The colour challenged picks my polishes

So I am jumping on the bandwagon of people who have had their significant other choose a few nail polishes for them to do some nail art with and today my lovely Stuart picked out NYC Lexington Yellow, piCture pOlish Orbit, Pocket Money Polish Yellow Submarine and OPI Taylor Blue. While I'm mentioning Taylor Blue Work, Play, Polish posted today that it's going to be sold again in November so check out the link to her blog to read about that.

I really don't use ruffian nail art enough, it's really suited to the round shape that my cuticles have. I loved the look here before I added Orbit although I do like the dark contrast on the tips.

I thought I would talk you through my thought process here: I knew that the yellow would have to go on first because it is definitely a two coater and I would struggle to get it opaque over either of the blues. I then thought it would be really cool to have a bright pop of colour be painting on the OPI as a ruffian and then putting the PMP over the top tying those colours together. I meant to use Orbit to do the ruffian on my accent nail but totally forgot so the only way I could think of to include it without throwing the whole mani off was to paint on a thin tip with it but it's quite thick and difficult to manipulate.

Not too bad really :), at one point he had both of the blues and an orange very sheer jelly polish and I was worried. I had fun doing this and it was really interesting to see what my boyfriend pulled out of my collection.

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31DC Yellow bees

I decided to use one of my untried glitters for this, Tara's Talons More polish less speed, I used NYC Lexington Yellow as a base and on the bee nails. This was a little on the fly but I really like where it ended up.

I drew on the bees and trails with my Barry M Black nail art pen. It's so easy to use, 5 months after they first came out they're still one of my nail art staples.

I'm thinking of the glitter as a field of flowers which the bees are flitting between. This is one coat of More Polish, Less Speed it's a real glitter bomb. It was smooth with one coat of topcoat.

I know yellow is not a popular nail polish choice however it is one of my favourites, it's so fun and can brighten up your day instantly. Tomorrow we're onto green, which is a combined swatch and nail art post. 

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Flame Nails

Today's post is a quick one of a flame manicure I did.

I based this on this tutorial by Honeymunchkin. If you're going to try this I recommend waiting until your base colour is dry before you start adding in colours with your striping brush.

The polishes used here are: OPI Every Month is Oktoberfest, I'm not really a waitress, A woman's prague-ative, Bourjois Sunny Sun, Orly Holla, NYC Chelsea Cherry, Digital Nails Bad Wolf and Lac Attack Weasleys' Wizarding Wheezes.

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