31 Day Challenge: Honor Nails you Love

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As soon as I saw this fabulous animal art manicure from More Nail Polish, I knew exactly what I wanted to do for my "Honor Nails you Love" Manicure.

31 Day Challenge: Inspired by a Tutorial

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This manicure was inspired by the gorgeous waterfall nails tutorial published by nailasaurus.

31 Day Challenge: Inspired by the Supernatural

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For day 29 of the 31 day challenge, I wore Hulk inspired nails. He is pretty supernatural, right?

31 Day Challenge: Inspired by a Flag

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Sadly, this was a huge manicure fail. But oh, the inspiration for this flag manicure was great.

31 Day Challenge: Inspired by Artwork

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I have to be really quick. My Grandma Janice loved Monet and I loved her dearly, so any time that I can do, or see something that reminds me of her it is a treasure.

31 Day Challenge: Inspired by a Pattern

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Today's manicure was inspired by the pattern on the throw pillows from my sofa. While looking at the pillow I thought, "Yay! An excuse to wear Briarwood!" and there was nothing else to consider.

31 Day Challenge: Inspired by Fashion

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Here are fashion inspired nails. This manicure worked a lot better in my mind, but was executed poorly. Inspired by a dress from Jason Wu's 2011 Fall/Winter line, I think if painted well, this could have been stunning. Instead, I spent lots of time trying to fix mistakes until it got too late for me to do anything else to fix the manicure. But sometimes that is the way these things go.

31 Day Challenge: Inspired by a Book

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I had a hard time with today's manicure. There are books I love that would be really hard to make into a manicure. At the very last moment, I decided to do a Howl's Moving Castle manicure.

31 Day Challenge: Inspired by a Movie

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The first time that I saw North by Northwest was a Friday night on PBS. I was getting ready to go out to a couple of bars, but I was swept up. No evening of bar hopping could be as good as this movie is. I have never regretted that choice.

31 Day Challenge: Inspired by a Song

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Blackbird singing in the dead of night,
Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
All your life,
You were only waiting for this moment to arrive.

31 Day Challenge: Inspired by a Color

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Yes, some nails are missing polish, but they were polished earlier today. I ran my very first half marathon today and it was POURING rain. My peel off basecoat just gave up and pieces of my polish apparently ended up littered near the Niagara River. My husband said yesterday's mani looked like water, so I ran by the river with watery nails.

31 Day Challenge: Water Marble

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So happy! My very first successful water marble. Every other time I tried, the polish wouldn't spread for the bullseye. I have no idea why it worked this time; I'm just glad it did.

31 Day Challenge: Galaxies

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I did a galaxy manicure about a year and a half ago. I loved it. It had a little TARDIS nail and everything. I vowed to do another one because it is so cute and not difficult at all. Well, today, thanks to the challenge, I am finally making good on that promise.

31 Day Challenge: Half Moons

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Hello again! Day 18 of the 31 Day Challenge is half moons. I've never done traditional half moons before, so I wanted to try a fairly traditional version.

31 Day Challenge: Glitter

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Much happier with today's manicure. I love sparkles and this polish is pure sparkle!

31 Day Challenge: Tribal Print

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Really quick, late post. Sorry. I finally had an idea that I was happy about for tribal print. I figured that I'd honor the Iroquois people since they are from where I live and I am the teeny-tiniest bit Mohawk myself. But this manicure, sadly, did not come out as I envisioned.

31 Day Challenge: Delicate Print

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Half way through the challenge and here I am with another manicure. This is the most often I have ever painted my nails and I even do the cheat of transforming a previous day's mani whenever I can. Is that frowned upon? If so, I apologize, but it is the only way I could to this while maintaining my sanity.

31 Day Challenge: Flowers

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Happy Saturday! Today I am wearing my most successful handpainted floral manicure.

31 Day Challenge: Animal

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Today's manicure is a pretty big departure from my normal style. It is more bright and bold and I am not big into animal prints . . .

31 Day Challenge: Stripes

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Today's manicure, I expected to be quick, but it took a bit longer than expected to create this look.