Hi Goddesses
Quite a while ago, before car crashes and death's-door pussycats, I was on a pastel kick. I had assembled a group of pastels which inspired me with their pink-peach-and green subtlety.
Since then I've bought Jessica pastels and the Color Club Pastel Neons, but not had chance to play with either, so for now, let's rejoice in how prettily these polishes play together.
This is a simple mermaid dotticure using 8 polishes lol. I know that doesn't SOUND simple, but once you get going, it kinda is, and the rhythmn just keeps you going.
I really like how this turned out - it's like petals falling on nails. And just wait til you see how it looked when I stamped on it :)
Hi Goddesses
For several weeks now, on my nail desk, I've had a bunch of about 12 polishes gathered together. All pastels, green, peach and pink, they complement each other perfectly and gave me LOADS of nail art inspiration, of which today's mani is one.
I've done this style of mani before. Not only is it easy, it's a real delight to do.
The base was a splodged mixture of the greens you see, over a base of Barry M Coconut.
Once that was dry, I added overlapping, 5-dotted flowers in the peaches and pinks, with a small white dot in the centre.
In real life, this mani looked GREAT, but as seems to happen more and more these days, it would not photograph in all its glory. Glossy, it looked too glassy, and matte it looked too .... dry (or is that just my cuticles). I also hated how many HAIRS the mani had on it lol - I don't think Bluebelle has ever managed to sabotage a mani to this degree before lol.
I hope you've enjoyed this week. You can probably expect me to be quiet for another week or 2 while I get myself sorted out. I do have loads of nail art I haven't posted, as well as at least 6 sets of reviews to show you, so I will be back ... in some format of myself.
Enjoy the start of Spring, and I will see you soon xxxx
Hi Goddesses
Today's 52 Week prompt is Geometric, a style I've become strangely drawn to over the months. I've mixed it today with pastels cos I'm still PASTEL ALL THE THINGS !!! Plus, I thought it made a nice contrast to see an angular pattern in soft colours.
The polishes are the bundle that I've had on my nail desk for a while, and are mainly greens, pinks and peaches. It's a collection I threw together, but man they work so well together.
I started with 2 coats of my palest colour polish - OPI You Better Pink - and then added the white lines on top. For my white I used Octopus Nail Party Lacquer Baptism.
I then used a small nail brush to colour in my pieces, one colour at a time.
I really am totally in love with this mani - I didn't want to take it off! Please don't make me! Oh, I already did - oops!
Hi Goddesses
This week you have a treat. Amongst the 52 Week Challenge posts, you get to see 4 Literary Lacquers polishes I was sent for review, and I've done nail art with all of them.
We start the week brightly! I start my new job today, so I wanted something spangly and gorgeous for the blog too. This is To Blossom, and she's GLORIOUS.
To Blossom is a fabulous berry / pink / magenta holo-bomb, with the signature pieces of Literary Lacquers magic glitter. She's just stunning, full of zingy blue bend and those gorgeous pieces of sparkle.
I wanted to do something different and chose to do this zany peacock pattern using MM14 from Messy Mansion, probably my current favourite plate.
I splodged the base with OPI You Better Pink and Sation Fan The Flames Fuchsia so that all 3 pinks had equal interplay, and then stamped.
I am absolutely entranced by the final effect. Stamping over a splodged base is always great, but there's something about this that just POPS. Super in love with the polishes and the plate.
If you haven't treated yourself for a while, you can head to Literary Lacquers by clicking the link HERE.
