The Digital Dozen does....FLORAL

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It's Digital Dozen time again!! This week's challenge was floral. I have to admit it's not my favorite theme. If you look back over my designs you'll find I rarely do anything floral or even too girly really.  This made it a REAL challenge for me! I see really amazing designs all the time with flowers on them but it's just really not my thing so I had to search for inspiration!  I actually ended up with too many designs because at first I just grabbed all my floral stamps and went to town and then I thought, no, that's a cop out, I'm going to try harder than that.  So I apologize in advance for what is sure to be a very amateur week from me! The important thing is that I pushed myself and went for it though!  Today's design is based on a pattern I saw on a shirt.  When I first did it I left the centers of the flowers empty and I think I liked that better than after I added the yellow, but I digress. It's floral and not a total mess so I'm happy with it!! :) Check out what is sure to be much more amazing art from my fellow dozener's  below!



Midi-evil...

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It's day two of the Digital Dozen metal challenge! Today I have some sort of simple nails for you! I wanted this to stort of read as gold midi rings. I used a neutral base color and then painted on some dainty little gold rings!  I felt it came out really well in person although the picture isn't doing it a lot of favors!  I'm also experimenting with a new nude tone here. This one is Zoya Avery.  I normally use Butter London Tea with the Queen as my nude base but I think I rather like this one too.  It's a little more yellow than my skin tone but it works! Don't forget to check out the other girls art for day two of Metal Week!!

The Digit-al Dozen does....SKITTLES

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It's Skittle Week over at The Digit-al Dozen!  For day one I decided to do a sort of reverse gradient type of look.  First I polished my nails in gradually darker colors from index to pinky. Then I reversed the order and added the gradient to the tips.  It came out pretty nicely although the middle two nails had a much more subtle change than the outer two and it wasn't incredibly obvious in person! Having as much polish as I do it was a lot harder than I expected to find the right blues to do this with. Some were too green or too purple....but I made it work!

This week is the first Digit-al Dozen challenge since we launched our new media sites so PLEASE check out the website this week for behind the scenes bonus features and so much more! And check out the other ladies art below, as always!

Rockin' Kicks

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It's the final of the Digit-al Dozen's celebration series, The Digit-al Dozen, Does it All Again! Today's challenge was fashion! Last time we did fashion I had TOO many ideas! I actually had another mani planned for today too but then I came across this pic on Olivia Blois Sharpe's instagram:


and I was like, "Oh this HAS to happen on my nails!" So my fashion week mani became my Bling mani and here we are! I LOVE the way these turned out. And they were hella easy to do as well. You can catch a tutorial for them on my tutorial page! I'm sad to see the Digit-al Dozen year anniversary celebration end BUT I'm so excited for you all to see what we have planned for the next year!

Please don't forget to enter the September Specatcular for your chance to win a $200 gift card! THERE'S ONLY ONE DAY LEFT TO ENTER!! And check out what my fellow Digit-al Dozener's came up with by clicking the link below!!

Tape Me Now...

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It's day eleven of the Digit-al Dozen's celebration series, The Digit-al Dozen, Does it All Again! There's only ONE day left after today! I can't believe it! Today's challenge was a tape mani.  Last time we did tape mani's I had a little trouble with creativity! I'm just not patient enough to do them and I prefer to just make lines myself! That said, I'm always up for a challenge and I decided to go with something I keep seeing and wanted to get around to trying anyway! It's a reverse tape gradient. I used really sparkly colors for this and I think it really helped because glitter and shimmer are much more forgiving!  I hope you love the mani as much as I do!  

Please don't forget to enter the September Specatcular for your chance to win a $200 gift card! THERE'S ONLY A FEW DAYS LEFT!! And check out what my fellow Digit-al Dozener's came up with by clicking the link below!!
Colors Used:
Zoya Aurora and Orly Luxe

The Curious Incident of the Dog in The Night-time

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It's day ten of the Digit-al Dozen's celebration series, The Digit-al Dozen, Does it All Again! Today is book themed!  I covered a lot of my favorite books last time we did this challenge so for a change I wanted to do a book I've recently read! These nails are to represent The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night-time.  I actually found this book at a book store and for whatever reason started flipping through it.  It has all these little charts and pictures inside and a very unique writing style so I decided to purchase it.  Me being a little more frugal when it comes to books (I buy so many it doesn't make sense to buy them at full price), I went to my nearest half priced store and picked it up for right around $7.  It's not my usual style of book but it's very interesting and it was a good read. It was definitely worth the time and money! So the ring finger is obviously meant to represent the cover and the others represent the yard where the incident occurs, the city the main character is trying to get to and a chart of frogs he makes at some point.  I hope you all enjoy the nails!!
 
