31DC2014: Day 25 - Inspired by Fashion

Quick 4 am post! I have to say, I don't really follow the fashion world at all, so I went to the Vogue website for inspiration for this manicure.

31DC2014: Day 24 - Inspired by a Book

It took me FOREVER to figure out what book to do. After much debate, I decided on Papa, Please Get The Moon For Me by Eric Carle.

31DC2014: Day 23 - Inspired by a Movie

Well my plan for doing three manicures yesterday definitely fell through, but I think if I had done these yesterday, they wouldn't have turned out so well!

31DC2014: Day 22 - Inspired by a Song

Hello all! Here I am falling behind and playing catch-up as always. Today's manicure is based on the music video for the song Problem by Ariana Grande featuring Iggy Azalea.

31DC2014: Day 21 - Inspired by a Color

I'M BACK! And totally in love with today's manicure!

31DC2014: Day 20 - Water Marble

Today (or yesterday really) is the dreaded water marble... dun dun DUN!

31DC2014: Day 19 - Galaxies

For whatever reason, I always have a hard time with galaxy nails. It's kind of frustrating because everyone always says how easy and quick they are; however, I can never get them to look exactly how I want.

31DC2014: Day 18 - Half Moons

Second post for the day! Hopefully you'll be seeing two more by the end of the day.

I really like half moon manicures, but I very seldom do them. Today's nail art is a nice palette cleanser for the bright and colorful nail art that I have been doing throughout this challenge.

31DC2014: Day 17 - Glitter

Hey all! Sorry for the lack of posts, I've been getting myself together for a few job interviews and I'm super nervous.

I thought to try to relax myself I'd go ahead and try to catch up on the challenge.

31DC2014: Day 16 - Geometric

Quick post for these. Though I do really love them, there isn't much to say about them.

31DC2014: Day 15 - Delicate

So I'm super behind and I'm blaming it all on Day 15. It took me days to figure out what I wanted to do and then once I did, it still didn't turn out exactly how I had hoped.



For Day 15, I did dragonfly wings!

31DC2014: Day 14 - Flowers

Today I was thinking about how many indie polishes I own that I've never used before so I decided I should use one of those as the base for today's manicure. I don't usually use indies for nail art, but I really enjoy today's result.

31DC2014: Day 13 - Animal Print

Today's prompt is animal print. Instead of doing a print you would find on an animal, I made a print out of an animal.

31DC2014: Day 12 - Stripes

I'm finding it rather difficult to get inspiration for this section of the challenge, but I really really love today's mani.

31DC2014: Day 11 - Polka Dots

Hello! I wasn't sure what to do for today's prompt and then I thought it might be fun to try out the bubble technique. I completely failed at doing that, even though it seems so easy. I'm thinking I didn't have the right paint to water mixture. So I decided to do a not as smooth version of that using nail polish, some acetone, and a cotton bud.

31DC2014: Day 10 - Gradient

Something simple for today.



A brown on brown gradient that makes me think of chocolate... mmmm....

31DC2014: Day 09 - Rainbow

Maybe one of these days I can get my nails done early enough so I can do something more than a quick and easy post.

Today is rainbow. I still think nothing will beat my rainbow nails from two years ago, but I am a pretty big fan of these.



Oil slick nails!

31DC2014: Day 08 - Metallic

Beyond ready for bed, so this post will be short and sweet :)

31DC2014: Day 07 - Black & White

Happy Sunday! Last year for black & white, I did a gradient, the year before I did a dotticure. This year I wanted to try something a little more complicated.



Phases of the moon!

31DC2014: Day 06 - Violet

Good evening! I did my purples nails today three times and was unhappy with the result and eventually gave up, so here's what I settled on.


Needle dragged tie-dye nails!

31DC2014: Day 05 - Blue

Well it's Day 5 and I'm already a day behind... it's okay though, I plan to be back on track by the end of the day. Last night after work, I went to go see my brother's first football game of his senior year in high school. They won 37-0! :D

For blue, I decided to go with blue jean nails, which made me have Tiny Dancer stuck in my head all day yesterday. It was actually funny, because as soon as I got in the car to rive to the game, it came on the radio... how strange is that?

31DC2014: Day 04 - Green

Hey all! It's day four of the 31DC2014, and since yesterday's nails took me so long, I opted to do something much easier today :)



Mint chocolate chip nails!!

31DC2014: Day 03 - Yellow

Alright, alright, I know I'm late, but to be fair I worked from 8 am to 8 pm today and I haven't slept yet, so it's still September 3rd in my brain.

And now to the nails (because I'm ready for some sleep!)

31DC2014: Day 02 - Orange

So it looks like I'll probably be posting late this whole challenge. I got home around 5:30 today and just finished painting/photographing my nails, it's 9:16. Either way, it's still September 2 so I'm good to go :)



For today's nails I was inspired by octopus tentacles!

31DC2014: Day 01 - Red

Hello all! Long time, no posts.

Life has been super busy but I figured what would be a better time to start blogging again than with taking part in the 31 Day Challenge for a third year!

I don't have school this time around so my hope is to actually post every day this year on time, though I know I'm cutting it close with today's prompt.



Day one is red and the first thing that came to mind was..... BACON!

I really like how these turned out, just wish my topcoat wouldn't have smeared so much (hence the one photo, instead of my usual 2-3). I need to get more Seche Vite before tomorrow's prompt or I'm going to be pretty bummed. (Also my nails were the longest they've been in years up to this morning, even more of a bummed about that)

The polishes I used are:
Dare To Ware On Cloud 9
Julep Delaunay
OPI Kréme De La Kremlin
Color Club Poetic Hues

I'm looking forward to doing the rest of the prompts and seeing what other bloggers have in store :)

(prompt courtesy of Chalkboard Nails)

Here are my red nails from 31DC2013 & 31DC2012.