#33DC - Day 5 - Mexican (with Cheeky Jumbo Plate 1, Viva Mexico)

Hi Goddesses

And here we have Day 5 of #33DC, and you're quite right, I haven't posted Day 4 yet.  Apologies, my sinuses have been doing their best to destroy me.  All I want to do is cry and sleep, and I am massively behind.  However, Day 4 is on the right paw, as we speak, and Day 6 is on the left, so we're catching up :)

I wasn't really sure what I was going to do for Mexican, other than it would involve hot colours and Cheeky Jumbo Plate 1, Viva Mexico, which is filled with amazing designs.

On base is Lilypad Lacquer Sweet As A Peach, a gorgeous dark peach holo, and on top of that, I sploshed some other warm colours.  Sploshed is a technical term, here being random swipes with a polish brush lol.

I added Elevation Ave Secretan, a great dark pink, FNUG Flip Flop, an electric coral, and CG Lemon Fizz.  I've said it before, and I'll say it again, I hate yellows and lemons, but wow, add them into a base and they don't half create some magic.

Anyway, I have no idea what my actual design is, it was just the one I thought would work best over the base lol.

Ok, I am off to start my second course of anti-biotics.  Bare with me over the next few days - posting might be a bit lumpy!

33DC - Day 2 - Your Most Used Colour Polish (single bottle)

Hi Goddesses

And welcome to Day 2 of the 33DC.  Today's prompt asks you to pick your most used colour polish.  When I wrote the prompt, I meant the single polish that is coloured, that you use the most, but as the wording is a little ambiguous, you might see some manis today that are about the colour rather than a single polish.

Anyway, the bottle of coloured polish I use the most of is Barry M Blood Orange.  It's just magnificent.  Perfect bright red.  Super glossy.  Good to go in 2 coats, sometimes 1.  Everything about it is perfection.

I know this is my most used polish, because I just had to buy a 2nd bottle.  For me to have used nearly a whole bottle in a year is unheard of, but this is my go to for glitter undies and nail art too (although OPI Planks A Lot is a close second).

This is a very simple polka dot mani which is inspired by the top worn by a colleague at work!  Yep, it really is that bad now - I look at what people are wearing and go "ooooh, that would make a good mani".   

I used my tiniest dotting tool - the same one throughout - although it doesn't look like it!  This is because some polishes were runnier than others and made different sized dots.

We have Elevation Polish Tavan Bogd (lilac) and Jengish Chokusu (mint), Models Own Beth's Blue (I hope you could guess that was the blue) and China Glaze Lemon Fizz.   I really like how these colours pop together.

Happy Birthday Crumpet !!!!

Hi Goddesses

Well, today is my birthday, and I thought it would be fun to do a little tongue-in-cheek post about ..... Crumpets !!!  And look, I did Crumpet nail art too !!!

So, first of all, what IS a Crumpet?  Well, in England it has 2 meanings - it is either a breakfast food OR the name for a hot tottie :)  Today's post is all about the BREAKFAST variety lol.  This is what a Crumpet looks like - 

It's basically a round thick lump of loveliness that you put in the toaster.  It has a semi-thick / chewy consistency - imagine a really thick pancake.  I prefer to toast them twice - this way the outside gets really hard and I just find it has a better texture all round.

Most people just put butter on theirs.  I also use marmite.  Butter and sugar can be quite nice.  Butter and jam, or lemon curd.   Oh, and if you're patient, you can even make the equivalent of eggy bread with them.   

Personally, I think the best UK brand is Warburtons - nothing else compares; they have the texture PERFECTED !!!

Ok .... on to the mani!  Lol, this actually took a lot of care and attention, especially for me, so I'm going to show how much effort I put into this !!!

1.  base coat then 2 coats of OPI Did You Ear About Van Gogh ?

2.  this didn't quite give a pale enough base so I layered it with 1 coat of Nails Inc Colville Mews, a milky jelly

3.  I then used my Konad m57 leopard print stamp and stamped twice, not one over the other, but across, so that you could see both colours.  I used CG Desert Sun and OPI Wooden Shoe Like To Know

4.  I then used CG Call of the Wild to add some random darker patches, very irregularly, and then I did frames using the same polish, as the rim of a Crumpet always gets nicely burnt mmmmmm

5.  When THAT was dry, I made my butter.  This was done using 5 parts clear polish, 2 parts Colville Mews and 1 part CG Lemon Fizz.  And I added it sloppily, like real butter

See, for me that's a helluva lotta work !!!  I love how the butter glaze is uneven, just like real butter.

I hope you can tell it's a buttered Crumpet, Beth really wasn't so sure!

Lol, enjoy xx :)

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

Neivys - http://maquiclubgirl.blogspot.com/

Jo @ Northern Nails - http://therockchicksrambles.blogspot.co.uk/

arlene @ http://euzefelus27-nailart.blogspot.com/

Helena - http://nailwish.blogspot.com.es/

Cuti-CLUE-les - http://cuti-clue-les.blogspot.com/

Katee - www.agirlandherpolish.blogspot.com

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

Sarah - http://www.ynails.blogspot.co.uk/

bec - http://lacquerdreams.blogspot.com.au/

Misha - www.enigmatic-rambles.blogspot.com

Sharon - http://whatcolorismycoat.blogspot.com/

Melissa - http://www.misadventuresofawannabemartha.com/

Laurie http://dressedupdigits.blogspot.com/

Lucie @ Lucy's Stash www.lucysstash.com

Emma @  http://manicurity.blogspot.com/

Caitlin - www.caitlinscreativecorner.blogspot.com

Jane- http://absolutevarnish.blogspot.com/

Amber www.nevernakednails.blogspot.com

Vic @ Glowstars http://glowstars.net

Jackie- http://memasmanis-jackie.blogspot.com/

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

Stella - http://mywetnails.blogspot.com

Missy @ http://missysmanis.blogspot.co.uk/

Kim @ http://apolishedaddiction.blogspot.com/

Christine @ http://lost-in-my-reverie.blogspot.com

Angie @ http://ourpaintedworld.wordpress.com

Bazzia @  http://polishmymind.blogspot.se/

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

Michelle @ http://lacquerorleaveher.blogspot.com/

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