Day 9: polish starting with same letter as your child's name

(^ well that was a mouthful...)

Good morning!

Back to the nail challenge today!

Today's theme is a polish that starts with the same letter as your child's name.

My daughter's name is Layla, and i know,

the polish LAYLA would have been perfect for this, haha.

But i don't have any :(

In lieu of that,

I found some others from my stash that work!

This is 3 coats of NOPI's 'Ladies in the Limelight' on 4 fingers,

& China Glaze's 'Pelican Grey' on my ring finger.

But the polish I wanted to really feature here is this awesome topcoat, 'Little Miss Sunshine' from GlitterDaze :)

I got this little sucker awhile ago when I got several other GlitterDaze mini's,

and it love it! It's super unique.

It's filled with pink and yellow "blossom" glitter, white and pink bar glitter, white and pink matte hexagonal glitter, and pink micro glitter- all in a clear base.

You can get this for $4.75 (mini) on their Etsy shop!

Like I said, I've bought several other polishes from here and love them all! :)

That's it for me.

Have a great day, guys! 

day 8: favorite child's outfit

Hellllloooo.

I'm heading back from knoxville today :(

meh.

Anyway,

today's theme is inspired by one of your or your child's favorite clothes.
I chose a romper that I love because it's fun, summery, compliments my daughter's eyes, AND seems to be something that's really comfy for her to play around in.

So here's what's on the butt of the romper :p

The rest of it is just this beautiful turquoise blue with white polka dots.

I didn't have a blue that matched the outfit EXACTLY,

but I came pretty close, i think.

Can you tell I have a new obsession? :p

Now that i've figured out the freaking dotting tool, that's all i want to do, haha.

I used:

OPI's 'Fly' as base

OPI's 'Did It on 'Em' for the fish

China Glaze's 'Pink Voltage' for fins 

CG's 'White on White' for dots

Day 7: child's room decorations

Hey guys!

So I just noticed something :x

I've got the days and themes mixed up JST A BIT.

This is due to one of the day's assignments being totally illegible. Well, at least a part of the sentences is. And EVEN when using my context clues like a good little English student,

I have no idea what it says.

SO, i'm just going to skip that day altogether!

Anyway,

tonight's post is about your child's room decorations.

My daughter's room is themed in a Jungle Jill theme,

which is basically jungle animals in light pink, white, green, and brown :)

I used her comforter as my inspiration:

Cute, right?

I tried my hand some stamping (which failed) and some nail art (which didn't turn out that badly):

Obviously i've tried to incorporate the different 'themes' of the comforter on each nail.

What's that on my pointer finger, you ask?

Well, it WAS giraffe print stamp. But it didn't exactly transfer over that well.

Neither did the zebra, obviously.

But whatever.

I don't claim to be a nail artist!

;)

I used:

Zoya's 'Gaia' as base on thumb & Zoya's 'Kylie' for dots

China Glaze's 'White on White' as base on pointer and ring finger

NOPI's 'Hard Kourt Fashionista' for giraffe print & BM10

CG's 'Re-Fresh Mint' for base on middle finger & 'Kylie' and 'White on White' for flowers

Konad polish in pink & Konad plate m57 for zebra print

OPI's 'Pink Friday' on pinky

ALSO,
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Day 6: favorite children's drawing

Hey guys!

:)

So today's theme confused me a bit at first.

I wasn't sure what it was referring to until I realized it meant MY CHILD's favorite drawing :x

Seeing as how my  daughter has just started crawling not that long ago,

she doesn't exactly have a favorite DRAWING yet :p

SO, what I decided to do was depictions of what I liked to draw when I was a little kid.

What else, but flowers?!

:)

So after I drew them I totally realized I did the flowers upside down, haha

So I tried to save face by drawing the bumble bee right side up!

(or upside down, depending upon how you look at it...)

*fluorescent lighting

I tried to draw them how I liked to when I was little (which luckily, -or sadly-is not that different from how I would draw them at my tender age of 22) :/

I used:

China Glaze's 'Sky High-Top' as a base

CG's 'In the Limelight' for the grass

Zoya's 'Ivanka' for the flower stems

Zoya's 'Pippa' for the middle of flower & bee

CG's 'Pink Voltage' & ORLY's 'Melt Your Popsicle' for petals

So Easy striper in black for stripes

All in all,

I actually really liked this mani.

I know the nail art is remedial (which was kind of the point, i guess)

but I still thought it was a lot of fun.

Thank for reading!

Day 5: color of your child's eyes

Goooood morning :)

So thankful the week is already halfway over,

since we're going back to knoxville this weekend to visit! :D :D :D

So today's theme was your child's eyes.

My daughter's eyes (despite mine being brown and her daddy's being green),

are this fantastic, medium, stormy ocean blue.

I don't have a polish that matches her eye color EXACTLY,

but I did find one that came pretty freaking close:

This is Essie's 'Blue Rhapsody' from the new Mirror Metallics collection.

In this particular picture, because of the lighting, it looks a tad darker than it really is...

Here's a picture in the best light I could get today, since it's cloudy & rainy :/

It really reminds me of the color of an ocean during a storm, for some reason.

:)

So I know i've already used another polish from this same collection in the challenge,

but I honestly didn't have another polish that came even close to her eye color!

Sigh.

I hadn't work this one yet, though,

and was surprised (for some reason) at how much I liked it.

