Nails: Festive Sweater Snowflakes

Base Polishes: Essence - Black is Back, Jacava - Vanilla Slice
Stamping Plate: MoYou London - Festive Collection 04
Stamping Polish: MoYou - Special Nail Polish - Black

Nail Polish Battle 2014: Glitters!

This is the final battle, before moving on to my top three. I seem to have acquired a fair few glitters this past year.

Angelica - Bobby Dazzler // OPI - Polka.com // Claire's - Dizzy // Jacava - Oxford Street // Leighton Denny - Be Unique // Leighton Denny - Be Individual // Avon - Opal // Barry M - Crystal Glaze

First I whittled these down to three, I like the purple tones to Polka.com and the Avon polish is quite unique. It isn't quite a flakie polish but it is along those lines.

The winner of the three is Claire's Dizzy, because this is quite a unique polish. Multi neon glitters are quite common in the land of indie polish but this is a main stream polish at a bargain price. This is very summer appropriate over white but I think it would work really well over black as well.

 

Nail Polish Battle 2014: Reds

Looking at the new red polishes of 2014

Nails Inc - Optic Flame // Barry M - Crush // Sally Hansen - Potent Port // Jacava - Red Velvet // Leighton Denny - Vamp

Barry M's Crush is a really nice colour but I find it chips so quickly on me. Also Vamp is a gorgeous colour but it leans very dark which while I do like, it isn't red enough to win the red category! So the winner is Red Velvet, a tone or two lighter than Vamp and very clearly a deep red.

 

SIMPLES: Saran Wrap Base With Dots

The Crumpet has a challenge going, to help teach nail art from the simple to the master.

So week 12 is upon us and the task to use a saran wrap / cling film base (tutorial here) with dots over it. Here is my attempt:

Base Polishes:
Jacava - Vanilla Slice
OPI - Peace, Love and OPI

Dotting Polish: Sally Hansen - Potent Port

Dotting Tools

Swatch: Jacava - Damson Delight

Colour: Ox Blood
Finish: Cream
Opacity: Two Coats
Brush Type: Standard
How Much? 12ml
Anything Else? Very Long Neck Bottle

Tri-Polish Challenge: Blue, Yellow and Red #1

This challenge has been going on for well over a year now, but the idea is there are three colours pre-picked and you find those three colours in your stash and use them in some kind of nail art. For the blue I used Max Factor's Odyssey Blue, the yellow Collection 2000's Sorbet and the red is ELF's Red Velvet.

Max Factor - Odyssey Blue
Collection 2000 - Sorbet
ELF - Red Velvet

I used Jacava Vanilla Slice as the base.

Nails: Purple Floral

Base Polish: Jacava - Blueberry Muffin
Stamping Polish: Stargazer - Purple Chrome 235
Stamping Plate: Cheeky Stamping Plate CH50

Nails: Egg Squiggles

I used some wiggly scissors on tape and used them over the base polish and then painted over with the darker polish.

Jacava - Oxford Street
A England - Bridal Veil

33 Day Nail Challenge: Two Patterns

I thought some stamping was in order today for the challenge of two different patterns.

Base Polish: Jacava - Damson Delight
Stamping Polish: Barry M - Chameleon Blue
Stamping Plates: Bundle Monster BM211, M78

Nerd Nail Challenge: Game of Thrones

So today is another challenge and another one I haven't read or watched. From what I gather there is a lot of plaits and quite intricate hair styles going on. Other than that I don't know anything about it! Which is why I have attempted to do some fishtail braided nails.

Polishes used:
Jacava - Damson Delight
ELF - Chocolate
ELF - Smoky Brown
Models Own - Gun Grey
W7 - Black
La Femme - Grey Cream 100

Silver Acrylic Paint