Once Upon a Time Challenge - Day 4 Favourite Male Character in Once Upon A Time....

So it's challenge time once again - this time my favourite male character in Once Upon a Time.  I struggled with this one - even watched the two episodes I was behind and finally decided upon Rumpelstiltskin.

It didn't exactly turn out the way I wanted - think what I had in my head was waaay too complicated and was a bit busy for the nails but the end result wasn't too bad.

I used La Femme Beauty in Emerald (Kruidvat), Konad Special Polish in Black, Barry M in Chameleon Lilac (Boots) & Klean Colour in Metallic Gold (Postie Plus, NZ).

After a day of painting ceilings my brain was a bit scrambled so I forgot to take pics along the way - sorry guys :( But I painted the Chameleon Lilac first then the emerald on top over half the nail.  I then added a snake skin pattern to the lilac side and the world 'Gold' to the emerald side. I was happy with this but unfortunately the Metallic yellow was running low and while adding nail polish remover to thin it out a little, I accidentally dumped in a whole lot - waah! So I had to change the idea slightly and the rest of the nails have a gold speckled look (added with a cotton bud) with the word 'Gold' stamped on top in Konad Special Polish in Black. 

Anyway here's the result:

This is the first nail I did, with the stamped word Gold.

And the right hand - showed up pretty well in the pic:)

Left hand.

And close up.

The idea I was going for was the two identities Rumpelstiltskin has - the dark one, hence the snake skin and shiny purple he has in the Fairy Tale world and the Gold over green with the letters gold for Mr Gold, his identity in Storybrooke.

Hope you liked them and make sure you head over to the other blogs doing the challenge.

Taya

Mateja D.

Moonchild

Milena Vanchoska

Yecats 

Samantha Ann 

Fulya 

Always Polished Nails

Till next post (valentines day & true loves kiss - can't wait!)

Nikki x

Once Upon a Time Challenge - Day 3 Favourite Female Character in Once Upon A Time....

Today's another Once Upon a Time Challenge - yay! This time it is your favourite female character. Mine is Bell - possibly cause the actress is Australian and that's close to New Zealand? haha I really have no idea why she's my favourite, but she's the one I've chosen.

I've only used two polishes - Klean colour mini in metallic Yellow (so gold in other words) and Konad Special Polish in Wine Red.  Gold because Mr Gold is her beloved and red because it reminds me of her (think it's all the red lipstick she wears, not as much as ruby but close!).

So here's the mani.

I used BM-314 for the flower/leaf design on three fingers - figured it looked elegant like Bell is.

Then used BM12 for the chains - representing her being held prisoner for so long by Regina.

Finally on the Thumb I used another image from OMG salon Pro 4 plate - Bell herself - looking worried, as she usually does whenever she's around Mr Gold as he's usually up to no good and she is usually trying to stop him.

Hope you like it and make sure you check out the other girls doing the challenge

Taya

Mateja D.

Moonchild

Milena Vanchoska

Yecats 

Samantha Ann 

Fulya 

Always Polished Nails

Till the next mani

Nikki x

Nearly a month...

So yet again i've been a bit slack with the blog - mainly because I've finally started to organise my travel plans & work has been super busy.

To make up for it I have included shots of my ENTIRE nail polish collection after my manicure for the week.  The hardest thing was fitting all the polishes in the shot & it appears I have almost 80 polishes... that number seems to have snuck up on me ;)

Anyway my manicure this week (well technically 3 weeks ago) used one of new scented polishes by BYS.

It was pretty cheap at postie plus ($4.99) & does actually smell quite nice (even through 2 coats of top coat).  As you can see from the picture, its inventively called 'Scented Bright Red'.

For the design I used Bundle Monster Plate BM03 from their original set of plates.

I chose the fern pattern in the middle left.

 

Using Konad special polish in White.

And added some diamantes for some bling/sparkle.

The finished result.

Simiple but pretty was the look I was aiming for.

Now for my nail polishes.  Here's the shot of the entire collection:

I even colour co-ordinated them (mainly because I was trying to buy more online & needed to make sure I didn't already have that colour:)

And here are the polishes by colour.

So as you can see I have a whole heap of combinations left to choose from :)

Have a great week

Nikki :o)