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 Store, Nail Plate Review BP-111

Today's look is another review from Born Pretty Store and the plate BP-111 is linked here.
The plate is a full plate of pattern images, and I chose this soft wave pattern in white. I used Revlon Blue Lagoon for my base and BP-73 for my reverse stamping flower.

This look was so pretty in person, and I can't wait to try the geometric patterns from the plate as well. 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,

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,

Born Pretty Review, Nail Stamping BPL-66 and BP-111

Today's look is a review for Born Pretty items I was sent to show my readers. I used BPL-66 for the flowers linked here and the waves are from BP-111 linked here. My base is Nicole By OPI Back To Reality...TV and my yellow is Rimmel Sunny Days. The green is a Color Club unnamed green flakey I've had for years.

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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