Chanel inspired

A few days ago I came across a pretty nail art/mani design on the fantastic blog, 'Pampered & Polished'. Follow this link to see the lovely manicure created by Chanel's Creative Director, Peter Phillips. http://pamperedandpolished.co.nz/2012/07/pink-and-silver-chanel-manicure

I recreated this look with a silver and deep red which I quite like for a more subdued, cooler season manicure. I decided to use 'Pedal To The Metal' by Sally Hansen with 'Black Plum' by Ulta3.
 

 
 I painted two coats of the silver on each of my nails over a base coat and once this was dry also painted two coats of the deep red inside the silver, leaving a few millimitres of a silver border except on the nail tip. This was actually more difficult than I expected and you will see some unsteady lines on some nails :) I then painted each nail with 'Poshe' to speed up the drying process and protect the design.

This mani was fun, if a little tricky, to do and next time I think I may try to leave more of a border around my nail to create more of a 'framed' look.

I love meeting other beauty lovers through beauty sites and blogs, learning and sharing tips. 
The Made Up Maiden very kindly shared her knowledge using Poshe topcoat after I mentioned I'd had some issues with tip wear on my previous blog. Thankyou, The Made Up Maiden, I now know to 'wrap' the topcoat around the tips of my nails to protect my manicure!

Where do you find inspiration for your manicures/nail art?

Kx

Recent nail purchases & great effects

Since I last posted I've picked up some new polishes, a BYS Glitter and 

Super-fast Drying Topcoat by Poshe.

 

  The beautiful Glam Glitter polish by BYS is in 'Dazzling', a gorgeous
emerald green glitter with small and medium circles of glitter that in different
light change from silver through green to orange and blue with larger emerald

green hexagons that change from green to silver.

I tried to catch all the colours in the photos but am not sure if I succeeded, so apologies!  Dazzling by itself was quite pretty with a pale green opalescent effect but the nail line bothered me so next time I will try it over a nude or white to avoid that.

On my thumb is 'Dazzling', two coats with a base and top coat of 'Poshe',on my index finger 'Dazzling' is layered over two coats of 'Jade' by Ulta3, and I have 'Jade' on the rest of my nails.

As you can see there was some tip wear by the time I took these. It was my first use of 'Poshe'Super Fast Drying topcoat which was amazing at speeding up drying time and smoothing out any bumps or lumps of glitter but it did seem to wear quickly on my nail tips.

All in all I was really quite happy with the results of 'Dazzling' and can't believe I didn't use something like 'Poshe' sooner! I'd love to hear your opinions! Are you familiar with BYS and Poshe products?

K x