Khaki Stripes

My latest creation....

I wanted to use my lovely khaki coloured nail polish as I hadn't used it in aaaaaages. I decided to play around with some free hand work too. So all those stripes have been done free hand. Like I have said many times before, I am not very good at free hand work so I thought this would be an easy (and safe) way to practise.


I started off by painting my thumb, pointer and middle finger with the beautiful  L'Oreal - Rivegauche Green and for my pinky I used NYC - Park Ave. 

In the pictures I could really tell the difference between the two colours but out in the 'real world' the colours looked really similar and lots of people thought I had used the same colours for all 4 nails, which was a bit disappointing.

For my ring finger, I places a label sticker (those label round ones) and I painted one some stripes using the two colours from my other fingers along with Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear - White On and BC&Co. Shade 11. 


I then took the sitcker off and drew a black line to make it neater.




What do you think??

Gems!!!

I have been waiting sooo long to try out my gems. On this very rainy Saturday afternoon I thought I'd have a go at using them. My original idea was going to be VERY colourful but I didn't think it suited the cooler weather. So I went with the black, khaki and gold.

I started with paint my first two fingers with Rimmel Cab Black and the rest in L'Oreal Rive Gauche Green.

I used a base coat to stick the the gems on and added a top coat afterwards. Make sure you don't touch the top coat while it's drying. If you touch them the top coat may smudge and it won't be clear.

What do you think?