Hiya! It's Lisl. So we are coming up on the tail end of May, which is absurd because I'm 90% sure that yesterday it was February, but whatever. End of May means it is Tri-Polish Challenge time again, and this is great because challenges give my life structure, and I am a child and require lots of structure in order to be able to do anything.
Anyway. Challenges have RULES and the full rules for the Tri-Polish Challenge are here. But the simple story is this: there are three official colors for the challenge every month, I pick three polishes corresponding to those colors and create four manicures using those colors!
This month I chose OPI Quarter of a Cent-Cherry, Butter London Blagger, and Cover Girl Non-Stop Stone.
I started with a base of Quarter of a Cent-Cherry.
Two things about this nail polish. One: when I was cleaning off the edges of my nails it bled all over my cuticles and then stained them bright red. So that is what is going on there. Two: it looks CRAZY different depending on what light it is in. I started out all "this is a lot darker than I expected," then I went into the bathroom and it suddenly turned bright red. Here is a very janky picture of my nails in the bathroom!
I don't know why this happens. I am not a color-ologist, but I suspect it has something to do with the magic of lights.
So my original plan was to do a cloud manicure following Nailside's lovely tutorial. I couldn't get the magical curves at the top so it turned out more like steps, but I still like it! I freehanded first layer of steps using Blagger.
Then a second step layer using Non-Stop Stone. For both of these, I just used the brush that comes with the bottle, and kind of angled it so I used the skinny edge.
I used Seche Vite in between coats and at the end, so you can see there's a little shrinkage at the tips.
Don't forget to check out all the other manicures by Tri-Polish Challenge-ists. They are always super spectacular and fun to flip through.
Beautiful look!
ReplyDeleteThanks! They were surprisingly easy!
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