Coral

Day 2 for OMD2 has Coral as the theme. Instead of just the colour, I decided to take an ocean approach. First is the sketch of my idea.

I chose Sparks Will Fly which is part of the Magnetix collection from China Glaze. It's a blue with a bit of a purply tint to it. It reminds me of blueberries.

Next I have three pictures of the finished product to try to show the colours best. The coral appears a lot more vibrant in real life than it shows up in the pictures but the blue also is more shimmery than some of the other pictures.. For the coral I used Guava by Fresh Paint and did them freehand with a small brush.

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Easter part 2: Pastels

So I did a bit of cheating for this one. Or you could just call it smart. I did some skittle nails for today's design, but I actually did them a couple of days ago. Why? Well because they were the base colours of yesterday's manicure. I don't have a lot of options for pastels in my collection, so these were the best I got. My pinky is the temperature changing one, but I thought that the purple looked better with the rest of the nails since the blue was almost the same shade as my thumb.

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Easter part 1: Eggs

Since I'm doing two challenges (NAIL link up and the Challenge Your Nail Art on facebook) I'm going to be double dipping. The theme for the whole week for NAIL is Easter and the Challenge Your Nail Art has four themes for today through Sunday. Today's theme for Challenge Your Nail Art is Easter Eggs.

I decided that rather than have all of my nails be eggs, I've made my middle nail be the Easter bunny and my thumb a basket of eggs. The background of my pinky nail is the temperature colour change nail polish. I like it better when it was purple, but it was hard to get it cold long enough for the picture. I had to put my nail under cold water to get it to change and I didn't have time to wipe off the excess water because it would change back to blue in the time it took to do that.

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Coral Franken

I made a frankenpolish! I had a small bottle of red nail polish, but I wanted to make an orange. I didn't have orange at all, so I added some yellow to my red. I ended up filling up the bottle and didn't have enough yellow in it to make the desired orange. Instead, I had to mix a bit on a plastic baggy, but I kept this colour in the bottle. I thought it was a beautiful coral colour.