MODELS OWN - Purple Rain Meets The Chevrons

Hi Goddesses

So, one of my Bucket List goal this year was to become really proficient at a lot of basic tenchiques, and once I'm good enough, if you want me to, I'll walk you through them step-by-step.

Some of you will remember that Nailside was my Number 2 Blogger of the Year, mainly because she is a tape mani genius.  She also does a lot of Chevron patterns, and that's where  I decided to start.  (If you want to see the master at work, click here).

The base is 2 coats of Models Own Purple Rain, a lovely dark purple - kind of the purple equivalent of navy.  It has a subtle smokey quality in its darkness - it's riveting, mainly because despite its darkness it remains PURPLE.

I used normal Sellotape to plot out my chevrons, but this is where I think I went wrong.  The chevrons are too shallow, and I think I should have done corner to corner with my tape, rather than corner to halfway.  

For the chevron I used Glitter Gal Silver, which is holographic AND sparkly - super blingy.  I *thought* it would turn the purple holographic - tbh, I am quite surprised it is just "sitting" there.  When I tried it the night before on top of CG Starboard, they definitely merged together.

Sooooooo nots so bad for a first attempt - lots more practice to go !  :)




Enjoy xx :)

Purple Crumpet Fairy Challenge - Animal Print

Hi Goddesses

We're baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!   Back, back, back!  Lol, after a few weeks off to do the 31 Days of Christmas Challenge, the Purple Crumpet Fairy Challenge is back to be being a weekly event.

The group was set up by Claire and myself to push ourselves, develop our "talents" and come up with some cool ideas.  We now have a lot of friends who have joined us - let's see how many post today :)

This week's challenge was chosen by the lovely Zoe at  www.ocnpd.blogspot.com  - her choice was animal print.  All along I knew what I wanted to do - crack out the legendary Konad M57, take her for a dance, and use colours that you would NEVER see in nature :)

Models Own Purple Rain is from my Christmas bargain haul of 15 polishes for £50.  It went on fine, but man, why am I messier whenever I put on a dark colour?  I've gotten heaps better at colouring withn the lines, but give me a dark colour and I turn into a 3yr old again!  AND they don't clean up easy!  Lol.

I stamped using SH White On and then added some Poshe and was really really happy.  However, I am also a big believer in playing with your mani, so taking a hint from Fingers Polish Mania who is OBSESSED with them, I decided to add a funky french in the base colour (stamping hint, this is a REALLY useful technique when the stamp hasn't covered the whole nail).

In real life, I loved it more with the tips.  In the photos ?  Nah, I'm leaning the other way. Which do you prefer ?

Enjoy xx :)