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    Black and White Day 10: Your Choice

    For the last day of the challenge we decided to recreate our favourite manicure that someone else had created during the challenge. So I had the near impossible task of picking from 42 manicures! In the end, I came to a compromise, I’d dedicate one finger on my hand to my favourite design from each of the other 5 ladies.

    Black and White Challenge Day 10

    Black and White Challenge Day 10

    Pinky Finger, The Lacquerologist: Day 3
    See Emily’s original post here
    W7 Black as a base. Dotted first with Barry M White then again with Rimmel Urban Princess, Barry M Mint Green, NYC Lexington Yellow and Miss Sporty Orange.

    Ring Finger, Nails and Noms: Day 3
    See Rie’s original post here
    W7 Black as a base. Using scotch tape to mark of the triangle closest to my cuticle, I used BYS Flirty Sparkle. I gave up on scotch tape and freehanded the next triangle with Rimmel Daisy Chain.

    Middle Finger, Fab Fingertips: Day 5
    See Esther’s original post here
    A-England Galahad as a base. A-England St George for the first cloud and W7 Black for the second.

    Pointer Finger, Sincerely Stephanie: Day 2
    See Stephanie’s original post here
    Base coat of Barry M White. W7 Black with a striping brush for the center parting. Then I switched to a dotting tool using the same two colours.

    Thumb, Let Them Have Polish: Day 1
    See Christina’s original post here
    Barry M White as my base colour. First I used a large dotting tool and W7 Black, then a slightly smaller dotting tool with Barry M White to dot in the centres.

    Finally, I finished off each nail with two coats of NYC In A New York Minute.

    Black and White Challenge Day 10

    Black and White Challenge Day 10
    Black and White Challenge Day 10
    And finally, pop over to the other ladies’ blogs to see which design they’ve recreated!
    Esther at Fab Fingertips
    Stephanie at Sincerely Stephanie

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    Black and White Challenge Day 9: Water Marble

    I’ve been dreading today since before we even started the challenge. Water Marbling and I are just not friends, never have been, probably never will be! I love the way it looks so much but I’ve never been able to do it to much success.
    I gave it my best shot but after an hour of trying, I was really starting to lose my patience. I even dropped my black polish in the water which was just the last straw and I had to let out a very loud growl of frustration! I don’t think it’s worth sacrificing my sanity for the sake of some nail art so I had to settle for just an accent nail.
    Black and White Skittles

    Black and White Skittles
    For the accent finger, I painted on a base coat of Barry M White and used Wet n Wild White and W7 Black for the marbling. I’m wearing A-England Bridal Veil on my index finger and W7 Black on the others.

    Black and White Skittles

    Black and White Skittles
    Perhaps the other ladies had better luck than I did with their water marbles today!
    Esther at Fab Fingertips
    Stephanie at Sincerely Stephanie

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    Black and White Challenge Day 8: Sponging

    The challenge keeps sneaking up on me this week. I always think I have loads of time to do the manicures because of the three day break in between but it gets to the night before and I realise I still haven’t got any idea what I’m going to do!
    Admittedly, I used sponging on Day 7 but when faced with glitter that’s where my mind immediately wanders. Vice versa when someone tells me to use a sponge, I think glitter!
    A-England Bridal Veil and Girly Bits Into The Night

    A-England Bridal Veil and Girly Bits Into The Night
    I used A-England Bridal Veil – a black scattered holographic – as a base and sponged Girly Bits Into The Night – holographic glitter in a black jelly base – on to the tips!

    A-England Bridal Veil and Girly Bits Into The Night

    A-England Bridal Veil and Girly Bits Into The Night

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    Black and White Challenge Day 7: Black and White with Glitters

    Glitter. I hate the stuff. I truly do. Has anyone noticed that as soon as you touch something with loose glitter on it, you’ll find pieces of glitter all over yourself for the next two days at least?! Luckily, glitter polish isn’t too bad on that account but it still has a habit of sticking to you and putting up a fight when you try to remove it from your nails. 
    I got off lightly with this manicure though. Because there are so many layers of polish, it wasn’t even completely dry underneath when I removed it (about 1 hour after taking the pictures) so I could actually just peel of the whole thing one nail at a time! I can’t imagine how long it would have taken me to get it all off otherwise.
    Black and White Challenge Day 7

    Black and White Challenge Day 7
    I used W7 Cosmic Black – a black jelly packed with Silver glitter – as a base. Then I took a sponge and used it to apply W7 Cosmic Mauve from the tips. Then I added some Wet n Wild White to the mix but because it’s not very opaque, it gave it a milky look. Finally I used a little more Cosmic Mauve right on the tips and used about 3 coats of NYC Top Coat to smooth things over!

