Little Night Flower

The theme for 40 Great Nail Art Ideas this week is three shades of green and my added technique is tape mani. I redid this mani about 4 times using 12 different green polishes before deciding on this look. It wasn't that I had too few green polishes to choose from (I had over 30) but I had trouble matching up polishes that worked well together. Details of the polishes I used are after the jump.

This week's prompt for the Crumpet's Nail Tarts is glitter topper or flakie and my technique to go with this prompt is splatter. More details after the jump.

The theme for this week was green, purple and orange. To go with this I got the pattern/technique prompt roses.  And this is what I did: More details after the jump.

Shades of green made me think of leaves and vines so I created this look. More details after the jump.

My inspiration for this look was Claude Monet's Irises. More details after the jump.

I've wanted to try this technique for a while and I seem to have acquired quite a few green polishes, so I thought I would see how I could combine a few of them. More details after the jump.

Oh my goodness this was a messy one!  I've never tried this technique before and I needed quite a few goes before I managed to have more than just a splodgy, gloopy mess.  It looked really simple and straight forward in the YouTube videos, but I've fallen into that trap before. More details after the jump.

This was a difficult one because I had to choose favourites.  I cheated a little bit as I used acrylic paint as well but my 3 favourite polishes are in there. More details after the jump.

I've skipped over a few prompts as I'm not happy with the designs I created.  I may post them up later but for now I'm just going to concentrate on sharing the ones I really liked before moving onto a new challenge and posting more regularly. Next up a mani with the same pattern in 3 colours: More details after the jump.

As I've been unwell for the past couple of months I've not had time to edit and upload all my manis for the 33 Day Challenge so I shall be posting quite a lot in the next few days to get them all online. Not one to do things in order I'm going back even further in the challenge and finally posting my South American inspired mani.  I tried to evoke the bright colours and excitement of the Mardi Gras in Rio with this look. More details after the jump.

This is another colourful look inspired by some multi coloured zebra artwork which can be found here . More details after the jump.

I appear to be playing catch up again.  Prepare for lots of posts over the next couple of days and lots of colour.  Summer has come to an end and it is getting very grey and cold in this little part of the world so I decided my nails needed to be a lot more colourful. I had a few ideas for this and I have maybe taken a few liberties interpreting the theme.  I have interpreted pattern as something you might see printed on fabric and I went for neon paint splatter on black. More details after the jump.

The very strong graphic of the red lips against the white face on the cover of Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden inspired this mani. More details after the jump.

I thought I should have a mani with a bit of colour, after yesterday's monochrome.  This is what I came up with: More details after the jump.

First of all I would like to thank everyone for the Liebster award nominations.  I am super busy at work at the moment as I start a new job in 2 weeks and need to get everything ready to hand over before I go.  Also organizing daily posts for the 31 Day Challenge has taken up a lot of my spare time.  However, I will get round to answering all the questions and linking back to everyone's blog when things have calmed down a bit.  This is also the reason I've not been responding to all the lovely comments, but I have read and appreciate them all. Right on with the business of the day and I would like to thank Cazzy Duncan over at SpecialGirl Nails  for testing out how well the 2truc Metallica polishes work for stamping.  As the results were so good I had to acquire them for myself.  I also had a special triple points offer on my Superdrug Beauty Card for the next purchase I made in September (a special offer as it was my birthday). This was the result...

I'm much happier with today's mani than yesterday's polka dots, I was feeling much more inspired.  This idea was taken from a look created by Robin Moses.  You can check out the tutorial video here  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPBdDNuMIf4 More details and another picture after the jump.

The theme for day 4 of the the 31 day challenge is green nails. I love the combination of green and gold and this is what I came up with. More details after the jump.

The final day of this month's challenge and the weather is getting colder and the days are getting shorter. This look was inspired by a comment made by Angie over at Our Painted World http://ourpaintedworld.wordpress.com/2013/08/22/august-tri-polish-challenge-mani-2/  It might be a little early but here are some Autumn/Fall leaves. More details after the jump.

I simplified this  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5by8-8m2uM  design by Robin Moses to something more on my current level. More details after the jump.

I can't believe August is almost over! I've got a couple of more detailed looks to post over the next couple of day but today's mani is a nice quick, simple one. More details after the jump.