Emma's Space

The prompt for day 3 of the  30 Days of Colour Challenge  is Pink . This is a new and untried pink for me which I received as part of a gift for my Birthday.  It is Miss Beauty London Gel in Tutti Frutti.  I was so impressed with this polish, as it was almost a one coater!  Here is what it looked like after one coat:   And here is the polish after two coats (no base or top coat):

Day 2 of the 30 Days of Colour September 2015 Challenge is Yellow.  The yellow I have chosen is Revlon 310 Beach.  I rarely wear yellow, but I'm surprised by how much I am liking this colour!  Pictures below show four coats, no base (tut tut) or top coat.

I was recently added by Dawn ( Sassy Nails ) to a group on Facebook called 30 Days of Colour Challenge .  I can't wear nail polish at work, but I will try and participate as much as I can this month! So let's get started then.... The red I have chosen for Day 1 is 310 Red Carpet by Rimmel London.  As you can see from the bottle, it's not one of my newer polishes, so I thought it would be nice to dust it off for this challenge.  The subtle gold shimmer is lovely, but only properly comes to life when viewed in the sunshine! Pictures below show two coats with no base or top coats.

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...

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!!

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 :)

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: