Friday Triad: Inspired by @gert_nails

It's that time of the month again. This time it was Joyce's turn to choose our inspiration and this mani done by @gert_nails was her choice. I did this mani early in the month and I nearly forgot about the post. So I either forget about it entirely and do it too late or I do it to early. Let me show you what I did.

I started with two coats of essence a hint of love on my thumb, ring finger and pinky. On my index and ring finger I have three coats of OPI don't touch my tutu.

I then stamped a square from Lina feeling shapely 9 with Nicole Diary white. The vertical and horizontal lines are from Lina feeling shapely 1 stamped with Nicole Diary black.

I then added the leaves from Lina Summer 3 and Autumn 1, also with Nicole Diary black. I had to add a matte top coat.

I used the OPI one and I do prefer it to other matte top coats. The rest doesn't have the same affect.

What do you think? I loved wearing this. It did have a valentines vibe, but that was unintentional.

Thanks for reading!!

#52weeknailchallenge: foil

I was both excited and nervous for this prompt... I have foils, but I've never used them before and they always seemed a little finicky to me. Let me show you what I did.

I started with two coats of Essence gossip girl on my thumb, index finger and pinky. On my middle and ring finger I have three coats of Hean 870.

I top coated my middle and ring finger as I was going to use the foil on them. I waited about 20 mins  and then used Nicole Diary foil glue. I tried for a brush strokey distressed look, but it didn't quite work.

On my index finger I stamped a single line with Nicole Diary black from Lina feeling shapely 1. I then used a piece of foil immediately after wiping some alcohol on the back of the foil. It didn't transfer as nicely as I wanted it to, but at least its there.

What do you think? I'm not sure how I feel about it... Some of it I like more than others, but overall I feel a little meh about it.

Thanks for reading!!

#52weeknailchallenge: nude

I did something very simple for this prompt and I absolutely loved wearing it. It's definitely not something I would normally wear. Let me show you what I did.

I started with two coats of Tip Top bare with me.

I then added two coats of Ulta frosted on my middle and ring finger.

Added a decal to my ring finger and a dot of Ulta3 black satin on my pinky and thumb.

And that's that. super easy. 

What do you think?

Thanks for reading!

#52weeknailchallenge: hearts

I'm glad that we don't have a valentine's day prompt for this year, but I'm not too happy about this one either. I generally have all these ideas I want to use, but I can't seem to pull it together. And that frustrates me. But let me show you what I did.

I started with two coats of Starrily gamma ray on my thumb and index finger. On my middle and ring finger I have two coats of China Glaze let's chalk about it. And lastly, on my pinky I have two coats of Hean 852 sugar.

I then stamped some hearts from Lina @shannasnailadventures colab with BPS gold polish and Nicole Diary NS05.

Top coated and that's that. I do like how this turned out. I feel like it's missing something though, but I didn't want to mess with it.

What do you think?

Thanks for stopping by!

#52weeknailchallenge: blue & gold

Try as I may, it seems that I'm going to be constantly late with posting! Everytime I remind myself to sit my ass down and start, I'm busy with something else. And when I do have time, it's when we have loadshedding. And then I obviously don't have internet. sigh Maybe one day I'll be ahead or on time.

So, blue and gold. Let me show you what I did.

I started with two coats of Hean 852 sugar on my ring finger and pinky. On my thumb, index and middle finger I have two coats of OPI keeping Suzi at bay.

I then stamped an image from Lina @tanya_wish collab with BPS gold stamping polish over keeping Suzi at bay.

Easy. I really like how it came together. I wonder how it would have looked matte... What do you think?

Thanks for reading!!

#52weeknailchallenge: zig zag

For this prompt I checked out Pinterest, hoping for some inspiration. So I combined a couple of looks. Let me show you what I did.

I started with two coats of essence gossip girl on my thumb, index and pinky. On my ring finger I have two coats of OPI DS pewter and on my middle finger is two coats of essence pink dreams are made of this.

I then stamped the zig zag image from Lina feeling shapely 1 with Mundo de Unas light grey. I'm pretty happy that light grey matched so well to gossip girl.

I added a dot of pink dreams are made of this to all the nails with gossip girl. What do you think?

Thanks for stopping by!