Please don't forget to enter the September Spectacular for your chance to win a $200 gift card! And check out what my fellow Digit-al Dozener's came up with by clicking the link below!!



Ain't about the ba-bling, ba-bling...

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...except today it IS! It's day nine of the Digit-al Dozen's celebration series, The Digit-al Dozen, Does it All Again! Today is ALL about the BLING! Last time we did bling week I was so uninspired. Don't get me wrong, I do like sparkly pretty things but I just get so overwhelmed at the amount of bling-y things I have and then I have no idea what to do with them. This time was a bit of a happy accident. I had intended to use this mani during Fashion Week but then put it aside to squeeze in another one and...well...its QUITE bling-y! This is based on a Christian Siriano design which I LOVE but wish were a bit shorter!!

 

Isn't it gorgeous?  I hope you like the design! Please don't forget to enter the September Specatcular for your chance to win a $200 gift card! There is still a few days left to enter and win! And check out what my fellow Digit-al Dozener's came up with by clicking the link below!!

Colors Used:
OPI Skull & Glossbones
Milani Gold Gems
Orly Luxe
Zoya Raven

The Majestic Okapi...

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It's day eight of the Digit-al Dozen's celebration series, The Digit-al Dozen, Does it All Again! Today's challenge was animals! I don't know why (although I have some theories!) but it seems that last time animal week came round I was sort of MIA. So this is my first animal design for The Digit-al Dozen!  If you know much about me, you know I am a zoo LOVER. I go to my zoo at least once a week and even in the winter. So I wanted to go a bt outside the box on this one because there are a lot of under appreciated animals with GORGEOUS coats. This is an Okapi!  Here's a picture of an actual Okapi for reference:


Isn't he pretty? Even though he has zebra like stripes he's actually related to the giraffe. Even cooler? No one really knows what his stripes are for although they might be so that their babies can find them more easily in the wild.  He's a mystery but I love him. :)  I hope you love the nails too!!

 Please don't forget to enter the September Specatcular for your chance to win a $200 gift card! And check out what my fellow Digit-al Dozener's came up with by clicking the link below!!


Colors Used:
China Glaze Call of the Wild
Zoya Raven and Purity

Do not mistake coincidence for fate.

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It's day seven of the Digit-al Dozen's celebration series, The Digit-al Dozen, Does it All Again! Tpday's theme was Geek!! Last time Geek Week came around I covered prettymuch all the geeky things I love! Science, The Lord of the Rings, Avatar, even Star Trek (and Star WARS!!).  I purposely had avoided this particular geeky thing I LOVE because I've already previously done a week of LOST challenges. But let's face it, it's my one true geek love and I wanted to revisit it for this week! So here it is! I based this design on Kate's mechanic jumper from her days as a 70's Dharma worker! I hope you love them as much as I do!

Please don't forget to enter the September Specatcular for your chance to win a $200 gift card! And check out what my fellow Digit-al Dozener's came up with by clicking the link below!!


If love be rough with you, be rough with love...

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It's day six of the Digit-al Dozen's celebration series, The Digit-al Dozen, Does it All Again! 
Today's theme is Love and Heartbreak. Last time this theme came round I used it as an opportunity to make warm, fuzzy, red and pink nail combinations and get all the lovey dovey Valentines Day cooties out. :P  THIS time I wanted to avoid all things pink, lovey and resembling anything Valentines Day! I wanted instead to do something more abstract.  So...I've done a Romeo and Juliet theme! To me, their story is sort of the epitome of love AND heartbreak and it's also one of my favorite plays so it's kind of a win/win for me.  Obviously there are MILLIONS of versions of Romeo and Juliet but I've chosen to base my nails on the version I feel is most recognizable today and that is the Baz Luhrmann 1996 film version.  So here we go:

 On my index finger I have some textured "armor" to represent our ostracized hero Romeo. On my middle, the cross which makes up the "AND" in the title and on my ring some sparkly wings to represent Juliet a la the picture you see above. In the picture you can also see that Romeo is turned, to show his arm while Juliet faces forward showing both wings. This is the imagery I was kind of going for! My pinky is almost a throwaway, I didn't want to take too much away from the other two but it's a rocky grey to represent the stone wall where Romeo recites his famous lines to Juliet under her window. I hope you enjoy my out of the box nail art for the day! 

