Candyland - Makes My Mouth Happy

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Do you remember that commercial for the candy that, "makes your mouth happy"?  I may not have a truly *favorite* candy for today's prompt in the Candy Nail Art Challenge, but when I go to the movies, I like to have one particular kind of candy with me, and it's the one that makes my mouth happy!

Candyland - Candy'll Poke Your Eye Out!

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We're nearing the end of this Candy Nail Art Challenge!  Today's challenge was to use 3-D effects in the nail art.

CandyLand - Lolly, Lolly, Lolly!

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If you read the title of today's post, and are now singing, "get your adverbs here.."  you're officially old, and you're welcome!  Don't worry, it's in my head, too!  Today's Candy Nail Art challenge is, "Hard Candy" and I have some giant lollipops to share with you.

Candyland Challenge - MMM, Chocolate!

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Today's Candy Nail Art challenge is one of my fave things to eat, though it turns out, not so easy for me to paint... chocolate!

Candy Nail Art Challenge - CandyLand!

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This week, Challenge Your Nail Art is hosting a Candy Nail Art challenge!  I have a flakie, stamped candy-fest on my nails for today's theme: Candyland!

Ride, Sally Ride

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Today is the last day of the Challenge Your Nail Art Space Challenge!  I grew up knowing about Sally Ride, but I didn't know she had her own day.  And, I learned a little more about her while doing research for this challenge.  The More You Know...

Blast-Off!

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Today's Challenge Your Nail Art topic is Blast Off!  Rocket time!

Planetary, Intergalactic

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I'm combining two, yes, TWO challenges in today's nailart:  The Sunday Stamping challenge is to leadlight a negative space mani, and the Space challenge is Planets.  So...

Space Movie: Wall-E

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Ready for another Challenge Your Nail Art challenge?  This month, it's 4 days of Space... the Final Nail Art Frontier..  These are the voyages of Lit From Within...

Everyone Knows It's Windy

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Today's the last day of the All Things Blue challenge by Challenge Your Nail Art! It's been fun using one of my fave colors and doing themed nail art for a while.  I hope it's been nice for y'all, too!  Today, I double-stamp to create a windy nail art scene!

All Things Blue - Light It Up For Autism Awareness

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Two posts today!  If you haven't checked it out, I finished this month's Nail Challenge Collaborative 3rd anniversary copycat month earlier today with a chic dotticure.

Right now, though, is the second installment of this month's Challenge Your Nail Art All Things Blue challenge!  Autism awareness' slogan is 'Light It Up Blue" and that's what I did with this blue puzzle mani.

All Things Blue - April Showers

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It's time for another Challenge Your Nail Art challenge!  This month, it's a short one.  For the next three days, my nail art will focus on All Things Blue!  Today, there's water, water, everywhere - but not a drop to drink!

Anti-Valentines' Day

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Even though I think Valentines' Day is a Hallmark Holiday, I'm not really *against* it.  I don't celebrate it, but I'm not a hater if you do.  I've never sent anyone some Haterade Black Roses before, but I thought they might be fun for an anti-Valentines look

Happy Valentines' Day!

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Today is Valentines' Day, the day all about hearts and love.  I think it's a Hallmark Holiday that only served to make me feel miserable when I was single, and to drive up the price of flowers and chocolate.

But, I like having an excuse to do heart nail art, so here we go!

Love Actions

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When I was thinking about today's challenge, Love Letters, I kept coming back to the idea of actions being stronger than words.  The love 'letters' I'm going to show you are the letters I create with nail polish for some of the people I love.

Love that color!

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Today's challenge is about the color I love.  Well, my favorite color is midnight blue, but it's hard to find a perfect midnight blue polish that doesn't go too black.  Plus, it doesn't really say 'Valentine's' to me.  So, I picked my husband's favorite color, purple.

Dottin' Love Is In The Air!

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It's time for another Challenge Your Nail Art challenge. This one runs through 2/15, and is all about love, love, love.

Well, today, I want to share with you one of the nail art techniques that I love, not only for how pretty it looks, and the many variations you can create, but also because anybody can do it:  The Dotticure.

Happy Thanksgiving! #ChallengeYourNailArt #FallingForNailArt

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Today's the last day of the November Challenge Your Nail Art Fall-ing for Nail Art Challenge! 

Color me Fall #ChallengeYourNailArt #FallingForNailArt

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Today's Challenge Your Nail Art prompt is for Fall Colors.  I did this mani for a nail group I'm in, for a Fall Glitter look, and thought it would work for today's challenge, too.  I love the gold and red together, with a stripe of black.

I laid down a base color of Wet 'n Wild Pot of Gold, and then added Candy Lacquer Big MacIntosh to the bottom 2/3rd of the nail. 

Swish of red and black striper, popped on a red rhinestone, and Bob's your uncle, and Fanny's your aunt.

Bottle shot:  Wet 'n Wild Pot of Gold, Candy Lacquer Big Macintosh, and nail art stripers in red and black.

What are your favorite Fall colors?

MMMM... Pie! #ChallengeYourNailArt #FallingForNailArt

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Today's Challenge Your Nail Art prompt is for Fall Food.  Nothing says Fall to me more than baking!  It's too hot here in Florida to do a lot of baking in the summer, anyway, but the really good apples don't get ripe until the Fall.

So when I saw this nail art (original author unknown) for cherry pie, I thought, well, I'd rather have apple.

I started off with Revlon Orient Express, but it was too red, so I put a layer of OPI Glints Of Glinda over it, which gave it a milky, softened look that was more like what I wanted.

I used a short brush to daub Zoya Flynn in a cross-hatch pattern, like a lattice-top pie.  To give it more dimension (and golden-brown deliciousness,) I added little spots of Lacquerhead Polish Ashlyn, a dark brown holo.

Yeah, it still looks like a cherry pie, I guess.  Which is okay.  It's still pie, after all.

Bottle shot:  Revlon Orient Express, OPI Glints of Glinda, Zoya Flynn, and Lacquerhead Polish Ashlyn.

Will you be indulging in a little pie this week?  What's your fave?  It's so hard to decide, but a good peach pie is hard to beat!