OMD3 Day 8: V-shaped

I attempted to make claw nails. The illusion would have ended up much better if I didn't have to cut my nails short recently because they kept breaking. I'll have to try again if I can ever grow my nails long.

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OMD3 Day 7: Glittery

I loved these ones. I was going through my nail polishes looking for inspiration for this month when I started testing it on my thumb nail. Then I loved it and needed to do it to the rest of my nails! I did a sort of gradient with Nail Junkie from Sinful Colors. I did a layer of it, followed by another layer that didn't go all the way to the bottom, then more layers the same way. I did this technique before on a friend's nails using a sheer tint from OPI.

I did this manicure when I still had to wear a bandage. I cut my finger almost a week before on the light on our rangehood. It bled quite a bit and now I have a scar! I absolutely loved this manicure and I'll need to do it again sometime when I can do all ten fingers!

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OMD3 Day 6: Polka Dot

I thought that dominoes would be a fun stray away from the colourful polka dots usually done for this theme.

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OMD3 Day 5: Colourful

I was initially going to use a rainbow glitter as an accent nail, but then I was sick of seeing rainbows lately. (Thank you, facebook!) I decided to use Color Storm from Picture Polish instead. It's a new one for me and I love it!

I started with a base of Desire from Formula X. Then I wasn't sure if I wanted just one accent nail or French tips. I decided a combination would be great. I loved how it turned out!

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OMD3 Day 4: Gold and Black

These were fun because it was my first time using a thin long striper brush and felt like I actually had success. I was planning this pattern and I was so happy that I actually could do them without altering my design!

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OMD3 Day 3: Silver

I really wanted to try one of my new polishes, Metallic 4 Life by OPI, for silver. It is only a touch of silver with glitter, so I decided to do it on my accent nail. The other nails are Push and Shove from OPI. Sadly the silver glitter in Metallic 4 Life didn't photograph as well as I would have hoped.

 

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OMD3 Day 2: Peach

Once again, I'm falling behind on a 31 day challenge. But that's because my sisters-in-law were here for a week and then my husband's best friend and his wife came for the weekend. At least I have two hands so I can do two prompts at once!

Today's theme was peach. I knew right away that I wanted to do Princess Peach from the Mario games. I decided to do a modified French manicure to represent the bottom of her dress.

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OMD3 Day 1: Teal

Every July, a few bloggers put together a 31 day challenge for nail art. Each day in July has a different prompt. Today's prompt is teal.

I decided to do a gradient with My Dogsled is a Hybrid and Amazon... Amazoff, both from OPI.

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Ladybugs

I finally got to posting on the same day that I did my nails. Being unemployed helps even if I do still feel sick. (My job was a fixed term contract.)

This past Saturday, my friend had a 30th birthday party that was Super Hero themed. I went as Agent Carter. She has bright red nails all the time, so that's what I did to my nails. One of my other friends commented that it was the most normal she had seen my nails. She said normal, I say boring.

When walking to church the next morning, I walked past a place called the Sewing Bug. It has a ladybug on its logo and I realised that was the perfect way to jazz up my nails. It just took me a few days to actually do it. I was debating between dots on the non-accent nails or a French tip. I had waited too long to decide, so I needed to do the tip to cover up the wear!

It's my birthday and I'll do my nails if I want to

My birthday was two weeks ago. My husband and I celebrated a bit when we were up in the Gold Coast with his parents. We got a pretty painting and a beautiful necklace as part of my birthday present. Seeing the dingo puppies at Dreamworld was also a birthday present. Then this past weekend we got the last part of my gift, which was a big sundae from Gelatissimo. It had 32 mini scoops of gelato and it was amazing!

I also got three cakes from my husband. The ice cream cake was for our Eurovision party the weekend before my birthday. There was a chocolate cake with mint icing for my actual birthday that I brought to singing practice. Then he made a Ferarro Rocher cake for our Bible study on Wednesday. I was very spoiled!

I forgot to get a picture of the big ice cream cake, but we had extra ice cream so we made little cakes as well. I also didn't take a picture of the chocolate cake with mint icing. Oops!


These are my nails from my birthday. I started by painting them purple. Then I used a sponge to add in the blue and green, in addition to adding more purple. I loved how they turned out, but it was a bit difficult to capture the subtlety in a picture.