Showing posts with label Barry M Magnetic Blue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barry M Magnetic Blue. Show all posts

Wednesday, 5 September 2012

31 Day Challenge - Day 5 BLUE

Hi Goddesses



This is a mani from the long lost Summer of 2012.  Behold the splendour of the natural sunny light, beaming on the delicious manicure ..... I think it rained 20 minutes later :/



This was originally going to be a Recycled Nails post, but seeing how I got roped into this challenge, it's now become Day 5 aka Bluuuuuuuue.




The base for this mani is the Barry M Magnetic in blue.  I did each nail with a different magnet pattern - my favourite by far is the one on my index and ringer finger; it's like a spaced out star :)




The quality of the Barry M magnetics is high, and the pigmentation is divine.  The purple, in particular, has become one of my actual favourite purples - there is something divine about how they introduced metal to the colour.




Stage 2 was this stamp from Mash-45.  I have no idea what it is, but it's vaguely aquatic to me and reminds me of underwater reeds.





This would have looked cool left at this stage.




But look how much cooler it looks with little dots of Zoya Wednesday!   I loves !!!  I was really pleased with how this turned out.  A lot of the stampers I admire often embellish with dots, and I'd never done it before, but I think it works really well with this pattern.




The Wednesday also provides a lovely contrast to the metallic depth of the blue - it all just plays off each other so well.  This is definitely one that adds up to more than the sum of its parts.


Enjoy xx :)


Tuesday, 12 June 2012

Superheroes and Villains - Marvel Villain

Hi Goddesses




Oh boy, here we go.  This is a challenge and a half lol.  4 weeks of Superheroes and Super-villains.  1 week each for Marvel, DC Comics, Disney and then a freestyle week.   It sounded so much fun ..... especially as we have a kick ass cast of British Polish Blogging Super-Goddesses.



Until I had to actually do it lol.   Annoyingly, I found that most of the characters I wanted to do fit into just 1 of the eight categories, so it's been real thinking cap stuff.  God bless the geekworld and their wonderful websites of lists and lists and lists of characters - without them, I'd have been screwed.




Let me just put this out there, right now - this is just about the lamest post you're ever going to read from me lol.  I could NOT find a character that I knew enough about so in the end I settled on Magneto, who is apparently one of the villains in X-men, though I have no idea whether he's the one from Star Trek or Gandalf.






Anywaaaaaaay, I had no idea who he was or what to do for my nails, and then it hit me like a Flash (a-haaaaaa) - Magneto / magnetics.  So yup, this post is an excuse to try out my 4 new Barry M magnetics.







Super Comic Book Geek fans, I am SOOOOOO sorry, you have no idea how much I tried on Sunday to be inspired, but it just didn't work.  So yes, this one's lame, but Thursday's isn't - ok ?  Do we have a deal ?




I'm going to do a separate post later in the month on these babies, because I was VERY impressed, both with the polish AND the pattern on the magnet (I'm particularly loving how cool the index finger looks).   Left to right you have Dark Silver, Purple, Blue and Burgundy - hey, it's Barry, what do you expect ?!





So, yes, if you want to know more about this Magneto chap, here's a link .... trust me, I have a MUCH better mani lined up for the Hero, on Thursday :)






Don't forget to check out the other WonderGirls .... you just KNOW Sammy is gonna shame my ass today!

Enjoy xx :)




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Sammy @ Nailasaurus
Debbie @ the crumpet
Sarah @ Spellbinding Nails
Jo @ NorthernNails
Charlotte @ Charlottes Nails
Kerrie @ PishPosh and Polish
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