Thursday, October 2, 2014

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31DC2014 Recap

Congratulations to everyone who made it through the entire 31 Day challenge. I've not had time to check out everyone's manis from the last 31 days, but do I plan on doing so over this long weekend.


Something I did last year was a bit of a summary of my posts and a quick look at some stats around which were my most popular posts.

On Instagram, my most liked photo from the 31 Day challenge was of my Day 18 half moon nails with the skittle holo gradient! I was pretty excited to be asked by Nail It magazine to send them a step by step tutorial, so stay tuned for that. My most commented post on instragram was my Day 23 Movie nails of Toothless. YAY for Toothless.

On my blog, my most visited blog post for the challenge was my Day 7 Black and White Optical Illusion nails, they also got the most comments. Funny how such a quick and simple stamped mani was the most popular on my blog
My least visited mani on my blog and least liked mani on Instragram were my Day 1 Red Nails. No surprises there, they were a bit of a half arsed, last minute, "my original idea didn't work so I better pull something else together" kind of mani.

Here is a recap of my all manis. I'd love to know which one you liked best and which was the most popular nail design you created on your blog or IG?

31 Day Challenge 2013

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

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31DC2014 Honor Nails You Love

Yay we did!  We made it to the end of the challenge.

Today is Honor Nails You Love day.  This prompt is so easy, yet so hard.  I have so many manicures that I have snapshot-ed on my ipad because of their total awesomeness, so finding inspiration was easy.  Settling on just one to recreate is so hard!

In the end I went with a mani that I loved because a) it was gold and just felt like a 'me' mani and b) it was something that I had tried before and failed!  This is a white and gold mani featuring stamping with foils!

The nails I'm loving are by Eleonora over at Nail Art Stamping Mania.  I used the same stamping image from QA65 from the Born Pretty Store. I didn't have the other image she used on the middle two nails, so I just used a different stamp, but still placed Swarovski crystals in the centre.

I followed her video tutorial on how to stamp with the foils, and whilst it was a little tricky I was able to get a result I was very happy with.  The only down side is that the stamping image is a little small for my thumb, so I didn't get full coverage with the foil stamping.







 
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I live in Canberra, Australia with my husband, Mr Ten and Miss Eight. My blog is all about nail polish, and a few other bits in between. You can contact me at morenailpolish@iinet.net.au