10-Day Challenge Recap!

Hi everyone(: Here is a recap of all the manicures I included in my 10 Day Challenge. Enjoy!

Day 1:

Day 2:

Day 3:

Day 4:

Day 5:

Day 6:

Day 7:

Day 8:

Day 9:

Day 10:

A big thanks to Jessica from Luv My Lacquer for asking me to do this challenge with her. It was a blast! And thanks for all the nice feedback! It really made my happy(: My personal favorite would have to be day 8, no words can describe how much I loved my Up nails... I was sad to take them off. On another note, this challenge allowed me to experiment with free hand nail art which is something you guys will hopefully see more of :)

I also wanted to mention that each picture is linked to their original post. So if you want to know details such as what products I used, be sure to click on the photos.

I hope you enjoyed this challenge and much as I did and be sure to let me know what you think!

Thanks again!

10 Day Challenge: Day 10

Welcome to the last day of the challenge! It's kind of a bittersweet moment... I also wanted to give a big thanks to Marketta who came up with the challenge! It was a blast coming up with all these manicures and thanks everyone for you nice comments :) Anyway, today's challenge was ombre nails. I wasn't sure if I was going to do actual ombre's or do a gradient. I decided on actual ombre just because I thought it would be fun and I haven't done one before.

I decided to go with a green ombre! I was going to do a purple one but I'll do that next time :) I guess it's not the best ombre in the world... it's kind of "choppy". I don't have that many of the same shade though just because when I buy polish, I try to make sure it's unique. For the pinky, I put a swipe of China Glaze Tree Hugger and then quickly went over it with Revlon Minted so it's a bit more green. Also, I am very stupid because I just realized that most people just add white to their polish. Oh well. Too late now, haha.

Here is a quick pic of the polishes I used, names will be listed below:

Thanks so much for reading and I'll have a 10 Day Challenge recap up tomorrow! A big thankyou goes to Jessica for asking me to do the challenge with her(: Be sure to check out and follow her blog! It's a really great blog:)

Be sure to check out Jessica's take on today's challenge! 

• Left to Right: OPI Jade Is The New Black, Bettina Mojito, Bettina Trees, Revlon Minted

10 Day Challenge: Day 9

Welcome to day 9! Getting close to the finish line :) Ok, so today's challenge was so use your favorite color combo.

Ok, so one of my favorite color combo's is blue and silver. I opted for something super simple.

I started off with 2 effortless coats of Bettina Aqua and then using a silver polish, I stamped on a fishnet pattern. I love fishnet patterns... they always turn out nice :)

Darn! Aqua is so hard to capture :( This is not color accurate at all. It's way more green. And I am not sure if my eyes are playing tricks on me, but the silver stamping looks a bit gold... I love it!! :D

Thanks so much for reading and be sure to check back tomorrow for day 10! The last day!

Be sure to check out Jessica's take on today's challenge! 

• Base Color: Bettina Aqua
• Stamp Color: Sally Hansen Silver Sweep
• Plate: BM209

10 Day Challenge: Day 8

Hi everyone! Welcome to day 8 of the challenge. Today's nails are supposed to be inspired by a movie.

Up is one of my most favorite movies of all time so I thought it would be perfect for this challenge. These nails were inspired by the scene where Mr. Fredricksen and Russel are just taking off and they are in the sky.

 On the ring finger I have a ton of balloons and then on the middle and pinky finger, I have a little more balloons then the sky and some clouds. For the sky/clouds, I started off with one coat of Bettina Vintage Jean then sponged on some white. For the balloons, using a big dotting tool, I would dot a couple colors, then take a smaller dotting tool and drag the polish a little bit down so the shape would be more "balloon-ey". I did that about 2-3 times using different colors. Topped it all off with one coat of Pro-FX.

Thanks so much for reading and be sure to let me know what you think! :)

Be sure to check out Jessica's take on today's challenge!

• Sky: Base Color- Bettina Vintage Jean, Clouds- Wet N Wild White
• Balloons: Blue- Bettina Indigo, Yellow- Bettina Art Deco Yellow, Orange- OPI Bet It All On OPI, Purple- Zoya Kieko, Green- OPI Jade Is The New Black, Red- Bettina #156

(**Bettina products sent for review**)

10 Day Challenge: Day 7

Hello everyone(: Today's challenge was to recreate your favorite free hand nail art design! I knew exactly what I wanted to do(:

Mario mushrooms! So cute right?

