It's the last day of the month, which means it's Digital Dozen Birthday mani time, and for once I actually remembered to prepare my mani in advance.

The photo inspiration for this is a pretty cool abstract design of various blue shades of paint that all kind of mixing but not.  I've seen a few mani's recently using a special white polish that causes this same sort of separation, and now I'm thinking about it I wonder if those Sinful color Hypnotic transforming top coats might have worked with this. But never mind that now, cause I didn't think to pull them out until just writing this up.

Don't ask me about my technique. I'm not really sure what I did. I painted various thick lines of polish onto my mat, then I lay a piece of plastic over it and pulled it off. I then let that dry and applied these like decals.

Some nails worked better than others. I particularly like my index finger as it has some of the dotty bits.

Here is my final look for Digital Dozen week, and today's inspiration is from Tracy over at Olivia Jade Nails. Tracey is a pretty amazing stamper. I'm so envious of the stamping plate collection.  

When I think about Tracy's signature style, I think of some sort of sponged base and perfect stamping on top.  So that's what I went for here.  It's loosely based off a design she created with some Pretty Serious cremes and I chose different cremes to hers, but I still did the radial gradient with a circular type stamp on top.

Hey Peeps. Can you believe it's day 4 already?  Today's mani is thanks to Sarah over at 25 Sweetpeas who created this look only last month for the Digital Dozen indie week.

I have a feeling this is actually the first time I have created a cheetah/leopard spring without stamping it. And to be perfectly honesty, I really suck at it.  I sure wish I had found a stamp and stamped on the print rather that doing it with dotting tools.  I suggest you jump over to to Sarah's blog to see how it was suppose to look.

My inspiration for today's mani is Uma, from Uma's Nail Art. She created this design for the metallic prompt of the 31 Day Challenge last year and I thought it was pretty cool.  I even had a stamping plate was was nearly identical to the one Uma used.  Only her's looks a lot better because she has much longer nails and the optical illusion from the plate makes more of an impact.

Silver chrome is always so hard to photograph. I don't know whether I should keep the light reflecting on the nail, or go for an angle without the flare of light coming off the silver. Ugh, the struggles of being a nail polish blogger are real!

Welcome to day 2 of this inspired by each other Digital Dozen week.  I'll get straight into it with the design, which I fell in love with from Lothwen over at Manis & Makeovers.  Lothwen did this design for the Digital Dozen colour contrast week based off classic colour blocking by Dutch painter Piet Mondriaan.

I followed her pattern exactly and really love how it turned out. The colours all pop so perfectly against each other.  I just wish I was better at painting those damn straight lines!

Hello there. Are you surprised that I keep coming back? Again it's been about two weeks since I was last here, but lucky for you its a Digital Dozen week, which means five days of nail art in a row.

This week the theme is Inspired by each other, and I couldn't be happier, because it means I can turn of my own brain and rely on the creative prowess of my fellow Digital Dozen girls to get me through the week.

To start me off, I started browsing through all the DD girls blogs and Instagram accounts to start taking notes of which manis I wanted to create. Well let me just say, Day-am girls, you are all some fine nail artists.  I ended up having so many choices I had to work out a way to narrow the list down.  So because I'm pretty much a lazy arse with nail art these days, I decided to make my decisions on nail art that would be the quickest and easiest to recreate.

Enter mani number one!  I took inspiration from Serene from Copycat Claws for this one.  She posted her design in September last year as part of a review of nail stencils. Now I knew I didn't have those stencils, but I knew I had a stamping plate from Messy Mansion (MM27) with flames on it. I have used it before for this Girl on Fire mani. 

I was all set.  I did my white base, then the awesome yellow to green gradient and was feeling super stoked about what this would look like. But, do you think I can find my bloody plate? I have searched high and low for it and carefully sorted through all my plates, but nope... it has grown legs and walked off somewhere.

So then, at 10.30 at night I had to free hand the stupid flames on (and on both hands cause I had work the next day).

So now I present my hand painted green flames inspired by Copycat Claws.