30 Day Nail Challenge, Day 25: Inspired by Fashion

I've been excited about this prompt since the beginning of the challenge. I love having an excuse to go through all the runway fashion scouring for interesting prints since fashion is one of my biggest inspirations for nails!

This one is inspired by the Marc Jacobs Spring 2014 Collection, (that can be viewed here). I thought the print was fun and kind of felt heavy enough to be wearable in fall even though it's part of the spring collection, (and from the amount of this print in the collection it looks like the designer was as taken by this print as I was).

As for the nails themselves, I forgot that the purple Essie looks more red in the bottle than it does when it dries, so that's what accounts for my base being slightly more purple. But I really do enjoy this look, even thought the colour scheme ended up being a little off.

Products Used:

Essie - 929 Recessionista

Essie - 1037 Topless & Barefoot

Quo by Orly - 59701 Black

Revlon - 955 Quick Dry Base Coat

Seche Vite - Top Coat

~ Becca.

30 Day Nail Challenge, Day 24: Inspired by a Book

From Index to Pinky: Insight/Foresight, Clairvoyant Sight, Angelic Power, Speak in Tongues

From Index to Pinky: Deflect/Block, Heightened Speed, Soundless, Strength

The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices are two of my favourite series and my love for them culminated in this manicure.

I can finally have runes without being a shadowhunter!

If you're interested in where I found the runes, (because I didn't just make them up myself), you can find there here on Cassandra Clare's blog.

Products Used:

Essie - 941 Good as Gold

Joe - Plaster

Quo by Orly - 59701 Black

Revlon - 955 Quick Dry Base Coat

Seche Vite - Top Coat

Wet n Wild - 229C Ebony Hates Chris

~ Becca.

30 Day Nail Challenge, Day 23: Inspired by a Movie

Two posts in two days! Are you guys proud of me?

Anyways, these are my movie nails, inspired by Beastly. They're pretty simple but I think they're cute. The big rose is always a killer, but aren't the little roses on the thumb cute?

These are the two images I used as reference:

I chose to base this manicure on Beastly because my best friend and I had just watched it and I thought that Kyle/Hunter's tattoos would be fun to put on my nails. If you haven't seen the movie, here's a trailer!

Products Used:

Essie - 1037 Topless & Barefoot

Quo by Orly - 59701 Black

Revlon - 955 Quick Dry Base Coat

Rimmel London - 390 Burgandy Flirt

Seche Vite - Top Coat

Sephora - Matte Top Coat

~ Becca.

30 Day Nail Challenge, Day 22: Inspired by a Song

Wow, hey guys, I'm so sorry I'm so behind on posts here. I've been so busy with classes that I've only been keeping up with tumblr and I've been letting things over here slide.

Anyways, here are my Suit and Tie nails from a few weeks ago. If you can't tell, (I know some people I talked to couldn't), that's an old fashioned microphone on the thumb!

How I love having little suits on my nails... it may also have something to do with my love of black and white manicures.

Anyways, I promise to try to be more regular with updates everyone!

(And if you want to stay up to date, you may consider checking out my official tumblr).

Products Used:

Essie - 940 No Place Like Chrome

Quo by Orly - 59701 Black

Revlon - 955 Quick Dry Base Coat

Rimmel London - 110 French White Nail Tip Liner

Sally Hansen - 300 White On

Seche Vite - Top Coat

Wet n Wild - 229C Ebony Hates Chris

~ Becca.

30 Day Nail Challenge, Day 21: Inspired by a Colour

Just to forewarn you, I really adore this manicure. It's not how I originally planned it, but I really do love how it turned out, and I think it matches with the prompt perfectly.

While I had these nails and was buying food, I had a lady at the cafeteria tell me that I should drop out of University and pursue a career doing nails because she was so impressed.

While I don't think I'll be dropping out of school any time soon, the thought behind her comment was so sweet and it made me smile!

Products Used:

Ciaté - 074 Big Yellow Taxi

Quo by Orly - 59701 Black

Sally Hansen - 300 White On

Seche Vite - Top Coat

Revlon - 955 Quick Dry Base Coat

Wet n Wild - 229C Ebony Hates Chris 

~ Becca.

Mix n' Match

Wow I am so late on updating over here. My apologies to everyone, I've just been super busy moving into Res (1st year Uni, woo!) and starting classes.

Moving on, I did these nails for my friend a few weeks ago (and she still had them on when I saw her last Saturday; that's dedication).

Initially, she didn't really know what kind of design she wanted so she kind of went on a "shopping spree" through my blog and picked out designs that I've done in the past and adjusted the colours to her liking.

From thumbs to pinkys, the designs come from the following manicures:

Dream Girl

Trap

We're Off to See the Wizard

30 Day Nail Challenge, Day 7: Black and White Nails

I Wanna Dance.

I forgot to write down the products I used for this manicure, but if you're really curious about a certain colour just ask, I'm sure I can figure out what it is.

~ Becca.