Nail Art: tape mani

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Hi guys, and welcome to Day 6 of the NAGG challenge. The prompt for today is neon, which gave me a chance to do an idea I've had in my head for a while now - a tape mani starring Indy's Indies - Rocket :D

I started with a base of Sinful - Snow Me White, and added 1 coat of Rocket on the index and pinky finger. The tape mani was filled in with BYS - Pink Panic, Sally Hansen Insta-Dri - Brisk Blue, and Maybelline Colour Show - Green Zing. The green was a bit of a pig to work with to be honest, even over a white base, it still took 3 coats to get the colour anywhere near even. That alone, wouldn't have been too bad, but when I top coated the ring finger the green bled all over the place. I gave the other ones at least an hours drying time before top coating them, but it still bled, just not quite as much. Luckily, I only paid 60p for it from Fragrance Direct, so I'm more disappointed about ruining this mani, than wasting my money!

By the time I had finished this mani, I was kind of annoyed with it, and couldn't be bothered to clean up properly, so please forgive the green stuck to the side of my middle finger - I promise it's polish, not a bogey XD I still think it's a pretty cool mani though, so I decided to stick with it for today.

All issues aside, what do you guys think of this mani? Has it brightened your day with it's neon-ey goodness? Doesn't rocket look awesome over white!?
Don't forget to check out the other neon mani's in the thumbnails below :)

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Hi guys, I'm back already with this weeks Sunday Spotlight, and the brand today is W7. I have 2 polishes from the mirror collection to show you, with some blingy nail art to boot!
This will be a picture heavy post.

The first polish is Blue Mirror, shown here at 2 coats with topcoat. You may want to opt for 3 if you want total perfection, but as I was planning on using it as a base I didn't feel the need. It does look very patchy on the first coat, but I found that with a gentle hand it seemed to spread a lot more evenly. I adore this polish as a base in winter themed nail art, it's so pale and frosty. You can get this, and gold mirror for £2.85 + free shipping on ebay here.

Then I did a tape mani, that was inspired by this mani by Misha from Enigmatic Rambles. I used a Barry M glitter that I got for free in Boots for spending £6 or more on Barry M on Boxing Day. I quickly painted 2 coats of the glitter over the tape, and when I peeled up the tape, I liked the texture of the mani, so I skipped the top coat.

Even without top coat, this mani was extremely sparkly, so much more than you can see in the picture. Please forgive the awful clean-up on this, it didn't look that bad in real life, I swear :)

The other shade I have to show you is Gold Mirror, and this polish has actually been featured in 2 very recent designs - the textured gradient tape mani I posted yesterday, and as undies in my sparkly leopard print mani, posted earlier today. I guess it's safe to say it has become my go-to light gold base :)

This is also shown at 2 coats, with top coat. Again, a 3rd may be preferable for some people, but I didn't feel the need myself.

I have heard that some W7's are a bit stinky, but I'm pleased to report that these smell like any other polish to me :) What do you guys think of these 2 polishes? Are you a fan of W7?

Hi guys today I have some nail art for you - this mani combines 3 of my favourite things at the moment, gradients, texture and tape. And, I liberated a few things from my untried rack while I was at it. :)

The gold base in this mani is W7 - Gold Mirror, and I will be posting swatches of that very soon. The gradient was done with Seventeen Rock Hard Couture - Celestial Pearl and Cameo Crush. FYI, I didn't tape around my fingers before sponging on the gradient, as I wasn't sure if it would get in the way of my striping tape. This was a mistake! Clean-up took forever, and as you can see, I still have little specks of shimmer all over my fingers. Next time, I will find a way to use both types of tape :D

Difficult clean-up aside, I was really pleased with how this turned out. I love when a design turns out just how I imagined it in my head, and this was one of those mani's. I love how wintery it feels too, the 2 textures just play so nicely together!

Before I took this off, I coloured in all the lines with my new Barry M Nail Art Pen, just for the fun of it. Thought I may as well snap a quick picture for you guys too:

Definately looks better with the gold lines in my opinion. First impressions of the pen are good, I have used it in the next part of my review for Winterberry Nail Art, so I'll tell you more about it then.

Anyway, as always, I would love to know what you guys think of this mani?

Hi guys, sorry for going AWOL for the last few days, I've had a really crappy week, and just needed a few days to get myself sorted. I should be back to a normal schedule by the weekend. :) I have some really exciting news to share with you today though! I have the honour of appearing in a guest post on The Crumpet today :D I can hardly believe it myself. I would love if you guys could go and check it out here.

