31DC Galaxy

I wanted to do something a little different for galaxy and try and portray the majority of space which is big and black and dusty. Forgive me for the shine on these pictures, I am going to be making a lightbox asap but I need to find a suitable box first.

I started with a layer of black and then sponged my dark effect polishes over the top. The circles came out of Smitten Polish The Ghost of Jupiter and they represent distant planets and stars. 

The polishes: A England Bridal Veil, Deborah Lippmann Hit Me With Your Best Shot, Dollish Polish The Man in Black and Smitten Polish The Ghost of Jupiter. 

I then matted this and it looks amazing matte, you can see the sparkle in the black undies and more of the colours from The Man in Black. 

Two days of space themed manis, I'll have to try and avoid them for the rest of the challenge. Tomorrow is the dreaded water marble which I am definitely not looking forward to, it's the technique that just doesn't work for me.

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31DC Half Moon

I'm revisiting the very first design I ever posted on my blog with this post, my half moon planets. I still love this idea and am very proud of my little planets.

Obviously my thumb is Earth but the rest are just random planets.

The polishes: Lilypad Lacquer Bluebell, W7 Silver, OPI Eurso Euro, Smitten Polish The Ghost of Jupiter, Tara's Talons Envy in a Bottle, NYC High Line Green, Orly Hook Up, Jessica Goddess, Hare Polish Dauphine of Decadence, NYC Chelsea Cherry, A England Bridal Veil, Dollish Polish The Man in Black.

I'll admit that I am now doing space themed nails two days in a row but I really wanted to recreate these, so tomorrow I will be doing galaxy nails without the galaxy.

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31DC Glitter

For my glitter mani I used a couple of my untried polishes in this design. This is three coats of Dollish Polish I Survived The Fire Swamp a gorgeous flame red jelly polish with red glitter in it. I then topped it with a single coat of Pocket Money Polishes Sunshine which has red, yellow, orange and gold glitter in it.

I stamped with my Moyou Sailor 04 plate and NYC Full Metal Jacket with this fabulous fan pattern. Here is the glitter combination alone, what you can't see in this combination are the glitters in the Dollish which are quite subtle in the red jelly base and the red glitters in Sunshine, but don't they look amazing together.

I'm having a bit of a jelly polish moment right now, I love the options of making jelly sandwiches and I've just ordered a few of the Nails inc ones on sale.

This is a very different colour scheme than what I normally wear so it catches my eye a little more than normal and I really like that :).

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Dollish Polish The Princess Bride Collection Swatch

I bought my first polishes from Dollish Polish last month, I was drawn in by Inconceivable and bought a few others to make the shipping from America worthwhile. These three I have to show you are from the Princess Bride Collection and I have already shown you Just Keep Swimming here. I will start off with The Man in Black, hastily added to my order at the last minute after I saw how many colours there were in its shimmer, followed by Is This a Kissing Book? which contains glitters of different shapes, shiny but in what I would call pastel hues and I will then finish with the show stopper Inconceivable.
The Man in Black

I love this polish- the base is so dark but the shimmer is intense and incredibly colourful!

This is a shimmer so although it gives a similar effect to polishes such as Butter London The Black Knight the removal is very easy. I matted my ring finger in the following photo to try and show off the range of colours in the shimmer.

Is this a Kissing Book?
This is a gorgeous pastel glitter (but not matte) and I decided to showcase it over a dark polish, OPI Every Month is Oktoberfest.

This is a great combination, with one coat of Is this a kissing book? showing up perfectly over the darker polish.

I then matted the mani to show the detail in the polish.

Inconceivable
I dabbled on some of Inconceivable on top of The Man in Black, it is a mass of different colours and shapes of glitter.

This polish is amazing, I will put it over a paler polish soon to show off the shapes and colours that are there.

I'm so glad I bought into this collection- the polishes all have fantastic formulas and are all very unique in my collection. My surprise favourite is Is this a kissing book? I just love the pastel glitter and the combination of shapes.

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Day 28: Inspired by a TV Show OMD Challenge

I was inspired by the TV show Castle in particular a line in this segment from the first episode where Castle says that his 'safe word' is apples.

I have a Cheeky stamping plate with apples on it so I did dual tone stamping over a base of OPI Every Month is Oktoberfest and Dollish Polish Is this a Kissing Book? I'm not going to speak much about the base other than to say that it is awesome because I am featuring it in a different post.

The polishes I used to stamp with are 2 True Arete and Barry M Magnetic Burgundy.

Check out everyone else's TV inspired manis here.

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Day 24: Inspired by a Tutorial OMD Challenge

I used this challenge to show off one of my new Dollish Polishes, Just Keep Swimming, a gorgeous blue jelly polish with blue, yellow, black and white square glitter. I then used a Nuthin' but a Nail Thing tutorial to create this design with my Barry M Black nail art pen, OPI Mourning Glory and OPI Candle Light.

I chose to do my dots in yellow and black to mimic Dory's colouring.

I love this polish and the design reminds me of designs in glass beads.

Check out everyone else's tutorial designs here.

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