Showing posts with label Bettina PepperMint. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bettina PepperMint. Show all posts

Wednesday, 11 July 2012

Bettina Apple Green, Purple, PepperMint and Sand Blast

Hi Goddesses



A quadruple treat for you today with 4 seriously amazing Bettina polishes, courtesy of my best dealer, whoops, Friend, Momma Stern.




First up we have Apple Green .... gulp, holy crap in a bucket that's bright !!  Apple Green ??  Neon green more like!  



This looks delish in the bottle, but kind of took my breath away on the nail.   It's absolutely not my sort of colour at all, but I have a strange fascination with it nevertheless.  It's so bright and so obnoxious that I just couldn't stop staring at it!

It's helped by that perfect Bettina formula of course - smooth as a baby's bottom.




Next up is PepperMint, which just annoys me.  It's Not Green, It's Blue!  So why is it called PepperMint ?  Why Bettina, why ?



That said, it is a very lovely shade of blue, deliciously sky of tone and creamy of texture.  


It's a very pure and happy blue, totally serene.  Gorgeous.




Then we have Purple.   There's nothing outwardly special about purple, but it does exactly what it says on the bottle - it's purple.






Again, it's creamy smooth, and pure of colour.  There's a slight blue undertone going on, but if you're looking for a pure and plain purple, er Purple's your gal.



And finally Sand Blast.  This is lovely.  




Sand Blast is a super pale grey, dreamy and creamy and pure whipped confection.   She is softer in tone than Dove, and she's like the insides of a cloud - light, fluffy and utterly blissful.


You can't really go wrong with a Bettina.  They all have stunning formulas, apply like a dream, and look like a million dollars.

Enjoy xx :)

Tuesday, 29 May 2012

Summer Challenge Day 6 - Summer Sunrise

Hi Goddesses



Well, would you believe it, the sun is shining in England, so the little epilogue mani I've done for you isn't quite as hilarious now.



Sunrises in England tend to not be dramatic, so for this I went for a deeper interpretation of my Spring Sunrise (which you can see here).  I used - 

base = Bettina PepperMint
* CG Lemon Fizz
* OPI The It Color
* CG Papaya Punch




I used a sponge to apply the gradient, lining all my colours up in little stripes. I think that's why there seems to be so much depth to the mani, because the colours blurred and bled together, creating more than just 4 shades.




The eagle eyed amongst you may also recognise this as the base of my Sky's The Limit mani, where I reinterpreted it as a field of crops under the summer sky.

Speaking of which.....  the weather in the UK has been awful for the last 2 months, pretty much constant rain, and I also did this for today's mani until I decided it was too gothic.




This is the view I've had every morning driving to work - neon yellow fields of rapeseed under thunderous skies.  Not nice at all.  Hideous in fact lol.

So let's end with the cheerful one :)



Enjoy, and don't forget to check out the other Purple Crumpet Fairies :) xxx







Alyssa at Fancy Phalanges - http://fancyphalanges.blogspot.com/







Lucie @ Lucy's Stash www.lucysstash.com





Vic @ Glowstars http://glowstars.net

Rychelle @ Colorsplash Nails- http://colorsplashnails.blogspot.com/






Missy the Manicured Maniac @ http://melissahenderson95.blogspot.com/



Sunday, 20 May 2012

Adventures In Stamping - Sky's The Limit!

Hi Goddesses




Today's choice for Stamping Sunday seems to have gone down very well.   You can do anything you can see in the sky - clouds, birds, balloons, anything.  


I was struggling to do something that wasn't too bland, when by accident I realised I could adapt one of the manis I'd prepped for later in the Summer Challenge (here).




This is a base of the gorgeous Bettina PepperMint, which is actually not green, but a lovely bright pale blue.    I then did a sponged gradient using - 
CG Lemon Fizz
OPI The It Color
CG Papaya Punch




For the purposes of THIS mani, this is a summer field of crops (we have loads of yellow rapeseed fields in the UK) against a backdrop of sky, and oh look, it has some pretty little butterflies!




The butterflies came from BM05 and used SH Tourmaline Chrome.  For some reason, I got a lot of smudging on the stamper, which is why only a few of them look really perfect.




Also, you may wonder if I did a matte base. No I did not.  Yet it looks so flat.  Yes, doesn't it.   I don't know what the hell was wrong with me yesterday, but TWICE I spilt acetone all over the nail desk and had to mop it up.  Added side effect?   Some of the Poshe came off, but I actually quite like that it looks a bit matte.




I'm sure you're going to see some amazingly varied manis today, so enjoy :)  xxx
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