Pea Nails

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<div id="wpImg214496" style="text-align: center;">This week for the Llama Nails Alphabet Challenge the letter is "P"!</div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">After much thought and talking with the hubby I decided to do Pea Nails. ;-)</div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">I started with Revlon Royal. I only did one coat, but it looks like I should have done 2!</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">I added rhinestones to my accent nail using top coat as "glue".</div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">Then I used a dotting tool to dot Sinful Colors Olympia onto the rhinestones.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">♥A</div>
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Merry Christmas!

<p style="text-align: center;">I hope you are all have a very Merry Christmas!!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The 12 Days Of Christmas Nail Art Challenge for today was Santa!!!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I am super happy with the way these nails turned out!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://ourpaintedworld.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/wreath-reindeer-sleigh/dsc02167-gimp/#main" rel="attachment wp-att-2581"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2581" alt="DSC02167-gimp" src="http://ourpaintedworld.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/dsc02167-gimp.jpg" width="388" height="180" /></a>I used LA Colors White, OPI Mimosas For Mr. &amp; Mrs., LA Colors Pink, Nicole by OPI Keeping Up With Santa, Finger Paints Black Expressionsim, Maybelline Express Finish Gold Rules, Sinful Colors Opal Glitter and Revlon Red Star.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Merry Christmas! Love to you all!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">♥A</p>

Pic Heavy 3 Christmas Eve Manicures!!!

I had 3 different challenges to do for today!!

1. Christmas/Holiday for the Let It Snow Challenge
2. Tinsel for the 12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge
3. Santa & Elves for the Winter Holiday Challenge

I did the 1st two manis ahead of time so I could wear my Santa & Elves on Christmas Eve! ;-)

Please excuse my horrible cuticles in these photos, the cold weather is doing a real number on them & I haven't been keeping up with the cuticle oil. :(

I'll start my post with my Tinsel mani.

I started with Milani 3D Holographic-HD.  Beautiful right? Here's a close up!Looks like tinsel doesn't it? I was so proud of myself for this! :)

♥A

then I added a thin coat of Cover Girl Snow Globe to my ring finger and added some silver & red bar glitter.

Elves

<p style="text-align: center;">Today's 12 days Of Christmas Nail Art Challenge was Elves!</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">I started with Nicole by OPI All Is Glam, All Is Bright! Such a pretty full coverage glitter!! For the reds I used Orly Torrid and Revlon Red Star. The white is LA Colors White. The black is Finger Paints Black Expressionism and the green is Revlon Posh.</p>
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Wreath, Reindeer & Sleigh

I have two more challenge manis for you today! Unfortunately they didn't sync up so I actually had to do two manicures!! LOL!

The first is for The 12 Days Of Christmas Nail Art Challenge- Wreaths

I had a hard time deciding what to do for this challenge! Once I decided on a design it didn't turn out AT ALL!! I did one nail and gave up! :( I'm sorry guys, I think all these challenges sapped my creativity for this one!!

Although the mani is unfinished and didn't turn out well I'm going to go ahead and post the fail! ;-)

OK you can see where I was going with this right? Now that I'm looking at it again I can see a few options I could have tried... maybe sponging a darker green would have given it some dimension and just using red rhinestones would have looked a little more like berries or lights. UGH!

I suppose at least I tried, even if I failed.

To see more Wreath manis click the link!

The second challenge for today is Reindeer & Sleighs for the Winter Holiday Challenge.

This one turned out much better!

 I started with Orly Torrid then added the adorable stickers!

After my wreath mani I wasn't up to anything too complicated! ;-)

To see more Santa & Reindeer manis click the link!

♥A

Ornaments

Christmas is only 6 DAY AWAY!!

Are you guys all ready??? I've been done shopping for awhile and we are mostly wrapped so now it's time to sit back and enjoy time with my family and friends! :)

I have 3 challenges today! The first is an "O" mani for Llama Nails, the 2nd is Ornaments for The 12 Days Of Christmas Challenge and the third is Christmas Decoration ( Tree, Ornaments, Wreath etc.)  for The Winter Holiday Challenge!

This photo was my inspiration! Pretty ornaments right? I especially loved the red and green ones with the gold!

As soon as I saw this picture I knew I had some stamping plates that would work perfectly to recreate these ornaments on my nails! ;-)

I started with Color Club Berry & Bright, Finger Paints Easel Come, Easel Go!, Pure Ice Blue Midnight, Color Club Ho Ho Holly and China Glaze Flying Dragon.

Flying Dragon and Blue Midnight weren't quite as shimmery as I wanted so I coated them with essie luxeffects pure pearlfection.

I used BM-314 and Maybelline Gold Rules on my Thumb, BM14 and Konad White on my Index finger, LO03 and Pure Ice Silver Mercedes for my middle finger, CH10 & Gold Rules on my ring finger BM-209 and LA Colors Phenomena on my pinky.♥A

<=== To see more from The Winter Holiday Challenge click this link!

More from the Llama Nails Alphabet Challenge click this link ===>   

December Nail Art Society Bag

<p style="text-align: center;">I got my first <a href="http://www.nailartsociety.com/">Nail Art society Bag</a> last week!!!!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">It has taken all my self control to not post until now! I was like a little kid in a candy store when opening the package!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Here's what was in the package this month.</p>
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<div style="text-align: center;">The nail art theme this month was Dripping in Diamonds &amp; they included an instruction card for how to achieve the look, but I forgot to photograph it!</div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>In this month's bag I received:</strong></em></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong> 2 polishes</strong>. They are both Max Makeup Cherimoya matte-n-a brand. The silver one is called Blockbuster and the berry one is Mystery. I have photos lower down in the post, but for now I'll just say I liked the polish, it was a one coater! It smells funny and the brush is kind of HUGE, but it went on well and I didn't even have a problem with drag!</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">The Stella package standing up in the background has <strong>several sizes of rhinestones</strong> in it along with an orange stick. I used them on the mani for this post and they were very sparkly and pretty, just the way rhinestones should be. ;-)</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">They also included <strong>nail glue</strong> for the rhinestones. I'm not a fan of using nail glue, I prefer top coat. I'll probably end up using it for nail repairs instead.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">Last but not least there was a container of <strong>Cherimoya Jasmine nail remover pads</strong>. I haven't tried them out yet, but I'll try to remember to let you all know what I think of them once I do.</div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">I'm glad I joined mid November because just before my package came I received an email letting me know the monthly price was going up for new members!! Thankfully I am locked into the original price. :D</div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">So here's what I did following the tutorial on the enclosed card. I was slightly disappointed that the card didn't include a photo example with the tutorial, but the tutorial was very explanatory so I ended up not needing a photo after all. ;-)</div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">Aren't those polish colors gorgeous?</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">I'd never heard of this company before, have you?</div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">I'm really excited to try the polish and rhinestones out separately on other manicures!</div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">So far I'm happy with the first kit I received.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">I'm not sure I would have signed up at the new price.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">I looked up all the products in this kit and using the cheapest prices I found for each item it came out to $21.92 (including shipping, but not any tax). Since I paid for a full year my monthly price is $8.28... I feel like I'm getting a really good price for the kit!!!!</div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">♥A</div>
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