 Please don't forget to enter the September Specatcular for your chance to win a $200 gift card! And check out what my fellow Digit-al Dozener's came up with by clicking the link below!!

Death and Desire...

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It's day four of the Digit-al Dozen's celebration series, The Digit-al Dozen, Does it All Again! Today's challenge was art.  Although I enjoy art as much as the next person, I'm not super artistic so last time we did art it was a bit of a challenge for me.  This time I wanted to stick with something I know I'm pretty good at and also try to recreate something.  I caught this picture of a Cy Twombly painting called "Hero and Leander" and I fell in love with it. This is actually the fourth in a series of paintings done by him. All of his work is sort of defined as calligraphic-style graffiti paintings, on solid fields of mostly gray, tan, or off-white colors.


Hero and Leander were lovers in ancient Greek mythology who both drowned. The painting is an evocation of death at sea, as well as their desire for one another. I love the colors and the emotion that this particular painting evokes and it was easy for me to decide to reinvent it on my nails!

I hope you love these as much as I do!!
Please don't forget to enter the September Spectacular for your chance to win a $200 gift card! And check out what my fellow Digit-al Dozener's came up with by clicking the link below!!


Festival of Colors...

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It's day four of the Digit-al Dozen's celebration series, The Digit-al Dozen, Does it All Again! Today's theme was festive! In keeping with my orginal festive designs, I went with an Hindu holiday known as Festival Holi. Festival Holi is based off of a story in Hindu religion which I won't go into detail about but Hindus believe it is a time of enjoying spring's abundant colours and saying farewell to winter. Here is a picture of some Indian people throwing colors into the air to celebrate:


Gorgeous isn't it? It's hard not to be inspired by that! I didn't use powder for my colors because I wanted it to have a really 3D effect so I put various colors of flocking powder onto a sparkly sandy base. I hoped to imitate the bright colors on the sparkling sands of the desert. I hope you all enjoy them!

Please don't forget to enter the September Specatcular for your chance to win a $200 gift card! And check out what my fellow Digit-al Dozener's came up with by clicking the link below!!


 
 This is a Replay mani! Click the icon above to see the original art!

Do You Hear the People Sing?

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It's day three of the Digit-al Dozen's celebration series, The Digit-al Dozen, Does it All Again! Today's theme is music! Last time this theme came around I did tapes and records and other musical things but this time I wanted to do something a little different! So I did art based on one of my favorite musicals, Les Misérables!  I used my index finger to sort of represent the little pins the revolutionaries wore and then did the iconic cover art work on the other nails. I hope you enjoy these!
 
Please don't forget to enter the September Specatcular for your chance to win a $200 gift card!  And check out what my fellow Digit-al Dozener's came up with by clicking the link below!!


Sugar Skulls

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It's day two of the Digit-al Dozen's celebration series, The Digit-al Dozen, Does it All Again!  Today's design theme is Halloween.  Halloween is one of my most favorite times of year! I love dressing up and going to the parties and the fall weather! I can't wait for it to come around again! Today I decided to do a design based on sugar skulls.  I've seen a lot of people doing them and I haven't tried them yet so I thought now was as good a time as any! I found these super easy to do with just a simple dotting tool. I added a bit of glitter to make them more fun and sparkly but the great thing about them is that you can fancy them up any way you like!  Please don't forget to enter the September Specatcular for your chance to win a $200 gift card! And check out what my fellow Digit-al Dozener's came up with by clicking the link below!!




