Tri Polish Tuesdays April #1 - Yellow, pink and blue!

Hello everyone! Here comes today's catch up post! As expected, the school holidays have sent my blogging and painting schedule completely out of the window! Having OH home for a week as well also makes for constant interruptions so I really didn't stand a chance! Never mind, onwards and upwards!

Today (or yesterday) sees the start of another colour combination for April and this time its yellow, pink and blue. I chose a simple sponged rainbow using Models Own Lemon Meringue, and LA Colors Aquatic and Pink Bubbles and finished with a coat of Seche Vite.

I'm really loving this retro tie dye effect that is created by sponging just a few colours together! 

I'm off for another round of Minecraft tutorials/cake pop making/7 year old nail painting (delete as appropriate!) and I will be desperately trying to have tomorrow's GOT Pastel mani ready on time!

Sam xx

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NAILS Mag 31DC Day 18 - Fade (more glitter!)

Hello everyone! Today I have yet another glitter bomb for you! The prompt for the 31DC today is Fade and I decided to take that as a gradient/colour fade. I had some glitters I'd been dying to mix up and was not disappointed with the finished result :)

I started with a simple, single coat green to blue sponged base to give the glitters a fair start and then layered and blended L-A Glitter Nails Apple, Aqua, Peacock and Sapphire and finished with Seche Vite.

These are so sparkly that they have made me super happy! It felt like the easiest glitter gradient ever - so much glitter packed into each bottle that there wasn't the problem with coverage that is sometimes a problem with glitter gradients. I have almost a full spectrum of these so I think that there may be a few more fade/gradients like this one!

Tomorrow's prompt is "Outline" and I have something a little less glittery lined up for you. There is still some bling involved, but its a far more understated, classy look (I know! From me! Who knew? Lol)  

I will also be road testing a new product called Flexiglaze before I offer it to my clients and will be writing about it and giving progress updates on here. I'm hoping it'll help my poor nails that have refused to grow out nicely since I've been ill (they've become stubborn little buggers!), so there's plenty coming up :)

Sam xx

FingerFood's Guest Posts - Sarah of Penny Pinching Polish

Hello everyone! Today's guest post is brought to you by Sarah of Penny Pinching Polish. Sarah is a super talented nail artist and a girl after my own heart! Skulls, studs, tattoo nails, a love of bright neons and great taste in music - what's not to love? ;) She even gets creative with her beautiful swatches (see one of my favourites here) Enjoy! Sam xx

Hi everyone!  I'm Sarah from Penny Pinching Polish, and I am super excited about appearing on FingerFood today.  I really admire Sam's style, and her freehand mani's always leave me in awe, so when she asked if I could help her out while she's dealing with this crappy flooding, I practically jumped out of my chair!

At first, I had no idea what mani I wanted to do, so in the end, I just decided to combine some of my favourite things with a few of my favourite colours.  Namely, Color Club - Raspberry Rush & Mrs Robinson, and Barry M Gelly - Blue Grape.  The black stripe is Sinful Colors - Black on Black, and the stamping is from MoYou Biker 08, stamped with Barry M Silver Foil.

The spikes came from a little bundle I bought on ebay a few weeks ago, and this is the first time I have worn these on my nails.  They're not exactly practical, but I really love the way they look.  They have a flat base, and even though I only attached them with top coat, they stayed put for a good few hours.  They would have stayed much longer with nail glue of course, but I did this mani in the evening, and wanted to be able to just pull them off before bed, so I didn't wake up with a bust lip!

So, that's all from me then.  A massive thank you to Sam for letting me take the reigns for today, and I hope I didn't waffle on too much :)  If any of you would like to check out my blog, you can do so by following this link.