Flip/Flop February: Day 28

Hi there! Can you believe it's been an entire month of manis already?! That time flew by! The last challenge for Flip/Flop February was to recreate a previous look. Because I kinda cheated on my outline nails by using nail decals for the base, I decided to redo that look.

I put down a base color (that same weird gold/silver as the decals!), stamped on a ring pattern after I realized my Bundle Monster plates didn't have a fishnet design, quickly painted the outline, then topped the look off with top coat. When I recreated this look I did it as a temp design, so I opted to use cheap topcoat. You can see the disastrous results on my ring finger there... the topcoat pulled the design and made it bubble a bit. Ick!!!

Anywhos, it was super fun to partake in this challenge! I'll definitely be doing more in the future... although I'm not sure about a month long. Maybe some weekly challenges next... we'll see! :)

Flip/Flop February: Day 27

Hello there! Today's challenge was to recreate someone else's look from Flip/Flop February. I picked a look at that Heather at I Feel Polished did for her abstract challenge... I just swapped out the colors a bit.

I LOVE this look! It was easy to recreate and looks really striking... it's a concept I'll be playing with more as spring gets closer and pastels are more acceptable.

Colors Used:
Ruby Wing Gypsy
L'Oreal Royalty Reinvented
Color Club Black
Funky Fingers Dark Knight

Flip/Flop February: Day 26

Alrighty! Today's FFF choice was between my favorite polish or a missed challenge day. Umm... who can pick out just one favorite polish?! Not me, that's for sure! So I went with a missed challenge: a mani inspired by a YouTube tutorial. 

I went with CutePolish's OPI Spotted tutorial using black over Zoya's Aurora. I had one hell of a time getting this to work! The spray hand sanitizer I had sprayed way too hard (not a "fluff" of sanitizer, but a jet stream!), which just shot the polish into a clump. Then I tried other spray items around the house, including hairspray, leave-in conditioner, and body spray. No, no, and no. I finally opted to screw on one of the pumps to a different bottle of hand sanitizer we had around here. It worked... kinda... the polish was just floating around the water and refused to transfer without slipping away from my nail. Definitely a look that needs a bit more practice... and better sanitizer! :P

Colors Used:
Zoya Aurora
Sinful Colors Black on Black

Flip/Flop February: Day 25

Hello there! Today's FFF choices were between a tape mani or a look inspired by a YouTube tutorial. Since I am a master of tape tutorials, I opted for a tape design!

This is the mani I did for the week before Halloween... bright colors and glitter! Haha... there's never a better combo! :D

Colors Used:
Funky Fingers Riot
Funky Fingers Green (no label information)
Zoya Jancyn
Sally Girl Glitzy
Color Club Black

Flip/Flop February: Day 24

Hello there! Today's Flip/Flop February choice was between tissue paper or rainbow nails. I'm not a big fan of the tissue paper look, so I went with rainbow! I opted for a subtle rainbow look... rainbow glitter instead of all the different colors combined (... I have yet to get a good creme yellow to make rainbow looks with... oops!).

The glitter polish used was Lush Lacquer's Lite Brite. How gorgeous is this?! Again, I used my favorite gold (OPI's Curry Up Don't Be Late!) as the base color. 

Colors Used: See above. :)

Flip/Flop February: Day 23

Hello! Today for FFF we had lightning versus bows! I went with lightning and eh. I had an idea for this look that didn't turn out well in execution. But here it is anyways!

I started off with a black base with silver glass specks, then taped my bolts off and did a coat of silver magnetic polish, then finished with silver glitter. The variance looks a bit cool, but I think it's too monotone.

Colors Used:
Sinful Colors Secret Admirer
Layla Magneffect Silver Galaxy
Color Club Fine Silver

Flip/Flop February: Day 22

First and foremost, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME! YAY! 

With that out of the way... today's choices for FFF were between mustache and plaid. I just cannot get behind the mustache trend that's popped up... so plaid it was!

Just a basic grey-scale color selection with a pop! of neon pink thrown into the mix.

Colors Used:
Funky Fingers Pop Artist
Petites Twilight
Color Club Black
Color Club Fine Silver
It's So Easy Stripe Rite White

Flip/Flop February: Day 21

Hmm... dots or flames? I went with dots! Please enjoy this cruddy toe picture... this was one of those last-minute manicures (er... pedicures) I had to do to fit into this challenge.

I still have to figure out how to properly use my dotting tools. It never seems like my dots are perfect/ uniform enough. 

Colors Used:
Funky Fingers Pink/Gold Duochrome (no bottle information)
Funky Fingers Kiss the Girl
Zoya Ziv

Flip/Flop February: Day 20

Alrighty! Today's challenge was between v-gap and flowers. I really wanted to do a v-gap mani, but in the essence of timing, I had to go with flowers. This is a stamped design (Bundle Monster Series 1 plates) that I'm going to half-assedly qualify as flowers, even though they are clearly vines. Deal with it. xD

Anywhos... just your basic black stamped over my favorite gold polish EVER, OPI's Curry Up Don't Be Late! You can tell this picture is from the summer... see the green grass?!

Colors Used:
OPI Curry Up Don't Be Late!
Sinful Colors Black on Black 

Flip/Flop February: Day 19

Hello! Today's FFF choices were wings or outlined nails. I've kinda been envious of the outlined look but always thought it took too long to do. WRONG! It was actually kinda simple. Of course, it helped that I cheated and did this over my Sally Hanson nail strips... but I really enjoyed the look!

These looked super sophisticated in real life... I'd love to try this with neons in the summer!

Colors Used:
Sinful Colors Black on Black