New31DC: Day 14

Hello! Day 14 is stamping! I did some experimenting with my polishes in order to find a good stamping polish that wasn't my regular silver and gold. I found that the Zoya Surf collection did an adequate job! I stamped Zoya Kimber over Essie Navigate Her using a Bundle Monster plate, I'm not exactly sure which one. It's not perfect, but it's good enough for me!

New31DC: Day 13

Hiya! Today's theme is "your cheer yourself up mani." I had absolutely no idea what to do for this manicure until the other night. While cheerleading I had an accident and ended up needing to get 5 stitches. That was a blast. In order to cheer me up afterwards, my dad offered to take me to Dunkin Donuts to get coffee. That's when I realized that getting coffee is a sure-fire way to cheer me up! On my nails I painted some coffee in mugs and the logos of my favorite places to get coffee, Starbucks, and Dunkin Donuts.

The purple base is Zoya Moxie, the green is Orly Lucky Duck. The orange and pink for the D's is Zoya Arizona, and Lara. The brown for the coffee is China Glaze Mahogany Magic.

New31DC: Day 12

Hello! Day 12 is a tape manicure! This is the day I've been dreading most. I have never had any luck with tape manicures. It might be because I'm too impatient to wait for the polish to completely dry before putting on the tape. Anyway, today was no different. I tried to go for a more simple 80's design that I borrowed from Nailside, the queen of tape manicures. It went alright, but I definitely had to go back and do some touch-ups.

The base is China Glaze For Audrey. The pink is Color Club Raspberry Rush, and the purple is Pucci-Licious.

New31DC : Day 11

Hello! Today calls for splatter nails! I love doing splatter nails, so I was pretty excited for this day! I did them by putting polish on one end of a straw and quickly blowing out the other.It's kinda easy to go overboard with this kind of mani, so that's something to watch out for! I think this is the first time I used a colored base.

The base is Zoya Lara. I splattered on Zoya Wednesday, Color Club Winter Affair (gold), and Xtreme Wear Black Out.

New31DC: Day 10

We are just about a third of the way through this challenge! The prompt for day 10 is geometric. My sister let me borrow some polishes of hers, and with them I had all of the cremes from Zoya's 2012 summer collection. I used all of those polishes to put together this random geometric design.

I used Zoya Wednesday, Shelby, Arizona, Reagan, and Lara.

New31DC: Day 9

Hello! Day 9 is the saran wrap manicure. The saran wrap manicure is when you paint a color over a completely dry base, and while it's still wet you take a crumbled piece of saran wrap and gently dab some polish off. I had great success with my first attempt at this type of manicure, but since then I haven't had much luck. This particular one is all right, I'm not totally trilled with it, but it gets the job done.

The base is Color Club Take Me To Your Chateau, and the yellow is Orly Lemonade.

New31DC: Day 8

Hi! Day 8 calls for holo, flakie, or duochrome! I tried to get all three into a manicure, but I didn't think the flakie would look good over either one. I decided to so a design using holo and duochromes. I used a base of Color Club Worth The Risque, which is a silver that has very subtle holo. Then I did a leopard print using Zoya Adina, and China Glaze Deviantly Daring, both duochromes. It's difficult to see the duochrome effect on the polishes because they are on such a small scale.