Polished Art: music

Wednesday, 24 October 2012

31 Day Challenge - Day 22: Inspired by a Song

Right, I shall make my excuses first, and then I shall show you my nails. This was supposed to be posted on Monday, and I actually did them on Saturday so that I was all ready and prepared to post on time for a change. Monday I ended up going into London to meet some friends and family, so I didn't get a chance to post, and subsequently yesterday I was too hung over too function, and looking at a computer screen for long enough to write a post was well beyond my capabilities. I hate alcohol.

But anyway, today I am hangover free and feeling good about the world again, so here are my day 22 nails!

The song I chose as my inspiration was The Girl by City and Colour (I'll post the video at the bottom of this post).

For the sky I used 2True No. 49 with a little bit of Barry M Berry Ice Cream sponged on just above the horizon. The sea was made up of 17 Seabreeze sponged with OPI Mermaid's Tears, and the ship was painted using Barry M Grey. Then I added some gems and pearls to represent the diamond rings and delicate strings of pearls he sings about.

Here's the video for those of you who aren't familiar with the song (I hope this is the video anyway, I can't actually watch it because I'm still using the dongle...so apologies if it's something else entirely!).

Next up in the challenge, which I will hopefully post tomorrow, is inspired by a film. I'm thinking Lion King...

Have a look at how everyone else is getting on with the challenge:

Kimber at Kimber's Lacquer Korner

Kat at Hooked On Polish

Diana at Nails By Diana

Meredith at Perfectly Polished

Kate at The Painted Pony Nails

Cee at Absolutely Cee

Nail Narcotics

Nicole at Nicole Gets Nailed

Shelby at Shelby's Swatches

Stephanie Louise at All Things Beautiful

Mixed Mama

Joanna at Sweet Polish of Mine

Patty Greenberg

Liz and Lisa at Lozlosa

Mari at Nailista

Greta at How Was Your Day?

Miss L at Beauty by Miss L

Gini at Sassy Paints

Chameleon Stampede

Pam at Nail-E-Glance

Me, Myself and Polish

Friday, 7 September 2012

31 Day Challenge - Day 7: Black and White

Bonjourno!

Today is day 7 (I think...I keep getting my challenges mixed up) of the 31 day challenge, and the theme is black and white! I thought this seemed an appropriate occasion to whip out Konad plate M73 and use the music/piano image. I initially pictures this manicure differently - I wanted to use different parts of the stamp on each nail, so that some would just have the keyboard, some just the music and that. However, the image was a lot larger in my head than it actually is, no I couldn't do that.

Here's what I ended up with.

I used Barry M Matt White and an FCUK unlabeled black (I've given up on my 17 one because the bottle's too empty now...).

It took my like a million attempts to get all 6 nails stamped...I don't quite know what I was doing wrong, but I guess I got there eventually. Ish.

Next up will be metallic nails on Monday.