    Black and White Challenge Day 7

    Black and White Challenge Day 7
    Click over to see what the other girls have come up with today!
    Esther at Fab Fingertips
    Stephanie at Sincerely Stephanie

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    Black and White Challenge Day 6: Color base with White

    The ‘Skittle mani’ is not a style I sport very often. I think it’s due to my obsession with evenness and symmetry! Nevertheless, I decided to give it a go today when I couldn’t decide which pretty pastel I wanted to use on my nails and I really love the result. I’m really taken with pastels and I think the love is fueled by my desperation for summer’s return after I was given a taste of it the a few weeks back when we had a few days of sunshine!
    I’ve been doing too much online shopping this week and I have my eye on some jewellery from Fresh Trends. I’m a bit of a piercing junkie and I had my anti-helix pierced a few weeks ago as a little birthday present to myself! For whatever reason I didn’t get a chance to mention it at the time but you can see it here!  I had no idea about all the amazing jewellery you can get for the more uncommon piercings like my new addition. I think this is gonna have to go in my rook piercing on the other ear!
    Barry M Pastels

    Stamping Plate: Bundle Monster BM205
    Base Colour: Barry Ms Mint Green, Berry Ice Cream, Blueberry Ice Cream and NYC Lexington Yellow
    Stamping Colour: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Whirlwind White
    Top Coat of NYC

    Barry M Pastels

    Barry M Pastels
    As always, my challenge homies will have some beautiful manicures for you today!
    Esther at Fab Fingertips
    Stephanie at Sincerely Stephanie

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    Black and White Challenge Day 5: Color base with Black

    I’m so excited to post today’s nail art! For Day 5 of the Black and White Challenge – Color base with Black, I’ve created some nail art inspired by the One Ring from The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. I was going to wait to do this for the release of The Hobbit which I thought must be some time soon but it’s not until December!
    This nail art was first posted on Billy the Brime’s Tumblr and couldn’t wait to give it a go myself. Allison’s mani is more accurate to the original source material than mine and fair play to the girl, dang that inscription is fiddly!
    One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them
    One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
    Lord of the Rings Nail Art

    Lord of the Rings Nail Art

    I used Barry M Gold Foil as my base colour and black acrylic paint with a nail art brush for the details.

    Lord of the Rings Nail Art

    Lord of the Rings Nail Art
    Don’t forget to visit the other ladies’ blogs to see their Day 5 manis!
    Esther at Fab Fingertips
    Stephanie at Sincerely Stephanie

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    Holographic, Uncategorised

    Black and White Challenge Day 4: White base with Color

    Netflix is pretty new to the UK and I’ve been signed up for a while now. As is to be expected, though, it’s seriously detrimental to my productivity! I’ve spent the past two days vegging out in front of the TV watching 90’s movies. Some of my favourites include The Parent Trap, Clueless and George of the Jungle! I think I’m going to start watching The IT Crowd this week because I keep seeing hilarious gifs of it on Tumblr!
    Day 4 of the Black and White Challenge calls for a white base with come colour and I knew immediately that I wanted to use a holographic. And what better holographic than THE Holographic. I heard rumours a few weeks ago that GOSH were going to bring back the ‘VHTF’ (Very Hard To Find) polish but then they died down and I’ve heard nothing on the subject since.
    Gosh Holographic and Bundle Monster BM223

    Gosh Holographic and Bundle Monster BM223

    Stamping Plate: Bundle Monster BM223
    Base Colour: Barry M Matt White
    Stamping Colour: GOSH Holographic
    Top Coat of NYC

    Gosh Holographic and Bundle Monster BM223

    Gosh Holographic and Bundle Monster BM223

    Don’t forget to pop over to the other ladies’ blogs to see what they created for Day 4!
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