Persistently Glittery: Beth's Blue

Friday, March 2, 2012

Purple Crumpet Fairy Spring CHallenge - Day 11 - Pastel Patchwork

Hello lovelies! I hope you've had a good week, I've had a fabulous time in L'Afrique. It was beautiful and also very eye opening. When doing something as simple as walking down the street with a bottle of water is a symbol of your wealth and privilege, it's very humbling.

Anywho! I have missed a lot of the spring challenge - too much to catch up with, bearing in mind all my schoolwork and schizz so I'm just gonna go directly to day 11 (which was yesterday - oops!) - pastel patchwork!!! Yay!

Unfortunately my nails and fingers totally suffered with the heat and with the nature of what we were doing so my nails are super short right now. So sorry about that! :) I kind of like them though! Here are my pastel patchworks!

I used:
Models Own - Pink Blush
Models Own - Lemon Meringue Pie
Barry M - Mint Green
Nubar - Baby Sprout
Models Own - Beth's Blue
China Glaze - White On White
China Glaze - Sweet Hook
China Glaze - Gothic Lolita
Konad Special Stamping Polish - Pink
Seche Vite

The stamping pattern is from my new Dashica SdP A Big stamping plate which is A-MAZING! Check them out here.

Thanks for looking! Sorry I missed so many of the challenges and so many of your blog posts. I'm catching up slowly but surely!

Aimee x

Friday, February 17, 2012

Hello!

Hi! So today is day three of the challenge. There wasn't a challenge on Thursday. It's nice to have a break :) I am SO excited to show you these because I am SO happy with them! This is Models Own - Beth's Blue which is THE most beautiful forget-me-not blue. I am totally in love with it.

Sorry about the kazillions of pictures. I really love this manicure! I did the stripes using sticky labels cut into thin strips and the flowers with a dotting tool.

The black I used is a-england - Bridal Veil which is no ordinary black... OH NO! It's a beautiful black holo! I went over the blue with a coat of ELF - Twinkle which is my favourite glitter for that subtle tiny glitter effect. If you look at the close up shots, I managed to get a piece almost perfectly in the centre of a tiny flower. Ahhhww. :)

Please check out my fellow challenge-taking bloggers for their take on tiny flowers:

Fancy Phalanges

Gnarly Gnails

Only Always Soccermom

Purple Fairy Dust

Nail Newbie

Angelina's Nails and More