Digital Dozen Does Paper, Unicorn

This look was inspired by a full hand of Unicorns with 3D horns made of modeling clay by @polish4people on Instagram linked here. For my 'paper week' purposes, I had to figure out how to recreate the horn out of paper. I took one photo before I added the horn just in case I wrecked everything, so first up is a picture of my rainbow horse! I also convinced Cathy from More Nail Polish linked here to join in this insanity, so you have to check out her amazing look as well in the Inlinkz below.

1. I took a Post It not and cut a tiny triangle and rolled it into a small cone with a bit of tape.
2. I then covered the entire cone in base and top gel polish and cured it.
3. I then used a coloured gel polish to create the spiral so I could see what I was doing.
In the finished look I added a holo top coat, but I kind of wished I'd left it as it was. In case your wondering, I stuck the cone on the tip of a detail brush so I could hold it while working.

All in all, I loved it! It was a fun experimental project and really pushed me to figure out how to use paper physically this week.

Cheers all,

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Born Pretty Review, Nail Staping BPL-63

Today's look was the second plate I was recently sent by Born Pretty Store for review. The cute jumping monkey image was from plate BPL-63 linked here from Born Pretty Store.
For polishes I used all Sally Hansen Choco-Late, Mousseline and Black Heart.

If you decide to check out this plate or any others, use this 10% off discount code UNGX31 they are offering my readers!

Cheers all,

Digital Dozen Does Rainforests, Frog Nail Art

Ok, I made it to friday...so that usually means it's my weirdest or least liked look of the week! I really wanted to recreate one of the poisoned frog's my son's like from the BBC Earth 2 series I mentioned on Monday. I decided to practice some decal making for this lil guy, as I knew he might be tricky.

I also had the bright idea to do this on my Cindy hand for some freehand practice for my non-dominant. I created all my freehand leaf/frog details in acrylic paints. My little frog decal turned out pretty cute, and applied all right considering I haven't attempted this in a while. The base on this is Swizzle Stix from Barielle

Don't forget to check out my girls looks today, and feel free to leave me a round of applause in the comments for creating the leaf pattern with my non-dominant hand!!!

Cheers all,

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Digital Dozen Does Rain Forest, Tiger Nail Art

Today's look is another fun twinsie look inspired by some stamping by @cedriscnails on Instaram with fellow Digital Dozen girl extraordinaire Sarah from +25 Sweetpeas. I created this fun rain forest setting with stamping leaves from BPL-026 and the tiger peaking out from BM-613. Sarah then recreated hers freehand. It was really cool to see it both ways! I'd like tot do it again sometime, with me the one challenged to freehand! My base polish for this was two coats of Gorgeous from Sinful Colors.

Doesn't he look hungry? Don't forget to follow some links below and see what's up for day four!

Cheers all,

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Digital Dozen Does Rainforests, Toucan Nail Art

Today's look is the super cute freehand twinsie with Cheyenne from @cdbnails143 on Instagram and fellow Digital Dozen that I was mentioning yesterday. The look was an original creation from @lifeisbetterpolished that I've wanted to copy forever and Cheyenne found it online as well. Great minds think alike!

The base on this one is the sheer nude Mousseline from Sally Hansen. This took three coats and my design is all acrylic paint. I even got to dig out the seldom used 'giant' dotting tool for this one.

Side story, I was supposed to make my toucan belly yellow as Cheyenne did for a change, but forgot and copied the original. Oh well, did you notice?

Cheers all,

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Digital Dozen Does Rain Forests, Lizard Nails

Today's look is a super cute freehand twinsie/bestie with Cheyenne from @cdbnails143 on Instagram and fellow Digital Dozen member. The look was lightly inspired by a lizard look from Robin Moses a while back.We traded two looks for the week and this is the first! All the tropical plants and my lizard are acrylic pain on two coats of Crash from Indie Polish. Once dry, I matted this one as well to show off the details better.

Don't forget to follow the links below to see Cheyenne's amazing version in her post, as well as the day 2 looks from the other girls. I can't wait to show you the second look from Cheyenne and myself as it might be some of the cutest nail art ever!

Cheers all,

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Digital Dozen Does Birthday's...Literally!

So today's Digital Dozen Does Birthday's post is a special one. It's a sneaky surprise too! We told
Amber from Nails Like Lace - http://www.nailslikelace.com that we were planning a regular old birthday post and even chose an image. The reality is we are sharing in the excitement of Amber's new baby girl, and all created baby girl inspired images! Congratulations Amber and SURPRISE!

Today's looks inspiration was the nursery. I loved decorating our boys nursery, and this was my chance to design for a little girl! I always thought if I had a girl I wanted to to pink and chevron's in the room. I've also always pictured butterflies as an accent.

My boys nursery was beige and baby blue with white chair rail and airplane accents. My pink butterflies are stamped from BP-74 and I used an almost neon teal and black acrylic paints to add details.

I wanted to show you this as well, my new hobby. I got a Cricut machine and have been creating wall vinyl's, mugs and decals for all sorts of notebooks and items for myself and the kids. Anyway, the mug kind of matched my mani so I wanted to share.

