Happy Christmas Eve!
I'm off work at last hooray! This morning was my last shift until the New Year, so I'm very happy about that!
I dodged the elves challenge. I was completely uninspired by it, and I didn't want to sell my blog short by just bodging something in order to have something to post, so I just didn't do it. It's a shame to not have done them all, but there you go, that's life sometimes. There are some manis from this challenge I've been really pleased with, and others I wouldn't have ordinarily put on my blog in a million years, but it's definitely been an experience, and I'm glad I've taken part. After this one there's only Santas left for tomorrow. Hopefully I can get that painted up and prepared today, because I'll be out most of the day tomorrow doing my own Santa duties. Ho Ho Ho!
Tinsel as a challenge can only really mean one thing - bar glitter. Luckily for me that means not much decision making because I've only got one bar glitter, a £2.50 silver holo one from Claires Accessories. I've found Claires polishes to be a bit hit and miss, so I thought I would double up this nail art post with a review of this polish.
Firstly I thought I would try it over a range of colours, so I used 2 coats of each:
White - OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls reviewed here
Black - L'Oreal Color Riche in Black Swan
Red - Maybelline Express Finish Cherry Red shown here
Silver - Jessica Hologram Chic Disco Diva reviewed here
Here's how it looks in all its Christmassy glory:
This is two coats of the bar glitter with a color club top coat. Dry time was medium. I found that I only got a decent amount of glitter onto my nail if I put the brush back in the bottle and gave it a good shake for each nail. Just dipping the brush back in the bottle without shaking it meant I just seemed to get clearcoat and not glitter. I also moved it around a bit on my nail as just brushing it on made all the bars face one way and that made my nails look hairy, which is the bar glitter look I hate.
The holo isn't as wow in ordinary indoor light, but it is still there:
But outdoors in daylight it really comes into its own:
If you want a really smooth finish to this you will need at least two coats of top coat, or perhaps one thick coat of Seche. With one coat of normal top coat I could still feel texture there.
I'm quite surprised because I thought I would like this best over black, but in fact it looks best over the most similar colour, the silver. I think this is probably because I'm not that mad on the bar glitter look anyway, and to just get that bling of mad holo is much more 'me'.
I also liked it over the white, it was quite a futuristic look. Am considering the silver for New Years Eve, I think it would be quite fitting and fun.
And there we have it, I hope it was tinselly enough for you!
Until next time...
MASPOOASE x x x
~Wendy~
Hi everyone, hope you are well
I had a ping of inspiration today! I've still been enjoying my Collection 2000 All That Jazz nails which I blogged about yesterday, and was looking at them (as you do) and I had a really good idea for my halloween nails this year. I usually disappoint myself because I can never come up with an idea that either a) hasn't been done already, or b) is creepy enough. It's an amazing thing because pretty much the only films I watch are horror or sci-fi so you'd think I'd have loads of ideas!
So anyway, for some reason the silver grey of the polish reminded me of the Blair Witch project, and that's where I started. I checked about on google to see if it's already been done and I couldn't see it anywhere so hopefully I'm safe on that score. If not, and someone has already done them who didn't come up on my search, apologies.
Also I apologise in advance if these photos aren't the usual quality, but it's dark outside and I was DYING to show you. Tomorrow when it's daylight I'll take some more pictures and maybe replace these ones.
*EDIT* I've put the new pictures in as it's daylight now! Hope you like them
This is what I came up with:
Heres a pic outside in the daylight (yes I got carried away with the pics):
Heres the other hand, the trees didn't fare so well being drawn with my 'not so skilled' hand lol:
And heres what I used:
- For the base colour, Collection 2000 Hot Looks in All That Jazz
I sponged (yes sponged!) Maybelline Express finish in White Dream, both to represent moonlight coming through the trees, and to make my trees stand out better, it worked well I think
- White striping polish from Claires Accessories - it was NOT easy to draw a circle with it
- Black striping polish from Color Club that came in a collection
- Top coat of Seche Vite, I've thinned it down with some Seche Restore and it's less dentable now, which I'm glad about.
So there we have it, am really pleased with this, and I think I'll use the stick man as my avatar over halloween, he's super cool.
I hope you like it, let me know what you think! And oh, don't have nightmares :-)
Until next time.....
MASPOOASE x x x
~Wendy~
