33DC Indian Design

I decided to go with an intricate design inspired by the sort of patterns often associated with Indian art and henna. Also today is the exciting debut of my new rounded nail shape! I broke off the corner of my middle finger doing some heavy lifting earlier this week and decided to try a new nail shape rather than losing all my length.I was really worried about it but now I really like it :).

I started this design with a base coat of Collection Scorched, then added the details with Deborah Lippmann Through the Fire, NYC Water Street Blue, Full Metal Jacket and my Barry M black nail art pen.

This design came out really well and I love the autumn feel this has with a pop of blue.

Remember to check out everyone else's Indian themed nail art and pop back tomorrow to see a new UK indie polish with some cute nail art (I'll give you a hint, it's about balloons)

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Day 17: Gradient OMD Challenge

Day 17 of the challenge and I am feeling rather uninspired, I've already done multiple gradients in the challenge so I decided to do a greens gradient using three of my untried polishes.

I started by putting down two coats of Collection Hidden. Collection is a really low budget makeup range so I wasn't expecting much from this polish but it definitely surpassed my expectations, a gorgeous khaki green, opaque and self levelled in two coats. Good enough that it deserved its own picture alone, look how glossy it is without top coat!:

I gradiented it with Essie Mohito Madness and Barry M Superdrug Green limited edition. It took several coats to get to this level of opacity and then a lot of clean up because I forgot to sellotape my fingers before I started. I love this gradient it's like from dark to bright.

And then because I can't leave well enough alone I stamped a black grass pattern over the top which I think just completes this design :)

Remember to check out everyone else's gradient manis here.

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