Monday 23 September 2013

31DC2013: Day 21 - Inspired by a colour

Hey there guys!! Hope your start of the week has been ok. This has always been a weird prompt but I knew I was going to do a design based on a nail polish colour.
My original idea went down the drain as it was far too difficult (maybe one day though), also it was totally inspired by a song (which is tomorrow and I've picked a different song anyway). I was stuck, so I looked down on my stash and saw Plum & Get It, and I thought I'd paint a plum, then I looked over and saw Charged Up Cherry, and was like "Fruit!!". Add in Prickly Pear and we have a basket.

It's been very food based for the last couple of days but food is my favourite nail art to do so no complaints whatsoever. I tried to reflect the name of the polish onto the fruit, so prickly pear is prickly in personality not appearance.
My favourite is the cherry, I think it's the cutest. Something subtle I like about the cherry is the stem, I didn't intend for it to look "shaded" but I like the effect. Of course I also had to slam on some holographic glitter.

The plum is basically a purple apple, but trust me plums look like that too. There were probably more fruit polishes I could've used, but I like the combination of these three.
I know it was meant to be inspired by one colour, but when you have a fruit salad you can't take away some of the essential fruits. What's a fruit salad with one fruit? Just a single fruit, that's why I needed three colours (most long-winded and confusing way of explaining that).

Pink: OPI - Charged Up Cherry
Dark Purple: OPI - Plum & Get It
Plum & Get It is a truly lovely polish, the shimmer and the gorgeous shade of purple makes it so, loved having it on for this design.
Purple: Barry M - Prickly Pear
Another beautiful polish here, such a great colour.
Holographic Glitter: Topshop - Razzmatazz
I shall never tire of holographic glitter, it's beautiful and I need more.
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
White: Barry M - Matt White
Red: OPI - Dutch Tulips
Green: OPI - Jade Is The New Black


Thank you for reading and I hope you have a lovely day!! :)

4 comments:

  1. The cherry is so cute! Reminds me of Japanese candy packaging, they have lots of little fruity guys.

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    1. Thanks!! Clearly I'm a fan of that, I need to find some Japanese candy packaging :)

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  2. Hehe!! Super love this mani! Sooo adorable!! I love that you matched the colours to their personality! :D Aw, my fav is prickly pear though! XD It's just way too cute! It looks like its complaining about being paint purple instead of the 'usual' colour! Hahahahahaha!! Poor pear! XD

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    1. Yay thank you!! Haha I thought I purple pear would be very irregular in comparison to the other fruits :D

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