Galaxy: Day 19 of the 31 Day Challenge

I am in love with these. I was okay with my previous attempt. But here I can see real progress - and I love that! We had a dark and dingy day so to show the true colours and shine I did resort to flash. Sorry! I'll have these on in the morning so lets hope there is a sunny day coming and I will update.

These feature real constellations!  In order of thumb to pinky these are: Ursa Major - the Great Bear, Orion - the Hunter, Gemini - the Twins, Hercules and Perseus.

 I really loved the colours I used:

Base: Cult Nails Nevermore and A England Morgan Le Fay

Lilac - Essie Bangle Jangle

Nude - Essie Brooch the Subject

 Blue /green duochrome - Illamasqua Strike

White - Sally Hansen Insta Dry Whirlwind White

Morgan Le Fay over black could have done the job itself. It was so sparkly and shiny - Terrible to get excess off your fingers if you sponge it though! I think the nude and lilac made it quite life like but the duo chrome just made it pop and added a little something of its own.

 See the difference?

I will definitely be doing this again. I do love sponging right now!

In other news - today I moved into my year 2 uni house! It took a lot of packing and lifting but I am unpacked and very happy... first thing to do was of course create a nail polish station!!! 

Go look at the other bloggers work - I loved their galaxies and I look forward to their attempt at the dreaded watermarble!
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Tribal: Day 16 of the 31 Day Challenge

Well this was supposed to be up hours ago but a combination or Doctor Who, crafty things on pintrest and fanfiction distracted me. Bad laptop, bad! ^.^ This nail art took a long time to do as it was my first ever tribal mani and I wanted to have a really good try at creating a
range of tribal patterns. I think I achieved that! It took so long that I missed natural light so these pictures will be replaced in the morning (after I've neatened them up after looking at some of these shots!) I do like how this one shows off the metallic:

 

I tried to base the colours at least from this tee.... at least it gave me a place to start anyway!

Base: Essie Brooch the Subject

Illamasqua Jo'mina

W7 Teal

Barry M Special Effects Gold Foil

Essie Chubby Cheeks

Black Acrylic Paint

I hadn't used Essie's before (I got some of the last Autumn collection for £2 each!) and I really loved them! The nude base I thought particularly suited my skin tone and isn't it nice to find a nail polish match! Never mind a foundation match! ;)

So I am pretty proud of this one, especially as freehand is definitely not a natural skill of mine. It'll be a shame to take it off tomorrow - I don't know if I could do another one of these as it is so time consuming. But then its MIRRORBALL TIME!!! So I won't be upset for long! See you then!
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Animal pattern: Day 13 of the 31 Day Challenge

I basically went through my whole collection and found every animal print I could. I couldn't quite decide on the colours so I did both hands! (Anyone know how to turn a picture around?! Grrr). So there is a leopard, snake, poisonous frog, zebra and giraffe print! Sorry for the horrible picture right here... its very hard to get both hands in one shot even when your mum's taking the picture!

Take 1:

 Mattified:

Sally Hansen Insta Dry Brisk Blue

Sally Hansen Insta Dry Presto Pink

Sally Hansen Insta Dry Lively Lilac

Sally Hansen Insta Dry Snappy Sorbet

Sally Hansen Insta Dry Lickety Lime

Take 2: 

 Mattified:

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Going Green

Illamasqua Alarm

Barry M Indigo

Cult Nails Feel Me Up

Cult Nails Vicious

Thanks!

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Illamasqua's Jo'mina - Lilac and Silver Stamping Studded

A quick one  - and an old one. I just found it in my files and while now I can see how bad the lighting and the clean up is, I still like the idea. I might  redo this someday! It was also my first use of studs and I found them really difficult to use - as shown by the marks on the accent nail. I shall have to try some different application techniques (I was using tweezers)! Any ideas anyone?

 Base - Illamasqua Jo'mina

 Stamping polish - Barry M Instant Effects Foil Silver

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Favorite Stamp with a Half Moon

So this my entry for Adventures in Stamping challenge - your favourite new stamp. I had been lacking inspiration for a while so I went through my collection trying to find interesting polishes and I found these two! I haven't done a half moon since my very first try at nail art so I've been wanting to try it again for a while and I thought it was the perfect way to incorporate the two polishes.

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W7 Pewter Swatch with IKEA/Rainbow Dotticure

So this was a random idea coming from some of the great dotticure's that have been around recently.

This mani really reminded me of IKEA for some reason - the bright colours against a grey background maybe. So I always refer to it as my IKEA manicure in my head!

A swatch of the base colour, W7's Pewter. I like the colour but as you may see there's a few lumps and bumps due to a wonky brush and so application is horrible with this bottle! I rarely use it but I thought it was perfect for this mani!

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