Friday 6 December 2013

33DC2013 Day 33 - Freestyle / recreate someone else's mani


It is day 33 of the 33 Day Challenge... the very last day! I actually made it! And managed to post each mani on the day itself! Whoohooo! I finally decided what I wanted to do for the last mani. I really liked Marisa of Hey, Darling Polish' Day 30 manicure. So I have recreated her stripy nails today! I decided to go for pink because I hardly did any pink manicures for this challenge and I needed an excuse to use this glitter!


Polishes from left to right:
  • Essence LE Me & My Ice Cream - 01 Ben & Cherries
  • Essence - 106 Free hugs
  • Barry M - 273 Raspberry
  • NYC - 031 Flame the night

My base was Ben & Cherries, a LE polish I only got because it was discounted. It is a nice shade of pink with a very subtle shimmer, but I doubt I will use it much. The brush was not flat enough, making application a nuisance, it would pull stripes into the polish. Good thing the polish did self-level a lot, otherwise it would have been horrid. Also I needed 3 coats. I dislike polishes that need 3 coats that are not glitter crellies.


The glitter topper Flame the night is very sheer unfortunately, I am wearing two coats on top of Ben & Cherries. I would have preferred a more dense glitter topper myself. It consists of magenta, blue, red and gold micro glitter.




With my smallest nail art brush I freehanded the stripes in the other pinks, free hugs and raspberry. I do like this effect, though Marisa did smaller stripes herself, and I am not sure which I prefer. The smaller ones are nice as well.



Also, please let me know what you think of the larger pictures, is this size good? Do you prefer even larger pictures?

10 comments:

  1. Heel erg leuk! Past allemaal super bij elkaar.

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  2. I love that glitter, I may need to pick that up!

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    1. *chuckles*. Be sure to pick up other NYC polishes as well, I really like them and they wear well on me, for much longer than Essence or Catrice.

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  3. I love this and this definitely made my day when I saw it! Great job (:

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    1. :) Thank you! I'm glad you like it, I loved the colours you used!

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