Little Night Flower

I took my inspiration for today's challenge from The Crow. More details after the jump.

Today's look is a bit of a fun one.  I suspect quite a few bloggers will choose the Jolly Roger as their flag today. More details after the jump.

I have used tape to create quite a few looks so for this one I thought why not leave the tape on to create the design. More details after the jump.

This is another colourful look inspired by some multi coloured zebra artwork which can be found here . More details after the jump.

I appear to be playing catch up again.  Prepare for lots of posts over the next couple of days and lots of colour.  Summer has come to an end and it is getting very grey and cold in this little part of the world so I decided my nails needed to be a lot more colourful. I had a few ideas for this and I have maybe taken a few liberties interpreting the theme.  I have interpreted pattern as something you might see printed on fabric and I went for neon paint splatter on black. More details after the jump.

It seems studded leather is all over the place at the moment so I have recreated the look in polish. More details after the jump.

After much consideration I decided my most used colour polish was NYC Lexington Yellow.  This is my go to yellow polish and there has been quite a bit of yellow used for various challenges recently. Something quick and quirky for today. More details after the jump.

The very strong graphic of the red lips against the white face on the cover of Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden inspired this mani. More details after the jump.

Phew, having a bit of a blogging frenzy this weekend.  As you may have noticed I am also taking part in the 33 Day Challenge organised by the Crumpet's Nail Tarts.  There are only 3 posts a week for this and a small overlap with the 31 Day Challenge but I thought I should stretch myself a little bit.  Hopefully this will inspire me to come up with some new and original designs. My chosen movie for day 23 of the 31 Day Challenge is Despicable Me 2.  Everyone has had a go at painting Minions, but these little guys are just too cute not to try at least once. More details and pictures after the jump.

When I first decided to participate in a challenge I came up an idea for dots and had to paint it while it was still in my head.  Apologies for the orange tone of the picture, I was still getting to grips with my camera when this was taken and hadn't quite mastered indoor night-time pictures.  I've seen this look done before but I had a couple of polishes I thought would really work together for this. More details after the jump.

I have a decent sized music collection so was a little overwhelmed by choice for this one.  I decided to go with Green Day's American Idiot. More details and pictures after the jump.

This has to be one of the favourite polishes in my collection and blue is my favourite colour.  I wanted to create something simple and delicate. More details after the jump

Many bloggers have a love/hate relationship with water marbling ie love the way it looks (when done successfully), hate having to use this technique as it is so darn difficult to perfect. I envy the people in the tutorial videos on You Tube who make it look so easy - drop some polish in a cup, drag a cocktail stick or dotting tool through it to create a pattern and perfectly place your nail in the polish to get the exact design you want on your nail. If only... This is my attempt for day 20 of the challenge. More details and a bit of ranting after the jump.

I was going for a spaceship portal effect with this one. More details and pictures after the jump.

I have been going to lots of events at the Spirit of Moray Book Festival this week.  I've learned a lot and met some fantastic authors.  I might even have some inspiration for some of the later challenges.  This does mean both the blog and my nails have been a little neglected but I'm getting caught up as quickly as I can. Today's theme is half moon nails and this is what I came up with: More details after the jump.

I thought I should have a mani with a bit of colour, after yesterday's monochrome.  This is what I came up with: More details after the jump.

A very quick and simple mani to start the week. More details after the jump.

First of all I would like to thank everyone for the Liebster award nominations.  I am super busy at work at the moment as I start a new job in 2 weeks and need to get everything ready to hand over before I go.  Also organizing daily posts for the 31 Day Challenge has taken up a lot of my spare time.  However, I will get round to answering all the questions and linking back to everyone's blog when things have calmed down a bit.  This is also the reason I've not been responding to all the lovely comments, but I have read and appreciate them all. Right on with the business of the day and I would like to thank Cazzy Duncan over at SpecialGirl Nails  for testing out how well the 2truc Metallica polishes work for stamping.  As the results were so good I had to acquire them for myself.  I also had a special triple points offer on my Superdrug Beauty Card for the next purchase I made in September (a special offer as it was my birthday). This was the result...

I wanted to do something a little quirky for this theme. I'm sure there are some fantastic flower themed manis have been created for today's theme and I wanted to do something a little different. More details after the jump.

I'm giving my natural nails a rest today (I'm still wearing the stripes mani posted yesterday) and I've painted some tips instead.  As my cousin has been very supportive of my nail art I had no choice but to do tiger stripes for the animal print theme as they are her favourite animal. More details after the jump.

I'm much happier with today's mani than yesterday's polka dots, I was feeling much more inspired.  This idea was taken from a look created by Robin Moses.  You can check out the tutorial video here  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPBdDNuMIf4 More details and another picture after the jump.

This post has taken me quite a while to put together as I wasn't quite happy with the various ideas I came up with for this theme.  While this design could have used a bit more planning it was the best of the bunch. More details after the jump.

I wanted to try out a colour combination for this gradient that wasn't mainstream.  I was inspired by this tutorial from Robin Moses on You Tube .  More details and pictures after the jump.

When I got the idea for yesterday's metallic nails it led very quickly to this one.  I was going to add the jukebox in with the shoes but I thought there was room to work with it all on its own.  I call this look my eclectic rainbow jukebox. More details and pictures after the jump.

I thought I would try something a little different for this one.  All but the black are metallic polishes.  More details after the jump.

Here's a little something for the weekend.  Day 7 of the 31 Day Challenge calls for black and white nails and I came up with this mani. More details after the jump.

Day 6 of the 31 Day Challenge and I managed to create an interesting colour by layering polishes. More details after the jump.

Day 5 of the 31 Day Challenge and I have toned down the colours for today's mani. More details and a picture of my 'Cinderella hand' after the jump.

The theme for day 4 of the the 31 day challenge is green nails. I love the combination of green and gold and this is what I came up with. More details after the jump.

Day 3 of the 31 Day Challenge and today's theme is yellow nails. More details after the jump.

Day 2 of the 31 Day Challenge and the theme is orange nails. #31dc2013 This picture was taken in sunlight and shows off the colour of the polishes quite well. More details after the jump.

It is with great trepidation that I set out on my first 31 Day Challenge.  I've got loads of ideas already drawn up in my sketch book, now I just have to hope I have the time to create them all.  #31dc2013 The theme for day 1 is red and this is what I came up with: More details after the jump.