I have seen a couple tutorials in the past but I didn't really feel like watching one today. I ended up just winging it.

Let me know what you think!

Be sure to check out Jessica's take on today's challenge! 

• Base Color/Green: Bettina Trees
• White: Wet N Wild White
• Black: Milani Black Sketch Nail Striper

(**Bettina product sent for review**)

10 Day Challenge: Day 6

Hi everyone! I have some really exciting news! I have officially reached 400 followers! :D Thanks everyone! You guys rawk! In other news, something really sad happened yesterday. My nail broke. I was walking around and noticed that my nail seemed really square. I then realized it had been snapped!! Then, being the stupid person I am, I fiddled with it resulting in a really ugly nubbin. Despite my nubbin, I hope you enjoy my take on today's challenge :)

I don't know if anybody else noticed Ashley Bensons awesome nails in the September issue of Seventeen Magazine. I have been wanting to recreate them for the longest time but never got around to it. I figured now was the perfect opportunity.

I started off painting one half of the nail red, and the other half white. Then I stamped a fish scale (?) image off a Bundle Monster french tip plate. I stamped a different image on the other half. Afterwards I added little red polka dots on one half. Topped it all of with one coat of Pro-FX. Afterwards I noticed that on my red side, the "design" was black instead of red. Ashley's were red instead of black. Oh well, I don't have a stamp-able red anyway :P And on top of that, I ran out of my usual black so I had to use my backup one which isn't that opaque :/

Here is a pic of the nails:

Overall, even though they didn't turn out exactly the same, I think they look decent(: What about you??

Be sure to check out Jessica's take on celebrity nails

• Red: OPI Red My Fortune Cookie
• White: Wet N Wild White 
• Stamp Color: Bettina Secret
• Red Side Plate: BM217
• White Side Plate: BM208

(**Bettina product sent for review**)

10 Day Challenge: Day 5

Welcome to day 5 of the challenge! Today's theme are blue nails(: Oh, and Jessica and I figured everybody would be busy shopping so we skipped posting yesterday :)

Blue is one of my favorite colors so the possibilities were endless. I decided to use one of my most favorite blue's of all time, OPI Suzi Says Feng Shui. Afterwards I added a thin coat of Bettina #189, a gorgeous shimmery blue packed with micro blue/green reflects. The end result was gorgeous! Then I stamped on this fun image on plate BM204 using a silver polish.

Overall I think it turned out really cute, what about you??

Be sure to check out Jessica's take on blue nails

• Base Color: OPI Suzi Says Feng Shui
• Layered color: Bettina #189
• Stamp Color: Sally Hansen Silver Sweep
• Plate: BM204

(**Bettina product provided for review**)

10 Day Challenge: Day 4

Today's challenge is animal print, I was originally going to do something using zebra stripes, but one of my Twitter followers, Robyn (AKA MsMidnightBlue) suggested something really cool... cow nails!

Just in case you don't know, these are supposed to be dairy cows! ^_^ It was my first time stamping with Wet N Wild Black Creme so it's a little messy :/

I started off with two coats of a generic white then stamped on this image from plate BM. Topped it all off with one coat of Pro-FX

Let me know what you think and Happy Thanksgiving!

Be sure to check out Jessica's take on today's challenge

• Base Color: Wet N Wild White
• Stamp Color: Konad Black Pearl
• Plate: BM222

10 Day Challenge: Day 3

Hi loves! I already did "Day 3" nails but I didn't like them so I decided to do them again. Is that cheating?? Oh well :P Also, in case you didn't know or forgot, today's challenge is book inspired nails!

So today's nails were inspired by Nickelodeon's Avatar: The Last Airbender. I got the actual nail idea from Ihaveacupcake on Youtube. I absolutely love the Avatar series! I haven't read the books but I own all three seasons of the TV show. In fact, my whole family loves the TV show :) I saw the movie but I didn't really like it :/

Ok, so on the middle finger freehanded Aang's arrow and on the pinky I have the Airbending symbol. Since I suck at nail art (you would know that if you saw my first Day 3 attempt) I decided to use this stamp that semi looked like the symbol. I stamped each swirl one at a time and placed it on my pinky. I freehanded the blue french tips.

Here is the book cover and the symbol:

Be sure to check out Jessica's take on today's challenge! 

• Blue: Bettina Vintage Jean
• Stamp Color: Wet N Wild White Creme
• Plate: BM224

(**Bettina product sent for review**)