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?

Fri 6 Dec – freestyle / recreate someone else’s mani

1. Vic and Her Nails	2. Glam-madam	3. Kerruticles
4. Polished Polyglot	5. Sam @ FingerFood	6. Pearl (preciouspearlmakeup)
7. Pretty Polishes	8. Druid Nails	9. The Lacquer Confessionals
10. Be Happy and Buy Polish	11. Hey, Darling Polish!	12. Claire @ nuthin' but a nail thing
13. A girl and her chicken named Betty	14. Nail Addict	15. Penny Pinching Polish
16. Petite & Polish	17. byKATUSH	18. lost and found: Day 33 and desperation
19. CrazyPolishes(Dimpal)	20. MegsManicures	21. byKATUSH
22. Enigmatic Rambles	23. SpecialGirl Nails	24. Superficially Colorful
25. Lucky Lucky Lacquer	26. Obscenely Blue	27. Acetone Files
28. My Adventures in Nail Art	29. Glowstars	30. Cómo te pintaste

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