Tri-Polish Tuesday - Pink, Brown and Grey #1 - taped tips

Hi!

I'm excited about this month's TPC colours - pink, brown and grey. There just seems to be more options than last month - you can go pastel, neon etc without changing the colours whereas red is red so options are limited. Anyway, for the first challenge I kept it simple and went for a brown base in the form of Barry M Mocha and taped some elongated glitter trianges in Models Own Pink Fizz, a lovely rosey pink glitter. I'm really loving simple designs like this on my almonds, I should do them more often! My pictures again aren't fabulous, we're in the midst of 100 days of rain here in the UK it seems, so I have to apologise that they're more than a little dingy.

Next weeks TPC will be valentines themed! See you then!

Hx

Pin It

33 Day Challenge day 3 - tape manicure!

Hi!

Let it be known that I suck at tape manicures. They are not my bag. For some people it's watermarbling, others can't stamp. I can't get to grips with tape. I just don't have the patience or the co-ordination - something which you need for tape to work! So I went for something simple and fairly difficult to mess up and it came out ok (this was my second attempt mind...)

I went for a black base, lay down some tape in stripes and painted over them with matte topcoat, pulled off the tape and voila! Two stripy accent nails and shiny dots on matte on the rest and I called it a day before I messed something up!

I love the contrast between the shiny and matte, and I think this would make a great subtle Halloween mani. But who needs subtle at Halloween!

Hx

Pin It

New 31 day challenge day 12, tape mani

Hello again!

Just warning you from the start: I fail at tape manis. I think I have only ever had one truly successful one, and that was a fluke. Whether I use striping tape, sellotape (scotch tape), masking tape, french tip guides, hole reinforcers, stickers - I always foul it up somehow. Anyway, I've seen a lot of gold and teal coloured manis done with striping tape and thought I'd give it a go...first mistake. Second mistake was the gold I chose, a cheap drugstore brand that wasn't opaque enough and needed too many thick coats. I thought I'd just do an accent nail, and that made all the mistakes more blindingly obvious. But never mind, you live and learn! You can kinda see what I was trying to do, right?

Also, it was the darkest, dullest day ever when I took the pictures, so it looks doubly awful. Anyway, I was in love with the mani I did for tomorrow's challenge so I hope I will redeem myself!

Hx

Pin It

Nautical Pink Wednesday - I can stick my whole fist in my mouth! Wanna see?

Another random mean Girls quote for the week!

The mani I'm wearing for Pink Wednesday this week is actually one I did on Monday evening for the facebook group I joined, Polish Aholics Anonymous. Every Monday they have a theme and this week it was Tape. As I don't have the time or patience to do a full stripy tape mani, I am rocking a trusy accent nail. The pink is Barry M Strawberry Ice cream, the cream is Stargazer 508 and I stamped an anchor (again) using Wet and Wild Denim Chrome. I think it gives a kind of muted, vintage pin-up nautical effect...but maybe that's just me.

Think it would have looked better if the pink were slightly "dustier" as such, more like OPI Steady As She Rose. But I don't have any dustier pinks - can anyone recommend any?

Hx

Oh, by the way, I've found a full sized bottle of OPI I Lily Love You for £4.99 + 50p postage. Now the next cheapest I've found it for is £8.99 plus about £1.70 postage. Would you say it's a fake/scam? I'm really lusting after it, but don't want to be ripped off.

Pin It