Barry M Texture Nail Art

Hello!

Day 20 of the New 31 day challenge was texture. Now if you want to see the horrific caviar bead fail I had, check out my instagram...instead I'm going to show you three of the new Barry M texture polishes :) Cheating? Just a little bit... Cheeky? Well, that's why you love me ;)

Barry M bought out four texture polishes, along with four new Gelly shades for the spring. As soon as they were available to order from Superdrug, 3 of them went in my basket. I didn't get the yellow at the time, although I've regretted it and I will go back for it! I've got swatches of Ridley Road (pale, mint green) and Kingsland Road (pale pink) and then some stripey stripes with baby blue Atlantic Road too.

First up, Kingsland Road. On it's own it would be a perfect baby pink, akin to Barry M Strawberry Ice Cream. It took 2 coats to get the opacity you see here.

Next, Ridley Road, yummy mint green, not dissimilar to Barry M...Mint Green... Again, 2 coats.

Then I added stripes with Atlantic Road, baby blue, very Blueberry Ice Cream-ish.

I love these polishes! The texture reminds me of woodchip wallpaper! I was singing this song all day when I was wearing it (showing my age now, but it could have been written about me ;) )

What do you think of this texture trend? I'm loving it!

Hx

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New 31 day challenge day 19 - my favourite polish

Hello!

Now, this polish speaks for itself really, and I've worn it before. Beautiful, beautiful OPI DS Original. It's my favourite for two reasons - obviously because it's a beauty, and secondly because it was another surprise gift from my birthday club ladies. I wore it simply for day 19 of the challenge, just adding a little rhinestone to each nail.

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New 31 day challenge day 18 - my oldest untried

I am ashamed to say that the polish I chose for today's mani has been in my stash since April 2007 and it has languished, sad and unused since then. The shame. And it really is super pretty! I used W7 Purple Paradise and blinged it up with some gold as you do. And tada. One less untried in the tin...

And here is the rest of my untrieds exploding out of a roses tin...not bad compared to some peoples apparently... ;)

One more post later today and I'll be caught up (again!)

Hx

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New 31 day challenge day 17 - new technique (Black spotted effect)

Hi again :)

Day 17 of the challenge was to try a technique you'd not tried before. I pondered this for ages and had almost settled on trying a fan brush, when I was hit by inspiration. A new technique started floating around the nail art community, headed by Cutepolish to create an OPI Spotted-look, without the impossible to find OPI Spotted polish. She uses alcohol-hand sanitiser sprayed into black polish floated on water, and I'd been mulling it over in my head for days. I couldn't find spray bottles of hand sanitiser in local shops and was about to order some online when I suddenly thought of using perfume. Perfume contains alcohol, right? A bit of experimenting later, and it worked! I played around with different black polishes and how high to spray the (cheap unwanted Christmas present) perfume from, and I came up with this, on top of my watercolour mani from day 15.

I found you have to spray from quite a height, and work really quickly or the alcohol takes to much polish away. It's really cool to watch it when you spray, the perfume sort of eats the polish! I really like the effect, although I still REALLY want the real OPI black spotted, it's taken the edge off a bit ;)

Hx

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New 31 day challenge day 16 - Colour opposites

Busy busy weekend, so am trying to catch up!

Day 16 of the challenge was colour opposites - which basically are Yellow/Purple, Green/Red and Blue/Orange. I, along with most people I think, chose yellow and purple, and went for simple stripes and dots. The base is Orly Au Champagne and I used Color Club PucciLicious and Models Own Lemon Meringue for the details. I quite liked the slightly textured effect, so didn't topcoat it.

I was quite amused when this happened when I took it off. Simple things please simple minds, eh...

Hx

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New 31 day challenge, day 15 - watercolour

Hi!

Sorry for the late post, time seems to have gotten away from me today...although I've not actually done very much but sometimes days like that are good! I think I'm getting sick again so that's my excuse...

The challenge for day 15 was watercolour - something I've not tried before. So I spent quite a long time watching youtube tutorials and I came up with this pastel monstrosity! It actually came out quite similar to my cling film mani, although that was done with neons. Anyhow. I started with a pastel yellow base (Models Own Lemon Meringue) and topcoated it. I then added blobs of Models Own Jade Stone, Pink Blush and Feeling blue and tried to blend them with an acetone-soaked brush. I think my brush was too scratchy though, as they didn't really blend, more just wipe away. Never mind, it's still quite striking.

My favourite yellow- just two coats

I used it as a base for another mani in the challenge, so you'll be seeing it again in a few days!

Hx

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New 31 Day Challenge day 14 - stamping

Hi guys, Happy Valentines!

We're up to day 14 of the New 31 day challenge from Crumpets Nail Tarts, and the theme today was stamping. I love me a bit o' stamping, but I was uninspired when this day of the challenge rolled around. I did come up with something I liked in the end though! I used a black with holo glitter from a cheapy Christmas set as the base, really lovely colour, awful formula. It was like brushing my nails with tar. Sparkly tar nonetheless, but really gloopy. Once that was dry, approximately 11tybillion years later, I stamped with a barbed wire image in silver. The details didn't come out as much as I would have liked, but you could tell it was barbed wire, so I was happy!

The base on it's own. Pretty, but not worth the hassle!

Hx

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