Cheers all,

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Kawaii Bunnies!!! Digital Dozen Does Birthday's...Sort of!

Today's cute Kawaii bunnies look was set up as a Digital Dozen Does Birthday's look for the month. We didn't have any birthdays to celebrate, but we did pick this cute image to recreate for ships and wiggles! Lol!  I created my bunnies and dotting with acrylic paints on China Dance Baby. The little blob guys are supposed to be skulls, but I'm not sure I achieved that!

Don't forget to check out my girls in the Inlinkz below. This was definitely a fun one!

Cheers all,

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Digital Dozen Does Black, Day 4.

This look is a cheeky play on words, and inspired by the TV show Black Sails. If you haven't watched it, it's a very naughty good show! Based on the pirate life prior to the story line of Treasure Island, the story focuses on real and literary pirates based in the Bahamas during the prime years of pirate attacks called the 'Republic Of Pirates' that operated during the years of 1706–1718.

I created the distressed nails with grey and black acrylic paint on nude and stamped these adorable crossbones on my center nails.

If you get a chance to watch the show, you should check it out. One warning, the first couple episodes were a little dry with pirate politics. The series does pick up after this, and we really enjoy it. Don't forget to check out the links of my ladies below!

Cheers all,

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Digital Dozen Does Black, Day 3.

This look is actually a recreation of one I did of a deer on black polish last year linked here. I decided to zoom in on the deer's head, but ended up having some difficulty with the antlers. Overall I'm happy with the look, and I created it using acrylic White on Ruby White Tips Addicted  and mattified.

Love winter looks like these, but I hope we are getting closer to spring! Don't forget my girls in the links below.

Cheers all,

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#clairestelle8halloween, Black Cats. Halloween Nails

This look I created a while back for #clairestelle8halloween but couldn't post due to some other business. I loved this one though. My base is OPI Eurso Euro, I then added my chevron stamping and my details in acrylic paint.

My kitty definitely turned out creepy, and maybe a little fat! I also really like my floral nails.

Cheers all,

Oct 18 Clairestelle8 Halloween Bats Nail Art

So I had a massively low break on my swatch hand and decided to give it a bit of time to grow out. I have a few more looks I've pre-done for #clairestrlle8halloween, but I created this bat prompt look on a tip. I've never actually done art on a tip before, it was fun! I created a gradient using orange acrylic paint over OPI Schnapps Out Of It. I then mixed a nice coordinating brown shade for the background trees. Once dry I uadded the front black tree trunks to give a depth to my background. Once I was happy I added my bat in acrylic paint on top.

I matted it out and totally loved this finished piece.

Cheers all,

Pumpkins for #clairestelle8halloween. My Indie Polish, The GreatPumpkin.

These were my Pumpkin nails for #clairestelle8halloween on a great polish I had to pick up recently from My Indie Polish. My leaves and pumpkin design were all acrylic paint.

On to the polish, this is two coats of the best thermal ever! This creamy off white/orange shimmer is amazing. Totally great formula and packed with shimmer. I couldn't get over th colour combo when I saw it go on pre-order and had to have it. 

I wasn't disappointed and love this polish.

Cheers all,

Oct 15 Clairestelle8 Skulls.

Today's look is for #clairestelle8halloween and the prompt Skulls. I wanted to go a little off the rails with the colours I chose, and I went with some blues. I Used a base of OPI Sky's The Limit and stamped a rose pattern from BM-618 over top in Nabi Sky. I then added the skulls from Hehe-046 in white and used parts of a tribal design to add just portions of lines.

Once dry, I added black acrylic dots into the eye wholes of each skull to make them feel a little darker. What do you think of my off the wall skulls on roses design?

Cheers all,

Digital Dozen Does Vampy, Friday

Ok, so I wanted to do one more Halloween design and keep it freehand too, and I saw this really adorable kitty look on hdinails on Instagram linked here. I decided to recreate her grey kitties on teal in a Halloween colour scheme. This base polish is a special Halloween release from Wet and Wild a few years back called Black Magic. The kitties and yarn ball are all acrylic paint. I hope you like my last Vampy look for Digital Dozen Does Vampy week.

Once again I want to welcome all the new girls to the Digital Dozen. I hope you guys love it as we all do, and we're happy to have you. Olivia Jade Nails, Snacks On Rotation, Painted Fingertips, Uma’s Nail Art, ProcrastiNails, Manicured Canvas, Let’s Begin Nails, Fancy Side Nails, 25 Sweetpeas and Manis & Makeovers!

Cheers all,

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Digital Dozen Does Vampy, Tuesday

So today I've decided that Halloween is definitely Vampy as long as I keep my colour palette 'sexy and edgy' (aka dark) I'll fit right in. 

I started with a base of OPI Here Today...Aragon Tomorrow, and this green is definitely a Vampy colour that I love whenever I use it. It looks just like Velvet when matte. I used acrylic paint to add my dotting and pumpkins. 

I loved this look much more than yesterday's, and I think I'm getting the swing of this. Again, don't forget to check out all the girls below in our Digital Dozen Inlinkz. Especially all the new friends!

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Cheers all,

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