Colors Used: 
Zoya Purity and Raven
LA Nail Art in Gold Glitter 
Holographic Glitter Pen
Lime Crime Lavendairy and Parfait Day and Pastelchio

Blue Waterfall

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It's the first day in the Digit-al Dozen's year anniversary series, The Digit-al Dozen does it all...AGAIN!  I'm really excited to relive the themes from the last year with you.  Last September we did blue as a theme and if you remember, I chose to use the Deborah Lippmann shade, Let's Hear it for the Boy as a base color and to build on it all week long. In a nod to that design I have chosen to use the same base color and to use some varying shades of blue to make a waterfall manicure! I hope you enjoy it and please don't forget to check out the September Spectacular we're running right now!  You can win a $200 prize!! Check out all of the fellow Dozener's art below or check out my original blue designs by clicking here! :)



Colors used: 
Deborah Lippmann Let's Hear it for the Boy
butter LONDON Scouse, Henley Regatta, Victoriana and Blagger

The Digital Dozen does it all AGAIN!

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I have something REALLY exciting to share with you guys today! As you know if you follow me on Instagram (@bee_polished), September is the month of giveaway's for Bee Polished! You'll definitely want to be following along this month because you'll have a few chances to win some super awesome stuff.  This is the first of the giveaways this month and ladies and gents, it's a doozy. :) 

I'm sure you've all been following along with my Digital Dozen monthly challenges.  Myself and 21 other gorgeous ladies, bring you one week of art based on a different theme every month.  It's our one year anniversary and to celebrate, we're bringing you a CRAZY amazing giveaway AND twelve days of art based on all the themes we've done over the past year.  This giveaway is open internationally and will end on the 15th of September. The winner will recieve a $200 gift certificate to their choice of nail polish stores!! Just think of all the nail polish that will buy you! You can enter the giveaway below, and don't forget to stay tuned over the next two weeks to see us do all the themes again!! :)
Also be sure to stick around for Octobers upcoming series on small nails BIG art.  I'm trying out a new nail growth product and want to use my nubbin time to celebrate shorter nails!

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Stellar Silk...

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Well we've reached the end of fashion week with the Digit-al Dozen! I'm going out with a bang this week! This was my favorite look from all the ones I ended up with in the end.  It looked like nail stripes from afar and just had the coolest overall appearance.  It looks much more intricate and difficult than it turned out to be in actuality BUT it did require some planning! I'm considering a tutorial for this look if there's interest in it! In either case I did sort of a two and two so we're back to the lovely Stella McCartney today. This was based on a silk dress from her 2012 Spring collection. UK'ers may recall seeing Sienna Miller grace the cover of British Vogue in April 2012 in this dress. Here's a picture for those of you who didn't see it!






I hope you all enjoyed this week! Please check out what my fellow ladies came up with for today!

This look created using:
Zoya Purity and Raven

All Hail...

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It's time for another day in the Digit-al Dozen's Fashion Week challenge!! Today my design is sort of loosely based on an Alexander McQueen dress from a while back. I think it also comes across a bit Vera Bradley but that's not the intention! Here's the dress I used for my inspiration:




Obviously there is a different color and pattern scheme going on here but I liked the mesh of triangles with the different patterns on it.  This is also part of a new series I'm starting to help you reuse your abused, old mani's! I don't know about any of you but I don't always have lots of time to do my nails and if I can update what's already on them and turn it into something new then I'm definitely in for that!!  This is a Replay Mani!

Anytime you see this:
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You'll know you're looking at a replay mani! You can click the icon at the bottom of the blog to see the original manicure, and eventually, you'll be able to view tutorials of how to get from point A to point B!  

Don't forget to check out what the other ladies came up with for today! 

Resort Wear

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So today is day three of the Digit-al Dozen's Fashion Week.  I'm back to Christian Siriano today! I actually had fully intended to do a whole week of designs based on his work but I didn't end up going that route! Still they're mostly geared in his direction! :)  These are based on his new Resort Wear collection for 2014.


I love the bright color blocking and the bold contrast with the white!  I hope you enjoyed this look for today! Don't forget to check out what some of the other ladies came up with for fashion week!



Colors Used:
 Zoya Purity and Raven 
Color Club Poptastic Collection

Miracle Dots

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So it's day two of Fashion Week with the Digit-al Dozen and today I have a design based on another of my favorite designers for you. This design is based on a Stella McCartney gown from 2012. She frequently uses sheer cutouts in her designs which can easily become sort of racy but she manages to keep them very classy and fun.  I love Stella's designs because they're bold and cutting edge but also tend to be mostly monochrome and usually black or black and white. I also love her as a person because she's so environmentally concious and animal friendly! Here's the dress I based these nails off of:

Don't forget to check out what my fellow fashionista's came up with for today's mani!!

Colors Used:
Zoya Raven

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