Polish Days time of the month again and this month, the theme is Nature.
Every time I thought about this theme, Poison Ivy kept popping in my, the DC villain rather than the plant, and I just couldn’t think of what to do.
Then I thought about my favourite types of weather. I love storms. Proper thunder and lightning storms, we haven’t had a decent storm round here for a long time. So I decided to do lightning nails.
This is how it turned out. At first I didn’t like them but I have grown to love them as the day went on.
I really like the sponging of colours on the background.
Polishes used |
To do this, I used W7 Black as the base.
I didn’t have the right colour of purple for the job so I mixed a little bit of Collection Hot looks Parma Violets and a bit of Barry M Matt White to make a lighter purple, I sponged this on.
Then I sponged on tiny bits of Rimmel 60 Pulsating and Barry M Blueberry Ice Cream,
Then to ‘meld’ the colours together I added 2True Shade no.2, which looks white in the bottle but is clear when applied and has little bits of glitter in it.
Then I added the lightning on using Barry M Matt White and a dotting tool.
Lastly, I added a coat of Seche Vite topcoat.
Although not perfect, I think the result is really pretty, it’s a shame I couldn’t catch the sparkle of the little bits of glitter in the pictures. I might keep these on for a while. It’s also made me want to try some galaxy nails. Maybe soon.
Hope you like these.
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I love lightning bolt nail art- I've never tried it before. These look great!
Thank you, thankfully, having shaky hands actually helped with the lightning bolts. :)x
Oooh i LOVE this 🙂
Thanks hun :)x
Beautiful pattern !I like the lightning bolt!
Thank you sweet :)x
Just incredible!
Aww thanks hun. :)x
These look brilliant x
Ta my lovely. :)x
Wow you're so talented! Wish I could do nail art as pretty as yours. Must've taken you forever to do :O
dreamdustx
Thank you sweet, your comment made my day. :)x
This is awesome!!!
Thank you hun :)x
YAY, Chrissie! This is one super rocking interpretation!
Terrific job!
Lisa
Thank you my sweet. :)x
That's gorgeous! Storms scare me but your nails certainly do not!!
So glad they don't scare you. 🙂 and thank you hun. :)x
I'm so glad I found your site! I love nail polish too and I am learning a lot from your blog 🙂
I love your blog! Specially the photos because they are so detailed and clear, I can really understand about your post. I followed you on GFC and on BlogLovin'! Maybe you can come by mine too and maybe follow each other? 🙂 Thank you for this post! I can't wait to read more of your posts. More power to you!
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Oh wow, thank you. What a fantastic comment to have woken up to. (Hank you for becoming a follower and I followed you on GFC also.
:)x