Monday, October 14, 2019

by Kitties26 on Monday, October 14, 2019 1 comment

Digital Dozen does Colours that collide - Fluid nail art Day 1

It's another Digital Dozen week and the theme this week is colours that collide. I thought for a while about how I would interpret the prompt this week, and I've ended up settling on my own personal theme for the week, that being Fluid Art.

Acrylic Fluid Art on canvas is all the rage at the moment, in fact I wasted quite a bit of time watching fluid art pour videos on Youtube. They are so satisfying to watch I tell you.

I've been reading about lots of different ways to do fluid nail art, and I thought I would try out a bunch of them this week and see what works for me. I plan to use a range of transforming top coats, as well and making my own transforming top coat based on all the cool experimenting other crazy nail ladies have done.

This first look is made using a transforming top coat from Sinful colours. This ones is the pastel purple one called PurPunk, which you actually can hardly see in this design. To get the mix of colours, I just did drops of all the polishes onto a silicone mat and then pressed a large stamper into it. After removing the stamping all the cells start to appear like magic. These Sinful transforming top coats (offically called Hypnotic Transforming top coats) work so well for this type of nail art.

Ok, no bring on a week of Fluid nail art.

Saturday, October 5, 2019

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Let's go CANBERRA RAIDERS!

My home town of Canberra has been painting the town green this week, because the Canberra Raiders have made it into the NRL Grand Final tomorrow. For my American readers, that's our equivalent of a football team making it to the Superbowl.

Canberra last won the NRL Premiership 25 years ago, so we are well due for a win. All around town this week people have been making all sorts of things green. Green sausages, green pastry on the meat pies, green bread, green coffee froth on top of your cappuccino, the Telstra Tower and other city monuments are lit up with green lights, anyway you get the idea. Literally painting the town green!

Back in 2012 The Canberra Raiders made it to one of the elimination semi-finals, but lost. I did Raiders nail art back them too, and I'm glad to say that I think this one, whilst very similar, is much neater. I printed out another water decal for the team logo, and freehanded the other stripes. The pinky finger represents the local saying of "We bleed green".

Good luck boys and GO RAIDERS!

Wednesday, October 2, 2019

by Kitties26 on Wednesday, October 02, 2019 1 comment

31DC2019 Recap

Once again, it's time for my recap post. I love doing this at the end of every year following the 31 Day Challenge, to look back at some stats around which were my most popular and least popular designs.

On Instagram, my most liked manicure was orange design, but with added help. On Instagram I applied some werble effects and actually made my nails look like fire. If I don't count that as my most popular, because it was a very different post, then it was my glitter placement as the next most popular.

On my blog, my most visited blog post for the challenge was my red design. But I reckon that is only because it was the first post of the challenge.

My least visited mani on my blog was the geometric design. I can't even tell you yet what my least liked mani on Instragram is because I haven't finished posting them all there yet. Sorry, I'm a slacker!

Here is a recap of my all manis. You can click through to each post by clicking on the images. I'd love to know which one you liked best and which was the most popular nail design you created on your blog or IG?

Also, make sure you go over to Buff and Polish and grab one of the finisher badges for your blog or insta if you made it the whole way!.