The Beauty Buffs - Inspired by your Makeup Bag: Rebecca Minkoff Print

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Hello, all! I'm so excited about this post! As I'm sure you've noticed, I've been doing an insane amount of swatching lately and I'm frankly quite burnt out! I've been missing my beloved nail art so I was so excited when the ladies of the Beauty Buffs decided to break our hiatus and post today!

The Beauty Buffs - Holiday Theme: Deck the Halls Nail Art

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Hello, all! It's time for another week with The Beauty Buffs! As it's now December, it is fitting for us to take on our first set of Holiday themed looks so for today, I'm showing my take on one of my favorite parts of the holiday seasons - decorating! Now, there are many (MANY) ways in which to decorate for this time of year, but my focus is on that very important pine tree, the Christmas tree!

Nothing gets me in the mood for this time of year quite like getting the Christmas tree decorated. I especially love the smell of a real pine tree in the house during Christmas. It's one of the things I miss most about having a fake tree...so for today, I figured I would paint a little homage to the pine tree!

The Beauty Buffs - Metallic: Galaxy Nail Art

Hello, all! Hope your week is going well! I'm finally (and excitedly!) able to get back into the swing of things and post with the talented ladies of the Beauty Buffs! This week's theme is Metallic! I'm not usually one to wear metallics, but I like challenges like this because it makes me think outside the box! In the end, I really like how this turned out!

The Beauty Buffs - Animal Print: Leopard Print Nail Art

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Hello, all! I'm finally able to get back into posting with the lovely lovely ladies of The Beauty Buffs! This week our theme is 'animal print' and I was pretty much out of ideas for what to do today. I recently did an animal inspired look for the 31 Day Challenge 2.0 so the prospect of doing another look was intimidating to me.

I was tempted to attempt something complicated for today, but I've had this weird desire lately to do a simple leopard print mani. I'm a huge fan of keeping animal print looks as close to real as possible and since it's fall here in the states (though in Southern California it's still pretending to be summer...hmph!), it felt right to use the classic leopard print shades - tan, brown, black.

The Beauty Buffs - Fall: Autumn Leaves Nail Art

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Hello, all! It's Beauty Buffs time again! I wasn't able to partake two weeks ago because of life, but I couldn't pass up doing something for the Fall theme. Fall is my favorite. Like, I would contemplate marrying fall if someone could figure out how to do it. Just the thought of leaves changing color and temperatures dropping makes my heart happy!

For today, I wanted to do something that had a quintessential "fall" feeling to it...and what better way than straight forward leaves, acorns and cranberries?

The Beauty Buffs - Black and White Trend: Wood-blocking Floral

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I can't believe it's already been two weeks since my last Beauty Buffs mani! This week our trend is black and white and while I'm feeling quite sleepy from my late night last night, I'm so glad that I was able to come up with something to post alongside these talented girls. 

The Beauty Buffs - Nautical/Beach Trend Nail Art

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Hello, all! I'm glad to be back posting after my brief hiatus to celebrate my sister's birthday over the weekend...and what better way to get back into nail art than with another Beauty Buffs week! The ladies and I are attempting the 'Nautical/Beach' theme that has been so popular for so long.

Shockingly, I think this might be my first ever nautical look! I really love nautical looks in my personal life (I have planners, clothing, accessories, etc) that are nautical themed, but for some reason that trend has yet to transition over to my nail art. Today that changes! ;)

The Beauty Buffs - Polka Dot Trend: Pointillism Daisies

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Good Morning, my lovely readers! It's Wednesday, and that means it's another Beauty Buffs post! The theme I've been dreading is here - polka dots. Why do I dread polka dots, you ask? Well, I don't do polka dots...really ever. Manis incorporating them are few and far between and I have next to zero polka dot items in my day to day life. While I think they're cute, it's just not something I've ever embraced in my person style. Perhaps I should change that? 

