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.

Check out all the other lovely participants:

Kimber at Kimber's Lacquer Korner

Kat at Hooked On Polish

Diana at Nails By Diana

Aly at Wonderland Beauty

Meredith at Perfectly Polished

Nicole at The Color Republic

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

My Favourite Things: Hearts and/or Love

So I've shelled out the ridiculous prices once again for a meagre amount of internet usage. Sorry I haven't been replying to any comments over the last few days, it's just a pain with having such limited internet access. Hopefully on Saturday I'm going to find my way into town and locate somewhere that can sell me a dongle.

Anyway, on to more important matters! It's day 8 in the My Favourite Things challenge hosted by Kelly at Ooh La La Polish! The theme is hearts and/or love. This is also one of my attempting-to-wear-nail-polish-to-work-without-getting-told-off manicures. Expect to see more of these...

I used OPI Don't Pretzel My Buttons and Barry M Matt White.  I think my heart drawing technique needs a bit of work...but I did do these at like 7am...

Only two more manicures left now!  Next up is flowers on Tuesday and then my favourite mani on Thursday.  I shall have to have a nose through everyone's manis so far and decide what I want to do for that one...

Also, what do you all think of the bigger photo size and the border I've added?  Yay or nay?  It'd be great to get your opinions in the comments.

Polish Days: Geometry

Yes, it's that time again!

This month's theme, in celebration of all the kids going back to school (and me not having to!  Thank goodness I gave up teaching!) is geometry.

I decided to interpret this very literally and draw some triangles.  

I used to HATE geometry.  I love the rest of Maths, but geometry...ugh.  Our teacher used to give us like 50 questions to do of the same thing, and we had to draw a diagram for every single questions.  And our diagrams had to be done using a ruler and pencil and all that business.  So this meant when you were doing something like Pythagoras' Theorem, you'd end up drawing like 50 identical right-angled triangles.  ARGH!

Anyway, I used China Glaze Stone Cold (a recent addition to my collection) and a white nail art pen.

And I'm done with my posts for today!  I don't know when I'll next be online, seeing as the NHS haven't been so kind as to provide me with internet access, but hopefully I'll get on again in time to post the next My Favourite Things post on Thursday!

31 Day Challenge - Day 6: Violet

Here's post number 2 of 3! It's day 6 in the 31 day challenge and the theme is violet! For this mani I attempted to use tape again. It was more successful than previous attempts, although still not perfect.

I used some craft scissors to cut tape with a squiggly edge, and then I added the dots using a dotting tool.  The polishes are Jessica Ruffled Bottoms and Stargazer 232.

And here's what coming up  (if you don't know it by heart by now).

Have a ganders at all the other violet nails today:

Kimber at Kimber's Lacquer Korner

Kat at Hooked On Polish

Diana at Nails By Diana

Aly at Wonderland Beauty

Meredith at Perfectly Polished

Nicole at The Color Republic

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

Teal Tuesdays: Ovarian Cancer Awareness

Today's a bit of a special Teal Tuesdays.  September is Ovarian cancer awareness month in the US, so the group was asked if we'd like to make the theme of one of our Tuesday manicures Ovarian cancer awareness.  We've got loads of extra people from outside of the group joining in today, and we've even got Inlinkz for the occasion!

So here's my manicure, I decided to keep it simple.

The three polishes I used are Barry M Matt White and Teal, and OPI Mermaid's Tears.

If you want to find out more about ovarian cancer, have a look at Target Ovarian Cancer or Ovarian Cancer Action.

Hopefully the Inlinkz code below works so you can see all the other manicures!