What's on my nails today?

Hi everyone!


You may have thought I had forgotten about the 52 Week Nail Art Challenge as it's been ages since I did a prompt. True, it has been way too long, but unfortunately work and health didn't cooperate to allow me to produce anything. That is, until this week! I love a smoosh manicure (which is this week's challenge), my nails were almost ready to walk out on me if they didn't receive a new manicure, and I needed to let off some steam (which I do either by polishing my nails or playing Diablo 3)... so I decided to see if I could still manage a smoosh :)

And then I had to pick colors... and lacking any kind of inspiration I resorted to looking through my previous manicures and I spotted a blue-peach-white one that set off some minor sparks in my brain. I knew I had a really pretty dark blue polish and after some searching I found it: OPI Turn on the Northern Lights! I added a peach textured polish that was chosen by my husband and my go to white creme, and this is the result:

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I know, a second post on the same day? Shocking! But both Michelle and Juanita expressed their curiosity about the rejected, beige-brown version of my Triad manicure so I figured, why not write about it right now, when I have a little free time :)

I have to warn you though, I totally didn't do the gorgeous polishes I used any justice so please search for swatches by people who actually know how to photograph holographic polishes if you want to know what they look like in real life, deal? Alright! In that case, here you go:

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I bet you didn't expect a new post from me, right? It's been way too long since I showed off my last manicure but it's the last Friday of the month so it's time for the Triad manicure and of course I can't let Michelle and Juanita down. Especially as the inspiration of this month, chosen by Juanita, is absolutely beautiful! It's this monochrome manicure by Olga from @son_nail. Juanita immediately called dibs on using her beloved Pebble, Michelle laid claim on black-n-white and me... I was stuck trying to figure out what colors I would use! As you can see, it turned out to be purple and white:

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A quick post today as I'm already halfway out the door to the next appointment... and this is what I'll be walking out the door with:

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This week's challenge is splatter... a technique I haven't tried before so my brain was already thinking of what plates to use. But I had the entire afternoon basically to myself today as my husband was running a (lengthy) errand and I'm on standby duty for work so I have to remain close to phone, email and computer, so I figured I could try a real splatter manicure and I would be able to clean up the mess and stamp something if it turned out disastrous. In the end I had to clean up some mess but I'm quite proud of the outcome. Let me present my very first splatter manicure: