31 Day (Week) Challenge - Day 9: Rainbow Nails

Hey guys!!

I'm super excited to show you all my challenge mani for today. Originally, I was going to have one balloon on each finger but then I realized that I would have to lose one color since there are only five fingers. So I decided to have two balloons on each finger so that I could fit in that extra color.

I'm also dedicating this party inspired mani to my boyfriend's nephew because his 1st birthday just passed!!

A lot of polishes went into creating this challenge mani. I wanted to have a base color because I didn't want to have the balloons and confetti on my bare nail and I didn't want to have a white background either. So for my base polish color, I used one coat of Sally Hansen Diamond Strength Platinum because I still wanted to have a VNL. The red balloons and confetti were made using Sally Hansen Maximum Growth Perfect Cherry. All of the orange was created by Sinful Colors Courtney Orange. I used Revlong Sunshine Sparkle for the yellow but it was too light so I ended up going over it with Wet n Wild Fast Dry The Wonder Yellows. The green I used was Sinful Colors Irish Green. The blue was made using Rimmel London Marine Blue. And last but not least, the purple came from Nicole by OPI Prized Possession Purple. Now for the detail work. For the balloon strings, I used Sally Hansen Nail Art Pen Black. To make the "shine" streaks on the balloons, I used Nubar Nail Art Pen Basic White. Of course, none of this would have been possible without my handy dandy small detail brush!

Even though there were a lot of nail polishes involved in making this mani, it would super easy because of the detail brush. I worked with one color at a time so that I didn't have to keep cleaning the brush after every single use. But I'm not going to lie, as easy as this mani was, it was highly time consuming because of all of the small detail work.

This is such a fun mani and it makes me so happy every time I see it! It just reminds me of parties and all the fun that goes along with it. I really hope you all love this mani as much as I do!

Be sure to check out the challenge mani by My Life In Turquoise!

That's 9 down and 22 more to go!

Pot-o-gold

 When I think of St. Patrick's Day, I immediately think of leprechauns, and a rainbow leading to gold. So I thought of making the second!

It didn't turn out so great. I used some nail art pens that a friend gave me and they smeared after I put the top coat on and the black pot started to crack. Aaand the colors of the rainbow started to fade. So even after doing all that, I ended up taking it off. Regardless, here are some pictures of it.

Rainbow Galaxy

I've seen a lot of tutorials on galaxy/marble nails and decided to try that out for the new year. I tried to blend the two ideas into one. Instead of making it look like the "galaxy"... I decided to just make it a blend of some bright colors.

This is an old picture again, so I don't remember exactly which color from which brand I used. But I do know that I used Sally Hansen's HD Laser. I also used gold, pink, orange, teal, and red.

This one was a bit tricky to do for me. I used a makeup sponge to dab each layer of polish. So you put on a layer of polish, let it slightly dry, and then dab the sponge on it to take some of the polish off. Do this with every layer and they should pop up due to the unevenness.

There is another way to do galaxy nails but I wanted it to look more marbley, just a blend of colors, so I did it this way. The other way to do this is by applying your base color, and then putting some polish straight onto the sponge and then dabbing each polish onto your nail. I'll do it the other way soon so everyone can see what it looks like.

I hope you liked it!