31DC2013: Day 26, inspired by a pattern

Patterns are awesome. They are. The thing is, we already had 10 days dedicated to them. But don't you worry, I have just the pattern you need, that hasn't been used in the challenge!
3D cube pattern! I mean. how can you not fall in love with this geometric, optic illusion print? I know I did!

I really liked yesterday's color combination, but I knew that I'm gonna need to use different shades of the same color, and therefor, the orange must go. That's why I added the dark turquoise to the combo, and went on with it.

I used Cihc sand as the nude tone, Life 329 as the light blue, Chic bora bora as the blue and Laline kahal galena as the dark turquoise in the pattern and on my tips.

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31DC2013: Day 25, Inspired by fashion

When I first set my mind to do the 31DC, I just KNEW I'm gonna ask my friends to look for some crazy fashion for me to use, since I'm not much of a fashionista my self. But it the end, I needed no help! Few weeks ago [don't expect me to know when], New York fashion week took place, and links for the collections, and one caught my eyes in particular.

I took my inspiration from Diana Von Furstenberg spring 2013 collection. Maybe the name doesn't ring a bell to you, it sure didn't ring for me, But when I googled her, I recognized her in a second. And so what if I watch American Next Top Model marathons when I'm sick. It's on TV! Any how, you can see the rest of the collection here.

My base color in the non-accent nails is Chic sand. The light blue is Life 329, darker blue is Chic bora bora, and the orange-y shade is Ga-de clay brushed.

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31DC2013: Day 24, Inspired by a book

After yesterday, I looked for something simpler to do. So I took inspiration from a wonderful, well written, full of emotions book, "The Fault In Our Stars", written by John Green [which is an awesome person!].
While the Hebrew cover looks somehow like the painting "starry night" by Van Gogh, The original cover is very simple, so I went with it.

OK, yes. Maybe too simple. But oh, well. I promise that tomorrow's design will make up for it!

The base color is Chic bora bora, black is Chic black fog, and white is Chic white flag.

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31DC2013: Day 23, Inspired by a movie

That one was a sure thing for me. My all time favorite is Grease. No, for real now- I've seen it over 10 times, heard the song many more times, I own the DVD, and yesterday I got my hands on a vinyl records set!
So I knew Grease is gonna be it.

Pinky to pointe I presented different outfits in the movie- Pink Ladies jacket, T Birds jacket, the skirt of that nerdy girl, and Rydell logo on the cheerleaders outfits.
As for the Pink Ladies, and the T Birds, I chose singular form, because I didn't had place for anything else.

My thumb shows the Grease logo- the word itself in a car shape.
And to tell you the truth- I'M SO FREAKING PROUD OF IT. For real! It turned out so much better then I expected, and I couldn't be more happy about it.

Black in by thumb, pointer, middle and ring fingers is Chic black fog, White in my thumb, middle, ring and pinky is Chic white flag. Red in my pinky and thumb is Life strawberry, Blue in my ring finger is Life 332, and the pink in my Pointer finger is Laka 73.

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31DC2013: Day 22, inspired by a song

When I've heard "song inspired" I imidiatly wanted to go with the one and only, that makes me go nuts in lipsing, Britney Spears. Now, I wanted to go with some old school classic such as 'Baby one more time', but ended up going for the song 'Holg it against me', because it's video has alot of sceance I could take Insperation of.

So here is the full on manicure, and from here I'm gonna show you each finger with a screen shot of the insperation for it.

Starting with the pinky and the thumb, where I took inspiration from the splattered dress. The white here is Chic white flag. Blue is Chic bora bora, green is Chic crazy in love, purple is Life 328 and orange is Life 299. I mixed those 4 colors with some nail polish remover [Acetone does not work!] and blow the brush to get paint on my nails.

On to the ring finger I have Britney lips. I must say, I did a horrible job capturing it, but oh well.
Black is Chic black fog, Pink is a mix of Laka 73 and Chic white flag, white is again Chic white flag and red is Life strawberry.

My middle finger represent Britney's CRAZY neon necklace, which I would love to get my hand on. No idea what will go with it tho.
Nude is Chic sand, Silver is Chic diamonds, and yellow is Ga-de california sun.

