40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Orange Purple and Green

Hi Goddesses

And welcome to Saturday!  I am so looking forward to this weekend :)  I have my girl, we're buying her Christmas present tomorrow and then we are making mad things in the kitchen all week as she is on half-term.

Firstly, here's last week's collage for Geeks - doesn't it look awesome?  There was so much creativity on show.  This week's theme is Orange, Purple and Green, and for *some* people, that would lend well to a Halloween design.  Yeh, not for me.

I got Aztec as my pattern, and I'm going to be honest, I'm not totally in love with this.  I thought a good splodging was the best way to start, but once I'd done that, it seemed too dark to use black for my stamping.  So I used white, and I don't think I like it.

The Aztec pattern is great, so let's not blame that.  It's from MoYou Explorer 11.  And the polishes are all cool too - OPI Siberian Nights, OPI Christmas Gone Plaid and Essie Orange It's Obvious.

There's just ... it doesn't work for me.  Maybe I should have used the same pattern but stamped in colour over a white base.  Oh well, you live, you learn :)

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Digit-al Dozen DOES Patterns on Patterns - Tribal Dotticure

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I've got to say, I am REALLY in love with today's mani.  It's so bright and cheerful.

The base is a dotticure.  I've often stamped on a splodged base, but I have accidentally discovered that a dotted base provides far more colour intensity. The dotticure had some super bright colours -


OPI Hot & Spicy
OPI Fashion A Bow
OPI Can't Find My Czechbook
Barry M Mustard
Barry M Damson
Rimmel Jazz Funk

This reminds me of a child's party - a clutch of bright balloons or mad vinyl table cloths.

The stamping comes from MoYou Explorer 11 and is pretty much your archetypal tribal pattern.

I love how this pops more over the dotted base than it would have over a plain or splodged base, or even a gradient.   I have a couple more variations of this coming up in the next few weeks.

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