31 Day Challenge 2012! Day 21: Inspired by a Color

Yay for this week being almost over!! 

  Today Rie, Sam and I are taking on day 21 of the 31 Day Challenge. The prompt for today is to be "inspired by a color". Last year I found myself having quite the dilemma over trying to figure out what to do for this challenge. The task to be inspired by a color leaves me open to do, pretty much, anything I want right? 

 I kept it simple by doing a cute gem design. My base color is Chick Nail Polish in Hipster Chick(full review soon). The color is so cute, fun and "Spring-y" that I just had to go for a flowery gems look. I started with Three thin coats of Hipster Chick and topped it off with some Seche Vite followed by Cult Nails Wicked fast to add the gems. I got my gems from a local shop but they can be found on eBay as well as several other e-tailers. I really like how playful and cute this look turned out. Now don't forget to stop by my challenge partners Rie and Sam's to see their Color-inspired looks for day 21!

(**Chick NP provided for review**)

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Zoya Week! Wednesday Two-Fer with Daul and FeiFei

Happy Humpday! 

  Zoya week carries on with Two looks today! I'm keeping it very short and sweet today as I do not feel very well. I spend the day in the hospital yesterday and today I'm going through the aftermath. Which, in a sense, is just as bad if not worse than the time spent in the hospital. But! I did manage to do these pretty gem looks with FeiFei and Daul.

  To see these Two gemmed looks just continue reading.

Zoya Daul

  For this look I started with Three coats of Zoya Daul. The gems I used for this amazing look came from Cult Nails. The great thing about the Cult Nails gem wheels is that each compartment has many different sizes of gems so it is really easy to create looks such as this. And let me just say that I LOOOOOVE these bronze gems. The look they create is just so cool and different! This mani reminds me of mermaids. A different kind of mermaid.

Zoya FeiFei

   With this look I kept it really clean and simple. These nails looked so AMAZING from far away. These Golden Studs from Cult Nails were the perfect touch for FeiFei. I don't think I was going for anything in particular with these studded nails. I just wanted something really clean and simple, but eye catching, to accentuate my beautiful FeiFei base.

 I hope you guys enjoyed these looks. I had so much fun playing with these colors and the gems. The shimmer and beauty of FeiFei and Daul pretty much demanded that I played with gems but keep it simple at the same time. I'm loving the results.

Thanks for stopping by!

(**Zoya products provided for review**)

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Happy "Indie-pendence" Day!! Patriotic Mani Spam

Happy Fourth oh July!!! 

  To all my American lovelies anyway :D! I actually ended up doing a few different Patriotic themed manis for this holiday. That usually never happens! It only seemed fitting that I celebrate independence day in some awesome indie polishes right?! Today I will be featuring some beauties by Couronne d'Or Vernis as well as Vivid Lacquer. I must say I am completely blown away by these Two ladies creations and will have separate posts on their beauties later on but some of the pretties they sent my way inspired some awesome July 4th manis. 

 To see these manis just continue reading :D!!

 This is the look I ended up wearing for the Holiday.

 For this look I started with bases of Zoya Sooki on my Pinkie and Thumb, Zoya Purity on my Ring and Middle and Chick NP in Raven's Egg in my middle. I did just one coat of each. Over my white based nails I did a coat if China Glaze Frosty for shimmer.
  The glitter toppers on my Ring and Middle Fingers are Couronne d'Or Saphir and Rubis layered over each other. I can't tell you guys how much I am loving the Couronne d'Or Crown Jewels Collection, but more on that later. On my middle finger I did some pretty gemstone accents over my Chick NP base. On my pinkie I stamped with BM plate BM317. On my thumb I did a big bow stamp from Konad plate M59 in White accented with a Blue gem.

Couronne d'Or I Love the USA over China Glaze Midnight Kiss

 I Love the USA  was created by Aly in honor of the 2012 Olympics. This topper is a mix of Red, White and Blue Stars, Hearts, Bars, Squares and hexes. This is not the easiest polish to work with but it also was not half as difficult as I was expecting. It is pretty easy getting the bits on the nail. I think this is such a cute and fun combination. Perfect for the occasion!

Vivid Lacquer Ocean's Pixels over Zoya Sookie

 This one is pretty self explanatory right? This looked SOOO cool in person! The blue and white small hexes created a cool sprinkled texture over the candy Red base. I love Vivid Lacquer's cute kitty logo!! This glitter is plenty packed and I only did one coat over my Red base.

Couronne d'Or Rubis and Saphir over Essie Marshmallow

 Here again I've layered Two of the Cd'OV glitter toppers over each other. I am truly amazed at how easy these glitters are to work with despite the bigger chunky bits. There is no fishing required! The effects they create are amazing and they are very versatile. I really can't wait to show you guys full swatches of these glitters. I am in LUUUURVEEE!

 And because I wanted to see a patriotic sammich.... I went back over my layered glitters with one light coat of Essie Marshmallow to get this look.

 Patriotic Birthday cake nails!!! How yummy does this look?!

Have a safe and happy Fourth of July everyone!!

 I hope you enjoyed my patriotic mani spam!!

(**Some products provided for review**)

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