Friday Triad: Inspired by Ruth (@adornedclaw)

It's quite interesting to which realisations you can come to in the shower... Like remembering why the crazy looking lady waving out the car looked familiar or the fact that tomorrow is the last Friday of the month and your Triad mani is due and you don't have a whole week left like you thought you did....

Luckily since it was absolutely freezing I decided to shower early. And am definitely not trying to pull a Joyce style midnight mani. Just frantically getting pics cropped, watermarked, getting the Fiance to charge his Mac so I can use that for the post and listening to some calming music (cue the pop music).

So Joyce chose this very green looking manicure by @adornedclaw and I was in LOVE! I knew that I was going to recreate because it was green and stunning! I ended up with more than 10 polishes on my table in the attempt to find the perfect shades. Which are glaring at me since they haven't been put back yet, but let me show you what I did.

Once I had all my polishes lined up I started on my vinyls by placing a diagonal alley from becauseishop on my miracle mat. I then painted each line one of the colours I was going to use for the gradient. Once that was done | started with two coats of China Glaze baroque jungle on my thumb, ring finger and pinky. On my index and middle fingers I painted one coat of Essence play with my mint as the base for the gradient.

I then did my gradient with play with my mint at the tips, Essence kiss the freaky frog and Essence island hopping at my cuticle. I then top coated and attempted to place a massive ass stud on my middle finger in a somewhat straight line, which was sealed in with another coat of Seche. The stud on my pinky received the same treatment.

I peeled my by now dry decal from my mat and used a clear stamper to place it. And top coated again. I really like how this turned out. The colours are totally my jam and I actually have an idea for another set of colours. I've been having a hard time with one of the prompts of the 52 week challenge and had someone tell me my nails look ugly... So I needed a boost.

What do you think? Don't forget to head on to Joyce's and Michelle's place and give them some love! I'm certain that they pulled something stunning and here I only did a recreation again..

Thanks for stopping by!!

#52weeknailchallenge: spring

I did this mani ages ago, but never got around to posting it. This was somewhat inspired by @melcisme, not any specific mani, but just in general.

I started with two coats of Orly two HR-lunch on my thumb, index and pinky. On my ring finger I have two coats of Catrice goldbusters.

On my middle finger I have a coat of Hean city fashion white and a full nail floral decal from Aliexpress.

The stud is also from Aliexpress. I feel like I should have mattified this, or something.

What do you think? I'm trying to do more nail art that's not typically me. Not quite sure if it's working!!

Thanks for reading!

Friday Triad: Inspired by Debbie (ladyandthestamp)

It's time for another Triad post. This month it was Michelle's turn to choose and she chose this mani done by @ladyandthe_stamp

I really liked the colour combo of this mani, so I decided to recreate it. I started with two coats of 3ina 505 on my index, middle finger and pinky. On my ring finger and thumb I have two coats of 3ina 507.

The flowers is from BP-L067 and I used Nicole Diary white stamping polish for it. I coloured it in with OPI keeping Suzi at bay and the leaves with 3ina 186. The studs are from Aliexpress and I stuck them onto my tacky topcoat and obviously I had to matte everything. I used OPI matte top coat for that.

3ina 505 and 507 are matte polishes but not a true matte as you see that my thumb in the first pic still has some shine.

For some reason I didn't take my normal flat hand picture, but I do have this odd one... What do you think? Of the hand pose and the mani? Don't forget to head on over to Michelle and Joyce to see what they did.

Thanks for reading!!

#52weeknailchallenge: inspired by fashion

I'm playing catch up again. You know when life happens I sometimes forget I have a blog. So this is last weeks prompt. And later this week I'll have this week's which is orange.

Just so you guys know... I am not very fashionable. I love my jeans and rarely wear dresses and stuff. So for this prompt I went to Google and hit search for fashion. Now, I can't remember if it was 2016 or 2017, but this specific year had loads of florals. Like flowers from top to bottom. Very scary.

I decided to keep it simple. I started with two coats of Tip Top jade in the shade (only because it was standing on my table) on my thumb and pinky. The rest of my nails have one coat. I only painted one coat because I was going to use decals.

