Summer Challenge: Swimsuits & Ocean

Catch Up Post!

I'm posting two together to catch up so I've done them all. I'm being lazy with one but I just can't fit in another mani in 2.5hours. I have to be up early for my first day at orientation. I know, back to the real world. One month off is more than enough, right?

Summer Challenge: Swimsuits

Summer Challenge: Swimsuits

Summer Challenge: Favorite Mani

Summer Challenge coming to a close...

Hey everyone, look who is on time today! Today is the last day of the Summer Challenge. Sniff. I don't want it to be over!!

Here's what I got for ya! Do you recognize the mani?

Summer Challenge: Recreate Favorite Mani

Summer Challenge: Favorite Water Animal

Catch up time!

Hey everyone! I'm sorry I'm late with this one, but here it is anyway! Trying to catch up, but I'm not sure I'll have it done in time to include in the Inlinkz widget. Boo.

I really had no idea what to do for today, I had high hopes for a sea-horse but it was way too complicated and I'm feeling lazy. I was googling images for water animals when I googled Starfish and Spongebob came up.

Favorite Water ... Animals?

Summer Challenge: Favorite Underwater Animal/Spongebob Nail Art

Summer Challenge: Favorite Beach Memory

Favorite Beach Memory

Hello there! Guess what? I'm back with our Summer Challenge. Surprised? No? OK then moving on.

Today's challenge is "Favorite Beach Memory," which is different than Favorite Summer Memory. I should've used that other post as my beach memory since we were at the beach, but it's ok, because I have another that happened at the beach. Incidently, both happened at the SAME beach. 'Twas a great vacation.

Summer Challenge: Favorite Beach Memory

Summer Challenge: Sea Shells

Sea Shells

She sells sea shells by the sea shore. That's what I automatically think about when I hear "sea shells." Is that weird?

I went in a different direction today - 3D nail art.

Summer Challenge: Sea Shells

Summer Challenge: Tropical Drinks

**Summer Challenge Update!! Please Read!!**

Well, please read if you are participating. If not, then carry on. =)

Theodora and I were chatting the other day about "July 31-Recreate your favorite manicure" and we thought it would be fun to recreate your favorite manicure done by someone else. So please, if you're reading this, recreate your favorite manicure of the challenge by another person! It should be easy at the end, just scroll through the Inlinkz widget!

Tropical Drinks

Mmmm tropical drinks. Perhaps my favorite part of summer. I love all the cool refreshing cocktails with perhaps a splash of something a bit ... stronger. Today's Summer Challenge is Tropical Drinks, and I had a hard time choosing which one I liked best to recreate!

So I did a couple. These are in no particular order (or even particular drinks, except for the pina colada - those taste best when in a coconut shell) but I was trying to convey the fun of tropical drinks with the fun glasses and colors.

Summer Challenge: Tropical Drinks

Summer Challenge: Favorite Summer Memory

Favorite Summer Memory

Hiya beautiful, I'm back with our Summer Challenge. Today's challenge is "Favorite Summer Memory." I really had to think hard on this one. You know how it goes, the more you try to think of something, the harder it is to remember.

Here's a hint to my favorite summer memory: "Shark! Shark! ... Dolphin! Dolphin!"

Summer Challenge: Favorite Summer Memory

Summer Challenge: Beach

Beach

Hiya beautiful, I'm back with our Summer Challenge. Today's challenge is "Beach." I decided to go with something a little sillier today.

Summer Challenge: Beach Nail Art

Summer Challenge: Ice Cream

Summer Challenge

Hiya beautiful, I'm back with our Summer Challenge. Today's challenge is "Ice Cream." So truth be told, I had no idea what to do for this one. I thought of ice cream cones, dishes with ice cream, and nothing really jumped at me. So I went a little more abstract today, hope that's ok!

Summer Challenge: Ice Cream

Summer Challenge: Favorite Summer Color

Update

I'm actually still in town because of flash flooding so my moving has been pushed back a few days. AND it turns out we're moving ourselves because the bid from the movers kept getting higher and higher and was getting out of hand. I'm concerned about my nails now with all that packing and handling those boxes. I'm gonna keep a little bottle of lotion on hand to keep my skin moist and I'll likely have to cut down my nails. Ahh well I was going to have to do that anyway when I start my new job next month.

Summer Challenge: Favorite Summer Color

I know I'm a self-proclaimed non-pink girl, but hot pink is my favorite during the summer. Before I really got into nail polish last winter, I wore a color like this ALL. SUMMER. LONG. My friend told me hot pink looks good against white skin, so when we did a pedi, I picked a hot pink and loved it. I bought a Sally Hansen one (which I can't find, ugh I hate moving!) and I used it nonstop. Even a friend of mine was like, pick another color already.

This is a color I haven't used before but it looks awesome. It's got a shimmer and a purple duochrome. I swear, I still don't get the different types of polishes. It's a hot pink that shines purple in some lights. Is that a shimmer? Or a duochrome? Or is that iridescent? Is it iridescent only if it's a clear/white polish? Can it be a shimmer duochrome? I dunno. Someone explain it to me. =)

Finger Paints Color Inside The Lines

Summer Challenge: Fruits

Hiya beautiful, I'm back with our Summer Challenge. Today's challenge is "Fruits." I went with a single fruit. I tried to go a little outside the box, but it seems all the fruits have been done. Even kiwi! C'mon, I thought I had ya'll with that one!

So I went with this one.

Fruit Mani

Summer Challenge: Palm Trees

Hiya beautiful, I'm baaaaaaaack with our Summer Challenge. Today's challenge is "Palm Trees." I had this idea in my head for awhile and I'm glad I got to put it into motion. It isn't 100% how I wanted it, but it'll do for now. I may come back and try to redo it again.

Summer Challenge: Favorite Summer Song

Ah ma gawd I did it again!! I had this entire post done and I added the inlinkz code and it wiped my post and auto-saved. Grrrrr Blogger, you're starting to irk me!

Here we go again ...

Today is Day 3 (or 5, I'm not sure how we're counting here) of the Summer Challenge, which is Favorite Summer Song. 

I decided to do Kokomo by The Beach Boys, which I wasn't sure how to translate on to nails. I guess that's why they call it a challenge right? I decided to do beach waves (based on this nail design).

Summer Challenge: Picnic

Hiya beautiful, I'm back with Day 2 of our Summer Challenge. Today's challenge is "Picnic." To be honest, I had an idea in my head but I couldn't quite get it to work out, so I changed it up a little and went in a completely different direction - cartoon!

I give you - Snoopy Picnic Nail Art!

Summer Challenge: Bees

Hiya beautiful! Today is the first day of our Summer Challenge! I'm so excited as this is the first challenge I've helped set up, and I'm really excited to be a part of it!

This is an every other day challenge, and hopefully I won't get behind! I will warn you that I am moving this month, so a few of these will be scheduled ahead.

Today's challenge is bees! I've done bees before (here) but I thought I'd do a new twist on them!

Summer Challenge: Bees

Summer Challenge!