19. Chevrons

19 Add a chevron (those triangles) to your purple! Use scotch tape if you need help! http://www.nailnerd.com/chevron-nails/


I had never attempted chevrons before this and I though they looked really difficult but I came upon this tutorial which made it so much easier.

I found the tape method a little fiddle-y but once I got the hang of it I was okay. I definitely need some practise on cutting my strips to the right size, I wasn't very happy with the widths of my chevrons at all.  But practise makes perfect I guess and it was my first try at this.

I added the chevrons over mani number 18 with a nameless black polish from Primark.  Over all  I wasn't too pleased with this mani but I will definitely try the taping method again and try to get it perfect because I really do love chevrons I've seen on other peoples nails...

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18. Purple

18 Wear a purple

Another birthday polish! Trust me, I'm going to be using all my birthday polishes until next year, there are so many of them!

Anyway, onto the polish.

This is Barbara Daly's Waltzer. The pictures really don't do the polish justice. It is a really gorgeous muted purple with a very subtle dark pink shimmer through it. The shimmer doesn't come through on the pictures at all and the purple looks quite washed out and dull here. It really isn't, it's a very dusky, vampy colour and I love it!

I applied a Rimmel base, three coats of Waltzer and a coat of 2true top coat. Application was pretty thin but not too bad, it probably would have been okay with only two coats but I wanted to be on the safe side and not have annoying patches that I would only notice later.

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