Showing posts with label Polish Days. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Polish Days. Show all posts

Tuesday, 6 November 2012

Polish Days - MANicure

It's Polish Days time again and Novembers theme is MAN-icure.
I'm sure you are all aware by now about Movember. But just in case you are not, each November men all over the UK sport a moustache for the duration of the month to raise funds and awareness for men's health, specifically prostate cancer and testicular cancer.
Obviously this is a bit tricky for us ladies but we can show our support in other ways.
Such as on our nails!
For this months theme we were given the choice to go with the Movember moustache or a tribute to an important man in our lives, I had a choice of five men, and I chose them all!






The thumb is a computer circuit board to represent my Dad who works with computers, don't ask me what he does because I have no idea! I'm just going to call it magic!

The index finger is and Xbox symbol to represent MrGT. Yep, I am an Xbox widow.

The middle finger is lots of little toy cars to represent my four year old son, he is, as most four year old boys are, completely car mad.

The ring finger is an anchor to represent my father in law who is ex-navy.

And lastly the pinky is tartan to represent MrGTs Grandad who is Scottish and proud!

I used lots of polishes for this so I will try my best to list them all for you.
Thumb - Base No7 Totally Teal. Lines Barry M Mint Green. Dots Barry M Black.
Index - Base Nails Inc Charlotte Street. The X is a mix of Barry M Yellow, Mint Green and Spring Green. The Highlight is a mix of Barry M Matt White and Nails Inc Charlotte Street.
Middle - Base Barry M Matt White, Cars Barry M Bright Red, Spring Green, Yellow, Cobalt Blue. Wheels Barry M Black and Silver Foil.
Ring - Base Barry M Cobalt Blue. Anchor mix of Barry M Silver Foil and Black.
Pinky - Base Barry M Bright Red. Stripes Barry M Spring Green, Yellow and Matt White.

This was done in a bit of a mad rush so I could get the photos taken before we lost the natural light, so it'd not as neat as I would like but I'm still incredibly pleased with it and very proud to be wearing it!

♥ A ♥



Tuesday, 9 October 2012

Polish Days - Sentimental

It's Polish Days time again and this months theme was Sentimental.


This one was easy for me. It could only be Nails Inc Montrose Place.


It is a gorgeous, blue toned, iridescent hot pink with a blue/purple flash.
I picked this polish for three reasons.
1. This is one of the first Nails Inc polishes I bought. I bought it in a pack of four from TKMaxx and it sparked the beginning of my nail polish obsession.
2. I wore this polish to my first dress fitting for my wedding dress. I remember standing very still in my dress chatting to the shop assistant about my nail polish, whilst the seamstress pulled and pinned. 
3. It was also the polish I wore for my Hen Do.

I didn't want to just do a plain swatch so I added some rhinestones and a peony accent nail as they were the main flower in my wedding bouquet, and as the polish brings back some happy wedding planning memories I thought it would be quite fitting.






The polishes used on the ring finger were - 
Barry M Matt White.
Barry M Shocking Pink mixed with Matt White for the various shades of pink.

♥ A ♥






Tuesday, 4 September 2012

Polish Days - Polish Geometry

This months Polish Days theme is Geometry free to interpret however we please, be it a tricky tape mani or something simple with dots.
Once again I had no idea where to go with this one so Google became my friend!
I searched geometric patterns and sooooo many amazing patterns came up I just picked a few that I liked the look of, selected some polishes and went about painting my nails.
This is how they turned out.






I'm not in love with these. They looked so much better in my head and I kinda wish I had used brighter colours.

The colours I used are:
Barry M Matt White for the base.
Thumb - Essie Mint Candy Apple.
Index - Barry M Lemon Ice Cream.
Middle - Barry M Blue Moon.
Ring - Barry M Peach Melba.
Pinky - Barry M Berry Ice Cream.

♥ A ♥


Tuesday, 7 August 2012

Polish Days - Olympics

A while ago now I signed up to be a part of Polish Days.
Polish Days is an event set up by Hannah at Polly Polish. To find out more about it and sign up have a look HERE.

This is the first time I have participated and I'm not going to lie to you, I was more than a little worried when I found out the theme!
I was in no way interested in the Olympics. In fact I was a little bored of hearing about it. Then when it started and I actually sat and watched a bit of it I was all about the Olympics and Team GB!
But by then there were so many other very talented bloggers who had done their own Olympic manicures that I started fretting that I wouldn't be able to come up with anything new.
But I still gave it a go and this is what I came up with.




Thumb - Base two coats of Barry M Silver Foil to represent our Silver in Equestrian Team Eventing.
Barry M Black for the Equestrian symbol.
GOSH Blue Balloon with Barry M Blue Glitter for the blue Olympic Ring.
Barry M Lemon Ice Cream and Barry M Gold Glitter for the yellow Olympic Ring.



Index - Base Barry M Gold Foil to represent our gold medal in Rowing Womens Pair.
Barry M Black for the rowing symbol.
Barry M Bright Red and Red Glitter for the red Olympic Ring.
Barry M Spring Green and Green Glitter for the green Olympic Ring.


