Tri-Polish Challenge - March Part 2 - Green, Purple, Coral

This Tri-Polish challenge is being hosted by the lovely Debbie The Crumpet and the rules & polishes are in my previous post here.

March - Green, Purple Coral

It's quite weird how sometimes you know exactly you are going to do, what I like about this challenge is that there is no set theme apart from the colours.  So I've gone for a gradient tape mani, the coral as the base as it's the brightest colour, with the green & purple gradient on top.  To the pics......

Other Crumpets participating in this challenge....

Tri-Polish Challenge - March Part 1 - Green, Purple, Coral

As soon as I heard about this challenge I wanted in!  This Tri-Polish challenge is being hosted by the lovely Debbie The Crumpet and the rules are pretty straight forward:

• Each month Crumpet's Nail Tarts will set 3 colours for the challenge. You then choose 1 polish to represent each of those 3 colours. You must stick to those same 3 polishes throughout the entire challenge
• You must stick to those polishes and cannot change which polish represents which colour.
• Each Challenge Day, you must use at least 2 of these 3 polishes in your mani. You must also use all 3 polishes at least once.
• You also have free use of white, black, silver, gold and glitter toppers
• There is no theme (that was a Brucey bonus for me!)
• There are 4 posts in the challenge, on the Tuesday and Thursday of the 3rd and 4th week of the month

March - Green, Purple Coral

I didn't use green for this mani and used Bundle Monster Plate 221.  I used Coral as the base colour and stamped with purple which looks a cerise pink on top of the coral.

These are the 3 polishes I'll be using in March, MUA Shade 13, Funky Fingers Riot, Wet n Wild Blazed

Check out the other participants in this fab challenge!

Polish Days - Vintage

Hello everyone! The theme for March's Polish Day Theme hosted by Polly Polish is Vintage.

One of my all time favourite films, which reminds me of when I was a teenager, is Quadrophenia, so I decided on a 60's mod theme.  

I made water decals for the targets on my thumb and ring finger, for the others I was inspired by the black and white dresses of the 60's using bundle monster plate 322.  To the pics.....

          

Check out the other Polish Days cool manis!

Laid Back 31DC - Tape Mani

The 31 day challenge hosted by the lovely Debbie, The Crumpet is being re-run with a laid back approach, 2 manis a week instead of daily.

Tape Mani.  Hooruh!  I started off with great gusto and wanted to do a tape mani with a star/flash effect in the corner of each nail.  Hmmmm ended up being a mess and a tad harder than I thought.  The polish got underneath the tape so I had to take it all off and start again.  So I've gone for plain & simple stripes.  The tape I used is crafting embellishment tape and doesn't have a very clean edge unlike the thin tape you get specifically for tape manis.  Anyhoo, turned out ok, not great but ok, and actually looks better in real life as I can't see as close up as the photos!  To the pics.....

The polishes I used are La Femme Lilac Creme & Odyssey.

March 2013 Nail Challenges

Hi y'all, here's a list of March Nail Challenges I'm fond of which you might find useful.

1 March 2013
2 March 2013
3 March 2013	Crumpet's Nail Tarts	31 DC - Saran Wrap
4 March 2013	British Nail Bloggers	Half Moons
5 March 2013	Crumpet's Nail Tarts	31 DC - Geometric
6 March 2013	Llama Nails	Z
7 March 2013
8 March 2013
9 March 2013
10 March 2013	Crumpet's Nail Tarts	31 DC - Splatter
11 March 2013	British Nail Bloggers	Galaxy Nails
12 March 2013	Crumpet's Nail Tarts	31 DC - Tape Mani
13 March 2013	Llama Nails	Jurassic Era
13 March 2013	Polly Polich	Vintage
14 March 2013
15 March 2013
16 March 2013
17 March 2013	Crumpet's Nail Tarts	31 DC - Your Cheer Yourself Up Mani
18 March 2013	British Nail Bloggers	Water Marble
19 March 2013	Crumpet's Nail Tarts	Tri polish challenge
19 March 2013	Crumpet's Nail Tarts	31 DC - Stamping
20 March 2013	Llama Nails	Neandertal/Stoneage
21 March 2013	Crumpet's Nail Tarts	Tri polish challenge
22 March 2013
23 March 2013
24 March 2013	Crumpet's Nail Tarts	31 DC - Water Colour
25 March 2013	British Nail Bloggers	Inspired by a colour
26 March 2013	Crumpet's Nail Tarts	31 DC - Colour Opposites
26 March 2013	Crumpet's Nail Tarts	Tri polish challenge
27 March 2013	Llama Nails	Ancient Egypt
28 March 2013	Crumpet's Nail Tarts	Tri polish challenge
29 March 2013
30 March 2013

Crumpet's Nails Tarts
Polly Polish
Llama Nails
British Nail Bloggers

Laid Back 31DC - Pink

The 31 day challenge hosted by the lovely Debbie The Crumpet is being re-run with a laid back approach, 2 manis a week instead of daily.

Day 4 - Pink

Spring is a coming and I'm in the mood for pastels.  Here is Wet N Wild Tickled Pink, a lovely icy pink.  Blinged up with some fab nail stickers from Born Pretty, see my post on these lovely flower gems and how you can get hold of them.

Other Tarts participating in this challenge......

Polish Days - Get Back To Nature

Hello polish lovelies!  The theme for February's Polish Day Theme hosted by Polly Polish is Get Back To Nature.  For me it was a toss up between a landscape or flora & fauna.  I knew I wanted to do a water decal and although I found some cracking landscapes my nails aren't very long and I think the landscape across my nails would look better if they were longer.  I love plants & animals so I came across an image of butterflies and thought it would be more forgiving as I didn't have to match up skylines etc.

Well.....it turned out OK, not as well as I'd have liked, the image was too dark and the best nail is my middle nail because the image is lighter.

Anyhoo, here's my effort, I think I'll stick to small water decals in future rather than covering the whole nail.....how long did it last.....half a day, I'm a picker!

So this is the image I used, the butterflies are so vibrant!

 I printed it onto special water decal paper

Cut out some nail shapes

 Et Voila!

 As you can see the middle finger looks best as it has the lightest butterfly

 

And here are the other lovelies involved with this challenge.......

Crumpet's Nail Tarts 31 Day Challenge - Day 21 - Merge or Melt

This 31 Day Challenge is hosted by the lovely Debbie, The Crumpet!

Day 21 - Merge or Melt.

Quite chuffed with myself with this one, I've done a gradient (merge) with magnetic polishes.  I've seen this on other blogs so decided to give it a go and it worked.  Do a gradient as you usually would with magnetic polishes but don't use the magnet yet.  Let it dry and then use a slow drying topcoat and then use your magnet, by jove it works!

W7 Red Magnetic & Filthy Gorgeous Get The Blues

Other Tarts Participating in this challenge.......

Crumpet's NailTarts 31 Day Challenge - Day 5 - Purple - Nails Inc Savoy Court & Kleancolor Holo Chrome

This 31 Day Challenge is hosted by the lovely Debbie, The Crumpet!

Day 5 - Purple.

Nails Inc Savoy Court, plus topped with Kleancolor Holo Chrome.

Other Tarts participating in this Challenge......