Nails I Love
Barry M
Blue Skittle & Blue Camo Mani
Hellooooooo
Goddesses
Well, would
you believe it, this is my 200th post. Yup, 200.
Go me! I’ve picked up a lot of
friends along the way and I’m delighted that most of you who read the blog seem
to enjoy it AND my madness J
When I
started the blog I planned to average at about a post a day, but in the last 6
weeks, that seems to have doubled! I
think partly because my obsession has intensified, and also because I’ve
started to have a LOT of ideas of how to play with polish. So whilst the first 200 posts have been mainly
swatches, the next 200 are going to be quite different, with a mix of swatches,
layering, basic art skills and whatever else tickles my fancy!
I debated
doing something AMAZING for my 200th post and my good friend
Elizabeth Stern came up with a killer idea.
Elizabeth – I’m going to save that for the 250th, cos I need
to do it justice.
Then Post
200 was going to be a polish that has just crashed into the Crumpet All Time
Top 10. And then this afternoon, as I was
continuing my Barry M odyssey, this just sort of evolved, and when I finished it,
I KNEW it was what I wanted my 200th post to be – something a little
more wow than I usually do, but something that I have managed to pull off! Lol.
So this
started as a Barry M Blue skittle. Barry
has some brilliant blues, and I wanted to do 1 swatch that compared them, as at
first glance a couple do look similar.
So here we have –
Thumb =
Blue Moon
Index =
Blueberry Ice Cream
Middle =
Cyan Blue
Ring =
Cobalt Blue
Pinkie =
Navy
I love how
they look together as a skittle, but then, I love skittle manis full stop. But something strange is also happening – I am
no longer aesthetically allergic to blue nail polish. Yikes!
I don’t know how it happened, but I’m quite liking the blue against my
vampire-white skin. Blue is just purple
on a cold day, right?
Quite by
accident, this then turned into a camouflage mani. I didn’t know what I was going to do and then I remembered
how much I loved my purple camo mani and how wonderful blue camo looks, and as I looked
at my skittles, the idea formed – a blue skittle camo mani!
And that’s
what we have and I am super super happy with myself. Each nail features 2 other blues, and I honestly
can’t decide which nail I like best.
Possibly the ring finger. Or the
index. No, the ring.
Camouflage nails
are really easy to do. I use a medium
dotting tool and basically dab. You can’t
go “wrong” because you are creating a random pattern, and not just that, but a pattern
that very often overlayers itself.
So, 200
posts. Awesomesauce!
Enjoy xx J
J
Top Tip – if you’re
ever unsure what a nail colour looks like, go to Google images, which will give
you plenty of contrasts and compares.
