Hobby Polish Bloggers May Challenge - Fashion Inspired

Friday, May 10, 2013

Hey guys! I'm in a wonderful Facebook group called Hobby Polish Bloggers where we share ideas and offer helpful tips to one another. There's a May challenge that was created so I wanted to participate in it. The challenge has four themes and your given the whole month to complete your manicures. Here's a look into this month's challenge:

Hobby Polish Bloggers May Challenge

Today, I will be showing you my fashion inspired manicure. I don't keep track of fashion trends so all I did was Google fashion to get some inspiration. I've never attempted to do a animal print manicure before so I looked for animal print fashion to see if anything caught my eye. Something sure did. Click here to see what fashion item inspired my manicure.

Hobby Polish Bloggers May Challenge - Fashion Inspired

The item that inspired me is this simple jade green dress with a hot pink and black leopard print design. For the base color, I used Orly Ancient Jade. For the leopard print, I used Misha Lather, Rinse, Repeat and American Apparel Hassid. These pictures were taken prior to top coat since I didn't want to risk the manicure smudging.

Hobby Polish Bloggers May Challenge - Fashion Inspired
Hobby Polish Bloggers May Challenge - Fashion Inspired
Hobby Polish Bloggers May Challenge - Fashion Inspired

For my first animal print manicure, I loved how it turned out. All I used was my dotting tool to create the leopard print. I'm thinking of all the different colors I can use for this design now. What do you think?

Be sure to check the other manicures for this challenge below!


the nails files

38 comments:

  1. What a great job! Looks just like the dress! :)

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  2. Love it. I soooo want to try an animal print!!!

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    1. You should! It was so much easier than I thought it would be.

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  3. Oooo you can never go wrong when it comes to animal print! You found a lovely dress to copy cat as well!

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  4. Hi Lisa, you've left a comment on my blog today and I've accidentally deleted it :( I'm really sorry and I just wanted to let you know so you don't think I'm blocking/ignoring you or something ;) Thank you for a lovely comment. your leopard mani is very nice, I like the colour combination! x

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    1. Hey Lucy! No problem, I totally understand and appreciate you telling me :) Thanks for commenting too!! :D

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  5. This is so cute! Love the dress you used for inspiration :)

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  6. This is really pretty and a great interpretation :)

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  7. Wow, this is fantastic :) green and pink always go well together!!

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    1. Thank you! :) Yeah, it turned much better than I expected for my first animal print manicure.

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  8. Lovely mani! I like the colors you chose. :)

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  9. Toooo cute...love that dress and the nails are spot on!

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    1. Haha thank you! I'm happy to hear I did the dress justice :)

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  10. This is my favorite so far! :-)

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  11. This is adorable! You did an amazing job. I love leopard print, and the colors you used are so fresh and pretty :) You did that dress justice :)

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  12. I love this mani!! You know how I feel about Leopard prints ;-) I still have yet to do mine although I did finally find my inspiration :-) Ancient Jade is so gorgeous, I might have to pick that one up the next time I'm at Sally's. Great job on re-creating the dress, you nailed it! ( no pun intended, well, maybe a little one ;-) )

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    1. Thank you so much! You should totally pick up Orly Ancient Jade if you come across it. Its one of my favorite colors :)

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  13. Wow this is so cute! I love the color combo - it's unexpected and different than most other animal print manis. And the leopard print pattern came out great! Love it =D

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    1. Thank you! It came out way better than I thought it would too :)

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  14. Great color combo! And it's a flawless first-time animal print. Fantastic job :D

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    1. Thank you so much Stefanie! I'm so proud of this manicure :)

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  15. I love this, and this challenge looks like so much fun. Is there a group for it on facebook or anything?

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    1. Thank you Michelle! :) Yea, its a Facebook group. I have the group linked on this post and on the side bar of my blog.

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  16. This is lovely! And we're almost mani twins today - I'm wearing black and white leopard spots over an aqua base :D

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  17. Lovely design! Colors are great together!

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  18. I love the unexpected brightness of Lather, Rinse, Repeat. Great colors!

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    1. Thank you! Yeah, that Misha color was so bright it worked well with this manicure :)

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  19. Love the color combo you used!!

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