52 Week Challenge: Week 9 - Rainbow

Week 9's challenge was 'rainbow' and it was a challenge!

Thumb: Essence - Let's Get Lost

Index: ELF - Fluorescent Pink

Middle: ELF - Teal Blue

Ring: BeautyUK - Lilac Girl

Little: Collection 2000 - Hip Hop

All too bright for me so I ended up toning down the brightness, turning it in to a comic book

Swatch: 17 - Magnetized Polish in Lilac

52 Week Challenge: Week 8 - Taping

The challenge for this week was 'taping' and I used tape as part of the manicure so, I think it counts!

Base: 17 - Peacock

Red striping tape

Comparison: Revlon Colorstay - Ivory V's Rimmel 25 Hr - Ivory

"How do the two ivory shades compare?"

While the photo isn't overly clear in my opinion revlon colorstay - ivory is a much lighter pink undertoned foundation. The rimmel lasting finish - ivory is a darker colour and is yellow undertoned.

Nails: Snowflake

Nails: Robotic

Base: NYX - Robotic

French: NYX - Purple Ink

Stamp: BM 208

Stamping Polish: Nails Inc - Electric Teal

Nails: Purple Giraffe Print

Base: ELF - Purple Dream

Stamp: BM 208

Stamping Polish: ELF - Black

Nails: Half Moons

No.7 - Violetta

Rimmel - Hard Edged

Swatch: Kleancolor - Holo Chrome (94)

Finish: Holographic, more of a lilac than a chrome

Opacity: Four coats needed, better for layering

Brush Type: Flat and wide, not as wide as OPI

Scent: Quite Potent!

52 Week Challenge: Week 7 - Based on a Tutorial

The challenge this week was to come up with a manicure based on a tutorial 

I chose a frenchy dot tutorial as explained by Leslie from polishartaddiction

Sleek - Poisoned Ivy (green)

Sleek - Royalty (red)

Sleek - Oxford (blue)

Swatch: Accesorize - Aztec Polish

This is such a difficult one to swatch accurately!

This is primarily a purple duo chrome, which does need two or three coats in order to build up an opaque nail coverage.

With the first coat it seems to be a green toned polish but once you have applied more coats it looks purple. I think that this polish and Orly's Space Cadet are very similar in tone.

I like this one, it seems to be a polish similar in colour to the oil on water effect you sometimes see.

The talented Helly managed to take some more colour accurate photos here, if your interested

10 / 10

£4 - 10ml

Accesorize | Superdrug

Comparison: OPI - Nevermore V's NYX - Purple Ink

I think the NYX and the OPI are very similar.

Nevermore seems to be a little bit more of a gritty texture, which would be smoothed out with a top coat.

52 Week Challenge: Week 6 - Brown / Beige

This weeks challenge as the title suggests was a brown / beige theme

Base: ELF - Mod Mauve

Tips: Barry M - Dusky Mauve

Top Coat: Maybellene Express Finish - Cosmic (840)

Nails: Teal Squares

Base: ELF - Teal

Stamping Polish: ELF - Black

Stamping Plate: BM203

Nails: Recent Attempts

Just a couple of designs I tried out recently

Swatch: Kleancolor - Blue Eyed Girl

Firstly lets start with the Kleancolor polish, Blue Eyed Girl (191)

These swatches are over a black base 

Hex shaped glitter with other varying sized glitter in a navy base

Yes its a pain to remove like all glitters! Its stunning and a near enough dupe to Lippman's Lady Sings The Blues for me.  

52 Week Challenge: Week 5 - Halloween

This week's challenge was themed 'Halloween'

Nails I actually did for Halloween;

NOTD: Magnetic Stars

Base Polish: 17 - Blue Magnetic

Stamping Polish: Stargazer - Silver Chrome

Stamping Plate: BM 21

Swatch: NYX - Dorothy

Two coats of NYX on top of one coat of black polish.

Nails: Purple Splodges

Base: Stargazer - 142

Stamping Polish: Stargazer - 235

Stamping Plate: BM 211

Swatch: ELF - Red Velvet

Indoors with flash

Outdoors no flash

ELF - Red Velvet

Top Coat OPI - Nail Envy 

Lasting Power: Average

Opacity: Two coater

Brush Type: Average

£1.50 - 10ml