31 Days Challege #10 - Gradient

Hah, another easy one! I've told myself lots of times, that for my next gradient I would have to try and replicate the most beautiful gradient I've ever seen! This one...

I tried...it doesn't look exactly the same, I used different polishes, but it does look alike (to my eyes at least xD)!

I started this with 2 coats of O.P.I Fly, placed some striping tape on all of my nails, and then did the gradient using Fly and Essence Grumpy, from the Snow White LE. After that, I applied 1 coat of Hits Valsa and this is the final result:

None of my photos show how awesome this looks in real life and I'm really sad that I need to take this off tonight...but what can I do? The challenge must go on!

Tomorrow we have polka dots and I still have no idea of what to do... :S

31 Days Challenge #9 - Rainbow

This one was easy, I knew exactly what I wanted to do!

I started with 2 coats of Purple Professional #32, then, on my accent nail, I placed some striping tape and then painted each remaining space with the rainbow colours. For this I used Kiko 334 (2 stripes), Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure Good to Grape, O.P.I Fly, Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Limewire, Sally Hansen  Xtreme Wear Mellow Yellow, Basic #291 and Andreia #40 (2 stripes).

Some stripes don't look perfect, but I'm happy with this, I think it looks cute! xD

Playing with some striping tape

Some days ago I found some cheap striping tape and I couldn't wait to try it out. I always see some really cool manicures using it and this time I fell in love with this one, so I recreated using different colours.

For this I used Kiko #387 Turquoise and Basic #281. Can't really say much about Basic's formula, as I only used it for those bits, but the Kiko's was absolutely amazing! I was really surprised, the only other Kiko I used before was a bit on the tick and gloopy side, but this one was just perfect! Perfect consistency, perfect coverage in 2 coats, the brush is really good and makes application so much easier and the colour is just fantastic!