So the whole point of the Beauty Buffs is to interpret the theme as we see fit and present our version of it. Perhaps it's a bit of a copout, but I ended up doing a pointillism inspired mani more than a polka dotted mani. But hey! Polka dot...dots make up pointillism...there you go! (Anyone seen My Big Fat Greek Wedding? I feel like the father making connections between Greek words being the root of all words!) For those who don't know, pointillism is the process of using TONS of tiny dots in varying colors and sizes to create an image. Pretty straight forward but pretty awesome looking!

The Beauty Buffs - Stripes Trend

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Yay! It's time for another Beauty Buffs post and this week we're giving the stripes trend a shot! Lately I've been seeing mixtures in stripes colors and directions so that was my inspiration for tonight's mani. I was directly inspired by this Tonya Taylor runway set and I really like how she combined the classic nautical blue and white stripe with bright summery shades as well as multidirectional stripes. All around, a really fresh take on stripes.

The Beauty Buffs - Neon Trend: Wood Grain & Neon Tribal Print

Hi, all! Yes, you read that title correctly! Today is an interesting one. I missed out on the last Beauty Buffs post because I was trying to get a ton of stuff done before my vacation, but I'm really excited to be back with the lovely ladies of this group and posting.

This week we're all tackling the "Neon" trend. If you haven't noticed while browsing my blog, I am not a neon girl. I really can't definitively say that I have real neon polishes in my collection. I love neons on other people, but I seriously struggle with wearing it myself (in clothing and nail polish). Because I'm more of a "earth tones" kind of gal, I was a bit stumped for what to do this week. But, Pinterest saved me yet again when I found these fantastic bangles!

The Beauty Buffs - Yellow Trend - Nail Art

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Hello, everyone! The Beauty Buffs are back with another set of nail, fashion and beauty looks and this week's trend is Yellow! Personally, I love yellow. I know it's a tough color to wear and it often clashes with skin tones, but ugh, it's just so lovely and bright and cheery :) 

I wanted to create a look the encapsulated the bright cheeriness that the color evokes for me, while also creating something that was somewhat fashion forward and chic. I was browsing the web yet again for inspiration, and came across this grouping of yellow outfits for spring/summer. I of course fell in love with the outfit sporting the yellow and black (you guessed it!) flowers! The second look from the right in the inspiration photo spurred this mani forward and I think I like how it turned out. 

The Beauty Buffs - Royal Blue Trend

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Hello, all! Happy happy hump day! ;) Today I have my second Beauty Buffs post to share with you all! I'm so loving being apart of this group of talented ladies and I can't wait to see what they've come up with for our second trend - Royal Blue!

Now, there was some discussion amongst the Beauty Buffs as to what exactly a royal blue was. If you do a search online, you'll find royal blues of the dark and light variety and it leaves some wiggle room for the definition of the color. When I was thinking of what I was going to do for today's look, my mind wandered to a simple gradient...which evolved into a new take on a gradient...which turned into a paint swatch?! Here is my cutout paint swatch gradient! 

The Beauty Buffs - Pastel Trends

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Hello, all! Today I have some exciting news to share with you all! I've teamed up with 17 other fantastically talented ladies from the beauty, nail and fashion blogging world for a collaboration called The Beauty Buffs! It was put together by one of my Digital Dozen colleagues, Nory from Fierce Makeup and Nails, and every other Wednesday we will each be posting about various trends that are happening. I'm so excited to be apart of this group and I can't wait to see all the talent that these ladies dish up twice a month!

Our first trend is Pastels...which I couldn't be happier about! I just love pastels so very much. While I don't know the fashion trends that are ever changing, I always love seeing the trends that occur in the textile and interior design world. There is nothing quite as inspiring to me as an amazingly decorated room that just evokes a wonderful homey feel. On more than one occasion I have been inspired by patterns that I've spotted in a store, magazine or an amazing tumblr image, so for me, all of those things are my trend indicators.