Hi Goddesses
Happy weekend everyone! I actually cannot believe we are 3 weeks from Christmas. Where on earth does the time go? It's also been super mild in the UK this week, so I am not quite festive yet - although I did buy my outfit for the Christmas party this week!
This week's 40 Great Nail Art Ideas is all about glitter toppers and flakie toppers, and as I bought a SHITLOAD of flakies this year, I was really excited to try some out! My pattern prompt was chevrons, so let's take a look at what we've got.
For my base I used one of my favourite polishes, OPI Can't Find My Czechbook. I then freehanded some chevrons using Cloudwalker by Indigo Bananas, and then edged them with Rain Upon The Moon by Grace-full Nail Polish.
Freehand? Yeh, I was feeling lazy. I have a really hard time placing chevron vinyls in the right position (I never seem to get the point of the V in the centre of my nail). I tried vinyls on one nail and then "sodded it" and freehanded lol.
Cloudwalker is awesome. Well, everything from Indigo Bananas is awesome. This flakie leans from purple / fuchsia to turquoise, but in my camera lighting, you can see it leans mostly purple. Away from the camera, I got much more of a balance of the 2 colours, and a much better blend with Czechbook.
This is my last nail art post of the year. You may have noticed that the usual December onslaught of 3 posts a day, and the annual Crumpet Readers Poll haven't happened yet - and they won't. Part of the reason for stepping back from my blog was to avoid the stress and endless hours creating December meant for me. Don't get me wrong, they were my favourite posts of the year, but man they were hardcore!
That said, I am hoping to do 2 or 3 wrap up posts around Christmas giving you my highs and lows, heroes and villains of the year - well, it would be rude not to, wouldn't it?
Hi Goddesses
Heather from Peace, Love and Polish is one of the loveliest members we've ever had in the Digit-al Dozen, and we wish her well after the recent birth of her 2nd son.
As well as having the best dog on the planet, Heather's talent was to be able to make everything look SIMPLE and doable, even if it wasn't. I'm not sure she was ever applauded as much as she deserved to be, and I wanted to honour her lovely nail art this week.
This mani came from Art Week way back in January 2013. When I first saw it I loved its simplicity and how colourful it was, and whilst it WAS simple to do, I wish I'd stuck more closely to Heather's original colours.
I also love that hers is a bit more splodgey and messy than mine - it's a beautiful design, and one that you might see cropping up again next month ;)
I used a load of polishes for this one as well as some yellow acrylic paint -
- OPI Hot & Spicy
- OPI Can't Find My Czechbook
- Jessica Wing-Woman
- Jessica Lime Cooler
- Jessica Ocean Bloom
Don't forget to check out everyone else's manis.
Hi Goddesses
It's one of the hilarities of my blogging life that once upon a time I HATED teal. I'm a pretty no-nonsense person, and I just couldn't respect a polish that couldn't decide whether it was blue or green.
Since then, I've become somewhat the fan. You can blame Amy for a lot of it - Literary Lacquers Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster has been my favourite polish for 18 months now - gggrrrr. More than anything though, the teals, especially the darker ones, like Je Reviens, appeal to my inner witch. They seem to phsycially represent the glamour of a witchy soul, and I do so love that about them.
Je Reviens is just glory in a bottle. Dark, intense, dangerous and yet GLITTERED with sparkle. This is witchcraft on a whole new level.
I then decided to add some leopard print, and decided it would be GENIUS to have white edging rather than black - hhhmmm, still not so sure about that - and added OPI Can't Find My Czechbook as my contrast.
I think these ended up ok rather than sensational, but man, you can't beat that teal.
You can buy Amy's utterly amazing polishes HERE.
Hi Goddesses
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.
