52wkCrumpet36: Plaid - red, orange, green

This is a red-orange-green based gel mani with accents nails in plaid. Kind of a skittlette, am enjoying the mix-up of patterns and ideas (as long as the colours flow together).

I chose a nude shimmery base for the floral pattern. These nails were matted when done.The plaid has the same base but then layered up with red, green and yellow (overlapping to make the orange).

A couple of nails I left in the dark green, and tried out some studs as well. I like it!

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52wkCrumpet35: Patchwork

This is my interpretation of patchwork! Deliberately not exact with patches of colour. I seem to be in to non-matching manis at the moment, could be a time thing. I am also trialing new products and ideas so need to guinea-pig myself sometimes!

This is all in gel, the base is a light grey and I used forest green, dark grey, crimson and pastel yellow for the patches. I added some gold flakes and Swarovskis on two fingers. I mixed and added some gold glitter before outlining the patches in black. These were then done in relief with gel powder.

My other hand has a similar base but I wanted to try my new Options Aurora pewter sparkle gel! So groovy!

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52wkCrumpet34: Lilac and teal

This is a very hard mani to photograph, hence only two somewhat useable pics. The colours are not as pink, definitely more lilac. In the photos and in some natural lighting, this pink lilac makes your cuticle area look bleedy. Maybe it is just my skin tone.  I did some fine line mermaid stuff on an accent. This is a gel gradiant mani.

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52wkCrumpet33: Taupe

This is week 33 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: Paisley and taupe (either each alone or combined). I chose taupe and did a floral skittlette.

First off, this is a difficult mani to photograph! Don't know why, but almost all the pics are out of focus. Must be the white flowers goofing everything up. the base is China Glaze Foie Gras. Basically You Don't Know Jacques from another label. I have that one, too, but this bottle was in front on the shelf!!

One nail on each hand has a coat of China Glaze Electrify glitter. The flowers are in white with accents in SpaRitual Golden Gleam. There is some Electify thrown around the flowers as well. Top coated twice.

I really like this and it looks much better in real life without a macro lens!!Nice for autumn but with some happy flowers!!

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