Pick n' Mix 52 Week Challenge: Teal Gradient

With Tri-Polish Tuesday and Golden Oldie Thursday nail challenges coming to an end there is a new challenge ready to take their places - Pick n' Mix 52 Week Challenge. Each week there is a colour and a prompt to follow, this challenge is being ran by Crumpet's Nail Tarts and is once a week for a year.

As the title suggests this weeks challenge is to do something teal and/or gradient:

Base Polishes: Essence - Miss Universe 147, Barry M - Guava
Glitter Polish: Laquerlicious - Peacock Tail

Halloween Nails: Zombie Hands

I thought I would do new Halloween themed nails every other day for all of October.

Base Polish: Seventeen - Rock Hard Nail Effects - Black
Stamping Polish: Barry M - Silver Foil Effect
Stamping Plate: Bundle Monster - H08

Nails: Top 5 Autumn / Fall Polishes 2014

I did a post like this one last year, you can see it here if you are interested. Now that it is officially Autumn I thought I would share my top five polishes for this season.

Barry M - Crush // Leighton Denny - Be Unique // ELF - Fire Coral // Barry M - Indigo // Miss Sporty - Rain Drop 470

First I have Barry M's Matte Crush, which is a deep burgundy matte shade which also looks great with a shiny topcoat over the top.



Then Leighton Denny's Be Unique which is a browny / rusty shimmer colour, you do need three coats to achieve opacity but it would also work layered over a red or an orange base.



ELF's Fire Coral, is a mid-orange cream polish which is perfect for Halloween nails and of course orange is a prominent colour in nature throughout autumn.

The deep purple is Barry M's Indigo, and is the perfect Cadbury purple. Very difficult to colour accurately photograph. The bottle shot and the photo of the skittle nails above aren't accurate, the photo below is much more true to life. It is a deep colour but not one which looks black and is easier to wear. I need to get a new bottle of this as I seem to be at the very end of this bottle.

Lastly I chose Miss Sporty's Rain Drop which is a dark green, something a little different from a pure black polish. Lovely and creamy and deep and the brush is quite flat and wide.

SIMPLES: Watercolour

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

So week 10 is upon us and the task to master is a technique called 'watercolour' which is you dilute the polish with acetone, spreading the polish around so it looks a bit like water colour art. Here are my examples:

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Stamping Plate: Bundle Monster 311 (BM311)

This stamping plate is from the third Bundle Monster set, from 2012. It is backed with branded lining to stop it from being sharp. This is useful, without it it is easy to slice open your fingers and palms which I have been known to do accidentally in the past with other stamping plates.

On this stamping plate there are four full nail images, and two single images. All of these stamped well. Below are some nails I did using this plate:

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All of the nail art I have done using this stamping plate can be found HERE.