13 Days of January Nail Art Challenge - Recreate One of Your Old Manis

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Good evening! Yesterday's prompt for the 13 Days of January Nail Art Challenge was to recreate one of our old manis. I was a bit under the weather yesterday so I'm posting a day late.

I decided to recreate my most-viewed (and most pinned on Pinterest) manicure that I created about 2 1/2 years ago. It positively makes me cringe when I look at it because I see every flaw in it. But I am so glad I chose to recreate it because it has shown me just how far I've come.

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Grey and Neon Pink Polka Dots! (And Announcements!)

Happy Friday everyone! I hope you have a fabulous long weekend planned! I have a couple of "announcements" to post before I go into my polka dot mani. :)

First, I have decided that I will be participating in the 31 Day Challenge, along with several of my blogging friends (and their friends! Haha). This will start tomorrow, September 1st. Sarah at Chalkboard Nails has made up several different images you can use for the challenge on your blog, if you like.

Also, in celebration of the new season of Doctor Who beginning tomorrow (I am a recent Doctor Who convert, I love it!) several of us will be posting Doctor Who themed manis throughout the weekend. I will have mine up tonight!

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Okay, that's all for the announcements - on to the polka dots! I used Orly Decoded, Sinful Colors 24/7 and Milani White on the Spot - all pics were taken in the shade. 

Polka Dot mani

Polka Dot mani

Polka Dot mani

Polka Dot mani

That's all for this post! I'll see you again soon!

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Nail-Venturous Floam Gradient!

I am sure you all know about Nail-Venturous Floam. I am sure most of you own it by now. I am WAY LATE to the Floam game. And I am happy to say it was MOST DEFINITELY worth the wait!!

Nail-Venturous Floam Gradient over Sinful Colors Innocent and 24/7

I decided I wanted to do a gradient with Floam instead of covering the entire nail (for this time anyway) and was planning on using Floam over Sinful Colors Innocent. Then I FINALLY found Sinful Colors 24/7 after looking for it all last week. 24/7 is a dupe (confirmed by a friend who has both colors) of Sinful Colors Fusion Neon (which can be seen here from Pointless Cafe) and I was searching and searching (and had friends across the country searching) for either color all last week during the 99¢ sale. No luck. I had to run into Walgreens on Sunday (the day after the sale was over) for something and guess what was magically there? Yep - one lone 24/7. Go figure. LOL

After finally getting 24/7 I thought that it might make an amazing base for Floam. I was right, I absolutely love it over the neon pink! The formula on all 3 polishes - Floam, SC 24/7 and SC Innocent - were all very nice. I had no issues whatsoever. 24/7 actually has an exceptional formula for a neon, quite smooth and only 2-3 coats.

Nail-Venturous Floam Gradient over Sinful Colors Innocent and 24/7

Nail-Venturous Floam Gradient over Sinful Colors Innocent and 24/7

Nail-Venturous Floam Gradient over Sinful Colors Innocent and 24/7

What do you think of this mani? I think it is super fun and Summer-appropriate! My mom said it looked like I should be 5. LOL What do you think? Fun or juvenile?

Floam is available exclusively at Ninja Polish - an amazing shop with amazing customer service. I would suggest following them on Facebook to stay up-to-date!

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