Pages

▼

Monday, August 12, 2013

Before & After: Texture tips

Hello!!

I'm still playing catch-up with my challenges, and today I'm catching up with the Mish Mash Challenge! This week's theme was to do a tape mani, so I decided to play with texture and do a funky French look. :)

I started with a base of Top Shop Phenomena, a dark olive green with a glass fleck finish; this can coat with one coat, but I used two to be sure:


Top Shop Phenomena, artificial light

Top Shop Phenomena, full sunlight




Next I taped off the area for two stripes, and painted one with Orly Black Pixel, and one with Orly Plum Pixel (my scores at the Red Tag Clearance sale!):





What I like about this: I like the purple and the green together, with the black tip, and I love the combination of the glass-fleck base and the textured stripes. It's hard to capture the textural difference, so I took a fan-type pose picture so you could see different light angles on the polish. It's simple, but dramatic. :)

Hope your week is off to a good start, thanks for stopping by! Hugs and love,
M.
at

16 comments:

  1. Lisa N.August 12, 2013 at 11:51 PM

    Gorgeous manicure! The colors look so good together! I really like the base color! :)

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. M.M. ChouinardAugust 14, 2013 at 11:12 PM

      Thank you! I'm really loving green and purple, particularly smokey versions of both, together right now. :)

      Delete
  2. ManisbyMooreAugust 13, 2013 at 4:36 AM

    So pretty!! Nice color combo!

    ReplyDelete
  3. SAugust 13, 2013 at 6:54 AM

    Ooh, Phenomena is gorgeous! I always forget Topshop do polish, I never remember to check that section whenever I pass a branch.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. M.M. ChouinardAugust 14, 2013 at 11:13 PM

      They're pretty decent polishes, too. I was lucky enough to have a friend who was visiting the UK grab me some. They have some nice sneaky duochromes that don't look duochromey in the bottle. :)

      Delete
  4. UnknownAugust 13, 2013 at 7:31 AM

    This looks amazing! Love it! :)

    ReplyDelete
  5. UnknownAugust 13, 2013 at 9:46 AM

    This looks so amazing!!! Definitely love the color combo and your lines are so crisp!! :)

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. M.M. ChouinardAugust 14, 2013 at 11:14 PM

      Thank you! I had to practice a bit to get tape manis right, and I still mess them up a fair bit, but I'm getting much better!

      Delete
  6. UnknownAugust 13, 2013 at 3:56 PM

    Pretty manicure, love the combination of textures.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. M.M. ChouinardAugust 14, 2013 at 11:15 PM

      Thank you! I really love the textured polishes, they add so much dimension to nail art--pun not intended, lol!

      Delete
  7. A Mani ManiacAugust 13, 2013 at 9:18 PM

    I don't know what it is about purple and green, but I just LOVE that color combination. That olive green base is gorgeous!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. M.M. ChouinardAugust 14, 2013 at 11:16 PM

      Right? I am so in love with that combo right now, especially when the colors are more on the muted/smokey side. :)

      Delete
  8. UnknownAugust 22, 2013 at 11:38 AM

    Missed this.. But.. I LOVE IT

    ReplyDelete

Make my day--leave me a comment!