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#GetLucky - Freestyle/Week 11 Fingerfood's Theme Buffet - St Patrick'sDay

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Happy St Patrick's Day! Last day of the challenge today, and that means the prompt for today is 'Freestyle'.  I recently tried grunge type nails, and really liked them, so decided I'd do an Irish flag inspired one. I then thought it looked unfinished, and was at a loss as to what to do when I saw a sharpie and decided to go for drawing the Guinness harp logo... It didn't turn out too badly! I used: Barry M - mint green (light green) Barry M - peach melba (light orange) Rimmel - tangerine queen (darker orange) Cynthia Rowley - unnamed (darker green) JESS - (white) Black Sharpie. And here is my final mani for this challenge: Taken in different lights. Numbers 5,6&7 have a filter effect on them. I was going to do a whole new post for Fingerfood's Theme Buffet Week 11, however, the mani I did didn't turn out very good at all and I mucked it up before I'd taken photos... So I decided to just ad

#GetLucky - Shamrocks

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Day Three and today's prompt is 'Shamrocks' (along with a few other things, however, I chose to base my mani on shamrocks).  This was the day I had an idea in mind for as soon as I saw the prompt list. I used Gems to make the leaves of the shamrocks - which have 3 leaves (it is clovers that come with a 4 leaved 'lucky' version). They didn't turn out as brilliant as I had hoped. I had to do orange instead of white because I got frustrated with my whites as they weren't going on right! Then I found it quite tricky placing the gems with my left hand!  I prefer the gem placement on my index finger and the stem on my ring finger!! And now, picturesss: Again, I planned then out on the templates downloaded from www.nail-lacquer.co.uk . I changed white to orange because my white polishes were annoying me when I did the mani! I think it would have looked fresher with white. Next year!!

#GetLucky - Irish Inspired

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Day Two and the prompt is 'Irish Inspired'.  I have gone for the Irish Flag and some plaid.  I think my nails look Irish-ish, and they feel very bright!! My first time attempting plaid on my nails, and I'm really pleased with how it turned out, I just wish I'd used the same green for it rather than opting for a nail art pen. Next time! I used: Sinful Colors (orange) - Courtney Orange W7 (green) - Matt Green China Glaze (white, thumb) - Snow MUA (white, middle/ring) - All Nude Rio Art Pen (green/yellow). Here are the pictures of my mani: I planned it out (on the wrong hand!!) using templates from www.nail-lacquer.co.uk :)

#GetLucky - Shades of Green

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This is a 4 day challenge set up by Jessica at Be Happy and Buy Polish, ready for St Patrick's Day.  Today is Day One and the prompt is 'Shades of Green'.  I really like how this turned out.  I didn't really plan it, I chose my shades of green and I just went for it.  Should have used striping tape for neater lines but was planning on finishing it off with glitter lines or black lines, but I thought that would cover up most of the green and went for a glitter topcoat instead so the lines weren't too obviously not perfectly straight. I don't like green very much, but I definitely didn't mind having this in my nails :) For this mani I used: Beautifly - Holo Glitter Top Coat (Darkest to Lightest Green) W7 - Matt Green Sally Hansen - Kiwi Bikini Primark - Unnamed Green Barry M - Mint Green Here is my mani: