The Digit-al Dozen: New and Improved - Spiral Toothpick Marble

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The Digital Dozen: New and Improved

Spiral Toothpick Marble

Yes I called it a toothpick marble. LOL! I've called them that since I started doing them with a toothpick back in 2011. Of course mine have always been the basic side to side kind. So this is both new and improved...new because it's not the design I've always done and improved because I did try this once before with mediocre results.

Black and white again LOL!

For this one I used Salon Perfect Sugar Cube and KBShimmer Eclipse (purchased by me - I did a review of one previously that was sent for review.) And of course a toothpick. I don't remember where I first saw the spiral design but I have since seen Sveta Sanders do a tutorial on her IG I think?

Check out what the other DD gang is doing for New and Improved in the links below!

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Color Club Poptastic Nail Art - Summer 2014 Collection

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Happy Sunday! Today I have a fun mani for you using the Color Club Poptastic Summer 2014 Collection - it's a neon toothpick marble!

Neon Toothpick Marble Nail Art

I will have full collection swatches for you soon but I had to have a little fun first!

I can tell you that overall, they are fantastic formula-wise. I used 2 coats of each one with no top coat of all but one of them. The "highlighter yellow" (Not So Mellow Yellow) wasn't as self-leveling as the others so 3 thin coats worked great for that one.

Top L-R: Not So Mellow Yellow, Peace Love & Polish and Right On
Bottom L-R: Bell Bottom Blue, Foxy Mama and Kapow!

I'm so happy to have a great neon summer collection of polishes with great formulas. There are some neons that I will battle formula on for the payoff but these remove the frustration-factor. So STAY TUNED for swatches!

Indirect natural lighting

What do you think? Have you picked any of these up yet? 

Color Club polishes can be purchased at local retailers nationwide and online at various e-tailers or on the Color Club site - prices range from $5.00 to $8.00 per bottle. If you order from Color Club's site, you can get free shipping on purchases of $30 or more. You can also follow Color Club on Facebook for more swatches, previews of upcoming collections and other information.

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The Digit-al Dozen Does Texture - Day 5: Toothpick Marble

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Yep, you read that right! I'm joining the lovely ladies of The Digit-al Dozen! I secretly think it's some sort of evil initiation that my first month is TEXTURE! I'm a creme lover through and through. But I shall persevere!

Day 5 brings (dun dun DUN) a toothpick marble! I made it four days without falling back on one of my favorite techniques, but you KNOW I had to do one for my first Digit-al Dozen week!

For this one, I started with a base of my favorite shade - a violet orchid franken I made that you can see here.  Then I painted quick, heavy stripes using the polish brush down both sides with Nails Inc. Chalk Farm and Nails Inc. Southwark, ending with a stripe down the middle with the franken that I used as a base.

While it's still wet, I took a toothpick and drug it back and forth across the nail working from cuticle to tip.

I followed with a top coat.

One if the quickest and easiest nail art techniques for me and you can use any colors to match any possible wardrobe choice.

This week has been so much fun for me! I've had a rough week with illness and death and anniversaries of deaths and general crap so it was really nice to have something to do that's fun and takes my focus away from the negatives for a while.

Thanks so mush for joining me for my first ever Digit-al Dozen week!!! ♥

Be sure to check out the other great Digit-al Dozen manis in the links below!

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GOT Polish? Golden Oldie Thursday: Yellow/Peach Toothpick Manicure

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I have a serious problem in that I am always looking for that NEW polish fix when I have so many lovely polishes languishing in the drawer...polish I love enough to save them from purges or the donation box. And yet I don't wear them!

So when Debbie over at The Crumpet put together the GOT Polish Challenge, I was all for it! GOT stands for Golden Oldie Thursday - we pull out a polish that's a year old or older that we haven't worn either in a year or ever. This Thursday is Yellow/Peach so I pulled out Dior Mango from November 2012 and Nails Inc. Sumner Place that I don't think I've ever worn.

For this mani, I used Dior Mango as a base and then when it was dry, I put a stripe of Mango down both sides of the nail with a stripe of Nails Inc. Sumner Place down the middle and drug the toothpick back and forth starting at the cuticle and continuing to the top while wet. You can see my tutorial for a toothpick mani here in Nail IT Magazine using three colors. Super quick and easy and pretty much fool-proof.

Be sure and check out all the other great GOT Polish manicures in the links below!

If you want to  join in the fun, you can find out the details here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/purplecrumpetfairy/

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Autumn Theme Week - Day 3 Needle Marble

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Today's offering for Autumn Week, a themed nail art week I'm participating in with some lovely blogger friends, is an autumnal needle marble. Actually, this is what I call a "toothpick drag" mani - it's more accurate. But it doesn't sound nearly as fancy. LOL!

This is another of my "Extend-A-Mani" posts, actually. You say lazy, I say extend-a-mani. Both are accurate. Ha!

I was wearing Chanel Rouge Rubis already so I layered one light coat of a sheer-ish orange crelly (Pure Ice Drive Me Crazy) over it and let it dry.

Once dry, I painted striped length-wise, orange in the middle, green (Kleancolor Fashionista) on one side and brown (Milani Dark Coffee) on the other, and while still wet, took a toothpick and drug it back and forth sideways through the polish. I followed up with one coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top top coat. Kinda hard to mess up, even for me!

What do you think? Have you tried this method before?

Be sure and check out the great Autumn manis from the other bloggers in the links below! And check back here every day this week for new autumnal manis!




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