Beauty BigBang: BBB05 Stamping Plate Review

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I have a long overdue review of a stamping plate to share with you today.  Seeing that I'm seeing Instagram stories and Facebook posts with snow, I guess it isn't too delayed.  Today I'm going to share BBB05 Stamping Plate from Beauty Bigbang.  This plate is winter themed and there are quite a few images that make perfect sweater nails.  Should you order, please consider using code KRIS10 for 10% off.

Let's get to the manis!

Digit-al Dozen: All That Glitters Is...Dolphins!

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It's day 4 of the Digit-al Dozen prompt All That Glitters. I definitely wanted to do a mani inspired by looking into the ocean, because you can see all those critters and the sun glitters off the surface.  Then as I was going through my stash - BAM!  I have a polish with FREAKING DOLPHIN GLITTER!!!

Now let's get to the details!

Candy Cane Forest

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I'm carrying on with fun holiday manis.  Today I am onto Day 2 of Ehmkay Nails and Polished Lifting Winter Nail Art Challenge.  When I was trying to think of what candy to do, the movie Elf was on and Buddy had just "passed through the seven levels of the Candy Cane Forest, through the sea of Swirly Twirly Gum Drops, and then through the Lincoln Tunnel."  I looked around at what stamping images I had and I had to go with the Candy Cane Forest!

Let's get to the details!  Photos shown in filtered light, LED light.

Digit-al Dozen: Futuristic - The Matrix

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We are onto day 2 of the Digit-al Dozen continuing with our Futuristic prompt.  Another movie that popped into my head was The Matrix.   Would you take the red pill or the blue pill?  If it's polish - I'd take the glitter pill!  :)

Let's get to the details!

Digit-al Dozen October Birthday Mani

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The Digit-al Dozen had a birthday this past month and it was Amber of Nail Like Lace who selected the image we all use to create manis!  She selected a fun blue, red and black cat!

Let's get to the details.

Digit-al Dozen: Throwback to Bumble

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We are on day 2 of the Digit-al Dozen Throwback week and I chose to be inspired by old Halloween costumes.  Yesterday I shared my Sally inspired mani and today I will share one of my favorite costumes EVAH!!!!

Let's get to the details!

Digit-al Dozen: 5th "Bee-Day" Celebration

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It is a Digit-al Dozen week and we were challenged with the prompt "5th Birthday."  Yes, that is right - the Digit-al Dozen is turning 5 this month.  The prompt was very challenging and I tried my best to tackle manis with themes of birthday and 5.

Let's get to the details!

Digit-al Dozen: Story Generes - The Female Brain

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It is day 2 in the Digit-al Dozen for the prompt of Story Genres.  I selected non-fiction again and was inspired by The Female Brain.  It answered so many questions I had about girls, teens and women and how chemicals in our brand work to make us feel and interpret things differently.

Now let's get to the details.

Digit-al Dozen: 5 Days, 5 Continents North American Artist

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Why hello there!  It is a Digit-al Dozen week and our theme this week is 5 Continents.  This theme threw me for a loop and I kept trying to think of I wanted to do for each continent.  I finally decided on artists and my husband selected the North American artist Georgia O'Keefe - my husband loves Sante Fe style art.  She did some amazing macros of flowers, adobe homes, mountains and skylines.  I was drawn to one of her skyline images called Sky Above The Flat White Cloud II (mostly because I knew I could do the look with my simple nail art skills).

Now let's get to the details!

Digit-al Dozen: May Birthday Mani - Digital Neon Flowers

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It is the end of May, which means time to celebrate with a mani inspired by a photo selected by the Digit-al Dozen member with a May birthday.  Cheyenne of CDB Nails selected this amazing digital image of neon flowers below.  At first I was really intimidated by this photo (Cheyenne sure knows how to challenge us!).  :)

More details below!

Digit-al Dozen: Rainforest Flutterbies

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We are now on Day 4 and I had to do a mani with butterflies.  The images I see of the butterflies in the rainforest are exotic, colorful and vibrant (even if they are little "flying worms.")  (Sorry, I had to quote Sheldon Cooper of The Big Bang Theory.)  I wanted to go bold, so I went down the neon road and I think I will go down that road more often!

