I is for Ikat

Happy Wednesday friends!!

Welcome to another installment of Kimber's Lacquer Korner's ABC Challenge.  Today's prompt is the letter I - I was originally thinking of doing ice cream nails, but just not feeling the cutesy right now - don't get me wrong, ice cream nails are super duper cute, I just wanted something a little more bold - you know me and the bold colors!!

I also wanted to support my buddy Becca over at Nail Narcotics!, some of you might remember her from Kimber's last challenge - the 31 Day Challenge - Becca will be posting her purple polished thumb all month in support of Epilepsy Awareness month, which is March here in Canada.  If you would like to show your support, you can email Becca your purple mani or purple thumb and she will include them in her posts.  If you don't have time to pull out your purple, take a second to head on over to Nail Narcotics! for tons of information on Epilepsy and Epilepsy Awareness.  I will be posting a purple mani every Wednesday - I would do all month, but I know I don't have enough purple polish to make it the whole way!!

I'm off to see some ice cream - well I hope one of the ladies did ice cream nails....

Holla, N

Ikats All Been Done Before

Hello polished friends!!  Happy Friday!!  Yay, we've made it through another week!!  Time for the weekend - woot woot!

I've been wanting to try out ikat nails for a while now, but as with any new technique, I always think it's going to be way more difficult than it really is.  I did some ikat-like nails for the 31 Day Challenge, for my inspired by fashion day, but I wanted to try the real thing.

I had to google to make sure I was spelling Ikat right (every time I type it, it's underlined in red!) and while I googled, I realized that I did the same color combination as everyone else that's done Ikat nails lately - I was surprised to see so many with the same color combo.  I didn't copy anyone on purpose, but you know how some things stick in your head and then you create it and realize you're not the first to do that?  Ya, that's my day today :)

Holla, N