Nails: Blue Marbled

I used the saran wrap / clingfilm method to get these nails to look a bit like marble.

Maybelline - Cool Blue 651
Barry M - Blue Grape 317

Swatch: Maybelline Color Show - Cool Blue 651

Colour: Light Blue
Finish: Cremé
Opacity: One coats
Brush Type: Flat and wide
How Much? 7ml

Going through my polish collection I did see that Maybelline Cool Blue looks similar to other polishes.

Barry M - Blueberry Ice Cream

A slight shade lighter

George @Asda - Smarty Pants

 Smarty Pants is more of a green than a blue

GOT: Flowers

For today's challenge I used No.7's Beautifully Black from October 2011, Sally Hansen's First Kiss from April 2012, Maybelline Colorshow Cool Blue from July 2013 and Color Club's Almost Famous from April 2012. Along with W7 Black.

Polishes Used:
No.7 - Beautifully Black
Sally Hansen - First Kiss
Maybelline Colorshow - Cool Blue
Color Club - Almost Famous
W7 Black

Sunday Stamping: Pastels

Stamping pastel blue over a pastel green didn't show up too well.

Base Polish: Barry M - Greenberry
Stamping Polish: Maybelline - Cool Blue, A England - Bridal Veil
Stamping Plates: Konad M21, M60

Nails: Top 5 Spring Polishes 2014

Now that Spring is finally here I thought I would share my top five picks for spring nail polishes, if you want to see last years pick then you can here.

A set of skittle nails to show off the polishes together, excuse the cuticle oil!

ELF - Yellow / Models Own - Pink Blush / Barry M - Prickly Pear / Maybelline - Cool Blue 651 / Barry M - Greenberry

I have swatches below of the Spring picks on all five nails below:

ELF - Yellow

Models Own - Pink Blush

Barry M - Prickly Pear

Maybelline - Cool Blue 651


Barry M - Greenberry

Sunday Stamping: Skyline

I had been wanting to use the skyline stamping image since I first got it, originally I would have gone with a night time back ground but then the stamping wouldn't have shown up as well. I used the saran wrap / clingfilm method for the background.

Base Polishes: Maybelline - Cool Blue 651, Barry M - Blue Grape 317
Stamping Plate: Bundle Monster 414
Stamping Polish: Nails Inc - New York Noir

GOT Nail Challenge: Chevrons

This week the challenge was chevrons, now I have done these before back in the summer of 2012 here, and more recently in October last year here. So for these nails to be relevant to this challenge the polish used has to be over a year old. 

I used OPI's Road House Blues which I got in October 2011.

Base Polish: OPI - Road House Blues
Stamping Polish: Maybelline - Cool Blue
Stamping Plate: Bundle Monster BM201

Nail Polish: Battle of Blues

If you would like to see which nail polishes were battling it for the blues last year then click here. This year the battles will only be using the new polishes I have got since last year.

La Femme - Viva La Venus | Barry M - Blue Moon | Maybelline - Cool Blue | La Femme - Skyblue Cream | Ciate - Headliner | Yes Love - L011 | Barry M - Blue Grape | Barry M - Blackberry (Blue Plum) | Seventeen - Rock Hard Nail Effects Blue | Ciate - Power Dressing | NYC - West Village

Top Three

Maybelline - Cool Blue | Yes Love - L011 | Barry M - Blue Grape

Winner:
Barry M Blue Grape, I really like this one it has a nice depth to it and isn't too dark to be mistaken for black

Sunday Stamping: Inspired By Water

Base Polish: Yes Love - L011
Stamping Plate: Cheeky Stamping Plate CH38
Stamping Polish: W7 - Black
Other Polishes Used: Color Club - Almost Famous, Maybelline - Cool Blue

White Acrylic Paint

Tri-Colour Nail Challenge: Lilac, Blue and Pink #4

If you want to know more about this challenge you can here.So these are the nails I came up with using the three polishes today, a couple of dots. I was being far to indecisive about these so they just ended up simple:

These are the three polishes I will be using for this months tri-polish challenge; Maybelline Color Show - Cool Blue 651, Barry M - Prickly Pear and Models Own - Pink Blush