Tri Polish Challenge Blue, Purple and Green #2 - Quirky randoms

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I'm running low on inspiration, so for today's TPC I just went for something random and glitter, which is always a winner! Who doesn't love dots, leopard and a Nailside cloud, teamed with my favourite UK indie? I used Barry M Key Lime Pie and Blueberry, and Color Club Wild At Heart, and accented with Quirk Peace is Free. I'm not 100% sure the colours go together, but I can roll with it. The Color Club is a holo and of course the sun turned shy, so the bottom two pics are with flash to try and show it.

I don't have another nail post planned until Thursday, but I'm hoping it's going to be awesome! See you then!

Hx

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Darlin' it's better, down where it's wetter...

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This week's Adventures in Stamping theme was Under the Sea, and so I share with you the earworm that has been plaguing me all day. You're welcome. This mani was actually pretty complicated, combining several techniques and finishes to create what I think was mediocre at best. Don;t get me wrong, I like it, but it's not my favourite. I muddled together a watermarble accent nail, saran/cling wrap, glitter, stamping and shimmer topcoat for these schools of fishes from MoYou London Sailor 04 plate (double stamped again, can you tell? Pretty pleased with myself!) My colours were Barry M Greenberry and Nails Inc Baker Street (in the water marble and saran wrap under the stamping), Claires Accessories Shiver (glitter under the stamping which isn't very visible, but it's a lovely polish so I'll be using it again soon!) and then stamped with Konad White. I then added Collection Sparkle Top Coat over the whole thing because I wanted it to shimmer.

I think that for all it's layers and complexities, the fishies have good depth to them. I just wish my watermarble wasn't so wonky and the glitter showed up better! Onwards and upwards!

I want to order some more MoYou plates, and I'm torn between normal or XL images. You get more images on the normal plates, but obviously they are no longer big enough. I can double stamp, but not having to is much less hassle! What would you do?

Hx

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Silky smooth

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Sorry for the unauthorised absence, I've been under the weather again and black dogs are creeping in. I seem to be in a nail funk, but I got my grubby paws on two of Barry M's new Silk polishes and had to get them straight on my paws. I started with two coats of Mist, the blue, and then sponged on Heather on the tips. The glitter accent is two coats of UK indie Chubby Owl polish Candy Rain over heather, which I won in a giveaway on Chubby Owl's Facebook page (thanks Jemma!) This is such a me glitter! I stamped bows with Gals Fairy plate GA36 in Barry M Gold foil. They're tiny images but I think I lined up the double stamping quite well for a change! I'm sorry the pictures aren't good but I promise it was really pretty.

Have you tried any of the Silks? I want them all now!

Hx

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GOT polish - Skittles!

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Today's Golden Oldie Thursday theme is skittles. Now, you know I love me a skittle, but these didn't quite turn out how I imagined. In fact, I nearly re-did them until I saw how the photos came out and they looked ok. I went for blue, and actually one of my oldest polishes in Barry M Blue glitter, on the accent nail. The other polishes I used were Orly Stone Cold, Barry M Cobalt and Avon Colour Trend Silver Plated (glitter on the pinkie). The patterns were freehanded with Barry M's silver nail art pen, which I wish was just a little bit more sparkly.

Not wowed by them, but they seemed to facinate my son's speech therapist who admired them for half an hour! Next weeks' GOT is going to be purple and I'm excited!

Hx

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Tri Polish Tuesday March #1 - Purple, Blue and Green watercolour!

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It's March and that means new tri-polish colours! Green, Blue and Purple aren't colours I'd usually put together, but I think for this mani they look really pretty - let's hope I can keep it up for the rest of the month hey! I used a base of Sally Hansen Lavender Cloud, which is a slightly off-white with grey tones and then sponged on my colours in random patches. I used Models Own Feeling Blue, Color Club Pucci-Licious and the green is a Barry M Limited Edition from last summer. I added topcoat to merge it all together a bit and then stamped a swirly sort of pattern from MoYou Sailor 04 and added some glitter to the tips before more topcoat. I really like the finished mani, although none of the separate elements did it for me it all came together in the end. Hurrah!

Prettyful! I think I need more MoYou plates in my collection, which would you recommend?

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Adventures in stamping...sort of...

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I haven't done an adventures in stamping Sunday challenge for a few weeks. And today I still haven't done one... You see, I had it in my tiny little mind that today's challenge was to use the colours purple and yellow. I got the purple bit right but the yellow turned out to be orange. So here's my totally awesome purple and yellow manicure that doesn't fit with the theme! Yay! I used some fab polishes to make up for it though, Illamasqua Blow, and Barry M Prickly Pear and Plum. Blow is pretty much my perfect yellow, it's thin but not too runny or streaky and although I only used one coat here as the base of my gradient I think it'd be opaque and good to go in two. And it doesn't make my hands look like I've been dead for a month. I stamped a mini cheater print using MoYou Pro 04 and Barry M Gold Foil.

Excuse the tipwear, for some reason that always happens to me with gradients. Bizarre! I promise I will concentrate more on next week's Sunday challenge!

Hx

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Holla for Holive!

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Earlier this week I reviewed Lacquerdaisical's holo topcoat, Holla On Top, and today sees the turn of possibly the prettiest green polish I have ever seen! Holive is an pale olive green holo with added specks of glitter and oh my giddy aunt it made me swoon! Green isn't a colour I reach for often (apart from mint greens, one of my many many weaknesses...), not because I don't like it, but because it doesn't like me but this one even suited my skin tone. I wasn't sure how opaque it would be so I used two coats over OPI Stranger Tides except on my pinkie finger which was two coats alone. As you can see, I needn't have worried about opacity, but undies are an option if you don't want to use too much of the precious holo! I'd say this was paler than olive green, more like somewhere between mint and olive, with a leetle touch of lime maybe? Perhaps that's why I love it so much! Looooooook!

So pretty and delicate! Lacquerdaisical polishes are available on their Facebook page, and this one is just £7 for 15ml.

Hx

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