Nail Art Challenge CONTINUED! Day Three, Yellow

I have two reasons for postponing this challenge. One, it was a very busy weekend for me. I did hair for a wedding, went out for a friend's birthday and went floating down a river. Two, I loved it so much, I couldn't justify taking it off!

This is OPI The It Color. I used it a couple of weeks ago in this mani and as I said then, it's the perfect yellow for pale, pink me. It's a nice bright, golden yellow creme. This is 3 thin coats. You could get away with 2 thicker coats as well.

See how nice this color makes my skin tone look? The perfect peach. I love it.

Like always, I wanted to add a little something to this mani. This is a no name glitter from Claire's glitter collection called Precious Metals. They are all little mini 7.5ml bottles.

This is one coat plus a little dabbing here and there to fill in bald spots. It covers really well! I love to see a dense glitter. It was pretty much a no fuss experience.

I just had to take this shot. It matched the bottle so well! I can never get over when stuff matches, so here is a cute shot with one of my favorite flavors of vitamin water (yum, yum!).

Well, looks like it's time to take this mani off. It's now dull from layers of hairspray, a dirty river run and whatever else i got my hands into this weekend. Sigh.

Oh well! I will be posting my Day 4 mani later today! Stay tuned :)

Nail Art Challenge: Day One. Glitter!

I love nail art challenges, they are good for keeping my brain going. Coming up with ideas for new mani's can be hard sometimes. I often get stuck in a leopard print rut. These are great to get me out of my rut!

Day one is glitter. I told you guys in my last post that I was back on the glitter train, so this was pretty good timing for me. I went to my local mall and popped into Claire's because I had been hearing a lot about their affordable polishes.

Check out all that glitter! I was definitely happy to find this. This set was $10.99 for 5 glitter minis (which are actually more like half-sizes, not minis). Super cheap! I was a little worried they would apply like glue, we are talking about Claire's here, they are no professional beauty company. However, I was pleasantly surprised!

This is one coat of China Glaze First Mate with one coat of this unnamed multi-colored glitter from the Precious Metals Claire's collection. Yes, I did just say one coat. This was awesome to apply. All of that glitter spread perfectly on my nail in one coat. I was shocked. Definitely a glitter packed polish.

Here's a sunlight photo. I love the color scheme of this glitter. I can't decide if it reminds me more of peacocks or Mardi Gras. I couldn't stop staring at my fingers while wearing this. I looked like I had jewels for nails.

Most of the glitter is green but there's plenty of purple and blue in there too. This is so exciting. I think everyone should own this set of glitters. This polish alone is worth the ten bucks.

Are you guys still on the glitter train? Or did you hop on the gradient train? Nail trends come and go but chunky glitter will always be one of my favorites.

If you would like do the challenge click here to see the daily requirements and drop me a comment with a link to your blog so I can check out your daily creations!