40 Great Nail Art Ideas: Turquoise Leopard

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Happy Saturday! I managed to squeeze in my mani for this weeks 40 Great Nail Art Ideas Challenge! This week's prompt is the color/patter prompt - color is aqua or turquoise and my pattern was leopard. I bought a gorgeous leopard print background that was on clearance at Michael's a few weeks ago because I wanted to use it as nail art inspiration and this was the perfect chance!

40 Great Nail Art Ideas: Films - Gaslight

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Happy Saturday! I am squeezing this mani in by the skin of my teeth! I didn't know if I would have time to do this nail art but I am so glad I managed it because it is one of my favorite manis ever! This week's theme is "films" and I decided to use one of my all-time favorite movies as inspiration: Gaslight. (For more about this movie please continue reading!)

The Digit-al Dozen Does New and Improved: Day 5 - One Stroke Flower

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Hello, everyone! I am incredibly late with my final Digit-al Dozen mani this month, but I figured it was better to be late than not finish! Computer issues and migraines have made blogging especially difficult this week but I missed so many Digit-al Dozen posts the last few months I was determined to finish this one, even if it is late.

I am really glad I decided to do this mani today because I've been wanting to try one stroke flowers for, literally, years. I believe I first saw them right around the time I created my blog, which was 4 years and 3 months ago (time flies!). I didn't think I was able to do any nail art then, especially anything as intricate as flowers. It really shows me how much I've grown and changed since I started blogging!

The Digit-al Dozen Does New and Improved: Day 4 & 40 Great Nail Art Ideas: Things That Fly - Dandelions

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Happy Saturday! Today I have a mani combining my 4th Digital Dozen mani of the week with the 40 Great Nail Art Ideas theme this week, which is "things that fly." I have been wanting to make an attempt at dandelion nail art for awhile now and it fit both prompts so I took a stab at it today and I am pretty happy with the results!

The Digit-al Dozen Does New and Improved: Day 3 - Sharpie and Stamping

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Hello! I am a day behind (well technically almost two days behind!), but better late than never, right? I am going to try to keep this post short because it is getting late and this day has kicked my butt. For this mani I tried a technique I've never tried before and used a brand new stamping plate!

The Digit-al Dozen Does New and Improved: Day 2 - Needle Drag

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Hello, hello! It's Day 2 of Digit-al Dozen New and Improved Week and I have a technique that I have tried (and failed) at many times! I did manage a pretty good toothpick marble a couple of years ago (which you can see here) that I did using a tutorial from Sheila at Pointless Cafe. However, I've tried several times since then with no success. Maybe it was beginner's luck? LOL Anyway, I decided I wanted to try this design from Sveta Sanders - which was completely insane. I tried for over an hour and was ready to throw in the towel until I got some help from Sheila. It took me awhile and lots of tweaking but with her help I was able to get a design I was pretty happy with!

The Digit-al Dozen Does New and Improved: Day 1 - Dotted Heart

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Hello and welcome to a brand new Digit-al Dozen Week! The theme this month is "new and improved" - so many possibilities with this theme! New techniques we've never tried before, improving on things we may not be the best at or even re-creating old manis that we want to improve! Today I chose to try a type of nail art I've never done before. I've seen "dotted image" nail art before but when I saw this mani from fellow Digit-al Dozen-er Lindsey from Wondrously Polished I knew I wanted to attempt some this week.

As with most things I decide to attempt, it was SO much harder than I anticipated! I expected it to be hard, but sheesh! LOL! This was the final result after removing it and re-doing it about 12 times. Let's see how I did!