Blue-Green

I can't figure out what colour this nail polish is so am just going to refer to it as blue-green. Close enough, right? Anyway, a couple of months ago i learned about skin undertones and how they determine the best shades and colours for us in terms of clothes, makeup, jewelry and of course nail polish :) I found out that i have cool ' deep winter' undertones. Jewel tones, icy pastels and silver jewelry should look great on me. Here's the thing, I tend to gravitate towards silver jewelry so that was no surprise, and i get complements whenever i wear jewel toned outfits, go figure! This topic is quite interesting so i'll put up a post about it with regards to the colours i have in my nail polish collection.

Moving on, i have completely fallen in love with blue nail polish. My last post also features a different shade of blue! Right now, this blue green jewel toned nail polish colour is my favourite. I've actually had for months...probably bought it at the beginning of this year but only used it for the first time a few weeks ago. I completely forgot i had it! I need to find a way to display my nail polishes so that i can see each and every one of them.

Code blue

I used this vibrant blue colour from charm max yesterday. Its not the shade i was going for but i like it.

The thing with Charm Max nail polishes is that they have no name or number describing them. What i really liked is the fact that the brush has enough bristles such that you only need to dip it once in the polish. It picks up enough polish for the entire nail. I also liked that i had to do just one application. Great opacy i'd say! Oh and i don't have a top coat in the pic.

 I've used a different shade of their blue before as seen here.

I clipped my nails again yesterday. Short nails rule! :D

Gradient Polka Dot Nails

Still building up on my skittle mani.  I decided to add polka dots on top of my previous gradient mani for this look.

I really like the results. Its beautiful if i may say so myself. I used the same polish (Luron #) i used for the gradient to create the dots. Très simple.

Frosty Skittle graidient

I decided to give the gradient mani another shot after the 31 Day challenge: Day 10 gradient nails disaster. I just sponged Luron # (white) on top of my last mani. It still needs some work. I hadn't applied a top coat  which would have made a hell of a difference. Should have cleaned up too before posting but yea...i didn't. 

I love the frosty vibe it projects. I think it would be great for Winter. 

Skittle nails

HAPPY EASTER!!!

I currently don't have a camera in my possession (which is why i didn't post yesterdays' tri polish day 4 mani...but i'll post it some other time). Anyway, here is a pic i found on my desktop from last week i think. I modified it as shown in my next posts.

This is a more summery look. I thought the colours would be a little pale - pastel-like, which would be more in tune with the current season (Spring & Easter) but whatever, i'll try out the pastel mani some other time. 

Then again am in Kenya where we don't experience the four seasons. Right now we are getting into the long rains season. I should probably be rocking darker colours, the kind you would go for in Fall/Autumn.

I used B.O nail polishes purple #17, blue #04, green #12, pink #09 and from Luron yellow #110

Saran wrap nails

I have been itching to do this mani for a while now. I initially wanted to use a darker blue instead of pink with the hopes of achieving an acid washed-denim kind of look but my 'Charm max-blue' wasn't working out too great.  

Anyway, this was pretty easy to do. The blue base (B.O #04) is what i had on yesterday...didn't need to take it off, i just added a pink layer (B.O #09) and used cling film to get the above results. I sealed everything in with a top coat which also smoothed out the nail surface. 

You know how sometimes you want something so bad and once you get it you kind of lose interest in it? Well, thats how i feel about this mani. It looks good but its time for it to come off (lasted me half a day at least). Time to get back to The tri polish challenge.  I will post what i come up with later today.

Monday blues

I personally think that this colour is too bright for a Monday (at least on me it is) but i was home all day, so i decided to just go with it.

I used B.O nail lacquer #04. The only other time i used this particular nail polish was in my vintage floral manicure.

Vintage Floral Nails

Once again i have been MIA. I will not bore you with any lame excuses so lets just get into the mani. 

I used Luron French manicure #FB213 (sheer) pink as my base then used a coral colour (Luron #103) for the roses. I used red polish (Luron #10) to create the petals which gave the flowers some depth. For the leaves, i simply used green (Luron #86). 

The colours in this second mani were inspired by what i wore on that day. I had on a black and green striped top and navy blue skinny jeans. I used a sky blue colour (B.O nail lacquer #04) for the flowers and a navy blue (Charm Max) for the petals. The leaves were the same green colour (B.O nail lacquer #12) as my other finger nails. The black is Dodwell #79. The flowers on my thumb nail got smudged a little. Overall, i loved this mani.

I did these a couple of weeks ago. I did the first one sometime last month and the other on the 1st of this month (got my hair done that day too). These are my first vintage floral manis. They look cute so i'll definitely do them again.

Side note: I have decided to be doing nail art only on my accent nails because i somehow feel overwhelmed when i do it on all my nails...I feel like its over the top. I have a lot of people looking at my nails and i think i should tone it down a notch.

Day 26: Inspired by a pattern

Patchwork - that's what this pattern is called. 

This was actually time consuming, or maybe  it seemed to drag on forever because i was not in the mood to do my nails. I loved the outcome nonetheless and even got compliments! I think i did a pretty good job especially since this was my first attempt at a patchwork mani!

I used Dodwell #21 as my base & top coat,  Luron #109 (hot pink), Luron #110 (yellow), Luron #52 (black) and B.O #17 (purple). In this picture the purple came off as a blue and the pink doesn't quite look like hot pink. But you get the idea...you can use whichever colours you choose.

I absolutely love this mani and will be doing it again.

Day 19: Galaxy nails

Today's challenge is about capturing the beauty of space on your nails. Here is my outcome...

For this, i used a number of nail polish colours hoping to attain a cosmic effect. I first applied a single coat of black nail polish (Dodwell Nail enamel #79), Then sponged on the following colours: Luron #108 (green), Charm Max Blue, Luron #109 (hot pink) and finally Luron #FT201 (white) in that particular order.

After i was done with the sponging step, i drew some white stars on my accent nails (which you can't see very well here) then applied a coat of fine glitter nail polish and sealed everything with a top coat. The mani may not look like much till you add glitter (and look at it from a distance). 

NB: I went overboard with the glitter. I think it would have looked more realistic if i had not used it on the sponged areas. Also adding just one holographic nail polish to the mix is an awesome idea especially if your going to be out in the sun.

There are so many variations of this spacey-mani using other different colour combinations so you can be sure i'll do it again.

Day 18: Half Moons

Two posts today!

This is my first half moon mani and am in love! Can you believe that this is actually a vintage nail design popularized in the 1930's and 40's? Yep! On to the mani...

I couldn't figure out what colours to use at first but decided to go with these two because both of them really stand out.

What do you think? Yay or Nay?

Day 5: Blue nails

Blue nails! This is a colour i love to have on my nails. Its so out there if you know what i mean. So yea, i was really in my zone today...

I used "Charm Max" and no top coat.