Floral Week - Roses

Hi Goddesses

Today, I am sure, is possibly THE best nail art I've ever done.  It was so good, I kept staring at my paw, and even *I* couldn't believe I'd done it :)

Sadly, today's mani came at a high price.  A couple of hours later - look - on my art hand :(   So this means I'm going to have to post the manis I thought were meh to complete my week, as there's no way I can make that car crash nail look pretty any time soon.  Siiiiiigh.

Anyway, the art, the art.  So, I'd wanted to do roses for the longest time, but you know, I had my doubts as to whether I could pull it off.  I have to say though - VERY happy with the acrylics and the precision they're giving me.  I also used another of the Born Pretty art brushes I was sent for review - I'll be doing a round up post on them soon.

So this started with 2 coats of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, and then I used a medium dotting tool and some KIKOs to create my rose shapes.  I used KIKO 277, 236, 336, 292 and 402.

Once this was dry, I top coated.  Why?  Because acrylic washes off, and if you go wrong, just rinse and repeat!  Lol.  So I sealed in the base of the mani, and then started adding the swirls to my rose shapes.

The last step was to add my leaves.  It looks like I used 2 greens, but I didn't, it's just the variation in the brush stroke and how loaded my brush was.

Finally, some of the nails looked a little bare, so I put some green dots in the white zone.  I have to say, doing this mani was easier than I thought it would be, and I can't wait to try it again.

Don't forget to check out what my besties are up to -

Missy at Gnarly Gnails

Emma at Manicurity

Kerrie at Pish Posh & Polish

Ashley at Smashley Sparkles

Love xx

NEW31DC Day 27 - Inspired By You

Hi Goddesses

Boy did I make this one difficult on myself!  Everyone knows my defining colour is purple (did that in 30 Days of Purple) and that my defining style is a Splodger (did a Splodgerama tutorial recently).

So that kind of left me puzzling for a bit - too long and too hard actually - so in the end I just decided to do what should be done, and do a purple splodgerama lol.

Small recap - splodgerama involves sponging colours semi-randomly onto your nails to create an overall effect which is splodgey.

As I'd used so many of my favourite colours in November, I decided to do an exclusively KIKO splodgerama.    KIKO ROCK at blues and purples so it was an easy choice.  Unfortunately, KIKO don't really name their polishes, so here are those sexy numbers - 

As always, I picked the palest colour as my base, and then started sponging on the other colours, starting with the darkest.  I left the sparkly KIKO til the end, as I wanted that to catch the light of the camera.

Finally, I went back and dabbed teeny amounts of colour here and there to balance out the overall effect.  Et voila.

Super easy, super lazy.  I love 'em!!

Enjoy - tomorrow it's inspired by your favourite colour ..... hhhhmmmm .... xx