Consistency was a little crappy as it sometimes is with Essie,

and of course the polish is extrememeeeeeely unforgiving since it's a metallic,

and it shows every mistake :x 

BUT THAT ASIDE,

I liked it :)

Thanks for reading,

and have a great day!

Day 4: child's favorite movie

Good evening, everyone!

Today is Day 4 of the children's nail art challenge- favorite movie!

Again, seeing as how my daughter is too little to really have a favorite movie yet,

I just went with what one of MY favorite movies was as a child...

Fern Gully!

In case you've never seen this movie (for shame!),

it's about some fairies and animals that live in a giant tree in a rainforest.

Suddenly, humans come in and try to cut everything down,

so it's now the forest's inhabitant's new mission to stop them.

... sound familiar?

Yeah, James Cameron kind of TOTALLY stole the idea for Avatar :p

Anyway,

there were a million routes I could have gone for this mani.

Due to lack to time,

I decided to do some basic stamping.

So on my thumb you have a pathetically done sun,

with ferns and other plants on all my other fingers.

On the ring finger.... well, I was going for some whimsical fairy orbs or something,

but it just turned into colored dots... -.-

OH WELL.

Obviously the ferns and plants apply because that's what the forest is made of,

and the idea behind the dots was to represent the whimsy behind the fairies,

since I'm not artistically talented enough to draw one of those :p

I used:

Thumb: NOPI's 'Khloe Had a Little Lam-Lam'; BM04 plate; Zoya 'Pippa' for sun

Pointer: Nubar's 'Reclaim'; BM19 plate

Middle: Zoya's 'Ivanka' BM03 plate

Ring: Nubar's 'Reclaim'; OPI's 'A Grape Fit'; China Glaze's 'White on White'

Pinky: Zoya's 'Ivanka'; BM03 plate

This definitely wasn't my favorite thing that I've ever done,

but it worked okay for this :/

Day 3: your child's favorite TV show!

Itttttt's Monday!

meh.

Though I start a new summer class today,

and i'm pretty excited/nervous about it :x

Anyway,

i'm pretty excited to share today's mani with you.

The theme was your child's favorite TV show.

Being that my daughter is only 9 months, I don't really let her watch TV that much, (and she doesn't seem interested in it most of the time), BUT,

she DOES seem to absolutely. love. Mickey Moues Clubhouse :p

So that was my theme!

Here I created little mouse heads over a red base,

with some white polka dots- which seems to be the signature thing to do.

The black is Maybelline's Color Show in 'Onyx Rush'.

The base is NOPI's 'Kourt is Red-y for a Pedi' from the Kardashion Kolors collection.

I have to say i really, really loved the NOPI. It goes on just so smooth and was almost perfection. The brush size was just perfect for my nails, which are wider than most people's, it seems like.

Also, on my right hand,

(ink from my pen got on my ring finger right before I took this :/)

FINALLY some successful work with the dotting tool!

I have no idea why it took me so long to get the hang of it,

but I finally did.

I realllllly love this mani. I don't want to take it off!

My daughter seemed rather mesmerized with the polka dots, too :p

What do you guys think?

Stay tuned for more from this challenge tomorrow,

and have a great day!

Day 2: Favorite children's book nail art

Happy Sunday funday!

Today is Day 2 of the children themed nail art challenge i'm doing.

Today's theme is for my child's favorite children's book!

She has many favorites, but one of them is The Rainbow Fish. I'm sure all of you are familiar with this book. I think my daughter likes it best because if the colors, seeing as how she doesn't really understand anything else about it yet, haha.

SO, I went out on a limb and attempted to fish scale nail art using my dotting tool.

(this is prior to clean up, because i wanted a good picture before they got messed up)

As you can see... it didn't work out all that well :( For some reason i have the hardest time with the dotting tool. I think if I made each dot bigger, it would have helped. But oh well.

This was taken outside not long after...and YEP, it already got messed up. My dots were somewhat gloopy, and my topcoat did nothing to help the matter. It got mushed and smushed minutes after I took that first photo. humph.

Here's what I decided to do with my right hand, after the dotting tool art fail.

Easy peasy.

Despite how it turned out,

I really like all the colors I chose.

I'm thinking about doing some nail art or creating an eye look with them in the future...

Here's what all I used!

SO, nail art fail for this day :( But lesson learned, I think. It will be interesting to try again after i've had more practice!

new nail art challenge!

Hey guys!

I'm really excited to FINALLY be starting this nail art challenge!

I've had it saved on my computer for the longest time and have just now gotten around to it.

I love that this all revolves around your child/children (or niece/nephew if you don't have any!).

I've had ideas for this challenge forever,

and can't wait to start it!

It IS a little old,

so I don't know anyone who's currently doing it.

If you plan on doing this also, or know anyone else that is-

please let me know!

Okay, so Day 1 is a color that reminds me of my child.

*forgive my horrible cuticles!

So this is 2 coats of Essie's 'Nothing Else Metals' from their new metallic collection!

Besides the name being a play on 'nothing else matters' (which obviously describes how I feel about my daughter), I really felt like this shade was an accurate depiction of little Layla. It's a medium pink that has a bit of sass to it with the metallic- and my daughter (despite being 9 months) is already sassy... i'm in so much trouble :x

Anyway, this is a polish I haven't had a chance to use yet,

and I felt it suited the objective for Day 1 very nicely.

That's it for me!

Thanks for reading!

:)