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    Day 31: Recreate Your Favourite Challenge (Double Feature)

    9th November 2011
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    Today, the 31 Day Challenge comes to an end for Me, Rie and Cris. There’s been some ups and downs but I’ve loved the whole experience. It will be nice to go back to posting whatever I want when I want but I’m slightly afraid that I’ve forgotten how to create manicures without a list to follow!
    Cris, Rie and I were discussing what ‘Recreate Your Favourite Challenge’ actually means and in the end we just decided to recreate our favourite challenge from each others’ previous 30 days.
      
    It’s a long post so you can see more after the jump…

    From Rie’s challenge, I wanted to recreate her ‘Inspired by Fashion’ nails. She was inspired by some incredible Alexander McQueen shoes. To see and Rie’s mani and the shoes that inspired it, click here.
    I love Rie’s mani because it translate the shoe perfectly on to her nails. The finished look is so simple and elegant which is everything I look for in a manicure.
    I used E.L.F Innocence as a base and I don’t have the same Konad plate she used so I went for a design from one of my fauxnad plates which I stamped with Barry M Grey first, then Barry M Silver Foil. I sponged on a little silver glitter and added a top coat of NYC, et voila!

    From Cris, I decided on her Flower nails from Day 14. She used a combination of stamping, freehand and dotting to create a beautiful vibrant manicure. Click here to see her mani.
    I love Cris’s flower mani because every time I look at it I can’t help but feel a little warmer inside. It gives me a much needed reminder of summer now that the winter is kicking in. 
    I used A-England Galahad as a base and Wet n Wild white for stamping with BM12. For the detail on the flowers, I used Collection 2000 Spangles and Rimmel Funky Diva. The Rhinestones are from Viva La Nails, and of course I used NYC Top Coat to finish it all off.

    Don’t forget to head over to Cristina and Rie‘s blogs to see four more manicures today! I really cannot wait to see them!

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    Day 30: Inspired by a Tutorial

    8th November 2011
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    Here we are at the penultimate day of the challenge and I’m getting a little emotional. This amazing journey will soon be over for Me, Chris and Rie so I’m gonna go out with a bang and give you the most awesome manis I can for the next two days!

    Today I had to pick a tutorial to inspire my nails and I’ve always wanted to try out some of Jane @ Nailside‘s amazing designs. Jane comes up with the most amazing uses for scotch tape and her nails always look incredible.

    I really wanted to try recreating her explosion design but I’m not very good with scotch tape so that went belly up very quickly and I decided to try her cartoon hearts. Swoon.

    Follow me over to Cristina and Rie‘s tutorial inspired nails today.

    My base colour is A-England Elaine. I used whit acrylic paint and Nails Inc. Shoreditch for the hearts, then topped it off with a few coats of NYC Top Coat.

    I won’t give you any details of how I achieved this look, you’ll have to head over to see the tutorial at Nailside [here] and you can check out all of Jane’s simple but stunning tutorials here.

    For ‘Day 31: Recreate Your Favourite Challenge’ we’ve decided to pick our favourite challenges from each other so check back tomorrow for a double feature!

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    Day 29: Inspired by The Supernatural

    7th November 2011
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    Today’s nails are kind of boring. I really couldn’t think of anything supernatural except for ghosts so that’s what we’re getting today! It’s funny that I never used this stamp before Halloween and now I’ve used it twice in one week!

    Don’t forget to check out Cristina and Rie‘s supernatural nails today!

    The base colour is W7 Metallic Neptune and I used Sally Hansen Whirlwind White to stamp the ghost from Bundle Monster plate BM223. Then, of course, I added a top coat of NYC.

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    Day 28: Inspired by a Flag

    6th November 2011
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    Today’s nails were a no brainer for me from the very start of the challenge. I always knew I would base them around the Union Jack and the flags of each part of Britain.

    Did you know that even though the United Kingdom is a country itself it’s split further into four countries – England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland? Don’t ask me how it works, that’s just the way it is! (more info here). I decided to leave out Northern Ireland because there were a few possibilities and I didn’t want to get it wrong!

    Just some personal trivia for you – I was born in England but now live in Wales and I’ve spent my whole life travelling between the two for work, school and leisure. In the town where I live, there’s a small bridge over one of the rivers that runs between the two where you can stand with one foot in England and the other in Wales!

    I really can’t wait to see what Cristina and Riehave come up with today.

    Index to Pinky:
    Scotland, Wales, United Kingdom, England

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    Day 27: Inspired by Artwork

    5th November 2011
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    On Thursday night, I found myself deep in conversation with a friend of mine who’s spent some time travelling around Australis we got on to the topic of Aboriginal Art and suggested I do some nails in the same style. At the time, I didn’t catch on to the fact that today’s nails had to be inspired by Artwork but when she sent me a link to some images it was like… *lightbulb*!

    This is a piece by Colleen Wallace Nungari and was my main influence today.

    Click over to see Rie and Cristina‘s Art inspired nails today!

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    FAQ: Inspired by Fashion

    4th November 2011
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    Thank you for the amazing response to yesterday’s post! I’ve been overwhelmed reading all your lovely comments and tweets. There were a few questions that kept popping up in the comments so I thought I’d do a quick little FAQ to answer your queries.

    Where did you get the studs?
    They are from Viva La Nails and come in a huge range of colours. You can also get them from Born Pretty Store and I’m sure there must be countless other online stores that sell them. Just search for ‘bullion’.
    Viva La Nails
    Born Pretty

    How did you place the studs?
    I used a cocktail stick/toothpick to pick them up and place them on the nail. I dipped the very end of the stick in a little bit of clear nail polish to make it tacky so the bullion would stick to it.

    How did you get the studs to stick?
    One nail at a time, I applied a coat of clear nail polish – one that I know is slow drying – and then placed the beads on and pushed them down into the polish a little. When I’d finished my whole hand, I added a topcoat of NYC which sealed all the work and made the mani nice and shiny.

    How well did the studs stay on?
    They actually stayed on really well. Because they’re only teeny tiny, I found that they didn’t really catch on anything. I did some fiddly work with my hands and a few of them got forced off but if I was careful with with them, I’m sure they’d have lasted all day (at least). Like many of you said you would too, I ended up picking them all off after about 8 hours of wearing them!

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