Here’s my second Tuesday Tutorial for you, for the mani I did with Zoya – Dove last week.
First up, a collage for anyone in a rush (or with a huge screen!)
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April Challenge – Day 30 – Recreate
I’m really sad that this challenge is over! It’s been so much fun, and I’ve been very glad to discover some great new blogs 
Today’s is ‘recreate’. Well, I don’t want to recreate one of my own manis, so I’ve copied Craftynail’s Ruffian mani. Click on the image below to check it out!
First of all I tried using the same method as she did. I painted my nails black. Hours later, when it was dry, I added some mani stickers and then painted over with my neutral polish. And when I took the stickers off, it took off half the black… Great ! So I fixed that up and waited for it to dry. The neutral I used, Nice is Nice by Essie, then started to bubble! So with a lot of swearing, I took it all off again !
Then I started again, and put Nice is Nice on first. Then that dried, and I freehanded the flattish half-moons. Then I kept going, and went a bit overboard…
Still, no bubbles this time, hah !
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Short and Sweet in Texas 30 Day April Challenge
April Challenge – Day 29 – Inspired by a song
Only one day left to go ! Today’s challenge is “inspired by a song”. I was really stuck for this one, until I was trying to relax on my super-long commute, and this came on on my mp3 player : ‘Tessellate’ by Alt-J. Especially this bit (well, the only bit I know the words to):
Triangles are my favourite shape,
Three points where two lines meet,
Toe to toe back to back, let’s go,
My love, it’s very late;
‘Til morning comes; let’s tessellate
Cute, right ! And triangles, I can do triangles. Actually, I even managed to do triangles on my right hand too… Can’t begin to tell you how pleased I am about that !
April Challenge – Day 27 – Inspired by Fashion
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Today’s prompt is inspired by fashion. This is the one of the whole challenge that has caused me most trouble ! I’ve been poring through magazines to try and find a fabric with a motif I’d like to copy, and I just couldn’t find anything. So I decided to rip a page out of one of those magazines and do a version of a newspaper mani
Now magazine print isn’t exactly like newsprint, but I think it came off okay ! I didn’t have any rubbing alcohol (or vodka) either, so I used an antiseptic that has about 4% alcohol content (I didn’t want to waste my gin…) – it transferred pretty well. The colours went pretty funky until I topcoated it, then they looked fine.
I’m not sure you can really tell it’s a fashion page, but this is the page I used to start with. I wanted one with pictures small enough to look reasonable on my nails, but I think they were still too large ! :
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Short and Sweet in Texas 30 Day April Challenge
April Challenge – Day 27 – Tutorial –
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I have to admit something. I have a real problem with people telling me what to do, so although I like looking at tutorials to pick up different techniques, this is the first time I have ever followed a nail art tutorial ! This is the original, click on the picture to see the post :
Pshiiit does some amazing nail art, and the tutorial was very simple, but no less effective
The only slight changes I made were to the size of the flowers, and to use Maximillian Strasse Her instead of the pale blue that Pshiiit used; like her though, I used Beyond Cosy for the silver
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Short and Sweet in Texas 30 Day April Challenge
April Challenge – Day 26 – Gradient
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Today is gradient day ! I love a good gradient, so I had fun with this one ! Since spring is coming round, I went for corals – both Essie – Tart Deco is the paler of the two, Meet Me At Sunset is the deeper orangey coral. I also tried a cool new technique (okay, it went up 2 years ago, but it’s new to me !) that I discovered through Tartofraises – I used a fan brush to gradient, instead of a sponge – it’s so much neater ! Tartofraise’s video is here. She uses acrylic paint, but I used nail polish and that worked fine
As sad as I’ll be when this challenge is over, I think my ‘to swatch’ box could do with being looked after !
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Short and Sweet in Texas 30 Day April Challenge
