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Because I've been in a bit of an inspiration funk lately, I've really been trying to figure out why and I think it came to me while I was doing this mani. I've done so many stamping designs over the past few months that I'm just kind of saturated and my brain wants to do something else. A few years ago, when the veil method first hit the internet, I did try something very similar to today's mani, but I think that both my skills and my attention to detail have evolved and this is definitely a step up from that first try. It's also a phenomenal technique if you're just starting out in nail art because technically all you need is a couple of different nail polishes, a cup of water, and some acetone for cleaning up. 

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Admittedly, after wrapping up holiday themed nails, I was a little bit sapped of inspiration and really not sure what I wanted to put on my nails. Luckily, Christmas Eve brought me some gorgeous and exciting new polishes from NailStuff.ca**, including the base polish I used for this mani, and there was definitely some inspiration there. Because we're still recovering from a somewhat unfortunate quarantine Christmas, I kept it simple, but I think the base polish for this one needed its moment to shine anyway. 

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I definitely feel like 2021 is going to be a year of different types of abstract nails, especially negative space ones, and I've personally been feeling a lot of inspiration to do these types of mani's. Recently I picked up a new stamping plate that is 100% perfect for adding different little decorations to this type of mani and I decided to pair it with some really exciting and super pigmented polishes from Dimension Nails that were kindly gifted to me from NailStuff.ca** for this bright, fun negative space mani! 

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So the thing is... I don't handpaint often when it comes to nail art, but when I do it's super easy and basic and if it needs finer details I tend to go in with stamping, like I did for today's mani. This mani was inspired by this one, from When Beauty Calls By Georgina on Instagram, but of course I to put a little bit of my own personality into it with a speckled indie base polish, a matte finish, and some seriously chubby little buns. 

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In my head I have a bit of a list - and by a bit of a list, I mean a pretty big list - of nail art designs that I've always wanted to try but either haven't had the chance or, more often, haven't had the right stamping plate. This year, I've kind of fallen in love with What's Up Nails Stamping Plates and I picked up a couple of Halloween ones that will definitely be showing up a lot in these twelve mani's I'll be posting over the course of October. One of the mani's that has been firmly on my list is one using the candy corn image from the What's Up Nails B023 Creepin' It Real plate and I've finally gotten around to it!

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With how in love I am with the brand spankin' new NailStuff.ca Exclusive Cadillacquer Duo that I shared my swatches of the other day, I obviously had to create some nail art using them. I immediately knew pretty much exactly what I wanted to do with the shade Enchanted Forest*, which is distinctly my favorite of the two shades because I'm obviously a fiend for green nail polishes and this one has pretty much jumped to the top of my favorites list. I wanted to stick with a nail art vibe that paired well with the name, so I did this diagonal leaf design that I think is just perfect for fall. 

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When I sat down to put together nail art featuring the polishes from the new NailStuff.ca Exclusive Cadillacquer Duo*, I really wanted to create designs that would reference the names and inspiration behind each of the polishes - but how does one interpret Mystic Fog in nail art form? I actually thought about that for a while before it hit me and I have to say... I'm kind of in love with what I ended up with for this mani. This base polish is just stunning and really evokes the intention, I think, and I wanted to play to that rather than against it but not be too on the nose, you know? So this look ended up being sort of an abstract interpretation, but I think it gets there. 

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As I continue to try out more of these gorgeous shimmer polishes from Starrily, I am seriously, seriously impressed with the formulas. Honestly, I'm not often drawn to shimmer shades, but these ones have no only really, really impressed me with formulas, but the choices when it comes to the actual shades. I have a pretty significant nail polish collection at this point and what has been drawing me to indie polish so much lately is the uniqueness of so many of the shades. Even a shade like Moon Glow*, which may look sort of basic in the bottle, has such a unique look to it that it really does stand out. 

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Happy May the 4th, everyone! I know this is totally cliché, but can you believe that it's actually May already? 2020 really is shaping up to be one of the weirdest years of my lifetime - and I suspect most of our lifetimes - but it also feels like it's passing at lightning speed. Anyway, for May, me and the #CBBxManiMonday girls decided to do Floral themed nails. I have to admit... I don't feel like this is where my creativity really shines, so I suspect this month will be about featuring some really pretty base polishes with some added floral stamping - I've got some amazing new polishes in my collection and I want to show them all off!

But without further ado, let's get onto the nails, shall we?
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Happy Monday, everyone! I hope you're all staying safe and healthy - and not going too crazy with all of the being cooped up at home. Personally, I've definitely been spending a lot more time at my home workspace playing with nail polish and today's mani is one that I'm excited enough about that I'm giving myself a bit of a pass on pushing the boundaries of our #CBBxManiMonday Pastel theme for April. Milky while packed with iridescent flakies can kind of pass for pastel, right?

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Hey guys! I have to admit, finding the motivation to blog these days has been a little bit difficult. I don't know how many people are feeling this way but I'm finding that there's a bit of a block when it comes to getting stuff done - even if I have a lot of extra time. That said, sitting down to play with nail at hasn't been an issue and I'm super excited about today's nails because I'm pretty sure that I invented them! (I don't say that often, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone do fluid art nails this way.) Anyway, enough of my chest puffing, let's get to the nails!

