In other news...I've joined the Digital Dozen!

I am so incredibly excited to announce that I now a proud member of The Digital Dozen! It should also come as no surprise that my girl Meghan from Will Paint Nails For Food will also be the latest newbie of the group! I am beyond ecstatic to have been asked to join this incredibly talented group of bloggers. I know I will learn more than I could ever hope to and that they will push me to be a better blogger and artist each month. 

For those who don't know, The Digital Dozen is a group of 24 - yes, we're technically two dozen ;) - knockout nail artists who love to challenge themselves by dedicating a week each month to creating 5 different manicures that fall within a specific theme. It is very daunting but these ladies are proof that it is doable. 

The Digital Dozen has recently embarked on a new and exciting expansion that involved the creation of a social media presence - e.g. a blog, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. The goal is to become the go-to place for all things nail art and nail polish. We'll have tips and tricks, tutorials, inspiration, and yes, probably even failures (even we make mistakes with regularity!). 

To say I am excited to be joining this group may be the understatement of the year. I have been forcing my excitement on the boyfriend, my friends, and random strangers who make the terrible mistake of making eye contact with me. I have admired the work of this group since I got into nail art almost a year ago - my blogiversary is November 1st! Holy cow! - and always had what felt like the unattainable dream of joining them one day. I know that this group of ladies will push me to go outside of my comfort zone and challenge myself as an artist. I can't wait to see what the future holds!

I will be participating in my first challenge starting in November, but in the mean time, you can check out The Digital Dozen on various social media sites to learn more. 

Facebook

Twitter

Pinterest

Instagram

Tumblr

Google+

Vine

YouTube

You can also meet the existing members of the Digital Dozen here!

Thank you all for your continued support - it means the world to me! <3

Happy Polishing! :)

31 Day Nail Art Challenge - Day 26: Inspired by a Pattern

Happy Sunday, everyone! I can't believe that we are getting so close to the end of this challenge - I'm going to miss doing this! It's been great having some accountability and motivation to force me to create each week (even though I'm always late!) and I want to continue participating in different challenges after this finishes up. I do have some thrilling news to share that involves (in my opinion) the ultimate challenge each month. I'm planning a post just about that soon though! Stay tuned :) 

The theme for today's challenge is inspired by a pattern. I wasn't sure if I should stick with a type of pattern that everyone knows (e.g. plaid, stripes or paisley) or if I could find any pattern and be inspired by that. I decided to go with the latter. Though floral is still very much a pattern on it's own, I think it has a much broader range than some other patterns have. There are so many different combinations and types of floral that can be created and I think that is why I'm drawn to creating them in nail art. 

A few months ago I found a website by the name of Pattern Addict run by an incredibly talented lady named Gill. I love every single thing she has created on her site and when I was thinking of things to do for today's theme, I went strait to her website to feel inspired. There are so many great things to look through on her page, but in the end I went with this pattern. While mine doesn't quite do this print justice, I think I did a decent job of it. They are funky and different and I like that.

Tutorial photo dump - Looks you may have missed!

So while I've been a terrible blogger on my own blog, I have been incredibly busy putting together looks for other blogs! Here's a roundup post of all the work I've done over the past month and a half.

 I won't bore you with the details on all of these looks (you can click on the picture to be taken to each of the tutorials on their respective host blogs) but if you have any extra questions, don't hesitate to leave a comment or shoot me an email! 

I'm still working weekly with the fabulous people over at Lulus.com (I seriously want to own all of their product) to create simple tutorials that everyone can do. 

Simple Ombre

Half-Moons

Simple Striping Tape

Camo Print

Jelly Sandwich

Nail It! Magazine asked me to produce 2 tutorials for them and I feel so honored to have been considered worthy of mingling with all the fab ladies featured on their site. 

A fall inspired tribal print

Breast Cancer Awareness

Finally, I have recently begun a bi-monthly collaboration with the clothing company Deb Shops putting together tutorials inspired by their clothing. I've only done one look for them so far, but I'm very excited to begin that partnership. 

Scarf Inspired Mani

What do you think of these? Would you want to try any of these? 

Happy Polishing! :)

31 Day Nail Art Challenge - Day 25: Inspired by Fashion

Oh my gosh! If there is anyone out there who reads my blog regularly, you may have noticed that I've been MIA for the past 2 weeks (I can't believe it's been that long!). Meghan and I decided to take a brief hiatus from the 31 Day Challenge since we both had busy weeks last week. While I've been doing tutorials for other blogs over the past 2 weeks, I haven't quite managed to post them here yet - hopefully I'll have those up by tomorrow night! I missed you all!

Anyway! We are both back tonight with our Fashion inspired nails! I am not exactly fashion savvy so I wasn't really sure where to even begin with this look but then friend of mine found this fabulous stained glass print dress from Alexander McQueen and I fell in love. I wish I had $1000 to drop on this dress!

31 Day Nail Art Challenge - Day 24: Inspired by a Book

I have been looking forward to today's challenge theme since the very beginning - and now that it's here, it feels so underwhelming! I've wanted to do a mani based on one of my favorite kids books, Harold and His Purple Crayon. The story is about a little boy named Harold who one night decides he's going to for a walk with his purple crayon...but finds he doesn't have light to walk by so he draws himself the moon...and he soon find that his walk isn't very interesting so he draws some things to keep it interesting. You can see the book read here if you're interested! 

I decided to recreate some of the my favorite scenes from the book and here is the result!