Nail Art Ideas: Polish Days

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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Polish Days: BLING Nails!

Two posts in one day? I'm on fire! But don't get too used to it because I'm so fire that I've kind burnt myself out so it might be quiet for the rest of the week. Or maybe not, I can't think straight right now. Ask me again after I've had a nap.

Today is the December Polish Days event and the theme is Bling so I went straight for the rhinestones and holographic glitter. I was determined to go all out with today's mani and really expected to hate whatever I came up with but I actually love it! I wore it for as long as I could today before the urge to pick it all off overcame me just after lunchtime.

The holographic glitter I've used is H&M Jo Is In The House. I used three coats of that as the base for my ring finger before covering it in 1mm rhinestones. For the bronze finger, I used Rimmel Metal Rush in Gold Save The Queen as my base colour and then stuck on the bronze rhinestones from Cult Nails.

For the rest of the fingers with the glitter gradient, the base colour is Deborah Lippmann Fashion and I used a sponge to apply the H&M glitter from the tips downwards.I finished those fingers with two top coats of NYC.

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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Polish Days: Geometry

It's September Polish Day and the theme for this month, in honour of back to school time, is Geometry. Yesterday you got some science and today you're getting some maths! Well it's not really maths since I decided on a Tetris theme cuz if I was a teacher, I'd be the cool teacher. Tetris shapes are geometrical right? Right!

I had an idea for a freehand Tetris mani but the perfectionist in me was crying at the potential failure rate of attempting to draw tiny squares on my nails. Then I remembered these square studs and went for a typically minimalist approach.

Studded Tetris Nail Art by The Nailasaurus

From thumb to pinky, the base colours are Collection 2000 Sherbet Lemon (on a base of Barry M White), Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Green With Envy, GOSH Pool Party, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Sun Kissed and Julep Anne.

The studs are from Born Pretty Store and I applied them using this method.

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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

My First Polish Days: The Polish Olympics!

I'm very excited to bring you my first ever Polish Days um... day! If you haven't heard of Polish Days it's a great initiative organised by Hannah from Polly Polish. You can subscribe to the Polish Days emails and every month, Hannah comes up with a theme, gives us a date to publish and all the bloggers participating post their manis in sync. So you'll probably be seeing a lot of these posts in your reader right now!

Enough of the introductions, today's theme is the Olympics. I already posted one Olympics mani so I was competing with myself to come up with a better mani for today. I think today's mani steals the gold!

I took the imagery from the official London 2012 website.

Left to right, the events are:

Gymnastics - Artistic

Canoe Sprint

Swimming

Athletics

I used Sally Hansen Xtreme wear in Pacific Blue and Green With Envy, George@Asda Buttercup and an unnamed L'Oreal Red. I used the same colours for the rings on my thumb, plus W7 Black.

All the details were painted with a striping brush and Black and White Acrylic Paint.