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Hey guys! I hope everyone is staying safe and healthy and home as much as possible - I know I am! For our April #CBBxManiMonday theme, we went with a perfect entrance into spring with Pastels! I love pastel nails and I always get really excited to pull out my pastel polishes as the weather starts to get warm. This week's mani is actually something I sort of stumbled into by accident... and I'm obsessed! I paired a beautiful indie flakie polish with a couple of really, really soft pastel crémes from OPI and though the result is pretty subtle, I'm kind of in love with it. I called it blue... some people might call it green. It's really that in between shade that's probably kind of a really soft, cool mint. But. CLOUDY PASTEL BLUE. Ahem. 

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Hey guys! I hope everyone is doing well tucked in at home. I've personally been practicing as much social distancing as I can - and whipping up personal masks on my sewing machine for myself and the people close to me so that we can feel a little bit better going out when we need to. Also, I've been feeling a little bit overwhelmed and uninspired - which is the reason why the blog posts have been a little spotty. However, I had a spike of inspiration this weekend for what I wanted to do for this week's #CBBxManiMonday, our last week of the Blue & Green theme, though I'm calling this one "Green...ish" because all of the shades sort of straddle some lines.

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Well, my friends, I hope you're all doing well and keeping safe and healthy during this... absolutely surreal time in our lives. Of course, nail art can be a great way to keep busy while we're all staying at home and avoiding contact with humans, and sometimes it can really, really kill a lot of time. I have to admit... this week's mani kind of took it out of me and ended up being both really easy to do and also really easy to mess up. This week I wanted to try something out that I've seen other nail artists do and have always wanted to try and I got a really clear picture of what it would look like in my head. It didn't turn out entirely as I planned, but I really like how it looks - and I can't wait to try it in different colours. 

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Happy Monday, all! This weekend was full enough that I ended up passing out for a nap that was akin to a coma by yesterday afternoon, so when I woke up and remembered I still had to do my nails for Mani Monday, I knew that I didn't have a lot in me. It was actually kind of serendipitous, though, because I've been wanting to share swatches of Cadillacquer's Forest* nail polish for a while now and it fits absolutely perfectly into this month's Blue & Green #CBBxManiMonday theme - and is a polish I'm more than happy to wear through St. Patrick's Day tomorrow!

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I feel like I'm probably in the minority, but I think green nail polishes and nail art looks are probably my personal favorite. Seriously, I can't get enough, so this month's #CBBxManiMonday Blue & Green theme is right in my wheelhouse. Another favorite of mine? Special occasion themed nails. I'll happily take pretty much any holiday or special occasion and splash it all over my nails. So, with those two things in mind - of course I was super excited to do some St Patricks Day nails. In fact, two of my absolute favorite mani's of last year were St Patty's themed (you can check them out here and here) so I was really excited to get into it this year. 


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Happy Monday! I'm super excited about our #CBBxManiMonday theme for March - Blue & Green! I'm definitely going to be getting into some green, some of my favorite polishes and nail art looks are all about the green, but this week I had a gorgeous blue polish that I wanted to reach for so I'm starting with blue. I had an idea percolating in my head all weekend that I really, really wanted to try. It wasn't something I'd ever seen before and I didn't know how it would work, but I really wanted to play in it. Ultimately, I feel like I sort of ran out of time to get all the way to where I wanted this mani to be, but I'm about ¾ happy with it....

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I have to admit, guys, that I'm having a bit of an inspiration drought at the moment and I'm a liiiiiittle bit late on my Mani Monday this week because... the weekend took a turn. Anyway, I have been kind of inspired lately by mani's that I see from professional nail techs that sort of break up the mani into 4 distinctly different nails that still have a consistency through them, and that's where I took my inspiration for this week's Pink & Red themed mani - I like to think of the shades I used in this as somewhere at the crossroads of pink and red.

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Happy Monday, everyone! I have to admit, I spent pretty much the entire weekend sick in bed alternating between sleeping and reading, so when it came time to do my nails last night I just wasn't quite at all. I didn't have a lot of inspiration or energy to really do anything complicated (and my instinct is to basically kitchen sink my nails as often as possible) so I just kept it simple. That said, I think there's benefit to simplicity and I'm pretty happy with what I threw together, so it's a win win.


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Happy Monday! Now that we're into February, we've moved on to a new #CBBxManiMonday theme, which is Pink & Red Nails... which makes me feel like I maybe should have rethought my January mani's since they were so pink heavy... and I'm not necessarily a pink and red nails kind of girl. What I'm saying is... I may end up cheating a little. Over the weekend when I was thinking about what I wanted to do, I kept coming back to the idea of recreating a mani that I did almost 2 years ago that has been by far my most popular mani - at least according to Pinterest! I changed it a little bit, polished it up and made it a little bit more rooted in what I'm into now, but it really is basically the same mani updated.

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