GOT Polish Challenge Flowers - Silver-lined daisies

Hello everyone! My biggest achievement today is that for the first time in forever I remembered to use only old polishes!!! I dug out the Ciate minis from my 2012 Mini Mani Advent Calendar and picked out a few that I haven't shown the love to in a long time.

I started with three coats of Power Dressing (over a very thick layer of Cacee Nails base coat - this blue is a stainer, but its worth it!). Once dry I dotted on the flower shapes with LA Colors Metallic Silver using one of my larger dotting tools. I then went over those with a smaller dotting tool using Ciate Cupcake Queen which creates the "silver-lined" effect. I finished by dotting Power Dressing in the centre of each flower and a coat of Seche Vite.

The flowers themselves are simple, but I think having the extra layer of silver gives it a little something extra. The metallic silver really catches the light when I move my hands (and being quite Mediterranean, I use my hands a lot!)

Take a look at the links below to see all the other fab and groovy flower manis from Crumpet's Nail Tarts :D

Sam xx

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The NCC presents "Untrieds" - Sugar Coated Daisies

Hello everyone! Today sees my first post for the Nail Challenge Collaborative's theme for March. I'll be honest and say that I wasn't at all thrilled when I found that "Untrieds" had been chosen. I don't have a stash of a gazillion polishes that I haven't even had the chance to swatch. I have been on either a "no-buy" or a "only-buy-if-you-need-to-replace" for what feels like forever (apart from my one indie purchase a month and Poundland - which doesn't count!) and I'm not yet one of those bloggers fortunate enough to get many press samples of polish (happy for that to change though!), although I've been very lucky with nail art supplies so far :)

Poundland brings you this first post - I managed to pick up 6 Sally Hansen Sugar Coat colours and am splitting them over two posts. This one features Sugar Fix (white), Sweetie (yellow) and Lick-o-Rich (black) and some simple dotted, textured daisies!

I actually loved working with these polishes and despite the textured effect, it was easy to dot with them. Forgive me for not editing out the "boo boo". I've taken to popping the watermark over it now its healed but these photos were done last week before I had what I am now calling "the watermark placement epiphany"!

I have three more of these polishes that I will probably be working into another NCC post and I have my March Indie feature polishes on the way too so they will probably be out to say hi! In the meantime, I'm off to look at all the other fabulous untried polish manis by following the links below :)

Sam xx

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