OPI Brazil - Pink Lemonade and Fruit Salad

Hi Goddesses

We are finally at the end of my epic stretch of OPI Brazil manis.  For now lol.  I love these colours so much - and how they combine - that I am sure I will be back to these before the summer ends, but for now, here's your last double doozy.


This starts as a gradient featuring I Just Can't Cope-acabana and Kiss Me I'm Brazilian.

I loved how these 2 looked together, and they reminded me of Pink Lemonade.  Someone else at work said they reminded her of the Fruit Salad chewy sweets, so that night .... there was only one thing to be done lol - make a fruit salad!

And this is how it looks with Winstonia W118.

Whilst I still like it, I don't love how the white has bled away some fo the vibrancy of the gradient - it's just not as shiny and juicy as it was in the beginning lol.

Still, at least everyone at work agreed it definitely was now a fruit salad!

OPI Brazil - Candy Stripes

Hi Goddesses

And welcome to another post in my "obsession with OPI Brazil" series lol.

Today we turn to stripes, and I don't know about you, but I kind of want to eat my fingers - don't they look like chewy sweets?

To get a more random look, I again painted my base colour in a skittle.  I like things to be slightly off centre, and this prompts you to do your stripes in a different order.

Again, I was only using the brights from the Collection, so we have - 
I Just Can't Cope-acabana
 Where Did Suzi's Man-go?
Kiss Me I'm Brazilian
Toucan Do It If You Try
Live.Love.Carnaval.

I know I keep saying it, but I do like it when a collection plays so nicely together :)

Guest Post for Wondrously Polished

Hi Goddesses


Wanna see a Guest Post I did this week for Lindsey of Wondrously Polished?

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I'm really honoured to be on Lindsey's blog.  She's one of my favourite bloggers, as well as a co-member of the Digit-al Dozen.   I remember being blown away when she won my Blogger of the Month competition last year, and I couldn't understand how this amazing nail artist had so few blog followers.  Of course, I didn't realise at the time that she had a billion IG followers :)

Usually, I look at what Lindsey does and just sigh, knowing I'll never be able to replicate.  The one area we do have in common though is a love of floral manis, and whilst mine if nowhere is near as complex as hers, it will hopefully make you smile :)

All the polishes in this mani are from the OPI Brazil collection, with Don't Bossa Nova Me Around on base.    Then we have - 
* yellow - I Just Can't Cope-acabana
* light orange - Where Did Suzi's Man-go
* pink - Kiss Me I'm Brazilian
* coral - Live.Love.Carnaval.

All the flowers were done with a medium sized dotting tool.  I created the 4 petals first, and then added the yellow centre afterwards.

Perfectly summery :)   Thanks for having me xx

OPI Brazil - Lotsa Dots

Hi Goddesses

I love the OPI Brazil Collection, well, at least this half of it.  I also like the taupes, but these, the fruity brights, these are pure happiness for me, hence the run of 5 manis you're seeing.

Dots is always fun, and I thought these colours might look good chaotic and layered on top of each other.

The base is OPI Don't Bossa Nova Me Around, and then we have identical sized dots in each the following -
I Just Can't Cope-acabana
 Where Did Suzi's Man-go?
Kiss Me I'm Brazilian
Toucan Do It If You Try
Live.Love.Carnaval.

No great secret to this type of dotting, just don't be afraid to be critical at the end and admit it needs one more pink dot ...... juuuuuuust ...... there.

OPI Brazil Skittle Waterfall

Hi Goddesses

I hope you all had a good long, relaxing weekend.  I had a MILLION nail ideas in my head ... until my sinuses interrupted and slammed me into bed for most of the weekend.  Still, I did rearrange my Pinterest boards ....

I've been sat on this mani for a little while now, and it's been hard BECAUSE I LOVE IT SO MUCH, but I wanted to show it after you saw the skittle it was created on top of - and you saw that in Saturday's SIMPLES post - here.

The Waterfall remains incredibly easy to do, and it has fast become one of my fall back nail designs.  If I'm stumped, I find this a really easy (and quick) one to rock n roll with.

This features all the brights from the OPI Brazil Collection, and a little bit of Don't Bossa Nova Me Around, too.  So we have - 
thumb - I Just Can't Cope-acabana
index - Where Did Suzi's Man-go?
middle - Kiss Me I'm Brazilian
ring - Toucan Do It If You Try
pinkie - Live.Love.Carnaval.