NAILS Magazine 31 Day Challenge catch up (Day 1-4)

Hello everyone! Whilst browsing Facebook the other day I spotted that NAILS magazine had started their own 31 Day Challenge for January, and I evidently had a moment where my brain thought that I didn't have nearly enough on, so I've accepted their challenge!

However as I didn't even hear about the challenge until the 6th, I've had quite a bit of catch up to do! But I'm there, and thought that rather than bombard you with a post for each one (as well as my other challenge manis!), I'd post a couple of quick catch ups...

The prompt for Day 1 was 2014. I decided to skip this one as I was 5 days too late, but there are some I did earlier here on the blog :)

For day 2 the prompt is "Favourite colour". I chose to feature my favourite colour of last year, Barry M Gelly Paints Guava. I then added some French white sections and polka dots using Color Club Pucci-licious and Barry M Gelly Paints Greenberry. I finished by separating the sections with LA Colors Metallic Silver and Seche Vite.

Day 3 brought us to "Matte" and I chose to recreate a favourite mani of mine from last year. I painted my nails black and then added two coats of Max Factor Fantasy Fire. Once dry, I added OPI matte top coat. Finally, I used Seche Vite to add some leopard print to let the fire shine through the matte. Simple but effective :)

Last but not least for this post is the prompt for Day 4, "Radiant Orchid". This is the Pantone colour for this year and I have a few polishes that are "almost". Typically an Orly arrived in the post this morning that would have been perfect, but it was a day late! Starting with a French White base, I painted sections of LA Colors Electra, Wisteria and Black Velvet and finished with Seche Vite to create this abstract mani.

This is my favourite so far - it reminds me of a Pucci print (never a bad thing as far as I am concerned) :)

And that is days 1-4 covered! I'll be following this one up with days 5-7 and then I'll be back on track with individual posts from today's mani onwards. Phew...

Sam xx