NPQ Challenge - Chinese New Year - Showcase

Any occasion is a good excuse to party with our nails. The Chinese New Year was no exception.

Lots and lots of pretty manis were seen on our community and here are a selected few:

+Jenni N 

+Lindsay Fitzpatrick 

+Keely Gallagher 

+Sophie Tate 

+Elie Corzo 

+Lauretta A 

+Mary Daniel 

+Sarah Short 

+Magali Neuville-Bisceglia 

This week we are celebrating Valentine's Day, well almost, our challenge is Anti-Valentine. So if you love to hate Valentine's Day or just simply don't fancy that day or even just wanna have a good laugh, come join our weekly challenge on NPQ. 

NPQ Challenge - Untried - Showcase

You know that expression: Don't bite off more than you can chew? Well in the world of polish addicts like us in NPQ we don't really follow that rule, we buy and buy, sometimes leaving dozens of untried polishes on our shelves... well last week, our challenge gave us the opportunity to use those puppies.
Once again selecting only a few designs was hard, talent ladies, talent everywhere!!

Let's start of with +Elie Corzo and her breathtaking shattered glass design.

+Heather Barone did a great abstract designs, allowing her to use several untried polishes.

+McKayle Hart took the opportunity to try a new color and added some great free hand design on top.

+Angie Linn reminded us that dots are always a winner and a great way to do a quick yet great mani using untried polishes.

+Zoë March did butterflies nails using her brand new black. Black being a color that you don't leave untried for long, am i right??

+Amanda Boyter used her brand new polishes and had fun with dots, i told you, dots are always a winner.

+Lena Cannon took the opportunity to use her untried studs and gems.

+Michelle Chavarriaga used polishes she got for Christmas, making the choice of showing us her pretty holo polish and stamping skills.

let's finish with +Fia Kilbourn pretty and sweat mani using tape.

This week challenge is 'One Stroke' so if you want to participate come join us!

NPQ Showcase - Elie Corzo

The first winner of 2014 of our NPQuiz is the talented +Elie Corzo and she chose to share this gorgeous manicure which is one of her all time favorite:

"I love this manicure because those colors just pop against each other, this was my first successful stamping using a vivid silver and gold (thank you ladies of NPQ who gave such wonderful suggestions), cleanup was minimal, and I thought it was so cute but simple. I really had fun doing this one!

Polishes used: "Fig" by Sinful colors as the base, topped with "Glitter Bit of Music" by OPI, "Silver Sweep" by Sally Hansen Insta-Dry, & "Bold Gold 45" by Maybelline. Of course it's topped with Seche Vite top coat ;)"

NPQ Challenge - Sparkles 2014 - Showcase

To begin the new year like Queens, we had to make our nails sparkles! So many entry last week for the challenge, so hard to chose only a few to showcase, they all deserve their place here:

+StyleThose Nails beautiful sparly New Year's Eve nails

+Stefania Matei sparkly blue nails

+Cynthia Lee Perez sparkly animal prints nails

+Anatasia Kamelia soft pink sparkly nails

+roa' milas hamouda sparkly golden nails

+Kelly S. sparkly sparkly nails!

+Cissy Rsl sparkly red nails.

Hope you all had a nice passage to the new year, may it be full of more sparkles!!

NPQ Showcase - Keely Gallagher

Our talented +Keely Gallagher is once again showcased on our blog as she won yesterday NPQ Quick Quiz. And today she is sharing with us her New Year's Eve manicure from last year, quite appropriate if you ask me :)

 

If, like Keely, you'd like to be showcased on our blog, be on the look out for our random Quick Quiz on our community! See you there!

NPQ Challenge - 3D Christmas - Showcase

Christmas is now over, the 3 Nail Polish Queens owners hoped you all had a great Christmas!

Here are some of our 3D Christmas manis from last week's NPQ challenge.

+Keely Gallagher did Christmas lights made of studs and thread 

+Sophie Tate did Christmas Lights too with different shaped studs
(More on her blog: www.nailingtons.com)

+Margriet Sijperda did Christmas nails with subtle 3D and a nail piercing.

+Dante Bianchino did a cute penguin with a 3D bow and snowflake.

