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Tribal Print
Hey! Here are my Tribal nails for day 16!
I wanted something quite neutral for today, so I used Modern Love from Deborah Lippmann as the base colour.
Tribal Print Nails
For the pattern I used two nail art pens from Barry M, a black one and a silver one. I drew the black parts of the patterns first, then added the silver after! It was surprisingly easy to create the pattern!
Tribal Print Nail Art
This is the first time I have tried a tribal print mani, I like it, I think that if I had done the tribal print over all of my nails I think it would be a bit much, but as an accent nail I think it works really well! 😀
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Sugar Sugar With BM-406
Hi Everyone 🙂 Here are my delicate print nails for day 15!
I decided to use one of my untried Sinful Colors polishes today, This one is called Sugar Sugar, it’s an amazing intense shade of red with a smattering of red glitter, and a slight golden shimmer. I don’t often really like red polish, But this one is definitely an exception!
The stamp is BM-405 from the Bundle Monster CYO set. I had a little problem with the BM plate, My nails are too long oO in particular my thumb nails… There was about 4mm of gap! And the gap was around 2/3mm on my other nails, But not to be deterred I had a cunning plan to continue the pattern with My Barry M Nail art pen, I think it worked! 😀
There was some shrinking and cracking from my topcoat… After my really careful drawing of the unstamped bit of nail, I’m just going to pretend I can’t see it!
Delicate Print Nails
Other than my wobbly freehand skills I really like how this looks, I think next time I might try silver stamped over black or grey! 😀
4 Comments | tags: 31DC2014, Barry M Nail Art Pen Black, BM-406, Bundle Monster CYO, Konad special polish, Manicure, Nail Art, Nail polish, Nail Stamping, Nail Varnish, nailpolish, Red, Sinful Colors Sugar Sugar | posted in Challenges, Nail Art, Nail Stamping
Pink Roses
My flowery nails for day 14! For a change I decided to stamp with white polish!
I started with a coat of China Glaze White On White, then I used the cling film technique to apply
- Maybelline – Lilac Charm
- Sally Hansen – Lavender Envy
- China Glaze – Get Outta My Space
- Sally Hansen – Good To Grape
- Minnie Mouse – Pink
I ended up with really pretty pale pinky/purple sparkly nails that looked like marble!
For the stamping I used some more White On White with Pro collection 07 XL from Moyou.
Day 14
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A little bit late, but here are my animal print nails for day 13!
Zebra Print Nails!
I have to say that this looks much better in real life! My nails look very washed out in these pictures.
I started with A couple of coats of Shabby Drab from Color Club, Purple toned grey polishes make me very happy! and this one is no exception! 😀
The stamping plate is Pro Collection XL 04 from Moyou. I used some more Shabby Drab along with a couple of drops of Artemis from 2True for the stamped images, It was quite difficult to see what I was doing with the gradient, the 2True polish sunk under the Color Club so I couldn’t tell how much purple I had picked up!
Purple Grey Zebra Nails
I’m definitely going to try this again, probably with a leopard print, or snake print… Thinking about it I don’t think I have ever used my snakey stamps… I really have to do something about that! 😀
2 Comments | tags: 2True Artemis, 31DC2014, color club, Color Club Shabby Drab, gradient, grey, Moyou Pro Collection, Nail Art, Nail polish, Nail Stamping, Nail Varnish, nailpolish, purple | posted in Challenges, Nail Art, Nail Stamping
Black and Green Striped Nails
Day 12 Striped Nails! I decided on another simple mani for this one 🙂
Stripy Nails
I started out with two coats of Kissy from Sinful Colors, Kissy is a really pretty teal jelly with loads of gold iridescent glitter.
When the teal polish was dry, one nail at a time I stuck on the striping tape and added a coat of Twilight from Filthy Gorgeous, then removed the tape with tweezers while the black polish was still wet.
Then I added a coat of Seche Vite, when it was dry I started on the next nail!
Filthy Gorgeous Twilight Sinful Colors Kissy
I do like stripy nails like this, I just wish they didn’t take as long 🙂
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Dots for day 11
These are my dotty nails for day 11!
I can’t believe I’m already a third of the way through this challenge already! 😀
31DC2014 Day 11 Dots
the polishes I used are
- Sinful Colors – Mauve
- Illamasqua – Bapitste
- China Glaze – Bizarre Blurple
- Color Club – Secret Agent
- Barielle – Grape Escape
- China Glaze – Get Outta My Space
- Illamasqua – Poke
I used Mauve as the base colour then added the dots with a large dotting tool, starting with the darkest polish, when I got to using Get Outta My Space I switched over to using a medium dotting tool and covered over a few of the gaps 🙂
31DC2014 Day 11 Dots
It was only after I had finished that I realized that this was supposed to be a dotted pattern! Ooops 😛
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The Adorned Claw 