Now let's get to the details!

Nail Challenge Collaborative: Pastel Floral

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Today my blog post is for the Nail Crazies Unite group.  The theme is floral pastels and I had to bring in the Pastelly Jellies from Drip Drop Nail Paint - which were just re-released!  One of great things about the Pastelly Jellies is that you can create not only jelly sandwiches (glitter between layers of jelly) but you can create stamping sandwiches!  :)

Let's get to the details!

Nail Challenge Collaborative: Spring Daisies

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This month I'm a little behind on some nail art challenges and I know I won't get caught up.  Having a nasty cold for week and sounding like a trucker who smokes kind of changed my schedule.  :)  Today I'm sharing a mani for the Nail Challenge Collaborative group with the prompt "Spring."  The goal is to do 1-4 manis with the same prompt.  What do I think of with spring?  Flowers blooming of course!

Now let's get to the details!

Digit-al Dozen: Get To Know What I Do

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It's day number 2 in the Digit-al Dozen Get To Know Me week.  I thought I would do a mani related to my career.  What exactly do I do all day?  Hmmm....good question.  I work at a company that fabricates computer chips, we make them in a super duper clean rooms (people are required to wear clean room suits to protect the product - it's like a big onsie with a hood and face cover).  I've held a few different roles from analyzing the electronic properties of the computer chips, analyzing what chips can be sold and what can be causing them to fail, to figuring out what can be causing issues during processing.  Every day it's some new problem that can be easy to solve or very complex.  While my official title is "Yield Engineer" I prefer to call myself an engi-'nerd.'  :)

Let's get to the mani!

Ever After Polish So You Want To Be A Villain? Collection Swatch and Review

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*Press Sample*
Have you ever rooted for the Villian?  Maybe they are just misunderstood or maybe they had a rough life?  No?  Well I'll change your mind with these villian inspired polishes in the So You Want To Be A Villain Collection from Ever After Polish.  This collection will be available Friday April 7th.

Let's get to the swatches.

Green Freestyle: Leafy Electric Jiggles

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For 26 Great Nail Ideas the prompt is Green - Freestyle.  OK, OK - so I may be cheating a little here. I attempted to do a green mani and I wasn't pleased with it.  Luckily I had one green mani stored on my phone that I NEVER posted or blogged about, so I'm using it!  (This is why the nail shape is different.)

Now let's get to the details!

Nail Crazies Unite: Sweets!

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Today I'm posting for Nail Crazies Unite prompt of "sweets."  I had an image in mind that I've been wanting to use FOREVER but never found the right time.  Well today is THAT time!

Now let's get to the details!

Spring Animals in Black and White

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I'm combining 2 prompts again!  I had "Spring Animals" for 26 Great Nail Art Ideas and "Black and White" for the Nail Challenge Collaborative.  Now, when most people think of "Spring Animals" they think cute bunnies and chicks and pastel colors.  But you know what?  Some of the animals that appear during spring are nocturnal!  So I decided to do a mani of nocturnal animals.

Now let's get to the details.

26 Great Nail Art Ideas Challenge: Blue Floral

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I'm back from a week vacation!  Where was I, you ask?  I was in Las Vegas - Sin City.  Unfortunately I did not win big, nor did the hubby, or my folks (who we met there).  But we did do some light gambling (I don't like donating money to a casino), eating yummy food, people watching, shopping and decided to visit the Pinball Hall of Fame.  Glad to be back home and now I'm playing catch up with some nail art challenges.  Speaking of nail art - have you had a mani you just struggled with?  The mani for this blog was my nemesis.  I could not figure out a "blue floral" mani for the life of me.

Digit-al Dozen: Stamping Over Black To Nude Gradient

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Today is the last day for the February Digit-al Dozen week using the prompt of black.  I decided to go for actual bare nails!  So risqué!  Ooh la la!  Since I'm not the biggest fan of visible nail line (VNL) I decided to make the bare nail part towards my cuticle.

Now let's get to the details!