My pointer is an abstract of the fight between Britney's black self and Britney's red self. I uses saran warp to create this effect. Red is Life strawberry and black is Chic black fog.

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31DC2013: Day 21, inspired by color

*Intentionally ignoring the fact I've missed two posts, and hope to fill them up later.*
This is the part of the challenge that I was the most excited about! It just feels that this time, I got more space to do what ever I want, be much more creative about things!
So as many other bloggers, I interpreted this day as "inspired by color name", and I went with Essence night in vegas, which is a flakie topper.

Night in vegas starts in the Vegas sign, so that's what I went with! Smudged as hell, so I'm guessing it's time for a new top coat [and another, thinner, brush], but other than that, it turned up quiet awesome. I'm very happy about it, frankly.

Black is Chic black fog, and on top of it on most nails I have Essence night in vegas. In the thumb I added a random rhinestone I found. White is Chic white flag, Yellow is Ga-de mellow yellow, the blue of the stand is Life  316, and the blue for the font is Chic bora bora. red is Life strawberry, and gray is Life 269.

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31DC2013: Day 18, half moon nails

Half moons can be either boring or exciting. In today's case, it's some-where in the middle. One of those classical "It looked better in my mind" sort of nail arts.
But I still like it. Alot. Just not as much as I would expected.

I decided to go with a full coat of the base color, and using the hole punch stickers method, I created a half moon glitter gradient. I had an idea in mind to use the hole part and put it on top of the ring shaped sticker for a double half moon, and I tried it on the thumb, but the result was kinda muh...

The base color is Ga-de peach sorbet, and the glitter topper is Golden Rose [jolly jewels] 118.

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31DC2013: Day 17, Glitter nails

Glitters, glitters all around!
For this challange I had the idea in mind. I wanted to recreate The Nailasaurus diamond jubilee diamond.
But after I did my manicure, I found out that it's connected to her in an another way. As it turned out, we both been using the same polish in today's challange. And to top all that up, I used another polish that I bought once after keep seeing it on her blog!

Any how, I went with a skittlette mani, and used glitters in each single nail. Three kinds of glitter. I think that's enough for the glitter day, don't you think?

The glitter on my pinky is Sally Hansen [gem crush] lady luck, while the base color for all the other nails is Life blueberries. I used glequins, and the black lines were done with Chic black fog. The glitter on my thumb is H&M jo is in the house.

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31DC2013: Day 16, tribal print nails

I still haven't missed a post, but let me tell you, it's very tiring. Man, I should have thought it through deeper.
But on to the positive side- I'm getting to do stuff I wanted to do for a long time, and this is one of them, Ikat print!

OK, I'll be the first to admit that it didn't turn out that great, the black out lines in particular. But I blame the stiff brush and the dried polish, and leave you with a promise to try this manicure again at some point.
I followed Kayla's tutorial, so check that out for an explanation.

My base color is Ga-de mellow yellow, white is from the nails supreme set, plum is Chic simply you, and black is Chic black fog.

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31DC2013: Day 15, delicate nails

It's my birthday you guys!
I know I'm pushing the limits here, but give me a break, a girl can party in her birthday, right?
Since the begining of the challange I was wondering about what I'm gonna do for this special day. And I came up with something both delicate and festive, bunting!

I started with a grey base color, because this shade specifically is very cool. I don't know why, I just like it alot. Any how, I drew black lines on top of it, and went with my go-to pastel rainbow colors. In order to complete the look I added my number of years of existence on my thumb, and that was it!

The grey is Life 269, black is Chic black fog. Coral-pinky shade is Ga-de peach sorbet, yellow is Ga-de california sun, green is Chic crazy in love, Blue is Life 329, and the purple is Chic I lilac you.

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31DC2013: Day 14, floral nails

This day is the one I was afraid of. I do NOT like floral print. I don't know why, but I guess it just looks old for me. I mean, why would you wear you grandma couch as a dress?
Any how, apparently I was right. Even after finding a pattern I wanted to do, I failed doing it.

