GOT Polish: Pastel

And in the category of late and slightly imperfect posts we have, my GOT polish challenge for this week. Pastels! So not all of the polishes I used are over a year old, but darnit this gradient looked better in person and it was pretty. Apologies I didn't manage to get any good pictures after I touched it up, even with better daylight during the week the light isn't great at 8pm.

Anyhow onto the pictures:

Barry M Mint Ice Cream, Barry M Blueberry Ice Cream, Barry M Gelly Dragonfruit, Barry M Berry Ice Cream, Barry M Silver Multi Glitter, Barry M Boots Ltd Ed Glitter

Barry M Gelly Greenberry, Barry M Blueberry Ice Cream, Barry M Gelly Dragonfruit, Barry M Gelly Prickly Pear, Barry M Silver Multi Glitter, Barry M Boots Ltd Ed Glitter

And then I tried to add an easter egg pattern...

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GOT Polish: Peach (& Ruffles)

aka two manicures that really didn't turn out as I hoped (and that I managed to dent while I slept, because boo lack of time and life!)

Used: Barry M Peach Melba as a base with Nicole by OPI Kendall on the Katwalk on the ring finger. Terrible gradient work with Barry M Mediterranean (less than a year old, but so pretty!) and stripes of Barry M Purple Rain Crackle on index and middle.

Used: Rimmel Gold Save The Queen as a base. Rimmel Silver, Ciate Jelly Bean and Barry M Denim for the ruffles and spiral stamping which is from Bundle Monster BM 426.

GOT Polish: Purple

Purple! My favourite colour and the one with the greatest number of golden oldies, though I did cheat a little using a new colour for the base. The manicure is inspired by the famous waterfall manicures as created (as far as I know) by The Nailasaurus.

Used: Barry M Pearl Silk and Barry M Silvery Lilac for base nails. For the waterfall I used Layla Cloudy Violet, Barry M Berry Ice Cream, Sally Hansen Purple Potion, Rimmel Black Cherry and Silver. The stamping is from a Born Pretty Store plate QA8 and Rimmel Black Cherry.

GOT Polish: Skittles

and my truly hopeless first attempt at stamping. I think I need a bigger stamper and to try smaller designs rather than whole nail ones. My nails seem to be longer than the images, well the ones on this plate from Born Pretty Store.

Polishes used: Barry M Mushroom and Nails Inc Basil Street for the base, Rimmel Your Majesty, Barry M Magnetic Blue and Collection 2000 Hot Looks All That Jazz for the stamping. 

Kind of mangled them sleeping but I've been so behind on time lately that I'm afraid I haven't been able to redo them into something better. I really need to improve my planning! And really figure out how to use Windows 8.1, opening things in GIMP seems much harder.

GOT Polish: Chevrons [and Nails Inc Old Park Lane swatch!]

Another polish that could have been better but fell casualty to time. I really liked the idea for the middle finger but it just didn't work out for me. C'est la vie, hopefully you guys can see where the ideas were.

Used: Nails Inc Old Park Lane for a base, George Twister on top.

Since Old Park Lane is such a beautiful colour, here are some bonus swatches:

I do love a good metallic and this is a stunner.

GOT Polish: Valentines

Bit late and not the greatest, but I didn't want to miss this week! Done last night after getting home [UK Storm mean it took 3.5hrs for a 30min journey, hope everyone else was safe!], all freehand.

Used: Barry M Peach Melba, Ciate pink [free with a mag ages ago], Nails Inc Victoria [a very old glamour freebie] and George White

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GOT Polish: Green

This didn't work out how I wanted, but I didn't want to miss another week.

Polishes used: Barry M Mint Ice Cream [pinky & thumb and for the jellyfish], Barry M Emerald Green [ring and second], Collection 2000 Hot Looks Shameless [middle]. And some old temporary tattoos in the place of water decals.

GOT Polish: Blue

THE RULES

* the polish you use should be at least one year old
* if you haven't been a polishaholic that long, you can use the oldest polishes you have
* the polish should be previously used, but if you're stuck, you could free a yearling from Mount Untried (seriously, some of mine are reaching puberty out there)
* you can use more than 1 polish as long as it fits the theme and the rules

So I am totally late on this, but I need more nailspiration and to use some older polishes so this is perfect [I can just about handle one a week].

 

I was semi inspired by this gorgeous mermaid nail look from Manicurity but I'm way less patient as far as the dotting goes xD. The polishes I used were Barry M Blueberry Ice Cream as the base, with dots in Rimmel Silver, Barry M Navy and Barry M Mint Ice Cream [guess my favourite nail brand!]. All of which I've owned well over a year. The glitter is Nicole by OPI Kendall on the Katwalk, which I think I've had over a year. It was a secret santa gift.

 I actually really liked this look. What do you think?

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