Nail Art Theme Week: Follow a Tutorial - Nimbus Nail Art

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It's finally Friday! It'a also the last day of Follow a Tutorial Week. For the final day I decided to use The Nailasuarus' Nimbus Nail Art Tutorial. I've been wanting to use neons lately so I thought it'd be fun to try this using some super bright and fun polishes.

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Nail Art Theme Week: Follow a Tutorial - Dry Brush Technique

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Happy Thursday! It's nice to be on the downhill side of the work week! For today's manicure I followed a tutorial by the lovely Emily aka The Lacquerologist! 

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Nail Art Theme Week: Follow a Tutorial - Abominable Snowman

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Hello lovelies! I hope your week is going well! Mine feels like it has been about 3 years long and it's only Wednesday morning. Hopefully the day and the rest of the week will get easier from here!  On a more positive note, I am super stoked about the nail art I am going to show you today!

For today's tutorial I used another one from the lovely Jacki at Adventures in Acetone. This one she just posted yesterday but with all the cold freezing weather that so many of you are having I thought it was the perfect time to try to re-create it! So here is the abominable snowman - also known as a yeti!

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Nail Art Theme Week: Follow a Tutorial - Gradient Dots

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Good morning! For Day 2 of Nail Art Theme Week I decided to do some fun dots inspired by my friend Sarah from Chalkboard Nails. 

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Nail Art Theme Week: Follow a Tutorial - Adipose!

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It's the first Nail Art Theme Week of the year and this week we are doing nail art based on tutorials! Being a huge Doctor Who fan, I have been wanting to give my friend Jacki's (Adventures in Acetone) Adipose Tutorial a try for quite some time. I figured this week was the perfect chance to try!

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December Nail Art Theme Week - Elevation Polish Bamboo Nails!

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Happy Friday everyone! I have the last mani for Japanese Theme Week today. I chose to do Bamboo Nails and I'm really happy with how they turned out!

 For this mani I used all Elevation Polish colors. Mount Ventoux is my yellow base and I used Xixabangma, Epidote and I Got the Axe for the bamboo stalks (click on the name of each polish to see my previous post about it).  

I hope you enjoyed this month's theme week! I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would!

Thanks for reading and happy polishing! ♥

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December Nail Art Theme Week Continues with Friendship Nail Art

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December Nail Art Theme Week continues with my attempt at Japanese characters! I chose the symbol for "friendship" because I think friendship is one of the most important things we can have in life, and definitely one of the most important things in my life right now. It was not quite as hard as I had imagined before trying this mani!

For the base of this mani I did a very muddled two-toned grey using Color Club Silver Lake and SinfulSHINE Steel Reserve. I love the way it turned out, it almost reminds me of marble! I used a striping brush and a plain black creme for the characters. 

Don't forget to check out the manis below!

Thanks for reading and happy polishing!  ♥

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December Nail Art Theme Week Day 3: Abstract Distressed Nails

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Happy Wednesday! I have an abstract design for Day 3 of Japanese Nail Art Week. I got home late last night and didn't have much time for nail art and I remembered seeing this design on Chalkboard Nails so I thought I'd try it out using some Japanese-themed colors! (You can click here to be taken to the video tutorial from Sarah at Chalkboard Nails.)

This was just as quick and easy as it looks in Sarah's video! I started off with a base of Zoya Livingston  and once that was dry I did a layer of white and a layer of black. Since I wasn't using as many colors as she did in the tutorial, I layered one more coat of white and one more coat of black. I love the outcome! 

Don't forget to check out the other manis below!

Thanks for reading and happy polishing! ♥

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Japanese Nail Art Theme Week featuring Japanese Cherry Blossoms

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Happy Tuesday, everyone! I am in love with the nail art I did for today's Japanese Theme Week! It's a great feeling to actually like the nail art you created rather than being disappointed in it. Haha! Here are my Japanese Cherry Blossom nails!

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Japanese Nail Art Theme Week featuring Super Mario Bros.!

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Good morning (or afternoon or evening), lovely readers! Today starts another nail art theme week with some of my fellow bloggers and this week's theme is Japanese. I will admit that I don't know a whole lot about Japanese culture but I've learned a lot in the process of preparing for this week and I have a lot more appreciation for both the culture and the beauty of Japan!

For today's mani I went with something that I have been very familiar with my whole life and is very near and dear to my heart (and originated in Japan) - Mario! Being a child of the 80s, I grew up playing Super Mario Bros. and I still enjoy playing it today! I taught my eldest nephew to play it when he was young (he's now almost 15) and we always play the new releases together now. But, you're here for the nails so I'll get to those now!

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