#31DC2015 Day 6 - Day 10 aka SO DAMN BEHIND!

What’s up beautiful people! So the #31DC2017…I am so far behind I make it look like it’s currently in fashion! Buuuut, between getting sick and being dataless, I think I can be excused! EXCUSE ME, DAMMIT! So now we play the catch up game, which means this post is going to be PIC HEAVY!

I will be posting 5 days posts today, the next 5 posts either tomorrow, Sunday or Monday and then we’ll see where it goes from there. I do want to try and be finished before month end though because I want to start posting weekly again without being tied to a prompt The descriptions in these collective posts will also be shortened so I’ll only be stating the techniques and the polishes/stamping plates used.

So in the words of Corinne from Threadbanger…

DAY 6: VIOLET

Techniques: Dry Marbled decals

Polishes Used: China Glaze Spontaneous, China Glaze Grape Pop, Nubar Pasadena Purple

DAY 7: BLACK & WHITE

Techniques: Gradient, Stamping

Polishes Used: Color Club French Tip, WOW Nail Polish #393

Stamping Plates Used: Moyou Gothic Collection 05

DAY 8: METALLIC

Techniques: Free hand, Dotting

Polished Used: Nubar Silver Mist, Tip Top Gold Digger, Essence “I LOVE TRENDS” Nude Sweet Nude

DAY 9: RAINBOW

Techniques: Watercolour

Polished Used: Color Club French Tip, Color Club Almost Famous, Sinful Colors Fly Away, Sinful Colors Pur Rouge, China Glaze Grape Pop, China Glaze Starboard, OPI In My Back Pocket

DAY 10: GRADIENT NAILS

Techniques: Gradient, Stamping

Polishes Used: Sinful Colors Endless Blue, Zoya Song, OPI In My Back Pocket, OPI On The Same Paige, Sinful Colors Snow Me White (Base underneath gradient)

Stamping Plates Used: Born Pretty Store BPL-027

So there you have all the prompts done till DAY 10. I hope I can be caught up by the end of next week because I am going on a short holiday with my family and then it’s back to “KNUCKLE DOWN, BUCKLE DOWN, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT!” (My husband reads my posts so he now has that song stuck in his head! You’re welcome, babe!)

Lots of mad love…

#31DC2015: Metallic aka Sugary Metal

Hi lovelies! I'm posting! Oh yeah! I'm winning! Oh yeah! I could do this all night! Oh yeah! Ok rather not because someone just picked up a pan! Oh yeah!

#31DC2015: Metallic 

Yeah, I'm going to be honest...metallic made me its biatch! I had a pretty bad ass idea for this prompt until I realized "Oh yeah, certain chrome and metallic polishes are BRUSH STROKEY AS FRAK!". So I called it a night. After work today though I was pretty psyched! I remembered I have a pretty killer silver chrome-ish polish and some colors I've been wanting to pair with silver for a while now so hence this mani was born.

This is a very basic mani. I started out with 2 coats of Tip Top Nail Addict Aluminum as my base. I then went in with Tip Top Nail Chic Peach Crisp and Tip Top Nail Chic Cha Cha Cha to make the sugar spun strings.

 

Is this metallic enough? IS THIS METAL ENOUGH?? *head bangs hair to mad guitar riff*

Lots of mad love...

#31DC2014 - Day 8: Metallic Nails aka Metallic Marble

Good morning lovelies! So, we are going into the 8th day of the #31DC2014 and I must admit, I’m having more fun than I thought I would. It is quite tiring at times but the pay-off is really worth it. Also, seeing some of the other ladies work is really inspiring. You freaking go girls!

Day 8: Metallic Nails
I wasn’t too excited about this prompt. Not only was I very low on inspiration but I don’t think I own any true metallic nail polish. So I went with what was metallic to me and played around a bit. While I was playing around with my polishes though, I saw that some of my metallics did what a lot of metallics do...streaki-ness galore! And hence, I realized I could use this to my advantage. So this is how my metallic marble was born. 

I layed down a very thick coat of Nubar Erratic Purple on a plastic baggie. I then went in with a small dotting tool and just swirled the polish around in a random motion until I was happy with the “pattern” that it created and left it for about 2 hours to dry properly. When it was dry, I added another thick coat of clear polish over the marble just to give it more of a foundation for when I remove it. When everything had dried properly, I lifted the polish off the baggie with a tweezer and cut it into different sections similar to the size of my nails. Then I layed a very thin layer of clear nail polish over each of my nails and let it sit for about 20 seconds to get tacky and placed my little marble decals over the tacky base. I then just flattened everything down nicely to make sure there were no air bubbles underneath, cleaned up around my nails and layed down another thin coat of fast drying topcoat, making sure I wrap my tips.

This mani came out pretty cool in my opinion! It kind of looks like liquid molten metal, doesn’t it?...Which  then just made me wish that I rather used a silver metallic polish because then it would look like liquid Adamantium! AAAAAAAGH! An unintentional X-men mani! Why didn’t you Thea?? Whyyyyyyyyyy??

Lots of mad love...

 

#MTV Challenge: 8. Metalllic & Halfmoons

Hi there lovelies! So before I get into today's nails, I have got a bit of awesome news to share with my South African ladies. I'm sure most of you know this already but Wet n Wild Cosmetics are busy launching in selected Clicks stores throughout South Africa! They plan to have all their displays set up by end November 2013 but there are a few stores that have the displays up and running already and for once, a Clicks close to me actually has a completed set-up and I was able to scoop a few new babies! Yay Kolonnade! Their prices are also really reasonable, ranging from R24.95 – R49.95 for their nail polish. Unfortunately I didn't really concentrate on their other cosmetics but they have a little bit of everything! For more information regarding Wet n Wild's products and at which stores they will be available, feel free to swing by their Facebook Page.

On to the topic at hand though!

8. Metallic & Half Moons

I don't own many metallic polishes so this topic wasn't as hard for me as the other topics when it came to choosing a polish and since I have gotten this little purple beauty, I have been dying to use her!

Nail Polishes used:

• WOW Nail Polish #393
• Nubar Erratic Purple

Tools/Other Used:

• Bundle Monster plate BM-321
• Ring-binder reinforcement stickers

I started out by laying down 2 coats of WOW Nail Polish #393 on all my fingers, except for my ring finger. When this was completely dry, I placed the Ring-binder reinforcement stickers on the lower part of my nail and stamped with Bundle Monster plate BM-321 and Nubar Erratic Purple over the open section, pulling the stickers off immediately after I stamped on the nail. On the ring finger I did the exact same but just had Nubar Erratic Purple as my base color and stamped over the nail using WOW Nail Polish #393.

I wasn't 100% happy with the outcome but that was because I felt my half moons went up a bit too high. Next time I'll definitely place the ring-binder reinforcement stickers a bit lower on the nail to create a smaller half moon. Nubar Erratic Purple is stunning though and stamps beautifully! Already did another stamping mani with her and was freaking ecstatic with the outcome. But will show you that another time ;D

Although most of these ladies are already finished with the challenge, please go check out their awesome hard work:

Ordinary Misfit

For The Love Of Nail Art

Polished Tickles and Beauty

Passion For Polish

Mama Zombie Mumbles

If you would like me to swatch any of the colours you saw in today’s post, please let me know via email or drop me a comment below. More than willing to oblige!

Lots of mad love...