ZigZag Taped Gradient

I saw this manicure on this great blog by Mimi of makeupwithdrawal.  I just had to try it out.  I did these nails the night before our school summer fete.  The fete was on the Saturday and I got great comments.  I also ran a stall doing nail art.  It was so hot and windy, I had terrible hayfever as all the tables were out on the school field!  Never mind though, I had great nails.

This was done a few weeks ago and I did not make a note of what colours I used!

Blue Patch Triangles

I could have worn my last blue manicure for a week as I like the colour so much.  Unfortunately I got bored and decided to do something different, still  sticking to the blue theme.  I saw this here, a beautiful blog by Sofie.  Go check it out.  This my take....

For this manicure I used:

Color Club - Factory Girl - pale blue

Color Club - Pure energy - medium blue

China Glaze - Eyes Like Sapphires - dark blue

Color Club - Sex Symbol - silver base colour

Stripping Tape

SV Top Coat

I Cherish This China Glaze!

Today I am sporting a lovely shimmery green and black on my nails.  I must admit it took an age to prepare, almost half hour! that is long for me.  Anyway the end result was worth it as I have had lots of compliments on this manicure today.
I would however like to apologise for the dry skin around my fingers, I did my cuticles this weekend using Blue Cross.  This product is great on removing the hard cuticle skin but it does not agree with the rest of my fingers!  Anyway I did a little funky taped manicure.  I put on just one coat of China Glaze Cherish - (it did not need another) and then a coat of Seche Vite.  Then as you can see in the first picture I placed my cut out sticky back plastic design on the nail and then painted it with LA Girl Obsidian, a lovely black with a slight silver shimmer followed by another coat of SV and voila.

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