Hello and welcome to Wednesday! It's Mish Mash Challenge day, of course, and I have to tell you that my mani this week holds quite a bit of fail. The color didn't really work for me and neither did my technique :( I could have redone it, but I'm short on time this week and sometimes I like to show you guys a mistake or two, just to bring myself back down to earth lol Alright, on to the fail...er...manicure!
So what I was trying to do was recreate my Tiers of Teeny, Tiny Triangles manicure from the ABC Challenge. It's one of my favorite manicures I've ever done, and I though it might be pretty in fall colors. It might be, but not in these fall colors lol I started with the For Sweater or Worse swatch I wore yesterday as a base. Then, I painted some scotch tape with Sation's Dating the Duke and Sinful Colors Out of Bounds. After the polish dried, I cut strips of triangle shapes with pinking shears. I placed the strips on my nails, trimmed the edges, and topped everything with Seche Vite.
As I said before, this color combo just does not work for me! I thought there was no way to make FSOW look bad but this seemed to bring out a muddy brownish tone to it...which made me sad. Then my edges...oh, the horror! For some reason, my trimming scissors stuck to the tape and pulled the polish out of whack at the edges of my nails, so everything ended up bumpy. To add insult to injury, I laid on my SV too thickly and got beaucoup de bubbles! So much sad *sigh*. Oh well, we win some, we lose some!
Please take some time to look over the other Mish Mashers' manis for this week. I am quite sure they came up with much more creative and more expertly executed work than I did lol You can find them via the thumbnails below! Thanks so much for reading!
Hi there, folks. I want to start my post tonight with thankfulness that my friends and family who live in Oklahoma are safe and sound. I know there are a lot of people who cannot say that today. It's unfathomable to me how those affected by the tornado must be feeling now and my heart goes out to them. It felt wrong not to acknowledge the awfulness that's happened, I hope you understand.
On to my ABC Challenge post for the week. Amazingly, we've come to 'T' in our traverse of the alphabet...I can't believe we're so close to the end! Much like 'R', I struggled with what to create for this challenge. There are ton of 'T's in the world, but nothing was speaking to me. I finally decided to keep it simple and go with some cute triangles.
I started with 3 coats of Sinful Colors Tidal Wave, a barely-there light blue creme and one of SC's new Sail La Vie collection polishes. I love the color here, but the formula was a bit streaky and draggy. It did even out after 3 coats, but I was a bit disappointed. It won't, however, stop me from blowing part of my paycheck on a few more polishes from Sail La Vie and their Pool Side Polishes collection as well.
After Tidal Wave, I used a pinking shears to cut into blue painters tape to create the triangles. The top tier of triangles were created with Sinful Colors Poudre, a light peach creme. The middle tier is Wet 'n' Wild Megalast in Club Havana, a light coral creme. The last tier closest to my cuticles is NYC's Times Square Tangerine, which is, as the name suggests, a tangerine creme (it also allowed me to squeeze a few more 'T's in!).
I love how this turned out! It reminds me of that fabric bunting that you all over Etsy these days. The color combination works well and, overall, it turned out to be a bright, cheery summer mani and what's not to like about that?!
Please take a few minutes to check out the other participants in the ABC Challenge. You can find their posts via the thumbnails below. Thanks so much for reading!