Hi guys, I'm back again for the last day of the 33 day challenge. This has been a lot of fun, and I'm so sad that it's finished. The prompt for today is freestyle or recreate someone else's mani. After spending about an hour on the pinterest board yesterday, I realised there was no way I could choose just 1 to recreate, so I decided to take the freestyle option. I had received a little package from A-England that morning, containing the stunning Briar Rose, so I had to use that in this mani.

I painted my nails with Briar Rose, laid my tape down when it was all dry, and painted over it with 1 coat of A-England - Jane Eyre. I should use this polish more, it's so gorgeous, I just find when I do, I never want to put anything over it : ) I should apologise for the state of my photos today. They looked good to my tired eyes last night, but by the time I looked again this morning, and realised they were not, I had already taken off the mani! They're not too bad when they're small, but they get a little blurry when they're bigger.

Crappy photos aside, I wasn't exactly blown away by this mani to be honest. The components are all there, but for some reason it just didn't wow me. I do like it, but I don't love it. I guess you can't win them all!

I will be doing a round-up post for this challenge sometime soon. Hopefully, I'll have it posted on Sunday if I have time. I'm looking forward to seeing all 33 of them lined up, I'm so proud that I did every prompt on my very first challenge (can you tell :p) I'll be back tomorrow, although I am yet to prep anything, so it will be whatever I can put together tonight. Don't forget to check out the other ladies last mani's via the thumbnails below.

Hi guys, sorry today's post is a little bit late, but I'm back with Day 28 of the #33DC and the prompt for today is lines. This is another mani I have had planned out in my head for ages, but when it came time to actually sit down and do it, I had a different idea that I liked more.

For the thumb, pointer and pinky nails, I applied 2 coats of Nails Inc - New York Noir, then 1 thick coat of Pocket Money Polishes - I Want Candy, concentrating mostly on just 1 side of the nail. Once that had some drying time, I used some black acrylic paint to create straight edges on either side of the glitter and top coated.

For the middle and ring finger, I painted a white base, and picked out polishes from my stash to match the colours in the glitter. These were: BYS - Pink Panic, Barry M - Yellow Green, Rimmel I ♥ Lasting Finish - Sunshine, Rimmel I ♥ Lasting Finish - Double Decker Red, and Sally Hansen Insta-Dri - Brisk Blue. Using a striping brush, I filled in the whole nail with random stripes in these colours, top coated, and waited for them to dry. When they were dry, I applied striping tape in random places across the nail, and painted 1 thick coat of New York Noir over the top. I kind of messed up on the ring finger and forgot what order I put the tape down in, but never mind : )

I loved this mani, and I'm really glad I decided to change my mind at the last minute as I like this more than my original idea. It did bug me a bit that I forgot to go in and wrap my tips with black after pulling the tape up though.

Hey all, this is just a quick post to tell you something very exciting, which is that I have just done a guest post for the wonderful Kerrie of PishPosh and Polish. Click here to see the full post on her blog (with glitter macro). Kerrie is a fantastic blogger, and I'm dead chuffed that she let me take over her blog for the day - thanks Kerrie.....you rule!

Hi lovely people, happy Friday! Today is the 3rd day of the 33 day challenge, and the prompt is tape mani. I can't take full credit for this mani, as I was inspired by this freakin' amazing mani by Missy from Gnarly Gnails. If you've never seen her blog, you really need to check it out. She's amazeballs!

I did switch it up a little by having the gradient in the base, and a solid colour for the texture part, but it was that mani that I had in my head whilst working on this. Amazingly, this wasn't actually what I had planned for this prompt, I was going to use a neon pink under the tape, but I'm really glad I went in this direction as I love this mani. I didn't want to remove it, but I had other designs I wanted to get ahead on.

I started with 2 coats of W7 Blue Mirror which I picked up from the lovely Debbie Crumpet in a grab bag on facebook. Once that was touch dry, I used a sponge eyeshadow applicator to sponge on a thin layer of Kleancolor - Metallic Aqua from about two-thirds of the way up the nail, the sponged on a bit of Revlon - Royal (99p here) onto the tips, then added a layer of Seche Vite. Once that was dry, I added striping tape in a criss-cross pattern, then painted over with Born Pretty Store textured polish in Shade 12, removing the tape immediately, one nail at a time.