In hindsight I should have used a lighter base, the darker base just makes the florals appear darker too. I also wanted to do one nail half and half, but I forgot.

I placed a rectangular gold stud that I got from Aliexpress on my middle finger when I top coated.

I kinda like how it turned out... And I keep telling myself to stop using full nail decals, but I never listen to myself.

What do you think? Would you wear my nails?

Thanks for reading!

#52weeknailchallenge: negative space

So I have realized that I am terrible at explaining things... Here I am randomly doing this 52 week challenge and you have no idea what it is, where or how? So here's a link that will take you to Michelle's blog and she explains it all.

There. Explanation done. Anyway for this prompt, the negative space prompt, I took some inspiration from this mani done by Paulina. I started with two coats of a polish that was gifted to me, it has no name, no number, just HD on the bottle, on my thumb and pinky. On my index, middle and ring finger I stamped using plate BC-10 that was sent to me by Cherry Blossom Store and essence stampy polish white.

I top coated as I was going to use striping tape. I then taped off sections of my nails and used the same HD polish to fill in the blanks.

Top coat over that and then added a square stud to my middle finger. It bothered BF slightly as the stud was off centre, but hey it's not that easy placing it.

So I really like it, but I'm a little iffy about it too. What do you think?

Thanks for stopping by!!

Hean nail polish: City Fashion 200

Who else is enjoying this cold weather? I'm loving it, but it's not that fun when I'm at work. Anyway, I tried another watermarble for this but it didn't quite work the way I wanted it to. But the end result of it is very cool.

This is two coats of City Fashion 200. Finally got a green. This is one of those colours that kinda grow on you.

I wanted to pair white with this and I thought a marble would look amazing, but then that didn't work. I eventually just swirled the two colours together in annoyance and left it to dry. The white I used was City Fashion 0t.

I love the end result. The swirls look so cool. On my index finger I used a wonky square vinyl, which in hindsight I think I shouldn't have used. I added a gold star shaped stud on my middle finger.

What do you think? Think I should have left the vinyl out?

Thanks for stopping by!

Negative space and Tahiti

I hope everyone had a good weekend! Mine has been too short. Today's mani is totally inspired by jewsie_nails. I initially downloaded the pic from FaceBook and thank goodness there was a watermark, otherwise I wouldn't be able to credit her.

I started with 2 coats of Ulta3 Tahiti on all my nails. I got these polishes from BF's mom as a Xmas present. On my middle finger there is a bit of a negative space, for this I used a 'V' vinyl I got from We heart nail art. I added a silver square stud I got with my order of polishes from Parental Advisory Polish.

On my ring finger I used zig zag vinyls from Llarowe, but they are also available from We heart nail art. I top coated Tahiti before I added the vinyls and then one coat of SC Snow me White.

I was going to leave it as is, but I decided to add a matte top coat to my middle and ring fingers. Tahiti was so bright, it was hard to miss. Made me feel like everyone was looking at my nails! Guess that's the point right?

Thanks for reading!

#OMD3: Cat

Oh man, am I glad this week is half way done... It's going to be a long one as there is a possibility that Eid is Friday and we will only be 5 people managing a 12 doctor practice. Sounds like fun, right? Either that or my sense of what fun is, is completely twisted. Let's just go with twisted... Hehe

Anyway, today is day 15 of the Oh Mon Dieu nail challenge and the prompt is cat. Again, a couple of ideas floated around in my mind, none of which came to fruition. So I opted for something simple.

I started with two coats of Tip Top Broken Soul.

Broken Soul is a beautiful lilac, slightly darker than Tip Top Fairy Dust. Once that was dry I added cat decals I got from BPS.

The star studs I got from Gael. She was kind enough to give it to me the last time I visited her. They were sent to her by BPS, can't exactly remember why, but I'm glad she gave them to me. Thanks Gael!!

This was actually a fun mani, people kept noticing it and saying they liked it. It also came out that a colleague has a mug at work that has a cat like this on it. And we couldn't figure out why the damn cat looked so familiar! Haha

An InLinkz Link-up