicure

Watermarbling and I have not seen eye to eye in recent past and I finally figured out why.

Everyone (the watermarbling experts) kept saying that the water needed to be room temperature.  What I failed to realize is that, with my husband's penchant for sub zero a/c settings, not even room temperature water was in fact room temperature in our home.  I lowered the a/c and for the first time I was able to swirl the polish and apply the design to my nails before the polish dried to a messy skin on top of my water:)  I think it helped using some very good quality polishes from my newest stash of China Glaze.  

For these, I painted my nails with one coat of Sinful Colors Snow Me White.  Next, I taped up all of my nails in preparation for messy watermarbling.  I dropped dots of China Glaze Purple Panic, Turned Up Turquoise, and Sun Worshiper and used a tooth pick to pull the layers into a petal design.  I then dunked my nail carefully into the design and used a toothpick to pick up all of the excess polish off the surface of the water before I pulled my nail out.  The tape prevented a lot of cleanup but I still had to do a bit of touching up around my cuticles and nail edges.  I then applied dots of Snow Me White to each arc of color and topped those white dots with discs of holographic glitter from China Glaze Techno. 

All in all, very satisfied with my watermarbling experience AND with the resulting mani.  This won't be the last watermarbled mani you see on Nails Actually!