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Monday 21 October 2013

33 Day Challenge: Chinese

It's day 13 of The Crumpet's 33 Day Challenge and here I am, still sticking to it. For today's prompt, Chinese, I was inspired by so many things but unfortunately I had no time to execute any of them so I went for something simple that stuck to the theme. I also want to start using my ever growing collection of nail art supplies. I've stalled my polish shopping lately but now I've moved on shopping on eBay and Born Pretty Store for anything that can be stuck to my nails.

To tackle the challenge and start using some of these supplies, I came up with this mani. 


Which was roughly based on this vase. I googled Chinese vases and this one screamed out at me. I'm not sure of the authenticity of the claim that this is Chinese but it seemed to look like other Chinese pottery I have seen.

I started with two coats of Essence in Grumpy over a base coat and once dry, I stamped over it with Essie's Penny Talk using one of the new Bundle Monster Plates, BM-404. I got some eBay-bought flower water decals ready and started layering them on the blue and gold base but they were too see-through to show up on the darker blue base. I quickly painted my ring finger an thumb with two coats of Sally Hansen in White On and applied a coat of Seche Vite on all my fingers. I could just have applied it on my ring finger to get the white drying quicker but I thought I might as well do them all at that time.

Once that was all dry, I started overlapping the flowers and leaves on the white base and applied one final coat of Seche Vite to seal in the decals.

 I really like how my thumb turned out but I didn't want to show another awkward thumb photo, so I tried two thumb poses. I like this one better...

... but this shows a lot more detail. I think. What do guys reckon?

 

You can sort of see the blue base on my ring finger under the white. I also managed to bump it on something so the blue flower looks  somewhat shapeless. 


Considering my past experiences with water decals, none of which have been documented in this blog... thankfully, I'm pretty happy with the way this mani came out. It makes me wanna play with all the new sheets I have just received. Stay tuned.


 Check out the other talented ladies' manicures.








Till next time, 

Laura
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9 comments:

  1. Craftynail21 October 2013 at 22:59

    Wow pretty! Love the decals

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    1. Laura22 October 2013 at 20:30

      Thank you! I'm loving the decals too and they're soooo cheap!

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  2. Robin22 October 2013 at 02:09

    Really pretty design! I love how you layered the decals, it looks very nice :)

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    1. Laura22 October 2013 at 20:34

      Thanks! There was a lot more depth on the mani like this. I tried putting them just next to each other but it didn't look that great.

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  3. Polish Those Nails22 October 2013 at 11:40

    I love this! I'm glad I'm not the only person who had bright blue on their nails for this prompt haha!

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    1. Laura22 October 2013 at 20:35

      Hehe! I was almost going to go thru the red road but that vase popped up out me first.

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  4. Gelic23 October 2013 at 03:34

    I liked you manicure and I think both of the thumb poses showed the details as good another! As long as they're shown from above and in focus (which these were) I'm all in! :D

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  5. Laura24 October 2013 at 10:09

    Thanks! I'll keep that in mind for future posts. I might even try a few other poses to see what works.

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  6. JQ7 March 2014 at 12:09

    FAVORITE. Super lovely.

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