52wkCrumpet17: three shades of green and/or yellow

This is week seventeen of Crumpet's 52 week challenge! The "rules" are very flexible and you have all week to accomplish the mani. As always, must be done on your own nails, using the colours suggested (or parts thereof).
This week's prompt: fire, and three shades of green and/or yellow (either each alone or combined). I chose green and yellow combined, wanting to revisit a pond manicure that I did over a year ago. It is also a sunny alternative to the cranberry marbling I just took off. The gel mani was lasting quite well after a week but for the life of me I do not understand how all the Japanese nail afictionados handle all the rhinestones! A couple of mine chipped off after about three days and they were annoying. Always catching on my hair. Pretty, but annoying.

I started with a one coat base of EMS Recombination from Indigo Bananas. This is a shimmery green jelly, perfect for layering and sandwiches. Then I added some random vertical lines in OPI Green-wich Village. Similar tone, but darker. This was covered with one layer of EMS.

Then, using OPI Need Sunglasses?, I added yellow horizontal lines to the tips and some verticals randomly. This was covered in EMS.

Lastly, I added some wisps of horizontal Green-wich and then top coated.

I filed down my nails into more of a square for this one. Going after a horizontal look with the lines. I haven't worn square for a while so it is a nice change. This has been a busy week as I had a major wind disaster at last weekend's market and have needed to 1) rethink my whole layout to windproof better and 2) while I am at it, restyle a bit. So besides creating jewellery and painting a lot, I have been figuring out table placements, enjoying mani clients and writing film articles. Busy bee me! And... I still want to do my Japanese Nail Art lesson!!

Thanks for reading girls x

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Ice blue pond mani with Nfu Oh

During my mega 33DC extravaganza last year I did a similar mani in green (read about that here). I have always wanted to do one in blue but did not have the right jelly like blue. Ahhhhh, destash paradise! I got the perfect blue, Nfu Oh 93, last week.

Nfu Oh 93 is an ice blue opalescent shimmer. Very clear (all in all four coats) with a underwater greeny shimmer to it. There is also some silver opalescence. Really pretty. I started with one coat of Nfu Oh on base coated nails.

My first layer used Butter London Blagger and white. I dotted multiple flowers on uneven parts of my nails. Next I applied one coat of Nfu Oh (coat two). This was followed by one flower on each nail in Zoya Evvie (a musky grey-green). Another Nfu Oh (coat three). Last was a flower each in Zoya Monica (deep purple) followed by a last coat of Nfu Oh (4th). I topped with Out the Door.

Although I am not a blue person – though feel I am turning into one! – I really like this mani. So light and easy, but it has depth. I purposely keep this tone in tone, guess I felt that was a bit more elegant.

right hand

Well, today is weekend and rainy and ick. Hardly any cars on the road. Up till now we (i.e. I) had been pretty lucky with breakfasts on the WE as the multi-million$-corporation restaurant across the road did not offer any. But now they have started doing that as well. And they offer free films fortnightly and tell people I am always closed. Just not good people. I guess you could take it as a compliment that they copy you, but they can't say they're all about supporting the area when they are really only all about supporting themselves. No fine in that, but admit it! It is now April and my last month of trading. Since we didn't sell either the business or the chattels I am contemplating when to start my garage sales to sell as much as possible to get some coin in. Easter WE sounds good but heaps of sorting before then. May be too big of a call as the Mr is extremely busy with harvest. I'll sleep on it.