I hit some of my highest notes early on in the 31-day challenge. I wanted to try mixing some techniques, and nothing creates a more striking effect than a simple bold lined pattern. Day 6: Violet The base for this design was a “smoosh” of four nail polishes, made by dabbing blobs of polish onto…

For the next two days of the 31DC, I decided to try some finer line painting. As you can see from Day 1, I was inadvertently following a nature theme of sorts – fruit, feathers, grains? – so for the blue and green days I tried not to go for the obvious. Characters in color For…

Corn nails. What can I say about these? Well, they are corn nails. Corn, on my nails. Except painted, not real. That would be gross. Beyond that? I think they speak for themselves. Bring on the corn puns. Go on. BRING ‘EM. Freehanded over China Glaze’s Metro Pollen-tin. Made with love and a soupcon of “why-the-hell-not?”. I really…

Every year the very talented Sarah of Chalkboard Nails puts together a 31-day nail art challenge. Not only do I love any excuse to do nail art, but this sort of marathon challenge really appeals to my 8-time-NaNoWriMo-veteran brain. So obviously I’m all over this. Here’s the gist. Every day throughout September (plus 1) there’s…

Hey remember that Instagram collaboration I started where a bunch of us got together and recreated manis from our “nail art heroes”? It’s in its fourth iteration! And this month’s was the biggest yet… View this post on Instagram Here it is… The #nailartheroes collab August edition! This is the biggest collab we've ever had. 18…

I was graciously invited to paint nails at an upcoming community event. To advertise this on the posters, I needed to come up with a logo, a task completely foreign to me. My use of Photoshop has previously been limited to cropping, and curving that little watermark around my cuticles in photos. Fortunately, I am in possession…