I ended up being really frustrated, and went with something simple. Very simple. And I managed to ruin.
I drew the flowers themselves with the basic polish brush, and added a dot on top of it. I like only two of the flowers- one on my ring finger and one on my thumb, both of them are the ones closest to the cuticle.

The base color is Astor 7, the flowers are Ga-de tangerine, and the silver dots are Chic diamond.

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31DC2013: Day 13, animal print nails

I came up with today's manicure quit early in the day, but was too lazy to do it till now.
I didn't want to go with the classical animal prints, so I thought about it for a while, and decided to go with a parrot! two of them actually.

Four of my nails are devoted to the red parrot [don't expect me to search for his name], and my thumb is the parrot that I'm pretty sure is called Drara. This manicure is meant to be seen in a diagonal position.
After coloring my base colors, I hand drawn the details, and used dotting tool for the green bird eye.

This gonna be a long list of colors...
Green is Chic crazy in love, red is Life strawberry, white is Chic white flag, black is Chic black fog. I used Ga-de california sun for the green bird eye and as an undie on my ring finger. Both the blue and the bright yellow are from nails supreme set.

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31DC2013: Day 12, stipes nails

Oh my, oh my. The nail-art goddess sure does not give me an easy life!
Stripes. Easy. This time I even had an idea. Wanted to use my texture polish for the stripes. So I applied glue [as a peel off base coat] because it's glittery. Applied base color, and striping tape, and then the texture polish. Peeled off the striping tape- TADA! No polish left on the nail. So I free hand the stripes with a brush.

I'll just say- the colors are as close as I could get them to the reality. But the base color shade is so much more beautiful in real life, that's it's a bummer I couldn't manage to.
So as I said, I draw the lines by hand, and added my awesome-camera-shy holographic glequins in stripes as well. My thumb got full two coats of the texture polish, AND a stripe of glequins.

The base color is Life 327, the texture polish is Chic sugar baby 5, and I got the glequing in a small nail art supply store.

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31DC2013: Day 11, polka dots nails

Another day, another mass for me. Ugh I'm starting to feel that it's a bit over my head :/
Anyway, today is another day where my friends turned up as a great help. After me panicking in the chat, they came through!

Snow man nails! Why, you may ask- cause it's freaking hot outside and I want winter! Not that we have snow here, but a girl can dream.
Orange is Life 299, and black and white are Chic black fog and white flag. Guess which one is who.
That's it for today. Hopefully tomorrow will be easier for me...

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31DC2013: Day 10, gradient nails

Man, today was not an easy one for me. It makes me worried from the challenges to come...
Since I did a gradient two days ago, I know I can't get away with just a simple gradient. At first, I thought about doing a gradient using my first two new texture polishes, but when I put the first one on, I realized they don't have the texture I thought they'll have. So I gave that idea up, and that's what I came up with.

Quit simple, I know. But I was really blocked. I swear!
By the way- sorry for the bad photos, it's a really last-minute post for me, since now it's after 11 PM here in my little country, and I NEED to go to sleep. Will you go easy on me this time?

My base color here is Ga-de tangerine, and on top of it I used tape to create the triangles [except dor the thumb]. The second color in the gradient is OPI german-icure.

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31DC2013: Day 9, rainbow nails

I have to admit, I wasn't too excited about today's challange. For me rainbow is either too childish or the homosexual flag, to be honest with you. After coming up, and canceling, tons of ideas, I decided to simply taste the rainbow!

Oh... yeah! It's a skittles mani! And boy, this mani was a rough one! My nails ended up too short for this, and if you'll look closely, you'll see that I dropped the "e" in the word. BUT- I am very proud of it, and the rainbow itself came out great, which is why it's good I took some pictures before adding the text.

So my pointer is obviously the original flavored package, while the other nails supposed to resemble the skittles them self. Also, smart me didn't bother to wait till the text is fully dried, and massed it up with the top coat.

And on to the color list-
The red is Life strawberry, the orange is Life 299, the yellow is Ga-de california sun, green is Chic crazy in love, and the blue on the logo is Chic bora bora. The purple on my pinky is Ga-de purple empire, while the one used on my ring finger is Life 328. Don't ask why.

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