Hi Goddesses
This is my final mani of DD week. I did have a full week of ideas, but heading back to work early put severe stresses on my time.
For this mani, I wanted to use a fan brush to swipe a rainbow across my nails. It's a technique I've used before and love because all the polishes moosh together, and if you use a holo in there, it creates magical things.
As you know, all week I wanted to use the same polishes, so this mani was done using just cremes and .... I couldn't get it quite right. I LOVE the thumb, love love love, but couldn't get it to replicate on the other nails.
The main reason for this is that after a while (2 nails) your fan brush becomes overloaded. But when you wipe it, it separates, and goes from being a fan brush to a 9 clawed animal, and so you can't get the spread and the moosh you're after.
Luckily, I had a spare, which is the only reason I managed to get the different colours you see on the index nail. Yep, I actually redid nails for this mani.
I tried it matte, but felt this made it look more like parrot feathers, and eventually settled on matte with glossy raindrops. What I should have done was chop my other fingers off so that all you could see was the thumb lol ....
See you soon xx
Hi Goddesses
What a week! When I posted on Monday, I fully expected to be posting this mani on Tuesday, but then life intervened as it does! I ended up going back to work early, so Tuesday became my one day to do a week's worth of errands.
I was determined to try and avoid dots for this theme, but knew there would be a lot of floral patterns I couldn't resist. My first floral attempt was a disaster when my matte top coat betrayed me and smudged the entire design.
I still don't like white nail polish on me, but I do love how fresh and summery this design is.
Don't forget to check out the other DD ladies.
Hi Goddesses
Welcome to Digit-al Dozen Week !! We're on RAINBOWS this month, which is just such a gorgeous theme to play with. You don't have to go wild to be effective, and all of this week's designs are oh so simple.
For this week, this is my rainbow, all by Barry M.
I had been wearing some shiny gold nail wraps which seemed festive to me, and I had an urge to paint streamers over them.
I used a fairly small nail brush and did short shaggy strokes. Overall I really like the effect, but wish I'd planned out my colour combos better!
Don't forget to check out what my fellow lovelies are up to.
Hi Goddesses
It's another wonderfully catchy blog post title!! Haha. Today merges the final day of DD Nail Heroes week with 40 Great Nail Art Ideas.
Let's start with 40GNAI first. My prompt today is dotting tools, and the colour is red. And I fell oh so lucky with this prompt. I have no idea who invented dotting tools, but I wanted to acknowledge him / her this week as a supreme Nail Hero. I honestly don't know what I'd do without dotting tools - they're my everything! I use them to dot, colour in, draw outlines, everything! Whoever you are, THANK YOU!
The prompt of red was also a great opportunity to show you my 2 favourite red holos of all time - ironically, both by the same brand, Darling Diva. I've been a Diva fan for about 4 years and seen the brand evolve from weird glitter mixes and strange potions, to classy holos and vixen central.
I'm going to say this loud - The Alchemist, by Darling Diva, is THE best red holo of all time. Bar none. No exceptions. A pure, bright red, it's perfect.
If you like your reds a little vampier, you'll want Bewbs, also by Darling Diva - a fantastically blood-drenched gothic red. Again - accept no imitations.
I wanted this mani to show what dotting tools can do, and how much fun they can be. Ultimately though, this was a BITCH to photograph. It looked so pwetty on my nails!
Finally, just in case this is goodbye, GOODBYE and SO MUCH LOVE and THANKS for following me. I do think there will be other posts, especially of the Digit-al Dozen variety, but they are likely to be very random! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for making this blog a part of your life xx
Hi Goddesses
Today's post is another blogger and another brand. The blogger is Cris from Let Them Have Polish, and back when I first started, she was one of my 3 essential blogs (along with Chalkboard Nails and The Polishaholic).
Every day I would be wowed by Cris's designs. She was the mistress of the skittle, and also the mistress of the relatively simple. If you look back on her designs, none of them are particularly complex, but she excelled at mixing and matching so that the sum was more than the parts.
Cris was a great stamper, and really opened my eyes to what Konad could bring to a mani. She was also obsessed with this liger design, and who can blame her! She also knew how to bling it up. She constantly added little touches - a rhinestone, or a holo top coat - that just made her mani a little bit MORE. There's no one else filling her gap. I miss her.
As for polishes, I wanted to honour Girly Bits this week. Girly Bits was my first indie polish purchase, waaaay back when she first started, and I don't think Pam is given enough praise for how much she has influenced the indie polish market. She has been epicly consistent over the years, and is a true pioneer. I chose the stunning teal that is Get Weaponised and the purple magic of Defying Gravity.
For my other polishes, I chose ones Cris introduced me too. I'd never heard of Bettina until she started singing their praises, and although I don't own many, they are all gorgeous. The best thing Cris ever did though was introduce me to Oh My Oceania by Sation - the most EXQUISITE shimmery aqua EVERRRRR.
Cris, salute xx
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