Challenge No 6 - Violet Nails

EDIT 9/11: In response to all the other blogs protesting about bullying I agree!!! There is absolutely no need for anyone to make someone feel bad about something as completely down to personal taste as nail polish. Guys, GROW UP!!!









Today is Challenge No 6 - Violet Nails. I really had no idea what I wanted to do for this challenge. I have quite a few nice purple polishes but none are really "Violet" so I went for an ombre/gradient look. The base color is Shellac Rock Royalty and I then pressed in a nice purple eye shadow I have in my kit. Its more of a violet and really brought out the color. I also pressed in a little sprinkle of purple glitter that you can only really see when the light hits it right. Top coat and done.

My wee selection of supplies ready to go

Challenge No 5 - Blue Nails

Today is Blue Nail Challenge Day! I have just recently gotten into stamping and am slowly getting better and better. This is one of my new favorite plates as it just really has a good selection of patterns and they are cool interesting ones.                Anyway I associate blue with water so I chose this design and as I only have two Konad colors (soon to be rectified as I went NUTS on ebay) I decided to do a nice light blue and white stamp. I used Shellac Creme Puff then pressed in this amazing light blue eyeshadow and a little bit of a peacock colored one just to make it pop. I then stamped directly onto that and did my top coat. Nice and easy and it really looked so nice.

Challenge No 4 - Green Nails

Today I decided to go for the green :)

This is Gelish Coco Cabana Banana on Gelish base coat. I then left on the tacky layer and started to play with my eyeshadow pots. This has a metallic yellow, metallic orange and an amazing peacock green all layered on the nails. In true light the green really shows up. Its all intermingled with the yellow and orange but the pictures just arent showing it.

I then used my Konad Black Special Polish to stamp on the Koi Fish design from Plate A48.

Gelish top coat and done.

Challenge No 3 - Yellow Nails

For Challenge number three I had to do Yellow Nails. I work on a Construction Site and have to wear High Visibility shirts to work every day. They are a lovely (and exceedingly bright) yellow with blue bottom and silver high vis strips.

I used Gelish Cococabana Banana for the Yellow and Gelish Caution for the Blue. I then laid on strips of silver nail foil, dotted on buttons with Shellac Black Pool and then my usual Gelish Top Coat. Very Cool :)

The amazing flash of reflector strips on my shirt matches the nail foil well.

My Work Shirt that inspired the look.

Before i laid in the nail foil.

Sexy Leopard

One of the girls at work here was feeling a bit down so in an effort to cheer her up I did her nails. I figured since she was sad I would do a nice sexy one. This is leopard nail foil over Shellac Black Pool. Top and base coat is Gelish.

Challenge No 2 - Orange Nails

Before applying foils.

Today I did the second Challenge out of the 31 - Orange Nails.

The base color is Gelish Orange Creme which is from the Candyland collection. I then used my glue pen to draw squiggly fire type lines up the nail and did the red foil. Repeated with orange foil and then smaller ones in gold foil. A very easy one just quite time consuming as you really do have to wait until the glue has dried properly or it just wont work.

The Gelish and foils I used.

Challenge No 1 - Red Nails

I started my 31 Nail Challenge today. The first challenge being to do a nail with Red.

I really like these nails. I hadn't planned on doing the silver tips I was just going to do the swirls but I re-dyed my hair this LOVELY purple and every time I scratch my head or touch my hair is stains my nails and fingers. The Gelish Red Roses is nice and opaque but not enough to cover the really purple stains on my tips :)

The two colors I used are the Gelish Red Roses and Orly Gel FX in Shine. Two coats and then I painted on the swirls with a striping brush. Not bad for my first go. Its hard to get the same color consistency through the silver as its more a glitter polish than an opaque color.

My Purple Purple Hair