Hooked On Polish: Spring Challenge

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Monday, April 30, 2012

Spring Challenge - Rainbow

Helloo! Sorry I kind of disappeared, I thought I had scheduled a post between challenges but I guess I didn't.

Now, onto the last task of the spring challenge by Mateja at Purple Glitters! Today we had to do a rainbow and I was completely stumped for a while. Then I decided to procrastinate. During that procrastination though, I came across one of my favorite memes, Puking Rainbows. So I took it as a sign and tried to represent it on my nails!

Here's the little guy that inspired the mani, he's throwing up rainbows because he just saw something really awesome.

(source)

And here's my guy:

He's uh...looking a little special and even though I tried to do his cheeks so it would look like he's puking to the side he looks a little lopsided...and dead inside. For the rest of the nails I did multi color stamping with BM-205. I'm sorry it looks a little sloppy but I had to redo two nails and just wasn't having it anymore. I like how my thumb came out though :)

So there you have it, rainbow! It's been really fun working on this challenge as always and I'm almost sure Mateja can count on me again for any challenge she thinks of.

Don't forget to see what the other ladies came up with!

Taya

Ducky from I love pretty colours

Sue from Creative Nail Design by Sue

Kat from Hooked on polish

Kelly-Ann from Nail Art by Kelly-Ann
Riley from Pinky to Thumb
Aylin from Posh Nail Art
Brianna from Welcome To Brianna's World!
Aurora from World of Happy Nails
Mateja D from Mateji ustvarjata
Nail buff
Moonchild
Anna
Colorfulbottle from Colorful bottle's blog
Thalie from Glazed Talons
Hema from Rainbow Nails
KawaiiKagura from Nailpocalypse
Lady-flover123
Nail Crazy
Mimi from Mimi's Vanity Box

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Spring Challenge - Bugs

Good morning peeps!

Today I have the 4th mani in the Spring Challenge by Ms. Mateja at Purple Glitters. I can't believe we're almost done! I mean, it wasn't a long challenge at all, but I was apprehensive because of the color combinations we had to use for specific themes. I have no idea what I'm going to do for the final Rainbow challenge though :-/.

I also wanted to mention how sweet you've all been and I absolutely love reading the comments! You guys know just how to lie so I believe you actually liked the mani ;). In all seriousness, I didn't really expect such niceness and you all have definitely reaffirmed that I want to keep blogging so thank you for that.

Back to the polish at hand (pun intended), I realized the reason I didn't love my last mani was because I was overreaching, so for this challenge I kept it relatively simple. The task was bugs and I had left the blue and purple combination.

Be sure to keep reading after the jump for more pictures!

Spring Challenge - Fruits and Dots

Today we have the 3rd task for the Spring Challenge by Mateja!

Task for today was Fruits and Dots and I chose the yellow and green combo. Then I failed, hard.

I originally had a really cool idea on how to do a passion fruit

But the execution didn't really function...at all. So then I just did something simpler that I don't love as much either but I was too ticked off to do a third mani :(

I did grapes....kind of. I actually really like the pinky, I just don't know why it turned out so different from the others :\

Remember to see what the other girls did for the challenge today!

Taya

Ducky from I love pretty colours

Sue from Creative Nail Design by Sue

Kat from Hooked on polish

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Spring Challenge - Flowers and Stripes

Alo! Today we have the second task of the Spring Challenge by Mateja at Purple Glitters titled "Flowers and Stripes".

Guys, I have to admit, I made a boo boo on this one. For some reason the theme of Flowers and Stripes translated in my head to Flowers and Sticks...so I did something I'd been wanting to do for a while.

Keep reading after the jump for more pictures and how I (sorta) fixed it!

Spring Challenge Day 1 - Love & Life

Hello again! I'm back with another challenge created by Mateja at Purple Glitters. This time around it's all about spring, soft pastel colors with spring like themes. But with a twist! Dun dun dun!

The idea is we have 5 themes to do with 4 different color combinations. Each combination can only be used once and the 5th mani is going to be Rainbow, for which we use 4 different colors (not necessarily from the previous combinations). It might sound a little complicated but it's really not! Check the challenge page for more info, or if you want to join!

For today we have Love & Life, the most abstract of themes in my opinion. I decided to use the Orange and Pink combo because it's the one I liked the least and I wanted to get it out of the way. Fun fact: I only have one orange polish and one pink polish that I purchased solely for this challenge!

I started with a base of Bettina Cotton Candy and lightly sponged some white on the tips so the orange stamping would show better. Then I stamped with Sally Hansen Sun Kissed and BM-202 (heart), RA-119 (butterfly) and RA-115 (tree and grass).

I'm honestly not 100% sold on the mani itself, but it might be because of the colors. I also wasn't feeling terribly creative so I just did the stamping based on what I found appropriate within the theme. The heart represents love, butterflies represent life (and love because I love butterflies), and of course, the tree and new grass represent how everything comes to life during spring!

Thank you for looking and keep an eye out for day 2 of the challenge "Flowers & Stripes" on Apr. 18! As always be sure to check out the other blogs participating:

Taya

Ducky from I love pretty colours

Sue from Creative Nail Design by Sue

Kat from Hooked on polish