11 Moments
of Perfect Crumpetness in 2011
Hi
Goddesses
So I’d done
my Top 10 polishes of all time and my Top 10 polishes of the year, so it seemed
a bit pointless to do my Top 10 Manis of the years, as so many of them are just
swatches. So instead, I decided to only
include posts that are not a pure swatch – and YES! Some ok nail art made it in
there too!
Enjoy xx J
I’m going
to start with a couple of posts from the 31 Days of Christmas Purple Crumpet
Fairy Challenge. The ANGEL manicure is
one of the very favourites I’ve done this year.
You can tell what it is AND the colours just blend perfectly. I was sooo pleased with this one.
I then
recycled the angel for the nativity mani, and as I mentioned at the time, Beth
and everyone else who knows me had been laughing at how on earth I would be
able to attempt this mani! In the end, I
think I did ok, and I particularly like Mary and Jesus. I think a key learning from these is that my
nail art is NEVER going to look as good as Nailside’s or Sonoma’s, but
somewhere, there’s a Crumpet style, if I can just perfect it.
I then
wanted to include this one, because it was one of the funniest posts I wrote
this year – the Hallowe’en ghost cats incl the one that might have been an owl
lol. This one was funny, and I did enjoy
it too J
Water marbling
has just blown my mind this year. I could
never have imagined this was possible with polish, and the minute I saw it, I KNEW
I needed it in my life. Here we have my
favourite 2 of the ones I did, my watery blue marble (with colours PERFECTLY
chosen by Beth) and the Autumn water marble which I just loved.
I like
Skittle nails. Love them, and one of my
most popular posts for a time was this one showcasing Wet N Wild’s Tangled InMy Web. There is just something about
the clash of those colours that I love.
My second favourite
skittle was this crackle one for Hallowe’en – proof that sometimes simplicity
creates the most impact.
This was my
200th post – the Barry M blue camo skittle. Camo is such an easy nail art and it looks
fab. I have plans to do these in more colours
in 2012.
FIRE!!!! This was from early summer, when my nail
obsession was just starting, and really could not be simpler – a yellow to dark
orange gradient, with red shatter on top.
This was so bright and colourful – I loved it.
Dots. Dotting tools were my favourite thing this
year. I’m better with them than with
brushes, and this again is simplicity itself, using smaller dots of the base
colour on the large silver dots to give the appearance of hollow hoops.
And finally
…. My proudest stamping moment of the year – The Sound of Music Curtains!! Lol. Such
a HAPPY mani. As you know, I had a tough
time loving Konad the Barbarian, and this is our best date so far, even though
this was done with his brother, Red Angel.
If these
are my best posts of the year, I’m quite happy.
They do not come close to the people I admire and aspire to emulate, but
for 5 months progress, I am pretty happy.
As ever,
practice, discipline and the just continual DOING of it, really DO make you
better, and if I could share one tip it would be this – always practice before
you take a mani off. You’re about to
take it off anyway, so why not see if you can do a chevron, or a stamp, or some
dots …. Cos one day, you will, and it will KICK ASS.
See you in
2012 (oh, after 1 or 2 more final posts).
Crumpet
love xxxxx
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.
