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Like the past few years, I'm sharing some of my favorite art from the past year. I already shared all my Pusheen art so I'm excluding those from this post. It's so hard to narrow down art from each month. I love taking my time to look back at what I've done over the year. January seems so long ago!
My Favorite Nail Arts of 2018! |
Like always, I'll be going in chronological order, taking a walk through the months. I realize that my biggest art months always seem to be October and December for the respective holidays. Everything is linked so you can get details!
January 2018
Welcome to 2018 Art: I love this rendition on it. Instead of black and gold, I went with multichrome!
Welcome to 2018 Art |
Cozy Cabin Hunter Stamping: I loved this new technique of stamping that I tried. As I stamped, I used a dotting tool to remove parts I didn't want and that's how I got the middle nails the way they are!
Cozy Cabin Hunter Stamping |
February 2018
Blue Stamping with Stell Chroma Reflections: I realize this is very simple stamping but sometimes the simple looks are so striking and so gorgeous!
Blue Stamping with Stell Chroma Reflections |
Jessica La Vie En Rose Ombre Waves |
March 2018
Pastel Gradient with Flakes: Seems March was my month of pastels. I'm still in love with the Lechat English Rose collection and I use it all the time. My collection of the year!
Pastel Gradient with Flakes |
Pastel Unicorn Nail Art: Again, I used the entire Lechat English Rose collection for this. It's so cute!
Pastel Unicorn Nail Art |
April 2018
Holo Striped Nail Art |
Flakie Explosion: I remember failing at a nail art and I said screw this, I'm just going to be all the flakies on one manicure. Yeah, I loved it!
Flakie Explosion |
The Simpsons Nail Art: I did this manicure to commemorate the fact that The Simpsons became the longest running scripted show this year! I've done a few manicures with these characters and I love them each time.
The Simpsons Nail Art |
May 2018
New York Mets Nail Art: I went to a Mets game and I can't go anywhere without themed nail art haha. I think my Mets font came out great!
New York Mets Nail Art |
Neon Geometric Nail Art: I loved the Morgan Taylor summer neons and I found this to be a fun way to present them!
Neon Geometric Nail Art |
June 2018
Neon Leopard: This was my birthday manicure and for my 6th blogging anniversary! I love pastel neons and the color combo really worked for me!
Neon Leopard |
Neon Stripes: I like to black against the neon coloring of this. This is what I wore to Polish Con to represent KBShimmer!
Neon Stripes |
July 2018
Tie Dye Nail Art: July was another slow month for me for art but was super swatch heavy. I had planned to do tie dye art the moment I saw this Lechat collection.
Tie Dye Nail Art |
August 2018
Neon Gradient Tips: So simple but I love the colors! I had so many compliments on this one!
Neon Gradient Tips |
Rainbow Dotticure: Totally loving this, and I really want to recreate this in wintry colors. I should have done it in holiday colors.
Rainbow Dotticure |
September 2018
Cotton Candy Pastel Birthday Nails: A gradient look of a bunch of pastels stamped together. Lovely.
Cotton Candy Pastel Birthday Nails |
Rustic Stripes: I was obsessed with this look. Must create ASAP. Lechat creates such coordinated collections. I love how the colors came out.
Rustic Stripes |
October 2018
Black Cat in a Pumpkin: October is always a big month for art since it's Halloween and fall, my favorite time of year! This was inspired by Em & Sprout and it's adorable.
Black Cat in a Pumpkin |
Red Dead Redemption II: The video game had a long awaited release with a sequel and I was so excited for it. I thought I did a pretty good job mimicking the font!
Red Dead Redemption II |
Autumn Leopard: I love leopard print nails and the Morgan Taylor Fall collection was perfectly leopard-y.
Autumn Leopard |
Halloween Plaid: It was so hard to narrow down Halloween looks but how fun was this one?!
Halloween Plaid |
November 2018
Woodland Creatures Nail Art: November was a slow month for me! It was very swatch heavy so I want to make sure I create more balance during the month.
Woodland Creatures Nail Art |
December 2018
Driedel Nail Art: I realize this month just occurred but I love the art I did! I did two driedel arts but I think this one edged out the other.
Driedel Nail Art |
Bear Tangled in Christmas Lights: I got this plat just for this image and it's so cute. I love it!
Bear Tangled in Christmas Lights |
Starbucks Bear Nail Art: Well, I just loved this look. It took me a while too. I'm proud of my freehand this month!
Starbucks Bear Nail Art |
Cat Santa Stamping: Another stamping look but it's so simple and fun!
Cat Santa Stamping |
Starbucks Holly Christmas Art: Another Starbucks inspired look! I love the muted simplicity of this.
Starbucks Holly Christmas Art |
Well, there you have it! I'll be back tomorrow to enter in the New Year and discuss my blogging goals. For the most part, I feel I did what I wanted to on this blog. More art!
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I love that 2018 mani and your Simpsons, so cool! Happy new year!
ReplyDeleteThat unicorn design is just too cute!
ReplyDeleteHow fun to look back at your nail art. I remember most of these from posts. Some of my favorites are from December and August. I hope to see more nail art in 2019.
ReplyDeleteI love so many of your creations! The striped holo nail art being my favorite!
ReplyDeleteThey are all lovely, but the rustic stripes are totally winning me over! The style and colourway is fabulous!
ReplyDeleteYou do the most amazing work. So talented. Hard to pick a fave among the faves, but I gotta give props to the Simpsons - so adorable
ReplyDeleteSuch a brilliant post.. you are fabulous and amazingly talented lady.. hard to pick the most favorite of these...
ReplyDeleteSo many pretty manis! I still love that perfect rainbow dotticure!
ReplyDeleteI can't pick a favourite! I first thought it would be the 2018, and then I saw the next one, and the next one, and so on. I think for sheer ingenuity, it would have to be the flakie explosion.
ReplyDeleteYou picked a few of my faves of yours too. I like the Mets, anything baseball!!!, and i really like the pastel feeling CHristmas mani
ReplyDeleteYour nail art skills always blow me away - especially the freehand work!
ReplyDeleteThose are some great picks for sure!!! I love the Simpson and the Starbucks manis the most!!! So cute and unique!
ReplyDeleteI love them all and have a hard time picking a favourite but the The Simpsons is the one jumping out at me.
ReplyDeleteI love everything! But I have to especially call out my love for your Red Dead nail art!
ReplyDeleteYou are soooo creative with your nail designs!
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