Middle - Base two coats of white.
Barry M Bright Red, GOSH Blue Balloon for the Union Jack.
Barry M Lemon Ice Cream and Gold Glitter for the yellow ring.
Barry M Black Multi Glitter for the black ring.


Ring Finger - Base two coats of White.
Barry M Gold Foil for the torch.
Missguided Misslead and Barry M Tangerine for the flame.
Barry M Spring Green, Green Glitter and Black Multi Glitter for the rings.


Pinky - Two coats of Barry M Gold Foil to represent our gold in Mens Cycling.
Barry M Black for the cycling symbol.
GOSH Blue Balloon, Barry M Blue Glitter, Spring Green and Green Glitter for the rings.


I am really happy with the way this turned out, it's not as neat as I hoped but I loved it nonetheless and was very proud to wear it!

Here is a list of links to all the other amazingly talented participants!

A Lacquered Affairhttp://alacqueredaffair.onsugar.com/Polish-Days-3-Olympics-24320650
Alena - Why Hello Nailshttp://whyhellonails.tumblr.com/post/28953933168/polly-polish-days
Alexis - Glitter Tipshttp://www.glittertips22.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/polish-days-olympics.html
Ariane - The Frenzied Polisherhttp://thefrenziedpolisher.blogspot.sg/2012/08/polish-days-olympic-games.html
Chiro - Nail of This Weekhttp://nailofthisweek.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/052-olympic-games-mani-day.html
Cuti-CLUE-leshttp://cuti-clue-les.blogspot.ie/2012/08/polish-days-olympics.html
Deborah - Love Varnishhttp://www.lovevarnish.com/2012/08/an-olympic-manicure-for-polisholympics.html
Hannah - Polly Polishhttp://www.pollypolish.com/polish-days-polish-olympics-time
Heidi - Pretty Painted Nailshttp://prettypaintednails.com/nail-polish-trends/gold-nail-polish-olympic-nail-polish-day/
Inky - Inky Polisholicioushttp://inkypolisholicious.blogspot.sg/2012/08/polish-days-3-olympic-games.html
Ishah - Ishah X Beautyhttp://www.ishahxbeauty.com/2012/08/polish-olympics.html
Jen - The Nail Polish Projecthttp://thenailpolishproject.com/?p=2548
Jenny - Beauty By Jennyhttp://beautybyjenny.wordpress.com/2012/08/07/polish-olympics-swedish-style/
Jessica - Sparkles & Shine Nailshttp://sparklesandshinenails.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/polly-polish-polish-olympics.html
Joanna - The Treasure Chesthttp://thetreasurechestt.blogspot.com/2012/08/polish-days-olympics.html
Joanne - Northern Nailshttp://therockchicksrambles.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/going-for-gold.html
Karine - karinea0ahttp://karinea0a.blogspot.com/2012/08/polish-days-olympic-games.html?m=1
Kat - Hooked on Polishhttp://www.hookedonpolish.com/2012/08/a-different-kind-of-olympic-mani.html
Kate - Polish Carthttp://polishcart.blogspot.com/2012/08/polish-days-gold-medals-galore.html
Keisha - Refined & Polishedhttp://refinedandpolished.blogspot.com/2012/08/polish-days-olympics.html
Lani - Nail Photos by Lanihttp://nailphotosbylani.blogspot.no/2012/08/polish-olympics-polish-days-august.html
Maria - So Marvelloushttp://somarvellous.blogspot.com/2012/08/polish-days-olympics.html
MariJo - Polish Obsessionhttp://marijonails.blogspot.com/2012/08/polish-days-olympics.html
Melissa - The Crimson Petalhttp://the-crimson-petal.onsugar.com/Polish-Olympics-24266423
Mihaela - Lacquer Buzzhttp://www.lacquerbuzz.com/2012/08/polish-olympics.html
My Nail Polish Onlinehttp://www.mynailpolishonline.com/2012/08/skittle-nails/polish-days-olympic-games/
Nail Tarthttp://nailtart.com/?p=709
Nicole - Nearly Nailedhttp://nearlynailed.blogspot.com/2012/08/polish-olympics.html
Pris - Pris Nailshttp://prisnails.blogspot.com/2012/08/polish-days-olympic-nails.html
Sabine - My Polish Stashhttp://mypolishstash.blogspot.com/2012/08/polish-days-vol-3-polish-olympics.html
Samantha - Polished Arthttp://polishedart.blogspot.com/2012/08/polish-days-olympics.html
Sammy - The Nailasaurushttp://www.thenailasaurus.com/2012/08/polish-days-polish-olympics.html
Sophia - Unhas a Troishttp://unhasatrois.blogspot.com/2012/08/polish-days-unhas-olimpicas.html
Stephanie - Sincerely Stephaniehttp://www.sincerelystephanienails.com/2012/08/olympic-themed-polish-days.html
Wendy - Wendy's Delightshttp://wendysdelights.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/polish-days-olympic-nails.html


♥ A ♥ 

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