31 Day Challenge 2014: Day 21 - Inspired By A Colour (Pink)

So as you can see, for this day of the challenge I have chosen pink for my colour inspiration. I chose pink because I don't do many pink manis, and also because the early days of this challenge didn't have a pink challenge day.

Firsly I painted my base coat. Then on my thumb and ring fingers I painted 2 coats of W7's White (in this picture I only did one coat, but after I painted another). On my index and little finger I painted 3 coats of Barry M's Princess, with the other Barry M texture polishes I usually only need 1 or 2 coats. And on my middle finger I painted 3 coats of Avon's Cotton Candy.

To create the chevrons I made my own stickers. To make them I have some PVC insulation tape and I used some pinking pattern scissors and cut some chevron strips. I then placed them on my nail in rows and sponged a gradient over the top. For the gradient I used Avon's Cotton Candy, Sally Hansen Insta-Dri's Presto Pink and China Glaze's Heli-Yum. I then carefully peeled away the stickers using some tweezers.

And that is the finished mani :) very simple, love it! Definitely need to do more pink manis!

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31 Day Challenge 2014: Day 20 - Water Marble

So I am officially giving up on water marble! Yesterday I tried to do it and it was a complete fail! I have told my mom and boyfriend that if I ever say I'm going to try it again then they need to slap me!

Lol rant over...

After applying my base coat I painted 2 coats of W7's White on my thumb, middle and ring finger. On my index and little finger I painted 2 coats of Barry M's Guava. Then on top of the white nails I painted a coat of Sally Hansen's Hidden Treasure (new version).

On my thumb and ring finger I stamped this water marble stamp from Bundle Monster plate BM-320 using Sally Hansen Insta-Dri's Teal-y Fast. Then I used a dotting tool and Barry M's Silver Foil to place some dots around the water marble pattern.

A complete cop out for water marble I know!!

Then on my middle finger I placed small clear diamantes on my nail to cover all of it. And on my index and little finger I painted a coat of Sally Hansen's Hidden Treasure (old version).

A coat of Seche Vite to finish and that is the mani done :)

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31 Day Challenge 2014: Day 19 - Galaxy

Actually did these on Friday, but had a busy weekend so only just managing to upload them today!

Firstly I painted 2 coats of W7's Black over a base coat.

I then used a small make-up sponge and sponged three different colours on my nail. First China Glaze Electric Beat, second Sally Hansen Insta-Dri's Teal-y Fast, then Sally Hansen Insta-Dri's Speedy Sunburst. Each time I placed a colour I overlapped some of the previous colours and I placed the colours in different places on each nail.

I then used a nail art brush and a dotting tool to add stars with W7's White. I dotted the small stars with the dotting tool. Then the diamond shape stars I painted using the brush. I first painted a cross then filled in a little. This was my first time painting these, I wish instead I had placed a dot of polish then dragged it out to create the star, but I will try that next time.

I applied a top coat of Seche Vite and that is the mani complete. For my first galaxy mani I think it's not too bad :)

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31 Day Challenge 2014: Day 15 - Delicate Print

Love this stamp and hadn't used it yet, I think it's quite delicate :)

First I applied my base coat then I painted 1 coat of W7's white. I do this whenever I do a gradient as it makes the colours look a lot better.

I used 3 colours for this gradient, from left to right they are Sally Hansen's Casting Call, China Glaze's For Audrey and Electric Beat. I did the gradient one way on my thumb, index and little finger and the opposite way on my middle and ring finger.

Over the gradient I applied one coat of Sally Hansen's Hidden Treasure (the newer version).

I then used Konad's white special polish and I stamped this roses pattern from MoYou's Princess collection plate 09 on every nail.

I appled a coat of Seche Vite to finish and that is the mani done. Love the pastel look of this mani, very summery for the nice weather over the past week.

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31 Day Challenge 2014: Day 13 - Animal Print

Have done lots of different types of animal print nails before, so I thought for the challenge I would do a different print on each nail :)

To start I painted a base coat onto my nails. On my thumb and ring finger I then painted 2 coats of W7's White. On my index and little finger I painted 2 coats of China Glaze's Kalahari Kiss. And on my middle finger I painted 2 coats of China Glaze's Westside Warrior.

On my thumb nail I have done cow print. For this I used Konad's black special polish and stamped the cow print from Cheeky plate CH1.

On my index finger I have done tiger print. Firstly I used a small makeup sponge and China Glaze's Life Preserver and sponged this over a couple parts of the nail. I then used Konad's black special polish and stamped the pattern from Cheeky plate CH2.

On my middle finger I have done a scales crocodile print. I stamped the pattern from Pueen plate Pueen10 using 3 different colours, Sally Hansen Insta-Dri's Coco a-go-go, KIKO's Lime Green and Barry M's Gold Foil. I dotted these colours in a few different places on the pattern, then scraped and stamped as usual.

On my ring finger I have done zebra print. I used Konad's black special polish and the zebra pattern from Konad plate m57.

On my little finger I have done leopard print. I used Konad's black special polish and the leopard pattern from Konad plate m57. I then used a dotting tool to fill in some parts of the pattern with Avon's Vintage Boutique.

Once all my nails were dry I carefully applied a top coat of Seche Vite and that is the mani finished!

Love this mani! All the different patterns look great together and so colourful :)

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