+Elie Corzo did subtle 3D snowflakes.

+Sarah Short 3D was a tad less subtle with her little snowmen!

Same for +Magali Neuville-Bisceglia and her not so sublte 3D Christmas mani.

NPQ Challenge - 3D Christmas

NPQ Weekly Challenge: 3D Christmas

The stream is gonna be full of beautiful Christmas mani's this week so that design isn't really a challenge. If you want to try something a bit different, play with your nail art accessories and go for Christmas in 3D.

- You can use regular nail accessories: rhinestones, studs, beads, bows.

- Or recycle some real Christmas decorations that didn't make it to the tree: tinsel, baubles, ribbons.

- How about piercing your nail and adding some jewellery. But remember if you don't like it, you're gonna be filing that nail down :(

The 3D can be very subtle and wearable like +Sophie Tate  adorable Santa hats, or totally over the top to make us laugh like the post shared by +Carrie Blatchford. Whatever you do, have a bit of fun with it and don't take it too seriously :)

Please post your pics in the "Weekly Challenge" category and don't forget your clean up.

Merry Christmas! Ho Ho Ho!

NPQ Challenge - Christmas Songs - Showcase

Singing was in order last week on NPQ. And many beautiful Christmas songs were turned into nail art. Here are a few of them along with +Sarah Short funny singing spree:

+Katolin O sets the tune with music on her nails...literally :)

+Magali Neuville-Bisceglia White Christmas nails

"I'll be dreaming of this great mani

Just like the ones you used to do

May your mojo stay with you from tonight

And may all your future mani's turn out right xx" -Sarah

+Keely Gallagher Fairytale of New York nails

"This is handsome

Just so pretty

Nail Polish Queen of New York City

I am struggling

to pick my chin up off the floor

The boys of the NYPD choir

Were singing 'Keely! Yay!'

And this mani really

Took my breath away xx" -Sarah

+Zoë March Deck the Halls nails

"Deck the halls with boughs of holly, 

Fa la la la la, la la la la.

Zoe made a gorgeous mani,

Fa la la la la, la la la la" -Sarah

+Jessica Guilbe Winter Wonderland nails

"Jessica, are you listening, 

This is great, nails are glistening

A beautiful sight,

We're happy tonight.

Walking in a mani wonderland." -Sarah

+Nail Artsy Rudolph the red nose Reindeer nails

"All of the Nail Queens loved him

As they shouted "Great Maneee"

Rudolph the red nose reindeer

Where's his ears? +Nail Artsy!" -Sarah

+Candace Allen Oh Tannenbaum nails

"O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree

How happy that mani makes me" -Sarah

+StyledLady4ever . Let is Snow nails

"Oh the weather outside is frightful

But this mani is truly delightful

It has made my heart glow

Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" -Sarah

And there wouldn't be Christmas songs without the funny & parody ones:

+Victoria Eaves Batman smells nails

+Elie Corzo Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer Nails.

NPQ Members in the China Glaze Holidays Contest

Helly everyone, 

I keep repeating myself but we have some great talent on NPQ and some of our talented members decided to go for the China Glaze Holidays Contest. Let's show them our support by voting for them! 

+Fabiana N entry:

To vote for her click here

+Elie Corzo entry:

To vote for her click here

Our beloved owner +Jessica Garcia entry:

To vote for her click here

+Valerie Wilson / +Nail Artsy entry: 

To vote for her click here

Please take few moments to help our fellow Queens wins a contest, they all deserve it!

NPQ Challenge - Christmas Songs

NPQ Weekly Challenge: Christmas Songs

Tra la I wish it could be Christmas every day tra la la

Nothing gets me more into the Christmas spirit than hearing all the songs. So let's all start singing and ramp up the festive feeling :)

Some inspiration ideas:

- A pop/chart song (old or new)

- A Christmas carol

- Something from the Twelve Days of Christmas

Now, here's the real crunch. You gotta be singing tra la while you are painting tra la la and get Christmasey :D

Please post your pics in the "Weekly Challenge" category and don't forget your clean up to make your mani sing.

Santa Claus is coming to town Tra la la