Showing posts with label Barry M Bright Pink. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barry M Bright Pink. Show all posts

Tuesday, 12 February 2013

Digit-al Dozen DOES Love and Heartbreak - Love Hearts

Hi Goddesses



This is one of those manis that literally BEGGED to be done.  The polishes lined themselves up in a little row and then jumped, one by one, onto the stamping plate, singing "meeee, meeeee".   True story.



I do love this, and whilst it's not a splodgerama (no sponge), it's as easy as pie can be.



This started as a base of Elevation Polish Alphubel.    On top of this, I then randomly dabbed various pastels - Barry M Bright Pink, Mint Green, Lemon Ice Cream and Berry Ice Cream.



I then took my white Konad polish and my stamping plate - this one comes from MJ6 which is available in the Etsy store My Online Shop (just a note, that's not MY on line shop, just the name of the store lol).



This mani is sooooo kitsch and so happy - totally cute and I love it :)


See you tomorrow, when the Digit-al Dozen meets Work Wear Wednesday! xxx


Thursday, 27 September 2012

31DC Day 27 - Inspired By Artwork

Hi Goddesses



As a self-declared splodger, it really shouldn't surprise you which direction I took today :)  I was Googling around, looking for something funky yet random, when I found this -



And I likeyed.  A lot.  In the end, it was harder to do than I anticipated, mainly because a nail is not as large as a canvas lol, but I do wish I had done the pattern across all the nails, rather than individually on 5 nails.




In the process though I used my Sally Hansen Nail Art pen for the first time and we are soooooo indecently in love we need an 18 rating.   I can't believe it's taken me ppppffff  15/16 months of nail art before I knew of its existence, but now that I have found her, I am not letting go!




The base for this mani was the stunning Zoya Megan, which will be coming to a Work Wear Wednesday near you soon.   I then created my pattern with my white pen, and coloured in, using a thin dotting tool and the following colours - 

Barry M - Turquoise, Mint Green, Indigo, Coral, Bright Pink, Bright Purple




Overall, this mani has got some POW but I don't think I've quite captured the original.  That said, it's exactly the sort of random nail art that I adore.




Fresh, funky and colourful.


Enjoy xx :)


Monday, 23 July 2012

Monkey See Monkey Do Monday - Polka Dots

Hi Goddesses



On the nail art scale, polka dots are relatively easy.  So why don't I do them more often ?  Well, because some of the best patterns are more geometric, and we all know I am not good at keeping to a pattern!



However, last week, I saw this on the blog of one of my nail idols, Fingers Polish Mania -


- and as she featured my favourite colour (and one I have been neglecting too much of late, i.e. purple) the die was set :)




I did mine slightly differently, as you would expect.   I started off with a base of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls which is the weiiiiiiiirdest polish ever.  Why?  Well because in the bottle, it's off-white, a really weird paper / marshmallow colour, and yet it goes on to the nail perfectly white.  Weird.   Really weird.



I then chose these polishes for my dots - I wanted them to be tonally similar, but sufficiently different - Barry M Berry Ice Cream, Barry M Bright Pink (that's the pink ice cream looking one), Barry M Shocking Pink and Max Factor Purple Haze.




I used a variety of dotting tools to get my effect, starting with the bigger dots, and then randomly filling in little dots at the end.




Overall, I likey, but I wonder if I missed a trick by not overlapping some of them like Fingers did.   I also did a blue version which I'll show you soon.




So how was your Monday ??  Enjoy xx :) and don't forget to check out the other amazing monkeys :)



Missy @ Gnarly Gnails - http://gnarlygnails.blogspot.com
Nayade at Toxic Vanity - http://www.toxicvanity.com
Alyssa at Fancy Phalanges - http://fancyphalanges.blogspot.com/
Misha @ Enigmatic Rambles: www.enigmatic-rambles.blogspot.com
Carrie @ LeSamowen:Life, Love, and Nail Polish: http://lesamowen.blogspot.com/
Basia (or Bazzia) @ polish my mind: http://polishmymind.blogspot.com/
Isabel - Little Fairy: http://isaspinods.blogspot.com/
Stella - My Wet Nails: http://mywetnails.blogspot.com
Michelle-Lacquer Or Leave Her!: http://lacquerorleaveher.blogspot.com
Angi @ Angelina´s Nails & More www.angelinaswelt.blogspot.de/

Saturday, 17 December 2011

Getting Girlie with Barry, his M, and his pale pinks


BARRY M – Pale Pink Skittle


Hi Goddesses



Today I have for you 3 pale pinks from Barry and his M – Baby Pink, Bright Pink and Strawberry Ice Cream.  Whilst I don’t really like this look on me, I am quite taken with this mani – there’s something about the sugary simplicity of it that just makes me smile J




Baby Pink is on the middle finger – a super girlie pastel built on a peachy (rather than white) base.  This needed 3 coats.




On the thumb and pinkie we have Bright Pink, which is more of a Bright Pale Pink. This is your classic Barbie pink – sweet, pale but intense.   This only needed 2 coats.




On the index and ring fingers is Strawberry Ice Cream.  This is very similar to Baby Pink, but probably one tone deeper.  Again, it has a cream rather than white base, which makes it more palatable.  Personally, I think real-life strawberry ice cream is darker than this – well, it always has been in the ice cream parlours I’ve bought it at!




For a bit of fun I had another dance with Konad the Barbarian and this went a LITTLE better.  Following advice, I filed my plonker a bit, and this certainly helped.  The hindrance this time was that I used Barry M Silver Foil as my stamping polish and it dried *ridiculously* fast.  Whilst it did transfer perfectly to the stamp every time, I only got it onto the nail half the time!  There really was NO time at all to look at the plonker, check you had the pattern and decide where to plonk.  So, if you’re going to use Silver Foil for stamping it’s dab, swipe, plonk, plonk.  Preferably within 0.7 seconds.




So there you go – that’s Barry’s sugary pinks.



Enjoy J  xx

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.

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