31DC2013 Day 18 : Half Moon < flowers on a knight >

The polish that made a-england famous - Tristam, is one of my top 10 favourite polishes of all time! It is a fail safe staple, goes with everything and a sick formula! Seriously, there's no way you can apply this baby badly. It's that good! Never any flooding of cuticles, never any staining and dries super quick! I mean, like I'll finish painting my last finger and the first one is already dry! I cannot sing enough praises of it.

And so, it is my backdrop for my Half Moon mani for the 31 Day Challenge.

Isn't Tristam gorgeous? It's a purplish blue with subtle scattered holo that's not overwhelming but contains enough depth to catch your attention.

The flower petals were drawn with acrylic paint using the one stroke technique. I added a few stray drops on one of the nails as an accent. 

Quite pretty and dainty and if you use a light base colour, would probably be perfect for a wedding. :)

31DC2013 Day 15 : Delicate Print < butterflies and hearts >

What qualifies as a Delicate Print? That got me wrecking my brains trying to figure out what to do for this theme for the 31 Day Challenge.

I decided well, butterflies are delicate and fluttering hearts are delicate so why not combine the two?

No brush painting needed for my nail art this time, just some dotting tools and regular polish!

The butterfly was painted using only dotting tools of various sizes and the fluttering hearts achieved through the drag mani technique. They did not turn out as well as I'd hope but I'm glad I tried out this technique and I'm also pretty happy with the butterfly. 

I used Bondi New York's polishes for both colours. I'm really on a Bondi binge! LOVE their formula to bits and are these not the most gorgeous greens? 

Polishes used
Bondi NYC - Teal Magnolia
Bondi NYC - The Limelight