40 Great Nail Art Posts – Your Job

Well it's no secret what I do for a living here at Newsie Nail Novice, it's kinda integrated into the title of my blog! I'm a journalist, so of course I've accumulated stamping plates to showcase this!



A little bit more about me, I am a writer, more specifically an education journalist. I write about local schools happenings. I also do a number of other editorial duties (page layout, special section management, associate editor etc.), but first and foremost I'm writer. Which thankfully translates perfectly to the nails.



To begin with, I chose a lovely grey fun holo that has a name that I just couldn't refuse – ILNP Paper Route. How perfect is this polish for this prompt?!



For the center nail, I did a fun typewriter, which hails back to the old newspaper days (before my time). This is from MoYou London Scholar 02 plate stamped with B Polished Midnight in Death Valley.



For the rest of the nails, I used my favorite newspaper font stamp from Messy Mansion MM24 plate.



So that's it, nothing super complicated, but simple and to the point. Like most of my news stories. ;-)

Now don't forget to check out the rest of the ladies of this awesome prompt, can't wait to find out more about all of them in their posts below!


   

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40 Great Nail Art Ideas – Hobbies

Happy Friday everyone! Today I am so proud to say that I am starting a yearlong challenge and boy do we have a ton of amazing looks to show you! The first prompt of this journey is Hobbies!



One thing you may or may not know about me is I am an avid reader. Other than painting my nails and nail art, which seemed a bit too obvious for me, I do love to read. I would say fiction is my favorite – mysteries, suspense, historical and coming of age. I love it all. Surprisingly enough I didn't go with Literary Lacquers nail polish for this look, now that I think about it I totally should have.



So like any good reader would, I have collected my fair share of nail stamping plates that have books on them and I have to say two of my favorites are my Messy Mansion MM24 plate, center nail, and my MoYou London Scholar 02 plate (even if the images are a bit large for my nails). To apply the stamps I used my very favorite white stamping polish – KBShimmer Eyes White Open.



See, how cute is that open book from the Scholar plate?! Too adorable.



Now let's talk about this base! This is CrowsToes Indian Summer. Now I first grabbed for this because of the name. California has had hot weather non stop lately and I swear it has felt like fall will never come! But this polish has such a lovely shift from magenta to royal purple to even a darkened red orange – this polish reminds me of a really lovely sunset!



So I hope you liked this first installment of Crumpets Nail Tarts 40 Great Nail Art Ideas! I'll be posting a new prompt and nail art idea every Friday – so sit back, relax and I hope you enjoy the show!



You can keep up with all the other ladies in our inlinkz, listed below, or just check out our awesome Pinterest board for some amazing ideas!
   

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Nails Inspired by a Film: Almost Famous

So this week I thought I'd jump into another weekly nail art challenge The Crumpet's Nail Tarts! She is currently hosting a 31 Day challenge in January, and fit the weekly prompts into it. So this week's prompt is holo and film. So I combined the two!

I started out with two beautiful coats of Girly Bits More Cowbell. This is a lovely light blue-grey holographic polish with tiny blue iridescent flakies that give the polish a wonderful blue flash, making it truly unique!



Now onto the film! I chose Almost Famous, one of my all time favorite movies! If you haven't seen it you must!



The film is about a 15 year-old who ends up getting to write a story for the Rolling Stone following a band throughout their tour in the golden age of rock and roll. And it is one of my all time favorite performances Phillip Semour Hoffman ever played in!



Now onto the nail art! Well, I went through all of my stamping plates and I didn't have a single musical one, which is a bit crazy. I did have type set though, which I thought was appropriate because the main character uses a typewriter for his story. I also had sunglasses, which is a homage to the movie poster (see above).



For the background, I decided to do a flower-y (almost hippie-esque) three color background (using Zoya Kieko, OPI Eurso Euro and Essie Hip-Anema). I thought it was somewhat psychedelic if you will. I used this as the background for each nail. I used my Lily Anna 06 plate.



I used my Messy Mansion MM24 plate for the type-set! I just love this plate, for obvious reasons, since I am journalist! For the sunglasses I used my Winstonia W109 plate.



I freehanded the musical notes with a black polish and various sized dotting tools. Yes I know I need to work on the freehand. I think I might want to try messing around with some acrylic paint, might be easier to work with.



So what do you think about this mani? It's a little all over the place, but I really like it because it was inspired by the movie. And yes I watched the movie while working on this look, seemed appropriate. Have you seen this movie, did you love it?!?!

And below are the links of all the other film-inspired movies of the day! Enjoy!
   

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