Today I have a little Crumpet Nail Tarts Pick-n-Mix. This week is geometric/yellow,blue and green. I think I achieved both!
I started with two coats of Finger Paints Black Expressionism and then stamped with VL-3 and Konad White. When I top coated it, smeared the white, which happens often with Konad stamping polishes and Seche Vite. I am actually on the search for a better top coat. Despite my love for how fast it dries, I have been having a lot of shrinkage recently. I feel like I am on a holy grail quest for the perfect top coat. Bah! Anyway, I ended up touching up the black lines to cover up some of the smearing.
Then I used Colors By Llarowe Tweety Bird (yellow) and Loaded Lacquer Island Punch (blue) to lead light over the white. I was having trouble finding a green jelly in my stash, so I took Julep Payton, which is somewhat sheer at one coat, and mixed it with a clear polish from Sally Hansen. I kept mixing until I got the opacity I wanted.
Despite the smearing and imperfect lead lighting, I ended up really loving this! Wouldn't this make a great easter egg mani with some spring colors? So fun!
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Today I have geometric nail art for two challenges, #31DC2014 and The Nail Challenge Collaborative. I did this nail art at the beginning of the month when we decided on the geometric prompt for NCC. I have done so many manis' since then, I did not have it in mind when I did my first post for the month HERE. When I started editing the pics for this second post, I realized...I used the SAME IMAGE! Dooh! Oh well, they look totally different!
I used the lead lighting technique here, stamping and then filling in with jellie polish.
I used the following jellies:
- Light blue - Llarowe Ocean Water
- Dark blue - Llarowe Grape Juice
- Pink - Sally Hansen Diamond Strength It's Chiff-On
- Yellow - Ellagee Cadmium Glass
I had fun doing this, trying to make sure that none of the segments had the same color right next to each other. It made my need for order happy. Silly Tina!
Once again, just a quick post. My brain is filled with so many things/issues right now, it is hard to do anything other than show you the pics. Hope your day is fantabulous!
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I seem to have fallen a bit behind in my challenges. With six of them, it doesn't surprise me and I am not going to worry about it. This means skipping Golden Oldie Thursday. Didn't like that mani much anyways (tee hee). Instead you are seeing The never ending Pile prompt, jelly.
I am, once again, a bit ambiguous about this mani. Seems I need to purchase or franken some. Before discovering the lead lighting technique (using jellies OVER stamping), I hated jellies and avoided them like the plague. Why? I have messy visible nail lines and don't like them showing. This is my version of a abstract painting of a field of daisies.
It is the blue I am not happy with here. Too dark, not jelly enough.
I started with two coats of NOPI Yoga then Yogurt (my new favorite off white).
I stamped with MoYou UK 82.....
then filled the lines with the tiniest dotting tool I have and the following colors:
- LynBDesigns Sacre Blurple
- Ellagee Cadmium Glass(yellow)
- Ellagee Chromium Glass (green) This was not quite grassy green enough for me, so I mixed in just a touch of Sacre Blurple.
This is NOT a "Tina" mani at all, but that is what challenges are all about, right? Stepping out of your comfort zone? Yeah, big leap here. Despite not liking it personally, I don't think it is a fail at all....just not my cup of tea. Just wait though. Tomorrow you will see something that is totally me and I can't wait to show you!
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