Showing posts with label lace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lace. Show all posts

Monday, 1 September 2014

The totally doable I have a life challenge! - Classy lace design

Hello there guys!! Happy September guys!! This is my catch up design for the first day of the challenge: classy. It's a very broad theme but I like that, means I can branch out in crazy directions. Nothing says classy to me like lace. Also recently I have been loving lace tops, they're so pretty.
On another another note I was wearing this design during my week off blogging (which was a while ago now...), where I was a leader in a summer scheme (it exhausted me, which was part of the reason I took a break) and the people liked this design (and the tropical beach one :)). This design also got destroyed by paint in that summer scheme when I joined the face painting crew hahahaha.
Yes I'm still doing this challenge when the 31 Day Challenge has started to roll. There is no way I'm doing that challenge unless I was insane. Girl has work to do. Girl has a life to run. That was the point of this challenge and the 31 Day Challenge is the opposite :P

I wanted the simplicity of black and white. I like white lace after all. I used an image from google images and changed it up a bit. Mostly from the fact that the lace is very fat (which it's ok with, it's accepted itself :P).
So there's mostly flowers and some hearts. Some curly lines and some leaves. I added extra lines within to make it more lacy? I do like it.

As you might be able to guess I got my toothpick and white polish and got to werk. My white polish is reaching gloopy stage (the stage every white polish inevitably gets to) but it's lasted much longer than other weaker white polishes. I also added a touch of glitter though the same toothpick method.

Black: Topshop - Gypsy Night
White: Barry M - Matt White
White textured polish: Barry M - Lady
Silver glitter: Barry M - Silver Glitter
Bonus glitter!: Essie - Shine Of The Times


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

Sunday, 15 September 2013

31DC2013: Day 15 - Delicate Print

Hi there guys!! Delicate print is always a weird one and I've approached it from a weird angle. I thought of pretty delicate things and I thought of a doily (those paper things with shapes cut out) or lace hearts, this design can be interpreted as either.

When I first finished I wasn't very impressed, it's busy cause I abused glitter (it happens all the time here) and colour in general, but give it a day and I quite like it. On the "like" ratio it's between "quite" and "really" like.
You don't even know the difference the rainbow glitter in a white base and the silver glitter in the black base made. Personally I think they made ALL the difference, it made the design from "meh" to "pretty", I don't even know how but thank goodness for that. The shapes don't look particularly like hearts but that doesn't bother me.

I also get a childish feel from this look considering all the different colours of glitter used. My glitters played nice today, like I see these in a different light now.
Well the pastel glitter on my thumb in a slightly worse light as I forgot I can't use that glitter unless my nails are really long, the coverage wasn't good and it doesn't look it's best over purple. But the other glitters were great.
I got no bubbles from Minnie Style and it looked nice (but it tinted the base a light mint green which was weird), I like Excuse Moi! over a hot pink (as I don't like the base of Excuse Moi! by itself) and Barry M Amethyst is gorgeous!! I really liked the mix of glitter but I thought you could only go for the glitter packed look. I was being stupid, if you wipe most of it away you can get a light coverage and it's so pretty, I shall definitely be using this more as it's lovely and won't be a nightmare to remove! :)

Bases:
Thumb: Illamasqua - Jo'Mina and Etude House - WH901
Index: Barry M - Prickly Pear and Barry M - Ruby
Middle: The Face Shop - GR501 and OPI - Minnie Style
Ring: The Face Shop - PK105 and OPI - Excuse Moi!
Pinky: Revlon - Dreamer and Barry M - Amethyst
Black (con silver glitter): Lovely Me:Ex - Black and OPI - Metallic 4 Life
White (con rainbow glitter): Lovely Me:Ex - White and The Face Shop - Vanilla Sugar Yogurt 01


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