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I’ve been participating in Chalkboard Nails’ 31 Day Challenge (31DC2013)… but so far I’ve only done every other day. Normally I like to do a challenge full force and I try to do every single theme… but I’m also running Nail Art Ideas Linkup (NAIL) with Brijit’s Digits and Eeeek! Nail Polish! and tomorrow our SPORTS theme opens up. So I hope you’ll all forgive me for only doing half of the 31 day challenge days. 😉 I don’t wanna over-do it and lose my spark!

Day 8 of the 31DC2013 is METALLIC and I’m wearing a Sally Hansen Lustre Shine polish called Gilt. I guess it’s considered a metallic duochrome, but I don’t see too many flashes of color. Sometimes it leans a little green or a little rose-gold, but mostly it’s just a bronzey gold shade. I’m glad I got it on clearance for $2.00 because it dries so slow. Even with seche vite it was still tacky and vulnerable to dings. After my Lustre Shine was as dry as it would get, I started some nail art by painting a skinny black strip down each nail. Then I built up the black at the top and bottom of my nails to form a curved shape. It’s almost like a french mani on the bottom, a halfmoon on the top, with a line connecting them. I dunno- it’s fun and futuristic looking! I like to call it a ‘split mani’ and I sorta discovered it when I was working on my Missoni-inspired nails. This is a design that’s relatively easy to do on both hands too Yippee! I hope you like my quick n easy metallic split mani! It sorta reminds me of an hourglass. Maybe I could try one of those sometime. 🙂

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Hey everyone! For DAY 10/METALLIC of the Oh Mon Dieu! Challenge I thought I’d try some fun stuff with magnetic nail polishes. I have a rather good selection of magnetic polishes to choose from. I like to collect them because they’re a fun way to get a cool nail design without having to whip out special tools or techniques.

This mani is something new and different for me- I used two different magnetic polishes! I painted one half of my nails with a green Sinful Colors called Sinfully Magnetic Force Field and used the snakeskin magnet that came with it. Coolest magnet ever! I love the snakeskin effect. Then I painted the other half of my nails with a gorgeous blurple by L.A. Colors Magnetic called Electrostatic. The la girl magnet is hidden in the cap and it wasn’t as impressive as the other brand’s. This one created kitty-corner vertical stripes which aren’t that prominent -but the delicious purple color makes up for it.