Digit-al Dozen: Disney Vacation

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It's a Digit-al Dozen Week!!  This week our prompt is vacations!!  Sign me up...when do we leave!?  :)  I can't wait to take you all on "vacation" with me this week and to start....let's hit the happiest place on Earth!

Let's get to the details!

May Polish Pick Up: Serum No. 5 Some Bunny Wants Your Blood

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Today I have the contribution from Serum No. 5 for May's Polish Pick Up!  May's theme is inspired by the 80's!  As a child of the 80s, I am so excited for this theme and am loving all the products that the brands have been created.  The polish I'm sharing today is inspired by a childhood favorite: Bunnicula!  In elementary school one of my teachers spent reading time reading through the books!

Let's get to the details!

Digit-al Dozen: Re-creating Fall Tree

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It is a Digit-al Dozen Week and we are recreating our first blogs!  I started my blog 5 years ago next month, so my first blogs are Halloween themed and Winter Holiday themed.  I adjusted (or rather I attempted to) the holiday manis to align with Autumn and Fall.

Lacquer Collab Box: Sassy Cats Lacquer Rose Champagne and Berries

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There is a new collaboration box out in the indie world called Lacquer Collab!  It contains 12 brands and each month there will be a new theme.  It is a design your own box so you get just what you want.  This month the theme is Glitter and Glam and I am sharing the contribution from Sassy Cats Lacquer called Rose Champagne and Berries.

Let's get to the details!

Polish Pick Up: Ribbits Stickits Jems!

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Hello!  Today I am sharing the Jem and the Holograms contributions to the January Polish Pick Up from Ribbits Stickits.  Yes, you saw that right - contributions.  PLURAL!  For January Kristy (the owner of Ribbits Stickits) is providing 2 items!  OPTION 1: 2 sheets of decals!  OPTION 2: scented latex barrier!  OK, OK, let's get to the details and manis!

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 - Rosie From The Jetsons

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We are concluding with the last day of the Digit-al Dozen week with our Futuristic prompt.  This was a husband suggestion today too!  When I told him the prompt he yelled "THE JETSONS!"  I was staring at the characters and the only character I remembered the name of was Rosie, the robot.  So I went with that!

Let's get to the details!

Big Beautybang: Metallic Foil Leaf

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I have another product from Beauty Bigbang to share.  I have a box of 12 pots of metallic foil in gold, silver, copper and multi-color leaf.  While they have a foil look to them, they are delicate and soft like leaf.

Let's get to the review. *Photo heavy post.*

Beauty BigBang: Gold Nail Stickers

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Today I have some Golden Floral Nail Stickers from Beauty Bigbang to share.  If you are looking for a quick and easy and fun look keep reading!

Let's get to the review.

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.

26 Great Nail Art Ideas: Halloween With Negative Space

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I have a ton of blog posts I will be cranking out over the next few days!  And special treat - I have a giveaway coming up to celebrate 4 years of blogging this month!  :)

26 Great Nail Art Ideas is a Facebook Group that has prompts every other week and a few days ago (I'm behind) was Halloween with Negative Space.  I'm going to be honest, this weekend when I was going through all the manis I needed to get done, I kept wanting to do a ruffian mani.  So these are my take on Halloween Negative Space Ruffian.

Let's get to the details.

It Girl Nail Art IG121 Plate Review Part 2

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Today I will be sharing the 2nd half of my review of  It Girl Nail Art IG121 plate.  This plate contains everything you need for a good Hallow's Eve - skulls, jack-o-lanterns, spiders, webs, grave stone, grim reaper, a witch and much more!  Yesterday I shared 5 manis and today will be another 5!

Now let's get to the manis!

Digit-al Dozen: Throwback to Luciferia

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It has been an amazing Digit-al Dozen Week using the prompt Throwback.  I had my tribute to Sally, Bumble, Clown and yesterday a Butterfly.  Today we are going old school, as in college days, back in the late 90's-early 2000's (yes I'm dating myself).

Let's get to the details.

Digit-al Dozen: Throwback to Clowning

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We are now onto Day 3 for the Digit-al Dozen using the prompt Throwback.  I'm revisiting old costumes I have worn.  I shared my Sally and my Bumble costumes and today is going to make you laugh.

Let's get to the details.

It Girl Nail Art IG112 Plate Manis Part 1

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Today I will be sharing the first half of the manis I've done with It Girl Nail Art IG112 Plate.  This is probably my favorite plate from It Girl Nail Art that I've received - the images are simply adorable!  All the images picked up well - I do recommend using a squishy/sticky stamper for the fine line images instead of a clear stamper.

Now let's get to the manis!

