33 Day Challenge day 31 - 3 favourite polishes!

Just three days to go on the challenge! Eek!

Today's theme was to use your three favourite polishes and I'm sure I've said this before but asking me to pick a favourite polish is like asking me to pick a favourite child, and I only have two of those not nearly 900! So I went with three of my favourites, China Glaze Ruby Pumps, Barry M Gold Foil and Color Blub Revvvolution, and skittled it up! I started with a base of Ruby Pumps on three nails, and once that was dry I added a rough line down the middle with Gold Foil and a fan brush. The ring finger was painted in Gold Foil and a heart was added in Revvvolution and on my index I went for a fail safe braid with all three.

Not perfect (is it ever?) but quite festive I think!

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New 31 day challenge, day 6 - Favourite Colour Family

Hello!

Today's theme for the 31 day challenge I took part in in January was to create a mani using your favourite colour family. You have no idea how hard it was to pick a colour family. My favourite colour is purple, but is it my favourite colour family? Since favourite colour came up later in the challenge I decided to go for something different, and picked turquoisy-greeny-bluey for my favourite colour family, and came up with a braid mani using Models Own Jade Stone (pinkie), Accessorize Mermaid (index) and Accessorize Superstar (thumb).

I'm still not sold on these braid manis, they look ok, but they can be a bit of a pain...what do you think?

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NOTD - Peachy Plait or Fishtail Fail?

Morning!

I must have pinned 11tybillion of these fishtail/braided designs, so I decided the other day to try one, in my favourite peachy tones. I used Barry M Peach Melba, Collection 2000 Hot Looks Fruit Salad and Barry M Gold Foil. I did two accent nails, ring and middle, with the plait detail and the other three fingers with the separate colours. Every version I've seen of this has been beautiful, and the tutorials have looked so deceptively easy - but can I just say I didn't find this easy at all! It was a pain in the arse, messy, took ages because I had to let each stripe dry before I could do the next one and when I was finished I didn't like it. Hmph. I forced myself to keep it on (mainly because it was about midnight by the time I was finished and I couldn't face the prospect of going to bed with naked nails) and it's grown on me I guess. It doesn't look so bad now it's cleaned up, and I've had some compliments on it so I guess it doesn't look too bad...

Maybe if my nails were a bit longer it would look better? I don't know, I'm just not sold on this one, on me at least. Maybe it was just more effort than it was worth! Kudos to everyone who does on every nail - you have more patience than me!

So what do you think, peachy plait or fishtail fail?

Hx

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