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May 17, 2014

31DC2014 Inspired By A Song

By Ruth

I’m going to finish this challenge… Oh I really wish I had more hours in the day! If you have any spare and wouldn’t mind sending them my way I would be really grateful 🙂

Dragon from Chanel

I have been wearing this mani for 4 days so it’s a bit messy looking

the song that I chose for this is by Type O Negative and the track is called Red Water (Christmas Mourning) I couldn’t find an official video but below is a link to the song if you want to have a listen!

Red Water (Christmas Mourning)

Messy Mansion MM11 and MM29

The polishes I used are

Dragon – Chanel
Vamp – Leighton Denny
Dazzle – Orly
Black Magic – Revlon
Black – Konad Special Polish
Seche Vite

And the stamping plates I used, HD03 and HD05 along with Messy Mansion MM11 and MM29

Leighton Denny Vamp and Orly Dazzle for the details

Starting with 2 coats of Dragon, using Vamp I used the wave image from MM29 for the red water background, I did find that the Leighton Denny polish dried really quickly on the stamper so getting it onto my nails was a little bit of a challenge!

The gravestones are on Plate HD03and the little coffins are from plate MM11 I used Konad SP black for those. Then using Black magic and a tiny brush I (badly) painted on the Mistletoe, for the berries I used my smallest dotting tool and Dazzle from Orly, I also used this polish for the snow flakes, they are all images from plate HD05! And finished it off with a coat of Seche Vite!

Then I spent 4 days rushing about doing stuff, a lot of stuff… most of it involved mud, pastry, poorly pets and filthy water, but luckily not all at the same time!

My nails usually look this chipped after one day! But 4 days! my nails had even grown a bit, which made the shrinking and cracking from the Seche Vite around the base of my nail really obvious! But never mind 🙂

2 Comments | tags: 31DC2014, Chanel Dragon, Konad special polish Black, Leighton Denny Vamp, Manicure, Messy Mansion MM11, Messy Mansion MM29, Nail Art, Nail polish, Nail Stamping, Nail Varnish, nailpolish, Orly Dazzle, Red, Type O Negative | posted in Challenges, Nail Art, Nail Stamping

May 2, 2014

31DC2014 Day 21 Inspired By A Colour – Blue

By Ruth

inspired by not seeing any blue sky for a while

Inspired by a colour…

For this I chose a colour I haven’t seen for a while, Sky blue! It has been really wet and cloudy where I live, not very spring like at all!

My first choice for this was going to be purple, I put all of my purple polishes onto my desk (I have a lot more of them than I thought!) and I looked at them, and nothing! not a drop of inspiration! Went and had a cup of tea, glared at the pile of purple polish from the sofa, I’m usually ok at choosing a polish and working what it will look nice with or what kind of pattern it would suit, but clearly not today!

I decided to have a break and pottered off to do some gardening, while I was grubbing about in a pot of lilies, I was thinking how nice it would be to have some blue sky!

blue!

For my sky blue nails I used

17 – Heart Beat
Barry M – Blueberry Ice Cream
Sinful Colors – Paradise
China Glaze – White on White
Konad SP – Black
Messy Mansion – MM14
Seche Vite

This really was very easy, I used the three pale blues for the very subtle gradient, the clouds I used a large dotting tool, and then stamped the birds over the top!

Sky blue nails

It’s not purple but I really like it! 🙂

6 Comments | tags: 31DC2014, Barry M, blue, China Glaze White on White, Dotting Tool, gradient, Konad special polish Black, Manicure, Messy Mansion, Messy Mansion MM14, Nail Art, Nail polish, Nail Stamping, Nail Varnish, nailpolish | posted in Challenges, Gradient, Nail Stamping

April 29, 2014

31DC2014 – Half Moon Nails

By Ruth

Half Moon Nails

Here are my half moon nails for day 18!

For this I used

Black Magic from Revlon
Aglaia from 2True
Konad SP in Black
Pure Midnight From Sally Hansen
Seche Vite

Starting with a couple of coats of black magic, I stamped the bottom half of my nail, with Agiaia, I used Moyou Pro plate 05 which is a standard size plate from them, it’s way too narrow and short for me to use as a full nail, but it’s fine to use sideways for half a nail lol!

Then I applied a thin coat of Seche Vite, when that was dry I used ring binder hole reinforcements to mask off the half moons, then sponged on some more Black Magic and removed the sticky rings.

Then for the tips of my nails I sponged on more Aglaia and some Pure midnight, I was going for a gradient but it didn’t really work very well

Then I applied another coat of Seche, waited for it to dry then stamped using the same image, but with Konad SP Black and then a final coat of SV.

Moyou Pro 05

With all of the topcoat I used for this I’m honestly surprised that it didn’t shrink a lot more!

6 Comments | tags: 2True Aglaia, 31DC2014, Black, gradient, Konad special polish Black, Leopard Print, Moyou Pro Collection, Nail Art, Nail polish, Nail Stamping, Nail Varnish, nailpolish, Revlon Black Magic, Seche Vite, Teal | posted in Challenges, Gradient, Nail Art, Nail Stamping

April 28, 2014

I’m Back! 31DC2014 Day 17 Glitter

By Ruth

Hey everyone, I’m back 😀

Sorry it’s been so long since my last post, I have tried to write this a couple of times but my brain just hasn’t been cooperating lol!

I have been super busy! I went to a music festival which was amazing and it was really lovely to catch up with people I don’t see very often. Did a big spring clean of the flat (which I really should finish at some point) and loads of gardening, I have loads of really interesting plants and I really hope they all grow!

Anyway on to the nails! I really should have written posts to be scheduled but for some reason the music festival snuck up on me and I didn’t end up with enough time 😦 but I will carry on with the challenge, even with being really far behind! 🙂

Glitter Nails

Here are my glittery nails for day 17.

I used Shooting Star from Rimmel, it’s from the Space Dust collection and it’s a polish that I haven’t tried before, I have to say I think it would look better with some undies.

I applied two coats but it didn’t seem to be quite opaque enough, but this doesn’t really show in the photos. When it was dry it has a slightly gritty texture so I added a coat of Seche Vite to make the stamping a little easier.

Moyou Pro XL 07

The stamped image is from Moyou Pro Collection plate XL 07 I really like this image but I think that it is too big, I do find that quite a lot with the XL plates from Moyou, the full nail patterns are the perfect size for all of my nails but the individual images are just too big

The black stamping polish is Konad SP in Black, then I applied another coat of Seche Vite.

Silver shiny glittery nails!

I’m thinking of investing in a XL squishy stamper, I have the Konad hard double ended (hehe) stamper and the white and purple rectangular ones from Messy Mansion, the rectangular ones are amazing! I love the purple one so much!

Do you use a XL squishy stamper? And is it worth the investment? 😀

2 Comments | tags: 31DC2014, Black, Glitter, Messy Mansion, Moyou Pro Collection, Nail Art, Nail polish, Nail Stamping, Nail Varnish, nailpolish, Rimmel Shooting Star, Seche Vite, silver | posted in Challenges, Nail Art, Nail Stamping

April 15, 2014

31DC2014 Day 15 Delicate Print Nails

By Ruth

Sugar Sugar from sinful colors With Bundle monster plate BM-406

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!