Mitty Brushes Review

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I've been playing with a brush set sent to me by Mitty.  Mitty is a fellow nail artist, who wanted to have good quality Kolinsky brushes at an affordable cost.  Mitty are available as the complete set or as individual brushes.  The brush set comes with:

1 Brush bag
1 I'm Fan-tastic Brush
1 Lots of Dots with lid (dotter)
1 Stripy Glamour Brush with lid
1 Angle Me Brush with lid
1 Fabulously Flat Brush with lid
1 Shape n Lines Brush with lid

As a reminder, care for your brushes to ensure they last always clean them off completely and store safely with the lid on to protect the bristles.

Now let's get to some manis!

Cuticula Scented Liquid Nail Tape Review

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Today I'm sharing my experience with Cuticula Scented Liquid Nail Tape.  Cuticula is a liquid latex base product that is utilized during nail art to save time on clean up as well as making clean up a LOT easier.  Kristin, owner of Cuticula, sent me her mini Fall Trio in the scents of Candy Corn, Cinnamon Roll and Pumpkin Pie.  They also come with adorable nail decals that go with the scent!

I will be sharing the mani that I created using the Pumpkin Pie scented Cuticula and my experiences with it.

I started with a tuxedo mani, as seen below.  I wanted to make it more appropriate for Halloween and what better way to spice up a mani?  Add blood splatter to it!

Red creme polishes can and will stain your cuticles and skin, so it is best to take precautions using a product like Cuticula.  I applied Cuticula to my skin as well as flooded my cuticles with it to ensure that no red creme polish would even think about trying to stain my cuticles.  It dried extremely fast and as soon as I was done with my pinky, my pointer finger was dry.  You can tell it is dry by the color change.  The Pumpkin Pie scent grew stronger as Cuticula dried and it made me crave....you guessed it pumpkin pie!

Once the Cuticula was all dry, I grabbed my favorite red creme and a bobby pin.  I dipped the loop end of the bobby pin into the polish and pulled it out and hovered it slightly above my nails and blew hard in little bursts to get the look of blood splatters.  I did this until I was happy with the look.  As you can see, I could have gone a little farther up my finger with Cuticula.  Lesson learned: don't be shy with Cuticula, she will protect you!

Then I removed my dried Cuticula from each finger, taking most of the red creme with it.  I also included a photo (2nd photo below) of my mani pre-clean up.  Look at how easy my clean up job will be with just the addition of Cuticula!!

And here is the final look!

Other products used:
Polishes: Blank Canvas from Candied Apple Polish, Yoga Pants from Drip Drop Nail Paint, Little Red Dress from Polish My Life, Gem Glam Top Coat from Dream Polish
Products: Vinyls from Nails Jewelry Bling

Loves:  I love the fall scents of this trio and Pumpkin Pie is my favorite!  The best part is that the scent lingers on your fingers after you take it off.  I also love that it dries quickly and is very easy to use and control with the brush.  These little minis are the perfect gift for your fellow nail art addict too!  I also love that they come with nail decals to help inspire some nail art.

Wishes:  I wouldn't change anything with Cuticula.  For me, I can use latex based products and have no allergies....so if I was to wish for anything it would be for the gals out there that are allergic to latex to have a product like this to be able to use.  I'd love to see Kristin carry some non-latex base products too for my friends who are allergic.

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Happy Polishing,
Kristi aka @Beginnails

PS below is a tutorial of what I did:

Born Pretty Stamping Polishes Review

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Today I will be sharing two stamping polishes that I received from Born Pretty Store, which is an online store that sells nail art supplies, tools, polish, decals, and even home goods and clothes!  Born Pretty carries affordable products and you can purchase in bulk as well.  Their stamping polishes are 3-free, so they don't contain 3 of the harsh chemicals that can be found in polish.

Now let's get to some manis!

All Mixed Up Lacquers Characters of Tim Burton Collection Swatch and Review Part 2

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This is the second part of a four part blog review of the Characters of Tim Burton Collection from All Mixed Up Lacquers (link to first review).  The Characters of Tim Burton Collection contains 16 glitter toppers and they are all inspired from characters from Tim Burton movies.

Photo courtesy of All Mixed Up Lacquers:

Now let's get to some swatches!

July Mani Of The Month Box Swatch and Review

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Today I have the July Mani Of The Month box which features products from Heather's Hues, Dream Polish and Nails Redesigned.  July's box had the theme of Sweet Land Of Liberty and also had a guest contributor, Eclectic Girls Polish and Handcare.  Each box features a full size polish, a mini glitter topper and assorted extra glitter all from Heather's Hues, a base coat, top coat in mini size and a nail care item from Dream Polish and an assortment of nail vinyl decals and Swarovski crystals from Nails Redesigned.

This box came with red stars and blue waves of vinyl stencils, blue and silver star vinyl decals,  and red crystals all from Nails Redesigned, and Smooth Gem base coat, Gem Glam top coat and Cuticle Oil in the scent of Melon Baller from Dream Polish.  The special guest contributor included a mini glitter topper and a mani bomb along with a holographic sticker and festive ring.

Now let's get to some swatches!