The Nail Buff

Saturday, 17 March 2012

Barry M ~ Emerald Green

I don’t celebrate St. Patrick’s day, but as my boyfriend is partly of Irish descent it seems suitable to at least sport some green here on the blog. As if I need an excuse to wear green!

This shimmer is Barry M Emerald Green, and it went on beautifully in two coats.

Top o’ the mornin’ to ya and all that. Hope those of you who celebrate St. Patrick’s day have a good one!

Thursday, 15 March 2012

ABOP Inspired Polka Dot French

ANOTHER Bottle of Polish?! is one of my all time favourite nail blogs. Her manicures are always creative, and her nails look fantastic. A couple of days ago she did this super cute mattified polka dot mani that I completely fell in love with.

ABOP also does a lot of nice, funky French manis, and I decided to go all fangirl and combine the two in this polka dot French.

I started with two coats of Nina Ultra Pro French Pink and painted a French with a pink colour from 17 that I don’t have the name of sadly (it looks a lot like OPI Pand-monium Pink), and then I added white dots with acrylic paint. Finally I mattified the whole thing.

I hope you like it as much as I do!

And here is a picture of how it looked before mattifying it.

Wednesday, 14 March 2012

V-tape

I created this mani by taping diagonals over my Purple and Green Layering and painting with Nina Ultra Pro Black. A quick and simple way to add new life to a mani, don’t you think?

Tuesday, 13 March 2012

Black & White Challenge: Day 5 ~ Coloured Base with Black

For this theme I decided to go with a loosely China-inspired design. I had a few plates with Chinese characters, or that’s at least what I presume them to be :) Either way, they are pretty! I picked some oriental feeling colours too; I went with an emerald green (Barry M Emerald Green) and gold (GOSH Gold)

The characters were found on the Bundle Monster image plates BM203, BM221 and BM225

Previous challenge entries:

Day 1 ~ Black on White
Day 2 ~ White on Black
Day 3 ~ Black Base with Some Colour
Day 4 ~ White Base with Colour

Check out the other Challenge participants

Purple Glitters
Colorfull bottle
Biba's Beauty Corner
Taya
Nail Crazy
Mateji Ustvarjata
My Nail Graffiti
Colores de Carol
Emerald Sparkled
Wacky Laki
Omgnoodles
Lacquered Tips
Welcome To Brianna's World!
Pink Polish Addict
My Little Vanities
Hooked on Polish
Posh Nail Art
Biberlee - Džumbus
Oje Gemisi Kalkiyor

Sunday, 11 March 2012

Black & White Challenge: Day 4 ~ White Base with Some Colour

I picked another plain white crème for this design; China Glaze White On White. I don’t think it’s all that good if I’m honest, but the wear is decent. I painted three coats with plenty of time in between each one, and I suppose that’s ok. I really don’t like my crèmes to need more than two coats though, white or not.

After painting my base I sponged different colours on my tips and added nail art tape and little gems. The colours I used were all China Glaze; Index: Blue Sparrow, Middle: Purple Panic, Ring: Tree Hugger and Pinkie: Flying Dragon.