ABC Challenge: M is for Magnetic Moons

Howdy, everyone!  We've all made it to Wednesday and that means it's time for another Challenge post!  This week's ABC Challenge letter is "M" and, for once, I had no trouble deciding what to do.  I'm not sure why, but moons popped into my head.  Here's what I came up with:

I had a heck of a time photographing this manicure, so bear with me please.  I promise it looks really cute in real life!  I started with 2 coats of Moon Walk by Love & Beauty (thanks, Liz!), an opalescent polish with holographic glitter.  This polish has a lot more of a pink hue than I was able to capture here and the sparkly bits are just wonderful!  After Moon Walk dried, I pulled out my trusty paper reinforcement stickers and applied them randomly on my nails.  Using China Glaze's Magnetix  in Pull Me Close, I filled in the holes and pulled off the stickers, leaving little "moons" of polish.  While PMC was still wet, I used a magnet to create a pattern sort of like moon craters.  I let everything dry and then, with a small art brush, I painted on clouds with MAC's Vestral White and Cover Girl's NailSlicks in Midnight.

I'm hoping between Magnetix, moons, Moon Walk, MAC, and Midnight that I got enough "M"s in!

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And do take a minute to check out the other ladies participating in the ABC Challenge, I know they appreciate the views and comments, as do I!  You can find them via the thumbnails below.  As always, thanks so much for reading!  

 

Love & Beauty Gradient

Howdy everyone!  I mentioned in yesterday's post about my nail polish buying spree over the weekend...I was supposed to be on a "no-buy".  Yeah, that didn't work out so well lol However, since I bought new polish, I have a fun little manicure to show you today using a couple of the polishes I picked up at Forever 21.

Forever 21's nail polish line is called Love & Beauty, and, as luck would have it, I love them and I think they're beautiful! (See what I did there, huh, did ya?)  This gradient was created using L&B's Blue/Green and Purple polishes.  I'm not being descriptive there, Blue/Green and Purple are actually the names on the back of the polish bottles.  Blue/Green is a really lovely duochrome that shifts from emerald green to teal to bright blue.  You can see a bit of purple and gold shift in the bottle in the photo above.  I didn't find that those shifts translated to the nail, but it's a beautiful polish regardless.  Using a sponge, I dabbed some Purple on the tips of my nails.  Purple is a really deep magenta-y purple almost metallic polish.  To pull everything together and add a bit of depth, I applied a coat of Nicole by O.P.I in Top of My World, an opalescent micro glitter in a clear base. I think ToMW added just the right touch of sparkle, even if I do dislike their bottle and brush.

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