Tri-Polish Tuesday: February Week 2

I love love love splatter nails - they're a regular occurrence on this blog and they're so easy to do as well.  The clean up is the biggest job but I do love the satisfaction of making a massive mess with my manicure then cleaning it up really well.

So I had to involve splatter into at least one of my Tri-Polish Tuesday manicures.  And here is the first attempt.  This is with the same colours I used last week.  I used the brown first, then the pink before finishing up with the grey.

I really love these, they're super effective and look like I've spent a lot of time on them (when actually I didn't!)

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Tri-Polish Tuesday: February Week 1

A new month, a new set of polishes to work with.  This month we have to use Brown, Pink and Grey in our manicures.  The colours I have picked for the month (although they don't have to be the same, my OCD makes me use the same) are China Glaze Foies Gras, an OPI pink that I forget the name of and Sally Hansen Dorian Grey.

The manicure I decided to do this week was inspired by My Mint Nail's beautiful mosaic style manicure she posted about the other day.  They were stunning and I really wanted to have a go.

So here are my results:

They were quite easy to do but took a while and I love that they look so complicated.  I painted my nails with two coats of Dorian Grey.  Once this was completely dry I drew random lines all over my nails with my white Barry M nail art pen.  I filled in sections using the other two polishes using a tiny nail art brush and once these were completely dry I went over the lines again.

Once I tidied up the manicure, I topped it with two coats of Poshe.

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Tri-Polish Tuesday: January Week 3

This is my final January Tri-Polish Tuesday manicure, so the final time I'll be using Red, Yellow and Orange.  I wanted to do something special so I decided to go for a fiery manicure.

I painted every nail bar my thumb and pointer with China Glaze Stone Cold from their Hunger Games range.  I then free-handed the flames using the same Red, Yellow and Orange that I've used throughout January - Ciate's Boudoir and Hopscotch and Barry M's Limited Edition Yellow.

Once my freehand flames were finished, I used a small brush dipped in acetone to try and make them look wispy.  I then highlighted the base of the flames using China Gaze's Electricity - also from their Hunger Games range.  I finished the whole manicure off with two coats of Poshe.

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Tri-Polish Tuesday: January Week 2

So I accidentally missed last week's Tri-Polish Tuesday because I went to see Priscilla, Queen of the Desert the Tuesday night.  Although the nails were all painted, I didn't get home in time to write about them.  It's saved me having to do a manicure this week though, so really it's all worked out fine!

I used exactly the same polishes as I did last time around (here's my last post here - with a reminder of the rules).  These were Barry M Limited Edition Yellow and Ciate Boudoir and Hopscotch.  I also used white this time around.

So I applied two coats of Barry M's White then once it was dry, used masking tape then sponged a gradient over.  This worked in some places but not in others!  After cleaning up, I applied two coats of insta-dry!

I love this effect but I wish it looks like a gradient on all the nails.  Also, the masking tape didn't quite work and blurred some of the lines.  I tried to top this up with my Barry M nail art pen to make it look neater.  Has anyone got any better alternatives?

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Tri-Polish Tuesday: January Week 1

Last year I was involved in a year long challenge, which I mostly managed to complete.  This year, I've tried to look for something that's not so limiting and will help encourage me to try different things and designs.  So I joined the Crumpet's Nail Tarts facebook group and decided to take part in their challenges.

The first one this year is the Tri-Polish Tuesday challenge.  The rules are pretty simple:

• Post every Tuesday (although you don't have to post every week) starting 7th January.
• Three colours will be chosen for each month and you post up to four manis using those three colours, plus the allowed extra colours of black, white, silver, gold and glitter toppers.
• You don't have to stick to the same three polishes for the whole month, as long as you stick to the three chosen colours and allowed extras.
• At least one mani must contain all three colours, while the others must contain at least two of the chosen colours.

So easy peasy! 

This month's colours are Red, Orange and Yellow.  I've got loads of ideas for this month but I'd thought I'd start off with a simple dotticure.  I used Barry M's Limited Edition Yellow, then Ciate Boudoir and Hopscotch from my advent calendar.  I forgot to take a photo of the yellow - oops!

I applied two coats of Barry M White as a base then used a dotting tool to dot the different colours.  I was going to do all shapes and sizes and patterns but they just kind of happened this way and I kind of like it!

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