This is my 200th post!!! I am slowly coming up on one year of blogging (29 Sept) and in honour of all my new found friends, ideas, "success" I will be starting the 31 day nail challenge on 1 Oct. Thanks to all my fellow bloggers for giving me inspiration and for reading my little ramblings about life, nails and love - oh, and travel!
Hands down, I love this mani! Not to toot my own horn and all that - but I love it! I am so happy with the flowers (on my second outing) and just love all the green.
I started with the flower part of the skittle. Figuring, if that goes downhill I can change plan mid game. My base is two coats of Butter London All Hail the Queen (a totally fab nude shimmer). I wanted to darker this a bit so thought up this pk-esque way of adding depth. I dropped Layla Coffee Love on the nails, let it sit a sec then sponged around them. That gave me a flecked base for the flowers.
I wanted a darker green than the leafy green I have in my acrylic set. Here is the link to the set off BPS as it really is good, inexpensive and easy to use (link). I used the green supplied and mixed it with royal blue and black to create a dark green. Then I meshed this with white for the flowers.
I drew some random flowers (the one stroke approach) then used a small brush just dipped in black for the stems. I am still not happy with that brush, not tiny enough. I need to go through my brushes and sort them all. I seem to have brushes everywhere and just grab what is in front. Used a toothpick for the white dots. I quickly top coated this before moving on.
This skittlette is again ABBCC = two sets of identical nails and one accent. So the flowers are BB. For CC I applied my new - and totally groovy gorgeous! - Layla hologram Emerald Divine! I did not base coat, but did buff. I hadn't buffed my nails in a while so did that. I applied two coats of ED. This is probably a bit lighter than I thought it would be, but it is just beautiful. Thank you CandyGirl for finally getting this in stock!!! I think Layla makes the best holos - so elegant, super shiny. I have four now and all are great. My A accent nail is piCture pOlish Kryptonite - another great holo.
I am even happy with my right hand flowerwise! Even the Mr said, these look like flowers! Last time he thought they were blobs! Sorry for all the pics, but they are too beautiful (will die of big ego soon haha!!).
