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April 14, 2014

31DC2014 – Day 13 Animal Print

By Ruth

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! 😀

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April 12, 2014

31DC2014 Day 12 Striped Nails

By Ruth

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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April 11, 2014

31DC2014 Day 11 Dots

By Ruth

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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April 10, 2014

31DC2014 Day 10 Gradient

By Ruth

Black and white Gradient

Here are my gradient nails for day 10! I decided to go with a very simple black and white with studs for today.

I used

White On White – China Glaze
Pure Midnight – Sally Hansen
Black Magic – Revlon
L’Oreal – Confettis
Nail Studs
Color Club Topcoat
Makeup Sponge

Black and White Gradient Nail Art

Starting out with a base of white on white, I built up the gradient with Black Magic, Pure Midnight and White on White on the makeup sponge, it took three coats, then I applied a coat of confettis and some topcoat.

Then using a bit more topcoat as glue I stuck the nail studs on!